The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-04
COMFORT CLUB TO RECEIVE A FINE SUM ON FRIDAY Over $7OO To Be Put in Treasury to Buy Sup
 plies for Boys. ', ST. CHARLES BRANCH
 WANTS WORKERS Musical Club to Hear Lee ture by Carl Fique
 on 18th.

When the Comfort Club of the 102nd Ambulance Corps holds it's regular meeting on Friday afternoon of this week it will have some news that will be well worth while listening to. Mrs Crosby, who recently took up the gauntlet thrown down by John T. King, is to make her report. It is a splendid one Mir. King offered to give his check for $25O to the club if a like amount could be raised. This challenge was accepted and not only was the $250 raised but when Mrs. Crosby turns over the money on Fri day she will be able to turn over $700 into the treasury of the club. This sum will go a large way toward get ting the little comforts and luxurieS that are so appreciated by the boys at the front. According to the report for February the sum of $24.75 was taken in at the teas that members of the club give at the parish house of St. Johns church.
 The members of the St. Charles Auxiliary of the Red Cross are doing mighty we'll with the work in hand and this week are to start in on the surgical dressings. There is a great demand for these dressings and Bridgeport is having a hard time to keep up with the quota that is ex- pected of it. This auxiliary is badly in need of workers and takes this way 1 of appealing to the women of the par ish to come to St. Charles school and put in one or two hours a day. The
 auxiliary s it's at the school on Tues- day and Friday afternoons and even ings.
 In the past month the members have made 46 pajamas; 27 hospital shirts; 64 bed socks; 47 hot water bags; ITO dish towels: 56 sweaters; il pairs of socks; five mufflers; Il pairs of wrist I1ets. 26 helmets and two trench caps, Mrs. H. D. Murphy is the president or this auxiliary and Mrs. J. F. Shea the secretary.
 The next regular meeting of Mary
 Silliman chapter, D. A. R., IS to De
 held on Monday afternoon, March H. lin Odd Fellows hall on Broad street
 !The regent, Mrs. J. J. Rose, Will pre- side and the meeting will be ot great Interest to the members.
 Mrs. Nancy M. Schoonmaker, one of the workers who helped win the : overwhelming victory for suffrage il the New York state campaign, is the newest addition to the working force
 of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage
 association Mrs. Schoonmaker, Wht
 will take as her preliminary work or ganizing and general suffrage worl f will give her time for the coming yea t to developing courses of instruction il
 citizenship.
 Carl Fique, who has spoken in thi . city several times before and who } always most interesting, is to give t lecture recital on Wednesday after
 noon, March Is before the member
 and subscribers of the Wednesda
 Afternoon Musical Club at the Firs \ M. E. church, at 3:3O o'clock. Tn H subject for his talk has not been an Il nounced.
 Il Members of the Woman's Auxiliar , of the Y. M. c. A., will have thei D quarterly meeting tomorrow after 6 noon at 5 o'clock, at the home of Mr. Frederick Rhodes on Noble ave
 nue.
 q The campaign of the Y. w. c. A u went way lover the top'' and tn if mana gers and workers are to be COT r gratulated on the success attaine, o On Saturday the sum secured totale r $27343 This evening there will | O final meeting of the workers at tt d association on Golden Hill street, 1t which time all reports are -expecte e to be presented. pr. Warren Ii. Da
 of the United church is to make a IT address. It is not a public meetin e and the hour has been set at It o'clock.
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