The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-29
News of Clubs

The WOman'S Department club Will
open its first season Wednesday with
a one O'Clock luncheon in Reid Me-
mortal church. 1t is expected that
about $50 women Of the city will at
tend this affair. Reservations were
closed this noon. Miss Margaret Starr,
registrar, will be present before the
luncheon to receive the initiation fee
of 81 from those who wish to join the
club and be charter members. During
the afternoon, the membership fee of
50 will be received.
Women who are unable to attend the
luncheon, are requested to come for
the business meeting which is to be
held in the Afternoon. Announcement
has been made that any woman who
does not pay her membership fee of 50
this year will not be entitled to be a
charter member of the club.
The annual convention of the w. G.
T. U. of Wayne county will be held at
the First Christian church Thursday,
all day. Reports from the various SUI
perintendents will be made and during
the afternoon a number of talks will
be made.
The Do-Your-Bit club will meet Fri
son at her home on the Middleboro
pike.
The opening meeting Of the Music
Study club will be held Wednesday
morning, October 7, in the Public Art
gallery at high school. The meeting
will be conducted by members of the
executive board and the subject will
be Puritan Psalmody" and Early
Composers. The club, while branch
OF the Woman's Department club, will
continue to hold meetings as in previ
Gus years, fortnightly in the Public
Art gallery. Several evening meet
ings are scheduled for this season.
The Trifoleum society will hold its
first meeting of the year tonight al
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Newman
on North Twenty-second street. The
Rev. F. A. Dressed will give a book re
view on Harold Bell Wright's novel
The Recreation of Brian Kent" anC
Miss Elizabeth Hasemeier will give {
piano selection. The social commit
tee for the meeting is composed OF
Mrs. E. B. Knollenberg, Fred Bartel
Mrs. w. H. Rooney, Miss Emma Engle
brecht and Miss Nora LIGHTHOUSE. The
program for the society this year will
be miscellaneous one, meetings tC
be held monthly.
Indiana mothers will have prominen
parts in the national convention O
the War Mothers Of America, which
will be held in Baltimore, October Z
S and 9. Mrs. A. w. Roach, of thi
city, acting national president, will
the convention Mrs VI
ford, Of Evansville, executive secre
tary, will read a history of the frs
years work. Mrs. A. w. Funkhouse1
of Evansville, chairman Of the consti
tuition committee; Mrs Bruce Maxwell
Indianapolis, corresponding secretary
and Mrs. G.. NJ. Henderson,, ndianapo
is. assistant executive secretary, hav
assisted in the plans for the meeting
and have been active in the work @
the organization during the last veal
Mrs Funkhouser is a double gold sta
mother.
Among the speakers will be Eta '
Leighton, civic secretary of the Natior
al Security League, teacher and pub
licist, who will take for her subjec,
Mothers on Guard" an Americanizs
ton talk. Other speakers will be
Mitchell Palmer, encouragement
MIS-. h0DeTI CdIllOH MOTIlS,.u lOleQC
first national president Of the Wa
Mothers OF America, a well-known at
thor and lecturer; William Mathe
Lewis, of the savings division, Unite
States treasury who will talk OF
thrift; William Tyler Page, author o
the Americans creed: Captain Johl
Whitehead, of the United States coul
Ter service. Mrs. Newton D. Baker
wife of the secretary of war. viii
sing.
October boat trip will be take
to Annapolis, where the delegates vii
be the guests of the Annapolis chapte
of war mothers. Governor and Mrs
Harrington will receive the delegate
at their home. A visit will be made t
the naval academy, to Johns Hopkln