Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-10

| played with the prize In the games 81
ing 10 Mrs. A. Z. williams. A short
nroxram was given consisting OF the
reading of the lesson leaflet by Mrs H.
r Hinkley and readings by Miss Jean
arocbow of Princeton, Ill. The re-
freshments served during the evening
were carried out in green and white
and shamrocks were given as iaVors'
ANNUAL MISSION MEETING.
The annual meeting of the Woman's
Home and Foreign Mission society OF
the twin cities, an organization CON-
posed of the mission societies OF the
Lutheran churches in Rock Island and
Moline. was held yesterday afternoon
with Mrs. Z. F. Bartholomew, '4i
Thirty-fourth street. as the hostess.
Thirty of the members attended ana
following the reports of the officers Tor
the year passed, officers for the year
were chosen as follows:
\ President-Mrs. 1. o. Nothstein,
Grace Lutheran.
Vice Presidents-Mrs. John Nelson
First Lutheran: Mrs. c. l. Petersen
Grace, and Mrs. Peter Benzon, Zion
Lutheran.
Treasurer-Mrs. A. A Milton, Zion
Lutheran.
IL was decided to hold three mission
meetings during the year. the first 10
be held in April at the First Lutheran
church. Rock Island. Other meetings
will be held before the holidays and
the first of next year Arrangements
were made for a coffee for the beneft
of home missions to be held In April
at the Zion Lutheran chapel and COM
mittees in charge Nere appointed as
follows: Zion, Mrs. Una Bersell, Mrs.
l.. G.. Abrahamson, Mrs. n. j. Fors
berg; Grace, Mrs. !. o. Nothstein, Mrs.
| O. P. Anderson, Mrs. c. ]. Petersen;
First Lutheran. Mrs. Alfred Pealstrom.
/ Mrs. ]. Nelson and Miss Mary Peter
son.
The program of the afternoon was
opened with a vocal solo by Miss
Lindstrand, accompanied by MISS Hill
lier. Rev. Edward Estrom OF Salem
Lutheran church then addressed the
ladies on home missions, speaking es-
! pecially OF his own experiences IN the
home mission field in northern Michi-
gan. He told in a most interesting
way of a manner in which the work
is carried on and the need OF workers
I in the region, Miss Hitler closed with
a piano number.
Before adjournment the hostess
served a lunch.
DAVENPORT CLUB OFFICERS.
The annual meeting of the Woman's
club of Davenport was held yesterday
at the Davenport Outing club. The at
tendance was large and the interest
was keen because of the curiosity that
had been aroused through the with
holding of the names of the candidates
for office by the nominating commit
tee. Oficers for the year were chosen
as follows:
President-Mrs Alfred Mueller:
First Vice President-Mrs. J. NJ.
Sherier.
Second Vice President-Mrs. Fred
P. Bemis.
Recording secretary-Miss Roma
Vogt.
Corresponding Secretary-Miss Stel-
Ia Moorehouse.
Registrar-Mrs. Carl Richter.
Auditor-Mrs. George Bowden.
Director to fill unexpired term-Mrs.
J. H. Whitaker.
Directors for full term-Mrs. w. II.
Snider and Mrs. William Theophilus.
Delegates 10 biennial-Mrs. Alfred
Mueller, Mrs. ]. W. Watzek, Mrs. w.
II. Snider. Mrs. Z. y. Coleman and
Mrs. William Theophilus.
A total of 1S2 votes was cast. against
III last year, and the club membership
attending was 225.
The address of the afternoon was
given by Rev. John Wallace Cooper of
the Davenport Unitarian church. who
gave a scholarly talk on "The New
Civic Spirit and Civic Obligation"