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Girl Scout Council were: Commissioner, Francis S. Root; deputy commis- sioners: Misses Louise G. Borden and Margaret McWhirr; secretary, Mrs. Everett N. Slade; treasurer, Mrs. Randall N. Durfee; auditor, Mrs. Charles D. Burt; publicity director, Mrs. Hector L. Belisle; executive committee: Miss Annie D. Durfee, Mrs. Owen Durfee, Mrs. Guilford C. Hathaway.
College, Historical, Social .- The Fall River College Club was formed in 1896. In November, 1899, through the instrumentality of this club, the Fall River Civic Club was organized, this step being taken that the membership of the Civic Club might have a larger scope than graduates only. After many years of activity, the Civic Club became merged with the Civic Department of the Woman's Club. Later, about the year 1909, the College Club became affiliated with the Association of Collegiate Alumna, and membership with this organization required the performance of specific work, so that the Ninth Street Day Nursery was opened, and managed under this branch.' The club was incorporated under the laws of Massachu- setts in February, 1912. In 1920 the name of the national organization was changed to the American Association of University Women, so that at present the name of the organization is the Fall River Branch of the A. A. U. W. Besides managing the Day Nursery, this branch occasionally pub- lishes a list of colleges open to women, and the approximate cost and op- portunities at each, for the benefit of high school girls; and it maintains exhibits of buildings of the various colleges for the girls in high school. It also provides a scholarship for a high school girl each year. The official membership in the national organization today is fifty-seven; but the local membership makes a total of about ninety-seven. The officers for 1923: President, Mrs. Randall N. Durfee; vice-president, Miss Edith A. Farn- ham; secretary, Mrs. Harold R. Barker; branch treasurer, Miss Mary E. Nowell; nursery treasurer, Miss Ina F. Covel; chairman of board of man- agers of Ninth Street Day Nursery, Miss Carrie L. Borden.
The Fall River High School Alumni Association was organized in 1877, at which time all who had attended the High School were eligible for mem- bership, inasmuch as for many years there was no regular graduation. The association holds an annual meeting, usually in May, at which officers are elected and a speaker or music, or both, are furnished for entertainment. Each class elects its own class secretary, which makes up the executive committee. The officers are: James Little, president; Myron F. Bullock, treasurer; Nathan Yamins, secretary. It is impossible to give the number of members, as class records have not been accurately kept, but they would doubtless number several thousands.
The Harvard Club of Fall River was organized in 1890, and its first president was Hon. Milton Reed. The tenth anniversary was observed at the Quequechan Club, and the officers at that time were: President, Edward Higginson ; vice-president, William C. Bates; secretary, William E. Fuller, Jr .; treasurer, Randall N. Durfee; chorister, Dr. S. M. Gordon; member executive committee, Fred W. Harley. There were one hundred and twen- ty-five members in 1923. The Presidents: From 1903, Milton Reed; 1904, James M. Morton, Jr .; 1906, Charles R. Cummings; 1907, John B. W. Day; 1908, Dr. Hubert G. Wilbur; 1912, Spencer Borden, Jr .; 1914, Randall N. Durfee; 1916, William L. S. Brayton; 1918, William C. Gray; 1920, Harry P. Brown; 1922, Charles D. Davol.
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An Intercollegiate Undergraduate Club of Fall River was founded dur- ing the Easter holidays of 1923 by students home for the vacation. They met as organizers, and formulated plans for the growth of an organization to coordinate the Fall River clubs of the various colleges and universities, and bring about a closer feeling of relationship among the various members; and the organizers also decided that the club membership should include those members of the high school graduating classes who might not go away to college. The official list included the following-named : President, Louis E. Hathaway, Jr., Brown; first vice-president, John Madden, Holy Cross; second vice-president, Robert Sykes; secretary, Elizabeth MacIntyre, Miss Gibbs School; treasurer, Raymond Lynch, Holy Cross; and these, with the following-named, included the executive officers: William Hennessey, M. I. T .; Paul V. McDonough, Holy Cross; J. Raymond Coppinger, Boston University; Walter Kirby, Charles Morey, Worcester Tech; Miss Margaret Kennedy, Miss Clarissa Splaine, Miss Helen Crapo.
Good Fellowship, as evidenced through and by Rotary, was given a distinctive place in the social life of Fall River when the Rotary Club was established in this city, and the Rotary spirit was made manifest. The charter night of the Fall River Rotary Club was that of December 13, 1920, when nineteen men gathered at the Y. M. C. A. and started the movement that, in 1923, had eighty-one members. The first officers of the club were: President, Daniel F. Sullivan; vice-presidents, H. E. Dodge, Thomas Maguire; secretary, H. E. Dodge; treasurer, Everett N. Slade. The names of the first members follow: Frank H. Borden, Oliver H. Cherry, H. A. Davis, H. E. Dodge, George Dover, William E. Fawcett, H. H. Hewitt, M. T. Hudner, Everett N. Slade, John T. Swift, Frank H. Kingsley, Thomas G. McGuire, Asa A. Mills, Robert W. Powers, W. Irving Peirce, Daniel F. Sullivan, Charles H. Warner, William T. Welch, W. D. Wilmot. The eighty-one members of today consist of seventy-nine active and two hon- orary members. The officers in 1923: President, Charles H. Warner; vice- president, Robert W. Powers; secretary, H. E. Dodge; treasurer, Everett W. Slade.
A Lions Club was formed in Fall River on January 31, 1923, and its first regular luncheon was held at Hotel Mellen the same day. The field director for Southern New England presided, and about twenty clubs were present. This is a social and civic organization, composed of one repre- sentative from each line of business or profession, who get together once a week at noonday luncheon. They are non-sectarian and non-partisan. The following-named members were enrolled in Fall River: Preston H. Hood, Carl A. Terry, David H. Atwater, Madison F. Welsh, Thomas J. Hudner, Everett B. Mills, Frank B. Coolidge, George R. Ashworth, Frank E. West- gate, Ralph W. Thomas, Howard A. Stanley, Robert Kohlos, Jr., William Ridings, Richard G. Riley, Harold S. R. Buffinton, Howard H. Fawcett, Bertram A. Reynolds, Stephen L. French, Newton R. Gifford, M. Richard Brown, Harold S. Borden and Adam W. Gifford.
The Fall River Musical Club, with its 1923 membership of two hundred and ten, stands well in the front with organizations of the same aims and purpose in this part of the State, its object being to promote musical interest in any way for the club membership, for the schools, and for the city as a whole. Under its auspices, also, a Junior and a Juvenile club have been
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formed of about sixty members. The older club was started in 1893 by Mrs. O. Elton Borden. The charter members of the Fall River Musical Club : Miss Anna Borden, Miss Carrie L. Borden, Mrs. Clarence Hathaway, Mrs. Rienzi Thurston, Mrs. Walter Slade, Miss Mary Brayton, Mrs. O. Elton Borden, Mrs. W. J. Titcomb, Mrs. J. H. Franklin, Mrs. Jefferson Borden, Mrs. Frank Dwelly, Mrs. Bernard Trafford, Mrs. Robert C. Davis, Miss Mary L. Holmes, Miss Fannie D. Learned. The past presidents of the club: Miss Mary Brayton, Miss Mary L. Holmes, Mrs. Bernard Trafford, Mrs. Charles E. Chace, Miss Mary V. Anthony, Miss Laura B. Aydelott, Mrs. M. W. Fisher, Miss Emily Winward, Miss Bessy Borden, Mrs. Edgar G. Durfee, Mrs. Elbridge C. Merrill, Mrs. William Ridings. Mrs. O. Elton Borden was the founder of the club. The officers in 1923: President, Mrs. Florence B. Cashman; vice-president, Mrs. Lillian S. Merrill; secretary, Miss Angeline Crispo; treasurer, Miss Doris Titcomb.
The history of Fall River Historical Society, as related by its secretary, George H. Eddy, is as follows: A meeting of the subscribers to an agree- ment dated May 4, 1921, to form a corporation under the laws of the Com- monwealth of Massachusetts, was held in the lecture hall of the Fall River Public Library, North Main street, May 4. The meeting was called to order by George W. Rankin, librarian of the Public Library, who briefly stated its purpose. Randall Nelson Durfee was elected temporary chair- man. George Grime was then elected by ballot temporary clerk, and was duly qualified by Israel Brayton, Esq. Hon. John W. Cummings, Hon. Andrew J. Jennings and Arba N. Lincoln, Esq., were appointed a committee on by-laws, and the following-named were elected as officers of the society : President, Randall N. Durfee; vice-presidents, James M. Morton and John W. Cummings; treasurer, George W. Rankin; clerk, George H. Eddy; directors: Leontine Lincoln, Benjamin Buffinton, Oliver S. Hawes, Philip D. Borden, Andrew J. Jennings, Caroline E. Brayton, Edward S. Adams, Jerome C. Borden, William M. Emery, Theresa V. Cook, Benjamin S. C. Gifford, Joseph D. Milne, William C. Gray, Milton Reed, John T. Swift. A certificate of incorporation was issued to the society by the Common- wealth of Massachusetts on June 10, 1921. The society now has a member- ship of 225. Monthly meetings of the directors are held, and meetings of the society are called in October, January, April and May.
Quequechan Chapter, D. A. R., was organized November 9, 1895, with twenty-four charter members, the first officers being as follows: Regent, Mary J. C. Neil (Mrs. Jos. O.) ; vice-regent, Cornelia WV. Davol (Mrs. Brad- ford D.); recording secretary, Emily J. Coburn (Mrs.) ; assistant secretary, Annie Mason Hinds (Miss); registrar, Bethia Wixon (Miss) ; treasurer, Mary G. Deane (Mrs. John M.). The following have had the honor of serving as regent of the chapter: Mrs. J. O. Neil (the founder), Miss Mary L. Holmes, Mrs. J. C. Mckenzie, Mrs. E. M. Hartley, Mrs. Marion H. Read, Mrs. Emily J. Coburn, Mrs. Annie B. Allen, Mrs. Amelia S. Young, Mrs. Lucy A. Allen, Mrs. Peace G. Hambly, Mrs. Jennie L. Marr, Mrs. Winifred C. Richards, Mrs. Elizabeth D. Alderman, Mrs. Mary J. Brayton.
In 1898, during the Spanish-American War, the chapter assisted the families of the men who were in the service of their country, by giving material aid and cheering visits. Contributions were sent to the hospital :ship "Bay State," and magazines were sent to the Fall River boys stationed
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at Cuba, Guam and the Philippines. On May 25, 1899, the chapter marked the site of the battle of Fall River of the Revolutionary War, which took place on May 25, 1779. A bronze marker, suitably inscribed, was placed on the southwest corner of the City Hall. During the World War the chapter carried on the work laid out by the National Society and assisted the Red Cross Chapter in Fall River.
Quequechan Chapter has had four real daughters: Mrs. Sarah Hicks Brownell, Mrs. Priscilla Grinnell, Mrs. Abbie Manley, and Mrs. Amy Boss Eveleth. The 1923 membership of the chapter was ninety. The present officers are: Regent, Mrs. Mary J. Brayton; vice-regent, Mrs. Clarissa B. McAdams; corresponding secretary, Miss Florence H. Shove; treasurer, Mrs. Amelia S. Young; registrar, Mrs. W. E. Peckham; historian, Mrs. Winifred C. Richards; auditor, Mrs. Laura B. Grammer. The chapter has had the honor of having for the past seven years one of its members a State officer, Mrs. Amelia S. Young, who served as State auditor for four years and as State treasurer for three years.
The Fall River Congregational Club was organized March 25, 1892, with a membership of one hundred, the object of the organization being to encourage among the members of the Congregational churches and parishes of Fall River and vicinity. a more friendly and intimate acquaintance; to secure concert of action to promote the general interests of congregational- ism; and to furnish an opportunity for the consideration of ecclesiastical, social and national topics of importance. The original membership was composed of men only, but in 1921 it was voted to admit ladies in full membership. The total number of members in the summer of 1923 was 135. The officers in 1923: President, Chester D. Borden; vice-presidents : Richard G. Riley and Dr. Augustus W. Buck; secretary, Benjamin B. Earl; treasurer, T. Edwin Sanford; auditor, Albion C. Cook; executive commit- tee: Nathan Durfee, Mrs. Caroline E. Brayton, Everett N. Slade; reception committee : John S. Brayton, Jr., Miss Helen G. Mackay, Frank S. Akin, Mrs. Ella W. Albro, Mrs. Grace D. Munroe.
A group of interested and enthusiastic men of Ascension Parish, Fall River, began to discuss the possibility of forming a church club in 1903, and on February 21 they assembled at the Parish Hall, and a constitution was formally adopted. The club was named in honor of Bishop Randall, Missionary Bishop of Colorado, and the pioneer rector of Ascension Parish, a man of high ideals and sterling character. To express the object of the club it was voted to adopt the motto of Ralph Waldo Emerson: "All are needed by each one-and nothing is fair or good alone."
The first officers were: President, George N. Durfee; first vice-presi- dent, Hon. David F. Slade; second vice-president, Hon. David W. Vander Burgh; secretary, Clarence Buffinton; treasurer, Robert T. D. Collins; executive committee : Squire S. Davis, Charles E. Hooper, Robert Hammer- ton, Stanley A. Aldrich, Oliver K. Hawes. There were twenty-five charter members. The purpose of the club was to extend sympathy and good will to all associates of the club-a hand of welcome to the stranger within our gates-and to encourage the men of the parish to better acquaint them- selves with the work of the church, and so help in its uplift and the true spirit of the mission. The club at present has a membership of 165. The officers are as follows: President, John A. Brownell; first vice-president,
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Charles Sumner Aldrich; second vice-president, George K. Brown; secre- tary, S. Rennie Grammer; treasurer, James H. Mullen; executive commit- tee : Dr. Stephen M. Gordon, Dr. William W. Marvell; William Ferguson, Jr., Ralph W. Arthur, Daniel P. Shove; councilior, Rev. Edmund J. Cleve- land, rector. Charter members: Rev. Emilius W. Smith, rector; Charles Sumner Aldrich, Earl H. Aldrich, W. L. Acheson, George E. Bamford, Clarence. Buffinton, Robert Craig, General Henry Clay Cook, Robert T. D. Collins, Squire S. Davis, George Dixon, George N. Durfee, W. M. Emery, Herbert L. Field, William R. Gilbert, Dr. Stephen M. Gordon, Oliver K. Hawes, Charles E. Hooper, John Havicon, Cornelius Hawkins, William Jackson, Asa A. Mills, Elmer S. Sears, Dr. D. W. Vanderburgh, William L. Winslow.
The Herrick Club was organized in 1914 by Dr. E. C. Herrick, when he became pastor of the First Baptist Church. It is, in other words, the Men's Bible Class of the church, and the Herrick Club is merely the name given to the social organization of this class. It maintains clubrooms in the parish house, which is open day and night to the men. All members of the Herrick Club are likewise members of the Men's Class. The club- rooms are comfortably and attractively furnished, one section being equipped with pool and billiard tables, another section taking the form of a lounging room and reading room, and another a writing room or small reception room. There are no regular dues. The club is supported by the honor and generosity of its members. The membership is about one thousand, making a very representative body of Protestant men in the city. The class or club has no written constitution, but is guided by the influence and cooperation of the leader and officers. The original group forming the nucleus of this organization was about twenty-five or thirty in number. The class meets every Sunday noon, the pastor being the speaker. At present, the officers are as follows: President, Velona W. Haughwout; leader, Rev. E. C. Herrick, D. D .; vice-presidents: William Crawford, Harry Smalley; secretary, Joseph W. Milne; treasurer, Samuel S. Read; executive committee: The officers, and Harry A. Skinner, L. W. McFarland, Clarence M. Niles; house committee: Clarence M. Niles, chair- man; membership committee, Rev. E. C. Herrick, chairman; bowling com- mittee, John Moss, chairman; chorister, John W. Norman. The club also promotes a bowling team and baseball team as two of its social functions.
The leading yacht club in this section is the Fall River Yacht Club, with a membership of two hundred and seventy-five, and with the number of boats owned by the membership close to one hundred. The club was first organized on January 7, 1890, with the following-named officers: Com- modore, Charles W. Anthony; vice-commodore, G. E. Wilbur; rear-commo- dore, Captain James Lawless; fleet captain, David J. Burdick; secretary, George B. Pierce; treasurer, William J. Arnzen; measurer, Peleg Borden. The officers and committees for 1923: President, William E. Fawcett; secre- tary and treasurer, Frank Rivers; commodore, Thomas B. Palmer; vice- commodore, Thomas E. Lahey; rear-commodore, David H. Atwater; direc- tors: Frederick Webb, Charles H. Davis, John Dixon, Clarence E. Wood, Leonard S. Chace; regatta committee : J. R. Walmsley (chairman), Louis R. Morley, W. E. Pratt, Irving D. Humphrey, J. Westall Borden, Richard Knight, A. H. Hathaway, Elton Wood; membership committee: George H.
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Waring (chairman), Thomas C. McGuire, Chester P. Faunce, Arthur Swift; nominating committee: Robert W. Zuill (chairman), Horace M. Hathaway, Frank E. Westgate; auditors: Thomas E. Grandfield, N. Clifford Luscomb; entertainment committee: Ira W. Humphrey, George C. Hambly, Com. Walter E. Whitehead, N. C. Luscomb, George H. C. Smith, Howard H. Fawcett, Allan Andrews, Arthur Beckett; entertainment committee, Junior members: Leonard S. Chase, Jr., Seabury Waring, Irving Humphrey, Jr., Robert Davol, Roy M. Wood, William S. Wood, Jr.
The Watuppa Boat Club was incorporated on February 25, 1907, the incorporators being William H. Seaman, Thomas E. Norman, Charles H. Buckley, Albert F. Howard, Herbert H. Maines, John Baer, John Harris. The object of the club is to encourage athletic exercises, boating and the like, and to promote recreative sports, as well as to provide a place for reading and a hall for social gatherings. In 1923, the club had approxi- mately ninety members in good standing, with a fleet of boats numbering about thirty. The officers at that time (1923) : President, Harry Ingham; vice-president, Frank Loftus; recording secretary, John King; correspond- ing secretary, Clifford C. Bradley; financial secretary, John Baer; treasurer, Herbert H. Maines.
The Weetamoe Yacht Club was organized at Fall River on December 7, 1893, with the following-named charter members: Charles Millward, John Oats, Frank Whitehead, James Whitehead, Frank Shakeshaft, John Beattie, Thomas Clark, John W. Robinson, John Feeney, Michael Considine, Jabez Wilkinson, Richard Millward, William Carroll. The purpose for which the club was instituted was to encourage athletic and aquatic sports, more par- ticularly sailing and yachting; also the maintenance of rooms for reading and for the social meetings of the club. The club headquarters is on Taun- ton river, at the north end of Fall River. The officers for 1923: President, John Whitehead; treasurer, A. R. Parks; financial secretary, John Coyne; corresponding secretary, Joseph Considine; commodore, John Robinson; fleet captain, Joseph Clarkson; board of directors: Napoleon LaFlamme, William Whittaker, Raymond Carroll, James Robinson, Manuel Silvia, William Waldron. The number of launches owned by the club members is thirty.
It is pleasing to note that the first interest taken in the old game of cricket in the New England States was in Fall River. About the year 1860 the game was played by a few English people, and a club was organized by the late William Burgess and his brother Thomas. Ever since that date there has been a club in existence, and no doubt, with the exception of the Staten Island Cricket Club of New York, it is the oldest active cricket or athletic club in the country. When the senior Burgess retired from the game, his sons, John H. and Frank M. Burgess, took an interest, and at the present time are inactive members of the club. The officers of the club for the year 1923: President, John Allinson; secretary, Albert Ward; treasurer, Frank M. Burgess; captain, John Entwistle.
The Steep Brook Social and Improvement Club was organized and built in November, 1907, by the young men of the community, and the committee in charge of the financing and building were as follows: Charles F. Winslow, chairman; James H. Wilson, Jr., Henry L. Winslow. The club . house was established as a social and reading room, writes Secretary
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Charles T. Winslow, and it was also the purpose of the organizers that through the united efforts of our organization we might improve the com- munity in which we lived, both as regards civic improvement and better social conditions. At the time the club was organized. we had forty charter members, but have only thirty members on our membership roll at the present time. The officers of the club in 1923: John Gibbons, president ; Carl Forster, vice-president; Chas. F. Winslow, secretary and treasurer; Jas. H. Wilson, Jr., Howard Lothrop, Chas. F. Winslow, board of trustees.
Besides these there are such club activities as the following-named : The Fall River Burns Club, Thomas B. Marnoch, secretary; Fall River Bowling Green Club, James Taylor. secretary; East End Social Club, Ar- thur Allwood, recording secretary; Border City Social and Literary Club, François Belanger, secretary; "412" Club, Kenneth F. Remington, secretary and treasurer.
CHAPTER XVIII.
MILITARY AND SOCIAL
The old guard, the Grand Army of the Republic, set the pace and ex- ample for patriotic instruction for these times, and since their organization for that leading purpose, many another military-social organization has lined up, and added group after group to that particular contingent in the city. Herewith, then, is an ingathering of the story of military organiza- tions, old and new, and of the veterans of more recent wars and of their auxiliaries-a new chapter in Fall River history.
G. A. R .- As this brief story of the men of the Grand Army in Fall River is told (1923), but forty-five members remain of the five hundred that once formed the post in this city-fifteen had died, Commander Dr. John Gilbert said, from the Memorial Day of 1922 to that of 1923. Dr. Gilbert tells the story of the post as follows: Richard Borden Post No. 46, G. A. R .; was first organized on January 22, 1868, when for the meeting place a hall was occupied over Stilwell's hardware store, at the corner of North Main and Central streets. As the membership increased at that time, and for a few years thereafter, removal was made to a hall over the "Daily News," at the corner of Pleasant street. In a few years it again became necessary to vacate, and new quarters were then obtained in what was then known as the Borden block, over the theatre. Thence the post moved to a hall over the McWhirr store, on South Main street. Later, that firm requiring the use of the entire property, the post was given a lease of Loomfixers' Hall, at the corner of Bedford and Ford streets. Again a lease was ob- tained from the Metacomet Bank for the hall over the bank, at the corner of Bedford and Rock streets. Then, the post becoming depleted in num- bers, an order was introduced in the city government, which being adopted, gave the post free use of their present quarters, the building known as the Cataract engine house, at the northwest corner of Rock and Franklin streets. The superintendent of public buildings was directed to make nec- essary alterations and repairs.
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membership of five hundred in its best days. The commanders in their order have been: Frank McGraw, Edward T. Marvel, John Davol, Sr., John M. Deane, Dr. John H. Abbott, Dr. Amos M. Jackson, John Fleet, Marcus M. G. Swift, Dr. John Gilbert, Hugh McGraw, Albert S. Palmer, Robert Fielden, Joseph Bowers, David H. Dyer, Richard Fleet, Dr. John Gilbert. On Monday, January 22, 1923, the post observed the fiftieth anniversary of its organization. Richard P. Borden, for whose grandfather the post was named, presided, and speakers were Mayor Talbot, Commander Dr. John Gilbert, Rev. Everett C. Herrick, Velona W. Haughwout, Rev. Dr. William J. Martin; Commander Ernest Fantom, of Frank Allen Wilcox Post, No. 126, American Legion; Commander Thomas C. Kelleher, of the Spanish War Veterans; and Commander Herbert Rivers, of the Veterans of For- eign Wars.
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