Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1909-10-21
HOME AND CHILD
A BROAD FIELD
President Of Idaho Federation in
Session in Payette in an Address
Suggests that Efforts be Central
lied There.

Tuesday morning of this week tn,
delegates TO the annual convention O
the Second Idaho District Federation
of Women's Clubs began to arrive il
Payette on the various trains and by
the opening of the session at p. m
the following delegates answered tC
roll call.
Delegates Present.
Caldwell-Mrs. W A. Stone, Mrs
C. B. Steunenberg, Mrs. A. K Steu.
nenberg, Mrs. H. B. Blatchley. Mrs
7. P. Jackson. Mrs. E. L. Brany.
Boise-Mrs. John Driscoll, Mrs. l.
Z. Barber. Mrs. F. Z. iKnyon, Mrs.
H. n. Coffin. Mrs. Mary B. King,
Mrs. K. I. Perkey, Mrs. E. J. Dock
cry, Mrs. R. L. Nourse, Mrs. J. B.
Morrow, Mrs. F. l. Coats, Mrs. j. G.
Green.
Parma-Mrs. J. C. Baldridge, Mrs.
A. H. Lang. Mrs. G. A. Tanner. Mrs,
J. A Blackwell.
Shoshone-Mrs. E. T. Barton, Mrs.
Fred Gooding, Mrs. C. R. Wheeler.
Mountainhome-M L. B. Green,
Mrs. Harriet Daniels, Mrs. Gertrude
Hall, Mrs. W. T. Montgomery, Mrs.
Annie Bullock, Mrs Mary Ticknor,
Mrs. B. w. Mather
Weiser.-Mrs. Elizabeth Waters.
Mrs. Alex Johnson, Mrs. NJ Wheel
house, Miss Mclaughlin, Mrs. A. K
Hit, Mrs. C. NJ. Hixin, Mrs. W. T.
Godfrey, Mrs. ]. R. Numbers. Mrs
]. H. Schloche, Mrs. Aubrey Butter
field
Meadows-Mrs. A. B. Lucas, Mrs.
Mitchell
OF the National officers of the Gen
eral Federation Mrs Phillip Moore
the president, Of St, Louis was pres
ent, and on Tuesday evening deliver
ID a splendid address on the "aims
of the General Federation
Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock the
convention was called to order by
the President Mrs. F. A. Pettinger.
After the invocation by Mrs. F. NJ.
Satoris the address of welcome TO
the visiting delegates was extended
by Mrs. John McGlinchey on behalf
of Portia, the hostess club in her
usual pleasing and hearty manner.
Mrs. X. I. Perkey, of Boise, respond
ed on behalf of the Federation and
the balance Of the morning was Ia
ken up with the business session.
At noon the delegates were enter
tanned at a delightful luncheon at the
homes of Mesdames Wilson, Albert,
and Lauer,
At two p. m. the convention again
assembled with the vice-President
Mrs. McGlinchey presiding and anon
the most interesting features of the
afternoons program was the annual
address of the President Mrs. Pet
finger,
In the address the President recon-
mended among other things that the
club women work for stricter en-
forcement of the curfew law and that
the members use their efforts as
much as possible toward keeping pub
lie sentiment alive to the necessity
Of supporting all measures looking
toward the betterment of the eondi-
ton and the control of dependent,
crippled and delinquent children. nj
fact the President emphatically pre-
sented the thought that more effect
i've work could be done by the club
women if they centralized their ef-
forts on children (those Of the other
women as wen as their own and on
the practical problems of the house
keeper.
She also strongly recommended that
every club devote one day each year
to the study Of forestry and irriga-
ton.
These were the most important rec
concentrations offered by the Presi-
dent in an address which was well
received and created a very strong
impression.
Tuesday evening the convention
again assembled in the assembly
room Of the Y. NJ. @. A. building
where a musical program and an ad-
dress on General Federation of
Women's Clubs. Its History and
Aims" by the guest Of honor Mrs.
Phillip N, Moore, Of ST, Louis, Pres.
G, F, w. c. entertained the dele
gates and large number Of Payette
citizens who attended.
In her address Mrs. Moore proved
to be an interesting and forceful
taIker commanding the closest atten-
tion. She called attention 70 the
fact that it was the large number Of
teiegrams from federated women as
sembied at 81. Paul to representa-
tiyes at Washington that caused the