The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-01-29

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beautifully carried out In rich greer
OF holly, pine and fir and scarlet poin
setta. The same effect was observed
i in the decorations of the tables
: sprays of smilax adding a daintiel
tone of color. In the receiving line
! were the officers of the club: Mrs
Roam, Mrs. III. N. Coffin, Mrs. M. s
Parker, Mrs. Bradley Sheppard and
Miss Himrod, all of whom welcomed
the teachers with that true spirit Of
n cordially which means so much tx
| the stranger within the gates
4 Many Of the prominent educators Of
the state were present and with the
others seemed to derive much pleas
ure from the atmosphere of infor.
4 mality and kindliness characterizing
the evening"
4 Ny friends persuaded me to stay
for the inaugural ceremonies, SO bid
ding Miss Stoddard goodbye, who had
to return TO her school, ! made a lit
tie run over to Weiser, to visit a
widowed school chum, Mrs. Kate
1 jackson, who was prominent in
! woman's club work in Crete, Me-
braska, several years ago. Together,
we called on Mrs. Butterfield, whom
! | found just as sweet and interesting
I in a house dress as she is in a presi-
dents chair. I hope she will succeed
in getting Mrs. Jackson interested in
club work in Idaho.
| AT Weiser, we also visited the In
dustrial institute. The matron, Mrs.
!, Hettinger was a teacher friend OF
mine several years ago. ! found
this school very interesting and |
hope its founder will succeed in the
good work he has undertaken.
AT Payette, spent day with Miss
Madge Simth, who is doing her third
year of excellent work in the primary
department of the public schools.
visited several other grades and found
the music in the high school to be
very commendable.
II returned to Boise for the inaug-
ural ball, which / assure you was no
small part of my trip.
The forenoons of the next two days
| spent visiting the schools of Boise,
which ! found of high standard In
every particular. In the afternoon /
attended the meetings of the legisla-
ture. 1t is talked OF in Boise that
local option will have hard fight. If
1t fails to carry many club women of
Idaho will be disappointed. Yours
sincerely,
ALICE BEACH.
i. !. !.
Kellogg, Idaho, Jan. Is, 1909.
Mrs. Byrd Trego,
Blackfoot, Idaho.
Dear Madam: Our secretary tells
us that "Club Echoes" would be in
terested in knowing something of the
work Of the Good Citizenship Club of |
Kellogg.
We have not plunged into any vio-
lent revolutions or reformations but
began with the idea that in order to
become good citizens, we should be-
,ome better informed ones We have
divided the work into three depart
ments: One devoted to current topics,
including special study OF any topic of
special interest. For instance, pc
tition was sent the club for circula-
ton, asking that Prohibition bill be
introduced in this session Of the
legislature A discussion of prohibi-
Ion versus local option then took
place In the club and a number Of
eading citizens were asked to address
is on the different aspects of the
question.
The second department is devoted
o study Of parliamentary 'Rules Of
)rder," the object being that every
member may be equipped to preside
It any formal meeting or to take an
Intelligent part in such proceedings,
n connection with this department,
We attended the county convention
eld here and used it as an object {
essen at our next session. Il
The third department is peculiar to /,
ur own club. we think. In order I
Q become good citizens, we have to I
hey the laws, of course, and we "a
right better obey them II we had lb
ome slight notion Of what they were. h
he average woman is in densest n
ignorance of these things even in v
leir simplest form and we were no .
reception to the rule. Our ultimate b
bject was to be able to vote intel Il
gently for the people who would e
AXE good laws and enforce those al D
lady in existence. a
We began. like charity nj homo III