The Indianapolis journal., 1904-01-31

Prominent Colored Delegate Will
Be Entertained There Through
out the Week.
GATHERING OF WOMEN
Programme of Meeting of Execu-
tive Committee of the Ma
tional Council.


National Council of Women of the United
States, which convenes here tomorrow.
have been issued The meeting is under
the auspices of the local Council of Women
and the Commercial Club.
All the meetings will be held at the Propy-
laeum with the exception of the Friday
evening session, which will be for the public
at the Second Presbyterian Church.
Closed sessions for the transaction of
business will be held tomorrow afternoon,
Tuesday morning and Tuesday afternoon.
The meeting tomorrow will include the for
NAL opening by the president, Mrs. Mary
Wood Swift; the appointment of a commit
tee on credentials; the reception of appli-
cations for membership; action on apphca-'
tions of membership; the appointment of
special committees, and reports of the re-
cording secretary. Mrs. Frances Burns, the
treasurer. Mrs. Lillian NJ. Hollister. and the
corresponding secretary, Mrs. Flo Jamison
Miller. Monday evening there will be meet
ings of standing and special committees
under their respective chairmen. The closed
session on Tuesday will include reports
from Mrs. Elizabeth 3. Grannis Mrs.
Lillian NJ. HOLSTER and Mrs. Mary Wood
Swift. The closed session on Tuesday after
noon will include reports from Mrs. May
Wright Sewall, Mrs. Flo Jamison Miller and
A. S. Ford, and the session will be followed
by a tea given by the Fortnightly Club
The first public session will be held Tues
day night when addresses of welcome will
be made by Mrs. 7. G. Day, president Of
the Local Council, Governor Durbin, Mayor
Hoffman, Judge Frank +. Gavin and Mrs
May Wright Sewall. A response by Mrs
Swift A reception by the Commercial Club
and the Local Council will follow An open
executive session will be held Wednesday
morning and the business will include the re-
port of the committee on credentials, the
report of the work planned for the coming
year and of the report of the affiliated or
| ganizations, the latter from Mrs. Emmeline
b. Wells, National Relief Society: Mrs. Y.
Dougall. Young Ladies' National Mutual
| Improvement Association; Miss Helena
Barnard, American Federation of Nurses;
| Miss Bina NJ. Vert, Supreme Hive Ladies
| ton Society. AT the open session Wednes-
day afternoon there will be reports from
Christian League for the Promotion of So
cial Purely, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Grannis:
Florence Flo Crittenden Mission. Mrs. Kate
ish Women, Mrs. Hannah c. Solomon;
| National Association of Colored Women,
Mrs. Josephine S. Yates; National Ladies'
Elizabeth MCGOWAN; Great Hive of the La
| dies of the Modern Maccabses Mrs Fran
ces +. Burns. Wednesday evening a re-
| ception is to be given by Mrs. May Wright
| Sewall.
THURSDAYS SESSION.
The Thursday morning session will be
closed one and its business will include a
continuance of discussion of international
Council propositions and reports of heads
of departments by Miss Jessie Ackerman.
Press" Mrs. May Wright Sewall,
Peace" Mrs Ellen II. Richardson, art
and Letters" Mrs. NJ. Coe Stewart, 1.-THE
| Home At O'Clock Thursday the mem
bers OF the executive committee will meet
at the Propylaeum and will be taken for
drive about the city. No special route will
be followed, but the visitors will be driven
wherever they desire The women who
noon Mrs. Ovid Butler Jameson, Mrs
Thomas c. Day. Mrs. Horace Bennett, Mrs.
chapman Gra n M Williams Mrs Augusta SEVERN.
! Charles F. Sayles, Mrs. F. w. ChisIett.
Mrs; John Candee Dean. Mrs. Frederick
| Pierson, Mrs. Louis Reese, Mrs. Frank
| Van Camp, Mrs. Emma Eckhouse. Mrs p.
A Havelick. Mrs. L. d. Moody. Mrs. Fred
| d. Farrabee and Miss Voss. At o'clock
the members of the executive committee
and the officers Of the Local Council will be
| entertained with tea at the home of Mrs
John Candee Dean, who will be assisted
by Mrs. Winfield Taylor Durbin, Mrs.
Eder Mrs Lynen MasGn MIS- William Line
| Charles NJ Walker Mrs Charles e Cof-
| fin, Mrs. John w. Kern, Mrs. Thomas Dean,
Mrs. Ernest R.. Keith, Mrs: Charles Bross-
mann. Miss Julia Harrison Moore. Miss De-
| borah Moore, Miss Eunice and Miss
Augusta Jameson, Miss Anna G. Hubbard,
Miss Lois and Miss Ruth Pratt Miss Ola
Smith and Miss Estelle Rose, of New York.
Thursday night there will be a public
session and reports will be presented by
ton of Loyal Women of American Liberty:
Mrs. Sarah d. Williams. Woman's Relief
Corps; Mrs, Belinda $. Bailey, Ladies' of
the G. A. r.; Mrs. Isabella Quinlan Rath-
bone Sisters of the World: Rev. Amanda
! Devo, Universal Peace Union; Mrs. Louise
Lee Hardin National Association of Busi-
ness Women; Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait
National American Suffrage Association.
Friday morning the session will include
reports from affiliated Local Councils as
| follows: Mrs. F. H. Jackson, State Coun-
! Gil of Rhode Island: Mrs. Kate Huntington
| Day, Indianapolis Local Council; Mrs Alb
by Fox Rooney, Quincy. NJ; Mrs. A. A.
Showers. Bloomington, Ind; Mrs W. W.
Armstrong, Rochester, N. Y. Mrs Mary
Wood Swift, San FRANCISCO. Cal; Mrs. NIL
Steinem, Toledo, o. The reports will be
! followed by a symposium on What Women
May Contribute to Municipal Improve
Friday afternoon will be devoted to un-
finished business and will be followed by
a tea given by the Women's Club At s
o'clock there will be public meeting at the
Second Presbyterian Church and the names
OF the speakers will be announced later.
Saturday morning there will be closed ses-
sion, which will include minutes of the
preceding business sessions, adjourned
business, new business and the final reports
of special committees. The closed sessions
of the executive will be open only to the
| general officers of the National Council
or their proxies, TO heads of departments
members of standing or special committees
| of the National Council, and TO presidents
! of affiliated organizations or their proxies.
( The open executive sessions are open to all
members of affiliated bodies within the
| National Council and also to presidents
and delegates of local organizations con-
stituting the Local Council; TO patrons of
the Local Council, and officers of local
| bodies within ii. The public sessions. of
| which there will be two, one on Thursday
evening at the PropyIaeum and the other
| Friday evening in the Second Presbyterian
! Church, are open TO all the classes men,
| toned before and also TO the general pub
| lie.
SOCIAL ENTERTAINMENT.
Among the members of the executive COM
mittee who will be entertained at homes in
! the city are Miss Jessie Ackerman, OF
Springfield. o.. who will be with Mrs.
Sewall; Mrs. Elizabeth Granniss. of New
York, who will! be with Mrs. T. c. Day;
Mrs. Hannah G. Solomon, of Chicago. with
Mrs. Emma Eckhouse; Mrs. Judah, of
Louisville. with Mrs. Henry Rauh; Miss
| Pauline Steinem. of Toledo with Mrs. A.
j. Brake, and Miss Helena Barnard, of
Missouri, representing Miss Nutting, who
| will be with friends
A number OF the visiting women will be
at the Claypool during their stay, among