St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-05-03

was enjoyed. This has been one of
the pleasant features of the club
meetings this year.
At the annual meeting of the
Ladies' Literary club of Mortified,
held at the home of Mrs. F. A. JOS
Ign, the following officers were elect
ed for the ensuing yaer: President,
Mrs Charles Duke; vice president,
Mrs. Robert Silver; secretary, Mrs. g.
N. WEIGH; treasurer, Miss Russell;
study committee, Mrs. Pervier, Miss
Russell, Miss Robinson, Mrs. Smith
and Mrs. Bingham. Mrs. F. A. Joslyn.
and Mrs. F. J. Houston were chosen
delegates to attend the state Fedora
ton at Lyndonville. The club has
had most prosperous year.
The Brattleboro Woman's club re-
Gently observed it's annual child
dren's day. A large audience of chill
dren and grown-ups filled Grange hall
and listened to DR.. Charles A. East
man of Amherst, Mass, a Sioux In
dian and graduate of Dartmouth
college and Boston university, who
told his story, stAn Indian Boyhood,'
in an extremely interesting way.
The civics department of the
Montpelier Woman's club met with
Mrs Anna Kelton to discuss rest
room plans and the district nurse
work which is becoming more and
more valuable as people become
more familiar with it. An increas-
ing number of calls has been made
each month thus far and the sliding
scale of compensation whereby one
family pays nnthiHg and anothsr
small sum In GesorGaaee with its
purse is most gAtisfaetDry. Con
corning the rest room project the
club will confer with the Board of
Trade.
The nature department OF the
Montpelier Woman's club and guests
met in the home of Mrs. Theron
F. Cotton, chairman Of the depart
ment to hear Miss Florence sturte-
want of Goddard Seminary, Barre,
read an interesting paper on "Bird
Lore and initiate the calls and
songs of the more familiar birds.
Miss Sturtevant is member of the
Hartland Bird Club, one of the bet
ter known clubs of that kind in the
state and has delivered her address
before the Vermont Bird Club. The
department is devoting particular
attention this year to the topic of
bird study and observation and Miss
Della Griffin of st. Johnsbury and
Miss Sturtevant have furnished the
members much of interest concerning
this fascinating branch of the study.
At the annual meeting of the
Daughters of Vermont in Boston,
Mrs. Marcus M. Merritt was re-e1ect-
ed president The other officers
elected for the ensuing year are:
Mrs. Walter Clapp, first vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Harry r. Stone, second
vice president; Mrs. Oscar Gallagher,
Mrs. Cora D. Gleason, treasurer;
Mrs. George M. Diamond, Mrs. San
ford Hanscom and Mrs. C. @. Ring,
directors. The following were elect
ed delegates to the Vermont state |
federation meeting to be held June
z and at Lyndonville: Mrs. Allen, |
Mrs. Hall, Mrs. C1app, Mrs. Graves,
Mrs. Nichols, and Mrs. Wilson.
Mrs. Cousins and Mrs. Diamond were
elected delegates to the. annual meet
ing of the Massachusetts state feder-
alton of Women's clubs to be held |
the last week in May in New Bed
ford. A number of contributions
were received for the educational |
Grafton place two girls every year in
the Normal school. About $40 was
contributed by the sale of Christmas
stamps to the health work of the Yer
mont federation.
The following committees have
been elected by the Morrisville Wo-
mans club for the ensuing year:
Program-Mrs. Powers, Miss Rand,
Mrs. Parker, Mrs. H. J. Fisher,
Mrs. Clark, Forestry-Mrs. Fisk,
Mrs. Hardy, Miss Bracket, Mrs.
Blair, Mrs. BedelI. Civics and Viii
lage Improvemnt-Mrs. Campbell, +
Mrs. Gertrude Robinson, Mrs. Tinker
Mrs. Stafford, Mrs. Churchill, Mrs.
Kramer, Mrs. Childs Library and
G1eed, Mrs. Stewart,
Miss Bell, Miss Mower, Mrs. Lillian
Munson. Sunshine-Mrs. May
Cheney, Mrs. Beebe, Mrs. Booth,
Miss Ellis, Miss Hooker, Audit
ing-Mrs. Slocum, Mrs. Emma Chen
ey, Miss Hill. Social and Entertain
ment-Mrs. Maurice, Mrs. Bickford,
Mrs. Warren, Mrs. Harris, Mrs. Ea-
ton, Mrs. Woods, Mrs Nellie Smith.
Membership Miss Thompson, Mrs.
Earle, Mrs. Niles, Mrs. Bates, Mrs.
Florence Fisher.
On April %, was held the last lit
erary meeting of the South Royal
ton Woman's club. Mrs. Walter
Hubbard threw open her spacious
home for the occasion and large