St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-04-08
WOman's Club.

The April meeting of the Woman's
Club was held in Pythan Hall on Mon
day afternoon. 1t was announced by
Mrs. Rebecca P. Fairbanks, who pre-
sided, that Mrs. W. P. Stafford had been
elected by the executive board to act as
assistant editor from this club, to Mrs.
D. c. Stearns of Royalton, who was re,
Gently elected state editor OF the Club
Woman. Mrs. A. B. Noyes, Mrs. w. P.
Smith, Mrs. Elisha May and Mrs. w. P.
Stafford spoke briefly of the work that
has been done by the educational com
mittee in instr uctirg the children in a
sewing class, and, through the work
that had been done in some of the schools
from other sources in this direction, Of
the need of manual training IN the public
schools. 1t was interesting to know
that as the result Of the work of some
charitable committee, instruction has
been given by the teachers of the Maple
street school to some of their scholars, in
this same line of work. They have been
assisted in this by Mrs. c. H. Dempsey
and Miss Bridget Rooney. Mrs. May
also expressed the thanks of the educa-
tional committee to those who took such
a kindly interest in the receptions given
by this committee at the Summervlle
and Paddock Village schoolhouses.
The ballot committee to prepare for
the annual meeting of the Club in May
was appointed by Mrs. Fairbanks: Mrs.
Charles P. Carpenter, Miss Margaret
Robe and Mrs w. P. Chaffee.
Mrs. Fairbanks then announced the
presence of Miss Helen ". Smith pres-
dent of the state federation, from White
River Junction, who spoke few words
to the Club, expressing her pleasure that
the Federation meeting was to be held
here 10 the fall.
The meeting was left to the social
science committee, and Miss KATRINA
Harvey introduced Rev. Efie K. NJ.
Jones of Barre, who took as her subject
ASSOCIATED Charity Work" She spoke
of the province OF Woman's Club work,
much being done by such clubs that car
not be done by men, and of the work OF
different clubs, different conditions sug-
costing different kinds OF work. She
talked especially of the clubs in Barre.
There is no large club there, but several
large ones, that do great deal OF work,
and they are formed into city fedora
ton, with federation officers. Their
former work has been in the line of CITY
Improvement, and when they begun their
work there was no hospital. There is
one now, but they have abundant oppor-
tunity there to give assistance to many
men without homes of their own, and
have an emergency room, which they
have fitted up, the rent of which is free to
them. They also support an emergency
nurse, whose services are employed in
this room and who also goes to homes,
where the people are allowed to pay a
small sum for her work, and this is put
into the treasury. They also have cloth.
ing brought to the room, which they re-
pair and dispose of at their pleasure.
Bed linen is also kept on hand and sold
at small cost or disposed OF charitably
Mrs. Jones is a pleasant and graceful
speaker and her talk was listened to
with great deal OF interest.
At the close of the meeting an informal
reception was held for Miss Smith and
Mrs. Jones and cocoa and waters were
served