The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-06-05


hand to use in that manner when needed.
| Considerable civic improvement has been
furthered by the women and 10 new
members have just been added to their
numbers.
Conservation and cooperation has been
the motto of the Montpelier Woman's
club, Lucia M. Bliss giving a report
which showed that the organization there
has been fully alive to its opportunities.
Perhaps the greatest thing accomplished
is the formation of the Young Peoples
Community club, Inc, with 334 members
and well-equipped rooms. The boys and
girls each have an organization subordi-
nate to the parent club and paid seere-
tary is in attendance at certain hours on
every day and all day Saturdays. A
Spanish fest which was given by the
club netted $500. The district nurse
made 1888 calls during the year and re-
fused PA calls The philanthropic de-
partment earned and dispersed about
5000. Seventy four new members have
been added during the year past. Three
of the members are still serving in
France.
The Ladies' Reading circle of North
field, although its membership is limited
to so and its programs are wholly lit
erary, has done one especially note
worthy act in starting an agitation for
district nurse in that town. The club
does not attempt to raise money, depend
ing wholly on its dues.
The next to make a report was Mrs.
Pratt, president of the Daughters Of
Vermont Of Boston. Although the Bos.
ton organization is formed primarily to
promote fellowship and acquaintance
among Vermonters in that city, never
theless all clubs are working in the same
direction. The main effort just now is
to raise the scholarship fund, whereby
girls are provided by the federation with
the means of taking course that will
fit them to be teachers of the highest or
der. Mrs. Pratt made an appeal that
the club members do not their "bit," but
their utmost.
The pittsford Housekeepers' club, be-
sides taking part in all war drives paid
especial attention to "a children left ia
5therless or motherless who needed their
care. A junior activities club has been
| formed there and the mothers act as ad-
yisors in social work Sewing, canning
and cooking are taught as well and prizes
have been offered for girls fair in the
fall In Pittsford the parent teachers
association has been dropped as it was
found the Housekeepers' club was prae.
ticaIly doing the work and there was no
need of duplication of efforts. The
membership has increased from 10 to
| l04.
Pittsford also has another club, the
| Friday club, which is an organization
for study. War conditions were taken
up during the past year. 1t is Is years
this fall since the club was organized.
1t has carried ON a cleanup campaign,
put plants and shrubs into neglected
corners and contributed literally to the
state federation scholarship fund
| In Rochester is new club, organized
only last November,t which has started
out with great enthusiasm. Community
service is its watchword. The public
health committee has given talks to the
children on cleanliness and care of the
teeth and where the parents were unable
to furnish such have provided tooth
brushes and paste for the children. The
club has also done some charitable work
in providing clothing for children who
were staying at home from school for
lack of proper wearing apparel, an organ
was given for the use OF the schools and
| books and magazines were distributed in
lumber camps.
The Royalton and South Royalton
Woman's clubs have been doing good
work and bending their energies to Red
| Cross activities as long as the demand
was great. The Progressives of Rutland
are a strictly study club limited to SO
members, but they work through the
Rutland Woman's club and have done
much financially The latter made every
other meeting of the year into a war
relief meeting for the Red Cross and for
| the French wounded. For the two or
ganizations l7s9 garments were made,
A night school was conducted, 5000 net
| ted from a thrift shop sale and 500 Of
| the amount was saved for Americaniza-
/ tion work next year
The providing of a visiting nurse is
| the special work of the Autonoe club of
! st. Albans, but the organization has also
been the means of having set out one
half mile avenue of trees in memory of
the soldiers of that city who served over
seas. The glee club, which was given
up because of the need for other kinds of
service, will be restored now that much
of the war work is over.
| The Altrurian club of Slsingfeld saw
to it that better lighting facilities were
placed in the library and now, with a
membership of $500, the members are
agitating the erection of new hall in
memory of the soldiers and sailors of
the world war, as well as a larger Ii
brary. A girls club was formed in
| Springfield largely through the efforts of
the Woman's club, which helps much in
the social condition of the place.
Eighty five new names were added to
the membership list of the St. Johnsbury
Woman's club during the year past, and
much good work has been done there.
The Hypatia club of Waterbury is a
study club with limited membership
of 35
| Miss Isham, president of the Vermont
Woman Teachers club, reported mem
bership of ASS members. No meeting was
held last year, because OF the prevalence
of the influenza, so last years officers
hold over until the next meeting.
Wells Rivers Study club has mem
bership of SO and has done much war
work. The Loyal club Of White River
Junction, with a membership of l20, has
given the use of the library, which the
club owns, free of charge for various
meetings in connection with war work
and from $500 to $500 books were sent
to different organizations. The club has
no annual dues, so the money has to be
raised in other ways.
/ As war work decreased the Friends in