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Miss Florence Hart of Milwaukee is the guest of Miss Juliette Gates this week. Mrs. J. Melville Brown, 738 Eleventh street, was hostess at a luncheon on Tuesday. Mrs. Purcell of Piqua, Ohio, is the guestof her niece, Mrs. Lorin Hall, 1129 Central Ave. Miss Elsie Braunhold was hostess to the Luncheon club, of which she is a member, on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Higgins, Chicago, have come to Wilmette for the winter and are at 731 Tenth street. Mr. T. Adams of Marshalltown, Ia., will be a guest at the home of Mr. James Watson, 933 Forest avenue for the weekend. Miss Susan Northam, 781 Tenth street, expects to leave about December 1st for California where she will spend the winter. Mr. and Mrs. David Anderson, 520 Washington avenue, are receiving congratulations on the birth of a son, born Wednesday, November 13th. Mrs. Ida Evans Haines, secretary of the Illinois Vigilance association, spoke at the Wilmette Woman's club on Wednesday afternoon at 2:30. The Circle Dancing Club will give a dancing party on Friday evening November 22nd, at the Woman's club, corner Greenleaf and Tenth streets. The Wilmette Woman's club is planning a terpsichorean fete for Thanksgiving night, the Friday following and a Saturday matinee. Mr. John B. Rogers will direct it. One hundred and thirty will take part and it promises to be a very attractive performance. Mr. Frank G. Gates of Robert College, Constantinople, brother of our Mr. Henry B. Gates, recently cabled friends in New York, under date of November 11th: "The missionaries and colleges at Constantinople are all right. The city is tranquil. Our college is in session as usual. Gates." At the fellowship dinner held at the Congregational church on Wednesday evening Rev. J. L. Barton of Boston, secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions, gave a highly interesting and forceful talk on his life in Turkey when he was a missionary to that country. It was not known until Saturday morning that Mr. Barton would come to Wilmette and for that reason announcement was too late for the papers last week. At the Methodist Church on Tuesday evening of this week an entertainment was given under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society. The division of which Mrs. E. M. Stafford is chairman had charge of the affair. Mrs. Jarley's wax works were presented and assisting them was Miss Dorothy Rae, vocalist; Miss Ruth Rudolph of Ravenswood, pianist. Rev. L.K. Gale gave readings. A list of the characters and those representing them is as follows: Mr. and Mrs. Jack Spratt...Mr. and Mrs. Woodcock Mr. Jarley...W.C. Reinhold King Cole....Harry Stoker Little Miss Muffett...Miss Bateman Babes in the Woods...Master G. Buck and Ethel Colwell Little Bo-Peep...Arline Woodcock Little Red Riding Hood...Margaret Stafford Humpty Dumpty...W. Reinhold Jack Horner...John Berstly Priscilla and John...Miss Bateman and Lisle Smith Sleeping Beauty and the Prince...Miss N. Kaufmann and R. Kirtland Alexander the Great...Curtis Colegrove Diogenes...Roy Kirtland The Vocalist...Miss Dorothy Rae The Milk Maid...Miss Grace Smurr The Giggler...Miss Lucile Drake Rip Van Winkle...A. J. Woodcock Goddess of Liberty...Miss Laura Flynte Joan of Arc...Miss Agnes Flynte Mr. and Mrs. Frank Burg spent the weekend in Champaign, Ill. Mr. Thomas Gilette had the misfortune to fall and break his arm recently. Don't forget the "Yorkshire Nightingale" on Thursday evenig, December 5. The Drama Study class met with Mrs. Frank Koontz, 1135 Lake Avenue this week. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Burt, 1027 Elmwood Avenue, spent the week-end at Champaign Illinois. Mrs. Whiffen and daughter, Marion, Ashland arenue, spent the weekend at Galesburg, Ill. Mrs. John Clark Baker, 347 Hill street, entertained the Ladies' Aid on Friday afternoon. Mrs. Percival N. Cutler returned home on Sunday after a visit of three weeks in Pittsburgh, Pa. Miss Mary Crumpacker of Laporte, Ind., is the guest of her aunt, B. M. Stafford, 936 Sheridan Miss Ackley of Battle Creek, was the guest of her sister, Mrs. P. R. Finley, 419 Ninth street, last week. The regular monthly meeting of the Wilmette Public School Art League was omitted for the month of Novem- ber. The Ladies of St. Francis Xavier Catholic church, are planning a bazaar, to be held beginning Decem- ber 9th and closing December 15th. Prof. and Mrs. C. W. Edwards, Ada Bysted, Varian and Agatha Shea and Bishop Shepard's son, Warren, were visitors at the parsonage on Sunday. The Harvest Home supper given by the Ladies' Aid society on Friday night was a great success. Two hundred and ten persons sat at the tastefully arranged tables. Wilmette -Methodist Church-- "Joshua, the Undefeated," and "A Harvest Home," will be the subjects discussed by Thomas Keene Gale, the pastor, at 10:45 a.m. and 5 p. m. On the afternoon of Thanksgiving day, Nov. 28, at 4 o'clock, fifty stereopticon pictures, leading up to and describing the first Thanksgiving day will be shown at the Wilmette. M.E. Church. Some comic pictures will also be shown, among them "Mr. Hayseed Selling his Calf," and "Uncle Rastus and the Billy Goat." Miss Helen Staats, who has been spending a week at the home of her cousin, Mrs. Mortimer B. Skinner, will be joined by her father and moth- er, during the week. Mr. and Mrs. Staats and three daughters spent the summer in European travel and are on their way home. Two daughters will remain in the east for a few weeks. Mr. George A. Harper, 1424 Forest avenue, teacher of mathematics at New Trier high School; Miss Nash, teacher of music, and Prof. Brown attended the annual conference of colleges and secondary schools held at Champaign, Ill., last week. Mr. Harper led the discussion in the mathematics department conference on Friday. The subject was "The Teaching of High School Mathematics." The next meeting of the Music study class of the Wilmette Woman's club will be held Tuesday, November 26th. Rachmaninoff is the morning composer. The following program will be given: Sketch of life of Rachmaninoff, Mrs. B. Clifford. Current events, Mrs. M endsen. Prelude, C. minor, Mrs. J. Davis Songs, "Floods of Spring," "At the Meadows," Miss Dorothy Macauley. Prelude, G. Minor, Miss Catharine Hodgkins. Romance-Humoresque, Miss Ernau Smith. Songs "Lilacs," "O Thou Billowy Harvest Field," Mrs. Ralph Baker. "Barcocelle" in G Minor, "Serenade," Mme. Goedecke. Miss Letha Stevens of Wheaton, Illinois, formerly of Wilmette, entertained a number of her young friends on Saturday afternoon at a theater party at the Blackstone to hear "Milestone." Mr. James G. Barber reports his safe arrival in Los Angeles, Cal., after a pleasant and interesting trip through the western country. He will be a guest at the Los Angeles Athletic club for several weeks. On Wednesday evening, December 4th, at the Wilmette Woman's club, corner of Greenleaf and Tenth street, under the auspices of the Sheridan club, the Hennepin Council, Knights of Columbus, will give a minstrel show. Mr. Russell A. Calkins and family, 578 West avenue, who recently re- turned from Fruit Port, Mich., where they spent the summer, are prepar- ing to leave Wilmette in the near fu- ture for California, where they will make their home. On Sunday night, November 26th, at St Francis Xavier's Catholic church, the Very Rev. Dr. Francis Clements Kelley, president of the Catholic Church Extension Society, will give his famous lecture on Joan of Arc. All are welcome. The members of the Wllmette Woman's club will be guests of Mr. and Mrs. Emory Albright today at their studio in Hubbard Woods. It is proposed that those wishing to at- tend meet at the Chicago and North- western railway station at Hubbard Woods at 2 o'clock. The marriage of Miss Ellen Spry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Spry of Evanston, to Mr. Kenneth Bailey Fisk of Helena, Mont., which took place at the home of the bride on Saturday evening November 2nd, will be of interest to her many friends in Wilmette, where her childhood was spent. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey went to Helena, Mont, and will be at home at Billings, Mont. The marriage of Miss Mona Marguerite Kiley, daughter of Mr. John Kiley, 1252 Catalpa avenue, Edgewater, to Paul Edmunds Fernald, son of Mr. and Mrs. George K. Fernald of Wilmette, took place Wednesday, November 6th. Rev. J. H. Crowe, pas- tor of St Itas church, officiated. The bride was attended by her sister, Miss Mary Eileen Kiley, and Albert T. Scannell of Lowell, Mass., was best man. Mr. and Mrs. Fernald took an extended Eastern trip and will be at home at Tucson, Ariz., where Mr. Fernald is engaged as a mining engineer.