Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-10-08
ANNUAL MEETING
W0MAN'S CLUBS OCT.
1928 AT BIDDEFORD

Plans are rapidly being shaped up
for the annual meeting of the Maine
Federation of Women's Clubs at Bid
deford, October 26, q, %, and the in
dications are that the convention will
be red letter one in every sense of
the word. Promptness, dispatch. and
good fellowship made the Pressure Isle
meeting of last fall memorable, and all
things tend to a splendid meeting at
Biddeford. There will be a fine pro-
gram, and so anxious are the club
women of Biddeford to do everything
possible for the comfort of their guests
that hospitality will be spelled in cap
ital letters.
One of the most interesting fea-
lures of the entire federation program
has just been announced: The fact
that Professor E. Charleton Black,
president of the Drama league of Bos-
ton, and a very brilliant lecturer, will
speak on Thursday evening, the final
night of the convention. The COM
plete program musical numbers and
ALL will probably be ready for an
nouncement on Saturday.
Another feature hitherto unsched-
uled which will appeal to club women
is the report of the mid biennial coun-
of the general federation at Portland,
Oregon. which is to be given by Mrs.
H. Wallace Noyes. Mrs. Moves was
in the West, and attended these rarely
interesting and helpful meetings.
By special arrangements the Maine
Central railroad will issue round trip
tickets from all Maine Central stations
to Portland and return at the rate of
two cents a mile. and these tickets
will be good from October 25 to Octo-
Der 30. Delegates will repurchase at
Portland tickets for Biddeford. or else
will leave by trolley. The trolley rates
are 25 cents, including transfers, and
the ride by trolley consumes one hour.
Applications for rooms are being re-
ceived daily by Miss Helen Burnie
chairman of the hospitality committee.
II is thought that many delegates
from Portland and nearby places may
plan to come for the day, returning at
night.
An agreeable social event in connec-
ton with the federation meetings will
be the reception rendered to visiting
ISOLATION at their rooms in the Savings
Bank block on Main street, Tuesday
evening. the Goth. Maine club women
are notably democratic and sensible,
so that this will be a delightful inform
al event, and in no sense of the word
dress parade" The Business Mems
rooms are to be open throughout the
convention with a stenographer in at
tendance and telephone at the dis
posal of visitors. The Hotel Thatch-
er parlors, too, will be central and
convenient meeting place. A meeting
OF the writer's Of the Lewiston Journal
prize story contest is planned for AGO
on the afternoon of the 9th at the
hotel to consider the matter of form
ing writer's club, with the idea of
stimulating research. This seems a
most delightful outcome of the Jour-
nafs liberality. and the new organi-
zation will be a real acquisition to the
federation. Some action will probab-
ly be taken to have the stories already
written bound in book form.
Mrs. Frederick P. Abbott, president
OF the federation, is to be a guest Of
the Mt. Desert Island federation on the
18th at Bar Harbor giving an address
on the afternoon of that day. She
will leave by pullman from Portland
Immediately after the Melba concert
on the 18th.