The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-10-09
MRS. JOHN LECC
REELECTED HEAD
OF W.T.. M. S.
Golden Jubilee Session Ends
Next Session to Be Held
In Lynn

| Mrs. John Legg of Worcester was
reelected president of the New Eng
land branch of the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society at the closing
session of the three day Golden Ju-
bilee of the society at Grace Metho-
dist church, st. Johnsbury, today. l.
was voted to hold the next conven-
tion in Lynn, Mass.
The other officers elected are:
First vice president, Mrs. Charles
Parkhur;t, Somerville, Mass.
Second vice president, Mrs. c. Ed
mund Neil, Boston
Corresponding Secretary, Miss
Florence l.. Nichols, Lynn, Mass.
Secretary of the Home Base, Miss
Clementina Butler, Providence, r. l.
Recording Secretary, Miss Sophro-
MIA B. Rich, Newtonville, Mass.
Secretary of Special Work, Mrs.
A. P. Sharp, Winthrop, Mass.
Treasurer, Mrs. C. o. Dorche ter,
West Newton, Mass.
Assistant Treasurer, Mrs. Alden H.
Spear, Newton Center, Mass.
Superintendent of Literature, Mrs.
William l.. Snow, Brookline, Mass.
Superintendent of Young Peoples
Work, Mrs. A. L. Lamont, Somer-
vile, Mass,
Superintendent of Children
Work, Mrs. l. H. Packard, Roxbury,
Mass.
Editor of Quarterly, Ms. H. l..
Wriston, Boston.
Secretary of Student Work, Mrs.
E. O.@Fisk, BroekliHey Mass.
Delegates to General Executive,
Mrs. w. r. White, Mrs. c. d. Bald
win
Reserves, Mrs. S. I. Strout, Mrs. E.
NJ Keeney.
The Thursday morning service
opened at $50 with the devotional
service led by Mrs. J. M. Frost.
Minutes and business was followed
| by report given by Miss Nichols
of the missionaries now in the field
their work and successes. Before the
next annual meeting nine more mis-
sionaries will be added to the force
at work now There was also repo"t
of the work of the missionaries in
Latin lands.
| Miss Ernestine B. Gilmore is so
ing to Mexico and spoke of the needs
of her new field and said education
was needed to better conditions but
that alone would not do but "educa-
ton plus" would do it.
Miss Ruth Manchester, India's new
field worker spoke along the same
lines emphasizing the need of Chris
tianity with education but that we
lcould not have Christian India with
out education.
Miss Margaret Hermistone, an
other young missionary who is plan
ming to go to India spoke of her new
work and said through the women
mostly would the whole of India be
come Christian. They were "goine
over the top" and hoped the people
at home would "stand behind them. "
Miss Emily Chalmers who has been
two years in India told of the need
of doctors and nurses. They have
their schools, hospitals and missions.
There is a large dispensary work, one
doctor last year treating $4,000
patients, mostly women and children,
many of them from towns and villages
for miles around who came for treat
ment One trained American nurse,
one trained Indian doctor and girls in
the training schools tried to look af-
ter the ''no-patients," and there was
work for many more doctors and
nurses and teachers who might edu-
cate the people along many lines in
care and sanitation and other branch
es which are well known in this ceun-
try, if they could go out into the
rural districts and into the homes.
An invitation to meet in Lynn next
year was unanimously accepted.
On Wednesday afternoon the
possibilities in the Young People"
was the subject of the topics pre-
sented by Mrs. A. L. Lamont, Mrs.
e. o. Fisk, Mrs. l. H. Packard aud
Mrs. Lucie F. Harrison, who spoke
of the work among the children and
later in college life, from the time the
first efforts were made to interest
children in missionary work; how
the work grew and the results up to
the present time. Now reports from
two out of IL branches state there
re 100000 children enrolled as
members of missionary societies and
$4,000 enrolled as life members.
Every branch has its superintendent
of Children's work. Each one of Sd
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