PERSONAL AND SOCIAL NEWS OF INTENSE INTEREST SONG FESTIVAL FOR EARLY JUNE Mrs. Phoebe Turner With Christ Lutheran Choir Ar ranges Delightful Program Mrs. Phoebe S. Turner and the aug mented choir of Christ Lutheran Church, will present a delightful program at a Spring Song Festival to I'c Jie'd Tuesday evening, June 4 at S.i.i o'clock in the Shimmell school 'building. "May Day." a beautiful cantata l.y G. A. McFarran, will be sung with l!ie solo parts taken by Mrs. Walter Sohn, soprano; Robert C. Smith, bass; Frank Entry, baritone; Miss .Ruth Steinhauer, accompanist. The program will open by chorus singing, "My Old Kentucky Home" "Spring Waltz," Wilde, by the choir; baritone solo, "For You Alone," Gartner, Robert C. Smith; cantata. "Hark. Hark, the bark," Cook, the Witmer, Bair Walnut Near Second 300 New Selected Summer Dresses on sale Friday and Saturday 3OO choice new selected Wash Skirts on Sale Friday and Saturday 3OO new selected Blouses on sale Friday and Saturday. 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North Market Square WEDNESDAY EVENING, I'choir closing with "Good Night I Ladies" in chorus. Ekolela Camp Fire Girls Will Present a Comedy "The Troubles at Satterlee's," an exciting one-act comedy and "Camp Fire Features" will be presented by the Ekolela Camp Fire Girls at the Shimmell school building, corner Seventeenth and Catherine streets, Friday evening. The "Camp Fire Features" will include an all-night hike illustrating dtfferent points of the camp tire law. The cast of characters includes: Dorothy. Edna Hoke; Alice. Kathar ine Kohler; Mildred, Mable Hoke; Rbrtha. Dorothy Watts; Marion. Ruth Steever; Mis>- Satterlee, the principal. Reba Foland; Kathleen, the Irish maid, Esther Johns. TO SEE BROTHER OFF The Rev. Eli Garson Gordon, of New York City, came here to see his brother. Abraham Gordon, off for ac tive military service. The young sol dier is leaving Saturday noon for In dianapolis, lnd. ENJOY A DANCE AT SUMMERDALE Ordnance Department Em ployes Merrily Trip to Mu- ' sic of Branyan Orchestra The third Con-Q-Con dance, com posed of Middletown ordnance de pot employes, was held last evening at Summerdale. The Branyan Or chestra furijishi-'d the music for a slxteen-dance program. Miss Har clerode and Miss Josephine Ebersole were on the committee of arrange ments. Among the guests were: Lieuten ant and Mrs. Robert Lesher, Lieu tenant Avery, Captain and Mrs. H. C. Moore. Mr. and Mrs. John Muetil, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Davenport, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Pollard, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Kean, Mi. and Mrs; Rob ert Koons, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Dono hue, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Lapley, Miss Blanche Churchman. Miss Olive llimes. Miss Josenhine Ebersole. Miss Geraldine Abbott, Miss Claire Heck. Miss Ruth Willoughby. Mias Anna Barr. Miss Rita McGinnis, Mi.?B Anna Mosey. Miss Nebinger, Miss Es ther Sochs. Miss Agnes Towson, Miss Davia Johnson, Miss Katherine Kel ler, Metzger, Miss Mar garet Backenstoss,. A. L. Wildman, Raymond A. Otto, Frank McCarthy, Joseph Magary, H. V. Ewing. Frank lin F. Crowley, Robert C. Crawford, Stewart Kishpaugh, H. F. Whiteside, Gerald Whiteside. C. Curtis Silger, Geno Otto. J. C. Mealy. R: S. Arthur, D. J. Allan, Morris Roth, S. D. Smith, W. D. Downey, J. E. Beardsley, Jo seph L. Wasserman. Jame>s Weisel, Harold Bonnev, George F. Stringer and O. Thiele. Maccabee Guards Hold Third Annual Banquet The Maccabees Guards of Har risburg Review, No. 257. N. B. A., had their third annual banquet last evening in the Elks Hall,' North Second street, with a fine attendance and many clever toasts. Dancing and cards followed, en joyed by the Guard and their guests, including: Captain, Grace Stauffer; president, Charlotte Sprucebank; Mrs. Irene Brenneman. Mrs. Hippie, Mrs. Cousaekf Mrs. Murphy, Mrs. Wain. Mrs. Sara Boyd, Mrs. Groff, Mrs. Mae Harris, Mrs. Mary Miller, Mrs. Emma Miller, Mrs. Jennie Strayer, Mrs. Jennie Grow, Mrs. Anna Finley, Mrs. Anna Bomgard ner, Mrs. Maude Seidel, Mrs. Harriet Reynolds, Mrs. Dula Martin, Mrs. Minnie Warfel - . Mrs. Mildred Hoff man, Miss Daisy Seidel, Miss Gladys Kuhn. Miss Blanche Herman, Miss Dorothy Gerhart, Miss Margaret Shuemacker. MISS REYNOLDS IS HOSTESS Miss Marguerite Reynolds. 112 Derry street, was hostess at an in formal dinner last evening in honor of Miss Marjorie EJ. Bolles, oT the Y. .C. A., who will leave for Wil braham. Mass., this week. Roses and ferns formed t charming center piece for the table. Covers were laid for the following guests: Miss Mar jorie E. Bolles, Misj Marv C. McKee. Miss Pauline Miller, Miss Helen Runkle, Miss Mildred Runkle, Miss Faye I. Haverstick and Miss Mar guerite Reynolds. CLOSING DANCE OF SEASON A special feature of the closing dance of the season of the Motive Power Athletic Company which will be given this evening at Seventh and Harris street, is a dance by Nat Isaacman. Sourbier's Orchestra will play for the dancers. Wives and friends of employes are invited to attend. Admission will be by ticket only. TEMPI,E AUXILIARY OPENS Mrs. Otto J. Buxbaum, chairman of the Temple Sisterhood Red Cross Auxiliary, announces that the rooms will be open for work every Tuesday from 9.30 a. m. to 5 p. m. This branch has been doing excellent work during the brief period of its existence. Mrs. Ralph Thompson and Mrs. Roy Egolf, 516 South Sixteenth street, have returned for an extend ed trip to Downingtown, West Ches ter, and Philadelphia and New York where they visited relatives. C. E. Meckley has returned to Camp Gordon. Ga.. after a ten days' furlough spent with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Meckley, at Pen brook. Mrs. John M. Mahon, of Wood bine street, will leave in a day or two to join her husband. Captain Mahon. in charge of camp sanitation at Gettysburg. The Misses Mildred and Estella Ommert entertained the Elliott- Fisher Girls' flub last evening at their home, 729 South Nineteenth street. Mrs. Douglas E. Dismukes and son. Douglas Dismukes. Jr.. of 1015 North Front street, are home after a pleasure trip to Philadelphia. • —————————_ N Do You Need Glasses If so you need the services of an Expert Optometrist, one of long experience. We have been examining eyes for years and have the equipment and the experience :o tell the exact nature of your jye trouble, and perscribe proper slasses. We furnish you with •ligh Grade Glasses at a reason ible price. Don't buy Cheap Bar {ain Sale Glasses as they ruin many eyes. The harm may not jhow at once, but will in the fu ure. When You Break Your Glasses • >ring the pieces to us. We grind oar own lenses and can replace my broken lens at a reasonable orice. Consult us about your eyes it once. Open Saturday Evening Until Eight O'Clock OPTOMETRISTS AND OPTICIAN* N0. 22 N. 4TH. ST. KARRI BBVRO. PA* •Where (iiiisscs Are Made Kighi" HARRISBURG TELEGRXPHI COLONIAL CLUB'S COMING EVENTS Much of Interest Scheduled | For Members of This Thor oughly Alive Association Memorial Day will be heartily celebrated at the Colonial Country Club with a varied program. Charles H. Hoffman, chairman of the golf committee, announces that the great golf match will start at 12.H0 o'cock, the proceeds to go to ward the Red Cross. The ladies' advisory committee, Mrs. James T>. Hawkins, chairman, has arranged a musical program and tea from 3 to 5 o'clock in the after- j noon. All ladies of the club are In vited to attend and bring guests [ with them. The committee includes) Mrs. Charles A. Alden, Mrs. M. ; White Allen, Mrs. Arthur H. Bailey and Mrs. Clarence P. Hench. The entertainment committee, headed by M. White Allen, expects to have dancing on the large porch If the weather permits. The Updegrove orchestra, augmented by a number of j players, will furnish up-to-date mu- ; sic from 8 to 11 o'clock. W. H. Johnston and Ernest H. Sullings are in charge of the event, which prom ises to he well attended. A table d'hote dinner will be j served at fi p. m., for which reserva- ! tions should immediately he made. ; Anson P. Dare, chairman of the j house committee, announces that S. j M. Bullwinkle, formerly of the St. j James' Hotel, of Philadelphia, has) been installed as the steward, suc ceeding Lee W. Miller, resigned. Arthur H. Bailey, president, has called a special meeting of the club i for Monday night, June 3, at 8.30. I A large attendance Is expected. Entertainment Under Direction of Miss Martz •Was Most Successful The entertainment given by the Central High school Club of the V. W. C. A. last evening in the Techni cal High Auditorium was well at ! tended. Miss Marion Martz, a grad-j uate of Central High and the Na-' tional School of Elocution, directed the affair and was given much credit for the splendid manner in which the girls handled their vari ous parts. At the close of the en- \ tertainmer.t she was presented with a corsage bouquet of pink roses and sweetpeas as a testimony of the ap preciation of her work for the club. "A Pan of Fudge," the opening num ber on the program, was received; enthusiastically by the ; This was followed by an aestheticj dance of the sunbeams by pupils ofj Miss Marjorie E. Bolles. The girls j responded gracefully to an encore. "Jerusha Davis' Family Album" wasj perhaps the nia&l entertaining i";a 'lure of the program. The various old-fashioned characters kefrt the audiance in a constant gale of laugh ter. Miss Laura Althouse as "Grand father" and Miss Eleanor' Klemm as "Baby Ned" were particularly pleas ing in their roles. The proceeds of the entertainment! will be used to send delegates to the; summer conference for High school j girls at Camp Nepahwin. Settle-< ments for tickets are to be com-! pleted at club meeting next Tuesday: evening. Leave For St. David's to Attend Big Wedding Mrs. John C. Kunkel, of 11 South Front street; the Misses Mary Sar-1 gent and Sara Sargent, of Carlisle, and Mrs. William Watts Galbraith and s sons, of 111 North street, are going! to Philadelphia to attend the wed- j ding festivities to-morrow of Mar- j garetta Dixon Myers and Harry Wharton, son of Dr. Wharton, of the i Quaker City. The ceremony will take i place at 4:30 o'clock in St. Martin's Episcopal Church, St. David's, follow- | ed by a brilliant reception at the bride's home. This is the third daughter of Mr. \ and Mrs. W. Heywprd Myers to be | married within a short time. Their I only son, Captain Charles Myers, is in j service abroad. Mrs. Myers is re- \ merqbered here by many old friends ; as Miss Bessie Sargent. Her husband ; is a vice-president of the Pennsyl vania Railroad. BACK TO CAMP GORDON Charles E. Meckley. of Penbrook. j Pa., returned last evening to Camp i Gordon. Georgia, after having spent! a week with his parents while on furlough. He has been recommended i for a commission as second lieuten- ! ant. Before enlistment Mr. Meckley ! was bookkeeper in the First National i Bank of Harrisburg, Pa. - STAYING IN FLORIDA lieutenant and Mrs. Donald F. Jenks, of Philadelphia, arc spending some time In Jacksonville, Florida,; while Lieutenant Jenks of the Labor j Ratallion is awaiting orders, Mrs. j Jenks is remembered here as Miss! Norah Barrington. John L. Hoffman Is Safe With Men Across Seas JOHN L. HOFFMAN Mrs. Alice R. Hoffman, of Fairview, has received word of the safe arrival overseas of her son, John L. Hoffman, of Company D, Eleventh Machine Gun Battalion. The young man has a host of friends In thia vici nity who are glad for the good news. LODGE 3ft, O. S. OP B. NOTICE All members of Star of Harrisburg Lodge, No. 30, O. S. of 8., are re quested to meet in their hall, Ver beke and Fulton, Thursday night, May 30,t0 take action on the death of Lady'("arson. By order of Com mander Adaline Taylor; Scribe, Cai i rle Thompson.—Adv. ONLY TWO LEFT OF FRATERNITY Jesse D. Wells, Jr., of the Famous O Simi Taus, Called to the Colors, Is Married The marriage was announced this morning of Miss Elizabeth Swartz. the popular young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Swartz, of Pottstown, to Jesse I). Wells, Jr., of tjiis city. The ceremony was performed Wednesday, May 8, in Baltimore, by the Rev. C. F. K.vster, pastor of a Lutheran church, and was kept secret until today, when Mr. Wells was called to report on Saturday at Newport. R. 1., for special service as a yeoman in the United States Navy. The bridegroom has a wide ac quaintance throughout the city, at preservt having the position of man ager of the department of credits for Bowman and Company. He was grad uated with the class of 1915 Central High School, is a member of the C bomber of Commerce, and Is affili-* ated with a number of patriotic or ganizations of the city as executive. The young folks will spend a day or two at the bride's home in Potts town and will return to this city for a time. Mrs. Wells is a member of the fa mous O Simi Tau fraternity whose members are in active war service abroad, but two remaining here at the present time. t Story Tellers League Closes For*the Season The closing meeting for the. season | of the social branch of the Story ; Tellers League was held last even- I ing in the hall of the Public lii i bravy, with Mrs. Harry G. Keffer, the | president, presiding. Members have I promised to tell stories onch a month i Paul's Parish House, the pro gram details to be announced later. I The following names were added , to the club's honorary list: J. George BeMit, Rabbi Louis J, Haas, the Rev. Henry W. A. Hanson, Harry G. J. KefTer, Mrs. Mabel Cronise • Jones. Mrs. Harvey Smith, Mrs. Alvin I. Miller, Mrs. Paul Johnston, Mrs. Morris K. Jacobson, Miss Fanny Eby, Miss Alice R. Katon. At the conclusion of the business session Miss May be Van told tile story, "Where Love Is, God Is." Tol stoi; Miss Martha Rife, •'The Star Maiden," Georgiana Falkner: Mrs. J. Sharon* McDonald. "The Flying Trunk," Hans Christian Anderson; Mrs. D. J. Reese, "Mother Winter greens Fires," L. M. Cook. Lieuten ant George W. Danfort told an "In cident of the Sea." A meeting of the board of mana gers of the league will be held this evening at 7.H0 o'clock at the home of the president, Mrs. Harry G. Kef fer, -36 Woodbine street. VISIT GEORGE A. CRAIG Mrs. Sarah R. Craig and F. Stew art Craig, returned home yesterday after a visit to George A. Craig, Camp bee, Va. Mr. Craig has been transferred to the 305 th Motor Com pany and left for service elsewhere. CENTRAL HIGH NOTES Special announcements of inter est to the senior class of Cent'-al High school were made yesterday at the last chapel service to be held by Principal H. G. Dibble. Com mencement announcementsshould be secured to-day at the school library. The sale of seats for the class play June 7, will be open June 5 at the Orpheum. Caps and gowns can be obtained at school Friday. June 7. The Rev. Dr. Mudge, of Pine Street Presbyterian Church, will deliver the baccalaureate sermon June 9 at 7 30 p. m. Invitations for the commence ment dance at Summerdale June 14 should be .secured immediately. Quarterly tests for seniors will lie held June 3 and 4, and final exami nations June 5. The junior-senior class picnic will be held at Hershey Park Friday of this week. EBEEE^I (fclCAliy<^Cpß^ Pay While You tfear them HBBBQ Let Us Correct Your Eye Troubles You might go along for a long time without wearing glasses, but in the long run you'll be sorry. Your eye defects to-day might be very tiny and easy to cor rect, but they get larger with time Our Club plan enables you to buy glasses and pay for them at your convenience, at the same time your eye troubles will be corrected while they are simple. True Belsinger Service is yours ' no matter how simple or dif ficult your case. CONSULT US AT ONCE Evening" by Appointment J. S. Belsinger 212 Locust Street Next Door to Orpheum GYM PICNIC TONIGHT Members or the High school and business girls classes of the Y. W C. A. gym classes under the direction of Miss Marjorie E. Bolles are in vited to attend tha picnic at Reser voir Park this evening. The girls will leave the Y. W. C. A at 545 p. m. and have a picnic iunch at "Third Cherry Hill." Interesting fea tures have been planned for the BUM, 1901—25 UNITED HARRISBURG, WKDNBSDAY, MAY 21). IftlH. FOUNDED 1871 In the Nam "Liberty" J|[ Tomorrow should be a day of public Solemnity de voted to the memory of those who died to serve, and a day of consecrated prayer to the militant living. Thousands upon thousands have died on the battle fields of this continent, and now Our Sons go three thousand miles away to battle on the frontiers of freedom. Every battle since Colonial days has been in the name of Liberty—so the consent of the people may determine. t As garlands of flowers are placed on the burial mounds of the heroic dead, and sons and grandsons march with the surviving veterans, this store will be closed in reverence to the Grand Army of this Republic and the Grand Army of a World Democracy. • j . '/ DAY . JfOne Country—One Flagyl I ECO RATI ON Day smiles upon a happy united ¥ ' country—more happy with each passing year be cause more united. ONE ICE CREAM There is only one IceCream for "those who know"—and that ONE is Co. Sold by Good Dealers MAY 29, 1918 evening's program which will clo3e with a Vlctrola 'hop." GUESTS OF MISS KII/GORE Miss Bertha Wilson, of Brooklyn, and the Misses Mary and Anna Mac- Pherson, of Lancaster, are Memorial Day guests of Miss Adelia Kilgore, at her home, 2011 North Sixth street. All three are frequent visitors here, where they have a host of friends. GUEST OF OLD FRIENDS The Rev. Dr. Cyrus Townsend Brady, who was in the city yester day to address the Chamber of Com merce and a m;ns meeting in Chest nut street hall, was entertained by Major and. Mrs William B. Gray at their Bellevue Park home, Dr. Brady is an old friends of the Gray's, liv ing in New Rochelle. N. J., wher they did. 3
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