El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-01-06
Women's Organizations.

The Zeta Tau Alphas viii hold an in
formal business meeting Thursday aft
ernoon at the home of Mrs. Frank
Feuille, jr., in the Ramsey apartments.
Circle Ono of the First Methodist
/ church Aid society met Tuesday after
noon at the home OF Mrs. Harry .Bethea
and planned for an Aunt Jemima din
ner to be given in the near future. The
members present were Megdames W. W.
| Fink Harry Briggs, J. r. Eiley, II. N.
Whitfield, S v Young, W. R. Price, j.
f. .Kilburn, J. r. Wallen, Herman G.
Porter and Miss Maybelle Bethea. Light
refreshments were served at the close
of the meeting.
Miss S, L. Dodson. principal of St,
Mary's Hall, in Shanghai, China, gave a
most interesting address on the prog
ress of the missionary work among
women in China, at a meeting Of the
women's auxiliary of the Church Of St
Clement Tuesday afternoon in Ken
drick hall Miss Dodson has spent %
years in missionary work in China
and her story of the changes in that
country through the efforts Of the
missionaries in educating the girls Of
China. was most inspiring. Following
her address an informal reception was
held to enable all t,e church women
to meet Miss Dodson. During the aft
ernoon Miss Constance Pateman sang
Captive Maid and Il Love You. Re-
freshments were served by the menu
bers of the junior auxiliary, among
these being Misses Anita Maetze. Re-
becca Maetze, Lois Maetze, Vivian
Pomeroy, George Stewart, Leo Van
der Brock and Venetia Van den
Brock, JOY .Crutchfield and Phyllis
Routledge. About 20 were present
Miss Dodson has been visiting relatives
in Virginia and is on her way to san
Francisco to sail for China. She viii
probably not return again for five
years While in 81 Paso she was the
house guest of Mrs. Carl Lee Smith.
As the missionary study book for
this year Of the First Christian church
Missionary society is In Redman's
Land" the church parlors were elabo-
rately decorated with indian blankets
and rugs and all kinds of indian bead
ard basket work for the meeting OF
the society held Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. D. s Johnson and her division
were the hostesses. Mrs ". L. Fox
worth reviewed the fifth. chapter Of the
study book, I'm RedmaD's Land Mrs.
W. H Bryan gave the current mis-
sionary events. Mrs John +. Edgar
led the prayer. Mrs. Wln T. owen
sang, with Miss Mabelle Bryan play
ing her accompaniment 4 letter from
Miss Bertha 1nman, a missionary IN
Mexico, was read to the society by
Mrs. A. W. Hadley. Following the pro-
gram brief business session was held
The members responded to the roll call
by giving the names Of missionary
books There were IS members pres
ent. During the last quarter u new
members have been added to the So
ciety. For the month. Of January the
aim of the society win be that each
member shall read missionary book
and secure a new member for the So
ciety Mrs. Willis r. Smith was chosen
as superintendent Of the mission cir
Gle. A social time with refreshments
closed the afternoon. The next meet
ing will occur on the first Tuesday m
February, with hrs. George Hhunm in
charge.
Reports for the years work were
presented by the officers and commit
tee chairman Of the Trinity Methodist
church Missionary society at its meet
ing Tuesday afternoon in the church
parlors The retiring officers presided /
during the completion of all the bust.
ness Of 1914 and then the newly elected
officers took charge. A large boquet /
of flowers Ornamented the presidents /
table Mrs I. J. Ayers, q gift Of appre- |
liams and Mrs. John Randolph led the I
opening devotional exercises Mrs. w. I
II. Vaughan read the scripture lesson. |
The reports presented told of larger Z
amount Of work accomplished than IN /
any previous year over 1000 calls were /
The two branches OF the Missionary \
society, home and foreign. were united I
with one treasurer in charge and the 1
work will be divided equally between !
the two departments. The members 4
decided to contribute to the support Of 1
the Virginia Johnson home and the 4
girls school in Rio, Brazil, both main i
tanned by the women's missionary
council of the Methodist church, south. /
The following committees were ap- |
pointed; Miss Alice Care, agent for 1
the Missionary Voice." the publication 1
used by the society to keep in touch /
with missionary work; Mesdames @. Il i
Jones, D. Hurley, D. r. Wilkes, Charles }
E. Bryan, r. Milligan and E. T. VIII 4
liams, membership committed; Mes
danes ]. c. Griffith, A. A Lawler, |
Adine owen, H. n Miller. E. J. Cum
Minis, Ed Haight and Jesse Payne, mu- 4
sic committee; Mesdames Mack Craw- I
ford, r. B. Stevens, D. Hurley, @. L i
Jones, Frank Powers, W. Vaughan, /. l
n Winans and A. NJ Grambling, par /
sonage committee; Mesdames J. 7. Ely, |
Harry Graham, R Z. Bryan. William |
Sachs, Harry Graham, J. p. Robertson, /
W. P Hart, D. J. Roberts, E. B. schultz /
Mary Webb, ". ]. Ritz, J. F. Primm, NJ. /
c. Yerkes, local committee; Mesdames !
r. I. Daniels and J. d. McMurtrey, !
travellers aid committee; Mesdames G. |
Binkley, c. T. McHugh, L. .. Hullum, /
Wip Robinson. T. L Sanders, Horace /
A. Lay, Jesse Payne, J. o. Wiley, 4 J. /
Trotti. E. Gordon Perry and NJ. Melon /
aid, social. service committee; Mesdames |
H. NJ. Smith and W. H. Lark, mission !
study committee; Mrs. c. Wesley Web 4,
dell, publicity superintendent The
meeting closed with devotional exer- (
cises led by Mrs. John Randolph.