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Brooklyn Life from Brooklyn, New York • Page 10

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BROOKLYN LIFE Peripatetic Personals Committee for Junior Alliance Benefit Bridge The committee in charge of the card party to be given on Friday, December 8th, at the Pouch Mansion by the Junior Alliance of Central Congregational Church for the benefit of the Brooklyn Home and Training School for Girls, includes, Miss Edna E. Lyons, president of the Junior Alliance; Miss Lillian E. Cadman, chairman; Miss Dorothy Andrews, Mrs. J. D.

Fackenthal, Miss Julia Hawley, Mrs. H. W. Hamilton, Miss Mildred Magonigle, Miss F. Emma Murchie, Miss Grace Randel and Miss Dorothea Williamson.

Friday Luncheon and Auction Club Entertained Mrs. John H. Thompson of 110 Hicks Street entertained the members of the Friday Luncheon and Auction Club Friday, November 3rd, at luncheon, after which cards were played. Among those present were, Mrs. Henry C.

Jacobs, Mrs. George Tuenis Moore, Mrs. Richard Burbank, Mrs. Grant R. Pitbladdo, Mrs.

Valentine Hall Everson, Mrs. T. Hood Muir, Mrs. William Hewer, Mrs. A.

E. Waterhouse, Mrs. William Toomey, Mrs. James Murphy, Mrs. Alfred A.

Steers, Mrs. W. W. White, and Mrs. Joseph L.

Barker. Meeting of the Women '76 Chapter, D. A. R. The regular monthly meeting of the Women of '76 Chapter, D.

A. R. was held at the Pouch Mansion on Wednesday, October 25th. In the absence of the regent, Mrs. Frank H.

Parcells, who was attending the D. A. R. State Conference held in Poughkeepsie, October 25th to 27th, the vice-regent, Mrs. Robert Strobriage.

presided. Miss Sara C. Hart of Akron, Ohio, ex-regent of the Cuyalioga-Portage Chapter of that city was a guest at the meeting and gave an interesting account of the work of her chapter. The speaker of the afternoon was Miss Virginia Murray of the Travelers' Aid Society of New York City, who told of the wide scope of her work which is international. The hostesses of the afternoon were, Miss Ethel E.

Bates and Miss Elizabeth Phillips. Among those present were Miss Cornelia H. Allen, Mrs. Harold J. Babbidge, Miss Ethel E.

Bates, Mrs. Clinton A. Bennett, Mrs. Edgar P. Beny, Mrs.

Loring M. Black, Mrs. Rudolph O. Bothfeld, Miss Laura L. Crook, Miss Edith J.

Evans, Mrs. Anthony W. Fiala, Mrs. Ethelburt Green, Miss Juliet E. Haley, Miss Helen M.

Heffley, Mrs. Lawrence R. Hills, Miss Hazel A. Holmes, Mrs. Philip Y.

Linker, Mrs. Donald S. K. Mackenzie, Mrs. Chandler A.

Mackey, Mrs. William D. Maltlie, Miss Madge Miller, Miss Elizabeth Phillips, Mrs. James B. Ronde, Mrs.

William F. Ross, Mrs. Einar Schatvel, Mrs. John H. Sinkinson, Mrs.

Robert Strobridge, Mrs. Alfred B. Babcock, Mrs. Edward M. Wollaston and Miss Reba T.

Swain. Committees for Tiny Tim Society Card Party The Tiny Tim Society of St. Giles Hospital will hold its annual card party and sale for the benefit of the crippled children at half past two o'clock Wednesday afternoon, November 15th, at the Heights Casino. The cards will be in charge of Mrs. Frederick D.

Mac Kay. Assisting her will be Mrs. S. Edwin Buchanan, Mrs. Edwin M.

Craigin, Mrs. Walter C. Hodgson, Mrs. A. C.

Howe, Mrs. Edwin P. Maynard, Mrs. Burr Burton Mosher, Mrs. Charles F.

Pray, Mrs. H. A. M. Ramsay, Mrs.

Frank L. Sniffen, and Mrs. H. C. Van Cleef.

Mrs. Raymond L. Donnell is to be chairman of the utility table and will have assisting her on the committee, Mrs. Claud A. C.

Blackburn, Miss B. We Catterall, Mrs. C. L. Cook, Mrs.

Alexander Cooper, Mrs. Edwin M. Craigin, Mrs. E. H.

Crampton, Miss Else F. Eilers, Mrs. J. S. Griffith, Mrs.

H. C. Hoag, Mrs. William Kerr, Mrs. Schuyler B.

Knox, Mrs. J. H. Lack, Mrs. A.

W. MacDonald, Mrs. George W. Mears, Miss Annie Olney, Mrs. W.

W. Pilkington, Mrs. Frank J. Perry, Miss M. L.

Spring, Mrs. H. H. Whitehill, Mrs. F.

F. Wolverton and Mrs. Frank C. Vause. Mrs.

William B. Perry will be chairman of the food table assisted by Mrs. Clinton D. Burdick, Mrs. Everett Caldwell, Mrs.

John B. Clark, Miss Agnes L. Cook, Mrs. Frances O. Edgerton, Mrs.

L. W. Forbell, Mrs. Harry E. Fogg, Mrs.

Edward S. Greene, Miss Mildred Greene, Mrs. Herbert M. Limen, Mrs. Edwin P.

Maynard, Mrs. Frank L. Patterson, Mrs. Harry D. Randall, Mrs.

Thomas S. Pendreigh, Mrs. Remsen Johnson, Mrs. Charles A. Silkman.

The candy table will be presided over by Mrs. George Worthington, assisted by Mrs. J. Howard Ashfield, Mrs. Clarence S.

Brown, Mrs. T. G. Caldwell, Mrs. F.

M. Cook, Mrs. C. Wesley Dingee, Mrs. C.

Howard Gore, Mrs. L. C. Harrold, Mrs. H.

W. Hanan, Miss Kate Hilson, Mrs. C. A. Hitchcock, Mrs.

W. C. Hodgson, Mrs. F. W.

Moore, Mrs. John La France, Mrs. Charles E. Porter, Mrs. E.

W. Spofford and Mrs. H. F1. Simmen.

Mrs. Cary Sanger entertained a small party of friends at dinner Monday evening, November 6th, at her new apartment in Stoneleigh Court. Miss Mabel Webb returned last week to her apartment in the Florence Court, 42 Pierrepont Street, after spending the summer visiting; and motoring through New England. Miss Chauncey of 140 Joralemon Street spent the week-end of November 4th with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Daniel Chauncey, at Cedarhurst, L.

I. Miss Russell and Miss Elizabeth C. G. Russell of 236 Henry Street have returned to their home after having spent the summer: motoring through New England and the Adirondacks. They were accompanied by Mr.

and Mrs. George Picksley of White Plains, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs.

J. C. Parrish, of 24 West Fiftyninth Street, Manhattan, are staying at the Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bellows will spend another month at their country home, "Wyndy Gates," Walpole, N.

after which they will spend the winter in England 'and on the continent. They sold their home on Pierrepont Street and have spent the last two winters in Bermuda. Mr. and Mrs. Bayard: Sands Litchfield of 23 East Eighty-first Street, Manhattan, gave a small dinner last week in honor of Mr.

E. Hubert Litchfield, who returned to his home, 8 East Sixty-fifth Street, on Wednesday, November 1st, having spent the hunting season Photo by Chariotte Fairchud, Inc. MRS. J. THEUS MUNDS Chairman of the Debutante Committee at the recent Victory Ball with his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Edward H. Litchfield, at Bunchrew House, Invernesshire, Scotland. Mr. and Mrs.

David Stuart were guests at the dinner. Madame Berg, Mrs. Bayard Sands Litchfield's mother, has returned to her home at 46 East Sixty-third Street, Manhattan, having spent the summer at Quogue, L. and at Litchfield Park in the Adirondacks. Mrs.

James T. Terry of 331 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, entertained at luncheon Thursday, November 2nd, at the Ritz-Carlton, Mrs. Griswold Thompson, Mrs. William J. Sturgis and Miss Mary Brown Waburton being among her guests.

Mr. and Mrs. W. Sterling Peters have closed their country house at East Hampton, L. and returned to their home at 255 Henry Street.

Mr. and Mrs. Gawen P. Kenway and their little daughter, Polly Kenway, of 258 Henry Street, have returned after spending the summer visiting in Wales and travelling on the continent. Mr.

and Mrs. Percy M. Brotherhood and their son, Mr. John Brotherhood, of 550 First Street, have returned from their country home at New Canaan, where they have been since July 1st. Their other son, Mr.

Percy M. Brotherhood, is now located permanently in Buffalo, N. as district sales manager of the Manning, Maxwell Moore, office. Mrs. William M.

Runyon has returned from her country place at Great Barrington, to her home at 446 Ocean Avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Willard E. Edmister have returned from their country home at Pittsfield, and are again at the Hotel Bossert.

Miss Marie Louise Burge and her sister, Miss Jessie Jay Burge, formerly of Brooklyn, have purchased the Congdon property on West Main Street, Wickford, R. I. Their father, the late Dr. J. H.

Burge, a well known physician of this borough, was born in Wickford and the Misses Burge have been in the habit of spending their summers there. Their aunt, Mrs. F. Burge Griswold, was the author of "Old Wickford, the Venice of America." Their brother, the Rev. Frederick W.

Burge, has gone to Burlington, as assistant to the Rev. Dr. Richardson, rector of the Episcopal Mr. and Mrs. William D.

Hoxie have closed their country home, "Reverie Hall," Westerly, R. and returned to 315 Clinton Avenue. They have just gotten back from an extended trip through the Canadian Rockies, Yellowstone Park and California. Mr. and Mrs.

Frederick R. Nichols with their family have returned from their summer home at Keansburg, N. to 854 East Seventeenth Street. Dr. and Mrs.

Joseph P. Murphy of 653 St. Marks Avenue have returned after spending the summer at Bellport, L. I. Last week they met with an accident while motoring home from Hudson, N.

Y. In order to avoid driving into a Ford driven by a deaf man, Dr. Murphy swerved into a ditch and the car turned completely over. Friends of Dr. and Mrs.

Murphy will be glad to know that miracuolusly neither they no: their four children, who were also in the automobile, were hurt. Mr. and Mrs. Jere Conran and Miss Virginia Conran of 196 Midwood Street hay returned from Pinebush, N. Y.

Dr. and Mrs. William H. Bayles of 1901 Bedford Avenue and Mr. and Mrs.

Alfred E. Steers of 170 East Seventeenth Street have returned to town after spending the summer at their country homes at New London, Conn. Judge Alfred E. Steers leaves his court duties as quickly as possible these days to spend a few hours with his youngest granddaughter, Carolyn Gloria Roehl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Winslow Judson Roehl of 2015 Avenue Flatbush. Before her marriage, Mrs. Roehl was Miss Mildred Steers, youngest daughter of the Judge. Several residents of Flatbush claim that Gloria strongly resembles her grandfather. Mr.

and Mrs. Percy S. Mallett, formerly of 13 Monroe Place, have moved to 108 Ninth Street, Garden City, L. I. Mr.

and Mrs. Guy C. Mallett are also now living at Garden City, L. having moved from their former home at 71 Orange Street to Franklin Court. Mr.

Thomas Slade Perkins, formerly of 335 Clinton Street, is now living with his sister, Miss Mary Perkins, at 212 East Seventh Street, Plainfield, N. J. Mr. and Mrs. Walter C.

Perkins have also taken an apartment in Plainfield, N. J. Mrs. Jay F. Carlisle recently came into town from "Rosemary," her country place near Islip, L.

and is at the Hotel Vanderbilt for a short stay. Mr. and Mrs. Irving A. Lewis have returned to their winter residence at 207 Hancock Street from Halesite, L.

I. Mr. Thomas Power has returned to his home at 850 Park Avenue, Manhattan, after spending the summer. at Newport, R. I.

Ethel Lyman Mackey, soprano, and Mary Hopkins Emerson, pianist, of 89 Clark Street, are filling concert dates in Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. Announcements Deaths (Continued from page 3) eight years she was head of the Trinity Parish School's Art Department, and was instructor of painting at Miss Dow's Girls' School at Briarcliff Manor. Miss Mix was a contributor to many art exhibitions in this and other cities. Besides her mother, she is survived by a sister, Mrs. William Sitterley of Glenwood, L.

I. WEAVER--Eli Witwer, 25 Jefferson Avenue, November 1. For eighteen years Mr. Weaver was a teacher of mathematics at Boys' High School. He was also a lecturer and father of the vocational guidance system in the public schools.

He was born in Churchtown, and after graduating from the Pennsylvania State Normal School he was a Doctor of Pedagogy at New York University. He retired in 1919 and devoted his time to lecturing at Teachers' College of Columbia University. He was the author of "Building a Career," "Profitable Vocations for Boys," "Profitable Vocations for Girls" and "Medicine as a Profession." Two sons, Luther O. Weaver and Lieut. John H.

Weaver, died in war service. He leaves his wife, four daughters and three sons..

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