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Scholl a a a M1 1 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1929. and Mrs. William P. Earle Jr. Hosts at Supper Last Night For Mr.

and Mrs. Bruce Bromley. Society ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED Miss Virginia Jones' engagement to Jefferson Hart Stearns was announced at a large bridge at the Women's Club in Bellerose, L. on Saturday afternoon. Miss Virginia Jones Engaged To Jefferson Hart Stearns.

17 Mr. Ontario and Mrs. Oscar Bellerose, F. L. Jones an- of nounced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Virginia Edith Jones, to Jefferson Hart Stearns, son of Mr.

and Mrs. E. Ward Stearns of Roslyn Estates, L. and Spofford, N. at a bridge at the Women's Club, Bellerose, on Saturday noon.

Mr. Stearns attended St. Paul's, Garden City, L. and Dartmouth College. Among the guests were the Misses Jane Squire, Ruth Murphy, Olga Schultze, Meta Meyer, Roberta Nash, Marjorie Hendrickson, Rose Bates, Bates, Mary Doremus, Natalie Martin, Mary Mulhern, Rosemary Adams, Mabel Jones, Virginia Stearns, Edyth Colby, Margaret Kissam, Catherine.

Woodford, Elizabeth Ranney, Walden, Evelyn De Sisser, Beatrice De Sisser, Katherine Walden, Florence Hurlbert, LilLian Hurlbert, Louise Curtis, Mrs. John Armstrong, Mrs. Horace Northrup, Mrs. E. W.

Stearns, Mrs. R. E. Snowden, Mrs. G.

E. Steimer, Mrs. W. L. Ernst and Mrs.

Richard Swyers. Bird Club Meeting and Flower Show on North Shore Of Long Island This Week. Two of Long Island's North Shore organizations which are taken up in part with conservation work will have sessions this week. Tomorrow afternoon the Bird Club of Long Island, founded by the late President Theodore Roosevelt, who was the first president, will meet at the home of Hugh A. Murray at Wheatley Hills.

Edward Aris will lecture on "Bird Notes." The treas. urer to succeeds the plate Albert Strauss is A. Rensselaer of Syosset; Mrs. Richard Derby, who has returned from Europe, continues as secretary, and Mrs. Edward A.

Townsend of Oyster Bay is president. On Wednesday afternoon the North Country Garden Club of Long Island will hold a flower show at the estate of Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Davidson on Mill Oyster Bay.

Mrs. George Franklin is president. Mrs. George E. Crocker is secretary-treasurer.

James Rockwell Sheffield, former Ambassador to Mexico, and Mrs. Sheffeld are at the Plaza until they go Glen Head, L. for the summer. Miss Muriel Keyes Married To Frank J. McDermott.

Miss Muriel Elizabeth Keyes of Flatbush, daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Keyes, was married to Frank J. McDermott, son of Mrs.

Mary E. McDermott of 660 St, Mark's ave. and the late Michael Francis McDermott, on Saturday morning. The ceremony was performed in St. Joseph's Church, West Winfield, N.

Y. the Rev, Father Doran, pastor of the church, celbrating the nuptial mass. Miss Dorothy Keyes was maid of honor for her sister and George McDermott was his brother's best man. Arthur V. McDermott, Gerald R.

MeDermott and John McDermott were ushers. Mr. and Mrs. McDermott will make their home in Utica, N. Y.

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BEIERSDORF INC. 122 RUTSON STREET NEW YORK CITY NIVEA CREME LAY CORNERSTONE FOR NEW SECOND REFORMED CHURCH Member 54 Years, Man Aids Pastor at Exercises on Site Selected for Edifice. Fifty-four years ago Charles J. Miller assisted in the laying of the cornerstone of the Second Reformed Church, then located at the corner of Bedford and Church aves. Yesterday afternoon he stood beside the Rev.

Henry J. Wahl, pastor of the church, and played a corresponding role in the laying of the same cornerstone, this time at the corner of Bedford ave. and Martense where the church was moved several weeks ago. The old site was sold for $75,000, the proceeds of which will be devoted to the building fund of the new edifice. The old frame building will be remodeled with a brick facing to harmonize with the other parish buildings.

Magistrate Alfred E. Steers, in a word of greeting to the members present, gave a reminiscent sketch of the happy days spent on the old site. Assistant District Attorney Frederick L. Kopff brought message of regret from Boro President James J. Byrne, who was to have spoken but was called to Peekskill, where he addressed the 106th Infantry.

Mr. Kopff declared that "if we could only substitute the Bible for the penal code there would be no use for a District Attorney's office. The speaker sees the cornerstone of a church not only as the foundation of civilized society but as a monument of piety and zeal to the pastor. Kracke Praises Radio. "Little did man think 54 years ago, when this cornerstone was first laid, that today the voice of man could be heard from one end of the continent to the stated Port Appraiser Frederick H.

J. Kracke. Mr. Kracke feels that next to Johannes Gutenberg, who invented the printing press, just 529 years ago today, that the radio ranks second in spreading the word of man. The speaker feels that the printed form carries more weight than the spoken message, especially with young people, The Samuel S.

Daughtry, pastor of the Old First Reformed Graduate Entertained. Miss Margaret M. Morse was graduated from the St. Brendan's Diocesan High School recently. The exercises were held at the K.

of C. Hall, and later her parents entertained for her at supper at their home, 597 E. 2d st. Church, likened the building of the new edifice to the building of Solomon's Temple, stating that "no church can ever be built in this day by the pastor alone. With the cOoperation of the members this great day has been made possible.

"Great Day May Dawn." "Solomon built the temple to the worship of God before he built his own palace. A great day will have dawned when we, like Solomon, erect houses of worship before building our own homes." Likening the cornerstone to the tree of life, former Municipal Court Justice Edgar M. Doughty declared that, like the tree of life, its living roots represented not only the gospel and the present but the hereafter as well. Charter Member 86 Years Old. An outstanding guest of honor was Gottholt Oberglock, the oldest charter member alive.

Mr. Oberglock, who is 86 years of age, has been a steady attendant of the Second Reformed Church since ithe time of its erection. Members of the building committee were Mrs. Helen Portman, William Brandan, Arthur Koehler and Paul Radenhausen, chairman of the committee. The cornerstone was laid by the Rev.

Henry J. Wahl, pastor of the church. Jones -Scales. Miss Alice Cynthia Scales, daughter of Edward S. Scales of Richmond Hill, N.

was married on Saturday in the Lafayette Avenue Friends Church to Harvey D. Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Lincoln Jones of South China, Me.

The Rev. W. Glenn Roberts performed the ceremony, which was followed by a reception. The bride was given in marriage by her father and was attended by her sister, Miss Margaret Scales, as maid of honor, and the Misses Doris Jones of South China, sister of the bridegroom, and Grace Gould of Yonkers, N. as bridesmaids.

Miss Evelyn Goerke of Brooklyn was flower girl. Robert Bent of Brooklyn, a classmate of Mr. Jones at Brown University, was best man, and the ushers were August Garone and Benjamin Haviland of Brooklyn, After touring New England Mr. and Mrs. Jones will make their home in Kew Gardens, L.

I. Finnan-Martin. St. Teresa's Church was the scene yesterday afternoon of the wedding of Miss Harriet A. Martin of 552 Lincoln pl.

George G. Finnan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Finnan of 595 E. 37th st.

The bride was given in marriage by her brother, William Martin, and had Miss Dorothy W. Seusing as maid of honor. The bridesmaids were the Misses Dorothy W. Seusing and Mildred Seusing. Mons.

Peter Donohue officiated. Bernard Clinton was best man and there were six ushers. A reception followed at the Justine. After a wedding trip Mr. and Mrs.

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"Angels are all very well as symbols or in church windows, but in this age the human conscience is the voice of God and He manifests Himself to us through our subconsciousness," according to the Rev. Ernest E. Youtz, pastor of the Congregational Church of the Pilgrims, Henry and Remsen speaking yesterday morning at Brooklyn Heights union services held at the Unitarian Church of the Saviour, Pierrepont st. and Monroe pl. The congregations of the First M.

E. Church, the First Presbyterian Church, Plymouth Church, the Reformed Church on the Heights and the Church of the Neighbor also joined in the services. The Rev. Mr. Youtz based his sermon on the text, "And Elisha prayed and said, 'Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may Second Book of Kings, The speaker described his reactions in boyhood to illustrations published in the family Bible and cited specifically the artist's conception of Jacob's Ladder.

In this connection the minister said in part: "The picture of Jacob's Ladder in that Bible always impressed me as very unsafe, and I often thought about the precarious situation of the angels when they discovered the ladder was leaning against the clouds." The Rev. Mr. Youtz added, referring to his text, that he doubted "if it would do us much good to pray for horses, very, chariots and as described in the Bible story, and declared that if modern man did witness such manifestations of God's power he would go to his oculist or alienist for treatment. "If you should see an apparition of an angel you would have no assurance of a manifestaion of God's power," he continued. "Angels are all very well as symbols or in church windows but in this age the human conscience is the voice of God." NEW CHURCH DEDICATED.

Somerville, N. June 24 The new First Methodist Episcopal Church was dedicated yesterday, with Bishop Francis J. McConnell officiating. Rev. Frederick W.

Sloat, pastor, delivered the sermon and said that the church cost about $150,000. A bronze tablet to the late James B. Duke, tobacco king, who donated $100,000 toward the new edifice, unveiled in vestibule of the church after the dedication ceremonies. EAST ORANGE COMMENCEMENT East Orange, N. June 24-The largest class in the history of the East Orange High School will be graduated tonight, when 380 diplomas will pe awarded.

Ralp Files, principal of the school, says this class is also the largest ever graduated from any high school in any New Jersey suburban community. In a vote taken by the class on the man "most to be admired" in the world today, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh tallied the highes vote. President Hoover coming second. 58 GET DIPLOMAS AT MERCY SCHOOL Fifty-eight students were graduated from Mercy Commercial High School yesterday afternoon in the chapel of the Convent of the Sisters of Mercy, 272 Willoughby ave.

The Rev. Joseph W. Sweeney addressed the graduates and presented diplomas and awards. Commencement exercises began at 9:30 o'clock in the morning with a mass in the Convent Chapel, followed by a communion breakfast to the graduates the Knights of Columbus Hall, Imp Prospect Park West. Graduates.

The following received their diplomas: Helen A. Boyle, Eileen C. Brady, Gertrude M. Brennan, Helen R. Busch, Eleanor V.

Canterino, Veronica K. Carmine, Irene M. Carrano, Rose M. Cavagnaro, Anna M. Connolly, Emily C.

Chrystal, Josephine L. Curley, Edna A. D'Amica, Rose D. Devine, Margaret R. Donovan, Helen M.

Dunn, Mary A. Eccles, Catherine E. Fitzgerald, Irene E. Gaffney, Esabelle G. Gallagher, Annette M.

Glasser, Rita M. Gleason, Rita A. Gundlach. Anna P. Harding, Frances E.

Hendel, Anna M. Horn, Susan D. Hughes, Helen M. Jung. Ellen M.

Kane, Anne M. Kaufan, Grace A. Kelly, Mary C. Lawlor, Anna T. Lennon, Johanna W.

Lindner, Margaret M. Lindsay, Marie R. Lundrigan, Lillian M. Lynch. Madeline G.

McDonnell, Mary C. Macri, Edith E. Mahar, Dorothy I. May, Anna M. Mellett.

Helen D. Mullin, Catherine B. Murphy, Catherine A. Nix, Marie E. Northrop, Loretta M.

Oberster, Mary J. nor, Adele J. O'Neill, Elizabeth B. Quinn, Mary C. Quinn, Loretta T.

Riley, Mildred F. Robertson. Margaret M. Smith, Marie E. Smith, Anna M.

Stanbrough, Irene D. Taft, Virginia J. Thomas, Frances M. Wessely, Audrey J. York.

Prize Awards. GOLD MEDALS AWARDED- General Excellence Medal, Frances E. Hendel; Religion Medal, Anna Medal, M. Helen M. Jung; English Stanbrough; Bookkeeping Medal, Irene D.

Taft; Shorthand Medal, E. Loretta Hendel, T. Edith Riley; E. Pitman Mahar Medals, and Gertrude Frances M. Brennan.

WOODSTOCK MEDALS--Mary C. Macri, Adele J. O'Neil, Frances Hendel, Linder, Frances M. Wessely, Loretta T. Riley, Dorothy May, RILE Gundlach, Marie E.

Smith and Susan D. Hughes; L. C. Smith Medals, Mildred Robertson, Marie E. Northrop Marie E.

Smith. Honor Pupils. RELIGION--Irene Taft, Anna M. brough, Veronica Carmine, Josephine L. Curley, Isabelle G.

Gallagher, Frances E. Hendel, Anna M. Horn, Lillian Lynch, Dorothy May, Marie Northrop, Adele J. O'Neil, Virginia Thomas. ENGLISH Hendel, Marie E.

Northrop. Helen M. Jung, Helen D. Mullin, Isabelle G. Gallagher, Anns M.

Horn, Susan D. Hughes. Josephine L. Curley, Marie E. Smith, Prances M.

Wessclev. BOOKKEEPING -Helen M. Jung, ces E. Hendel, Lillian M. Lynch, Irene D.

Taft, Loretta T. Riley, Anna M. Horn, Irene Gaffney. SHORTHAND- Gertrude M. Brennan, Veronica K.

Carmine, Josephine L. ley, Irene E. Gaffney, Rita M. Gleason, Rita A. Gundlach.

Lilian M. Lynch, Dorothy I. May, Marie E. Northrop, Mildred F. Robertson, Margaret M.

Smith, Anns M. Stanbrough, Irene D. Taft, Virginia J. Thomas, Frances M. Wessely.

OFFICE TRAINING- -Mary Eccles, Catherine E. Fitzgerald, Rose D. Irene E. Gaffney, Rita M. Gleason, ces E.

Hendel, Lillian M. Lynch, Edith E. Mahar, Elizabeth B. Quinn. Mr.

and Mrs. William Pitman Earle Jr. gave a buffet supper at their home in Belleport, L. last eight in honor of Mr. and Mrs.

Bruce Bromley. Among the guests were Mr. and NiS Sumner Ford, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lea, Mr.

and Mrs. Robert Cook, Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Carter, Mr. Mrs.

Laurens R. Bowden, Mr. and Mrs. Harmond, Mr. and Mrs.

Neill Cullum, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Page, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Anderson, Mr.

and Mrs. William L. Sayres, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beavers, Mr.

and Mrs. Russell Earle, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Underbill, Mr. and Mrs.

Len Conway and Mr. and Mrs. David Lanman. Mr. and Mrs.

William Sanford DuBois (Elizabeth Greenwood) returned today from Canada, where they spent their wedding trip. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rutledge Simmons of 31 8th ave. were 1 the house guests for the weekend of Dr.

and Mrs. George J. Schrieber Jr. at their home at Port Washington, L. I.

Miss Mary Osborn Polak will go to East Hampton, L. on Friday, where she has taken a house for the season. John Osborn Polak will join her later. Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Oldner Deyer returned today from a short visit in Richmond, Va. The Misses Henrietta J. and Dorothy Barrow of 748 St. Mark's ave. will leave on Saturday for Camp Marlendar, Wayne, where they will be guests of Mr.

and Mrs. Leonard Hull Smith of 1 Pierrepont st. during July. Miss Marjoire Bijou of 90 8th ave. will go to Lake Placid on July 1 where she will spend the summer.

and Mrs. Bijou will join their daughter later. Dr. and Mrs. Victor L.

Zimmerman of 839 Carroll st. are at their farm at Chatham Centre, N. until late in the fall. Mr. and Mrs.

Bruce Bromley have Miss Faris Joy as their guest at their home in Bellport, L. for a few days. Leffert. Lefferts, Walter Newhouse and Raymond Genereaux left Bellport for Poughkeepsie in Mr. Lefferts' cruiser, Buddy, to attend the intercollegiate boat races today.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Peckham, who have been at the Westbury, went yesterday to Eastmere, their summer home at East Hampton, Long Island. Miss Lucille King Honored By Shower and Bridge.

A shower and bridge were for Miss Lucille F. C. King, of Dr. and Mrs. Henry A.

King of 1258 E. 24th on Saturday afternoon by Mrs. Oscar Shaw at her home, 66 Downing st. The favors and decorations were Japanese and spring flowers were also used. Miss King will be married in the fall.

Among the guests were the Misses Helen Matthews, Florence Schmidt, "dith Moffett, Edith Hollman and Mary Lorraine Hunt, Mrs. William Olssen, Mrs. Stuart Mapes, Mrs. "Tarrison de F. Hunt, Mrs.

Richard T. Price and Mrs. Henry A. Cing. Mrs.

H. Wright Benoit, Hector of 1163 Dean st. will leave on Benoit and Miss. Elizabeth Benoit Wednesday for their home at Tonaga, Quebec. summer, be joined there in August by Dr.

Benoit and will return to Brooklyn about the middle of September, Mrs. L. C. Clark and Miss Lois Pinney Clark of 1394 E. 19th st.

will sail on the S.S, California on July 2 for a Mediterranean cruise. They will leave the cruise at Monaco for an extended tour of Europe and return home early in October. Miss Isobel Harvey of 1166 Pacific st. has returned from Canada and gone to Windham-in-the-Catskilis for part of the Mrs. William H.

Aten of 71. Gates 1 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Anderson of 1060 Ocean ave, and Mr. and Mrs.

Christopher Treber of 2721 Bedford ave. are touring Cape Cod and Maine for two weeks. Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Schluter will open their summer place at Oak Beach, L.

this week and will remain there until the middle of September. Mrs. H. B. Banks gave a luncheon recently at her home, 293 E.

16tl: as a reunion of some of the guests of last summer at the Brewer House, Cresco, Pa. Among the guests were Mrs. Emma Price, Mra. William McInnes, Mrs. Joseph Smith, Mrs.

J. M. Robins, Mrs. J. M.

Johns and Mrs. William A. Bell. Mrs. John H.

Jackson of 505 Clinton ave. will leave Friday for Plandome, L. where she will bet the guest of her son and daughter-inlaw, Mr. and Mrs. G.

Harry Jackson, over the Fourth of July. Later she will join her daughter and sonin-law, Mr. and Mrs. E. Thomas Sullebarger in Port Washington, L.

1., where they have taken a house for the summer. Davies Roulston Host at Dinner Party at Huntington Home. Davies Roulston entertained at small dinner party at his home in Stuntington, L. on Saturday night. His guests were Miss Helen Pflug, Miss Marjorie Heather, Miss Muriel Stafford, Burrows McGuire and Thomas F.

Jr. Brooklyn arrivals at the Manor at Asheville, N. include Miss Susanne Barnes, Miss Ethel Clarke, Miss Gwendolyn Jones and Miss Winifred Sherwood. At the villa Biltmore Hotel are Mr. and Mrs.

John E. Hamilton, WINS ORATORY 1 MEDAL. Long Branch, N. June 24- Miss Elsie Rosenberg of Brooklyn won third place in the national oratorical contest of the National Young Judea, held here yesterday as a part of the 20th anniversary convention at the Scarboro Hotel. She was awarded a gold medal.

The judges included Mrs. Rose heim of Brooklyn. MacCulley-Heffernan. Miss Eleanor Virginia Heffernan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

John A. Heffernan of 2806 Bedford was married Saturday to Ira Buckman MacCulley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry MacCulley of 484A ough st. Miss Heffernan is a uate of Adelphi College, class of '28, and a member of Phi Mu fraternity.

Mr. MacCulley is in the bond business in Wall Street. Miss Lillian Castle acted as maid of honor and Mr. Irvin Freeman as best man. wedding dinner at the Hotel Bossert, attended by the families of the bride and bridegroom, followed the cere mony.

-Sandberg. The marriage of Miss Gilda Sandberg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Sandberg of 670 West End Manhattan, to Mortimer Roaman; son of Mr. and Mrs.

Harry Roaman of 682 Ocean took place last evening at the Ambassador Hotel. The Rev. Dr. Israel Levinson of Brooklyn performed the ceremony, which was followed by a receptionide was given in marriage her father and had her sister. Miss Sara Sandberg, as maid of honor.

Charlotte Levy was flower girl. Philip Sedor acted as best man. and and there Mrs. were Roaman nine ushers. leave for an extensive trip through Canada, and upon their return will make their home in Manhattan.

Benefit Saturday. A card party will be given for the benefit of the Jewish Sanitarium for Incurables by the Marlboro Auxiliary at the sanitarium on Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. Prizes will ba given to players and nonplayers, and refreshments will be served. A 4 4 A Transparent Velvet Evening Wraps for 13.75 YOU simply couldn't imagine such a gorgeous summer evening wrap for 13.75! Transparent velvet with wide border and scarf of metal cloth! Black and delightful colors. Another model with double georgette border, 13.75.

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