St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-09

Mrs w. r. Sargent and Browning's
poem, How we Brought the Good
News from Client to AK" was read
by Mrs. G. f. Moulton. The usual
social hour completed the afternoon.
The Pierian Club of Springfield en-
joyed straw ride to the M. A. BeaI
farm recently. Two teams We're driv-
en- by Henry Taylor and Buel Dow
and carried about 80 young women.
Games and various prize contests
made the time pass rapidly and the
club voted it one of the most success
full outings ever attended. Mrs.
James Hartness and Mrs NJ A. Beal
furnished bountiful supper, and the
drive home by moonlight was not the
least enjoyable part of the occasion.
The first meeting of the winter
season of the Travel Club of Spring
field was held at the home of Mrs. w.
G. Phillips. The president, Mrs. Full
am being absent, Mrs. Frank Hill
presided. The club are to study
Spain the coming winter and at
this meeting Miss Grace Wheeler
gave an introductory talk on the sub
ject followed by a paper by Mrs.
William Smith on the same subject.
The regular business meeting was
held, after which luncheon was
served
The third meeting of the Woman's
club of Morrisville' was held at the
library, Oct. 26, with good attend
ance. Current events were given by
nearly every member. A very profit
able and we'll written paper entitled
General Discussion of Woman's
Work. was presented by Mrs. G. M.
Powers. An interesting paper on
Addison County was read by
M1-c M L[O11 fcs
was the third county to be
taken up and discussed in the years
club work, and is part of the pro-
gram in which all members are TAX
ing a great deal of interest. A very
entertaining paper entitled rights
of Women in the Different States"
was read by Miss Mary Rand. The
roll call ended the evenings pro-
gram, the members responding with
quotations from different authors,
relative to the merits of women.
Brattleboro music lovers are
greatly indebted to the Woman's
club for a delightful recital in the
First Baptist church by Gwilym Miles
o fNew York, the noted Welsh bari
tone, and Edward +. Holbrook of
Keene, an organist of wide reputa-
ton. A delay in beginning was due
to the fact that Mr.. Miles wished to
comply with a request to sing Neid-
fingers Birthday of a King" and
had to search the town for copies of
the score. The song was well worth
waiting for, however, it's rendition
appealing deeply to ones emotions.
Mr.. Miles sang 15 numbers, every
one gem. Mr.. Holbrook was heard
in eight numbers and his hearers
were much impressed with his fine
execution.
The Woman's Club will carry on
the tuberculosis work in Brattleboro
this winter under the management of
the committee who served last year.
The camp will be kept open for the
present, and through the winter if
possible. Nine patients have been
trated there the past summer, and
the results are very encouraging.
Three cases are pronounced cured,
others show great improvement and
there has been but one death. A new
superintendent, Miss Schumacher,
will take charge of the camp after
Nov. 1, and will also be able to de-
vote some time to the patients in
town. The committee are planning
to hold donation party early in
November, when friends of this work
will have an opportunity to meet
Miss Schumacher as we'll as to bring
useful dI IlCISS 1OI lie Call u. AL LII
vitation is given to all to visit the
camp, which is called Sunbright.
The Afternoon Study club of Bar
ton met with Mrs. E. w. Barron,
Oct. 20. There was roll call, re-
sponded with quotations from
Longfel1ow. The following program
was rendered: Reading: Theodore
Roosevelt and His Family" Mrs.
Lucy Robinson; reading, E'Our Dip
lomatic and Consular Service" Mrs.
H. r. Cutler; music, Mrs. A. T. Bus
we'll; violin solo, Master Henry Bus
we'll
The Montpelier Womans club held
a most enjoyable reception at the
Kellogg-Hubbard library during la
dies week. Mrs. o. G. Ashton of Rut-
land was introduced by Mrs. G. H.
Smile of Montpelier and gave amost
interesting talk on Health and Edu-
cation She was followed by Mrs.
P. F. Hazen of st. Johnsbury, State
secretary of the General Federation
and also a member of the State prison
board. Mrs. Hazen spoke briefly about
the Federation and what it was do
ing. The last speaker was Mrs. A. H.
Putnam of Bennington, who talked
on Child Labor. All three COM
mented on the work Of the Woman's
club.