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a a a THE HARTFORD DAILY COURANT: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1928. Plans Formulated By Churches Special Preachers Announced For Friday Night Services of Grace Episcopal Parish Windsor Plans for the observance of Lent which begins February 22, have been announced by several of the churches in Windsor. Special out-of-town preachers at the 7:30 p. Friday services have been announced by Rev. Wilfrid L.

Greenwood, rector of Grace Episcopal Church February 24, Archdeacon James S. Neil! rector of St. Mary's Church, South Manchester, will open the series, and he will be followed by Rev. Albert Jepson, rector of St. John's Church, Warehouse Point; Rev.

John H. Jackson, rector of St. Andrew's Church, Hartford: Rev. Marcus J. Simpson, rector of St.

Luke's Church, South Glastonbury; Rev. Dr. John F. Plumb, canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Hartford, and Rev. Edmund C.

Thomas, rector of St. James's Church, Hartford. On Ash Wednesday at 10 the Litany will be followed by an address rector and a celebration of the Holy Communion. For St. Gabriel's Church, Rev.

John F. Quinn has announced an Ash Wednesday service at 7:30 p. followed by Benediction. Beginning Friday, February 24, and on each succeeding Friday, a service at 7:30 p. will include the Stations of the Cross and Benediction, the pastor officiating.

Special Tuesday services will begin at 7:30 p. February 28, with Rev. Henry Flannagan, assistant pastor of St. Mary's Church, Windsor Locks. present.

Rosary will be followed by sermon and Benediction. Rev. Edward J. Plunkett, pastor of St. Joseph's Church, Poquonock, has announced a mass at 8 o'clock As Wednesday and service at 7:30 p.

followed by a distribution of ashes. Citizenship School. At the Citizenship School to be conducted Monday afternoon and evening the Hartford County League of by Women Voters, Mrs. G. H.

Glover Campbell, of 25 Elm Street, will preside. the following women have enrolled for the course: Mrs. Waldo C. Everett, Mrs. John Bevier, Mrs.

Frank Gustafson, Mrs. Stanley Warner and Mrs. George A. Jones. Miss Alice Searby.

Miss Searby, formerly of the House, who went West a few Chaffee years ago on account of her health, suddenly Wednesday in' Denver, Colo. Her sister, Mrs. Frederick Nelson Palisado Avenue, reached her Sunday. Mrs. Searby was also there, and they will take the California for burial.

It is Mrs. Searby will spend the rest of the winter with her sister, Miss Potter, who used to live on Palisado Avenue and who is now ill in California. Art Exhibit Opens. An exhibition of oils and watercolors at the and County Club, Hartford, to which four Windsor artists have contributed, will be open to the public this afternoon. The bas-relief of a girl with cymbals by Mrs.

Evelyn Beatrice Longman Batchelder is the only contribution of its kind in the show. Six pictures by Ruel Crompton Tuttle of Broad Street, all depicting scenes in New England, one view of Colorado by Knower Mills of the Island, and one sketch of Alsace and three of Brittany Madame Rene Cheruy Loomis Institute constitute the Windsor con- tributions. Health Clinic Cancelled. Because of the presence of chicken pox and whooping cough in town, the well-child conference scheduled for next Thursday has been cancelled by director of the State bureau of: child hygiene. Poquonock Church.

At the 10:30 a. service at the Poquonock Community Church Sunday, the minister, Rev. Victor L. Greenwood will speak on "The Reality of Religion." Sunday school will be held at noon and Mr. Greenwood will speak at the 7 p.

m. service, when Douglas McLean in "Let It Rain" will be the motion picture feature. At 6:30 p. Tuesday a get-together supper be served in the vestry by the Women's Benevolent Society. Grace Church.

Quinquagesima Sunday will pe observed at Grace Church by a celebration of the Holy Communion at 8 a. followed by Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. At 11 o'clock the rector, Rev. Wilfrid L.

Greenwood, will preach on. "St. Paul's Ode to Washington" will be the subject of the rector's address at the vesper service at 7 p. at wh'eh the junior choir will assist the church choir. Congregational Church.

"Faith and Things Impossible" will be the subject of the last of a series of addresses on "Faith and Healthy Living" at the Congregational unurch by Rev. Roscce Nelson, the pastor, at the 10:45 a. service Sunday morning. William Hoyt will have charge of the children when they leave the church. At the Sunday school session at noon, the new choir young people will lead the singing for the first time.

The Christian Endeavor Society at 7 p. be Merton Dickinson, of Park Avenue. in the church house." The leader will Trinity Methodist Church. The Sunday school will be under the direction of John Lee Brooks at Trinity Methodist Church at 9:45 a. Sunday, with the three adult classes meeting at 10 a.

At 11 o'clock, Rev. Dr. Arch Tremayne, the pastor, will preach and the junior church will meet under the direction of John Lee Brooks. Mrs. Robert Halliday will have charge of the nursery.

The Epworth League will meet at 6:30 p. and will study Christ of the Indian Road." The ovening service will begin at 7:30 o'clock and the pastor will preach. A dinner served by the women of the church 1m- mediately after the morning service to the following men and women, who then start every-member canvass: Fred Tolles, Fred Dance, R. H. Barnes, W.

S. Leek, J. L. Brooks, Charles Lang, J. Ford Ransom, C.

J. Clark, A. G. Odell, Fart, Goslee, L. V.

Vermilyea, L. Young, L. Dexter, David Wade, Russell McGrath, MrS. W. S.

Leek, Mrs. Robert Brechtel, Miss Edith Grimshaw, Miss Aloeda McGrath and Mrs. Fred Dance. It 1s expected that a report will be given at the evening service of the result of canvass. Notes.

Mrs. Florence E. Tracy, of Preston Street, gave A Valentine luncheon Thursday to members of the Thimble Club, who stayed to sew in the afternoon. The committee of the Woman's Club of the Congregational Church of which the co-chairmen are Mrs. Edgar D.

Clark and Miss Ellen Ashley served a supper Thursday night the Men's Club of the same church, and the committee of which the co-chairmen are Mrs. Daniel Harrison and Mrs. John L. Bevier, served a supper in the slum of the Fitch High School for the Headmasters' Association. Mrs.

Clayton P. Chamberlin, of Stony Hill, entertained 20 women Friday with luncheon and bridge at the Candle Glory Inn, A. W. Poquonock. Dickinson, 34 Broad Street, entertained with luncheon and air bridge Thursday in honor of Mrs.

W. R. Israel, of 84 Tremont Street, Hartford. Mrs. Frank Gustafson gave a seventable bridge party at her home, 491 Broad Street, Friday afternoon for the benefit of the aesthetic dancing class of the Girls' Friendly Society Candidates Class of Grace Church.

on Members of the Catholic Girls' met Friday night and made returns from the dance recently held by the club. was to hold the next meeting on Thursday, February 23, at Holy Name when the club will have a whist party. The wives of the masters at Loomis Institute will be chaperones at the senior promenade tonight in the refectory. An unusually large number of girls are present for senior week-end and are occupying the infirmary and the third floor of Taylor Hall, Langcon Warner, of Cleveland, is president of the senior class and chairman of the committee for the dance. County Y.

W. Supper Held At Clubroom Sixty Attend Campaign Presented -Driver's Continued Glastonbury More than 60 women and girls attended the supper and campaign meeting sponsored by the County Y. W. C. A.

at the clubrooms of the First Church of Christ Friday evening. A program of speaking and entertainment followed the supper at 6 o'clock. The local speakers included Mrs. C. G.

Rankin and Miss Elizabeth Rogers. Representatives from headquarters at Hartford also attended and urged more lively interest among local women in the work of the Y. W. C. A.

A group of high school girls, comprising the following students, presented dramatic parody on Columbus's discovery of America: Ruth Knox, Frances Killum, Madeline Megson, Barbara Hunt, Mildred Hodge, Florence Noble, Betty Loomis, Emma Howe, Eleanor Hodge, Helen Vail and Frances Christenson. Community singing featured the program. Mrs. Theodore Pratt of Glastonbury presided during the business session. Continue Drivers' Case.

The case of Herbert Schick of New Britain, held here under $1,000 bond on a charge of reckless driving, was continued to March 15 by Judge L. Milton Sweet in town court Friday night. Schick was driver of an automobile which struck and injured Mrs. Mary Polliarcyk at Station 41 here late Sunday night, February 5. The victim is still under treatment at Hartford Hospital: Notes.

Mrs. J. S. Williams entertained at a social in her home Friday night. Mrs.

J. William Purtill of South Glastonbury entertained friends at dinner Thursday night, Wilson The Ladies' Aid Society will hold a food sale next Friday afternoon at the Roger Wolcott School at 2 p. m. Leonard Peskin, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Peskin, has been visiting his parents. He is attending the Boston Institute of Technology, and came to Hartford with the Tech show "Half a Man" recently as the music director of the show. "God" be the subject of the sermon, preached by the pastor, Rev. at the Church of Christ. The mornCharles R.

Vickery, on Sunday morning ing service will begin at 10:45 a. m. The Sunday school will meet at noon with the lesson topic, "Two Miracles of Power." At 7:30 p. m. the two Christian Endeavor Societies will present a dramatization of the Book of Ruth.

Thursday at 3:45 p. m. the Junior Christian Endeavor will meet in vestry of the church and at 6:45 the Senior Intermediate Society will meet The Wilson Branch of the Windsor Public Library was opened Thursday afternoon, with Miss Leda Steele as librarian. There are about 1,000 books already filed and there are promises of more than a hundred more. The library will be open for one hour Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, and two evenings a week.

Ninety-six books were taken out on the first day. The Parent Association is working a play to be given Tuesday, March 6, in the auditorium of the school. The name of the play "The District School of Blueberry Corners." The B. L. L.

Whist Club met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Lemire of Wolcott Avenue Thursday evening Mrs. Lemire received a lamp from the club. Prof.

Kimball Lectures On Government Smith College Educator Addresses Women Voters -City Workers Will Give Play West Hartford Professor Everett Kimball, head of the government department of Smith College spoke Friday night at the February meeting of the League of Women Voters in Webster Hall. About 50 were present. Following a talk on government in which, Professor Kimball outlined the advantages and disadvantages of the party system government he compared the direct primary system of nomination with the convention system, stating that almost every criticism that could be made of the primary system could also be made of the convention system and that the disadvantages of primaries are gradually being eliminated. "Advertising for a Husband," a farce by Charles Bird will be presented tonight at 8:15 p. m.

by the M-E-O-W Club (municipal employees of West Hartford) in the old Town Hall of West Hartford. The play will be followed by dancing. More than 400 tickets have already been sold. The proceeds will be used partly for the welfare fund du and partto pay the expenses of the annual in the spring. Doris Leonard and H.

Salmonsen play leads Kitty Backup and Tom Trask. chis Berglund will play the role of Colonel Backup, father of Kitty, Mrs. Majella Carlson will play Katie Brayton and S. B. Bubler will play Wallle Watkins en friend of Trank's Members the entertainment committee in charge of the play are Gus Berglund chairman; B.

Bubler, Ruth Erickson. Doris Leonard and F. B. Chamberlin. First Public Party of Church.

The new Community Church of Elmwood will give its first public supper on Thursday at 6:30 p. m. in the entertainment hall of the church. The event is sponsored by the men of the vicinity and the public is invited. Tickets are on sale at Thomas C.

Brown's store at 1069 New Britain Avenue and will also be sold by the committee on distribution. The church, which is nearly completed. was started in October, 1926. The lower floor is complete and decorated but the upper floor is still unfinished. St.

Bridget's Will Give Plays. Two one-act plays, "How the Story Grew" and "The Crystal Gazer," will presented Monday at m. by the Young Ladies' Dramatic Club of St. Bridget's Church in the church hall. Misses Isabelle and Margaret Broughel will appear in "The Crystal Gazer." Leroy Larochelle coached both plays.

Legion Campaign Will Continue. The committee in charge of the campaign to raise $25,000 for a new home fcr the American Legion on the corner of Isham Road and Seyms Street. will maintain its present campaign headquarters at 967 Farmington Avenue until Saturday, February 25, it was decided at a meeting of the committee Friday night in the headquarters. Speaking of the work of the Legion, R. T.

Bassett, chairman of the committee, said the local post has helped disabled veterans establish many claims for compensation and that the and auxiliary members try to visit post veterans in nearby hospitals at least once a month. Members distribute baskets to families of needy Christmas, he said, and provide military funerals when requested for ex-service men. also foster two Boy Scout They in town and helped distribute troops food and clothing for the Red Cross in flood relief in Hartford. In Connecticut the Legion has administered a fund of over $2.500,000 veterans with a cost of for needy administration of nine per cent, Mr. Bassett said.

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The board of reliet will meet this afternoon in the town hall from 1 p. m. until 8 p. m. John J.

Conklin, carpenter and builder, alterations and Jobbing, Phone -Advt. Newkirk an Whitney Funeral Home Ambulance Service, 985 Farmington Avenue, West Hastford. Phone Advt. Edwards Followed God of His Creed, Not of His Heart Jonathan Edwards's life WAS a tragedy but it was emphatically not the tragedy of a man blind to beauty, Rev. Warren S.

Archibald, pastor of- the South Congregational Church, told members of the University Club 121 talk given there Friday night. Edwards, he sald, was not a Puritan. hating all loveliness. "He saw beauty as only the great lovers can behold it. His tragedy was this; he was not obedient to that vision; he did not keep before his eyes forever, the vision of God as infinite excellence and beauty.

Oh, if he had only worshipped the God of his heart and mind and soul and not the God of his creed." Two Hartfords Give Musical Comedy. "Her Song," a musical comedy produced by the Girls' Club of the Two Hartfords, was enthuslastically received by more than 1,000 people at Foot Guard Hall Friday evening. The show was very well staged and directed and provided a delightful evening of entertainment. Completed List Totals $10,726,211 Final Work of Board of Assessors Shows Increase on All Taxable Property Wethersfield Final work has been completed py the board of assessors and the gross grand list in the abstract made public by M. D.

Maynard, chairman, 1S $10,726,211. With the exemptions deducted the list of all taxable property is $10,569,908. Property owned by non-residents valued at and that of restdents at $8,624.341, There are 1,390 dwelling houses in town and 1,095 barns, sheds and garages. The number of house and building lots is 3,692, and commerial and manufacturing buildings 36. There are 6,877 acres of land taxed, and 1.229 automobiles.

The assessors fixed total of $64.500 in A penalties. The board of relief held its last hearing on Fridhy file it8 report with the board off finance in March, Will Entertain Daughters. The Edna Kimball Heath trio, consisting of Mrs. Edna Kimball Heath, soprano, Miss Florence Hoenig, violinist and Miss Sylvia Richards, pianist, win entertain at a meeting of the Woman's Saturday afternoon Club this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Congregational chapel. The daughters will be admitted on their mother's membership ticket, A tea will follow the meeting.

Auxiliary Card Party. A bridge and whist party was held by the Women's Auxiliary Friday evening in Trinity parish house. Refreshments were served. The committee 101 charge consisted of Mrs. George S.

Francis, chairman; Mrs. A. E. Duro, Miss Rose Warner, Mrs. W.

S. Flansbury, Mrs. W. E. Hanmer, Mrs.

C. A. Franklin and Mrs. James Murray. Epworth Social Today, The Epworth League will hold soclal in the Methodist Chapel this evening at 8 o'clock.

Three Wesleyan Untversity men will have charge of the meeting. The speaker will be Richard L. Jones. The Epworth League of Rocky Hill has been invited to attend. Christian Endeavor Discussion.

"What Shall We Do on Sunday?" will be the topic for discussion at the meeting of the Wethersfield Christian Endeavor Society Sunday evening at 7 p. in the Congregational Parish House. This meeting will be conducted Jointly by Miss Emily Thacher and Miss Harriet Edwards: Notes. Wethersfield Chapter, No. 97, 0.

E. S. will hold a birthday party Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in Masonic Hall. The affair will be in honor of Washington's birthday and the guests will wear costumes. A past grands' association was organized at meeting of Washington Lodge No.

60, I. O. 0, F. Friday evening in Masonic Hall. The rainy weather caused a slight accident at 7:30 p.

m. Friday when a roadster driven by Walter Madigan of Nott Street WAS sideswiped on ford Avenue, north of Jordan Lane. The damage was slight and none were injured. A man who gave the name of Fred C. Hansen of Hartford was arrested for drunkenness Hartford Avenue off by Policeman Simpson about noon Friday.

He was locked up in the town farm. R. Swain Editor Of Wesleyan Wasp Middletown, Feb. 17. -John R.

Swain, 1929 of Philadelphia, will be next editor of the Wasp, humorous undergraduate publication at Wesleyan University, the publications board announced today. Ralph R. White, of New Haven, will be managing editor, and Paul S. Plumer of Union, 88- sociate editor. The following have been appointed to the business board: George W.

Field. 1930. Scarsdale, N. Edwin H. McCormick.

1929. Indianapolis: Richard S. Harding, 1930 Middletown, N. Frank 8. Boyd, 1930, Brooklyn, and Robert E.

Harned, SEast Orange. N. J. It WAS also announced that Keith A. Kahrl, 1930 of Mt.

Vernon, Ohio, had won the business board competition on the Argus, the undergraduate semi- weekly lop newspaper. George J. Reynolds, 1930 Wilkes- Barre, was second and V. S. Parr, 1929 of Brooklyn, N.

third. Reaches Dying Husband Despite Auto Accident Despite an automobile accident In which she was slightly injured, Mrs. Joseph Gastorowski of 66 Willow Street, accompanted by daughter, reached the bedside of her husband before he died in thee Hartford Hospital Friday night. automobile tn which the two women were riding collided at Park and Broad streets with a machine driven by F. E.

Wolcott of 26 West Hill Drive, West Hartford. Mr. Gasiorowski, a butcher, died soon after they reached the hospital. He leaves no other relatives. Slight Damage By Fire.

Fire in a couch at the home of Mrs. Rose Winslow. 36 Congress Avenue, did slightly damage at midnight. To an alarm from Box 51 at 12:01 o'clock. Companies Nos.

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inasmuch as the International Association is scheduled to meet in New Haven the following week. This 16 the first year since 1906 that Hartford has been the seat of the convention. Commissioner Holt, who headed the national organization two years Ago, has been appointed by Governor sentative Trumbull at to the be World Connecticut's Dairy Congress reprewhich will be held in London, Glasgow and Ediaburgh, from June 26 to July 12. This congress meets once every five years and this is the Arst time that Great Britain is to be its host. Commissioner Holt plans to sail from Montreal June 15, Glasgow will build at once 1,000 muulcipal homes for workers..