The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-10-19
MONTANA WOMEN DID IT,.
Mrs. Laura Z. Howey Before the
Lady Board Of Managers
at Chicago.
She Tells What Kind OF an Elk
hibit the State Will
Have There.
Though hat Late in Getting tn
Work 1t WIN Stiii Bs 0uitea
CreditRbls One.

Mrs. Laura II. Howey. who Is represent
ing Mrs. j. Il. Richards ut the meeting Of
the board Of lady managers Of the Void
fair ut Chicago, made a statement before
that body yesterday as to what the women
of Montana were doing toward having this
state we'll represented at the exposition.
She explained the seeming backwardness
OF the women of Montana in getting to
work by the many changed in the personnel
OF the state board Of lady managers. She
said that in June. 1892. when Mrs. Clara
McAdoo was made a member of the board,
things were in a sad plight. Women all
over the state were discouraged at the short
time left in which to prepare, and snthus-
iasm WAS on the wane because OF tho lack
of a leader and of any organized effort.
Since then the work of organization and
the task of obtaining a oreditable exhibit
of women's work in Montana has been
carried steadily on. The organization of
the different counties was completed in a
little over six weeks.
In dairy products Meagher county will
send a figure in butter. made by a lady at
Martinsdale. Madison county will send
butter packed and prepared as called for by
the board. In pantry stores there will be
an excellent display of native fruits in jelly,
preserves and wines, prepared by a lady at
White sulphur Springs. You will be sur
prissd to learn says Mrs. Howey in her
report, that we have fourteen or fifteen
varieties of native fruits, including tho
wild strawberry, which grows and within
sight Of snow bsnks, red raspberry, goose
berry, whortle and buffalo berries, yellow
and black currants, wild plums and crab
apples. Then our exhibit Of cultivated
fruits will be very good, proving that Mon
tana ia not az near the north pole as some
may imagine. And as TO size, our apples
will compare favorably with any," The
! Missoula county ladies will have the best
| display of cultivated fruits, Mis-. Howey
states. In needle work Lewis ahd Clarke
and Gallatin counties will have some fine
pieces, including almost every variety
wolnen's fingers attempt.
The native fora is being prepared by
! Mrs. Laura Fitch, of Sheridan. Madison
county. She is q scientific botanist and q
graduate of Oberlin. Rev. T.. ID. Kelsey,
the state botanist. and a scientist of ma
tional repute, says she has not erred in q
single plant Of the hundreds she has olassi-
fel and sent to him.. Besides this STATE
collection there will be another, gotten ur
by tie women of all the counties joining
tO&0hueT, uuu6T Lno lchucIbuip u uITS,
William Muth, of Helena. and Mrs. Slim
ton Moore. of Butte. This is TO be for the
woman's building. Their, will also be- twt
artistic display 9 by Miss Hobson, and Miss
Ware, of Deer Lodg county. In the Fin
arts, painting on ch4np, oil or canvass, etc.
We will have BOTH" says Mrs. Howey. "Wt
have u number of artists who have studied
abroad, notably Mary Whesler. WHO ha
taken prizes in New 70 k and Paris
Lewis and Clarke county will lead in this
Meagher and Madison next. We will hRv
real Montana scenes by Montana artists
equal to any,"
For the taxidermy exhibit Mrs. Riddles
barger, of White SULPHUR Springs. is pre-
pairing the birds. Ida O'Bannon. IA year.
old, a pupil at the Helena high school
shows wonderful skill in this direction ant
will enter the genera! exhibit with her dis
play of work az a ta~xidermist. Speaking
Of the fountain to be erected by the Helene
ladies for the woman's building. Mrs
Howey says: ut will be lovely, unique ant
striking in appearance. Thu base will b.
of ores, the basin of silver. and the cup TO
sd ay of gold. Anaconda ladies will send
snake of copper over Il pyramid of slaj
from the great works there. Missoula will
have a panel of native wood for tn,
woman's building, and Deer Lodge cope
and silver panels in battered work of ma
tive scenery. Other counties will yet pre-.
pare a orsditable something in Il singh
piece indicative of their products. Mis-
Foula ladies will have a good collection o
Indian c%urios."
Remember that The Bee Hive is now LOCATED