The Somerset reporter., 1897-10-14
Club Women at Bangor.

The sixth annual meeting of The
State Federation of Women's clubs, was
held In Bangor, last week, beginning
Wednesday afternoon and continuing
until Friday noon. A reception was
given by the Bangor ladies to their visi-
tors, Wednesday evening, which was
very brilliant affair
Thursdays morning session opened
with business, Mrs. Frank Briggs of
Auburn, the president, presiding. Mrs
Hannibal Hamlin of Bangor, gave cor
dial welcome to the ladies' to which Mrs.
Briggs gracefully responded. In the
course of her remarks she gave few
words of advice for the more LOYAL CO.
operation from each and every woman
belonging to the Federation. "Be help
full" she said, ain the work of educa.
uon, library, and in your town and city
Let me urge you to be loyal to our
Federation. Stimulate and strengthen
it SO that we may grow in good works
Talk less and work more is good advice
for us. Human sympathy, the students
of social science assert, is the moral
force that is today more needed than
aught else in the world. Let us have it
in large measure heaped up and run.
ming over. In it they say lies the germ
of all social progress
Reports from various officers were
read, that of the treasurer showing
SlG6.99 in the treasury at present. Tie
committee on credentials reported 81
delegates present with many others
from various clubs which are thus rep
resented. New clubs were admitted
thus: Wabanaki, Old Town; Twilight
Literary, Rockland; Federated Clubs,
Bethel; Nezinscot History Club, Buck
field; Fact and Fiction Club, Houlton 4:
Town improvement Society, Skowhegan.
At the afternoon session Miss Mary S.
Snow gave her report as chairman of the
educational committee. She made a
spirited plea for more interest among
people in regard to improving the
standard of the teachers in the rural
districts and stood valiantly by the re-
commentator of her committee for the
certitcation of teachers. Fortunately
Miss Snow went on to show that this
apathy did not extend to the teachers,
and stated that thousand took their
examination and fifteen hundred went
to various summer schools through the
State.
paper on 1.-THE Influence of the
Beautiful was given by Miss Mary Ann
Greedy of Ellsworth. Miss Greedy spoke
of the excellent work of the village i'm.
proyement societies, but made her
strongest point for developing the love
of the beautiful in children by having
ut fro 81,
additions of flowers and pictures there
in order to make the school room have
the same sort of influence, which ought
to emanate from cultivated home.
The other paper of the afternoon was
by Mrs. Sprague of Rockland entitled
"Modern Authorship
In the evening very interesting pro
gram was given including an address
"Voiee of today" by Mrs. May Alder
Ward, president New England Woman's
Press Association; poem, Mrs. William
p. Frye, and an address upon "Tht
English language as it is spoken ant
written" Miss Lillian Munger of Boston
Mass.
Friday mornings meeting was devoted
to business. The word Maine was sub
stituted for State in the name of the or
ganization.
The tax amendment was holly Tough
and was finally displaced by an amend
ment which levied 81 on each club anC
81 extra on every so members, OF frac
ton thereof above the first so members
The representation was made the pres
dent of the club or her substitute anC
one delegate, without regard to the sizt
of the club.
The Bureau of Information was abol
shed and the board as elected now
stands: President, Mrs. f. n. Briggs
Auburn; vice president, Mrs. Florence
G. Porter, Caribou; corresponding sec
rotary, Miss Nellie Marston, Monmouth
recording secretary, Mrs. Fred n. White
Lewiston; treasurer, Mrs. b. F. Eaton
Skowhegan; educational committee
Miss Mary ). Snow, Bangor, Mrs Ami,
G. Pepper, Naterville, Miss Berth;
Soule, Bath; bureau of reciprocity, Mrs
w. IL. Newell, Lewiston.
The meetings were largely attended
many club women being in attendance
from other places, beside delegates, anC
Bangor women were out in full force
The session as whole was interesting
and profitable.