El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-09
SOCLETY'S DOLNGS

Missionary society meeting there was a
called meeting of the Aid society OF IN
church. The report Of the turkey ulI
ner given last week showed that over
s64 was realized. The Aid soclely
planned to hold a china shower Tor tHe
church after the Christmas holidays
Officers for the coming years WeIe
elected Tuesday afternoon by tne
Woman's Missionary society of the
Trinity Methodist church, at a meeting
held in the church parlors- Mrs l. D.
Ayers was reelected president; MIS- IL
n. Miller, first vice president in charge
Of the young peoples work; Mrs W.. A
Trayler. second vice president IN
charge Of the children's work; Mrs. D
NJ. Smith, corresponding secretary;
Mrs. l. n. Winans, recording secretary
Mrs. O. A. Danielson, treasurer; Mrs
William Sachs, assistant treasurer
Mrs. w. U. Care, superintendent OF
study and publicity; Mrs. S. S. Birch
field, superintendent of social service;
Mrs. Ross f. Bryan, superintendent OF
supplies. The meeting was opened with
the usual devotional exercises, con-
Quoted by Mrs. y. J.. CumminS. Mrs
Empress Arlington presided dUCing the
election Of officers The Henrietta and
DOrcas circles presented two boxes Of
clothing for the Methodist ~orphanage
at Waco
Division "E." of the First Presbyte-
rian Church Aid society, met Tuesday
afternoon at the home of Mrs. H. NJ.
Patterson, on Nevada street, to organ
ize and prepare plans for active work.
following the Christmas holidays. Mrs.
Alice VanderpOOl is the captain of the
division Mrs. J. A. Bennett is leu
tenant Mrs. II. NJ. Patterson is the
secsetary-treasurer. The members are:
Mesdames William Hogarth, J. A. Ben
nett. Alice VanderpOOl, W. L Hamilton,
. Dewey, H. o. DarnalI, Mary Carpenter,
John Hayes, c. B. ~Stambaugh, Laura
| Schwartz, c. L. WOrden, D. Baker
Smith, A Mead, J. G. Barada, John L.
Dyer. J. II. Johnson, T. D. Garrett,
/ Misses Kate Fink, TheO Patterson and
! Mary Shaver. The division will meet
the second and fourth Tuesdays in each
month at the members homes in alpha
| betical order. A regular course of bible
study viii be followed, One-half hour Of
each meeting being given to this pur-
pose. Each member will pay 10 cents
a month, the money going to a minis
tratiOu fund to be used by a committee
of the general society in relief work
among the poor OF the congregation.
hi next meeting will be held the sec
ond Tuesday in January at the home
of Mrs. J. A. Bennett.
The board of directors of the Wom-
ms Charity association met Tuesday
! at the home Of the president, Mrs. T.
W. Lanier, on Montana street. The
! time was occupied with the reports Of
the various committees. Mrs. Charles
B.. Stevens reported for the house com
mittee; Mrs. U. S. Stewart, for the
tubercular work; Mrs. w. H. Burgess,
for the sick baby relief work; Mrs. w.
l.. FoXworth. for the general relief
work. The committee of the Charity
ball reported so far S1445 has been
turned in from the charity bal and
there are still a number of people
who took tickets to sell yet to be
heard from. Mrs. C. A. Hooper, the
superintendent of the charity associa-
ton work, gave her monthly report.
The association had at the first of the
month AZ cases on hand that are be-
ing given assistance of some kind.
During the month a. new cases were
taken up. Ten cases that had pre-
viously been given aid were again
assisted. The total number of cases
helped during the month was 80. OF
these IS were relief cases, II tuber-
cular cases, and four sick baby cases,