The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-08
SCORES ASSIST
in PROTECTIVE
HOME CAMPAIGN
Bridqeport.s Prominent Women
Give Services to Get
Funds For Work.

The Bridgeport Protective associa-
ton campaign for funds to finance
the Home at SCI Myrtle avenue, be-
gan auspiciously today. Leaders in
the IL districts of the city, in Trum-
bull, Nichols, Stratford and Fairfield,
began the canvas that is expected to
raise a record-breaking amount.
A meeting of the directors of the
association was held yesterday and
final arrangen ents were made for the
campaign, which, starting today, will
last 10 days.
Helpers were named, and authoriz-
ed. According to the report receiv-
ed from the volunteers, this years
fund should greatly exceed that of
last year.
The leaders and helpers, according
to their districts, follow:
First district. leader, Miss Gracia
Rice; assistants, Mrs. Thomas Kirk
ham, Mrs. Frank Plumb Mrs. Frank
Riley, Mrs Carmi G. HubbeI1, Miss
Anna Mcmahon and the Misses Soule.
Second district, leader, Mrs Dud-
ley M. Morris; assistants, Mrs. George
H. Edwards and Mrs. H H HamiI-
ton.
Third district, leader, Mrs. Carolyn
B. Doremus; assistants will be named
today.
~ Fourth district, leader, Mrs. Henry
s. Hincks; assistants, Mrs. Roscoe w.
Bassick, Mrs. Joseph Gaynor, Mrs.
Robert A. Lewis, Mrs. J. B. Adams,
Miss Dorothy Tomlinson, Miss Nc
Laughing Miss Elsa Clauder, Miss
Gertrude Mcmahon, Miss Louis Cole,
Miss Helene Libby and Miss C1eora
Groves.
Fifth district, leader, Mrs. Edward
A. Jennings; assistants, Mrs. Julius
Koh1naier, Mrs. Richard I. Neither
cut, Mrs. Samuel NJ. Haw1ey, Mrs.
John G. HawIey, Mrs. Walter North,
Mrs. Harry Read, Mrs. Herbert D.
Sherman Mrs. w. A. Macfarlane, Mrs.
Charles Smith, Mrs E. B. Ellis, Mrs.
John Banks, Mrs William Rockwell,
Mrs. Henry E. Kelly, Mrs. Robert
Eames, Mrs. John r. Sprott, Mrs.
John S. Pullman, Mrs. Harold c.
Rood. Mrs. Carl B. Siemon, Mrs. Fran
ces B. Sutton, Miss Edna Northrop,
Miss Nellie Banks and Miss Eliza beth
Nichols.
Sixth district, s1eader, Mrs. Frederic
Wesson, Mrs Leet B. Myers, Mrs.
Howard Whea1e and Miss Sadie
Marsh.
Seventh district. leader, Mrs. San
ford B. Stoddard, assistants, Mrs
Frederick c. Blanchard, Mrs. c. D.
Mills, Mrs Glover B. Sanford, Mrs.
Percy H. Powell, Mrs. T. B. McNa-
mara, Mrs. James T. Rourke, Miss
May Warren, Miss Edith Wilson and
Miss Harriet Keith.
Eighth district, leader, Mrs. Ed
ward Mora; assistants, Mrs. Howard
Speer, Mrs. Stephen A. Meeker, Mrs.
T. I. Ferguson, Mrs. D. P. Black, Mrs.
D. D. Lyon, Mrs. Joseph J. Rose, Mrs.
Frederick Hindsley, Mrs. George
Miss Elizabeth Jameson
and Miss Margaret Brady.
Ninth district, leader, Mrs. Freder-
lex Rhodes; assistants, Mrs. Sara Fer
ris, Mrs. E. B. Croker, and Mrs. E. E.
Spargo.
Tenth district, leader, Mrs Newton
Eoyt; assistants, Mrs. G. H. Beard,
Mrs. J. S. Wooster, Mrs. G. H. Warn,
Mrs. A. H. Jones, Mrs. J. H. Whitcomb,
Mrs. Jennie G. Wa1kley, Mrs. c. A. |
Kirkham and Mrs. A. L. Tracy.
Eleventh district, leader, Miss Lola
Kusterer; assistants, Mrs. James T. |
Coulter, Mrs. S. Lister, Mrs. William
Mrs. Milton Bassett, Mrs. !
Alexander McPhee, Mrs. Pryor, Mrs. !
L. Mullins, Mrs. Lindb1on, Mrs. Geo. !
D. Roberts, Mrs. M. L. O'Connor, Miss !
Lulu Farist, Miss Alice Smith, Miss !
vena Babcock, Miss Myrtle lehman,
Miss Grace r. Pratt and Miss Marian |
Plumb.
Twelfth district, leader, Mrs. Will
liam B. Boardman; assistants, Mrs. |!
Roy C. Clark, Mrs. Frank Trumbull |
Mrs Henry L. Bishop, Mrs. Charles
Harris, Miss Ella Beach and Miss |
Bertha Wagner.
stratford, leader, Mrs. E. w. Peck;
assistants, Mrs. w. B. Kelsey, Mrs. |
Stevenson, Mrs. ,Chauncey Mills, Mrs |
J. V. Meek, Mrs G. H. Wetherell, Miss
FoIlett and Miss Nellie We'll
lington.
Fairfield, leader, Miss Ruth Child;
assistant, Miss Katherine Burr
Nichols and Trumbull, leader, Mrs
C. z. Billion.
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