The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-02-05
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MOMENTS CLUBS FORM FEDORA
TION.
Z A City Federation OF Women's
Clubs has been formed in Kingston,
N. ", the clubs SO celebrating being
the Monday Club, the Atharhacton
Club and the Coterie Club. On
Saturday afternoon some 60,women
from these various clubs met at st.
Johns parish house to consider the
adyisability of organizing more close
ly, that they might undertake some
civic work in the city. They were
ably addressed by Miss Neafie Of
Goshen, who is a member of the
Middletown Federation Of Womens
Clubs.
Miss Neafie expressed great pleas
ure at the possibility of federation
being formed here, inasmuch as there
was profound truth in the hackneyed
adage, I'm union there is strength. ;"
Much as few women might like to
undertake altruistic work in their
community, the best way to secure
results was by getting other women
to help.
Miss Neafie said that since the
Middletown Federation was still in its
infancy, having been organized only
last February, it would be easy for
her to recount the first steps of the
organization. The officers elected
were president, two or three vice.
presidents, a recording and corre-
spending secretary and treasurer.
They had an executive, a member
ship and press committee, such be-
ing standing committees, and tenn
porary finance committee. The exec
utive committee was made up of the
presidents of each club, and two al
ternates, chosen by the president, to
represent the chief officer in case of
her absence. In this way each club
would be always represented by a
vote. Their executive committee met
once a month and the general meet
ings were four year. In order to
raise money at the very start each
club paid an entrance fee OF 50, and
later each member of each club paid
SO cents into the treasury. The
dues OF associate members, such
women not living in the city, where
the federation was operative, or
women of the city unable to be d.
rectly affiliated with any of the
clubs, was 81.
Officers retained their office for
one year only, but on the expiration
of that year were not disqualified
from election to some other office.
There were also civic and a phi
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lanthropic committee. The former
committee had given to the people OF
Middletown one free lecture by G..
Stage Whiting of New York city, q
settlement worker, and the hall was
filled with people, majority Of
whom were unknown to the Fedora
ton women. The committee had
also succeeded in installing the hood
ed cans for receiving rubbish from
the streets in many parts of the city,
and the city authorities attended to
the emptying Of the cans. The phil
anthropic committee had instituted a
club for working girls, that is meet
Ing place for girls who boarded and
had no home in which to enjoy socia-
bility. A room in one Of the insti-
tutional houses of one of the churches
had been secured for one evening
each week for this meeting, for 81 a
week, and already the club was do
ing a great work. The girls them
selves have charge of the meetings.
The federation, working with the
board of education, was also hoping
to institute public playground this
coming year. In, fact, Miss Neafie
said that the federation found all
other organizations in the city, civic
and educational, only too glad to
work with and support the work Of
the women.
! Many questions were asked Miss
Neafie and an informal discussion of
the subject was followed by a motion
from Miss Mary Noone, to the effect
that the women's clubsof Kingston
federate. The motion was carried and
Kingston now has a Federation of
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