The Protestant churches of Jamaica Plain were certainly busy with causes during the late 1900s. I don't think it is unfair to assume that groups such as this were less concerned about the bodies of the Indians than they were about their souls. In my mother's time at Central Congregational church, they were constantly raising money for the missions in China. In both cases, dreams of converting souls for Christ may have been a greater inspiration than secular altruism for their fellow man. Whatever the motive, the fact is that they did sympathize to some degree with the "less fortunate", and it's hard to criticize them for their efforts while others were doing their best to exterminate the Indians. Better Christian sympathy than no sympathy at all.
Well, it's a new year, and this is the 200th entry in this blog. It's a good deal more than I expected to produce when I started. There will be more entries, but they will be coming slower from now on. I've pretty well beaten the Boston Globe online archive to death, and new sources will require trips to the library. Wake up, people - it's time to get EVERYTHING online! Knowledge is power, and knowledge online saves gas and time.
Boston Daily Globe November 11, 1888
Friends of the Poor Indian.
The Jamaica Plain Indian Association will hold a public meeting in the Congregational church, Jamaica Plain, this evening at 7:30. The meeting will be addressed by Mrs A.S. Quinton, president of the Women's National Indian Association, and also by C.J. Eastman, a full-blooded Sioux, a graduate of Dartmouth, and a medical student in the Boston University.
November 23, 1888
Cottages for the Poor Indians.
The Jamaica Plain Indian Association fair in Curtis Hall was largely attended yesterday and evening. The articles offered for sale met with a ready acceptance, and the result at the close last evening will add materially to the fund for Indian cottages. Curtis Hall has never looked better than during this fair. The neat arrangements of the tables and decorations, together with the wigwams and bowers in the corners of the hall were pleasingly contrasted. An orchestra furnished catchy music during the evening.
October 20, 1897
Indian Sympathizers Meet.
Jamaica Plain Association Holds Its Annual Meeting.
Yesterday afternoon the Jamaica Plain Indian association held its annual meeting at the Jamaica Plain Methodist church. This society is composed of many of the leading people of the section. All the Protestant churches are represented in it. At present its membership is 159. Its object, as may be judged from its name, is pioneer work among the Indians of the west.
Rev Charles F. Dole, pastor of the Unitarian church, presided. After the secretary's report the treasurer stated that during the past year $560 had been received and $522.16 paid out. The largest amount paid out was the sum of $250 for the completion of the chapel for the Digger Indianns at Greenville Cali. Seventy dollars had been given for a scholarship at the Hampton Institute in Virginia. At Christmas time two barrels of various articles and one this summer, valued at $100 had been sent west.
The following officers were elected: Mrs A. Davis Weld, pres, Rev R.M. Hunt, Rev G.R. Grose, Rev C.F. Dole, S.B. Capen and E.W. Clark vice pres, Miss Clara Bell Gilman, sec, Miss Alelaide Howland assistant sec, Miss A.R. Manning treas. The executive committee is composed of the above officers and two delegates from the various Protestant churches.
The members from the churches are as follows: Mrs R.W. Wood and Mrs Charles G. Keyes from the Central Congregational, Mrs Macomber and Mrs J.H. Chalker from the St John Episcopal, Mrs E.N. Foss and Mrs Frank Gilson from the First Baptist, Miss A. Andrews and Mrs W.J. Day from the Universalist, Mrs H.L.Moulton and Mrs G.W. Flynn from the Methodist, and Miss E.C. Morac and Mrs Charles H. Cummings from the Unitarian.
The members are making arrangements for a fair to be given at the Unitarian parish house, corner of Centre and Eliot sts, Dec 9.
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Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Jamaica Plain W.C.T.U.
Certain topics in history seem to get orphaned. Women were leaders in the temperance movement, but they don't seem to get any love these days. Is it the scowl of Carrie Nation that scares off potential admirers, or is it the modern taste for the Devil's Drink? Whichever the case, let's raise a glass and remember the activist women of Jamaica Plain's past.
Boston Daily Globe February 22, 1901
Its 18th Anniversary.
Celebration by Jamaica Plain Women's Christian Temperance Union.
The Jamaica Plain W.C.T.U. observed its 18th anniversary at the Central Congregational church last evening. Early in the evening the members and guests gathered around the banquet table. Mrs A.E. Pearson, president of the union, sat at the head table and around her were the guests of the evening, who made addresses - Mrs Katherine Lente Stevenson, state president; Mrs Susan S. Fessenden ex state president; Mrs Harriet T. Todd, state secretary; Mrs Dr Louise Purington, county president and Miss Elizabeth P. Gordon, state editor.
Following the supper interesting exercises were held and the addresses and reports showed the opening of the 19th year of the union to be a most auspicious one.
Music was furnished by the Algonquin banjo, mandolin and guitar club. The committee of arrangements was composed of Mrs A.E. Pearson, Mrs C.E. Withington, Mrs Coburn, Mrs Keyes, Miss Woodworth, Mrs Huxley and Mrs Cross.
Boston Daily Globe February 22, 1901
Its 18th Anniversary.
Celebration by Jamaica Plain Women's Christian Temperance Union.
The Jamaica Plain W.C.T.U. observed its 18th anniversary at the Central Congregational church last evening. Early in the evening the members and guests gathered around the banquet table. Mrs A.E. Pearson, president of the union, sat at the head table and around her were the guests of the evening, who made addresses - Mrs Katherine Lente Stevenson, state president; Mrs Susan S. Fessenden ex state president; Mrs Harriet T. Todd, state secretary; Mrs Dr Louise Purington, county president and Miss Elizabeth P. Gordon, state editor.
Following the supper interesting exercises were held and the addresses and reports showed the opening of the 19th year of the union to be a most auspicious one.
Music was furnished by the Algonquin banjo, mandolin and guitar club. The committee of arrangements was composed of Mrs A.E. Pearson, Mrs C.E. Withington, Mrs Coburn, Mrs Keyes, Miss Woodworth, Mrs Huxley and Mrs Cross.
Friday, November 16, 2007
Jamaica Plain Assists Unemployed
Boston Daily Globe January 9, 1915
Jamaica Plain To Assist Unemployed
Bureau Supplies Men to Clean Up Properties.
Campaign to Begin This Afternoon - Loan Association Also Helps.
Jamaica Plain will witness this afternoon a campaign to arouse the district into a realization of the extent of unemployment problem. Recent investigations showed that one wage earner in five was without work, the result of which was the establishment of the Jamaica Plain Free Employment Bureau.
This office has done considerable in meeting the situation, but the needs are still so pressing that a squad of unemployed will placard store windows today with appeals for relief, and "fliers" will be distributed.
The bureau is asking residents to have the inside or outside of their properties done now, and employ men furnished by the local office. A fund has been started for cleaning up property not under the jurisdiction of the city, such as private ways and vacant lots, and contributions as solicited.
Monday morning 15 picked men registered at the bureau will start from the city barn at Child st at 7:30 o'clock and, accompanied by a two-horse wagon, will visit a number of places in the district and show their efficiency in this work. The cart will bear a placard reading: "Clean Up Jamaica Plain Now. Help the Labor Exchange by Employing Jamaica Plain Men."
The squad of men will work seven hours a day on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and will receive 25 cents an hour. It was at first proposed to include city streets in the clean-up work, but it was later deemed inadvisable, due to opposition by city employees and others. The city machinery will, however, be used.
Five out of a total of 10 applications for loans were approved by the Unemployment Loan Association of Jamaica Plain last evening, and heads of these families will receive an amount equivalent to three-fourths of the usual earning capacity, to extend over a period of one month. These families have altogether 11 children, ranging from 3 weeks to 10 years.
This fund has nearly reached $1000,the principal contributors being a Boston woman with $200, and a school teacher of the neighborhood who has loaned the $500 she expected to save during the year, both of them wishing to remain anonymous. The Tuesday Club women have voted to dispense with the guest night this year and give the $200 usually spent to the fund.
The committee for the relief of the unemployed consists of Theodore Barnes, chairman; D.T. Hiltz, vice chairman; Miss Emily Balch, Miss Ella B. Westcott, K.R. Bloomquist, John McClintock, Allen Grieve and Robert Fowler, treasurer. Miss Ellenora Adams, a graduate of the School of Social Science, has ben appointed to investigate the applications for loans.
Jamaica Plain To Assist Unemployed
Bureau Supplies Men to Clean Up Properties.
Campaign to Begin This Afternoon - Loan Association Also Helps.
Jamaica Plain will witness this afternoon a campaign to arouse the district into a realization of the extent of unemployment problem. Recent investigations showed that one wage earner in five was without work, the result of which was the establishment of the Jamaica Plain Free Employment Bureau.
This office has done considerable in meeting the situation, but the needs are still so pressing that a squad of unemployed will placard store windows today with appeals for relief, and "fliers" will be distributed.
The bureau is asking residents to have the inside or outside of their properties done now, and employ men furnished by the local office. A fund has been started for cleaning up property not under the jurisdiction of the city, such as private ways and vacant lots, and contributions as solicited.
Monday morning 15 picked men registered at the bureau will start from the city barn at Child st at 7:30 o'clock and, accompanied by a two-horse wagon, will visit a number of places in the district and show their efficiency in this work. The cart will bear a placard reading: "Clean Up Jamaica Plain Now. Help the Labor Exchange by Employing Jamaica Plain Men."
The squad of men will work seven hours a day on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and will receive 25 cents an hour. It was at first proposed to include city streets in the clean-up work, but it was later deemed inadvisable, due to opposition by city employees and others. The city machinery will, however, be used.
Five out of a total of 10 applications for loans were approved by the Unemployment Loan Association of Jamaica Plain last evening, and heads of these families will receive an amount equivalent to three-fourths of the usual earning capacity, to extend over a period of one month. These families have altogether 11 children, ranging from 3 weeks to 10 years.
This fund has nearly reached $1000,the principal contributors being a Boston woman with $200, and a school teacher of the neighborhood who has loaned the $500 she expected to save during the year, both of them wishing to remain anonymous. The Tuesday Club women have voted to dispense with the guest night this year and give the $200 usually spent to the fund.
The committee for the relief of the unemployed consists of Theodore Barnes, chairman; D.T. Hiltz, vice chairman; Miss Emily Balch, Miss Ella B. Westcott, K.R. Bloomquist, John McClintock, Allen Grieve and Robert Fowler, treasurer. Miss Ellenora Adams, a graduate of the School of Social Science, has ben appointed to investigate the applications for loans.
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