Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-12-02
TWO MlDDLEBURY WOMEN
Mrs. Clinton Smith and Miss Mabel Bond
in the Metropolitan Press.

Mrs. Clinton Smith and Miss Mabel Bond
in the metropolitan Press.
The Washington ID. c. Star has the
following to say concerning Mrs. Gin
ton Smith, formerly of this village
At the final session of the W. c. T. L. CON
vention Mrs. Clinton Smith was elected pres.
ident of the organization for the ensuing
year. Mrs. Smith is Vermonter by birth,
but has been resident of the District of Col.
umbia since 1891. She has been engaged in
temperance work all herlfe. She has served
the union i'm this city as superintendent of the
legislative department, in which capacity
she has done excellent work before commit.
tees of congress. She was the originator of
the petition called "The Voice of the Church
es," which asked for total prohibition Tor the
District of Columbia During the last year
Mrs. Smith served as president of the Young
Woman's branch of the w. c. T. L., and for
the last six years she has been president of
| the West End union. She has been vice pres
| ident of the Anti. Saloon league. She is also
chaplain of Columbia chapter, Daughters
American Revolution, a director in the Fed
! Grafton of Woman's Clubs, vice president for
Vermont of the Woman's National Press AS
ISOLATION and Washington correspondent for
two Vermont papers, one daily, and on the
| list of regular contributors to a Chicago pub
! LEGATION. In formerlyears her stories and po
ems appeared in various magazines. Having
/ Dten eulcdleu Ill lle ola IPtldl6 seminary Ill
Middlebury, Vt, where Mrs Emma willard
inaugurated her work in higher education for
women, Mrs. Smith was prepared to give val
liable services to the Emma willard Memoir.
! ial association of Troy, y. Y, Mrs. Russell
Sage, president. This included Emma Will
lard scholarships for girs-in schools and col
leges.
Last Sundays New York Press con-
tains a double column portrait of Miss
Mabel L. Bond of this village, who is
now pursuing course in voice culture
in that city and at the same time filling a
the paper says concerning Miss Bond
will not surprise any of her friends here,
as they have always predicted her rise
to the first rank of singers:
Attention has been attracted in musical
circles to the charming young singer, Mabel
Louise Bond of the choir. of the Middle Col
legiate Reformed church, Second avenue and
Seventh street, who is almost cons 'antly in
demand for concert and recital work. This
young artist, born in the Green Mountain
state, has the gift of pure contralto voice
deep and rich, and of her a critic says "HeI
dictiOn and Interpretation are those of an
artist of great refinement and intensity OF
feeling with the peculiar charm only associ
ated with a few really great singers the
purity, spontaniety and naturalness which
seem to have been supplemented by intuitivt
art" Her childhood was spent in the musica
atmosphere of Boston, where she early he
came serious student, and under sympa
thetic direction of the best of masters, be
came well grounded in technique and de
veloped into an unusually brilliant dramatic
cantralto. There are those who predict fol
her many notable conquests and a brillian
career.