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Brooklyn Life and Activities of Long Island Society from Brooklyn, New York • Page 12

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BROOKLYN LIFE BROOKLYN LIFE ONE THOUSAND names of subscribers to the Faith Home annual Bridge and Sale to be held the afternoon of November 3rd, at the Hotel St. George, had been received at the time of going to press and more were still coming in. Many of these had taken tables, and many were contributors to the fund of $10,000 which, it is hoped, will be raised. Among the subscribers and contributors are Mrs. Henry P.

Bull, Mrs. Thomas H. Muir, Mrs. Warren Cruikshank, Mrs. James Calhoon, Mrs.

Edwin P. Maynard, Mrs. Henry C. Badgley, Mrs. Donald Ross, Mrs.

Edward Pell Folger, Mrs. Robert E. Merwin, Mrs. Louis E. Bomeisler, Mrs.

Earl H. Mayne, Mrs. Frank M. Townley, Mrs. A.

De Witt Mason, Mr. William F. Barthman, Mrs. Edward Gibb, Mrs. J.

Adolph Mollenhauer, Mrs. Henry F. Noyes, Mrs. Frederick P. Tuthill, Mrs.

Walter P. Hammitt, Mrs. Frederick W. Rowe, Mrs. Frank D.

Blodgett, Mrs. Frederic B. Pratt, Mrs. Stephen H. Payne, Mrs.

Dwight H. Corwin, Mrs. Daniel K. de Beixedon, Mrs. Austin Ludlum, Mrs.

Walter C. Burr, Mrs. Daniel Van Brunt Hegeman, Mrs. I. Clement Collier.

Dr. and Mrs. Lindley Johnson, Mrs. Arthur C. Bellows, Mrs.

Thomas A. Moorehead, Mrs. Forest M. Towl, Mrs. Abel E.

Blackmar, Mrs. Alanson H. Scudder, Mrs. William M. Calder, Mrs.

Frances Laimbeer, Mrs. S. Edwin Buchanan, Mrs. Lambert Suydam, Mrs. Charles A.

Boody MR F. VALDEMAR HENSHAW S.S. of Volendam Bellport, for I. sailed Tuesday on the Bermuda, where he has gone as the guest of the New York State Savings Bank Association, which is holding a convention there. He is the head of the Utilities Department of the banking house of Wood, Struthers and Company.

Mrs. Henshaw has gone with him. A BRIDGE for the Jeannie L. Grant Recreation Camp a camp for boys at Wading River, L. maintained by the Brooklyn Rotary Club) will be given at Oppenheim Collins, on Friday, November 4th, at 2 P.

M. Mrs. LeRoy S. Edwards is chairman of tickets, Mrs. Thomas Pitbladdo chairman of the cake table, Mrs.

Arthur Ebinger chairman of the utility table, and Mrs. T. M. Rafferty chairman of the candy table. and Mr.

C. Allan Cole. MISS John's College KATHRYN I. Auxiliary, BRADY, conducted president the first of St. general assembly of the Auxiliary in the Moore Memorial gymnasium, Lewis Avenue and Hart Street, on Thursday evening, October 20th.

The national colors made a very effective background for the floral decorations of palms, yellow chrysanthemums and autumn leaves in the gymnasium. SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF NEW ENGL THE LAND were the sponsors of a benefit bridge for Colony House last Saturday evening, October 22nd, which was held in the Social Hall of the Fourth Unitarian Church at Beverly Road and East 19th Street. Miss Mignon McClintock, president of the Society, acted as, hostess for the evening. Bridge scores in leather cases were given as prizes. Among the patrons and patronesses were: Miss Edna Adars, Mr.

and Mrs. W. Palmer Smith, Dr. and Mrs. T.

H. McClintock, Miss Hilda Bryant, Mr. and Mrs. L. Parker McKinley, Dr.

Cornelia C. Brant, Miss Beatrix Kimmelmann, Mr. and Mrs. William Sinclair, Mrs. William H.

Arnold, Mrs. Eugene Grant, Miss Mildred Bolles, Miss Laura Pope, Harry Mirick, Mr. and Mrs. Charles I. Clark, Mr.

and Mrs. Herbert T. Scott, Miss Francina Page, Miss Florence Berry, Miss Priscilla Fuller, Mr. and Mrs. Edward D.

Reynolds, Mr. and Mrs. George A. Shellas, Mr. and Mrs.

John H. Squires, Mr. Theodore Sperry, Mrs. Vera T. Matthews, Mrs.

Bennett R. Speer, Mrs. Chester Cole. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs.

Charles A. Decker, Mr. H. L. Brant, Mr.

and Mrs. J. A. McDowell, Mr. and Mrs.

Willard I. Nevins, Miss Dorothy Spalding, Mrs. Philip Montague Luce, Mrs. John H. Jackson, Mrs.

Guy E. Capron, Mrs. Frederick W. Burbank, Miss Marie L. Spader, Mr.

Harry M. Landry, Mr. Warren M. Wilson, Mr. Eliot N.

Vestner, Miss Olive Greenpert, Miss Hattie J. Darbois, Miss Ellen I. Lawrence, Miss Jean H. Page, Miss Anne Marie Steinbugler, Miss Madelyn V. Clayton, Miss Catherine Steinbugler, Mrs.

Charles J. Steinbugler, Miss Madeleine Mousees, Mr. A. Norris Turner, 3rd, Mr. C.

Faulkner Gilman, Mr. and Mrs. George H. Dame, Mr. and Mrs.

Richard Kimball, Mr. Frank E. Hanson, Mrs. C. H.

Dudley, Mrs. H. P. Burt, Mr. and Mrs.

W. J. A. Bolles, Mr and Mrs. G.

W. Thompson, Miss Eleanor Weightman, Miss Edith. Sayre The Auxiliary has one hundred and fifty. new members, fifty of whom are juniors This increase is due to the splendid work of Mrs. Raoul A.

Frechette, chairman of the Membership Committee, and of Miss Adelaide Sullivan, chairman of the Junior Committee, assisted by Mrs. James Carson, Mrs. John Cunningham, Mrs. J. Denton Shea, Mrs.

Robert Murtha, Mrs. John T. King, Mrs. Francis D. McCarey, Mrs.

Delmer D. Martin, Miss Irene Gallagher, Miss Eleanor Casey, Miss May Goie and Miss Dorothy McLaughlin. A delightful musical program was presented by Miss M. Veronica Woods, chairman of the music committee. The assisting artists were Mr.

James E. Tallent, baritone; Miss Marie Deutscher, violinist, and Mr. William Larkin, pianist. Mrs. John Masterson, assisted by the members of the Junior Committee, served refreshments.

Miss Brady entertained the Junior Committee at a tea at her home, 871 St. Marks Avenue, on Sunday, October 23rd, at 4 o'clock. N. there took place last Saturday evening the wedding of Mr. Lowell Palmer Weicker, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Theodore Weicker of 1115 Fifth Avenue and grandson of the late Lowell M. Palmer of Brooklyn, and Miss Mary Hastings Bickford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Childe Bickford of 154 Soldiers Place.

Palms, lilies and candles decorated the aisles and the chancel for the evening ceremony. The Rev. Dr. Cameron Davis, rector of the Church, officiated, assisted by the Rev. Canon Plumptre of St.

James Cathedral, Toronto, Canada. A reception followed at the home of the bride's parents. Ferns and flowers were used in profusion to decorate the house. The bride was gowned in ivory satin, embroidered with a sunburst of rhinestones and made with a long train of old lace falling from the shoulders. She carried white orchids with claret centers and lilies of the valley.

Miss Beatrice Helen Bickford was her sister's maid of honor and the bridesmaids included the Misses Millicent and Phyllis Bickford, sisters of the bride; Florence Adam, Florence Weicker, Frances Davis, Martha Hamlin, Mrs. D. Trenchard Graham, Mrs. Robert E. Dillon and Mrs.

Lawrence L. Hurd, and Mrs. R. H. Davidson of Kingston, Can.

The attendants wore white velvet gowns, simply made on straight lines and with silver-lined scarfs falling from the shoulder. They carried sheaves of thirty red roses. The Misses Phyllis Metz, Annette McGuire and Grace De Cernea were flower girls. Mr. Theodore Weicker, was best man for his brother, and the ushers included the Messr9, Frederick Weicker, Lawrence K.

Jennings of Manhattan; Edward Bickford of Buffalo; Frederick W. Wallace of Hartford, Stewart McClintic, Raymond Moreland and George H. Flinn, of Pittsburgh, Edward Hogan of St. Paul, Francis E. Salt of Niagara Falls, N.

Richard Wortham of Paris, Texas; John Rice, of Easton, Gordon York of Cleveland, Ohio; William Muir of Grosse Point, and Howard C. Paulsen of Spokane, Wash. Mr. and Mrs. Weicker have sailed for Europe for their wedding trip.

TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Buffalo, afternoon at 4 o'clock. Her subject will be "Greek Handicraft." Mme. Sikelianos has done much to revive the ancient method of weaving in Greece and will exhibit examples which she wove herself. Last Sunday Mme. Sikelianos spoke at the Brooklyn Little Theatre on Music." Her lectures are sponsored by the Board of Directors of the Brooklyn Music School Settlement, of which Mrs.

Benjamin Prince is president. Those who attended the lecture last Sunday included: Mrs. Glentworth Reeve Butler, Mrs. Prince, Mrs. William S.

Sontos, Miss Clara Van Vleck, Miss Jane Van Vleck, Miss Dorothy Lawton, Mrs. William R. Bassett, Mr. Edwin Strawbridge, Mme. de Treville, Mrs.

Cameron Duncan, Miss Florence Greer, Mrs. Charles J. McDermott, Mrs. Foster Crampton and Mr. Kendall K.

Mussey, director of the Music School Settlement. ME. ture at EVA the SIKELIANOS Brooklyn will Little give Theatre her second tomorrow lec- THIS IS THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY YEAR of the National League for Women's Service, Kings County Division, and in commemoration of that fact a theatre party will be given on Monday evening, November 14th. The play selected is "The Baby Cyclone," at the Henry Miller Theatre, and the proceeds will be devoted to the assistance of ex-service men in hospitals. The entire membership and its friends are cordially invited, and it is hoped that the affair will be a huge success.

THE WOMEN'S SOCIETY of the Caldonian Pouch Hee Mansion pita will hold their annual bazaar at the on the afternoons of November 9th, 10th and 11th. DEAN WILLIAM P. RICHARDSON of the Brooklyn Law School, whose Brooklyn residence is at 78 Eighth Avenue, has purchased a beautiful country home in Morristown, N. J. He has bought the handsome residence of Earle N.

Cutler on Kahdena Road. The estate occupies several acres and includes a number of buildings. Dean Richardson will make extensive alterations and will occupy it next summer. MATTHEW S. SLOAN of 59 Livingston Street, MR.

president of the Brooklyn Edison Company; Mr. A. J. Gounoud of 83 Eighty-sixth Street, vice-president of the Kings County Lighting Company, and Mr. Raymond H.

Fiero of 1296 Pacific Street have returned from West Baden, Indiana, where they attended the convention-meeting of the United States Chamber of Commerce. At the convention one of the principal addresses was made by Mr. Lewis E. Pierson, formerly of 93 Eighth Avenue, but now of Manhattan. MR.

the DAVID new A. Berkeley-Plaza BOODY has on taken Plaza an Street. apartment For a great many years Mr. Boody has made his home at 206 Berkeley Place. THE CLASS OF 1908, Packer Collegiate Institute, is giving a bridge for the Alumnae Fund this afternoon at the home of Mrs.

Whitney Merrill, 393 Grand Avenue. Mrs. Harold J. Babbidge is in charge of invitations and prizes and Mrs. Remick Eckardt is treasurer.

Acceptances had been received early in the week from over sixty guests. THE JUNIOR LEAGUE of Brooklyn opened its winter program on Wednesday with a luncheon at the Junior League House, Schermerhorn and Nevins Streets. The new president, Mrs. Randolph H. Lee, presided.

The speakers were Mrs. Carleton H. Palmer, president of the Association of Junior Leagues of America; Mrs. Harold Stoker, the regional director of Section No. 2 which comprises sixteen cities in the States of New York and New Jersey; and Mr.

Thomas V. Gould, president of the Brooklyn Rotary Club. Those present included Miss Clelia Adams, Miss Elizabeth Armstrong, Miss Virginia Beguelin, Mrs. George Benington, Miss Marion Bernard, Mrs. William Baldwin, Miss Constance Boody, Miss Priscilla Bowns, Mrs.

A. Clarke Bedford, Mrs. Bruce Bromley, Miss Mary Cabaud, Miss Josephine Carpenter, Mrs. Reginald Carter, Mrs. A.

Wallace Chauncey, Mrs. Hugh Cuthrell, Miss Bremner Crafts, Miss Mabel Coutts, Mrs. Edward V. Crane, Mrs. Lloyd Dalzell, Mrs.

Arthur K. Davis, Miss Mildred DeMott, Miss Elizabeth Deyer, Miss Frances Dudley, Mrs. Cameron Duncan, Mrs. E. Fleetwood Dunstan, Mrs.

Morris Ely, Miss Julia English, Miss Louise Goetze, Miss Elizabeth Greenwood, Miss Ethel Hanan, Miss Virginia Hanan, Mrs. Earl Harris, Mrs. Ronald Hart, Miss Elizabeth Halstead, Mrs. William Hester, Mrs. Kenneth Hume, Mrs.

Darwin James, Miss Dorothy Johnson, Mrs. Mortimer Kelly, Mrs. John L. King, Miss Jean Lachlan, Miss Louise Little, Miss Grace Love, Mrs. Kenneth Lyons, Miss Dorothy MacDonald, Miss Katherine Magner, Mrs.

Edwin Maynard, Mrs. Richard Maynard, Mrs. Robert McManamy, Miss Helen Moorehead, Mrs. Charles Neergaard, Mrs. James Newman, Mrs.

Fremont Peck, Miss Josephine Perfect, Miss Tirzan Perfect, Mrs. Rollin Plumb, Miss Mary Polak, Mrs. Richardson Pratt, Mrs. William Parsons, Miss Katherine Ross, Miss Jean Sherman, Miss Arrietta Smith, Mrs. Walter Spaulding, Mrs.

Gordon Thayer, Mrs. Gilbert Thirkield, Miss Margaret Thayer, Miss. Helen Throop, Miss Alice Tiebout, Miss Gertrude Van Brunt, Mrs. Tracy Voorhees, Mrs. Frank West, Mrs.

George S. Frank, Mrs. George Kenmore, Mrs. Ernest Metcalf, Mrs. Stephen Valentine, Mrs.

Lauriston Castleman, Miss Prudence Wilson, Mrs. Clifton Thompson, Mrs. Francis Walton, Mrs. Rodney Ward, Mrs. Henry Flynt, Miss Kathleen Kevin, Miss Frances Tucker, Mrs.

Robert Sanderson. MR. AND MRS. WALLACE of 155-31 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, have announced the marriage of their daughter, Miss Estelle King Wallace, to Mr. James Bishop Crane, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Walter D. Crane of 1402 Beverly Road, Brooklyn. and Northport, L. in St.

Mark's Methodist Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, Friday of last week. The bride's father is a former District Attorney of Queens and the bridegroom is a descendant of an old Brooklyn family..

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