River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-05-18
CLUB WOMEN ASSEMBLE.
Convention of 18th Dist. Wisconsin
Federation of Women's Gibbs.

STG0CI1I1On OF w omen OlUbS.
The Convention of the Women S
Clubs of the 18th Dist. of Wilson's
sin is now history but its two-days'
session will always be looked back
to as red-letter days by those who
had the pleasure of attending them
/ The convention was entertained by
The Tuesday Club of River Falls
and it had as guests, delegates from
Superior, Bayfield,, Rice Lake, Me-
nomonie, Shell Lake, Hudson, Ells-
worth and Chippewa Falls. The
convention began on Thursday eve
ming and despite the rain goodly
number of people were in attend
ance. The program for the evening
consisted of the address of welcome
by Mrs. Putnam, the president of
the Tuesday Club, an address so
full of cordiality, love and good will
that our guests could but feel they
were indeed welcome. To this well
come Mrs. Bolds of Superior, the
district president, responded in a
very able manner, accepting the
welcome in the same cordial spirit in
which it was given and giving many
inspiring and uplifting thoughts.
Following this came an address
by Miss Stearns on the Book and
the Club" Our people have learn
ed to know and love Miss Stearhs
in her former visits to River Falls
and her breezy, stirring talk gave
US many helpful suggestions for our
| future work. The music for the
evening was most enjoyable. If time
had permitted the girls chorus
would have been recalled again and
again for their bright, shining faces
and sweet, girlish voices made them
JOY both to see and hear. The
male quartet is always a welcome
addition to any program and the Sc
lections rendered that evening were
thoroughly enjoyed by all and elici-
ted many compliments from our
visitors.
The session on Friday forenoon
was largely devoted to business,
but some time was allowed for get
ting acquainted and general hand
shaking and few minutes given
us hat we might enjoy a piano solo
| by Mrs. Fletcher, and we would like
to say Just here that it was due to
| the efforts of Mrs. Fletcher that the
convention was enabled to enjoy
the many pleasing numbers that the
musical program provided for the
different sessions. The reports from
the various clubs given at this time
showed marked degree of interest
| and enthusiasm in their different
lines of work. The Bayfield, club
was reported by it's delegate, Mrs.
Packard, to consist of only fifteen
members but they are taking up
many lines of work that ought to
entitle them to be called a depart
ment club. Many improvements
about the city are due to their eff
forts. From Superior we had an
interesting report of the Woman S
Clubs" by Miss Hyde, telling of
their early struggles but final sue
cesses. There was also a report
from the Vacation Club" of Su-
perior which showed that their
/ prime motive was to have a jolly
good time and any knowledge that
might be obtained was sandwiched
| in as side issue.
The Menomonie woman's club re-
| ported a membership of forty and
is now entering upon it's fourth
year of work. Beside their literary
work they have School, Social and
Civic Improvement committees to
carry on other lines of work.
Through the influence of their club,
the Menomonie Improvement As
ISOLATION has been formed. This
society has purchased the lake. front
property and is now improving it.
The Chippewa Falls Civic" I'm
provement society sent an excellent
paper in which it was said that the
| hardest thing to accomplish is to
keep the alleys clean, so if misery
loves company" River Falls may
take heart in knowing that we are
not the only town that has been
slow in educating ourselves up to a
high standard in this respect. The
report from the Chippewa Falls
| Woman's Club by Mrs. Coleman
was a bright, witty paper giving the
evolution of their club through vari-
Gus stages, from primitive times to
their present prosperity but now
she says, With favoring gales we
still expect to sail on the top wave. y
The chief monument of their work
is the Carnegie Library that came
through their efforts and a travel
| ing library that has just been start
ed. They also started a Rest
Room" and say every one is now SO
rested that no one feels tired except
when called upon for its financial
support.
The report from River Falls was
read by Mrs. Weld and showed that
our Tuesday Club is we'll up in line
with the work of other clubs. Other
clubs had not sent reports but dele
J gates from these clubs gave in
| teresting impromptu report. AS
| nearly every club reported taking
up the line of "Town Improvement,
it seems as if that subject will soon
be center of interest in every town
| whether large or small. The work
i done by the River Falls Improve
ment League was given in an i'm
promptu report that elected many
| personal questions in regard to our
various improvements. Following