The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-09-24
HOST FOR FAIR ONES
LADIES' CLUBS ARE TO MEET IN
LAKE CITY THIS WEEK.
Lengthy Program Covers a Variety of
Topics on Which Papers Will Be
Read and Discussions Follow; Eve
ming Concerts and Launch Rides
the Entertaining Features; State
Convention Begins on Tuesday.
From Mondays Daily.

From Mondays Daily.
Club women will gather at Lake City
this week and new impetus and en-
erey will be given to the various good
works of federated club women for
the coming season.
Lake City has made great prepare
tions for the entertainment of the WIS.,
itors and intends to make the social
features of the convention especially
pleasant.
The following is the completed and
corrected program for the meeting:
Program for Opening Day.
Tuesday Morning, Sept. 2l-At the
Woman's club room-Meeting of the
council at ten o'clock; meeting of the
executive board at eleven o'clock.
Tuesday Afternoon-l:30 o'clock-At
the Congregational Contamination
Mrs. w. A. Warren; Lake City's
Welcome to the Federation--Mrs. G..
s. Todd; greetings, Mrs. Philip n.
Moore, president general federation;
Miss Margaret j. Evans, honorary
president Minnesota federation; re-
Spouse by the president, Mrs. c. &.
Higbee, st. Paul; duo (pipe organ and
piano., OPP. 20 (Alex. Guilmant), MIR.
and Mrs. +. A. Smith; partial report
of credentials committee, Mrs. H. L..
Stark, st. Peter; report of constitution
committee, Mrs. NJ. b. Lewis, Mime
apolis; presentation of program, Mrs.
Clarence L. Atwood, st. Cloud; ap-
pointment of special committees.
Reports of officers-Vice-p president at
large, Mrs III. A. Tomlinson, st. Peter;
corresponding secretary, Mrs. o. b.
Lewis, st. Paul; recording secretary,
Mrs. T. +. Kinney, Minneapolis; treas
urer, Mrs. L. j. Lewis, Sank Center;
historian, Mrs. H. n. McKusick, Still
water; custodian, Mrs. A. Barto, Sank
Center; general federation secretary,
MIS-. J. l.. Washburn, Duluth; district
vice presidents, report of general coun-
ci>. Mrs. c. o. Welch, Fergus Falls;
report of state art commissions; in
formal reception, 4:30 to $3.50 at the
Womans club room in the city hall.
Thursday-Musical, Minneapolis.
Wednesday Evening, eight o'clock
At the Methodist church. Quartet
two pianos, eight hands), selected,
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Smith, Miss Anna
Stevenson, Mrs. C. A. Koch, Lake City;
vocal solo, Isafel (Oliver King), Mr..
r. d. Underwood, Lake City; address,
The State Federation Mrs. c. G.
Higbee, st. Paul; group of songs, Mrs.
Walter Merrill Thurston, Schubert club,
St. Paul; address, "The General Fed
eration,' Mrs. Philip n. Moore, St.
Louis.
Reports of Tellers On Officers.
Thursday Morning, nine o'clock-At
the Congregational church. Unfinished
business; reports of nominating COM
mittees, for members of standing COM
mittess. for delegates to biennial at
Cincinnati, 1910; report of tellers on
informal ballot for officers; greeting of
the Needlework Guild of America, Miss
Rosamond X. Bender, national corrres-
ponding secretary needlework guild;
vocal solo, Mrs. Carl Ruggles, Winona;
children's welfare, "As God Made
Them" Miss Isabel Lawrence, superin-
tendent training school of Minnesota
state normal, ST. Cloud.
Report of Committees clubs,
Mrs. X. +. Mo, Springfield, education,
Mrs. E. H. Loyhed, Faribault; scholar
ship department, Mrs. H. n. Mckusick,
Stillwater; state industrial school for
girls, Mrs. T. F. Kinney, Minneapolis;
How Clubwomen Can Cooperate to
Make Effective the Juvenile Court,
Superintendent George A. Franklin, Aus
tin; Compulsory Education F. f.
hoffman, statistician labor bureau, St
Paul. Formal ballot for election of
officers, polls open from II m. to $50
p. M
Thursday Afternoon-l:30 O'Clock
at the Congregational church-l:3O to
2:45. Community music. Report of
music committee, Miss Caroline V
Smith, Winona, after topic, "Commu-
ity Music" 80 to 2:45; introduc-
ton, ''The Federation of Women's
tluDS anu MUSIC, MIS-. ~. " iiSoOS
st. Paul 1.-The Music Club and Com
munty Music" Miss Elsie M. Shaw
st. Paul; address, "The Attitude OF
Non Musical People, Mrs. w. o. Fry.
berger, Minneapolis; "The Music OF
the Church as Related to Community
Music" Mrs. Carl Ruggles, Winona
"The Music of the Home in Its Rela-
ton to Community Music" Mrs. Rus
sell Dorr, ST. Paul; 2:45 to 4 p. m.
political Equality of Men and Wom
en-" address, Suffrage" Mr.. A. IL
Bright, Minneapolis; discussion, Mrs
j. L. Washburn, Duluth; Mrs. A. II
Mudeking, Owatonna; Miss Emily e
Dobbin, st. Paul; Mrs. II. j. Cohen
Brainerd: Mrs. A. G.. Hinckley, Glare
mont; Mrs. G. f. Sylvester, Plainview
Mrs J. w. Straight. st. Paul; Mrs. e
o. WEIGH, Fergus Falls; report OF com
mittee on invitations; report OF com
mittee on resolutions; report OF teller'
on formal ballot for officers; presenta
ton of new officers: 430 p. m, car
riage and automobile drive under the
auspices of the Commercial club.
The Evening Concert
Thursday Evening eight o'clock-At