Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1901-12-20
Jamestown District Items.

The Woman Mutual Improvement Club
OF Jamestown met with Miss Lula M T..
Windsor, in Jamestown, on the 18th inst.
at 2:SO z. M. The afternoon was so very
Indictment but few ladies were courageous
enough to brave the elements, but those who
did so were well rewarded by the excellence
OF the program and the generous hospitality
OF their hostess. The president of the club
being still seriously indisposed, the meeting
was presided over with dignity and grace
by the former excellent president, Mrs. E.
II. Darby. The following program was well
rendered:
Roll call by the Secretary, Miss Lille
Green; reading of minutes of preceding
meeting by the secretary; instrumental solo,
Hunting Idyl," by Miss Windsor The
subject for the day was "Modern Homes
d~Sil { Makers" but all the articles read
dlu no' treat of that subject as they should
have done. "Home Making as social Art"
selection read by Miss Green; "The Secret
of Happy Life" BY Mrs. r. b. Beall; A
review and criticism of some of the late
books, read by Mrs. E H. Darby; Current
Events was very brightly written up by
Miss Griffith An essay on the subject for
the day, by Mrs. II c. Reading, was read
by Mrs. Nourse. Some discussion of the
subject for the day followed.
Light refreshments were served by Miss
Windsor, assisted by Miss Green. The
meet. 3 then adjourned to meet with Mrs.
Nourse in January, No subject for the
next meeting was announced, as the consti.
tuition and bylaws, lately drawn up by a
committee for that purpose will be read and
voted upon, and all the time allotted to a
program will probably be taken up in that
way.
A number of the ladies belonging to the
NJ. l. Club have joined the Book Lovers
Library, and anticipate much pleasure dur
ing the long, cold winter evenings in read
ing tn" excellent books supplied by that
highly esteemed organization.
The Co-nort Branch of the International
Sunshine Society will meet with Miss Wind
sor on Saturday, December 28th, at $50 p.
NJ. AS all the members who are now ab-
sent teaching or being taught will probably
be at home, they are earnestly requested to
be present, so there can be full attendance,
and more interest shown than has been re-
Gently. The members were all requested to
contribute some trifles or some articles they
have had the use OF, to be passed on to more
n mi r nfl tn hAv 1nNl ~ nnN -
the headquarters Of the society in New York,
the contents OF some OF them will be sold,
the proceeds to help pay for the distribution
OF contents Tor 900 stockings, which they
now have on hand. 1t is not the barnes
town branch, as the Sunday Baltimore
american stated, that had articles on hand
to fill 300 900 stockings, but the office SO
Filth Avenue, N. Y. Only a few members
articles or clothing, but quite nice little
box will be sent this week To NV York,
and it is hoped some poor little children,
forgotten but for that, will have Sunshine
in their souls" and gifts in the soes OF their
stockings when they awake Christmas morn
ing and find Santa Claus has really visited
them. even in their poor abodes, and the
milk of human kindness has not been all
frozen up this bitter weather.
The Potomac river is still rising rapidly,
and higher water than We have had for some
time is feared.
The canal boats have been making their
trina onIv with the nid ot the ice breaker
and as the water will soon be drawn off
some OF them will probably find themselves
far from home on Christmas Day.
Dec Is, 1901 YoLANDE.