The Spokane woman. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1921-1935, 1927-01-06

missouri, viii be one OF the outstanding speakers
to visit this city during Religious Emphasis Week.
January to Is Miss Burrell is listed for several
appearances before women's organizations of the
city, well as for her work in the church meet
ngs which will be held every evening in the fol
lowing churches: North Hill Christian, St Paul's
Methodist, Grace Baptist, First Presbyterian, Hill
yard Methodist, Central Christian. and Centenary
Methodist. The opening rally will be held Sunday,
at p. m, in the Central Christian church.
Meetings will also be held each evening of the
week at the Opportunity school and the Wildwood
Community church.
Miss Burrell has attracted worldwide attention
by her work a Sunday School teacher She
more than thousand members in her Bible class
in Columbia, where she began work as teacher in
little Baptist church. Work the staff of the
National Geographic magazine has given her pub
licity from an entirely different angle but most of
the people who know of her work in the educational
department OF Stevens College believe that her
heart is in this line of endeavor.
Other speakers here for the week will be DR..
George Sherwood Eddy DR.. James Crowther, DIR.
Arthur Beaven Norman Coleman president of Reed
College, DIR. Raymond Culver, DIR. w. W. BASTARD,
Rev. Harold Geistweit, singer and speaker, and the
Hon. j. sttt Wilson, former mayor of Berkeley,
California.
Sponsored by the Young Mems Christian Associa.
ton, Religious Emphasis Week has the support of
the Ministerial Association and many allied groups
of workers. A. H Syverson has charge of the pub
licity in Spokane
Covering the entire social service and COM
munty life of the city in their field of usefulness,
the 10 members of the Community Welfare Fed
GRAFTON include the most vital and interesting
phases of the activities of Spokane. series OF
articles will begin next week in the Spokane Won
which will explain in detail the work of each
member organization with the personnel of its
leaders Included in the list this year are the Boy
Scouts of America, the Camp Fire Girls, the Cath
Ollie Betterment League, the Chidren's Health AS
ISOLATION the Florence Crittenden Home, the House
of the Good Shepherd, the Hutton Settlement, the
Isabella Club, the Red Cross, the St Josephs Or
phanage the Salvation Army the Samaritan Old
Peoples Home, the Social Service Bureau, Spokane
Chdren's Home. Volunteers of America, Wash
ngton Children's Home Finding Society, the Y NJ
c. A., the Y. w. C. A.. and the Washington Asso
citation for the Blind.
plans for the state meeting of the American
Legion Auxiliary which will be held In SPOKANE
next July were made at a meeting of the AUXILIARY
Monday night at which so members were present,
Mrs r. w Robertson, Mrs. Grant Ware and Mrs
Harry Wells appointed members OF an eA
ecutive committee. other committees to work out
the details of the convention VIII be announced a'
later date
Mrs Ruth Teawinkle Suppes of Los Angeles and
Mrs Lois Dart Suffield of Portland who are spenu-
ing the holidays in Spokane were honor guests at
a dinner given by Miss Mary Helen MeCrea at ner
home 1923 9th avenue. Twenty members OF 'he
Thursday group were present
Mrs John Diehl Cecilia Ribstein) OF Norway
former spokane girl is in the city the guest of Mrs
Percy Blake.
Mrs. Madeira Henley age 70, mother OF orviiie
C. Pratt of this city, passed away at the Deacohess
hospital Saturday night after very brlef Illness
For the past two years she had made her home with
her son, coming to the city from Indiana Mr Pratt
left for the old home in the East Sunday night with
the remains. Funeral services were conducted at
the Smith and Company funeral parlors Sunday art
ernoon with Rev. Joel Harper officiating. Music
was given by the Grade School Teachers quartet
which includes Miss Julia PRESS, Miss MORA Reid
Miss Jean Chubb, and Miss Mildred Staff Another
SON Robert Henley, survives his mother, in In.
diana and there is a sister, Mrs Laura Nelson, OF