The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-29

of the course a cantata will be studied.
The class offers a fine opportunity for
choral work and the study of the best
music, while the practice in sight read
ing will be of special value to Voca
students, who have often expressed a
desire for such training. The course
will be 20 lessons, and the price 81 tc
association members. Anyone not
member of the association, may avail
herself by this opportunity by paying
the membership fee. Active members
81 per year, class members, so cents.
SO
The Col. Timothy Bigelow Chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton, met at 1890 o'clock yesterday
morning in the Society of Antiquity
rooms. Mrs. Daniel Kent presided. The
social committee, Mrs. G. G. Baldwin
chairman, reported arrangements
| made for three entertainments. Or
Nov 70, at o'clock, Miss Frances c.
Morse will give a colonial talk at hel
residence, 81 Chatham Street, to which
the chapter members and their friends
are invited. There will be a fee of sc
| cents for the benefit of the chapter
treasury.
On Dec. II, at o'clock, there VIII
be social meeting at the residence of
Mrs. C. c. Baldwin, IL Cedar Street,
when the Bancroft Chapter will be the
guests of the Col. Timothy Bigelow
Chapter. Miss Catharine Bent, regent
of the Bancroft Chapter, will read a
paper. Tea will be served by Mrs.
Baldwin.
Jan Z or IA whist party for MEM
bers will be held with Mrs. T. c.
Bates, 20 Harvard Street. A 50-cent fee
will be charged for the benefit of the
chapter treasury. Arrangements for
other social meetings at the homes of
Mrs. Samuel F. Winslow, Mrs. Frank
A. Leland, Mrs Charming Smith and
Mrs. Homer Gage, are not yet com
pleted. The regent, Mrs. Kent, has ac-
cepted an invitation from the Ban
croft Chapter to read paper on Dec.
IT.
The report of the committee for the
promotion of patriotism in the public
schools, Mrs. Kent chairman, was ac-
cepted The committee on historical
research and field day, Mrs. R. b.
Dodge chairman, reported on the work
for the year, and its recommendation
that June II be observed as the chap
ter field day was adopted. 1t was
voted upon the recommendation for
procuring and forwarding literature to
the soldiers at Manila, that the chap
ter send all such matter to the Y. NJ.
c. A. which agrees to forward all per
iodicals left there. Mrs A. E. Smith
is chairman of this committee.
The committee on real daughters,
Mrs. Mann chairman, recommended
that a notice be placed in each of the
four Worcester dailies inviting CORE
spondence with any woman whose
father fought in the war for American
independence. The recommendation
was adopted. Two new members were
elected to active and one, Miss Adeline
May of Leicester, to honorary mem
bershiD in the chapter.
After the business meeting Mrs A.
E. Smith read a paper on Benjamin
wallace of Dudley, who was the great
great-grandfather of Mrs Smith. The
report of Mrs. w. H. Coe, a delegate
Of the chapter to the recent state con-
vention at North Adams, was post
poned until next meeting.
The international Messenger in com
menting upon the 18th annual report of
the Worcester Y. w. C. A. says:
I'VE are not certain what Worcester
means by associate" members; and
this is only another instance of the
great desirability of having uniformity
throughout the work of the lnterna-
tional board in the naming of mem
berShiD.
Associate" in most Of the associa-
tions means women who are over 10