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Bissell, Mrs. L., 22 Brevier Street Bushnell, Mrs. E. J., 137 Chestnut Street Burwell, Mrs. L. C., 1350 Euclid Avenue Becker, Mrs. Wm., 217 Clinton Street Barnes, Mrs. George, 103 Spangler Street Cannon, Mrs. James C., Lakewood, O. Canfield, Dr. M. A., 24 Streator Avenue Chipman, Miss Phoebe Blauvelt, 1909 Euclid Avenue Charlesworth. Mrs. Thomas, 60 Hillburn Avenue Charlesworth, Miss Edith, 60 Hillburn Avenue Cook, Mrs. Dr. A. J., 2220 Willson Avenue Chandler, Mrs. J. M., 200 Summit Street Cheeseman, Mrs. J. E., 39 Hillburn Avenue Cook, Mrs. Theo., 120 Streator Avenue Cole, Miss Katherine D., 719 Arcade Crum, Mrs. X. X., 26 Sibley Street Cory, Mrs. J. B., 836 Case Avenue Christie, Mrs. Chas., 388 Willson Avenue Christie, Mrs. Wm., 17 Water Street Christie, Mrs. Wm., 19 Kirk Street Christy, Mrs. E. H., 95 Bell Avenue Churchill, Mrs. S. P., 32 Dorchester Avenue Coryell, Mrs. W. O., 30 Wood Street Carpenter, Mrs. A. G., 125 Streator Avenue Carpenter, Miss Louise, 528 Prospect Street Campbell, Mrs. E. D., 82 Arlington Street Caton, Mrs. M. J., The Lennox Crossley, Mrs., Rockport Chesnut, Mrs. J. W., 10 Edgewood Place Closse, Mrs. N., 79 Brenton Street Crocker, Mrs. T. D., 836 Euclid Avenue
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Campbell, Mrs. E. L., 317 Sibley Street Chamberlin, Mrs. Frank, 909 Case Avenue Converse, Miss Willa, 796 Case Avenue
j Campbell, Mrs. Ella, 1433 Willson Avenue DeForest, Mrs. F. S., 721 Bolton Avenue Dautel, Mrs. L., 1528 Euclid Avenue Dreher, Mrs. Fanny, 11 Beechwood Avenue Davis, Mrs. John, 1062 Willson Avenue Dennis, Mrs. Harold, 1748 Euclid Avenue Doty, Mrs. B. G., 16 Brevier Street Doan, Mrs. E. W., 2102 Euclid Avenue Davidson, Mrs. A. D., Whiting, Ind. Davis, Mrs. J. W., 387 Pearl Street Eisenman, Mrs. J., 933 E. Madison Avenue Elliot, Mrs. Hugh, 262 Hough Avenue Erdman, Mrs. Henry, 745 N. Logan Avenue Foster, Mrs. Arthur, 568 Cedar Avenue Foster, Mrs. George H., 39 Lincoln Avenue Fuller, Mrs. W. J., 666 Quincy Avenue Floyd, Mrs. B. F., 103 Holmden Avenue Foote, Mrs. J. T., 210 Broadway Freeman, Mrs. John L., 21 Olive Street French, Mrs. Henrietta, 49 Rockwell Street Feil, Mrs. Carrie J., 42 Poplar Street Felton, Miss Grace, 59 Bell Avenue Frazee, Mrs. Henry, 52 Chestnut Street Fisher, Mrs. E., 416 Prospect Street Fetterman, Mrs. R. H., 1524 Euclid Avenue Foote, Mrs. J. F., 673 Princeton Street Gillett, Mrs. E. S., Hough Avenue Gunn, Miss Nellie, 758 Superior Street
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Giffhorn, Mrs. E. A., 1319 Superior Street Griffin, Mrs. H. A., 194 Dodge Street Gill, Miss Rena R., 939 Doan Street Gill, Mrs. Chas., 1295 Willson Avenue Gregg, Mrs. V. E., 15 La Grange Street Gage, Mrs. D. W., 749 N. Logan Garlock, Mrs. W. H., 1275 Willson Avenue Goddard, Mrs. E. W., 1143 Case Avenue Gilbert, Mrs. N. A., 1134 Case Avenue Hord, Mrs. J. K., 88 Sibley Street Hord, Mrs. A. C., 910 Prospect Street Hotchkiss, Mrs. E. W., 1369 Willson Avenue Hunt, Miss Gertrude, 202 Taylor Street (Arcade School of Music)
Harroff, Miss Flora, 111 Taylor Street Hadden, Mrs. Alexander, 135 White Avenue Hilands, Mrs. W. J., 170 Kensington Street Hammond, Mrs. H. E., 66 Burt Street Hatch, Mrs. Arthur E., 171 N. Bolton Hobbs, Mrs. Percy, 1299 Euclid Avenue Holbrook, Miss Laura, 101 Arlington Street Hitchins, Mrs. Edmund, 6 Harbor Street Holliday, Mrs. A. A., 152 Cedar Avenue Holden, Mrs. R. T., 1135 Cedar Avenue Harshaw, Mrs. William, 1131 Cedar Avenue Hickman, Mrs. M. C., 16 Morse Avenue Hickman, Miss Lottie, 16 Morse Avenue Horton, Mrs. C. T., 193 Woodland Hills Avenue Houghton, Mrs. Frank, 79 Bell Avenue Hannum, Mrs. Carrie, 416 E. Prospect Street Harris, Mrs. E. L., 178 Kennard Street Ingham, Mrs. Mary B., 203 Franklin Avenue
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Jones, Mrs. James, 24 Monroe Street Jones, Mrs. L. O., 84 Arlington Street Jenkins, Mrs. J. N., 1 Edgewood Place Jenkins, Mrs. Theresa, 72 Birch Street Jones, Miss Bertha E., 1622 Cedar Avenue Jones, Mrs. C. L., Jones Home Jewett, Mrs. C. A., 1428 Cedar Avenue Jones, Miss Ella M., 84 Arlington Street Kerruish, Mrs. W. S., 965 Euclid Avenue Kendall, Mrs. F. A., 67 Cornell Street Kenney, Mrs. E. C., 8 Edgewood Place Kimberley, Mrs. D. H., 94 Scott Street Knowlton, Mrs. W. A., 530 Jennings Avenue Kellogg, Mrs. H. S., 48 Brevier Street Kellogg, Mrs. Dwight T., 17 Chestnut Street Knight, Mrs. Geo. T., 50 Hough Avenue Kinney, Mrs. N. C.
Kelly, Miss Francis Lewis, Mrs. J. E., 215 Kennard Street Lawrence, Mrs. O. C., 183 Franklin Avenue Loomis, Mrs. C. W., 84 Bell Avenue Loomis, Mrs. Howard, 1307 Willson Avenue Lance, Mrs. C. R., cor. Olive and Hough Avenues Leslie, Mrs. Nettie, 841 E. Madison Avenue Lozier, Miss Bessie, 1229 Case Avenue
Latty, Mrs. S. D., 41 Glen Park Place Leland, Mrs. Jennie L., Elm Street, Warren, O). Lewis, Mrs. Henry, 500 Prospect Street Lines, Mrs. M. A., 18 Olive Street Lyttle, Mrs. G. H., 52 Arlington Street Myer, Mrs. E. S., 1098 E. Madison Avenue
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Myers, Miss Nellie, 69 Clinton Street McMillin, Mrs. J., 1088 E. Madison Avenue Mosher, Mrs. Wm., 93 Seymour Avenue McCroskey, Mrs. S., Collamer, O. Morison, Miss M. L., 866 Prospect Street McMath, Miss Jessie, 809 Prospect Street Malone, Mrs. J. L., 79 Bolton Avenue McIlvaine, Mrs. Emma A., 74 Burt Street Mansfield, Mrs. Howard, 1380 Euclid Avenue McKinney, Mrs. Price, 1106 Euclid Avenue Maltbe, Mrs. C. S., 5 Woodward Place Mark, Mrs. Robert, 83 Clinton Street Mckinstry, Mrs., The Lincoln Mckinstry, Mrs. J. M., 657 Clark Avenue Molyneaux, Mrs. Nettie, cor. Perkins Avenue and Will- son Avenue
Mathewson, Mrs. Chas., 110 Handy Street McIntyre, Mrs. James, 136 Sawtell Avenue Mason, Mrs. Chas. C., 3 Bellflower Avenue McWatters, Mrs. J. C., 685 E. Prospect Street McDonald, Mrs. Lucy, 86 Sibley Street
Moore, Mrs. J. C., 176 North Main Street, Delaware Moses, Mrs. Anna E., 1855 Euclid Avenue McCloskey, Mrs., East Cleveland Needham, Mrs. Geo. E., 1171 Willson Avenue Norton, Miss Georgia L., Huron Terrace Nanson, Mrs. J. M., 349 Erie Street Oviatt, Mrs. Georgia, North Dover, O.
Oviatt, Miss Irene, Lakewood, O. Ong, Mrs. Walter C., 30 Euclid Place Paine, Mrs. J. H., 260 E. Prospect Street
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Paine, Miss Dorothy, 260 E. Prospect Street Perkins, Mrs. S. M., 121 Adelbert Avenue Phillips, Mrs. W. A., 1180 Willson Avenue Price, Mrs. E. G., 22 Brevier Street Pennell, Mrs. S. N., 306 Dunham Avenue Parrott, Miss Dora, E. Prospect Street Phelps, Mrs. J. M. P., 26 Sibley Street Penfield, Mrs. R. C., Willoughby, O. Phinney, Mrs. B. F., 354 Franklin Avenue Peck, Mrs., Dr. J. H., Wade Park Avenue Peck, Mrs. Norman, 695 Genesee Avenue Pechin, Mrs. E. C., 587 Prospect Street Perry, Mrs. K. C., Berea, O.
Prentiss, Mrs. Perry, Fifth Avenue Coe, Mrs. Antoinette, East Cleveland Petre, Miss Clara, 85 Bell Avenue Pennington, Mrs. B. L., corner Bell and Euclid Avenues Pudney, Mrs. W. D., 618 Society for Savings Quayle, Mrs. W. H., 2251 Euclid Avenue Quintrell, Miss Mary C., 799 Euclid Avenue Roosa, Mrs. H. B., 274 Hanover Street Roberts, Mrs. F. W., 99 Bell Avenue Roberts, Miss Jennie, 49 Arlington Street Roberts, Mrs. A. L., 49 Arlington Street Robertson, Mrs. Geo. A., 501 Cedar Avenue Rose, Mrs. W. G., 1022 Euclid Avenue Richardson, Mrs. J. N., 83 Jennings Avenue Rose, Mrs. W. R., 70 Euclid Place Ross, Mrs. Joshua, 1235 Curtis Avenue Richards, Mrs. J. M., Euclid Avenue House Reilly, Mrs. M. A., 1242 Willson Avenue
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Ranney, Mrs. Chas. P., 757 Euclid Avenue Ranney, Mrs., N. C., City Rainey, Mrs. W. J., 1477 Euclid Avenue Ruprecht, Mrs. Chas., 967 Cedar Avenue Rose, Mrs. Benj., 689 Euclid Avenue Southworth, Mrs. Mary, 844 Prospect Street Saxton, Mrs. J. C., 1643 Euclid Avenue Silver, Mrs. M. T., 1064 Case Avenue Stewart, Mrs. N. Coe, 56 Jennings Avenue Stewart, Miss Gay, 56 Jennings Avenue Springer, Mrs. Mary, 75 Euclid Place Snow, Mrs. Jane A., 121 Clinton Street Shepherd, Mrs. W. J., 72 Merchant Avenue Shipherd, Mrs. James, 288 Prospect Street Stockwell, Mrs. S. E., 1498 Cedar Avenue Stockwell, Miss Susie, 1498 Cedar Avenue Selover, Mrs. C. S., 88 Sibley Street Seymour, Mrs. C. H., 447 Prospect Street Seymour, Mrs. Chas., 1431 Cedar Avenue Sturm, Miss Winnie, 84 Livingston Street Sturm, Mrs. Olga L., 84 Livingston Street Stocker, Mrs. H. W., 812 Scranton Avenue Smith, Mrs. L. C., 721 Euclid Avenue Smith, Mrs. Geo. L., 500 Giddings Avenue Swift, Mrs. W. B., 162 Dodge Street Silver, Mrs. E. T., 193 Woodland Hills Avenue Street, Mrs. A. G., 761 North Logan Avenue Seymour, Miss Ethel, 255 Cedar Avenue Sullivan, Mrs. J. J., 757 Euclid Avenue Short, Mrs. Sidney H., 1184 E. Madison Avenue Snow, Mrs. Minnie, 268 Clinton Street
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Stetson, Mrs. F. H., 433 Cedar Avenue Stringer, Mrs. Ellen, 1004 Pearl Street Stone, Mrs. S. E., 1193 E. Madison Avenue Searles, Mrs. C. B., 1436 Willson Avenue Straight, Mrs. H. L., Willson Avenue near Scovill Striebinger, Mrs. Martin, 1186 Central Avenue Sipe, Mrs. J. F., Oakdale Street Seabrook, Mrs. C. J., Euclid Avenue Smith, Mrs. Charles, 127 Cedar Avenue Towslee, Dr. Lilian. 343 Prospect Street Terrell, Mrs. A. M., Cedar Avenue Thomas, Mrs. J. H., 1585 Willson Avenue Tillinghast, Mrs. C. E., The Kennard Tucker, Mrs. Anna P., 25 Livingston Street Thomer, Mrs. B. F., 1202 Willson Avenue Tagg, Miss Clara, 26 Hawthorne Avenue Trintner, Mrs. N., 1241 Willson Avenue Taylor, Mrs. J. W., 1184 Willson Avenue Taplin, Mrs. Charles, 80 Fourth Avenue Thayer, Mrs. B. G., Lakewood, O.
Tobien, Mrs. H. L., Van Ness Avenue, corner Stanley Avenue Taylor, Mrs. B. F., 1001 Willson Avenue
Upson, Mrs. A. S., 1433 Euclid Avenue
Upson, Mrs. D. S., 1433 Euclid Avenue
Venen, Mrs. J. A., 55 Chestnut Street White, Miss Laura, Streator Avenue Wright, Mrs. F. E., 450 Clark Avenue Wright, Mrs. S. L., 15 La Grange
Wyman, Mrs. C. E., 43 Van Ness Avenue Walker, Mrs. E. R., 732 Giddings Avenue Wilson, Mrs. T. H., 80 Spangler Avenue
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Webb, Mrs. Ella Sturtevant, 1430 E. Madison Avenue Williams, Mrs. A. H., 115 Liberty Street Winch, Mrs. Sarah H., 49 Euclid Place Winch, Mrs. Louis H., 49 Euclid Place Wilcox, Mrs. J. M., 746 Genesee Avenue Wood, Mrs. J. S., 626 Hough Avenue Wilson, Mrs. E. A., 47 Wade Park Avenue Wister, Mrs. M. D., 1263 Cedar Avenue Williams, Mrs. T. H., 1 Quimby Avenue White, Mrs. J. S., The Lennox Wilson, Mrs. Ella Campbell, Jennings Avenue Wells, Mrs. Dr., 215 Clinton Street
Webster, Miss Alice, Humboldt Street Weber, Miss Annie, 176 Bridge Street Wilson, Mrs. W. H., 320 Prospect Street Zerbe, Miss Ida, 64 Cornell Street
HONORARY MEMBERS
Mrs. J. S. Cary
Mrs. C. Lossing Tilden
Mrs. Luella Varney-Serraro
Mrs. Helen Watterson-Moody
Mrs. A. A. Johnston
Mrs. Lee Caldwell, Manchester, England Miss Ella Robinson
Miss Marion Murdoch
Miss Florence Buck
Miss Amelia Groll
Miss Ray Steinfeld
Mrs. Lydia Hoyt Farmer
DECEASED MEMBERS
Mrs. C. H. Clark, 1892 Mrs. Helen C. Purdy, 1893
Mrs. B. F. Seymour, 1894
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REPORTS
1893-94
Presented at the Annual Meeting, May 4, 1894
REPORT OF PRESIDENT
It is with great pleasure I review the history of Ninety- three and four. Our members have been active in the various departments, and brought to me papers evincing labor and re- search. Social revivals "over the tea-cups" have made us more or less acquainted and ever ready to express opinions. Every debt, except the piano, has been paid, and we find ourselves with cheerful, pleasant rooms.
I wish to again thank you for the reception tendered me on November 4, after an absence of four months. Busy hands and kind hearts made of this room one grand bower of roses. They did not drop their petals, but through the dark winter were a constant reminder of the good cheer and kind wishes of all of our members, and for the interest shown and pleasure given to Mrs. J. C. Croly when a guest of our club. She carried with her many kind thoughts of us, and thirty-four new subscribers were a thank offering for her arduous labors.
The visit of the Sorosis of Canton was a great pleasure to us. We were glad to welcome to our federation so large and cultured a club. I thank you, ladies, that you gave them a cor- dial and hospitable welcome.
We have now made for ourselves an honored place in the roll of clubs, and will, I am sure, in many ways, prove our usefulness so that, like societies of other cities, we may be offered a room or rooms in the Chamber of Commerce, or a place like this in the new City Hall.
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In our exchanges with other club reports, I am surprised Cleveland has not attempted this mode for uniting various de- partments of women's literary clubs into one both central and social, before this. In this way it affects public sentiment and is educational.
The New England Press Club was founded in 1868, their meetings are held each week, and the rooms are always open. The first Monday of the month is devoted to discussion, with a large range of topics. Its purpose is to call out the members of the club and themselves treat it. The second Monday is de- voted to the discussion of work, but as their members are busy, they suggest more what organizations could do, and have orig- inated some which have been taken up and carried out by phil- anthropic societies. On the third Monday education is discussed. The fourth is given to art and literature. The club provides for a monthly social gathering. There are committees which help in the arrangement of classes in the study of Botany, English Literature and Political Economy. A committee on hospitality has the care of special occasions, when their hospitality is extended to strangers, or to some of their number who, like the late Prof. Maria Mitchell, could not meet with them often.
The Pro-Re-Nata Club of Washington, D. C., of which Mrs. Lucia Blount is president, was organized in 1889, for the pur- pose of studying parliamentary law and extempore speaking. A subject is chosen and a leader appointed, who gives the main points. Every member is requested to write and express her thoughts upon it in her own phrase. Many who at first would only concur with what had been said, would now be considered eloquent.
Among the subjects discussed were: The Need of In- dustrial Education in our Schools; The Need of Physical Cul-
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ture for American Women; Shall the Government Control Monopolies? Social Purity and How Best to Promote It; How Co-education Promotes Social Purity; Woman's Influence in Journalism, and Subsidy of Merchant Marine.
We would like also to hear discussed a subsidy for theatres, as is done in Europe, so that only pure plays be put on the stage.
The New Century Guild, of Philadelphia, which is a branch of the club to which we go in our General Federation, has six hundred and fifty-four members; with those not paying nor voting, one thousand, four hundred and twenty-seven. Mem- bership is $1.20 annually. The freedom of the house is given from 9:00 a. m. to 10:00 p. m., and the use of gymnasium, library and reading room after class hours.
It has classes in stained glass-work, type-setting, millinery and dressmaking. A paper also is issued by a class, and they have sufficient orders to keep them busy. The athletic pupils employ their own instructor and give exhibitions to aid in the building fund. The stenographic section has seventy members, who pay rent for a room and meet once a week for trials in speed. Employes have found their recommendations to be trusted.
Society needs not alone bread and butter, but appreciation, sympathy and love. In our charities the plea for help has often behind it the plea for kindly consideration with which would come new courage and self-dependence.
We have tried in Sorosis to bring together those rich in thought and experience and knowledge.
It is very possible to calculate what such an able body of workers could accomplish did they turn their attention to the prevention of crime by giving the poor anticipations of good
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homes and well-educated children. Other clubs are studying these questions with pleasure and profit.
Do you wonder I am anxious for as many as possible to go to Philadelphia and be guests of this wonderful Century Club? If impossible, the next best thing is to take the Cycle at one dollar a year and study what is being done by other clubs in other points of the United States. Let us have a young ladies' department, or Junior Sorosis, who will be glad to study good citizenship. Let them insist upon clean streets and cross-walks, and collect fines from those who scatter papers or peelings in the gutter. Work for many would be provided by only insisting on clean streets. The young are fearless of old customs and desirous of establishing better methods.
The work of the Science Club would be better told by its members, but the fact that it was represented at the Chicago Fair is a test of its superior excellence. The Poet's Class has been before us with most excellent papers. Too much praise cannot be awarded to Mrs. C. H. Seymour, who has herself led the way into this wilderness of poesy.
The Novelist Club has been most thoroughly in earnest and their reviews of books have been original and satisfactory. Their refreshment plan of "one wet and one dry" is very unique and quite sufficient for the occasion.
The Botany Club, under the guidance of Mrs. Mason, in- structor in the High School, is aided by the drawings of trees, plants and flowers, by the pupils of the public schools. She is creating a thorough interest in her class. I trust it will be auxiliary to the National Science Club, which issues regularly a list of questions and answers on ornithology, geology, and botany. The new fad is to associate knowledge with pleasure and so make permanent the impressions of the day.
MARTHA E. P. ROSE, President.
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REPORT OF CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
I have been asked for the Corresponding Secretary's re- port of the Sorosis year, '93-4. It is impossible to make such a report, as our president has kindly attended to most of the correspondence. I have written notifications of board meeting, when in town, and notified all new members of elections, whose names have been given me. I have also sent notifications of April and May meetings. I beg to suggest to the coming officers that the duties of each (as defined in the constitution), be so well understood that the work cannot be mixed.
It is no inconsiderable privilege to be a member, in this era, of a large, broad, generous woman's society, such as Sorosis. This society may be the crown of woman's work and of woman- hood in Cleveland, and I feel very certain that it is the gener- ous, womanly, democratic, united impulse (given largely by our president), which has made Sorosis a society with such possibilities and promises of good. With more of system and order, it is sincerely to be desired that the same spirit will be allowed to evolve and develop still, as only a free, untrammeled, unlimited spirit can evolve or develop, properly and naturally. Long live the true democratic spirit of Sorosis!
And ever live the influence and motive of our first president !
One word about the spirit and object of organization. Organization proper is a high test of intelligence. The more orderly and systematic the organization, the higher the in- telligence of the organizing power. No body of nearly three hundred people can long hold together without absolute adher- ence to the best organization and to the things which make an organization, viz., charter, constitution and by-laws. No person has a right to infringe upon the prerogative of another member of the organization, and no one has the right to act without
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the order of the organization or some committee thereof. Busi- ness cannot be done at any but regular meetings unless the meeting be regularly called (according to the constitution), and then no business can be done other than that mentioned in calling the meeting. Let us, the coming year, add true organiza- tion to the real loving spirit of Sorosis. This will bring unity.
On the first page of the Cycle, the organ of our Federation, we read, or may read in every number, "Organization is the test as well as the sign of intelligence."
MRS. GEORGE A. ROBERTSON, Corresponding Secretary.
REPORT OF THE TREASURER
Receipts
Amount brought forward $ 1.84
Dues
191.00
Insurance 75.75
Advertisements in Annual.
24.50
Sale of new Annuals
29.00
Sale of last year's Annuals
3.20
Rose Banquet
149.00
Elandi Concert
124.95
Annual Banquet
181.00
Canton Club Luncheon
7.80
Bulletin and Journal .31
Total
$788.15
Paid out
632.85
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Balance on hand
$155.30
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Disbursements
Pianos $150.00
Banquets and social teas 153.88
Books, stationery, etc.
6.90
Premium on insurance 5.72
Charity 10.00
Thirteen pairs lace curtains
19.00
Rug for platform
9.00
Six-foot extension table.
3.00
Gas fixtures and plumbing
8.15
Circular window and glass.
3.25
Dishes and silverware
22.45
New papering
12.30
Janitress, regular and extra.
75.98
Laundering curtains
10.00
Cleaning wall paper.
13.00
Postage for all the committee work
19.43
Gas and meter
16.64
Expenses of Mrs. Croly
35.00
Advertising 13.35
Elevator service
3.50
Material and carpenter work
7.65
Utensils for cleaning
4.15
Printing tickets, badges, etc.
5.25
Binding one copy of Annual.
1.50
Benches damaged by fire
6.00
Pictures of rooms, etc.
5.50
Badges
3.35
Floral offering
2.00
Locks, bolts, etc.
2.85
Calcium light
3.30
Framing charter
.75
Total
$632.85
MRS. C. S. SELOVER, Treasurer.
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REPORT OF EXECUTIVE BOARD
I do not deem it necessary at this time to give a full report of the meetings of the Executive Board of the past year, as it is embodied in the minutes of each meeting and officially recorded with other important business of the Board. Having been its chairman for three years, my time expires by the laws of limitation. You are now to elect a new board, and it may not be out of place for me to make a few suggestions for your consideration. It is to the interest and dignity of a society to elect members that are thoroughly in accord with the objects of the organization, and a desire for its prosperity and per- petuity-women of dignity, integrity and good executive ability, as the finances of your society are all carried on, and all ex- penditures are regulated by this board. Questions that have to be met and settled, that need careful investigation subject to the approval of the society, render it much to be desired that this board of management should be a "star chamber"- a secret conference-in one respect most certainly, as we have to deal largely with the question of eligibility to membership. All ideas advanced and facts brought out should be done in the most intelligent manner and in the kindest of spirit, and we should shield and shelter from sorrow and hurt, as we in turn would wish to be shielded. After effective consultation by the board upon this subject, and the question decided upon, it should ever remain as a sealed book. There is, and probably always will be, a difference of opinion as to what constitutes eligibility to this society. The subject might require exhaustive treat- ment, but there are certain essentials to which we will all agree. Mrs. Croly, president for ten years of the New York Sorosis, gave us her views while here, to which we should give our respectful attention, as with her large experience upon this
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point, she is very capable of advising us. Her views so directly accorded with the action of this board upon this point, they confirmed us in our opinions. I do not pretend to do more than to offer these facts for your consideration. It is a pleasant satisfaction to feel that our board has always acted in unity and harmony. While the expression of opinion has been sharp and directly to the point, they have been earnest and sensible, with- out malice. Whoever has reported to the contrary of this, to quote the expression of a humorous writer, "It belongs to that class of facts which are not so."
J. M. P. PHELPS, Chairman of Executive Board.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON ANNUAL
Financially, the publication of the last annual leaves a most satisfactory showing. After paying all claims for the publication of the entire edition, there has been turned over to the treasurer quite a handsome surplus, as her report will dis- close. This excellent record may be surpassed in our next report.
MRS. MARY E. PAINE, Chairman of Committee on Annual.
REPORT OF CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE ON MUSIC
The Chairman of the Committee on Music takes great pleasure in presenting a report so favorable. She feels assured that, considering all circumstances, Sorosis has been finely en- tertained by many of our best musicians during the year just ended. With few exceptions, we have had music of some kind at our meeting. We labored to decide upon the piano question for some months. Finally, when the purchasing committee was appointed, we had a piano placed upon the platform, which was in use for some few meetings; but, not feeling quite satisfied,
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