The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-11-15
DOING SPLENDID WORK.
Woman's Home Missionary Society of
Vermont Conference.

The 32d annual meeting of the Won
ans Home Missionary society of Vermont
conference was held at St. Johnsbury
Nov. 8 and 10 in the new church recent
~ dedicated by the Methodists of that
town. 1t has been said by one who un
Iderstands conditions in our country that
for social uplift and moral regeneration
no society is doing more than the Won
ANS Home Missionary society,
4 The Methodist conference supports
six pupils in industrial homes in South.
land, aids the Immigrants home at East
Boston and the medical mission in Hull
street, Boston.
/ In North Barre, the conference owns
a deaconess' home and chapel, valued at
$4,000, where large Sunday school is
conducted, also classes in domestic sci
ence, kitchen gardening and sewing
! Reading room and clubs are given at
/ tention, for the benefit of the young
people and children of that community.
/ The running expenses exceeded ST ,20O
last year, The sum OF S2055 passed
| through the treasury of the woman's So
ciety this year, S2l7 of which was col
lected in mite boxes.
The secretary of the supply depart
ment gave Il report of domestic goods
valued at S2ll mostly sent to the home
in Barre, though an occasional package
has been forwarded to some frontier
minister's family. Other reports show
that members have been busy about the
Kings business. The society proposes to
raise during the ensuing year S2,025 for
the work in hand. Pledge making hour
is always very interesting time, when
each society states what they will as
sumo for their share OF the years bud
get.
Officers elected were: President, Mrs.
A. H. Webb, Fairlee; vice presidents,
Mrs, William Shaw, Montpelier, Miss
Alice Farnham, Barre, Mrs. W. +. Doug
las, Enosburg Falls; cor. sec, Mrs. V. \.
Irish, Enosbury Falls; ree-sec., Mrs. L.
w. Hanson, Montpelier treasurer, Mrs.
w. w Wilson, Montpelier; supplies,
Mrs. II. z. Simpson, Sheffield; mite
boxes, Mrs. M. G. Sherburne, Montpelier;
literature, Mrs. A. L. Cilley, Fairlee;
temperance, Mrs. f. Carson Mason, Bel
lows Falls: S. B. secretary, Mrs. n G.
Marion, Hardwick; evangelism, Miss
Ina Morgan, Lowell
Some very carefully prepared and most
interesting papers were read. The Ital-
ian work was reviewed by the superin-
tendent Miss Hattie Davis Mrs. f.
N. Taylor, superintendent of medical
missions, Hull street, Boston, spoke in
a very interesting way of their clinics
and clubs and other lines of work among
the 10000 foreigners in "the wrong enc"
OF that city.
The national meeting, as seen by Miss
Louise Lewis, proved that the delegate
had been close observer and listener,
as she told of many interesting incidents
culled from that session of eight days, |
where 375 delegates, 90 deaconesses. $50 |
registered visitors sat together from
to evening with an interest ever
increasing in the work reviewed and dis
cussed, for which nearly million dol |
lars had been raised during the past |
year, and appropriations made to sus-
tain. Truly, this work needs the aid !
Of every woman in Gods country.
If we realize the conditions that exist |
in various parts of the states, as told |
by Mrs. d. b. Street Of Washington, d. |
C.. who is general secretary of the dea-
.oness' department, We shall be eager to
assist in making them better This was
, grand climax of an eventful days; a
profitable sitting together for the love of
Christ and in His name. Very enjoya-
BE music was furnished by \. Z. At
wood Miss Edwina Blodgett and Mrs.
Don Stiles
Resolutions of appreciation were adopt
or everyone who had assisted to make
he occasion pleasant and profitable.
3ountiful dinners and suppers were
.erved in the basement of the church,
which, with doubt. has as fine equip
nent for serving as any in New Eng
and.