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BY HELEN REYNOLDS Not a May breakfast, but an April luncheon will mark the final meeting of the Housekeeper's Club, the oldest woman's club in the state of Florida, next Thursday at the Country Club of Coral Gables. Not only will the Housekeepers install new officers, returning the popular Mrs. A. E. Gutteridge as president, but they will "burn the mortgage" the following week at an equally important meeting at the club house in Coconut Grove. By this act the Housekeepers will free themselves from the burden of debt-will own their club, lock, stock and barrel, and are to be congratulated. Preceding the May breakfast of the Coral Gables Woman's Club, Mrs. Charles J. Susong, retiring president will entertain her executive board at a tea Friday, May 1, at her home, 901 University Drive. One hundred invitations will be issued for the affair. Mrs. Charles Weber, 2224 Segovia Circle, and Mrs. Walter Wigman are planning a novel bridge luncheon at the latter's home, "Curwig Pines," Saturday the 25th. It's to be one in a series the "red and blue" teams of the Woman's Club are giving. From far away India have come the J. M. Langseths to live at 618 Avenue Sevilla. Mr. Langseth is with the Intercontinent Aircraft Corporation. They formerly lived in California. From Atlanta Mrs. W. W. Moore and her daughter, who have leased the residence at 1113 Avenue Sevilla for the summer. Carlotta Lewis negotiated both leases. Two parties Wednesday honored out-of-towners. Mrs. Milton B. Garris invited a group of intimates in for bridge and tea to meet her new daughter-in-law, Mrs. Milton B. Garris, Jr., wife of Lieutenant Garris, who with her husband, is spending a ten-day vacation with the senior Garrisses, 1802 Country Club Plaza. Lieutenant Garris is stationed at Fort McClelland, Alabama. Mrs. J. W. Heminger of Chanute, Kans., who has been the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Davis Estill, and Major Estill for the winter, was honored at the coffee Mrs. L. C. Olson gave in the morning at her home in Cortez Street. We like the card we received this week from the Duffield Hopkins written from Palm Springs, Cal., and which says in part, "We wouldn't trade one square mile of Florida for all of the Southwest through Texas, New Mexico and Arizona." Best news of the week concerned our own Theatre of the Fifteen, who opened their last show of the current season, "Magnet," Tuesday night at the Douglas Entrance Theatre. And that best news is they plan to remain here for the summer season, playing at the Mayfair Club in Miami and opening with the ever popular "The Drunkard." Mr. and Mrs. John A. Hilton have closed their home at 820 Anastasia and returned Monday to their home in Pottsville, Pa. . . . Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Croce, 501 Avenue Alcazar, also left Monday by Orange Blossom special for their home in Asbury Park, N. J. This year the Croces will occupy their new home in the country and expect to have a victory garden. John Mackrell Montgomery, Jr., celebrated his first birthday anniversary Saturday, when he entertained a group of his mother's friends and their babies at his party. Word has just been received by Colonel Eli T. Fryer of 1229 Obispo Avenue that he has been made a Brigadier-General, rtd., of the Marine Corps. General Fryer's promotion is due to a law recently passed by Congress that a retired officer could be advanced on the retired list for other citations and decorations than those bestowed during the World War. General Fryer possesses the Congressional Medal of Honor. General Fryer and his wife, the attractive Mrs. Fryer, daughter of the late Admiral John Addison Baxter Smith, have spent three winters in Coral Gables. Their northern home is Atlantic City, N. J., but, charmed by living in this area, they probably will not go north this summer. Mrs. Louie Lanford, first president of the Miami Opti-Mrs. Club, entertained the group Monday at luncheon at her home. Mrs. Lanford is an honorary life member of the club she founded. The club will install new officers at its May breakfast on the 11th at the Barcelona. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Girtman are happy over a cablegram received Monday by them from their son, George, announcing his safe arrival overseas with the armed forces. The Girtmans have three sons in Uncle Sam's army, James D. Girtman, Jr., at Fort McClelland, Ala., and Ralph, now a "rigger," at Fort Bragg, N. C. High ranking undergraduate student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology is Clare Peter Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clare Peter Johnson of 1327 North Greenway Drive, according to word received by Harry N. Rath, principal of Ponce de Leon High School. Clare Peter, Jr., attended Ponce, was graduated from St. Albans School for Boys at Washington, D. C., and will finish at M. I. T. in 1945. "Froglegs and fish" were the dishes enjoyed by Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Brock and Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Roerig last week end, when they visited Mr. and Mrs. Bud Holmes at their lodge on Blue Cypress Lake, near Vero Beach. Among the 14 guests enjoying the house party were Mr. and Mrs. C. W. France, formerly of Coral Gables, now of St. Louis, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. James Macfarlane were the inspiration for an impromptu late afternoon bridge and buffet at the Albert H. Gleasons Sunday. They returned Saturday after a month or so in Havana, their former home. For the informal party Mrs. Gleason invited Mrs. Paul McCary, Mrs. James Ireland and Mrs. Charles Flynn in for a four-some of bridge. At six o'clock the men came in for supper.

National Council Catholic Women to Open Five-Day Program

Among the prominent speakers who will address the twenty-first annual convention of the National Council of Catholic Women, convening at Hollywood, April 18-22, will be the Most Rev. Joseph P. Hurley, bishop of St. Augustine and host to the convention; the Most Rev. John F. Noll, bishop of Fort Wayne and Episcopal chairman; Department of Lay Organizations, National Catholic Welfare Conference; the Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh, bishop of Charleston, S. C., and assistant bishop, Department of Lay Organizations, the Most Rev. Thomas K. Gorman, bishop of Reno; the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Michael J. Ready, general secretary of the NCWC; the Rt. Rev. Msgr. John O'Grady, secretary, National Conference of Catholic Charities; the Rev. Thomas Comber, director of the N. C. C. S. of Coral Gables; the Rev. Ignatius Smith, O.P., dean of the School of Philosophy, Catholic University of America; Charles P. Taft, co-ordinator of defense, health and welfare services; Federal Security Agency, and Walter T. Prendergast, assistant director, Social Science and Education Division, office of Inter-American Affairs. The five-day program will open Sunday morning with a solemn high pontifical mass celebrated by His Excellency Bishop Hurley at the Church of the Little Flower, Hollywood, and will conclude with a pilgrimage on Thursday, April 23, to the Shrine of Nuestra Senora de la Leche y Guen Parto in St. Augustine. Discusses War Activities An informal conference for presidents of national organizations, and of diocesan and deanery leaders to discuss Catholic women's activities during wartime will be held on Saturday. Speakers will include Miss Margaret Hughes, president of the Springfield, Ill., Diocesan Council; Mrs. Leo Keopp, Fremont, Ohio; Miss Edith Jarboe, secretary to the editor of "Catholic Action," and Robert F. Sheehan, Director of Public Relations. The evening program will feature the reports of president of the national affiliations; present plans and future programs. Bishop Noll will open the Monday morning session and his talk will be followed by the report of the president, Mrs. J. W. McCollum of Gainesville, and other executive officers. A panel on the "National Catholic Welfare Conference in War Time" will open the afternoon session. Talk on N. C. C. S. This will be followed by discussions on the National Catholic Community Service, which will be lead by the Rev. Dr. Howard J. Carroll, assistant general secretary of the National Catholic Welfare Conference; Dr. Franklin Dunham, executive director, and Miss Anne Sarachon Hooley assistant director, National Catholic Community Service. The Monday evening discussion will feature addresses on "Christian Defense Community Action" by the Rev. George Johnson, director of the NCWC Department of Education, and "The Population Problem" by the senior economist of the Department of Agriculture, Dr. O. E. Baker. Tuesday morning will be devoted to Catholic women in the field of social welfare. Msgr. O'Grady, Mrs. Rollin Turner, president, Indianapolis Diocesan Council, and Mrs. T. M. Coughlin, president, Winona Diocesan Council, will speak. A session stressing the "Catholic Social Work in War and Reconstruction" will be lead by Rev. Lucian L. Lauerman, director of the School of Social Service, Washington, D. C., Miss Agnes G. Regan assistant director, and Miss Mary Schuster, director of the Bureau of Catholic Charities in Miami. The program on Tuesday afternoon will feature inter-American relations and a pageant depicting the spiritual bond between the Americas will be presented by the students of Barry College. In the evening the Rev. R. A. McGowan, assistant director of the N. C. W. C. department of social action will speak on peace and post?war life. The presentation of the Theta Phi Alpha award to the most outstanding Catholic woman of the year will take place at this meeting. Family and parent education will be featured at the Wednesday morning and Thursday sessions, and following the pilgrimage to St. Augustine on Thursday the Rev. Paul Tanner, director of the youth department, and the Rev. Edgar Schmiedeler, O.S.B., director of the Family Life Bureau, N. C. W. C., will give talks on youths, marriage and family life. Bishop Hurley will deliver the principal address at the banquet Wednesday evening, at which time the new officers will be presented. Social features of the program will be a chuck wagon supper, hotel on Saturday evening, a sightseeing tour of the Miami area a tea at Barry College on Sunday and the banquet on Wednesday evening. Hostesses from Coral Gables are the Mesdames Hugh Matheson, A. H. D. Renuart, Denis D. Renuart, David J. Heffernan, B. C. LaPointe H. Baxter, R. Roberts, Jr., P. B. Taylor P. J. Currier, A. Muzzey, F. Bircher, C. H. Trotter, Lawrence Kelly, Richard Harrison, A. E. Renuart, V. J. Hiss, Frank Coakley, J. G. Dawson, Millard McGarry, Roscoe Brunstetter, John H. Mitchell, L. J. Phebault, John Mumford, Robert Schneider, J. Cummings, Paul Britt John Birch, J. A. Bennett, G. R. Veeder, Andrew T. Healey, W. G. Stolworthy, Robert Schneid-man, Francis May, Catherine Williams, Florence Meehan, Helen Kaufman, W. L. Huntley, Paul er, R. Robertson, Paul Britt, John Birch, J. A. Bennett, G. R. Veeder, Andrew T. Healy, W. G. Stolworthy, Miss Aimee Sposing, Miss Bertha Schwegman and Miss Mary Cecile.

Mrs. Mehrtens Heads Junior Woman's Club

Coral Gables Junior Woman's Club took time out Monday, from rehearsing for the cabaret, to hold an election meeting, at which Mrs. W. O. Mehrtens was elected president for the ensuing year. Mrs. E. C. Hodge was elected first vice-president; Mrs. S. Hill Grafton, second vice-president; Mrs. Willet Stubbs, treasurer; Mrs. S. Stanley Hall, secretary; Mrs. B. E. Wallace, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. H. G. Lesley, auditor. The club collected the sum of $2,942.08 from Coral Gables for the recent additional Red Cross drive for war funds. Mrs. William H. Bennett, music chairman, presented the program, consisting of piano numbers by the talented Britisher, Eric Harrison, member of the R. A. F., and violin numbers by Louis Ely concert master with the University of Miami Symphony Orchestra.

Mrs. George Surprise Guest At Kappa Tea

Mrs. Mary George, vice-president of Mu Province, Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority, was a surprise guest of honor at the faculty tea the local chapter gave Sunday afternoon honoring Miss Catherine Cudlip, national field secretary. Mrs. George just happened in. The affair was given at the Kappa house, 2515 DeSota Boulevard. Greeting guests were Mrs. John Owen, Mrs. Ellis Sloan, Betty Hatch and the honor guest. Presiding at the tea table were Mrs. Bowman F. Ashe, Mrs. Gordon Walters, Mrs. Paul Nichols and Mrs. Frank Newman. The local chapter is one of six in Mu Province.

DELTA SIGMA U's PLAN ANNUAL DANCE

The Navy Relief Fund will benefit from the proceeds of the fourth annual "Jitterbug Ball" of the Delta Sigma Upsilon Fraternity. The party will be held the night of May 15 at the Country Club of Coral Gables.

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State Conference Social Workers Opens Three-Day Meet in Miami

The State Conference of Social Workers will open Sunday with luncheon at the Columbus Hotel and continue a three-day session. Daily divisional meetings, including case work, group work, public welfare, probation and parole discussion and reports will take place. Luncheons and dinners will climax each day's activities and there will be field trips to the various centers. On Tuesday evening a night of fun will prevail planned by the Central Council of Social Agencies of Dade County. Mrs. Winfred K. James is president of the executive board of the state organization. Mrs. Thomas P. Caldwell of Coral Gables is corresponding secretary. Mrs. Hollis Rinehart, Jr., president of the council of social agencies of Dade County, will preside at Tuesday's group meetings.

Royal Palm Club Will Be Scene Of Junior Woman's Club Cabaret

With the date of the Coral Gables Junior Woman's Club cabaret, "Nice Going," finally settled for April 25 at the Royal Palm Club, many Gableites and Miamians are making up large tables of 20 and 30 to attend the show. Among the announced patrons of the show this year will be Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Reeder, Mr. and Mrs. George Whitten, Mr. and Mrs. Theo. W. Moore, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Edwin N. Belcher, Mr. and Mrs. George Holt, Mr. and Mrs. J. Avery Guyton, Mr. and Mrs. M. Lewis Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Evan D. Roser, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Gautier, Mr. and Mrs. Meinhardt Smith, Dr. and Mrs Warren Quillan, Mr. and Mrs. Newton Lummus, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Kehoe and Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Nelson. Others include Lieut. and Mrs. E. C. Collier, Lieut.-Commander and Mrs. O. C. Gregg, Mr. and Mrs. John Skinner, Mrs. D. T. Moore, Mrs. T. T. Stevens, Wallace Bell Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Van Riper, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence B. Moak, Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Garris, Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. McGarry, Mr. and Mrs. George Corrigan, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Knight, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson H. Pace, Mr. and Mrs. Harry N. Rath, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Redfearn, Mr. and Mrs. G. N. Shaw, Miss Helen Reynolds, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Susong, Dr. and Mrs. Edward O. Kolb Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Weintraub, Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Helley, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Sam H. McCormiok Mrs. Helena R. Elliott and Mrs. L. J. McCaffrey. Another number added to the variety show is "Nice Going-If You Watch the Birdie," in which Miss Kay Stevens will sing. Dancers of the chorus will be Mrs. James C. Knight, Mrs. Robert Oliver, Mrs. James Bledsoe Mrs. R. E. Chivers, Mrs. Joe N. Johnson and Mrs. Richard Schmid. The cabaret, which is the eighth annual one presented by the Gables Juniors, will provide funds to crry on the club's welfare and defense work. One of the organization's main projects is the free dental clinic

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Lee Gebhart of New York City arrived in Coral Gables Wednesday to join Mrs. Gebhart, who has been here for two weeks. The couple plan to make this their permanent home and while house hunting are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. James B. Moore, 312 Avenue Arturo.

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Pen Women's Final Breakfast Takes Place Today at Casa Loma

This season's last breakfast of the Miami Branch, National Leguo of American Pen Women, will be held at 12:30 today at the Casa Loma Hotel. After the luncheon, Mrs. Charles J. Dougherty, president of the branch, will open the meeting and will present Mrs. Arthur V. Little, chairman of the day. Following a long established custom of the branch, a Shakespeare program will be given in commemoration of the bard's birthday, which is April 23. Mrs. Little's program will be as follows: Perdita's speech of welcome from "The Winter's Tale," spoken by Miss Mary Lou Karcher; "An Ode to Shakespeare," written by and read by Mrs. May Cornell Stoiber. Old English songs of Shakespeare's day will be sung by Mrs. Kenneth Keyes; the distinguished English actor, Claude Horton, late of Lynn Fontaine and Alfred Lunt's company, will give a scene from Henry the Fifth. The guest speaker for this occasion will be Carmen Balfour, director of the Hollywood-British School of the Thetre. Seated at the speakers' table will be the president and other officers of the Mimi Branch, chairmen of departments and honor guests. An effective color scheme for decorations has been chosen by the decorations chairman, Mrs. A. J. Gribben, and her assistant, Mrs. E. M. Lawrence. Mrs. Clifton D. Benson, social courtesy chairman, will receive guests at the door, assisted by Mrs. L. G. Lewis, Mrs. E. N. Belcher, Mrs. John Warwick, Mrs. John B. Rader, Mrs. Charles W. Moore, Mrs. Kenneth Keyes and Mrs. Ralph Engle.

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COCONUT GROVE STATION MIAMI, FLORIDA Condensed Report to Comptroller April 4, 1942 RESOURCES Loans and Discount | $ 567,103.36 Banking House, Furniture and Fixtures | 46,257.69 Other Assets | 8,039.34 U. S. Government County and Municipal Bonds | $ 506,835.86 Other Bonds and Securities | 401,714.39 Cash on hand and due from banks | 1,449,670.19 | 2,358,220.44 Total | $2,979,620.83 LIABILITIES Capital Stock | $ 100,000.00 Surplus | 100,000.00 Undivided Profits and Reserves | 60,224.49 Deposits | 2,719,396.34 Total | $2,979,620.83 OFFICERS JULIAN S. EATON President A. G. VEACH Vice-President A. D. HARRISON First Vice-President J. D. REEVES Cashier WALTER J. KAY, Assistant Cashier MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION

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