The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-06-06
CLOSE VOTE ON TWO.
South Dakota Club Women Elect
Their Officers.
ECHO OF COLOR FIGHT BoBs UP
Mrs. Goad Won Substantial Victory
Closing Literary and Musical
Programs.
FROM a staff Correspondent.

From a Staff Correspondent.
Sioux Falls, S. D., June 6.-wThe attend-
ance at the closing session Of the South
Dakota Federation Of Wpmen's Clubs THIS
morning was not large, as most OF the
business was completed yesterday. The
as follows! President, Miss Clara p. Coe.
Deadwood; vice president, Mrs. l.. 7.
Mariette, Gettysburg: recording secre-
tary, Mrs. Annie Lumley, Pierre !; correy
spending secretary, Mrs, W. T. Coad,
Rapid City; treasurer, Mrs. Anna Tarbell,
Watertown; auditor, Miss Clara Huey,
Huron; correspondent eastern division,
Mrs Mary Forbes Lane, Miller; CORES
spondent western division, Mrs. Bertha
Robertson, Deadwood
Several Of the officers were elected by
reclamation but there were close votes on
the office <of corresponding secretary, for
which the defeated candidate was Mrs.
w. M. Cox, president of the Current.
Events Club of Rapid City, Of which the
delegate to the state meeting, and on the
eastern correspondent, for which Miss
Sara Eliza Hall of Mitchell was the other
candidate. The Coad- Cox contest was an
echo of the color dispute that has waged
in about all Of the states for two years.
Mrs. Coad was a leader in opposition to
the admission of Individual colored clubs
ton taken by the South Dakota fedora
ton last year reflected her views. The
state voted in favor Of the General Fed
GRAFTON of Womep's Clubs being composed,
as in the past, of white clubs only, and
OF leaving to each state the determination
of its membership. Mrs Cox favored the
admission of colored clubs.
The, present: state meeting has found
several causes for f-congratulation,
among them the election of Mrs. W. T.
Coad as recording secretary Of the general
federation and the Endorsement by the
same body of the state position on the
color question.
The literary and musical program was
finished yesterday, the chief feature being
the Browning hour in the afternoon, given
by Mrs. Mary Brent Read of Atlanta, Ga. !
and the concert In the evening under the
direction OF Mrs. Eta ~Estey Boyce Of
Sioux Falls, in which musicians from the
state and from Sioux Falls Joined in pre-
sentiQg fine program. Mrs. Reads lee
ture was postponed from Tuesday evening
and was an appreciative. and discriminat-
ing treatment of the life of the poet and
his wife with a view Of bringing out clear
ly the influences that moulded his poetry.
"Sordello' she pronounced terror" that
she would advise no one to recommend to
another to read; that the only way to ap-
preciate it was to discover it for oneself
from choice. She found the obscurity in
Browning In his method mot his message.
Mrs. Read is>a distinguished looking
woman OF the marked southern type. She
has not only been closely associated with
Mrs: Lowe, the former president of the
general federation as her private secre-
tary. but she is former president OF the
Atlanta Woman's Club, one of the strong
est organizations in the south. She la at
present living in Sioux Falls. =*,a
Mrs. Esther Housman in treating Of the
subject, "What Is of Most Importance to
Us as Club Women" recoinmended not
less club work, necessarily, but less II it
must be done at the exnense sof the home
and the family. She thought that the
children Of women engaged in public work
were apt to be, neglected. She deplored4
the growing tendency among women to
seek publicity and while she believed ins
the right of women to labor on equal
terms with men she did not approve of@it
in the lives of working women must be
accompanied by corresponding losses.
Miss johnson of Sioux Falls gave an
admirably clear and condensed summary
OF the dramatic position and contributions
to universal literature of "Moliere, Racine
and Corneille."N Mrs: S. "A, Lathrop in
Women as Light Bearers reviewed the
work In education and reform OF group
of distinguished women from Emma Will
lard to the present day. Mrs. Emily Bick-
more spoke of "The Club Woman and
Her Obligations and Mrs! Kirk G.. Phil
lips on Thinking for the Love of Wis
DOM. IL Martha Scott Anderson.