Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-11
.1O PERFECT PLANS
FOR The Biennial
Arrangements For State Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs to
Be Completed Soon
MANY EXCELLENT FEATURES
Mrs. T. j. Fletcher, President of the
Federation, Issues Call for Joint
Meeting of Executive Committee and
Waterloo Committees on Arrange
mems ne of the Features.
MANY EXCELLENT FEATURES
Mrs. T. J. Fletcher, President of the


the Iowa Federation Of Women's Clubs,
has issued call for a meeting OF the
executive committee of the federation
to be held at her home in this city Feb
ruary %, and on the following day,
March /, joint session of the board
and the local biennial board, of Wat
erloo, will be held, at which time will
be perfected the arrangements for the
sixth biennial, which is to be held in
Waterloo on Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday, May 10, II and IL.
The women from Waterloo, whom
Mrs. Fletcher has invited to meet with
the executive board of the federation,
will be twenty-five in number. and
include the members of the local board,
composed Of Mrs. Ellen I'll. Brown,
chairman; Mrs. j. E. Williams, DIR.
Margaret Clark, Mrs. 4. l.. johnson,
Mrs. w. f. Parrot, and Mrs. Harriet
NJ. Kendall; also the chairmen of the
different committees on arrangements,
and Mrs. Matt PARROT, president of
the Women's Club of Waterloo.
The executive board, which, aside
from the president, is composed of
Mrs. j. w. Cory, Of Spencer, vice
president; Mrs. Richard Burke, of Os-
kaloosa, recording secretary; Miss
Harriet Lake, Independence, cores
ponding secretary; Mrs. B. B. Clark,
Red Oak, treasurer; and Mrs. Thomas
F. Cook, Des Moines, auditor, will hold
its opening session at the Fletcher
home on the evening Of the 2Sth, at
which time the preliminary work of the
meeting will be taken up. The Wat
erloo women will arrive in the city
Wednesday morning, and will be In
session with the executive board all
day, returning to Waterloo in the eve
ming. Mrs. Fletcher will entertain all
Of the visitors at luncheon Wednesday,,
and the Hawthorne Club members will
be hostesses at o'clock tea. The
arrangements for the latter function
have not as yet been made.
At the joint meeting of the execu-
tive board and local biennial board
and committee chairmen, the ar
rangements for the biennial will be
completed. The members of the ex-
ecutive board will be in session on
the I'd and Srd of March, to discuss
OlHSf matters OIL Interest W lllS Leu
Grafton.
Some of the Features.
The features for the biennial pro-
gram will be many this year, and some
most excellent ones will be provided.
The list is far from complete, but a
few are already arranged for. On
Tuesday evening, preceding the reg
ular sessions of the biennial, will be
held the council meeting. Wednes-
day evening will be known as pres
ident's evening, at which time Mrs.
Sarah Platt Becker, of Denver, pres
ident of the general federation, will
deliver an address. The presidents
evening has heretofore always been
the last night of the convention, but
the change has been made to accom-
modate Mrs. Becker. Other features
already arranged for include an adj
dress by Jane Adams, of Hull House,
on Child Labor; addresses on ARTS
and Crafts and Civic Improvement
by Professor Zeublin, of the Univer-
sity of Chicago; an address on
Household Economics" by Mrs. Ar
thur Courtney Neville, president Of the
household economics school of cores
pondence of Armour Institute, also
chairman of the household economics
committee of the general federation;
an address on "The Care of Children"
by Mrs. Lydia Avery Coonley- Ward,
of Chicago; an address on "The Juv-
emile Court and the Probation Law"
by Judge G. w. Durham, of Vinton,
and an address on Forestry" by Hon.
j. +. Lacey, Of Oskaloosa, congressman
from the Sixth district. A great many
other features are being planned for,
but the arrangements have not as yet
been definitely made, or sufficiently so
for announcement. One of them, how
ever, that is assured, is an address
probably on Friday, by DR.. Edward A.
Steiner, of Grinnell College. DR.. Stein
err will talk on Russia.
The Irving, at Waterloo, has been
determined upon. by the executive
board as the headquarters for the fed
Grafton during the biennial