The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-02-07

Such evenings strengthen thu
chord that binds each member o.
the community i'll one common bono
that of fellowship, and Mackay has
had all too few such functions
Mackay Miner.
Social Settlement Committee.
(From Tenn. Federation Year Book
LOSE to the. heart of the Big
~ Smoky Mountains lies little
valley called Walkers Valley, whose
connection with the Tennessee State
Federation of Woman's Club began
in the summer of 1902, when the wo
men of four clubs nearest the noun
tains of East Tennessee, Ossoii and
Newman Circles at Knoxville and
the Tuesday and Chilhowee Clubs Of
Maryville, opened settlement there.
The interest in the valley had been
awakened by the plea made through
the columns of the Maryville Times
by the first public school teacher OF
the valley, Mr.. S. H. Dunn, who had
taught two months school there
during the fall of 1901.
Soon the Athene Club of Knoxville
and the Kosmos Club of Chattanooga
Joined the circle of clubs carrying
forward this work.
The Chilhowee Club hears a noun
tain name. 1t was fitting that in this
Club plans should first be discussed
and formulated for carrying a good
settlement school into Walkers Val
ley. This could never have been &C
complished without the cooperation
of the other Clubs. 1t was the gen
erous gift from Ossoli Circle, the
first year, that saved the day, and
put work on a sure financial basis.
For four years now this summer
school under the clubs has been car
ried on by earnest Christian work.
ers, whose lives have touched the
valley lives at every point of their
need
For the three summers, 1902-1905
the Rev. Frederic Lee Webb and his
mother, Mrs. Emile A. Webb, had
charge of the work. The summer of
1905 Mr.. Stanley Jewell and his sis
ter, Miss Almira Jewell, were our
workers. Mrs. Emile A. Webb also
gave one month of her time to the
work of last summer,
The people have welcomed the
school as a blessing to their children,
and have shown the greatest kind
ness to the workers.
Through these four summers of
settlement work, in addition to their
public shoot, four students of Walk
er's Valley have been fitted for the
Department of Maryville
College. Surely this is very quick
returns for small out lay of money,
and shows the splendid ability of
the mountain students.
Mr.. William Walker, the owner of
the valley, has decided to our School
Board the teachers cottage and four
acres of land, and has arranged that
we shall always have the use of the
public school building for our sum-
mer school.
Last year seven organizations paid
into the treasury $115.50 to carry
the work of Walkers Val
ley.
This year the interest has deepen
I'd, and with few personal gifts
from individuals, together with aid
from sixteen Federated Clubs, the
settlement fund has reached the
high water mark of $257.50. This
las enabled us not only to continue
he work in Walkers Valley, but to
larry it also into the Greenbrier Val
ey, where two earnest workers, Mrs.
lmilie A. Webb and Miss Pearl Has
ings, have done such splendid work
through the summer of 1905.
This is because the Club women
If Tennessee have remembered their
federation motto, Unity of Purpose;
lave remembered the splendid Scotch
IRISH ancestry of the mountaineers;
AVE remembered how in the hard
,ioneer days of the Revolution the
made history for us.
low, in the hour of weakness, born
( isolation and neglect their descend
nts are we'll worthy of our efforts
O make history for them, that they
nay enter into their rightful heritage
f religion, learning and liberty.
e. HENRY, Chairman,
Maryville,
Tenn.
FRS GEO. l.. MORGAN of Mackay,