The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-07
EFFORTS TO RAISE
$4,000 FOR Home
MEETING SUCCESS
Workers for Bridgeport
Protective Association
Are Encouraged.

| Protective Association for women and
children, with headquarters at sol
Myrtle avenue, which is making ev-
| cry effort to raise fund Of $4,000, is
| meeting with strong support from the
| public and the workers have been
greatly encouraged in the course of
their canvas by the generous response
their requests have met with.
In view of the fact that the institu-
ton is one of the most worthy chart
table organizations in this city, dedi-
Gated to the welfare and assistance of
poor and unfortunate children and
women, Miss Kathryn Hewitt, the SUI
perintendent of the association feels
sure the necessary funds for the main
tenance and improvement of the in
stitution will be raised.
The army of workers with the lead
ars in each of the voting wards and
the suburbs are already 100 strong,
volunteers are offering their time each
day. "Ten' days-Ten thousand dol
lars" is the slogan. The, enthusiast
tic teams which are now maintaining
a friendly rivalry to bring in the larg
est reports tomorrow afternoon when
all leaders and workers will meet at
the home of Mrs. Walter S. Wilmot,
sos Stratford avenue.
The Protective associations. army
includes the following leaders and
their workers:
District Miss Gratia Rice, lead
err; Miss Ruth Jordan, Miss Marion
Belts, Miss Lucille Godfrey, Mrs. F. E.
Plumb, Mrs. Carolyn B. Doremus,
H,h E,ror nh II
Riley.
leader; Mrs. John T. King, Mrs. Jas.
Vanstone, Mrs. J. A. Cox, Mrs. D.
Fairchild Wheeler, Miss Vanstone,
Mrs. Robert S. Hincks, Mrs. Frederick
Bassick, Miss Katherine Lyon.
District 3-Mrs. Herbert Flans-
burgh, leader: Mrs. Herbert Bunce.
District Mrs. James T. Rourke,
leader; Mrs. w. Roscoe Bassick, Miss
Julia Farnam, Miss Grace Schwertle,
Mrs. John Sterling, Mrs. John Sterling,
Jr., Miss Dorothy Smith, Miss Nata-
lie Middlebrooks.
District 5-Mrs. Herbert D. Sher-
man leader; Mrs. julius Kohlmaier,
Mrs Richard I. Neithercut, Mrs. H.
L. Sutton, Mrs. Harry Read, Mrs. Ed
ward A. Jennings, Miss Edna Nor
throp, Mrs. j. Grant Kingsbury, Mrs.
Charles A. Edwards, Mrs. Robert M.
Games, Mrs. Charles S. Smith, Mrs.
William c. Hawley. o
District 6-Mrs. e. c.. Dana, leader;
Mrs. c. E. Billion, Miss Loretta Burns,
Miss Margaret Keane, Mrs. Rowe, Mrs.
Amber, Mrs. Peck, Miss J. Richards.
District Mrs. Sanford Stoddard,
leader; Mrs. Glover, Stoddard, Mrs. Du-
tro Plumb, Miss Louise Warren, Miss
Edith Wilson, Mrs. P. Howard Powell.
District 8-Mrs. Edward Mora,
leader; Mrs. Harry G. Tousey, Mrs.
William M Mix, Miss Sarah Marsh.
Mrs r. w. Nickerson, Miss Margaret
Brady, Mrs. Howard o. Speer, Mrs. T.
I Ferguson, Mrs. D. D. Lyon, Mrs. w.
J. Lange, Mrs. Emily Brown, Mrs. j.
J. Rose, Miss Elizabeth Jameson, Mrs.
Daniel Black.
District 9-Mrs. Frederick Rhodes.
leader; Mrs. Dorr r. Whitney, Mrs. H.
Trenchard, Mrs. Frederick Bradbury,
Mrs w. S. Cornwell, Miss Dorothy
RICHTER, Miss Ella Crabtree.
District 1O-Miss Lucille Wakeman
and Miss Rebecca French, leaders;
Miss Ida May Burritt, Miss Eula Tou-
cey, Mrs. John Wooster, Mrs. w. B.
Gilbert, Mrs. J. c. jWalkley, Miss Alice,
Skinner.
District 11-Mrs. William G. Moth
nagle leader; Mrs. James Coulter, Mrs
Walter S. Wilmot, Mrs. Walter c.
North, Mrs. Palmer, Mrs. Joseph A.
Smith, Mrs. Clarence Payne Mrs. Will
liam E. Mcmahon.
District 12-Mrs. William B. Board
man, leader; Mrs. Egbert Marsh, Mrs.
Albert E. Lavery, Mrs. Isaac B. Trum-
bull, Mrs. Frank S. Trumbull, Mrs
Henry L. Bishop, Mrs. Norman Leeds
Stratford-Mrs. E. w. Peck, lead
err; Miss Nellie Wellington, Mrs. Nc
Laren Stevenson, Miss Grace Aufford,
Mrs. Kingsley HILL Miss Helen Dun
bar, Miss Marjorie Sammis Mrs. G.
w. Walker, Mrs. Peter Bosch, Mrs
Sidney Fisher.
Devon-Mrs. Louis Pons, leader;
Miss Adelaide Pons, Mrs. David Pyler,
Mrs. Louis Baldwin, Mrs. M. c. Pat
erson, Mrs. Bishop, Mrs. Ernest Cal
vert Mrs. George Clarke.
Nichols-Mrs Percy Card, leader.
Fairfield4Miss Sally Wilmot, lead
err.
Newtown - Miss Dorothy Allen,
Ao1ar Z