COLORED SCHOOL, LODGE HALL AND CHURCH 



Societies of More Than Local Interest 



There are a number of organizations in the county which deserve 

 mention but which can hardly be said to have immediate social import- 

 ance for any one locality. The following may be cited: The IV. C. T. U. 

 has nine local branches in the county located respectively at Spencer- 

 ville, Laytonsville, Rockville, Colesville, Travillah, Kensington, Sandy 

 Spring, Brighton and Oakdale; the work is conducted along the lines 

 usually followed by this organization; the Anti-Saloon League; the 

 Montgomery County Suffrage Association; the United Daughters of the 

 Confederacy; The Janet Montgomery D. A . R. Chapter; the Montgomery 

 County Medical Society, of which all but three of the physicians in the 

 county are members; the Montgomery County Federation of Woman's 

 Clubs, which includes twelve local organizations; and the Montgomery 

 County Social Service League. This last deserves a more extended 

 notice, though its work is important for public health and well-being 

 rather than for social life. This League, which was formed in 1908, 

 has for its objects: "to assist in the care of the poor, of the sick, especi- 

 ally tuberculosis cases, and of destitute and deficient children in the 

 county; to direct public attention to the causes and the prevention of 

 disease and suffering, and to arouse general interest in securing proper 

 provisions for the needy in their homes and in institutions." It was the 

 first association of its kind to be formed in the state, and from the start 

 has had generous support. At the present time it is supporting a 

 resident tuberculosis nurse-, who gives her entire time to visiting the homes 

 of the poor and instructing them in the care of the sick. 



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