Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-21


9usts Meeting
A gala event that will go down in
the history of the Augusta Girls
Community club, the Watervilie City
Girls club and the Gardiner Girls
club, was that of Friday evening,
when Miss Jean Hamilton. gencr al
secretary OF the National League OF
Girls clubs from New York and Miss
Marion Niles, president of the Massa-
chusetts League of Girls clubs visit
ed the Maine clubs. The meeting
took place at the Augusta City nail,
with Miss Muriei Sturgis Haynes,
honorary president of the Augusta
Girls Community club, presiding.
Fully $50 were present, including
large delegations from Watervili9,
from Gardiner and the local club. as
well as many townspeople. The act
ing hostess was the Augusta club, al
though each of the three clubs had
| share in the evenings program.
I The feature of the evening was thc
presence of Miss Hamilton and Miss
Niles. The gracious lady from New
York carly won tho hearts of the eir's
i'll her wholehearted talk to them of
the aims and the objects of the club
work. She pei sonally visits each
club before it is two years old meet
ing the girls and learning of their
work. When Maine clubs grow up,
then the next step will be to form il
Maine League and thus the National
officers come and aid in the work 60
reorganization. Miss Niles Drought
a message from the mother clLb-.thc
Massachusetts League, to make rcla-
tons between them clear. Tho Mas
sachusetts secretaries have put time
and effort into the forming of the
Maine clubs and she came to gain
an insight of the work
Seated on the stage were Miss
Hamilton, Miss Niles, Miss Haynes,
Miss Madaline Johnson, president of
the Augusta club. Mrs. CIV 4ndolvn
, Smith, president of the Gardiner
club and Mrs. Katherine Taylor, pres
ident of the Waterville club Mss
Jane Stimson. an organizing secre-
tary of the Massachusetts league was
also on the platform and VAS NEST
enthusiastically greeted by the girls.
Al orchestra composed of Christine
Carey, pianist; Fannie Slosberg and
Frames Monahan. violins and Mar
gafct 4tamsdell, drum and saxophone,
rcndT, ed some very fine elections,
full of life and swing. Miss Harrison
of Waterville gave a piano solo which
showed remarkable skill and won
much applause
Miss Haynes, by way of intloduc-
ton, gave a history of the girls CLUB
movement in Augusta. w;lIch might
be called the starting point of the
present clubs. Ten years age the
Friendly League took form This ,,x-
listed until year and IL half ago and
then this league formed with other
girls into the Augusta Girls Commu-
nifty club. The spoke of the workers
who came to Augusta in al, early
days.
Miss Hamilton had a clear. COM
prehensive message for the girls.
She enlarged upon the fundamentals
Of the -self-supporting. self
governing and nom sectarian. By
Sharply drawn examples she ex-
planned the foundation of the or
ganlZation. 1t is the idea that makes
a thing live, that sticks a thing to-
gether The idea is the living prin-
ciple. You belong to certain
church. certain order or a certain
political party because of the idea
which is giving it character.
Miss Niles in her talk to the girls
said she felt that history was to re-
peat itself in that soon the Maine
clubs would be forming a State Lea
que as did the State when it became
independent from Massachusetts in
1870. Then the Mother club will bid
them Godspeed.
Rockport Lodge, the vacation
house of the Massachusetts League,
was touched upon by Miss Niles. We
all snare it together and the Maine
girls are of course welcome 1t is
called the place with the littIo white
gate and there is always someone
there to greet you.
Then Miss Stimson spoke just
few words about the new tea room
which the League has opened in
plymouth. Mass, and which is called
the White Rabbit Tea House. She
told all the girls to be sure and visit
there when they go to Plymouth.
The entertainment which followed
the speakers was of a highly vari-
ated order. typical example of what
the girls of the clubs can put across.
The Waterville girls, the Gardiner
girls and the Augusta girls. at times,
sang their club songs, filling in be-
tween other numbers, so that there
was something on all the time al
lotted to entertainment
Tickets Please was the name of
q one act skit which four of the !
Gardiner girls presented. 1t was a !
scream because it was so true to
life. The girls who took part were
Frances Jewell, Barbara Smith. An
nie Webb and Irene Jones. Their
coach was Mrs. Avis Currier.
Mrs. Katherine Taylor and Mrs. |
Carolyn Goedecke of Waterville
sang in duet Lonesome, That's All"
which was very enjoyable And
Gladys Madore of Augusta surprised
the audience with a very clever
monologue, Irish Philosopher" She
showed that she could throw the
brogue in bona fide Paddy style.
The pageant, depicting the various
phases of club work and play was q
revelation of good things. From a
serious business meeting TO a party
from a tea to the house committee AZ
work the scenes were clever To MO-.