Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-03-14
IMPROVEMENT LEAGUE

IMPROVEMENT LEAGUE
The First Year Was Very
Successful
The following is the presi-
dents retiring address as read
before the league Thursday
| afternoon:
PRESIDENT HECKERT's ADDRESS
Ladies friends n. NIB \ VI
1.-THE Missouri Valley Improve
ment League. This meeting
closes the first year of our
clubs life and work, and a very
pleasant years work it has been
to me as your presiding officer,
and pleasant, TOO, to all of you,
| hope. Harmony, energy, in
Itelligence have seemingly
marked your every effort to
further the good of the city in
which and for which the club
was organized; a city, as we all
believe, of no mean POSSIBLE
tiles, a city whose women, es-
pecially, rank above the aver
age in all that makes for good
in a towns social and civic life.
You are clean minded, intelli-
gent, cultured, genial and
socisl. This is shown by the
fact that many of you, a hum
dred in number, volunteered
in the work of village improve
ment, by devoting your time,
strength, money, for the general
rood. Your work the past year
has been of such a nature as to
give pleasure to all our people,
a name and a place for our
home town among the progress
live towns Of Iowa, and an in
aspiration to greater things in
the near future.
] need not recount here in
detail our experienc 5. We re-
member them W ~; the towns
people, too, VIII never forget
Them.
Dandelion day lacked per-
haps in business sagacity, but
overfowed in humorous phases
A cent a pound for 10000
4 pounds Of dandelions was cheap
for the public spirit it aroused
and the advertising gained, and
it always pays to advertise. tt
this day our experience ano
grit shown on that mirth pro
voking holiday are known anc
sung in every town in all Iowa
May 5th is and ever will be a
red letter day in our calenG a :
though we may never be able
to pay so high a price fol
dandelions again.
The district convention o:
Federated Ladies clubs, called
there Oct. 26, 1906, by our efforts
brought us in touch with the
|ladies' clubs of Iowa in a way
that will ever be to our credit
1--WE have now a place among
the women's clubs of Iowa fol
good and for humanity.
The art exhibit, too, stand
on our records and on the tab
lets of our hearts as an upward
; step in all that makes for pleas
urable culture and refnemen
among right minded people. |
gave US joy. 1t did us and GU
people good in many ways.
would like to see it repeated
with a new set of picture
. under more favorable circum
stances next winter.
The waste paper cans place.
: along the street by our effort
lis the beginning of cleane.
streets and alleys that will b
as seed sown in good ground.
i The Punishment of the slo
: machines, kindergartens o
}. gambling, ought to be regards
e with gratitude by every paren
: of boys in town.
We have not forgotten tn
). suffering portion of our popu
ation. The room we have fitte
;, and propose to maintain in tn
: local hospital out of the abur
: dance of our own homes is a
the ointment with which Mar
wiped her Savior's feet. w
have done what we could.
The book-social to be give
= this afternoon should be as tn
> mustard seed sown in goo
l. ground. The Ladies' Improve
: ment League Book Case in tn
d local library should contai
d within ninety days at least 10
= choice books of real merit an
= helpfulness, especially to tn