The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-01
W c. A. SESSION
IS OPENED
CABINET MEETING OF MONTANA
ORGANIZATIONS BEGINS
With RECEPTION.

An suspicious beginning was made
in Missoula yesterday of the cabinet
conference OF Young Women's Chris
tian associations in Montana. Dele
| gates arrived from Great Falls, Boze-
man, Helena and Deer Lodge, to be
given most cordial welcome ny both
the student and the city association
here. From Great Falls came Miss
Anna Belle Lockhart, city secretary;
Mrs. Mime B.. Geiger, Travellers Aid
secretary for Great Falls, and Mrs.
Margaret Moulton. From Bozeman
came Mrs. Walter Hartman, Miss
Helen Brewer, of the faculty of Mon
tana state college, and Misses Ella
Harmon, Marsa Riddell, Madge Swift
ger and Mary Gray of the state col
lege. From Helena came Misses Ida
Fell, dean of women; Emma Stouten-
burt, Claudia Simero and Katherine
McGregor, all Of the wesleyan uni
versity, and Miss Anna Alexander,
general secretary of the Helena assoc
citation. From Deer Lodge there were
Miss Mary B. Murphey. dean of
women at the college of Montana, and
Misses Marion Orr M Helen Hough
Of the college of Montana. Miss Eliza
beth Fox is an inspiring and vigorous
leader among the guests.
The opening event of the conference
was a reception given at Craig hall
| last evening by the young ladies of the
university association. The guests Of
honor were made most cordially well
come by faculty ladies and students.
Mrs. G. F. Reynolds expressed the well
come in a few graceful and sincere
sentences. Then Mrs. Walter Hart
man of Bozeman, who is to be the pre-
siding officer of the conference, deliv-
cred a message to the young women
assembled for the conference. The
pith of her message was %neighborli-
ness, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as
myself" and expressed the meaning
of Y. w. c. A. work here n else
where. Misses Mabel Lyden and Clara
Huffman added to the pleasure of the
evening with several musical numbers
beautifully rendered, then followed a
social time with refreshments.
Today.
Every hour today will have Its full
share of helpful discussion of asso-
citation problems.
This morning there will be a
brief leaders council with Miss Eliza
beth Fox At her home, hen the gen.
eral assembly of the conference will
be opened at 8 o'clock with a Bib
hour led by DR.. N. H. Burdick. pastor
of the First Presbyterian church at
Helena, held in Miss Corbin's room at
the university, library. Addresses will
follow, "A Review of Association
Work by Miss Fox: "Co-Operation
Between City and Student Associa-
TONS" Miss nellie Houston of Mis-
soula; travellers Aid" Miss Anna
Belle Lockhart, of Great Falls. Group
councils will occupy the hour from
1880 to 1890 o'clock in the various
classroom and offices of the university
library. These will be city Work. led
by Mrs. c. l.. +. Kellogg Of Missoula;
Membership" Miss Mary Murphey of
Deer Lodge; bible Study Miss Ida
Fell of Helena; Mission Study" Mrs.
]. N. Maclean of Missoula; Social"
Mrs. G.. f. Reynolds of Missoula;
Publicity Miss Lockhart of Great
Falls; Religious Meetings" Miss
Alice Shepard of Missoula; Eek
tension Miss nellie Houston of Mis-
soula: Finance" Miss Elizabeth Fox.
Afternoon and Evening.
From / o'clock until 2:30 this
afternoon there will be a luncheon
with "Gearhart Toasts' at the city
association house. The afternoon
meetings will be held also at the city
association house; the program will
include a song service n addresses
by Miss Helen Brewer of the faculty
Of the Montana state college at Boze-
man, by Mrs. G. f. Reynolds of Mis-
soula, and by Miss Murphey of Deer
Lodge. The evening session will be
held in the university assembly hall.
Rev. Fl. S. Galley will be the speaker
of the evening. Sunday afternoon at
4 O'Clock the conference will close
the association home.
with a public meeting for women at