The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-02-28

The annual business meeting of
the board of directors of the Wash
intgon State Federation Of Women's
Clubs adjourned Thursday evening at
1880, having completed the program
for the state convention which will
be held in May at Port Townsend.
This will be the tenth anniversary
of the founding of the state fedora
ton, and is being anticipated with
deep interest by ladies interested in
club work all over the state.
Miss Sue M. Lombard, the presi-
dent of the state federation, in talk
ing to Herald reporter last evening,
said:
Although the program is practi-
cally completed, it is not yet ar
ranged in just the order we wish,
and some of our plans for the minor
details of the convention cannot be
perfected just at this time, but when
the program is finally arranged, a
copy of it will be given to the Her.
aid for publication.
when all our plans are complete
the call for the Federation will be
issued and sent to the different clubs
of the state. The delegates will then
be chosen by the respective clubs,
and the names of the delegates, as
well as all other matters of interest
which come up between now and the
time for the convention will also be
given your paper.
Several new and interesting lines
of work will be taken up by the con-
vention this year. Some of the SUBJ
jects already agreed upon are:
"Child Labor" "Civic improvement"
and Industrial Work for the Blind
Adult" The last topic is one that
We feel we should take an interest
in, since no provision is made for the
the adult blind by the state.
1.-The committee hopes to get some
of the best known men of the state
who are intereted in these and sim
liar subjects, to address and advise
the convention in the work.
"The Federation will convene on
the 9th, 10th and 18th of May this
year-a month earlier than usual,
owing to the biennial meeting Of the
General Federation of clubs, which
will be held in ST. Paul beginning
May 81, and continuing for the
week following.
"At our last convention, in Walla
Walla, five delegates were elected to
be sent to the big convention. They
were Miss Janet Moore of Olympia,
Mrs. Preston of Walla Walla, Mrs.
Van Doren of Pullman, Mrs. H. S.
Elwood of Ellensburg, and myself.
The call for the biennial convention
has not yet been received, but will
probably be issued in March. The BIZ
ennial, though nominally an inter-
national convention, might be al
most said to be an American move
ment. Women's clubs are essentially
an American institution, and al
though the old world has it's clubs,
! they are more of a social nature and
less progressive than ours. We ex-
pect few of the European clubs to
send delegates to st. Paul.
"But to return to the subject of
our State Federation, Miss Bessie
Winsor, recording secretary, is still
in the city to assist in completing
some unfinished work Mrs. Blaiock,
auditor of our body, left Thursday
evening for Spokane. Mrs. Clark, our
second vice-presldent, returned Fri
day to Port Townsend. where she is
chairman of the committee on ar
rangements for the entertainment
of the delegates in May, when we
hope to hold the most instructive and
satisfactory convention in the history
of our organization.