St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-03-03
WOMEN,s MARCH MEETING
Address by Rev. G. A. Martin-Club
Will Entertain Teachers,
March IS.

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Will Entertain Teachers,
March Is.
At the March meeting of the st.
Johnsbury Woman's Club, held at
Pythian Hall Monday afternoon, there
was a fair attendance and fine pro-
gram was given. The treasurer's
quarterly statement showed $284.51
on hand the first of February. The
president, Mrs. Hovey, was in the
chair and reported that the execu-
tive board has voted $50 towards
starting school gardens in st. Johns
bury. The work will be in charge
of the education committee, assisted
bv Supt. Young In order to in
crease the district nurse fund it has
been voted to ask each member of
the club to contribute rs cents to-
ward that work A memorial to
Miss Mary E. Stone was read by Mrs.
Louisa Potts and Mrs. Emma S. T.
Cheney read one in memory of Mrs.
Lancie Rocheleau. The board has
voted $25 toward the federation
scholarship fund and SO cents for
travelling library for children.
Mrs. Hovey announced that on the
afternoon of March 10, she will en-
terrain the club at teachers and
club day. The town teachers will
be guests of the club and the presi-
dent of the state federation, Mrs.
Smile of Montpelier, will be pres
ent and speak to the club. 1t will
be a genuine ''get-together" for the
club and every member is urged to
make her plans to be present.
After a well-rendered piano solo by
Miss Jean Stanley, the president
turned the meeting over to the chair
man of the social science commit
tee, Mrs. Charles G. Flint. Mrs Flint
presented as the speaker of the after
noon, Rev. George A. Martin, pastor
of Grace Methodist Episcopal church,
whose subject was 1.-THE Worlds
Gain Through Peace"
Mr.. Martin spoke of the great man
uments which have been erected by
the nations of the world to celebrate
their greatest victories and of the
10 great decisive battles of the world,
then turned to the accomplishments
of peace. He named a few of the
pioneers in the peace movement, be-
ginning with the greatest of all,
Christ, then on to King Henry of Ma
varre,- Grotius and William Penn. He
proved his statement that the great
est victories of the world have been
speaking of different nations, Greece,
Rome, Spain, France, Germany, Eng
land and the United States, each of
which is known to history by its
achievements in art, literature, law,
science, or love of liberty, as it may
be and not through its battles won.
Some of the controversies which have
been settled through arbitration were
alluded to and the vast sums of mon
ey which have been given for promo
ting the cause of peace were enum-
Grated as we'll as some of the out
comes of the movement, such as the
Nobel prizes, the Hague tribunal and
peace Sunday"
Miss Jean Stanley favored the club
with another selection after the
speaker had finished.
Mrs Mary E. Mackinnon, chair |
man of the forestry committee, an
that the committee has ar
ranged two meetings to be held dur
ing March. They will be held on the |
10th and the oath, the first at Mrs. |
George H. Cross, the second at Mrs.
Mackinnon's, at o'clock. At Mrs. |
Cross, Mrs. Harlan N. Wood will tell
about the meeting of the National
Forestry Association which she at |
tended last summer at Chicago and
at Mrs. Mackinnon's. Miss Alice w. |
Wilcox will speak on apple Gull
ture."
The club voted to give Sc more
than the $50 already appropriated
to the work of the industrial classes
if it seems best to the committee to
continue the work for two more les
sons. Mrs. F. B. Richards urged the
club to take up the work of making |
surgical dressings for the use of the
smaller hospitals abroad. These are
made from old cotton and Mrs. Rich |
ards demonstrated that no piece is
too small to be useful by showing the
various articles to be made. The |
club voted that the committee ap-
pointed to do the Belgian relief work
be retained as war relief" COM
mittee to see what can be done with
this sort of work in St. Johnsbury.