The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-25
METHODIST MISSIONS
ELECTED MRS. A. FL. WEBB
To Head the Vermont Conference of
Woman's Home Missionary Society
To-day-Interesting Talks
Given.

The annual meeting of the Vermont
conference of the Woman's Home Mis-
sionary society Of the Methodist de-
nomination called forth so delegates
from the various conference auxiliaries
to attend the business meeting which
convened at the Hedding church in Barre
at o'clock TODAY. Mrs. A. H. Webb,
president, presided at the devotional
services, acting as chairman later when
the reports for the year were read, all of
which were very encouraging and showed
much progress in the soeiety's work.
The corresponding secretary reported
the Vermont conference as having 80
auxiliaries, with a membership of sos.
Total membership of all auxiliaries, in
cluding the young people, is about l,200,
The districts were reorganized from
three to two, according to the new con.
ference district plan.
Election of officers ensued and resulted
with Mrs. A. II. Webb of Fairfax elected
as president; Mrs. L. d. Martin of Barre,
first e-president; Mrs. b G. Lipsky
of Barre, second vice president; Mrs,
Leslie Meade of Bradford, third vice.
presidents Mrs. V, A. Irish of Enosburg
Falls, corresponding secretary; Mrs. l..
w. Hanson of Montpelier. recording sec
retary; Mrs. w. w. Wilson Of Mont
pelier, treasurer; Mrs. H. P. Simpson OF
Sheffield, secretary of supplies; Mrs.
Mary Sherburne of Montpelier, secretary
of mite boxes; Mrs Louise Robinson of
lka IS -
work Mrs. E. L. Bacon of Bellows Falls,
secretary of children's work; Miss Alma
Bugbee of Morrisville, secretary of litera-
ture; Mrs, f. C. Mason of Bellows Falls,
secretary of temperance; Mrs. Fl. A.
Stevenson of st. Albans, secretary of
training schools; Mrs. T. P Frost of
Bradford, secretary OF Christian stew
ardship and evangelism.
Pledges for So 500 for the continuance
of the societies work were made by the
various delegates from the many dis
tricts, authorized by the auxiliary which
they represented.
This meeting, as we'll as that of the
team meeting yesterday, was considered
one Of the most successful ever held by
the society in Vermont. The team meet
ing, which began yesterday morning aft
er the arrival of the w. II NJ S. team
workers, Mrs. w b. Thirkield, national
president; Miss Bertha Fowler, president
of Folt's National Training school; Mrs
Bulkley, colored field worker; Mrs. f.
NJ Taylor, Hull street medical mission
Boston; Mrs L. L. Slack of New York,
Porto Rican worker; and Miss Mary
Hadrha, the Slav girl, representing her
race, completed its session last evening
in the church with Miss Bertha Fowler
urging the training Of young people for
Christian service
In the afternoon interesting facts were
divulged by Miss Hadrha in her appeal
for further aid for the Slavic race. Mrs.
Slack, who has charge Of the society's
missionary work in Porto Rico, described
the environment in that island Nearly
all the population is constituted Of ne
groes, Spaniards and Indians, who are
greatly in need of educational facilities
and better living conditions. Mrs. Slack
described them as very illiterate people,
most of whom dwell in simple, one room
shacks with mud floors, with no sanitary
eony~nienees.
Mrs. f. NJ. Taylor then told of the
important services rendered to the popu-
lation of North Boston. where $4,000 in.
habitants depend mostly upon the med.
ical attendance from the Hull street med
ical mission.
II was learned through these visiting
ladies that the national society now has
27O,206 members and expends in its
missionary work in one year Sl,l56,000
They also informed the delegates that
Mrs, Lois S. Parker, IS years Of age, will
address the Methodist congregation in
Barre this coming Sunday Mrs. Parker
is the only surviving member of the five
charter members who founded the So
ciety so years ago; Ever since that time
she has done missionary work in India,
and only came back to the United States
to attend the national jubilee to be held
in Boston in November and visit her for
mer home in st, Johnsbury, where Oct,
s, the New England branch of the Won.
ans Foreign Missionary society will hold
a convention She has been ON fur
Tough Of several months, coming here in
June to attend the centenary jubilee Of
the Methodist church held in Columbus,
Ohio.