Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-14
si-MoNTHLY MEETING
 OF HOUSEWIVES LEAGUE
Members Will Work In Cooperation
 With Farm Bureau.

The bi-monthly meeting of the Housewives league was held on We'd nesday afternoon at the Buckingham Memorial with Mrs. Edmund Perkins, president, in the chair.
 Mrs. Howard l.. Stanton, treasurer and secretary, read her reports, after which Mrs. Perkins gave a. short talk on the scope Of the work that might be done here, emphasizing the fact that the larger the membership the more work might be accomplished.
 Mrs. Perkins has planned to aD- point several committees to assist in the work: an organizing committee. an Investigating committee for looking into the matter of prices, sanitary conditions etc, a membership con- ] mittee, one on thrift stamps, also garden and magazine committees. A committee consisting of Miss Louise Howe, Mrs. William Norton and Mrs. Edward Graham was appointed to draw up simple set of bylaws to be presented at the next meeting. It is distinctly understood that the Housewives league is to work with 1 the farm bureau. It will take up all l questions relating to important eco I homie problems, upholding the en- i forcement of laws which will effect food supplies, insist on correct weights. and measures and sanitary 1 conditions wherever food is bought and sold.
 1 It is by no means an antagonistio 1 branch but a cooperative one, anx- ious to serve to the best of its ability for the public good.
 Instances were cited of the re-
 markable results from home garden ing in Providence last summer wher a half acre lot was donated for tht
 use of one model plot and nine otherf
 like it. It is hoped. that more womer
 in town will take up gardening anl
 see for themselves what may be dont
 with a small plot of land and perse.
 verance.
 :. Miss Louise Howe spoke in behal of the farm bureau and also empha
 sized the necessity of more member
 to demonstrate the importance of thu
 campaign lof food conservation,
 The farm bureau is the authorized organization through which the de partment of agriculture works, am
 the food situation promises to be very serious one, as time goes on
 and the problem of supplying our owl soldiers as well as the allies confront us. It is like giving 8. dollar to tn l food administration for their work t l join the farm bureau.
 Miss Campbell then told of tn
 patriotic food fair to be held in Ne1
 London next week, on the 18th an 20th, in the auditorium of the voca f tional school On the afternoon c the 18th Miss Sprague will speal there will be music and probaly a foo
 demonstration. The, Connecticut col lege has charge that evening, whe
 the head of the economic departmen , and her pupils will supply a numbe i of inexpensive luncheons, workin
 them out carefully as to nutritiv f value and cost; the Glee club will fur nish music,
 The vocational school will hay
 charge of the next days program an
 the high school orchestra will furnis the music.
 At the next meeting of the leagu B Miss Campbell will give demonstra ,. ton of some simple. nutritious lunch con dishes to take the place of meat s A large attendance is solicited, as tn : subject is one which will surely inter :, est all housekeepers.