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REPORT OF THE LADIES’ ASSOCIATION. 
The Ladies’ Association have pleasure in reporting a very 
successful year’s work. There have been one hundred and sixty- 
five new members added to our roll, of whom five are life mem- 
bers. This gratifying addition to our membership was partly 
the result of papers sent in the spring to each member of the 
association, requesting each one of them to secure a new member 
or a subscription to the mortgage fund. $30.00 has been handed 
in as subscriptions to the mortgage fund. Last summer the 
Mamawa Club of New York gave three concerts under the aus- 
pices of the Ladies’ Association by which we realized $80.00. 
The course of historical sketches given in our hall this fall was 
much appreciated and we realized about $225.00. The four 
lectures on Acadia will be type written and placed on the library 
table that any who wish may read them. The Ladies’ Association 
have, as in former years, paid the salary of the assistant, Miss 
Hoyt, and were able to contribute $200 towards the mortgage 
fund. We also bought two dozen chairs and two dozen cups 
and saucers, as well as the linoleum for the hall. At the lecture 
on Weimar and the Times of Goethe and Schiller, Mrs. John 
McAvity, the lecturer, recited Schiller’s Song of the Bell, and 
presented 500 copies of the poem to be sold for the benefit of 
the society. We have already sold $25.00 worth of these copies, 
and some of our lady friends have been making ornamental 
covers for that beautiful poem, so that before the Easter season 
closes we hope to realize $50.00 from this generous gift. 
The closing lecture of this course falling upon Mrs. Matthew’s 
birthday, she was presented with a birthday cake containing 
$17.00 in gold, the fees of eleven new members, three men and 
eight women, who had been secured for the society. The course 
of free afternoon lectures will be continued this year as usual 
and we feel gratified that so interesting a course has been secured. 
Respectfully submitted, 
K. M. Matthew, 
President Ladies’ Association. 
