The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-19
TO Be ORGANIZED SOON
A Branch of the George Wash.
ington Memorial Association.
ALL LADIES ARE INVITED
Preliminary Steps Towards Organization
Are to Be Taken at a Meeting
Which Will Be Held
To-Day.

A branch of the George Washington
Memorial association will be organized
in Butte this afternoon. or rather. the
preliminary steps toward effccting such
an organization will be taken. n meet
ing OF the ladies of the city has been
called To he held this afternoon in the
rooms of the Associated Charities in the
library building, which all ladies of the
city who are interested in the work of
the association are invited to attend.
Tn George Washington Memorial as
ISOLATION is an organization founded for
the purpose of promoting a patriotic in
terest i'm the bequest made by President
George Washington In his viii for the
establishment of a national or central
university for higher learning. a post
graduate university that shall complete
the American system of education and
furnish facilities for highest investlga-
ton and the diffusion of knowledge.
The plan of the association is To raise
by small contributions "A fund for the
erection of an administration building
for the university, which Is to be located
at Washington. ID. c., the cornerstone
of which, IL is planned. To lay on or
near the Tooth anniversary Of the be-
quest. which was made In the viii III
George Washington July 2. 1893, and
by the terms Of which the first presi-
lent of the nation bequeathed 80 shares
of stock i'm the Potomac company, val
ued at $500 each, for the endowment Of
a university TO be established i'm the
District Of Columbia under the auspices
of the general government, IL the gov
rnment SHOULD see. fit to extend a fos-
tering hand. By a further provision
of the clause making the bequest, it was
directed that until the university was
established the profits arising from the
shares should. whenever dividends were
paid. he laid out in the purchase of stock
i'm the Bank of Columbia or some other
bank at the direction of the executors
or the treasurer of the United States
and the funds thus arising Ia be rein
vested till an adequate sum was real
lied for the accomplishment of the OBJ
ject of the Request.
To further the accomplishment of the
object. the George Washington Me
mortal association was organized some
years ago and now has branch organ
izations i'm nearly all the states of the
union. Montana is one of the few states
to which the organization has not yet
extended and the present movement IL
toward the organization of the state.
Mrs. j. NJ. White has recently been
appointed chairman for Montana by
Mrs. Ellen A. Richardson. president Of
the national association. with power to
go ahead and organize. Mrs. White has
called the meeting for to-day To take
the preliminary steps, but II H. not the
intention to perfect the organization at
present but merely lhto formulate the
plans. Should the attendance be larger
thar the rooms of the Associated Chart
ties will accommodate. the meeting will
he held in the Auditorium. When the
organization is effected Butte will be
the headquarters for Montana and the
state will be organized under the lead
ership of the Butte ladies.