The courier., 1903-02-07
CLUB NOTES
THE WEEKS REVIEW

calfe on Tuesday the seventeenth. The
president of the club has announced as
a program committee to arrange for next
years work. Mrs. f. p. Savage. chair
man; Mrs. George G. Waite and Mrs. c.
/. Jones.
Miss Nora Stanton Blatch, grand
daughter, of the late Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, has formed a Political Equality
club among the women students of Cor
nell university. There is said to have
been some opposition to the organization
from certain students.
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Mrs. Josephine Scroogs of Nome has
been appointed to effect federation of
Women's clubs in Alaska. At a meeting
held in October. the Kegoayah Koz-ga
club of Nome, numbering thirty-five
members, voted to ask the other clubs to
join in such a federation, and the pros
poets are that the next biennial of the
General Federation of Women's clubs
will include in it's reports of new fedora
tions formed an enthusiastic one from
this far Northwestern territory of the
United States.
The Omaha Woman's club has ap-
pointed a committee to investigate the
bill introduced into the legislature pro-
viding for an educational commission to
be appointed by the mayor in towns
having a population of more than forty
thousand, and less than hundred thou
sand, the commission to appoint the
board of education. IL after investiga-
ton, the committee deems il best to do
so, a protest will be bought before the
club, or other action will be taken.
The fund for the building of Memorial
hall, in Washington, the continental
museum projected by the Daughters of
the American Revolution, grows stead
lily. More than 500 was added as a re-
suit of a fair held at the new willard,
Washington, and about s400 was realized
at a fete held in Chicago in honor of the
wedding anniversary of George and
Martha Washington. At the latter en-
tertainment the guests brought their
offerings in small white envelopes con-
tanning on an average 81 each.
Mrs. Frank Heller of Omaha, chair
man of the Nebraska State Federation
committee, which had in charge the
securing of funds for the education of
colored girl in kindergarten work, says
that the requisite sum of $3.50 had been
secured from the various woman's clubs
in the state and sent to Miss Anna Van
derzee. This will enable Miss Vanderzee
TO init hnr OF hn ahsa A
Hearst Training school at Washington,
d. c., and she will be ready to take a
position next fall. Miss Vanderzee's
home is in Lincoln and there are several
positions open to her in the south where
she can work among her own people as
soon as she is fully equipped. She has
promised to give at least three years of
her life to the kindergarten work.
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The meeting of the Womans club
Monday was of special interest to those
interested in parliamentary law, the
program being in charge of Mrs. A. w.
Field, chairman of the parliamentary de-
partment.
Mrs. w. p. Hartford of Omaha talked
on Motions" and after her lecture.
which contained many helpful sugges-
tions, she conducted a drill which was
participated in by Mesdames A. w.
Field, F. NJ. Hall, NJ. d. Welch. A. ].
Sawyer, c. II. Gordon, Eli Plummer, and
others.
The business session preceded the pro-
gram. Mrs. F. NJ. Hall announced that
the annual election of officers will occur
at the meeting to be held on February
sixteenth, and the chairman of the nom
mating committee presented the follow