Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-17
WOMAN IN CLUB AND CHARITY

lEed recently Dy MIS-. BleWett ana MIS-.
Lewis Of Arlington. They also visited
Blair and encouraged the temperance
women there.
Stratton, Hitchcock county, is reported
as a new organization by Mrs. Emma
Shortlef.
Falls City, Richardson county. organized
March 10, by Mrs. @. g. Boyle, county presi-
dent. and Mrs. A. Nesbitt; PRECEDENT. Mrs.
Hattie Crowe-Manger; vice president, Mrs.
Snidow; secretary, Mrs. Anna Graham;
treasurer, Mrs. II. c. Davis.
Pleasant Dale was organized April z, by
Mrs. Wheelock, with seven members; presi-
dent, Mrs. Eva Hitler; secretary, Miss
Lydia Stain; treasurer. Mrs. Nettie Oswald.
Milford, organized April 6, by Mrs. Whee-
lock. with the following officers; Presi-
dent, Mrs. Jennie Seitz Hendee; secretary,
Mrs. M. =. Kinsinger; treasurer, Mrs. Adj
Conklin. At the Soldiers home at Milford
on the same day a Christian Temperance
union was organized by Mrs. Wheelock.
of1cered as follows: President. Mr.. Thomas
Marshall; secretary. Mr.. H. A. Parmalee;
treasurer, M. j. q. Cook.
The annual meeting and election Of ON
GERS Of the household economics depart
ment was held on Thursday morning. Mrs.
y. II. IOWuSeuQ, IOTueT ltducEt DCbh6
elected honorary leader; Mrs. A.. K. Gault.
leader; Mrs. Fred Burnett, first assistant
leader; Mrs. Thomas Smith, secretary;
Mrs. b. F. Weaver, treasurer. Following
the election Miss Van Zant gave a very in
teresting talk on birds.
Fifty-two patients, 52s visits. special
nurses required in ive cases, four patients
sent to hospitals, three to friends and Ave
deaths was the report OF the months work
OF the Visiting Nurses association on
Thursday at the monthly meeting held at
the Paxton hotel.
At the annual meeting Of the Quid Libet
club OF the Young Women's Christian as
ISOLATION Miss Helen Eaton was elected
president, Miss Opal McGaw secretary and
Miss Bertha Davis treasurer. Owing to
other duties, Mrs. Byers, who has directed
the club during the winter, will be obliged
to give Il UP and Miss Kate McHugh has
been secured to give six lessons. beginning
Friday evening with Julius Caesar.
The first basket ball team has accepted
the challenge to play b return game on
Tabor college field neyt week.
The Good Time Reading club Of South
branch held its first meeting on Friday
evening, eighteen cmDC bSih6 pASSChb'
wenonah Stevens Abbott, president Of
the National woman's Socialist union, will
speak at schlitz hall on Monday evening
under the auspices of the local Woman's
| Socialist union. Her subject is to be "In-
dustrial Conditions Of Women and Chill
dren."
The current topics department of the
Woman's club gave a social afternoon in
the club parlors on Tuesday afternoon,
| which was largely attended. After . musi-
cal program, to which Mrs. Cook, Mrs.
| Coe, Miss Grace Conklin, Mr.. Peters and
Mr.. Umstead contributed, refreshments
were served, Mrs. F.. H. Cole and Mrs.
George Thompson presiding at the table.
Assisting them we're Mines. Matthews,
Bush. Callend, Edgerly, Weaver, Baldwin
and Miss GLASGOW.
The Industrial school committee Of the
new York Federation, under the chairman
ship Of Mrs. Dore Lyon, is pushing the
work started by the late Mrs. "Jennie June"
crowley, and on Saturday evening will pre-
sent Gilbert & Sullivan's operas, pa
thence" and Trial by Jury" for the bene-
At Of the school fund. Some Of the leading
local talent are to have part In the pre-
sentation and the affair promises to be one
of the financial and social successes OF the
season. The committee has recently raised
81 1000, and hopes to realize twice that sum
on Saturday. 1t is their plan to raise $685.
900, and then the legislature will make the
school a state institution. The school is
to be a trades training school for girls,
where they may learn to be self-supportlng
in any branch of industry to which they
may be adapted.
A union Of French mothers is the latest
woman's organization of Paris, It being
formed on the plan Of the mothers study
clubs and mothers congress of this coun-
try. Laws for the protection Of mothers
and their rights are to be among the aims
Of the organization.
There are to be two more meetings of
the p. r. o. society OF Omaha before ad-
journment for the summer, the next to be
held on Tuesday evening, April rs, at the
home Of Miss Laura Bruner. Mrs. Brant
was hostess Of the last meeting, Mrs. A. L.
Sheetz and Miss Wayne Hutchins furnish
ing The program and a social hour following.
At the annual meeting OF the Young
women's Christian association held on
MONDAY evening mTb' mary n. summer
Mrs. w. H. Garratt and Mrs. r. NJ, Clarke
we're elected to NIL unexpired terms on the
board of directors, and Mrs. ]. NJ. Akin,
Mrs. G. w. Wickersham, Mrs. W. G. Smith,
Mrs. Frank Halter and Miss Susie Phelps
to serve three years each on the board.
The report OF the treasurer showed a bal
ance Of 81 1883 over the years expenses in
the treasury. and 1t was decided that 81 900
Of this shorld go to the building fund. The
association has now LIZA members. Plans
have been made for a big anniversary meet
ing to be held May 4. On that occasion
Mrs. Tilden will give a history Of the asso-
citation and other plans for the building
and the future will be announced. There
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