The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-06-04
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The Visiting Ladies and Local Peep! ~ ent This
Afternoon on an Automobile Tour of Inspec-
ton to the Granite Quarries = Meetings Con-
tinue Through Thursday.

The oath annual meeting of the State
Federation of Women's Clubs, which
opened in the Congregational church last
evening, continued to-day with an at
tendance of about 80 delegates and state
officers, besides goodly number of
townspeople. The state president of the
federation, Mrs. Gilbert +. Davis of
Windsor, presided at all sessions.
This mornings session opened with an
invocation by Rev. j. b. Reardon, pas
tor OF the Universalist church, followed
by a hymn, America, the Beautiful" /"
and then came reports of various Off
GERS. Mrs. L. ID. Wheeler of White River
Junction read the report of the meeting
last June in Burlington, Of the executive
board meeting in Bellows Falls in No
vember, and of a special meeting of the
same board in Bellows Falls at later
date. Mrs. Arden G. Taylor OF Windsor,
corresponding secretary, reviewed her
work for the past year, complimenting
the president and officers with whom she
had worked and stating that although
few clubs had withdrawn or united with
others, still other clubs had joined until
The federation is now composed OF so
clubs, with a membership of 5,22l.
Mrs. Dan D. Burditt of Pittsford,
state treasurer, was detained by the
death 6f her father, and the club voted
that note of sympathy be extended to
her Her report was read by Mrs. Wal
ter w. Slack, first vice president of
the federation. The following is sum
mary of the report;
Balance general fund June /, 10 s40l SO
Balance Christmas seals fund i. 3o096
Balance scholarship fund ... 9292
Liberty bonds .........,.... 10000
Total ........,.. l,0s5.5l
Expenses for the year were $4,000
Mrs. John f. Weeks, the auditor, was
unable to make complete report, as,
on account Of Mrs. Burditt's absence,
her treasurer's books and other papers
connected Herewith had not been turned
over to her, but she will make detailed
report before the year book Of the club
is issued.
Mrs. Charles NJ. Cone Of Hartford, the
magazine, was not present, and no one
took her place on this mornings pro-
gram.
Reporting for the delegates to the
General Federation of Women's Clubs
meeting at Ashville, n c., May 27-30,
Mrs Gilbert F. Davis, president of the
state federation, gave a complete ac-
count of the meeting as whole, while
Mrs w. W. Slack spoke concerning the
social side of the convention. Many
great speakers were there to be enjoyed
by the delegates, and the
social part of the program was also CIV
en- especial attention.
These reports were followed by a solo,
'Barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffman"
by Mrs. w. NJ. Holden, with violin ac-
by Arthur Splitter and pi-
ano accompaniment by Miss Bessie E.
Spear, Mrs. Holden also responding to
an encore with "The Heart of Her" by
Cadman.
At this point nominating committee
was appointed; Chairman, Mrs. George
H. Smile of Montpelier, Mrs. Guy viii
son of Bethel, Mrs A. G.. Coolidge OF
Mrs. Clarke c. Fits of Brat
tleboro, and Mrs. n. d. Phelps of Barre.
As Vermont chairman of the war vic
tory commission, Mrs. Oliver G. Ashton
Of Rutland spoke principally of the work
of the federation in sending four young
women overseas to engage in war work.
Toward this end Vermont has contribut-
ed S2,644SS All clubs will be asked in
the coming year TO do naturalization
and thrift work, a special program hay-
ing been prepared to that end, which
will be announced later, Letters were read
from the mothers of these young women
sent across by the state federation-Mi
Chaffee of Rutland, Miss Votey of Bur
lington, Miss Lowe of Montpelier and
Miss Harris of Bennington, all of which
were much enjoyed, as they gave an in
sight into the work and lives of the rep
of our state.
War Savings Stamp Campaign.
In the absence of Mrs. H. Parker
member of the war savings
first federal reserve district,
Mrs. Dan G. Jones' manager for Vermont
of that branch of the work, introduced as
the speaker of the morning Major W. NJ.
Atkinson of the field artillery, who spoke
on war savings Major Atkinson said
some say that w. S. S. stands for "We
save sinners" and he thought perhaps
it might be true insofar as it refers to
those who have been SHINING by wasting.
The frugality of the French peasants
has brought out the wastefulness of
Others. We are losing both time and
money by this waste. Even in wood
there is great waste, as anyone can see
by riding along and noting the brush,
the pieces of wood here and there, left
to do no one any good
The scheme for saving has not been
worked threadbare. The appeal is diff
ferent now, but it still comes from the
government. If we had been told two
years ago that in that time we would
raise and loan to the government Sls,
o00.00QD00 it would not have been be-