Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-02-11
Directors Of Maine's FEEDER
alton Of Women's S Clubs
Hold Annual Business Meeting at
State House Wednesday.
4 Large Attendance and Busy nay -Busi.
ness Matters and Discussions.

~sAAAhS NN0CIdtiOii III . NluUS.
This was the annual mid-winter busi-
ness meeting of the organization and
must not be COMPOUNDED with the reg
ular annual literary and social meet
ing of the Federation which comes in
October and continues three days. The
directors of the Federation are it's Of
ticers and the presidents of the 80
clubs all over the State
The morning session was held in the
room of the board Of agriculture and
the room was filled to overfiowing. At
least 200 ladies. we'll known leaders Of
the woman's club movement from all
parts of Maine. were present at the
meetings. The Augusta club ladies
were out in force, and gave the Wis
itOrs a most cordial greeting OF the
80 clubs forming the Federation about
40 were represented when the roll was
called The following officers were in
their places: Mrs. F. H. Briggs. Au-
burn. president; Mrs. Florence c. Por-
ter. Caribou, vice president; Mrs. Fred
II. White. Lewiston. recording secre-
tary; and Mrs. B. F. Eaton. Skowhe-
gan, treasurer.
The work of the forenoon was en-
tirely committee work and routine
business. The following new clubs
were admitted to the Federation:
Cleaners club. Portland: Old Orchard
club. Old Orchard; Clionea club,
Fairfield kindergarten club. Ban
gor: Past and Present club. Fairfield; !;
and Our Neighborhood club. Auburn.
Among the committee reports were
that of the educational committee.
read by it's chairman. Miss Mary s:
Snow, Bangor. and sthat Of the re-
ciprocity bureau by Miss fnez A. Blan-
chard, Portland. The, Federation
voted to accept the joint invitation Of
the four Bangor clubs and the annual
meeting will be held in that city Oct
II. IA and 10.
At 1890 o'clock recess of an hour
was taken. and during the recess the
Capitol restaurant was the centre of
attraction. Mr.. Jones supplying the
wants Of the crowd in most salts
factory manner. The afternoon meet
ing was held in the hall of the House
giving the ladies more room and COM
fort. The attendance was larger than
in the forenoon. The afternoon pro-
gramme included more routine work
then discussions of literary and edu-
cational topics. and question box.
The features of the afternoon pro-
gramme proved of great interest to the
club ladies and the many visitors to
the hall. Among the matters of busi-
ness disposed of was the vote to print
a condensed history of the Maine Fed
Grafton, the oldest Of all the State Fed
erations. 1t was also voted to publish
the minutes of the annual October
meeting.
Miss Pratt of Pennington. read a
very interesting paper on Travelling
Libraries" a subject in which the
Federation is taking much interest.
A paper on the Interior Decoration
of School Houses" had to be omitted
on account of the absence of the au-
thor.
Superintendent Stetson was called
upon and most acceptably filled in the
time, talking on the same subject.
discussion of novel reading for
girls was a prominent feature of the
afternoon. 1t was opened by Mrs
Hunt of Augusta. and Mrs. Beedy CT
Bangor. and among the ladies who
followed were Miss Snow of Bangor.
and Mrs. Merrill of Skowhegan. The
papers and remarks were full of
bright points against and in favor of
the novel for girls. and were much ap-
preciated by all.
The question box brought out many
good things. Some of the questions
were answered by the president, Mrs.
Briggs, and others by ladies' from the
floor AS the result of one question 1t
was urged by the president that all
the clubs elect officers at the same
time for the sake Of convenience and
correctness in issuing the annual year
book
1t was about $50 p. M. when the
business was over and the discussions
ended, and the meeting adjourned to
re-assemble at Bangor, next October.
The ladies' had most pleasant day
at the Capitol and were not so busy as
members extended them every cour-
tesy and enjoyed their visit. Many of
them called on Governor Powers at the
Executive chambers.
AS soon as the ladies had departed
from the Representatives hall it was
quickly filled with gentlemen. the rail-
read hearing being too largely at
tended an affair for it's own room.
There were quite large audiences in
both the Senate chamber and Repre-
sentatives' hall. Wednesday evening,
in attendance on the hearings, that on
travelling libraries in the Senate and OH
the petition for the charter of an
Electric railroad from Westbrook to
Harrison, held in the hail.
At the hearing upon the subject Of
travelling libraries many of the ladies'
in attendance upon the meeting of the
Woman's Federation were present
and several of them spoke. Mrs. Por-
ter conducted the presentation of the
petitioners. It's safe to say it was one
of the most interesting hearings of the
session. The ladies spoke brightly and
lertinently. eliciting considerable ap-
plause. They knew what they wanted
and were ready to answer all the ques-
tions put to them.
They called upon Prof. Lfttle. libra
rian Of Bowdoin College: Supt. Stet-
son. Mr.. Mayo of the Turf. Farm and
Home; Representative Weeks of Fair
field and State Librarian Carver. all of
whom thought the work excellent and
Gould bo hoU,,u n email pYDauSes Mr.