Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-10-20
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CONVENTION REPORT
Gist of Work Done Last Week at
District Convention.

The Ninth District Club convention
held at Audubon last week, may be
written down as decided success.
The weather was delightful; the Col
umbian club had made perfect arrange
ments for the entertainment and COM
fort of the delegates and visitors.
These, with the untiring energy of
Mrs. Nash, the District chairman,
made failure an impossibility.
The evening trains, Tuesday brought
most of the delegates, who were met
at the station by their hostesses, taken
to the library rooms for registration
and many were then driven around
the town to see the handsome homes
of Audubon.
Tuesday evening preliminary
meeting and reception was held at
Mrs. Frank Leet's, who opened her
beautiful home for the occasion. New
acquaintance were made and old ones
renewed. During the evening the as
sembly was called to order and reports
from the different clubs represented
were called for. These reports were
varied but most of the clubs are en-
gagged in some altruistic or philan-
thropic work.
At nine o'clock Wednesday morn
ing the delegates assembled at the
Presbyterian church for the work of
the day. After a musical selection
by Mrs. DIETRICH and an invocation by
Mrs. Laura Delahoyde, OF Extra, Mrs.
Byron Phelps welcomed the deleg ates
in neat little address in which she
designated the club woman as the
home woman, the happy woman, the
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an.
Miss Tyler, of Des Moines, Secretary
of the Iowa Library Commission, then
addressed the assembly at some length
upon her chosen work. Said she had
great desire to see Audubon and con-
graduated the Columbian club on
their good work in establishing and
maintaining library but thinks it
high time that the town should sup
port q library by municipal tax. She
considers the travelling library po-
tent factor in education. There are
now twelve thousand volumes going
on their mission of education through
reform character. How much better
to form character.
She says the only absolute equality
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that knowledge is handicapped
unless it is as free as air.
Mrs. Banford, ofCouncil Bluffs, read
a fine paper on Kindergarten work.
She says it is good dicipline for school
life at later period.
Mrs. Montgomery, of Council Bluffs,
presented plea for industrial educa-
ton in the public schools.
Mrs. Hallam, of Sioux City, gave
an interesting address on child study.
She says every mother who devotes
herself to child study cannot fail to
be personally benefited thereby. If,
as has long been conceded without
question, "The hand that rocks the
cradle rules the world" it goes with
out saying, if all mothers were better
mothers the world would be better
world.
The address of Mrs. Fletcher, Presi-
dent of Iowa State Federation of clubs
was plain and practical, Astounding in
useful suggestions to club women
along their different lines of work
There are now in the state federation
three hundred and ten clubs with 8
membership of twelve Thousand. The
General Federation in the United
States has a membership of eight
hundred thousand.
| These women recognize the fact that
in union there is strength, have band.