Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-24
WOMEN'S CLUBS
CONVENTION NEAR
State Federation Will Meet at
Atlantic City Next
Week.
HOT FIGHT EXPECTED IN
ELECTION OF PRESIDENT
Interesting Program Arranged
for Delegates to Two
Day Session.

Only few minor details remain to
complete the arrangements for the
program for the annual meeting of
the New Jersey State Federation of
Women's Clubs, to convene at At
lantic City Friday and Saturday of
next week. Delegates have been
chosen from the various clubs in the
State and there promised to be a
spirited competition in the election
of president to succeed Mrs. How
ard Crosby Warren. of Princeton.
The Hotel Chalfonte has been Sc
1ected as the federation headquarters,
and the sessions will be held on the
steel pier. A number of club officers
are planning to leave Newark on
Thursday afternoon so as to have
more opportunity to discuss matters
pertaining to the convention.
The official ballot as it stands at
present Is as follows:
For president, Mrs. William T.
Ropes, All Round Club, Montclair,
and Mrs. George d. Chenowith. Civic
League Woodbury.; for Vice-presi-
dent-at-large Mrs. Thomas b. Still
man, Womans Club, Hoboken; for
recording secretary, Mrs. George B.
Philhower, Womans Club of Nutley;
for corresponding secretary, Mrs. H.
M. Edwards. Womans Club of Glen
Ridge; for treasurer, Mrs. Bryce Col
lard, State Sunshine Society, Jersey
City; for auditor, Mrs. j. V. Cowling,
Woman's Club, Millville; for directors
tthree to be chosen. Mrs Harry d.
(san1ntnn civic (tI11lN Nnua rlxs Mrs
Charles Brock, Improvement Society.
Boonton; Mrs. j. B. Wright, Fort
nightly Club Pennington, and Mrs.
N. Bailliett, Woman's Research Club,
Atlantic City.
Woman's Club of Orange, received
more than five nominating votes for
the office of president, and the COM
mittee has received Information that
she will probably be nominated from
the floor the first day of the conven-
ton. In this case the delegates will
arrange for the official presentation
of her name on the ballot.
Presidents.
The Office of vice. president in the
ten districts has, with but one ex-
ception, only one nomination, as fol-
lows: president of the first dis
trict, Mrs. William D. Weikel, of the
Half Hour Reading Club, Merchant
Vile; second district, open, Miss Mary
McKeen, of the Current Events Club
Moorestown, the nominee, having
withdrawn: third district Mrs. j. H.
Resell, Woman's Club, Freehold;
fourth district, Mrs. Norris Craven
Contemporary, OF Trenton; fifth dis
trict, Mrs. Fannie e. Yates, Village
Improvement Association, of Gran
ford; sixth district, Mrs Stella Bid
Olson, Womans Club, of Ridgefield
Park: seventh district, Mrs. William
S. Dsbrow, of the Contemporary, of
Newark: eighth district, Mrs. John
Randolph, of the Orange Monday
Topic Club, and Mrs. F. ID. Green, of
the Woman's Club. Upper Montclair;
ninth district, Mrs. Daniel Van Win
kle, Woman's Club. Jersey City;
Tenth district, Mrs. Charles Latham,
of the Arlington Civic Club.
The program, with possibly a few
variations, will be as follows:
Friday morning-Call to order al
1920. Welcome from Mrs. Milton
&oW perrin waite, pTtSlueHI VI IteStdTCn
Club welcome from Miss Helen Lip
pincott second district president;
response by Mrs. Warren; general
conference and floor discussion until
11:30. The regular session begins at
11:30, after arrival of morning trains.
Reports of officers-Recording secre-
tary, Mrs. j. r. Schermerhorn; CORE
spending secretary, Mrs j. M. Mid
dleton; treasurer and auditor. Mrs. J.
A. Moseley, Mrs. j. V. Cowling; treas
urer and auditor of endowment fund,
Mrs. J. w. Acton. Mrs. John A. Hol-
land; general federation secretary,
Mrs. r. Elmer Shoemaker; presidents
address, Mrs. Catherine C. Warren;
report of the nominating committees
greetings from guests.
Afternoon session-Call to order at
2 o'clock; department reports; or
ganization and endowment, Mrs. w.
T. Ropes; introduction of new'clubs;
art" Mrs. Elmer Mount; 'Sane
Fourth" Mrs. Amalia Dubois; Lit
erature," Mrs. Arthur Leland Smith;
Sociology" Mrs. c. w. Stockton;
round table discussion led by Mrs.
C. b. Alexander "The White Slave
Traffic and Women Police" speakers,
Mrs. John Holland, Mrs. S. S. Will
Jams. Mrs. Donnell and general floor
discussion; department reports;
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