YWCA Conventions Postponed War Talks Set in Cleveland
The YWCA of America will hold a national convention in Cleveland the week of April 13 to 20, postponed from 2018 due to war. An estimated 2,000 attendees from all YWCA sectors will discuss membership basis, charter privileges for the Chicago YWCA, and National Board expansion. Noted speakers include Rev. Charles W. Gilkey and Dr. Robert E. Speer. The event runs morning and evening with sectional meetings and group activities. Mrs. W. P. Harford will open the sessions, with a committee chaired by Mrs. John French and featuring Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of America
Cleveland
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Sab
United States
Chicago Young Women's Christian Association
National Board of the Association
Charles W. Gilkey
Ryde Park Baptist Church
Chicago
Robert E. Speer
Foreign Mission Board
the Presbyterian Church
Los Aneles
Ita Chalr
John French
John Sh Rockefeller, Jr
Mise Eliza Butler
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Martha McCook
Mabel Cratty
National Board of the
William Adams Brown
New York City
Town Girls to Have Y W C A Citizenship Forums
Miss Mabel Head describes Y W C A plans to expand worldwide service for women through girls world wide. Citizenship forums will be organized in small communities to teach national and global responsibility. Reading courses from National Headquarters enable girls to study various subjects alone or with others. Thirty nine Y W C A secretaries travel between communities aiding social, educational, and religious activities and coordinating with county agents in home economics work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mabel Head
Red Cross
W. CG
National
New York
Department of Agriculture
YWCA Plans World Program and $3 Million Goal
Mrs John D Rockefeller Jr chairs the National Educational Campaign Committee announcing a World Service Program for 1920. The effort seeks $4.5 million with $1.5 million already raised to aid YWCA work in the United States Europe China Japan India South America Egypt Siberia and Mexico during 1920. The campaign will culminate in YWCA Week February 22 29. The Federal Council of Churches may designate a Sunday for sermons on women’s conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Young Women’s Christian Association
Young Women's Christian Association
Manfeld
Young Woman's Christian Association
United States
Europe
China
Japan
India
South America
Egypt
Siberia
Mexico
W. C
France
World Service Program
Educational Campaign Committee
Robert E. Speer
Natonal Board
Henry P. Davison
William Ver V. Hayes
Robert L. Dickinson
William Adams
Small Y W C A Aims as Community Center
The YWCA program centers on recreation for girls and the broader community. Districts with under 10,000 residents may use a single room or a building, with spaces for recreation, reading, and writing, and a kitchen if possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pitts
United States
Henge
One Fourth World’s Women in China
A historical report notes that one quarter of the world’s women are Chinese with 200 million. It details long hours and low pay for Chinese women in Shanghai cotton mills and silk filature work, with 6am to 6pm or longer shifts and 10 to 20 cent daily wages. The Canton factory workforce reaches 150,000 women, earning up to 40 cents daily. The National YWCA plans to place a China industrial conditions expert to improve female workers’ lives, add recreation, health talks, and education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
Canton
World Service For Women
National Young Women's Christian Association
China
Y W G A Students Teaching in China
The article highlights the YWCA effort in China to train physical directors, noting a Shanghai school established in 1914, its graduates across China, and leadership like Miss Ying Mei Chun from Wellesley. It also mentions Chinese medical and educational cooperation and the broader mission school network.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chinese Medical Association
China
Young Women's Christian Association
Chir
Shanghai
Ying Mei Chun
Wellesley School of Physical Education
Canton
Peking
Notice of Final Discharge in Dillon County
Notice is hereby given that J H Hamer M R Hamer and E R Hamer executors of the estate of Jennie Watson administratrix of the estate of Lesse Watson deceased have applied for final discharge Hearing set for February 5 1920 at 11 a m and notice to file claims by January 30 1920 in the forenoon All persons holding claims against the estate must file with the executors or the administratrix by 11 oclock in the forenoon on Thursday February 6 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery Judge of Probate Joe Cabell Davis Dillon County
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Hamer
M. R. Hamer
E. R
Mra. ‘Hamer
J.jennie Watson
H. Hamer
Lesse Watson
Callen
Joe Cabell Davis
Dillon County
Dillon County 1920 Sheriff Sale Notice
State of South Carolina Dillon County sheriff sale by virtue of execution in the case J W Dillon & Son Co vs Smith Miller. Public cash sale February 2 1920 in front of the Court House Door Dillon D C. Described real estate includes a fifty acre tract in Hillsboro township bounded north by Collierene Granger lands east by Stage Road south by lands formerly of Susan Mc.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cormac
Neill [Miter
Neill Miller
Robert
B. B. Morris
L. G. Miller
O. H.mccormac
Miles
J.N. Page
Oliver
V. Lane
Dillon County
State of
South Carolina
Dillon
Court of Common Pleas
J. W. Dillon & Son Company
Plain‘tiff
Smith Miller
Court House
D. C
Wits
County of
Hillsboro Township
Collierene Granger
Stage Road
Susan Mc
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YW. C. A
Havey. W. O. A
Association
Calla Association
Federal Council of Churches
Small Y. W. C. A. IS Community Center
Shanghai Cotton Mills
Paige
America
Detroit Motor Gar Company
Detroit, Mich
J. Earle Bethea
Royster
F. S. Royster Guano CO
Columbia, S. C
L. C. Braddy, Alent
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