The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-04-02
\. tho Regular Monthly Meeting Held
Today, Plans Were Laid for
Activity at the
Home.
SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS
!, .dies VIII See That Services Are
Held Twice Each Month and
Social Affair Every
Four Weeks.

rep1Ilar monthly meeting this morn
ing in the Carter reception room OF
the Birge Benevolent Union home at
ten o'clock, the president, Mrs. D. A.
Collier, presiding. The routine bust
ness was transacted, Mrs. 3. E.
Hawkes. serving as secretary and
Mrs. b. F. Jones making the financial
report. This being the first regular
meeting since the annual meeting,
the president announced the follow
IL standing committees for the year.
which is the twenty-fourth year of
the life Of the society:
Executive committee: Mrs. j. B.
We'll. Mrs. John H. Cole, Mrs. John
W. Collier, Miss Mary NJ. tombstone,
Mrs. D. A. Collier. Mrs. A1ois Weber,
Mrs. Charles s. Pond, Mrs. J..A. M.
Collins.
Ways and means committee-Mrs.
C. F. Mcfarland, Mrs. J. N. d. Dick
inson, Mrs. Ralph Brownell, Miss
Parsons, Mrs. w. G. Blood, Miss Anne
B. Davis, Mrs. Joseph j. Ayres. Mrs.
Eugene S. Baker, Mrs. Ernest L. Nc
Cold.
Religious committee-Mrs. R. L..
Reid, Mrs. w. G. Blood, Mrs. D. w.
McElroy. Mrs. P. G.. Benner, Miss
Julia Drake, Mrs. w. c. Wilson, Mrs.
Lee A. Hamill, Mrs. John D. Rubidge.
Membership committee-Mrs. A. G.
Decker. Mrs. p. e. Hawkes., Mrs. @.
NJ. Rich, Mrs. g.. M. Covell. Miss
Elizabeth Collier. Mrs. James Noble.
Mrs O. s. Stanbro, Mrs. Harry NJ.
Phillips, Miss Cora Parsons.
Social Committee-Mrs. J. j. Chap
man. Mrs. Earl Y. Wills, Mrs. Chas. ].
Kirch.
Soliciting committee-Mrs. B. F..
Jones, Mrs. E. s. Baker. Mrs. J. n.
D. Dickinson, Mrs. Ernest L. McCoid,
land, Mrs. Harry M. Phillips.
S. Baker, Mrs. D. A. Collier, Mrs. c..
F. Mcfarland, Mrs. J. B. We'll. Mrs.
c. S. Pond. Mrs. ]. J. Ayres.
Furnishing rooms-Mrs. John w.
Collier, Mrs. Louis W. Klein.
Printing and publicity-Mrs. B. F.
Jones. Mrs. Harry ]. Reeves.
Mrs.. ]. J. Chapman, reporting for
the social committee's plan for the
social afternoons for. the year. an
nounced the following hostesses for
the months from March to February,
inclusive: y,
Social Committees.
March-Mrs. c.. j.. Kirch. Mrs.
Earl Wills, Mrs. ]. ]. Chapman.
April-Mrs. A. G. Decker, Mrs. o. s.
Stanbro, Mrs. B. B. Hobbs.
May-Mrs. Thomas p. Gray. Miss
Martha Baldwin. Miss Elizabeth Col
lier.
June-Mrs. oxel sandberg, Mrs.
Wilbur C. Hughes. Mrs. Harry Dill.
July-Mrs. w. G.. Blood, Mrs. e. l..
McCoid. Mrs. Collingwood Tucker.
August-Mrs. Harry Phillips, Mrs.
September-Mrs. Theo. A. Craig,
Mrs. John A. Dunlap, Mrs. Edgar
Cochran
October-Mrs. H. o. whitney, Mrs.
Ira w. Wills, Mrs. Addison H. Rich.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Alois Weber. Mrs.
J. NJ Furlong, Miss Cora rarsons.
December-Mrs. B. F. Jones, Mrs.
Cephas Harrison, Mrs. John Carpen.
ter.
January-Mrs. d. B. Hamill. Mrs.
John D. Rubidge, Mrs. Henry Schout-
en-.
February-Mrs. Lee Hamill. Mrs.
A. Hollings'worth, Mrs. T. J. Nc
Grath
Sunday Services.
Mrs. r. l. Reid. reporting for the
years outline for the religious serv-
ices to be held twice every month
during the year, on Sunday after
Moons in the home, reported the lead
ers and musicians as follows:
March, 40. b. Towne, speaker.
Musicians, Mrs. Towne, Mrs. Fur
long.
March 2S-Dr z. B. Newcomb,
speaker. Mrs. II. Boyden Blood. SOLO
list
April DIR. Frank G. Beardsley,
speaker. Music by the Congregation,
al choir.
April 1s-Alfred Lee Jones, speak.