Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-30
BELFAST
Headquarters Opened for Aid of
National Red Cross Society
thanksgiving at
Girls Home
BELFAST HIGH SCHOOL TO
DEBATE CONY HIGH

Belfast, Me-, Nov. 29.-(SpeeiaD.-
Twenty or more women gathered Fri
day afternoon at the Belfast Womans
Club room and under the direction of
Miss Annie V, Field, Mrs. Carl H.
Stevens and Miss Helen Sanderson,
the latter two, graduate nurses open
ed headquarters for the receiving
and packing of articles to be sent to
the National Red Cross Society. A
large number of bandages and dress
ings were prepared yesterday and
anyone having old linen OF cotton
will confer a favor by sending it to
the club room. 1t is planned now to
have the room open each Friday aft
erneon for work and any woman in
the city who wishes to help will be
cordially welcomed. Further particu-
lars will be given later with a list of
articles to be knitted or donated for
the sufferers on the other side.
One of the happiest dinner parties
served in this city on Thanksgiving
day was that at the Girls Home. Big
turkeys and many vegetables, furnish
ed by Mr. and Mrs. Ira M. Cobe, were
cooked to the Queens taste by Mrs.
MacNeill the matron. while dainties of
all kinds sent by the Madessis Club of
Brunswick and the Congregational
Sunday school of Pennington, candies.
jellies, nuts, figs, fruits of all kinds,
cakes and everything any little girl
could wish for, were included in the
menu Then after feasting to their
hearts content, the girls were given
auto rides through the kindness of
Orlando e, Frost, who took them to
Searsport and all about the city. A
few of the older girls were not at
home while this good time was going
| on and when they did arrive they were
so disappointed that ''Father" Mac
Neil harnessed up the old horse and
| took them sleigh riding. The girls
have recently organized a club which
is known as the Golden Rule Club, for
! they are taking the Golden Rule as
! their watchword, to do all the good
that they can to others. Mr. MacNeill
| is the president for father must of
course have the most honored position
in their power to bestow. They hold
meetings each Saturday night and to
| hear them discuss the session one
woul dthink they had spoken before
| Congress. They balloted at the last
meeting on Mother" MaeNeill and
| she was accepted as a member She
has not been initiated as yet, owing
| to the fact that there are three babies
| at the Home who need all her spare
] time and so she will have to defer the
| pleasure CT becoming member for a
| little while. The girls are very much
| interested in the coming High school
! debate and will attend it next Friday
| night to get points so that they may
| have one in their club, This was the
| happiest Thanksgiving we have ever
| had at the Home." said Mrs. Mac
Neill to the reporter. and her smiling
] face Just radiated her love and the
| Joy she finds in working among the
homeless little ones under her charge.
| There are rs now the youngest only %
| months old.
| Mrs. B. o. Norton win entertain the
Once In a White Club at her new home
| on Spring street Monday afternoon.
Mrs. Norton recently moved from the
| Welch house on Union street to the
Moore house which Mr., Norton has
| purchased. @
! A dime thimble party will he given
| Tuesday afternoon at the home Of
Mrs. Clyde B. Holmes for the floral
fund of the North (congregatidaaD
church,
Three students will be selected from