The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-18
MANY TABLES ARE
TAKEN BRIDGE
THIS AFTERNOON
Tuesday Club Entertains to
Raise Funds for Com
fort Club
HOLD ANNUAL
BANQUET SUNDAY
Annual Report of the Fair
field Visiting Nurses
Association


bridge was given this afternoon in the
rooms of the Bridgeport Art League
in the Staples building. The affair was
given to raise funds for the Comfort
Club of the 102nd Ambulance Corps.
This club, as its name signifies, was
organized to keep the boys of that
corps we'll supplied with all the little
comforts and necessities that they |
need. Mrs. C. 1. Crosby assisted the |
Bridge Club in arranging for the |
party.
A number of handsome prizes were |
awarded those having the highest |
scores and those who engaged tables
were: Mrs. Frederick Banks, Mrs. |
John Bray, Mrs. John T. King, Mrs. |
Emma VanStone, Mrs Stewart Hunt |
er, Mrs. William Baines, Mrs. Warner,
Mrs. Finch, Mrs. Arthur Wheeler,
Miss Florence Hastings, Mrs. c. S.
Gibbs, Mrs. Henry C. Stevenson, Mrs
r. H. Myers, Mrs. Girard Neefus, Mrs.
Charles Gregory, Mrs. J. H. Savard,
Mrs. Knapp, Mrs. George Youngs, Mrs.
Harold Clarke, Mrs. H. w. Fleck, Mrs.
Lyons and Mrs. Welt.
Members of the City Club had a
their annual banquet in their rooms
on Broad street A very delectable
menu was served after which speeches
and songs made the time pass pleas
antly. Richmond Sherwood acted as
POSTMASTER and speeches were made
by Clayton Blakeslee, Mr.. Peet and ].
]. Meyers, the treasurer, gave a his
tory of the club for the past 10 years
that was most interesting.
Tomorrow evening in the new home
of the Y. W. C. A, on Golden Hill
street, the College club is to have a
very interesting meeting at which
time Mayor C, 3. Wilson will preside.
Miss Florence Tubby, secretary to
Prof. James Hyslop, secretary of the
Society of Physical Research, is to
make an address. This society has
been much in the public eye of late
and her talk should be filled with
facts of an enlightening nature. Mrs.
Frank Miller is the president Of the
College club.
Thomas J. Ammon was given a
party last week in honor of his fifth
birthday, to which a number of his
friends had been hidden. A supper
was served and the guest Of honnr re-
ceived many membranes. Those
who were present were Mr.. and Mrs.
Lynch, Mr.. and Mrs. P. Pagan, Mr..
and Mrs. ]. Ammon, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Ammon, Miss Katie Garvin,
Mr. and Mrs. William Mccartney, Mr..
and Mrs. McGeorge, Mrs. Joseph
Dixon, Miss Rose M. Fagin, Miss
Molly Mccartney, Miss Mary, Miss
Catherine and Miss Jean McGeorge,
Miss Attic and Miss Della Dixon, Jo-
seph P. Pagan, Jack and Burton Nc
Cartney, Thomas and William Am
mon and Lawrence Qpinlan.
| On Wednesday afternoon in the as
semb1y hall of Maplewood school the
postponed meeting of the Parent
Teachers Association of the school
will be held at 3:45 o'clock. At this
time the members are to have the
pleasure of listening to an address by
Mrs. J. Gardner Haines of West Ha-
ven.
The annual meeting of the Visiting
Nurse association was held Monday,
Feb. 18th, at which reports of the
first eight and one-half months were
given. The secretaries report told of
the work Of the committee-its first
problem being to engage nurse. Miss
Y Ford was finally secured and arrived
here ready for work on May 14th.
Miss Ford is a trained Red Cross
Public Health Nurse. She gradual
ed from a training school in Indian
apois, after which she did private
, duty work for a while. She then took
charge of the Metropolitan Life In
surance Co.'s nursing in Nashville
Tenn. After which she took a years
course in Public Health Nursing al
Teachers College, Columbia. She
then registered with the Red Cross
, and was engaged in Public Health
: work in New Jersey for one year be-
l fore taking this position.
: The executive committee has held
r regular meetings monthly and has
bent all its energies on en1arging
Miss Ford's opportunities for work
r The committee obtained authority
from the ScnOOl DOd4 AOA MISS L OTI
to go into the schools and examine
the children, as we have no medica
\ inspector of schools here. 1t alsC
was arranged to have Miss Ford TAXI
over from the Bridgeport Nursing as
a ISOLATION the nursing carried OIL b.
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
for it's policy holders In August ;
public health week was arranged ant
exhibits and demonstrations were hell
in Holland school, with an average at
tendance of about 20 women will
their babies; and Saturday evenin!
. there was a large mass meeting il
h Sherman hall.
The committee has tried several diff
y ferent WAYS of raising money to car
ry on our work. A great deal of on
g funds come from personal pledges o
money and now since the appropria
ton made last November by the cleo
y tors by a to 1 vote we have
y monthly income from the town whic1
IS goes toward the nurses salary. Las
l. summer moving picture shows wer
held for the benefit OF the association