The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-02-20
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. IN THE SOCIAL REALM. .
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AAANSASoIiLS llltClluS Ol lsle
Shakespeare club was held Tuesday
afternoon at the Sims Library. Mrs.
}. Lea Cannon presided and Miss
Mable Smith over the minutes. Roll
call was responded to with bits of
information about animals, ard
proved highly entertaining. Two new
members were enrolled. Mrs. NJ. B.
Templeton's special question on
The Sources of the Play" was ex-
cellently prepared and given Mrs.
Nevins' reading, "A Strange WILL"
was splcndidly given and we'll re-
ceived. Mrs. Watson is out-of-town
but her paper Sermons in Stones,
will be enjoyed at the next meet
ing.
A good deal of business was
transacted, some of it being as fol-
lows: Miss Middletons report, as
treasurer, gave out that more than
forty dollars is on hand. This money
goes toward the musical scholarship
recently bestowed Mrs Watson has
been placed on a committee by the
Federated clubs to look after the
identifying of parks, etc, WaXaha-
chic being included in her jurisdic-
ton, and it is very probable that
this work will be under considera-
tinn a. N NJ orc MYc
pleton put before the house a cir
culating library, the project of the
Sims Library, and Miss Galloway
the librarian, which was unanimous
ly carried. This library will be sent,
upon request, to the cotton mill dis
tricts, and to all remote country dis
tricts, who would not otherwise
have the opportunity of good read
ing matter.
The Humane movement was put
before the club, and interesting let
ters in connection with this work
were read from Mr. E. K. White
head, secretary of the state bureau
of child and animal protection of
Colorado. Miss Matte Middleton,
Mrs. ]. S. Herring, Mrs. Groce and
others spoke well in favor of the
Humane society being organized.
Mrs. NJ. B. Templeton moved not as
a club but that the president APP
point a committee of five or six of
the club to wait on the different
prominent citizens of the town, and
to have called mass meeting at
some near future time, of all the
of organizing a humane society, and
that all the club members, as well
as others who are interested along
! humane lines, join. This was unan-
imously adopted.
1t is felt that this future organiza-
ton of the Humane society will do
great good toward the protection of
helpless children, and other helpless
humanity; and for the protection of
defenseless animals, who are much
abused and oftentimes unsheltered,
underfed and starved looking, as
well as for the cooped fowls and
birds, which are often crowded to-
gether in coops, small and filthy,
exposed to rains, winters colds and
summers heat, and, sometimes,
without food and water Much en-
thusiasm was shown A bulletin
board, with humane literature, which
had been we'll directed and prepared
by the librarian, Miss Galloway, was
on exhibit in the club room. This
bulletin board will be on exhibition
for several weeks at the Sims Libra
ry, and the public has cordial in
vitation to call and inspect same.
Despite the fact that several mem
bers were kept away by sickness and
bereavements, nearly thirty mem
bers wer present.
1t was the pleasure of the club
to have with it on this occasion, Miss
Annie Halbert of Corsicana, who is
the guest of her sister, Mrs. G. c.
Groce, and Mrs. Horace Trippett of
Hico, a former member of the club,
who is visiting her mother, Mrs. J.
D. Hood.