Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-28
WORK OF The CLUB WOMEN
Methodist Womens Homs Missionary
Society Holds Fifth Annual Meeting
COUNTRY WOMEN TO BUILD HALL
Organization OutErown Capacity Of
Homes Would Provide Permanent
HalI-siRnineance OF Organ
ization in Third District.

The Fairbanks Country womans club af-
lords an admirable example Of what a
woman's club may do for a community
The club is composed of the wives and
daughters Of farmers living in the vicinity
OF Ashland and was organized three years
ago. Meetings are held monthly the year
around and twice a year the families Of
members are entertained, making the gath
ering large one. Each February a social
Is given at the home Of one Of, the members
and each August a picnic is held in a
grove near the home OF the president Mrs.
%. J. Workman. The club has brought
about such sociability and good feeling in
the community that these two annual
gatherings have come to be the conspicu-
Gus events Of the year The grove pro-
vdes for the outdoor gathering but the
annual social has assumed proportions that
have come to exceed the capacity of the
homes. The women are unwilling TO give
up this function, however and the club
has set to work for the erection Of an as
sembly hall that will accommodate not
only this gathering. but serve for other
gatherings Of the community SO thor
oughly has the club the approval of the
husbands and friends that there has been
no lack Of their cooperation and the as
sembly hall is practically assured. Mrs.
o. J. Workman, the present president. or
ganized the club and has done much to
make 1t the success it has become It is
her theory that II parents would hold the
interest OF their children they must be in
terested in the things that interest the
young people. The young women of the
ha hon nd hou haU
teams and the mothers have encouraged the
organization of ball teams among the
young men and boys and games between
girls and boys are always a feature OF the
August picnic A glee club and an auxili-
airy quartet of young men are also out
growths of the women's club.
District Organizations.
The organization of the women's clubs
Of the Third district in a permanent
auxiliary to the Nebraska Federation last
week. is one Of the significant state club
events of the year. Bylaws were adopted
at the annual meeting Of the Third district
clubs, held at Stanton last Wednesday and
Thursday, and will be submitted to the
board of the State Federation for ratihca-
ton. II is possible this sanction may not
! be granted, but 1t is hardly likely, and IL
/ It 10 given the Third district will be per-
manent organization. This is the first
| definite step toward substituting a biennial
/ for the present annual convention of all
| the clubs of the state, a plan that has
been much discussed and that was defeated
at the Kearney meeting last October. The
matter is certain TO come up again, prob
/ ably at the next state meeting at Hast
I ings next October, but it is hardly likely
/ the result will be different, notwithstanding
/ the action of the Third district, for there
( is little question that the other districts Of
the state are not yet ready for this plan.
| It must come eventually. however, and
( within a year or two probably. The Third
I district is the strongest of the state. Its
! clubs are flourishing and within compare
lively easy access OF each other, which
/ greatly facilitated district federation work.
! To these clubs an annual state convention
is not necessary. A biennial convention
would serve every purpose better for the
annual district meeting would not only pro-
! vide all the inspiration necessary, but
would serve to strengthen the work of the
district.
On the other hand, the other districts OF
! the state are not yet ready to dispense
I with the annual state convention and all of
them could not support an annual district
convention. The Fifth and Sixth districts
held district conventions for the first time
this spring. while the Third has held four
| A biennial convention would be a decided
detrlment to the weaker districts II the
district meeting was not strong, so for
this reason the biennial meeting can hardly
come before another year. Iowa affords
one OF the best examples Of the success
OF the biennial state and annual district
plan and while Nebrasla's population Il
less evenly distributed than Iowa's II will
not be many years before the plan will
operate here as we'll as there.
Missionary Meetings.
The fifth annual meeting of the Methodist
Womans Home Missionary society of thu
Omaha district will be held Tuesday, Apri
30, at the Hanscom Park Methodist church