The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-25
SEVENTEENTH
ANNUAL MEETING.
. AT STRATF|ELO
Founders and Patriots to
Have Enjoyable Pro
gram Tomorrow.
MAKING QUILTS
FOR ORPHANAGE
Annual Meeting and Lunch
con National Society
Daughters of 1912.

Tomorrow morning in the sun par
lor of the Stratfeld, the seventeenth
annual meeting Of the Connecticut
Chapter of the Founders and Pa
triots of America will open with a
board meeting at 10 o'clock 1t is
expected there will be between SO and
60 members of the chapter present.
Mrs. Frances Harrison Corbin of New
Haven is the president and will pre-
side at the meeting. Following the
board meeting will come the business
session and then the luncheon at
o'clock.
The hostesses for the day will be
Mrs. James H Moore and Miss Jen-
ME L. Smith and they will be as
sisted by the chairman of the ar
rangements, Mrs. C. H. Armstrong and
Mrs. Frederick Strong. At in the
afternoon there will be a very en-
joyable entertainment program. Mrs.
Jay Cooke Mcclure of New Haven,
will sing two groups of songs accom-
panied by Bruce Simonds of this city.
There will be two addresses, one by
L1OWo11o 0pOCI VI ILLS city anu Lie
other by Miss Elizabeth Perkins of
New York, who will talk on the
American Fund for the French
Wounded"
This evening the first OF the series
of six talks on matters of govern
ment under the auspices of the
Bridgeport Equal Franchise League, is
to be held in The Stratfield at 8
o'clock. At this time the speaker will
be Judge John S. Pullman and his
topic will be General View of Ma
tional, State and Municipal Govern
ment."
Notices have been received by the
members in this city of the annual
meeting of National Society Daugh-
ters Of 1872, State of Connecticut,
that is to be held at the Hotel Garde
in New Haven on Friday, March 8.
There will be business meeting at
1880 o'clock, presided over by Mrs.
c. F. Jenne of Hartford. This will
be followed by a luncheon at 1:15
and the afternoon will be social in
nature. Members are allowed to in
cite guests.
The hostesses for the afternoon will
be Mrs. Theodore H. Macdonald.
Mrs. Walter P. Lawton and Mrs
George H. Butler, all of New Haven.
John Stevenson, well known as bass
singer with an excellent voice, will
furnish the musical portion Of the
! program and the address of the af-
| ternoon will be delivered by Philip
Troup, postmaster of New Haven. The
topic of his discourse will be 'Con-
necticut In the War of 1872"
All members of the Woman
Home and Foreign Missionary So
ciety of the Advent Christian church
are asked to be present at the meet
ing of Wednesday afternoon in the
church parlors to make quilts. Last
week one was finished and sent to the
Bowling Park Orphanage at Bowling
Park, Fla It is planned to make
two more on Wednesday.
Polls theatre has been secured fol
the big suffrage meeting to be helC
DI1uSepOIL Ol Alct1 I'll LIZ I4ALIo JO1
binary interest is being shown in tht
meeting at which Mr.. Dudley FielC
Malone is to be the chief speaker. Oh
the part of the men especially, thu
workers of the National Woman
Party find an alert understanding o
the importance of the Suffrag
amendment as an issue in nationa
politics; and the attitude of the lead
ing business and professional men to
wards the meeting has been most en-
couraging.
, Quite a series of small meeting
have been held during the last weel
, in New Haven. All these meeting
have been held in the interest of tn
Federal Suffrage amendment. Mis-
Catherine Flanagan and Miss Rather
inc Mullen are promoting and con
5 Quoting these meetings, but speaker
have been brought from Washington
t New York and different parts of Con
l necticut to speak at the meetings.