Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-04-12
KEYPORT ASSN.
MAKES REPORTS
Officers Are Elected at Annual
Meeting of the
Society
BH Special Correspondent.


kEIPORT. April 11.-At the regu-
lar meeting Of the Keyport Improve
ment association in the Public library
this week, the annual election of Of
icers took place and the reports for
the year were given. Mrs. Horace s.
Burrows the retiring president presid-
ed The most important reports were
those of the secretary giving a re-
sumo of the years work and that of
the Child and Public Welfare com
mittee.
The election of officers resulted as
follows:
President-Mrs. Russell H. Std
fole.
Vice Presidents-Mrs. Charles III.
jerks, Mrs. NJ. Lester Terry, Mrs. o.
II. Dayton, Mrs. George w. Stidfole
and Mrs. p. Sondergaard.
Recording secretary-Mrs. A. b.
| Campbell.
Corresponding secretary-Miss SUI
san Brown.
Federation secretary-Mrs. o. c,
Bogardus.
The committee for next year will be
appointed at the next regular meet
ing.
Due to lack of interest on the part
of the members, there was consider
able discussion of disbanding. Hap
PLY at this time, Miss Daniels came
to visit us and inspired us to try again
and encouraged us to continue.
Can a club which has accomplished
so much despite the many difficulties
and in a town where the need Is so
great, afford to disband? 1t would
seem that ii certainly cannot.
Report of the Child and Public
Welfare committee.
Spring is in the air n gardening
Is the reigning fashion. Trees are
looked owe trimming attended to
and the future prospects for their
growth considered.
The reports of the officers are rs
follows: Report of the secretary OF
the K. /. A.
The Civic Club has just completed
a very difficult and trying year due
largely to war conditions. 1t is dam
gerously near the shoals and 1t Is go.
ing to take the cooperation and low
ing and sincere work Of every club
member TO pull it back into the deep
water of efficient work, again.
We have had ten regular meetings
and ten executive meetings. We have
enrolled four new members and have
had three designations. 1t Is to be re-
GREETED that we lost n member by
death.
In spite OF the unsettled condition
we have accomplished many things ol
which to be proud. Early in the spring
came ''clean up week" with the CO
operation of the borough council to
make it a success.
We sent delegates to the state fed.
GRAFTON meeting in Newark on May 16,
II and Is. We bought and presented
to the borough a community Christ
mas tree and distributed seeds to the
school children. We nave paid fol
~- 49, IN-l H. -.a- 81 liz
Ls vs.- a thrift card. The club was
parity instrumental in having thu
name of Mott street changed TO the
more e~uphonious one of Maple Place
On December Q a community choru.
was organized under able leadership
and has beef a splendid success. II
order to raise money which we badly
needed on December 81 a foo sale
WAS held. We have contributed ter
dollars to the Haversack club and are
about to pay our pledge with interest
to the Woman's college 1t Rutgers.
On the lot across from the Liberty
in past years was a very dilapidated
shack. We petitioned the owner to
let US remove the building and use the
wood for fuel for the poo The build
ing has been removed and none can
deny the improved appearance OF
the surrounding property.
One OF the worst places in town
from a sanitary point OF view if nc
other has been Government row. In
former years the K. I. A. has tried TO
remedy this evil without avail. This
year largely through the help of Mrs.
Remick our social worker, the atten-
ton of the council has been called to
this wretched place and the oondi-
ton is being improved.
In November we were very much
disheartened by the resignation Of our
president, Mrs. Fred c. Ogden, be-
cause of ill health. However, Mrs.
Horace s. Burrows ably filled her
place n we continued u years
work.
Now m the work Of the differ
ent committees One OF our most i'm
portant committees Is the Child and
Public Welfare committee.
Another successful and capable
committee is that Of the Home Ec-
onomics. One of the biggest things
done by this committee was the or
l~ganization of a girls canning club. To
carry ON this work, the department
gave a card party on June 6. jan
uary 27 the canning club changed to
a sewing class. Although one of the
| youngest clubs in the country. be-
cause of their fine work the girls were
| chosen to give a demonstration at the
Trenton Fair. They also gave a can
ming demonstration in the library.
Early in h year the Woman's ex-
| change committee was changed to the
Red Cross committee.
The literature and library COM
mfttee collected books and magazines
| and forwarded them to the soldiers.
| They also gave a number of books to
| the library. The press committee have
| faithfully printed the K. I. A. news in
the local papers each month.
We have the honor to have our
chairman OF the education committee
one of the one hundred women in the
state who were invited to meet with
the trustees OF Rutgers college to
help organize the Women's college
which is just completing a most sue
| cessful first year.
"The Keyport Improvement Asso-
citation will need considerable atten-
ton this spring. The tree has been
well planted, its roots are quite Sc
cure in our local soil and it has al
ready at it's present timid age aroused
some interest and been of some bene-
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