The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-30


 Mir and Mrs John s. Pratt of To' fcdo, ohio, announce the engage ment of their daughter, Miss Alice D. s. Pratt of Hartford to William Weston Brown, son Of Mir and Mrs Hayden William Brown of Whitney avenue, New Haven. formerly Of this city. Miss Pratt Is graduate of Fairfax Hall, Virginia and ot Iasell seminary. Auburndale. Mass She also attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Hartford Art school. Her father IS special assistant to the attorney general of the United states. MISS Pratt Is n direct deseendant'ot ltoF- CT wolcott governor of Connectl. cut, and of John skinner, one or the founders of Hartford and is also c direct descendant or Joseph I.oonsis of Windsor. MT Browns father, member of the class oi 1908, Yale sheffield scientific school, is president and treasurer of fine R, K. Brown Co of Water. bury, He is q direct descendant Of FraucIs Brown who was one of the seven who came to New Haven in advance of the colony to spend the. winter of 1G37-3S at the corner of what is now Church and George streets, He signed the colony con- I stitiftlon in 1639. Francis Brown ,yas n great grandson Of Sir Weston Brown of Weild Hall. County Es- sex, England. q diplomat or the time of Henry VIII and settled the affairs of the island of Sicily. MT Brown Is also q direct descendant of Joseph Loomis of Windsor. He attended Chestnut Hill academy, and is a graduate of Hoxbury school. While at Yale, he was member of York hali and chi Phi. At present he is in the once or Walter II. Hart, realtor of thiS city. Announcement of the engagement was made at q luncheon given to- day. for c few of Miss Pratts inti. mate friends by MT Browns sister, Mrs Donald Case Townley or New York at the home of her parents at 73S Whitney avenue, New Ha' ven.
 Miss Mary Butweli of Naugatuck and Daniel Bergin of Plaza avenue were honorcd at dinner dance given at Waverly inn in Cheshire Thursday evening by the office om' ployes of the Waterbury and Nhug' atuck branches Of the Connecticut Light & Power company. Mss But well and Mir Bcrgin arc to be mar iIed at st Mary's church in Union City on october II. Miss ButwelI Is associated with tho Naugatuck branch of the Connecticut Light X Power company and Mr Bcrgln Is located at tho local office. They were presented with q purse Of gold, Those in attendance were Mir and Mrs Robert Lagcrquist, Ernest Green. Misses Mary Ryan, CecIlc Moore Joseph Mulcahy, Misses Mildred Bumstead. Mar garet Mackle. Marguerite Dunn. Carl Larson, George Leary. Robert Nelson, Miss Eleanor Martin, MT and Mrs Thomas Roberts, Alfred West, Frank Vollone. Joseph Cahill, Mark Doran. James Cleve- land, Eugene O'Neill. Edward Cal lahan: Misses Pauline Boppeler, Mimi Altieri. Betty Spirit, William Duncanson. Miss Helen Binder. Jo- seph Fiftal, Misses, Alice Benson, Mabel Filming, MT and Mrs Bur ton Warnes. Misses Mae Garrick, Olive Smith. Carl Shea, Sherman tltuneSstyt IsaIt itNhiobtSSb oVh'. West, James Higgins. Raymond Farrell, Raymond West, John Mulhern, Miss Marjorie Holihan and Benjamin Goldstein.
 Miss Victoria Liebreich will at tend the nation convention or American Legion Auxiliaries Tn Chicago. Morris Shapiro and John Foster of this city will also attend the American Legion convention.
 The Bunker Hill Community Club will hold its first fall meeting on Friday evening, october 6th. at o'clock. A revision of bylaws will be conducted and all members are urged to attend.
 Miss Nora O'Brien of Plaza ave- nue left today to attend the 18th meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Charities which is be. ing conducted at the Waldorf-As- toria in New York city. While in New York Miss O'Brien will he registered at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel.