The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-06-05
CLUBS In OTHER STATES.

NUMBER are IN the oouIu.
Village Improvement Association.
Ormond is enjoying a delightful
winters work each session having a
different topic. New England Day
was observed by tableaux, Rotations
and songs. History of Ormond and
early days on the Halifax was one
program. On Charter Day, the char
ter, the constitution and history OF
the Ormond Village improvement as
ISOLATION were read closing with a
book shower for the benefit of the Ii
brary. A day with the poets; house
hold economics day, with practical
demonstrations in cookiag; ArDor
Day and Forestry, with recitations
and songs by school children and the
planting of a tree in memory OF
number gone before.
AS president of the South Carolina
Division of the U. D. G. in 1907, it
gives me pleasure to call attention
to the fact that the Marlboro Chapter
u. D. c., Bennettsville, 8. G., unveil-
ed their Confederate monument in
July, 1907, making the fourth chap
ter monument unveiled in South Car
DINA during 1907.
hope our chapters will be aroused
to the necessity Of sending me some
records for next month; but ! sup
pose that they are so busy doing their
work that they can't take time to
tell other people about it--as If his
tory could be made" without rec
ords. Whether consciously or not
they are keeping up their reputation
as North Carolinians.
Our president and secretary have
done considerable work toward
arousing interest in naming the pub
lie schools for our heroes. The di-
vision hopes the time will soon be
when this idea can come to a full
realization.
Quite an elegant and certainly a
charming reception was given at Lee
Camp Hall, Richmond, in March, un-
der the auspices of Mrs. D. 7. Will
liams for the Arlington monument.
The General Dabney N. Maury
Chapter in Philadelphia is one of our
"up and doing" members. They are
only forty some members but never
fail to take up enthusiastically any
appeal made to the as daughters.
louisiana: The Beaureguard mon
ument committee of New Orleans
Chapter, No. u, through it's chair
man, Mrs. d. A. S. Vaught, is request
ing the interest of each member OF
the Louisiana legislature in behalf of
a measure to secure from the state OF
Louisiana for the purpose OF erecting
a monument to Louisiana's dlst1ng-
uished son, Gel. P. G. T. Beaure-
guard, citing as PRECEDENT for such
a request the fact that both South
Carolina and Georgia have made gen.
erous appropriations for state mon
uments to Generals Hampton and j.
B. Gordon. The Beaureguard Monu-
ment association has already in hand
ten thousand dollars and state ap-
preparation of $4,000 added to this
sum would secure a suitable memoir
ial to this great soldier in New Or
leans.
The Civic league of Bedford City,
started through the efforts of the IL
brary association held a grand rally
on the evening of May IA, on which
occasion some of the members OF the
Virginia Federation made some short
addresses.
To the club women of North Caro-
lima, too much credit cannot be given
for their policy and their inspiration
for preparing the way for the free
public libraries. In 1907-S the Will
mington, Goldsboro, and Newbern
libraries became free public libraries
through the prompt and unselfish. eff
forts of the Library extension work
of the Federation of Women's clubs.
There is hardly club in the state
that is not Connected in some way
with some form of library work. The
State Federation of Women's clubs
collected in 1907 the following sta
tistics:
The travelling libraries committee
have for several years been circu-
lating books and helping where they
could in the isolated sections. The
Federation has SO cases averaging
40 books to the case, which are circu-
lated in 25 counties.
At the last annual meeting, May,
1907, the Federation pledged its
support in securing such legisla-
ton as will make possible a library
commission. The future of the Ii
brary development in the South lies
in the establishment of the state COM
mission to dispense state aid. At the
recent session of the legislature char
tiers were granted to High Poine and
Statesville for Carnegie gifts. Char
lotte has the only public library for
the negro. 1t Is supported by the
city, and receives an annual appro-
priation of $400. 1t was opened in
July, 1906, and has 600 volumes.
1t is pleasant to introduce to the
Virginia Federation two new clubs
the Graduate and Registered Nurses
association of Lynchburg and the
Beverly Manor Woman's club.
The Beverly Manor School I'M
provement league which has done ex-
cellent work in Augusta county has
recently recognized and enlarged it's
scope of becoming woman's club,
whose efforts will continue to be
mainly along educational lines.
The forestry committee, to facili-
tate the execution of its request that
individual members of clubs write
to our congressman and to the mem
bers Of the committee of agriculture,
urging them to secure the passage of
the Appalachian-White Mountain
Forest bill distributed among the
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