The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-20

auditorium, Sara Sherman Pryor,
teacher. Hi
most popular members of the younger
social set, and her gifts were won
derful.
Wednesday and Thursday, Nov.
Z and were the dates for the annual |
of the Connecticut Suf-
frage association confirmed at a |
of the executive board this |
week. The sessions will be held in |
Unity hall in Hartford. Mrs. Ernest |
Seton has withdrawn her |
consent to have her name presented |
as candidate for the presidency. |
Mrs. Thomas M. Hepburn will well |
come the delegates and Mrs. Seton |
will respond for the delegates.
Report as follows will occupy the
session on Wednesday afternoon.
press secretary. Mrs. Edward o. Por-
rift; treasurer, Mrs. M. Toscan Ben
nett; Miss Emily Pierson, legislative
work and Mrs. George H. Day. en-
rollments; Miss Mary Buckley will
give a report of the work done in
Hartford county; Mrs. Frederick C.
Spencer for New Haven county and
Miss Ludington for New Haven coun-
ty; Miss Caroline Ruutz-Rees Of
Greenwich, for Fairfield county and
Miss Rosan1ond Danielson for. Wind
ham county; Mrs. A. E. Scranton
Taylor for Litchfield county; Mrs.
Samuel Russell, jr.. for Middlesex and
Mrs. Fannie Dixon WEIGH for Holland
county. Miss Catherine M. Flanagan
will follow with a report of the work
done at the suffrage headquarters,
and A. 8. q. Taylor Of Norfolk. will
report for the mems league.
A suffrage dinner will be held at
GAS at the Hotel Garde, at which Mrs.
M. Toscan Bennett, will be the toast
master. The speakers have not yet
been announced. At $3.50 mass
meeting will be held in Unity hall. DR..
the speaker and her subject is '.The
Common Coal
On the second day Of the conven-
| ton. Mrs. Seton will preside. Miss
Huntington will report the work done
| by the central war work committee
and the election Of officers will fol-
low. Plans for the coming year will
be discussed and pledges for the work
of the ensuing year will close the con-
vention,
| Miss Elizabeth USHER, who lived
| for three years in the city of Van,
| Arabia, as an assistant to her broth
Ter, a Congregational missionary, at
that. place, will be in this city next
Sunday with her message of the Ar
menian massacre. as she saw it. She
tells only what she saw with her own
Ieyes and what she experienced. She
was the last white woman to leave
| Van at the outbreak Of the massacre
and everything she owned she was
compelled to leave to the destruction
of fire and sword. Miss Usher once
spoke at the morning service at the
4 Peoples Presbyterian church on Lau-
lrel avenue and in the evening atAthe
Washington Park church, Barnum and
Noble avenues. ~
The second meeting of the Fair.
field Executive group of the Women's
Committee, National Council of De.
fense. was held at Mrs. William B
, Glover:s on Wednesday afternoon
Thirty five local societies were repre-.
scented and the Town was divided into
districts for the Hoover Food cam.
paign. Mrs. Henry s. Glover. repre-
senting the Red, Gross, was present
and made IAN eloquent appeal fol
workers at the Red Cross headquar-
tiers In Fairfield. In rek1t0nse, tt
Presiatnt Wilson'S message HE food
eamps4en. hss bssn Aefe<red one vssi
In order that Il may Ret cenfItst uttt
!. the Llhirtys loan. The cornmittee d
planning saxranEements for a mas
, meeting TO take place at Sherman
hall on the evening of Friday. Octo
Der 8. Interesting speakers will b
present and it is hoped that Their
. will he q or an thi
t serious and important occasion.
Vesper services at the Young Wo
3 mems Christian Association oPene,
4 last Sunday with an out of door meet
. ing at Toi1some Hill, when sunme
n conference delegates gave brief re
ports. The regular services to be he'll
K throughout the season at 1887 Broa
Q street will be resumed at O'Clock to
e morrow afternoon. The religion
d work committee has planned an at
a tractive program this fall, includin
/ topics especially appropriate to thi
: war year with its many new problem
;. affecting the lives of women. tn
: speaker tomorrow will be Rev. Alex
d ander Alison, Jr., who will give tai
d to young women suitable to the be
i ginning of the season.
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" at every crossroad and country schot
t, house of the United States bonfire
IS will be lighted on the night of Tue:
70 day. Oct. 20, by direction of the locs
> officers of the Woman's Liberty Loa
n Committee, for the double purpose {
rs calling attention to the fact that tn
h Second Liberty Loan of 1917 wi
le close on Saturday, Oct. 27, and
-e symbolizing the truth that America
Is keep alight the fires of liberty. Mi
Mary Synon, executive secretary {
D. the Woman's Liberty Loan Commit
It. tee, and the originator of the ''Iiber1
ly Fires idea, has instructed the feder
lg reserve districts, the state and coul
a ty and local chairmen of the commi
It. tee to make the bonfire celebrate
ry on the eve of Liberty Day, Oct. 2
n an occasion of vital patriotic signit
to canoe as well as a high point in Il
lei Liberty Loan campaign.