Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-17
Close Of the Federation Of
w0men's Club Meeting.
The Business Session Officers
Elected Standing Committees.
Delightful Lecture on Mark Twain
Given BY Prof. zuebIln.
The Maine I

The Maine Federation of womens
Clubs which. met in Skowhegan
sSsVednesday night closed Friday night
y The program for Friday forenoon was
III asafollows:. Club reports; call to or
s l,l&r; report Of the education commit
u i, tee ~ Miss Hannah Page, chairman;
business, proposed amendment to the
constitution; music, Marion Lord.
Faith and Freda Harris: report of
= Arts and Crafts committee by Miss
Bertha Quinby; address Design and
Its Value to the Arts Eben Comins;
report Of nominating committee by
Mrs w. F. Atwood.
9,s*rsT The following officers were elected:
= President. Mrs. c. F. F1agg Portland;
vice president, Mrs. Stanley Plummer.
Dexter; recording secretary, Mrs. w.
b. Pierce. Bangor; treasurer, Mrs. E.
w. Heath. WatervIle; federation sec
rotary, Mrs Kendall Dunbar, Dam
ariscotta.
Standing committees-Arts and
Crafts, Mrs. Harry Quinby, Saco:
Mrs. F.. M. Ray. tWestbrook: Mrs. w.
w. Dunn Yarmouth; Mrs A. F. Jor-
dan. Bar Harbor;' Miss Bertha Thomp-
son. Portland. Civics: Mrs. George
b. Atwood, chairman, Auburn: Mrs.
.Ancs Clement, children's' help Bel
MIS-. DIP. Mourtofl;' merit sss-
tenn, Lewiston; Mrs. WE. Brewster.
good roads, fJDexter: Mrs j. Il.
Knowles, village improvements N, East
Harbor; MrsdjW.. F. AtwoSd. public
health, Bangor; Mrs w. A. Murchie,
Calais; Mrs Anna NJ. Drummond.
Waterville; Mrs. Ralph A. Parker,
Auburn. Education committee: Mrs,
NIL Dio1, oha Ill n ,
Mrs. Inez Putnam White, Houlton;
Mrs. f. S. Macomber. Corinna; Mrs.
J. Palmer Merrill Skowhegan; Miss
Ida M. S.; Bean. Old Town Mrs. Con-
slant Southworth Portland. Forestry
committee Mrs. J. NJ. Strout. chair
man. Portland; Mrs. w. B. Steward,
Skowhegan; Mrs. George w. Pcttin-
gill, Rumford; Mrs. c. 3. Porter Old
:, Town: Mrs. Fred T. Hall. Bangor.
Legislation committee: Mrs. George
r. French chairman. Portland Mrs.
Frank J. Rich. Rockland; Mrs. J. M.
StrOut, Portland; Mrs. George r. Att
wood, Auburn Mrs. F. II. Noble. Ban
gor. Literature and art committee:
Mrs. George w Huff. chairman, San
ford; Mrs. Lillian M. Burnham, Bid
deford; Mrs. Henrietta G. Rowe, Ban
gor; Mrs W. E. Hanson, kennebunk
'F port; Miss Mary A. Stevens. Lewis
ton; Miss Jane S. Murphy. Bath Mrs.
George H. Hamlin, OronO. Reciprocity
committee: Mrs. r. G. Paine, Farm
ington? Mrs. Fl. P. White Farming
ton. Nominating committee was Mrs.
'ftGertrude p. Atwood. Mrs. Clara T.
Sibley. Mrs Elizabeth Merrill. Mrs.
Dulcina r. Ranlett, Mrs. Jennie w.
Bird. r
Miss Hannah Page. chairman of the
Education committee. in her report
said that the hardest thing that the
Federation had to contend with was
getting teachers to conduct the work
in the different parts of the state.
Through Miss Small dean of Colby
College the Federation has obtained
Miss Berry of Waterville. daughter of
Rev. Wilbur +. Berry, former presi-
dent of the Maine Wesleyan Semi
:; nary at Kent's Hill. as teacher for
the coming year. She is at work in
Hampden 1t was decided that the ad-
ministrative power of the committee"
should allow a choice of both college
and normal school candidates, when
at. the discretion of the committee ana
State Superintendent such course
seems wise.