Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-05-24
WOMEN'S CLUBS,
Committees Report on Selection
OF Officers Unanimously Adopted

st. Louis. May 2i--The first order OF
business at tOday's session Of the bien-
NAL convention OF the General FEEDER
alton OF WOmens clubs was the report
of the nominating committee.
The report was presented by the
chairman and unanimously accepted,
Forty-tour states and territories were
represented ON the committees. The
report was as follows
President, Mrs, Sarah Plat Decker,
Denver, Colo, first vice president,
Mrs Philip ~ Moore. ST Louis second
vice president, May Alden ward Bos-
ton, recording secretary, Mrs, John d,
sherman, Chicago, corresponding sec
rotary, Miss Louisa b. Poppenhein
Charleston s. c.. treasu er Mrs. Percy
V, Pennybacker, Austin, Texas; audi
tor. Mrs. Sarah II. Kendall Washing
ton. ID, G.
Directors Mrs. Charles A. Perkins,
Of Tennessee, Mrs, Lydia Il. Williams,
Of Minnesota. Mics Belle NJ, Stouten-
burgh. of Nebraska; Mrs Charles Yard
ley. OF New Jersey, Mrs. Josiah ".
Coles, OF California, Mrs. William Il.
orr OF Ohio. Mrs Mary |. Wood, OF
New Hampshire, Mrs Edward NJ.
Johnson OF Rhode Island
Immediately after the adoption Of the
report OF the nominating committee
the following nominations were made
from the floor.
Recording secretary. Mrs, william Y.
Coad Of Minnesota directors, Mrs. II.
q. Carney of Kansas. Mrs. Lawrence
Haines of Florida Mrs. j, w Smith Of
Indiana, Mrs A. G.. Scott Of Indian
Territory. Mrs J. y, Lindsay Johnson
OF Georgia and Mrs Mary l.. Lockwood
OF the district Of Columbia. The nom.
nations were then declared closed and
the olllcintballots ordered printed
The only candidates for reelection
are Miss Poppenheim and Mrs. Coad,
the former not having any opposition.
with the exception Of the directors,
little interest attaches to the election,
owing 70 tn fact that there was only
o % onpi date for each Of these prnci-
pal Cllces.
BY the provisions OF constitutional
amendment adopted az this convention,
tho method OF election has been chang
e1 nd instead Of the ballots being sent
80 the platform to be counted by the
tellers there ballOtbOXes were used.
The polls were open from until p.
M The proposed amendment to the
constitution providing for a new APP
portlOnment OF dues to be paid by the
clubs composing the federation was de-
The action taken at former biennial
providing that former presidents Of the
federation who had served for two
terms should become honorary presi-
dents and creating those positions, was
revoked hy a unanimous vote.
substitute was adopted providing
that any former president IL eligible to
become an honorary president. but that
the offices should be elective. one Of
the principal reasons for this action Is
that Mrs. Dimes T. S. Denson, the
president will retire after having serv-
ed only one term.
The rrTorr Of the civil committee was
submitted by Mrs. y. u, Turner OF
Texas, owing to the absence OF Mrs
Ralph Troutman OF New York the
chairman Papers We're read by Mrs
Charles Il. Millspaugh Of Chicago. "Wo-
man In outdoor Art" and Dr. Thomas
Darlington Of New York, commissioner
Of public health, on How Can the In
dlvidual Become a Factor In Civlcs and
Sanitation"