St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-06-07
An Interesting Program Of Speaking
and Music---Changes In Year
Book Announced
LIBRARY COMMITTEE
Long List of Appointments For the
Ensuing Year Are Made-RepOrts
Show That Last Year Was
Most Successful in His
tory of Organization.

The first meeting of the new year
of the st. Johnsbury Woman's club
was held in Pythian hall, Monday aft
ernoon, June 5, at o'clock, the presi-
dent, Mrs. Helen L. Stone, presiding.
The minutes of the annual meeting
were read by the recording secretary,
Mrs. Martha French. The treasurer
reported $119.19 to be in the general
funds. The executive board, in their
meeting at 2 o'clock. appropriated $25
to the travel and current events COM
mittee, $40 to the education commit
tee and in cooperation with the Com
mercial club of ST. Johnsbury the ex-
ecutive board voted $5 for the relief
of war sufferers. The district nurse
reported $40 calls made up to and
through the month of May. A COM
mittee on resolutions upon the death
of a club member, Mrs. Harry Scott
was appointed by the president and
consisted of Mrs. S. D. Atwood, chair
man; Mrs. Frank Taylor and Mrs.
George Cary.
The meeting was then given over to
the forestry committee, Mrs. Edith
Flint, chairman. First upon the pro-
gram was a solo by Frank Brooks
king of the Forest Am l." Follow
ing this Miss Alice Wilcox read a few
choice gems, including Henry Van
Dykes famous psalm of the forest.
Mrs. Flint then introduced Hubbard
Hastings, a st. Johnsbury boy, grad
uate of the Biltmore School of For
estry in Carolina and Germany. Mr..
Hastings brief talk was about the
wood lots of the small farms and the
problem of the farmer for the con-
servation of these. He spoke of the
great waste of valuable timber caused
in part by ignorance on the part of
the owner and by the inability of the
owner to get at it. He prophesied a
famine in timber in the United States
in years to come which would affect
all branches of American industry and
would raise the prices of all necessary
commoditi The club, on conclusion
of Mr.. Hastings talk gave him and
Mr.. Brooks rising vote of thanks.
After the program the president
stated that all changes which should
occur in the year book should be
given at once, to either Miss Margaret
Robie, Miss Alice Warden or Mrs.
David Porter. The committees for the
new year were read and are as fol- |
lows:
Music Committee-Mrs. Ida p |
Brooks, chairman; Mrs. H. F. Balch, |
Mrs. Jennie Brodein; Mrs. Florence
BIousfieId, Mrs. Oscar Beck, Mrs
Homer Smith, Mrs. James Sanborn,
Mrs. Clara w. Peterson. Mrs Frank
Miner. Mrs. Harry Blodgett.
Social Committee-Mrs. Frank
Blossom, chairman; Mrs. Harry Stan
ton, Mrs. Mae Adams Mrs. Hans An
derson, Mrs. Ida Weeks, Mrs. Daisy
Blodgett Mrs Harry Carr, Mrs. Ella
Walsh, Mrs B. M. Shepard, Mrs. Will
lizard v. Orcutt, Mrs. Clara Burrows.
Public Health and Child Welfare
Committee-Mrs. G. A. Stanley, chair
man; Mrs. F. H Taylor, Mrs. Sarah
Wright, Mrs. Flora F. Aldrich, Miss
Lillian Pearl, Mrs. F. B. jacques, Mrs.
D. H. Macomber, Mrs F. E. Farmer,
Mrs. D. c. Horner, Mrs. w. B. Fitch.
Travel and Current Events Commit
tee-Miss Maud Sprague, chairman;
Mrs. Jason Cady, Mrs. James Hunter,
Mrs. B. B. Scribner, Mrs. Herbert
Stanley, Mrs. Clark Amey, Mrs. Henry
Fairbanks. Mrs. r. F. Lowe, Mrs. F.
E. Humphrey, Mrs. Christina Braley.
Forestry Committee-Mrs. Alvin
Flint, chairman, Mrs. G. E. Abb
bott, Mrs. Charles Horton, Miss Alice
,
James Ritchie, Mrs. Emma Cheney,
Mrs. A. K. Powers, Mrs. G. M. Rich
mond.
Civics Committee - Mrs. Joseph
Fairbanks, chairman; Miss Kate
Wakefield, Mrs. E. H. Ross, Mrs. Rob
ert Simonds, Mrs. H. N. Turner, Mrs.
C. w. Farr, Mrs. Mary B. Kicker.
Mrs. w. H. Stevens, Mrs. A. L. Bailey.
Home Economics Committee-Mrs.
Carrie Kicker, chairman; Mrs. Lena
Woodward, Mrs. G. NJ Gray, Mrs.
MabeIIe Flint, Mrs. George Hazen,
Mrs. c. F. Boynton, Mrs. G. w. May
nard, Mrs. F. A Pierce, Mrs. Homer
Penniman.
Art Committee-Mrs. Edith Braley,
chairman; Mrs. Joseph Brooks, Mrs.
Florence Bigelow, Mrs. Henry Spin
die, Miss Carolyn Ely, Mrs. George
Cary, Mrs. Frank Harris, Miss Kath-
arine Bingham, Mrs. Guy w. HILL
Education Committee-Miss Alice
Wilcox, chairman; Mrs. Rebecca Fair
banks, Mrs. Leah p. Slack, Mrs.
Louisa Potts, Mrs. Zeno Waterman,
Mrs. Frank Brooks, Mrs. ]. E. Tinker,
Miss Ellie Higgins, Mrs. Carrie T.
Hinman, Mrs. G. L. Eaton.
History and Literature Committee
Mrs Jessie Benedict, chairman; Miss
Mary Ide, Miss Martha Hall, Miss Liz
zie Harris Miss Fannie Parkhurst,
Mrs. A. B. Noyes, Mrs. F. o. French,
Mrs. Ella S. Truax, Miss Edith Stone,
Mrs. H. G. Ely. II
The presidential appointments for