The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-22
MINUTE WOMEN ARE TO CONDUCT TAG DAY MARCH g Captains Hear Interesting Story
 On War Work
 Yesterday. ART LEAGUES
 PATRIOTIC PROGRAM Universalist Club Gives Most
 Successful Supper.

| Realizing the necessity for support ing the Salvation Army in the fine
 work it is doing with it's huts in Trance and England there will be al ''Tag Day. March g, conducted by the
 Minute Women of the city in order to raise in just that one day the sum required by the organization to es- tabIish another hut at the front. The
 sum required is s6,5oO and already
 Sumner Simpson has given $500 and
 other prominent business men have promised to give. Whatever is the
 deficit between the $6,500 and the
 sums promised by these men is to be
 made up by the Minute Women on this ] day.
 | Bright and early on the morning of
 March g the Minute Women will be abroad in the streets in the stores and they will reach every nook and
 corner of the city. They have set l their minds on accomplishing just this thing and their work in the War Sav- ] ings Stamps campaign shows that | with them determination means
 achievement The two pieces of con-
 structive work these women are do- ing consists of the War Savings
 Stamp sales and the 'Tag Day. on
 March g.
 The Salvation Army hut reaches a
 class of soldiers that hesitate to go
 into the Y. M. c. A. camp huts. It gets a class similar to that among
 which it is working all the time. The huts are crowded to capacity and in
 fact the accommodations are by no
 means adequate. The soldiers who
 like to go into these huts may feel
 out of place in the Y. M. c. A. huts
 but they must have some recreational
 center and if the Salvation Army can
 supply this need it should be given
 generous support The sum asked
 for is not very large one and
 should be raised without any diff
 cu1ty. When you see a Minute Woman
 on March g give as much as you can. There was a meeting of the cap
 tains in charge of the Minute Women
 in the Chamber of Commerce yester-
 day. M s. Fleck, the originator of
 this plan presided at the meeting, and
 made a brief speech introducing
 William T. Hincks who is in charge of the eale of the War Savings
 Stamps. MT Hincks outlined the
 different plans made for the disposal
 of the stamps and stated that it is ex-
 pected that by 1918 with hard work
 would be possible to raise almost
 S5,000,000. Cooperation is the key
 note of the arch in this movement.
 Miss F'rieda French, accompanied by Miss Hannibal, sang two songs in a finished manner. Mrs. F. M. Ham lmond then read a paper on the Morale of the American Homes Dur
 ing the War; It was along the idea , of business as usual the slogan start
 ed ini England The hardest and most ; patriotic work that confronts those . at 'horne is the keeping things going
 in their accustomed way. Her paper , contained many helpful suggestions. , Mrs. Catherine Taylor read beau- . tiful aIlegory of her own composition l called '~The Great Sisberhood.' At the conclusion of the business session the members had the pleasure x of hearing a most interesting talk by , Mrs. Marie Coyerdale. Mrs. Coverdale has recently returned from England 5 where she has been engaged in war 7 work. For IS months she has been a captain in one of the Y. M. c. A. f huts in England and has also been i in France She has most graphic ; manner of description and her words r brought the picture of the life in 5 those countries vividly before her : hearers Her daughter, Miss Minerva . Coverdale sang almost every day in r one hospital or another.
 G. ho 17tn
 the Minute Women with Mrs. Cover
 dabe's talk that it was arranged to
 have another netting next week whict 7 more people could attend. The day set for the meting is Thursday and
 the place will be the Sea Side ciiaaS e ball room at o'clock.
 | The patriotic meeting of the et Bridgeport Art League held yester g day afternoon in the rooms on State e street was very largely attended ant le the fine program that had been ar u ranged greatly enjoyed by those wht n attended. Mrs. Philip L. Holzer, tht ,e president of the league, presided a d the short business session and onl. v. routine business was transacted t. Madame Hawes of the faculty of tht h Bridgeport High school gave a mos n interesting talk on the ''Women o of France" and dwelt on the home life h She read a scene from a French pla! of dealing with the younger people O f' France
 t. Owing to the necessity for conform le ing to the Fuel Conservation order p all meetings of the Bridgeport Ar
 League usually held on Mondays wer, oe planned this month for other dates 1e Now that the orders have been re It, scinded' the dates have been changed d The social of the league that was t t. have been held on Thursday of mex Is week will be held on Monday, Feb III ruary 25. Cards and knitting vii s. occupy the members attention o1 Id that, afternoon and Mrs. William ts Bristol has charge of the arrange or ments.
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 or The Universalist Woman's clu nt gave 4 very delightful and successful e. supper in the church parlors las Id evening. It was called a "get O. together" supper and there was st very large attendance. Mrs. A. V y. Hartley president of the club, wa ed chairman of the committee of ar
 engagements.