The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-04-02
WORK AND WITT
How the Ladies of the Fund
Society Talk and Plan
for Others.
THE PARK REFORMED CHURCH.
All Kinds Of Things Liked by Ladies
and Used in Charity and Love.

The Fund Society of the Park Re-
formed Church is an excellent society
and an efficient auxiliary to that re-
ligious institution. 1t has been organ
lied twenty-four years, and the ladies
who are members have been earnest
workers in helping to meet the many
church expenses.
/ was invited to attend n of their
meetings recently and found it very
interesting indeed. These occur once
a month and are usually held at the
residence of Mrs. John Smyth, No. 205
Fourth street.
Mrs. Smyth has held membership in
the society longer than any of the
present members, and is a handsome
old lady, but not able to travel about
much, and for this reason the ladies
generally meet at her home. The
officers, who are elected for a term
of two years, are:-President, Mrs. Clara
P~endexter; vice-president, Mrs. John
Smyth; secretary, Mrs. F. p.
Benedict; treasurer, Miss e. Van
Kleek. Those belonging to the
society who are not officers, are called
trustees, and of these there are
twenty. Mrs. Benedict, who has been
a member for a long time, / soon dis
covered, was of the leading spirits
of the society, and with her excellent
tact and willingness for work she man
| ages to keep the affairs of the society
active and stirring. Many of the
| plans which are discussed at the meet
ings and ripen into good financial re-
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The greater part of the church de-
mands are met by the work of this
small band of workers. Concerts,
fairs, bazaars, which require much
hard work and a great deal Of time to
prepare, are some of the ways by
which they raise their money. The
furnishing of the church has been
done almost entirely by this society,
and the handsome decorations show
how Jealous are these ladies in the
task they have taken upon themselves
to perform.
Mrs. G. Fl. Raymond is also one of
the members who ac~complishes a great
deal, and is always ready in her bright,
CHEEKY way to do whatever is to be
done. In works of charity this society
does not do as much as some of the
others belonging to the church, but it
is upon the steady going Fund Society
that the solid work of meeting current
expenses rests.
| have said little about the manner
in which the meetings are conducted.
/ found it to be quite irregular as to
the business part, but decidedly femi-
nine. The reading of the minutes of
the previous meeting was about the
only transaction that was perfectly
clear to me, but if the success of a plan
depended upon the amount of discus
sion it provoked, all that were pro-
posed on this day must have succeeded.
But the ladies certainly enjoyed
the talk and merriment and wit
were so intermingled with the business
that no N could possibly blame a
stranger for not understanding
whether a new piano stool and a set of
dishes were to be purchased or to be
sold. Nothing is done at the meetings
but the arrangement of plans for work,
and this the ladies find exceedingly
pleasant to do.
The trustees of the society are Mrs.
B. Olmstead, Mrs. Loughran, Mrs.
Blizzard, Mrs. Scott, Mrs. Irving
Steele, Mrs. Henry Wild, Mrs. John
Pennell, Mrs. Charles KRUGER, Mrs.
Minnie Smith, Mrs. Hart, Mrs. G. H.
Raymond, Mrs. S%nowden, Miss Bene-
dict, Mrs. Ward, Mrs. Walker, Mrs.
W. Mclaughlin, Mrs. A. Creveling,
Mrs. j. H. Burgess, Mrs. J. Howard
Suydam, Mrs. w. G. Archer.
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