. Scannell's New Jersey first citizens : biographies and portraits of the notable living men and women of New Jersey with informing glimpses into the state's history and affairs. erty andto advise a public movement for the extermination of the pest. She was a primo mover in the organiza-tion of the Borough Improve-ment League of Metuchen andChairman of its Mosquito Com-mittee—the pioneer Committee—to agitate the importance oftown, and finally stateaction. The persistence of thewomen of the League resultedin the law providing for countyMosquito Extermination Com-missions, and Metuchen w
. Scannell's New Jersey first citizens : biographies and portraits of the notable living men and women of New Jersey with informing glimpses into the state's history and affairs. erty andto advise a public movement for the extermination of the pest. She was a primo mover in the organiza-tion of the Borough Improve-ment League of Metuchen andChairman of its Mosquito Com-mittee—the pioneer Committee—to agitate the importance oftown, and finally stateaction. The persistence of thewomen of the League resultedin the law providing for countyMosquito Extermination Com-missions, and Metuchen wasmade the scene of the firstthorough and successful experi-ments in that work. The womenof the League started the lateProf. Smith of Rutgers College,State Entomologist, after thefirst appropriation, a $10,000one, the State made for mos-quito extermination experi-ments. Mrs. Prickitt has been forsome years—and is still—President of the Metuchen Improvement is one of the few womens clubs in New Jersey owning a wellequipped club house. The club is free of all debt and vmder Mrs. Prickittsleadership has ample funds for civic work. Its building, known as the. Prince 413 Franklin Civic House, is the center of the organized efforts of Metiiclieuwomen in si variety of public, literary, civic, hcneficeiit. artistic and socialactivities. Remodeled with modern conveniences, it is the l)uildinf; thatserved as the Town School and Meeting House of the Committee during theRevolution. Notwithstanding its historic interest, the building; was neglect-ed luitil the League took possession of it, rescued it from neghct and re-stored it to its colonial freshness. Mrs. Prickitt traces her ancestry I)ack on her mothers side to MajorJohn Clarke, of New York State, an officer of the Revolutionary War, andto the Norris family of Virginia and Washington, I). C. She was educatedat the Washington High School, studied music with Dr. Bischoff in Wash-ington and then went to the Berlin Conse
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