Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-25
flGHTa CONVENTION.

The eighth annual convention of the
Wisconsin State Federation of Women.
clubs is in session at Marinette, begin
ming today and continuing for three
days. The program prepared is an un
usually strong and attractive one.
At meeting of the Wausau Ladies
Literary club, held some time ago, Mes
danes G. ID. Jones and r. s. Dickens
were elected delegates to attend this
convention, and Mesdames H. j Evans
and A l.. Kreutzer were chosen alter
mates. THESE ladies, however. found il
impossible to attend and so the Wausau
club is represented by the district vice
president, Mrs. w. G. Dickens, and the
president of the club, Mrs. p V o.
Van Vechten. Mrs. Dickens, who is
also chairman of the Consumers
League, has two reports to make, one
on the work of the league in the state
for the past year, and the other on the
work of the clubs in t ), the Tenth dis
trict, for the last twelve months There
are twenty clubs in the district and
each has shown much activity during
the year and all are prosperous. From
the report we select only that part re-
ferring to the local clubs, which is as
follows:
"Wausau Ladies' Literary club is the
only departmental club in the district
1t consists of three departments art
and literature, home and education,
study and philanthropy.
art and Literature Department
studied early history Of United States
and colonial period. Home and Educa-
tion studied Shakespeare and domestic
science. Study and Phila lthropy stud
led Wisconsin history from Henry Leg
ler's textbook, and closed the year
with lecture by the author. his sub
ject being The 2 Dpling of Wisconsin,
This departments efforts in city i'm
provement consisted in placing fifteen
galvanized iron waste paper baskets on
the principal streets, where they would
be of the greatest service. These bask
cts are made by Wausau firm and
cost four dollars each.
sits philanthropic effort is in making
oi-weekly visits, carr ying fresh reading
matter to the inmates of the couaty Jail,
poor house and asylum for the insane.
and to city and private hospitals and
inlirmaries.
''In art interchange the department
has presented the Marathon County
Training School for Teachers with a
picture of Stratford on Avon, at an ex-
pense of ten dollars.
"Ths club is proud of the fact that it
is second in age in the state. We at
first looked with envious eyes upon the
date of organization of Berlin's Friends
in Council wishing that the 1878 might
read 1878, thus giving us one years
priority, but after being convinced that
Friends in CounciP were in the field
at the date first given we stepped into
second place with the best grace we
could Strange, isn't it, that women
will persist in saying that they are older
than they really are ?"
Mesdames Dickens and Van Vechten
will bring tho new president, which in
all probability will be Miss Harriet
Holcomb, of Fond du Lac, here on
Monday, Oct. 31st, for an address be-
fore the Ladies' Literary club. There
will also be present at that time other
federation women as follows: Mrs. A.
W. Sanborn, of Ashland; DR.. Annette
Shaw, of Eau Claire; Mrs. Lily McCue,
of Madison.
There are $50 clubs in the state feder-
alton, comprising membership of 5000.