The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-24
Miss Carrie Mollett and Miss Sarah

Miss Carrie MOllett and MISS Sarah
Brown.
The j. E. b. Stuart Chapter had the
recent honor and pleasure to enter
| tain the State Convention of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy,
and during this session of the body,
Mrs. Hunter CT. Smith was unanimous
ly elected first vice-president OF the
State Association.
The Monday Aftern~ NIB IS a
Book Club for the DeruSS eH-
change of current literature, the
study of some special subject during
each year This club has been an
organized body for four or five years
and is now doing some earnest work
and gaining therefrom much, both
in pleasure and profit. The club is
composed entirely of residents OF HAY
Mount, Fayetteville's beautiful suburb,
has a membership numbering twenty
two, and holds it's meetings the nrst
ana third Monday afternoons in each
month.
Last year, at the suggestion OF It's
president, Miss Kate Broadfoot, the
study of Italy was taken up by the
club The program comprised the
study of the country's greatest artists,
writer's and politicians, its works OF
ara and principal cities Finding this
mode of study so pleasant, the CLUB
has taken up for this year the study
of THE Russian Empire" with the
view not only to learning of it's peo-
pie and customs, but most particular
ly of the nation as it now is. in the
throes of struggle, destined to be
world famed.
The officers of the Monday After
noon Club for the ensuing year are
Mis-. e. j. Lilly. president; Mrs. ). IL.
MCRae, vice-president; Miss Harriet
Haigh. secretary and treasurer.
one of the pleasantest features of
the club life last year was an address
by DR.. C. Alphonso Smith of the Uni
Versity of North Carolina-"Throu
italy on a Wheel"-delivered one even
ing at the residence of Mr.. and Mrs.
w Nj. Morgan, and partaking some
what of the nature of charming
social function. An effort was also
made to secure Mr.. Hamilton w.
Mabie for an afternoon, but through
failing i'm this, the club hopes TO have
on its program this year some ole
no less distinguished. =
This about sums up club life IN
Fayetteville, but we are growing
The Book Club has resumed its
work. This club clings to the title
assumed when first organized ten
years ago. when it was the only one
existing in the town. 1t is limited to
fourteen members CHOSEN by ballot,
as vacancies occur. The officers of the
club are: Mrs. John ID. MacRae, presi-
dent: Mrs Benjamin r. Huske. vice.
president: Mrs. A. ). Huske, secretary
and treasurer.
Last year the study taken up was
that of the principal cities of this and
the old world. and the year prior to
that and the one of the greatest
pleasure and profit to the club was the
Old North state.
For this year they have chosen a
study of some noted women of Vari-
Gus periods and chimes. At the first
meeting last week a charming deScrip-
ton of Helen of Troy, by Mrs. John
c.. Haigh, a character sketch of Cleo
patra, showing her power over the
hearts and minds of men, by Miss
RAY, a selection from the Had, by
Mrs Hughes, and the death scene
from Shakespeare. by Mira Benjamin
r. Huske, made the evening very in
teresting to those present.
Fayetteville is a pleasure loving
town, and whist and euChre have both
their devotees. There are severa
town card clubs The Whist Club
and the Euchre Club both composed
greatly of married folk, and also a
euchre club, the membership of which
comprises q dozen of the unmarried
society women.
There is also the Hay Mount Card
Club, which has been organized foi
four or five years, the membership
of which is confined to Hay Mount, {
club pin being the only reward Of
merit.
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