The Owosso times., 1904-11-25
Stone Memorial.


ton to the friends of the Stone Mem
orial fund when last January the sum
of three thousand dollars, the first in
stallment Of the gift, was paid over
to the Regents of the State UNIVERSE
ty. Your committee will apprise you
of the present condition of this fund
but your president desires to remind
you that no commemoration of this
deeennial can be more fitting than
the completion Of this fund, and its
gift to the purpose for which 1t is
promised. There it shall help to per-
petuate the life work of her whose
name it bears, the revered founder OF
this Federation.
Library.
The newly created sub-department
of education, the library section, opens
new fields of work for club women,
in connection with the State Board of
Library Commissioners. 1t Is created
under resolution adopted by the con-
vention in Grand Rapids. It's object
is to assist, through the Federation
Library Committee, twelve in number,
one from each congressional district,
the Board of Library Commissioners
to small libraries, conversion of SUBJ
scription libraries into free libraries,
introduction of travelling Libraries"
and information concerning loan of
pictures to clubs and schools. The
plan calls for a. Library Secretary
from every club in the state, but you
shall hear more of this from the chair
man of this committee.
Welcome to Clubs.
Today, on our tenth anniversary,
your president, on behalf of the exc
cutive board, welcomes into this Fed
Grafton twenty-four new clubs, a
mefpbership of more than one thou
sand women-more women than came
over among the whole company OF
Pilgrims and Puritans. And there
were enough of those women of su-
perb courage to shape the civilization
Of New England. Here are enough
to mould the civilization of Michigan.
What have we for you to do? Work.
| The day when men must work and
women must weep has passed; women
must work, for womanhood and child
| hood are suffering. There are ten
| lines of work in this Federation.
Choose. The field is white. In every
one laborers are never too many. To
seek service near home is always
safe plan. We are glad for your pres
ence, for the membership of your
clubs. With federation comes not
only a breadth Of outlook, of purpose,
of association, of work, which means
growth, the thing supremely to be de-
sired in the individual or the club, but
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cold words, a broader charity a more
tolerant spirit, and a sweetness and
strength of sympathy and co-opera-
ton among strong, reserved women,
widely separated, yet standing to-
gether in a concerted movement for
common good. We needed you; we
trust that you needed us. We welcome
you into service in this Michigan State
Federation of Women's Clubs. Dele
gates from the newly federated clubs,
God speed you in every good word and
work.
The Archbishop of Canterbury,
speaking at Princeton University last
week of the times in which the next
decades in the history of the club
movement are to be cast, said: 1--WE
are standing at the dawn of the
brightest century the world has ever
seen. We are standing at the juno
ture of great opportunities for human
ity and Knowledge" We all believe
that he is right. Now the clubs exist
4 for the sake of humanity. Greater
opportunities than ever are right be-
fore the women of this nation. In our
organization there is enough to inspire
| every club here represented to enter
happily upon the new year under a
new leadership, and, with more ems
thusiasm, eXpectantly begin another
decade with strong cheer, believing
drawer deeds shall be done, sweeter
songs shall be sung, not alone for
| the love of our own, but more and
more for that of our neighbor, than
ever before i'm the life of this Fedora
ton. On this 18th day of October,
1904 for the gratitude we feel for
having safely crossed this river of
stones, and then, taking courage, pass
| over into the new land to possess it.
"Oh, to be up and doing, o unfearing
and unashamed to go,
In all the uproar and the press about
my human business.
My undissuaded heart I hear whisper
courage in my ears,
Let us do our best and trust the rest
to the father heart of God"
Who shall measure the influence of
decade even in the life of an individ-
ual-who shall measure 1t in the life
of one club? But a period Of ten