Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-05-27
OFFICERS ELECTED.
Annual Meeting Of W. C. 7. U.
--Report Of Secretary Read.
What the Different Committees Have
Accomplished In Their Work.
sunday Meetings Have Been Largely M,endc
and Of General Interest.

U. was held, last Tuesday afternoon
among other business, officers for TN,
ensuing year were elected as follows:
President. Mrs. Olive Holway: secrc.
airy and treasurer. Miss S. w. Wal.
dron; vice president at large, Mrs. T.
5. Fogg: vice presidents. Baptist. Mrs
). T.. Hinckley: Free Baptist, Mrs
Frank Colby; Congregational, Miss
Ellen Hamlen: Methodist. Mrs. II. X
Libby; Unitarian. Mrs. Kate c. Pishon:
Christian. Mrs. Lizzie Boyes; Univer-
salist, Mrs. Chas. +. Flynt: Episcopal
Mrs. Fred Hamlen; Friends. Mrs. p
Nj. Wordsworth; Advent, Mrs. Zeta
Whitney.
superintendent department-Peace
and arbitration. Mrs. p. NJ. Wards
worth: almshouse. Mrs. o. Williamson
and Mrs. Fred Hamlen: flower mis-
sion. Mrs. Elizabeth Rollins; gospel
meetings, Mrs. c. l.. Humphrey: scien-
tific instruction in schools. Mrs. X. c.
Pishon; rescue and relief work. Mrs.
Frank Colby. Mrs. Chas. F. Flynt:
school saving banks. Mrs. L. S. Fogg;
jail. Mrs. Lizzie Towle; sailors and
soldiers, Mrs. Rosa Swain.
Committees-Finance Mrs. Olive
Holway. Mrs. Il. T.. Fuller: Mrs. O.
Williamson. Miss S. w. Waldron: pub
lie meetings, Mrs. Olive Holway, Mrs.
J. Z. Fuller. Mrs. B. NJ. Friend visit
ing the sick, Mrs. f. Rollins, Mrs.
Philena Hill. Mrs. II. NJ. Pray. Mrs. c.
Martin, Mrs. L. Whitney. Mrs. l..
Towle; sewing, Mrs. Allen Church,
Mrs. E. Rollins, Mrs. II. NJ. Pray. Mrs.
c. Martin; rooms. Mrs. o. Holway.
Miss S. w. Waldron.
The secretary. Mrs. Susan w. Wal
dron. submitted her report for the
years 1900 as follows:
Twenty meetings have been held
with average attendance of II. Eight
departments of work have been taken
up. viz: Almshouse. flower mission.
gospel meetings, scientific instruction
in schools. rescue and relief work.
school saving banks, Jail, sailors and
soldiers.
gospel temperance meetings are held
in the rooms every Sunday, the audi
ences are large, and the interest is on
the increase. Sixteen visits have been
made at the almshouse; 80 books been
given from the public library and
many pages of other reading matter.
each member was remembered at
Christmas with boxes of candy, and
with Easter cards. Meetings have been
held in the Jail one Sunday in each
month and visits every Saturday. at
which there have been distributed
$500 pages of literature. and "A pledges
received.
At Christmas the union. through its
superintendent of relief work. distrib-
uted gifts of clothing. books toys. etc.
to those not otherwise provided for.
more than 1900 articles of wearing APP
parel have been given out. 10 calls
have been made and many shut-ins
have been cheered by delicacies and
flowers Flower Mission day was OBJ
served by taking bouquets of flowers
to the Jail and almshousc. 100 bouquets
were made. tied with white ribbon
and a card bearing appropriate Scrip
ture verses attached. Flowers have al
co been sent to the sick room from time
to time.
The superintendent of temperance
instruction in schools report having
visited the schools and finds the teach
ers intercsted: that the school board
has purcha sed temperance books and
the Physiological Journal for the
teachers The press superintendent re-
ports having sent so columns to the
Daily Kennebec Journal. written letters
to the Union Signal and Star of the
East.
The superintendent of school savings
banks reports good work done i'm this
line, not only among the rural schools
but with marked success in the city
schools. More than $1,000 has been
saved. In August. 262 made up party
for the annual sail down river. Any
one who has not worked among the
poor cannot realize the tact and Wis
dom necessary on such an occasion In
some instances children have to be en-
! tirely clothed. a large quantity OF 1000
| solicited lemonade and bananas are
also provided: not only dinner, pu'
| supper is served. In the fall Rev. Mt
Wyman having received call to MARI
boro. Mass. we lost his VIE, MIS-
| Wyman. who had been one of our de-
! voted members. and not only Augusta
| but the county miss her. AT reception
| given at the church many of the union
attended and through the president
Mrs. Holway. presented to Mrs. wy
man, as token of their love ana es-
TEEN. a pair of silver table spoons
From the w. C.. Z. IT," and TO mel
son. Willard Gordon. q souvenir spoon
In the evening of oct. 81. the Nv
| rendered the VS." a reception a
large number were present and pieas-
ant and profitable evening was en-
loved by all. On Thursday evening
Nov. %, Mrs. Nellie Burger. natlora
lecturer and organizer. lcctured at the
Congrega tionaI chapel. In January
Mrs. Holway. our president. left us iol
a trip to California. Her place ma:
been filed at the meetings by Mrs r.. -
Fcgg, vice president, when possible Io'
her to be present. and others nave
have filled the chair very acceptapi1
We have now 81 active and 10 non
orarv members. One has died duTIIis
the year. Mrs. Phebc Plummer' wiz
was ever willing to do what she coui'
for the welfare of the union.