The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-05-15
CIVIC LEAGUE HoNoRs.
Sumter Won Them All at the Meeting
of the Federation OF Women's
Clubc

of the Federation OF Women:
! Clubs.
This week the Federation of Wom-
ems Clubs of South Carolina met al
Orangeburg. The delegates from
Sumter returned Friday, overaowins
with enthusiasm and puffed up with
very pardonable pride at the honor
conferred upon them and through
them upon our Civic League, ou1
city and our conuty Let Us tell
briefly what happened:
It seems TO be a rule OF order at
these meetings to allow only two
minutes for the reading Of report
ca rather por indication, isn't it, Ia
dies. of the amount of work done in
year?) When the president Of our
Civic League asked the presiding Off
Ger for more time in which to read
her report it was denied her. Utter
" impossible; against the rules!' But
some how, when Mrs. Beall began to
read her report, and had consumed
two minutes, and some Of the ladies
asked the presiding officer to call her
down she said ..No!" Read on. .
And she read~on and on for fourteen
minutes. And then the applauses.
It would have warmed the heart
of the stingiest and hard-heartedesJ
old codger in Sumter to have heard it.
1t was grand, and it was deserved.
Then some lady got up and asked
that the report from Sumter be
printed and placed in the Reprocity
library so that it might be read by
every member Of every club in the
State. Then some more ladies jump
ed up and said that their clubs want
ed It first. Then the editor Of the
keystone, the Official organ Of the
Federation, said she wanted it lrst,
to print in her paper, 50 they could
all read it. Finally, Mrs. Decker, OF
Denver, Colorado, that grand, good
woman, the president Of the Fedora
ted Leagues CT the United States, in
the course Of her address, said she
wanted that report to carry back with
her to show the western women what
southern women were doing. and she
wanted. also, the report Of Miss Theo-
dosia Dargan, Of Stateburg, on I'm
provement in Rural Schools and
these were the only ones she did want.
Then there was more applause and
louder and longer and still more; and
our delegates looked to your reporter
like they didn't know whether to
laugh or to cry. Why, it was grand,
and all because our league had done
something, and had told a plain, un-
vanished tale Of what they had
done.
When the president. seeing that our
ladies could do things as well as look
sweet, appointed them to all sorts Of
places Of honor and responsibility; We
cant remember it all; we do recall
that 1Irs. Mitchell Levi was made
chairman of the committee to draw ue
resolutions OF thanks to Orangeburg.
and that Miss Dargan was made
chairman Of the committee on educa-
ton.
Nov, a--.-.'ts you glad yoa have help
ed our Civic League? If you have
helped them, you can take much OF
this glory to yourself. If you have
not, guess YOU had better hurry up
and fall in lire. Their great work is
just begun. This year, the ladies say
must surpass the last. Let US ali
get our coats off and make ours the
banner league, and city. and county.
and State of the whole United States.
Next week is the big May festival for
the benefit OF the Civic League. and
We shall all have a chance. Get ont
all your spare cash and have Jolly,
good tine, aad help on a grand. good
cause.