The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-04-29
.WONAN'S CLUB NOTES
Items of Interest Concerning the
Oskalcosa Organization.

The browning event OF the state BIZ
ennial of the Iowa Federation OF Wom-
ems clubs to convene in Davenport,
May 1921, is to be the biennial con-
cert, which is being anticipated by mu-
steal people throughout the state.
Mrs. t. o. Swiney of Davenport, chair
man of the state music committee OF
the federation, has given out today
the first inkling of those who are to
take part in the brilliant musicale, as
well as the soloists of the biennial
whose numbers will intersperse the
sessions. The date of this concert,
loriginally set for Thursday, May 20,
has been changed to Friday. evening,
May 81, and 1t will be in the Turner
Grand Opera house. The Harmonic
chorus of forty voices under the direc-
ton of Miss Louise st. John Wester-
welt, head of the vocal department of
the Columbia School of Music of Chi
cago, will be featured. This women's
chorus is q department of Harmonic
society of Davenport that has existed
uninterruptedly since 1875 and it is
claimed that no organization OF its
kind in Iowa compares with it in ar
ltistic work and finish. The music stu
dents octet of women's voices of which
Mrs. Swiney is .contralto will be on
the program for a number. Among
1.-THE soprano soloibts will be Miss Grace
Ames, OF Davenport, recently returned
from study under Ferguson of Berlin;
Mrs. Amalie Schmidt-Gobble, well
known Iowa artistic; Mrs. Gertrude
arse-Applequist of Rock Island, pu-
lpn of. Duyiyier; Miss Bergliot Aalrud
of Christiana, Norway, gifted young
lcontralto, who has been warmly COM
mended by the Chicago press, will be
one of the principal yocalists, as will
lbe Mr.. Walter Ita of Burlington, a
splendid young. baritone.
Among the instrumentalists will be
Miss Olga Schmidt, pianiste. pupil OF
lScharwenka; Mrs. Frederick Weyer-
haeuser Reimers of Rock Island, who
studied piano under Wagner Swayne
of Paris; Miss Bertha Klein of Bur
Ilington, the well known exponent OF
Miss Blanche Sherman's D.. teaching;
Miss Alice Clough, violinist, pupil
Iof Listermann, an organ number by
Miss Clara Sloan, who has studied
with Clarence Eddy and Guilmant in
Paris, and Miss Gertrude Housed, VIC
linist member of the faculty OF Aug
lustana Conservatory of Music of Aug
Iustana College, Rock Island. Master
Lyle Utts, a boy soprano of Grace
Cathedral choir, will sing at one OF
the sessions.
The musical selections will be. scat
tered through the four days of the
convention eliminating in hhe con-
cert on May 81.
A Brilliant Reception.
Mrs. J. - DeArmand Of Davenport
wife of State Senator DeArmand, will
entertain the delegates and visitors
at the biennial at brilliant reception
Tuesday evening, May IS, at her home
Mrs. Albert B. Cummins of Washing
ton, D. c., wife OF U. S. Senator Cum
minis, and Mrs. Warren Garst, wife of
former Governor Garst, are among the
distinguished women expected to be
here for this affair. Mrs. DeArmany
will be assisted in entertaining by the
state officers of the federation and the
members OF the local biennial board.
Col. F. E. Hobbs, commandant of
A oil TY1n IN, 81 lnk
ter to Mrs. Maria Purdy Peck, chair
man of the local. board, extended the
courtesies of the reservation during
the biennial and they are privileged to
| visit the island and shops at their con-
lvenience during their stay.
The board OF education has invited
the women of the federation to visit
the schools of the city and the indus
trial departments, manual training,
cooking and sewing, will be of espe-
cial interest.
Mrs. p. S. Peterson, of Chicago, who
is Just announced as one OF the speak
ers of the biennial, is chairman of the
forestry committee of the General Fed
Grafton of Women's clubs. During
the six years that a forestry depart
ment has been established in the fed
GRAFTON committees have taken up the
work in 4G states, and Mrs. Johnson
is at the head of this great work. She
is the author OF the Mature Lovers
Greed" which is so widely quoted
The program in full will not be
ready for publication until early in,
May.