The daily sentinel., 1908-01-09
THE WOMAN'SCLUB
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IT'S GREAT WORK

would be complete without a mem
tion of the Woman's Club. Besides
the very worthy object of self i'm
provement along educational lines
there have been very few public en-
terprises of an educational nature
in which this club has not taken a
deep interest The library work, art
in the public schools, manual train
ing. physical culture, the county fair
and many others of like nature.
The Womans club of Grand Jun
ction was established in November.
1895. The motto of the club, 1.-THE
Temple Of Knowledge is in Our Very
Midst" indicated the purpose to be
the mutual Improvement and culture
of its members. The membership
was limited to twenty-five and was
at first always fun up. The ladies
soon became dissatisfied with the
meetius for personal profit alone.
Seeing a great general need for
public library for this city they set
their hearts on establishing one here
The first year they purchased refer
ence books for the club rooms and
used them as a nucleus to build up
on. Several donations of books were
made by private parties elss.
During the second and third years,
repeated entertainments were gwen
to raise money to purchase books;
and library tickets were sold to the
members at $500 apiece which en-
titled them to the privileges of draw
ing books from a few shelves con-
iaiiing from one hundred to two
hundred volumes. The effort to es-
tablish a library was made the prac-
tical work of the club for three years
AT the end of this time the Carnegie
library was built and given az a pres
ent to the city. This gift was secur-
ed by Mrs. b. f. Jay and was Mr..
Carnesie's first gift to Colorado.
After this end was gained the Wo-
mans club took up the work of
school room decoration with the
teachers and many fine pictures have
been placed on the walls of the diff
ferent school rooms through their
efforts. In 1900 ana 1901. box of
books was donated TO the travelling
library and named for the Woman's
Club of Grand Junction. A tax was
paid each year to help sustain this
state work.
After few years the club lifted
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ing wide its doors as to membership.
At the same time merger" was
coEsummated with The "rw wentieth
Century Club which had been or
ganized few years previous and
had been doing spleBoid work eions
the same lines.
The officers OF the State FEEDER
alton have lavished mach Rai-e AZ
on the Grand Junction club. eayiLg
that they consiIer II one uf the fore
most clubs in Colorado.
The Woman's Clah has broadened
is scope and widened Il. purpose un-
til II now takes in airy wRnAn OF
good moral standing who Wishes to
aims to do the greatest sooo 10 she
greatest number. its stnay has GOV
cred literature, biitory, sssepse, art
economics and domestic spteDce
Several papers have been Isest each
year to the recipro city bupeaa 70 al
sist in the work of other eh,bs.
Several smaller charitable under
-akings have beel- seruRAly1sasesS t
this organization. t. stssasSnf, eye
ready t1 leBd tsli,ss,ss, hssaAA, - 80
altruistie work tisat. ~ r.as soIsiaer
Within Its scope Snds wh0 -As3l rs
that the W0mans eiijl m. Hut, pows.
COR a good in the eonnSsuttvS m
original small study ci1bs init yer
the forerunners Of the ppcs.Ht wor
were narrow ald seifish in a Hoea.
ure and by their very essf,saivenes
engendered strife. Tn. work Ao'
tands as exponent OF womsn's d,
sire and ability 10 lend seipin
hand.
The present officers OF the club al
IS follows:
President-Mrs. Leroy c Hedge
Vice ,President-Ars O. IL Taylo
Secretary-Mrs. h. Is. Cole
Treasurer-Mrs. u. b. Bishop.
Cor. Secretary Mrs J. II. Rank
Press Cor.-Miss Alice Rice.
The study program for is07-S er
braces, fiction, history. art, socioloi
domestic science. current eYents al