The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-26
GIRLS PATRIOTIC
LEAGUE is To BE
SOON ORGANIZED
Bible Glass Rally Tonight at
Y. M. G. A., Head
quarters
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
WILL HOLD MEETING
DIR. Newell Dwight Hills to
Speak Next Tuesday
Evening

0ROCA NO<AV SS0NAeSy
Evening
Mrs. Clifford B. Wilson has been
selected to act as the chairman of the
Temporary committee which has the
formulating Of the plans for the
forming of a Girls Patriotic League
in this city a branch of the National
League for Women's Service. Mrs.
AnseI Cook of Hartford is the state
chairman and came to this city re-
Gently to start a branch here. In
Hartford there is a flourishing league
j with a membership of 5000 at the
present time. NO.
The members of the committee who
are serving with Mrs. Wilson are wo-
| men who represent. nearly every
branch of women's activities in the
city. They are: Mrs. Walter Wilmot,
Mrs. DeVer H. Warner, Mrs. Jacob
Klein, Mrs NJ H. Ford, Miss Lena
Sheldon, Mrs. Walter B. Lashar.
|. Just what the age limit for mem
bership will be has not been decided
as yet but it will be either IL or IA
years. Every effort will be made to
get all the young women in the city
interested in this movement: girls in
the factories and stores, in the High
school and in short every young wo-
man will be asked to join. The pledge
that each member signs read as fol-
lows ST pledge to uphold the honor
lof my country, my community, my
self and other girls, and to do per-
soTa1 service whenever possible for
inny country, my community, and 9TH
er girls" A simple pledge but with
Ia great deal underlying the words.
Miss Lucy Curtiss, Mrs. J. H. Van
lTasse1. Miss Isabelle Lewis, Mrs. p.
IC K. Harrison, Miss Mary Lowe, Miss
4 Charlotte Hurlburt, Miss Harriet
Brown, Mrs. Louis Hall, Mrs. H. w.
Hincks, Mrs. w. H. Day. and Miss
Harriet Hyde the members of the
4 Religious Work committee of the z.
w. C. A., are to be the hostesses for
the Bible Glass Rally supper at the
Y. w. c. A., this evening. About six
/ ty are expected to be present and a
Ivory enjoyable program has been
lplanned. Mrs. J.. G.. LudIum the
president of the Y. W. c.. A. is to be
present and will give a short talk.
There will also be registration for the
Bible classes. The schedule Of these
classes is as follows:
November First meeting Of the
Bible classes: Friday night classes.
'tThe Social Principles of Jesus"
Header, Miss Lena Sheldon; Lives
Worth Living leader, Miss Alice
Ward; Jesus the Man Of Galilee," a
class for High school girls, leader
Miss Elizabeth Limont. East Side
classes at 3S5 Barnum avenue-"so-
cial Principles of Jesus" leader, Miss
Cynthia Moore; Tuesday. Philomathi-
an Club; Thursday, U. M, c. Club.
His Life, leader, Miss Cynthia Moore;
Monday, Agenda Club, Women's Bible
class, leader, Mrs. F. G. Featherstone;
Wednesday, 8 p. m.-International
Sunday school lesson.
There are still vacancies in some
of the classes at the East Side branch
of the Y. W. G. A., in those devoted
to dressmaking, embroidery and knit
n ting, also there is room for one or
two more in the cooking class.
H The annual meeting of the Fairfield
Historical Society is to be held in
Library Hall on Monday evening, Oc-
tober 20 at 8 o'clock. Annual reports
will be heard and Rev F. s. Child will
read a paper on s"The Origin and His
the International Society, 2 the Amer
J lean Red Cross. 8 the Fairfield chap
ter.
Doctor Newell Dwight Hills of
Plymouth church, Brooklyn has been
secured by the Mems League of Park
Street Congregational church to give
one of his famous war lectures at the
church next Tuesday night
Doctor Hills is completing this
4 week a tour of the country in behalf
of the Liberty Loan, but he has
I agreed to come next Tuesday to
Bridgeport to speak on German
atrocities, Their Extent and Their
Philosophy" He spent several weeks
this summer in Belgium and France
and in this lecture will tell Of things
that he has personally seen and
heard.
Perhaps no other man in the whole
country has done SO much to enlist
the patriotic support of its citizens as
, Doctor Hills. His lecture will be
massive in information and eloquent
, | in it's appeal.
Admission will be by ticket but
, There will be no charge for the tick
cts. These may be obtained at the
I church or at J. s. Wooster's, on Eas
: Main street, Chamberlin and Shrop
Ishire's, Bassett's Bakery or Wright;
l | Pharmacy. A collection will be tax
l en-, but the men of the Church Leagu,
!. propose to giveevery dollar over ant
above Doctor Hills compensation
: and the bare expenses of the lectur,
: to the splendid work of the Y M C
l A. for our boys in the camps here a
q home and in France.
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