The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-13
JERSEY MOTHERS
STATE CONGRESS
NOW IN SESSION
Eighth Annual Meeting Con-
,enes in Chalfonte Hotel,
Atlantic City.
RECEPTION FOLLOWS
MORNING BUSINESS
Addresses, Reports and Music
Scheduled for Tonight.
Election Tomorrow.

Women from all over the State are
In session today at the eighth annual
meeting of the New Jersey Congress
of Mothers at the Chalfonte Hotel, At
lantic City.
The convention opened at II o'clock
this morning with a meeting of the
board of managers, and sessions VIII
continue throughout the entire day and
evening and until tomorrow afternoon.
The president of the Atlantic City
branch of the Congress of Mothers
made the address of welcome at the he
ginning of the afternoon, which was
responded to by Mrs. Alexander Marcy,
Jr., State president Of the New Jersey
Congress of Mothers.
Miss Grace w. Pitman made an bic
address on How, When and Where
Children Should Be Taught the Ethics
of Expenditure" Reception to officers,
delegates and visitors was held before
the close of the session.
Tonight's Program.
Franklin Spencer Edmonds will ad-
dress the convention tonight on" Teach
ing for Citizenship and there will be a
program Of music.
Routine business, with reports of off,
GERS, will occupy the attention of the
convention tomorrow morning, and
there will be an election of officers.
There will be two addresses at the
closing session in the afternoon, the
first, The Relation of the Home to
School Hygiene" by DR.. j.. H. Musser,
of Philadelphia, and another on PLAY
grounds and Citizenship" by Howard
Bradstreet, secretary Of Parks and
Playground Association of New York
city.
Present officers.
The present officers of the congress
are: Honorary president, Mrs. Edwin
C. Grice, Riverton: president, Mrs.
Alexander Marcy. jr., Riverton; first
vice. president, Mrs. E.. M. Thatcher,
Florence; second vice-president. Mrs.
Howard Sharp, Riverton; third vice.
president. Miss Lillian A. Williams,
Trenton; corresponding secretary, Mrs.
James Linton Engle, Haddonfield; re-
cordipg secretary. Miss Anna M. Fell,
Trenton; treasurer, Mrs. Arthur J.
Collins, Moorestown; auditor, Mrs.
Mary w. Bell, Haddonfield.
Board Of Managers-Mrs. ]. Lawrence
LlpplncOIt, RlVerton, mrs. James +.
Bryan, Beverly; Mrs. William Burling
Abbey, Mt. Holly; Mrs. I. Henry
yelling, Trenton; Mrs. T. A. Kneale,
Jersey City; Mrs. Ebenezer Mackey,
Trenton; Mrs. John G.. Shreve, Atlantic
City; Mrs. wellington Bechtel, Had
dpnfield; Mrs. Thomas j. Pancoast,
Merchantvine; Mrs. w. S. Spackman,
Riverton.
Advisory Board-Hon. Charles J.
Baxter, Plainfield, State superintendent
of public instructions; James L. Hays.
Esq, Newark, president State Board
OF Education; Hon. E. G. Stokes, Mill
vile; DR.. James M. Green, Trenton,
principal state Normal and Model
School; Edward Howard Griggs, Mont
clair; Herman L. Stees, Beverly, super
intendent Burlington county schools;
Hon. James S. Irwin, Jersey City; Hon.
Hugh r. Fox. P~lainfeld, president of
New Jersey State Board Of Chi,dse ems
Guardians.
Mrs. Robert Fl. Dodd, of Upper Mont
clair, q prominent club woman II a
former officer in the New Jersey State
Federation, and Mrs. Theodore Dor
man, also of Upper Montclair, are
among the North Jersey women in at
tendance.