Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-10-13
mrs. n. c. YOUNG OF FARGO
CONTINUED from page 81

| the attention of your committee at vari
Gus times: General Federation of Wo-
mems clubs; American Forestry associa-
| ton; National Conservation association;
| National Conservation congress, and the
Womans National Rivers and Harbors
congress.
A summary OF the work throughout
| the federation shows that twenty clubs
are active i'll forestry,
As to future work, let every club and
district convention avail themselves Of
| the opportunity of securing a speaker
! on forestry which has been made pos
sible through the courtesy of the extern
sion department of the state university
and agricultural college.
1t has been a pleasure to receive COM
| munications from 10 of the 68 clubs of
| the federation. telling of what has been
done and attempted, and of future
! plans. Not one club has made us feel
| discouraged
Civic Improvement Work.
Possibly one Of the most interest
ing reports that was presented to the
! federation, the one that showed the
! greatest amount of good accomplish.
ed for the various communities,
wherein women's clubs are establish
ed, was that of the civic improvement
! committee, which was submitted by
Mrs. Walter Reed of Armenia. In
summing up Mrs. Reed said:
In many of our cities there are Civic
leagues organized for the purpose Of
carrying on this movement A number
of our clubs join with them i'll further
! ing this much needed work.
! The members Of the Sorosis club and
! Domestic club Of Valley City. Glendale
Conversation club and Woman's club OF
Langdon are nearly all members OF the
Civic Improvement leagues of their re-
| >psctivc cities.
The Woman's club of Gardcna had a
cleaning up day, and have raised funds
to purchase piano FOR the school.
Mimic Woman's Literary club rented
large vacant lot on main street and
gave the school children each a small
plot and furnished them flower seeds
This did much in improving the appear
ance of the street.
Mayvillc turned their efforts to beat
tifying their park, placing seats and
planting flowers.
Bottincau had cleaning up day, and
have succeeded i'll banishing the public
drinking cup from their schools, and as
stunned the care of the cemetery.
| Woman's Literary club OF North
wood have kept their cemetery i'll good
condition., uniting with the Commercial
club in paying man to do this work.
Woman's club of Lisbon presented ;
large copy of Nlillctt's Feeding Of the
Birds" to the public school.
Bowman Woman's club have estab
lished and maintained rest room.
! Woman's Improvement league O.
Buxton placed picturesque "Stratford
on-Avon" in the dining room of Hote
Belland and also made a donation te
park fund.
Woman's study club of Wimbledon
has a good report. They agitated tn
need of sanitary city we'll until thu
town board provided it. Through then
they also had the town dumping groun(
placed two miles out from the city linn
its. n black walnut tree was planted
on the school grounds and playground
started and partially equipped. The clul
and the Commercial club had join
committee and conferred with the rail
road company. with the result that the,
have small partk near the depot ant
have 5000 raised for fence for same
Civic Improvement league of Lang
don have been very energetic this year
They have installed city garbage sys
tenn. The houscholders supply them
selves with covered garbage cans, which
are elnptied at the expense of the cit.
once every two weeks. The city heatl
officer has direct supervision of thi
system. and the cost has been very light
They took up the subject OF oiling tn
streets and would have had it installed
but for the drought and failure of crops
They have taken up the matter of med
ical inspection in the schools and hav'
arranged to have Prof. Goddard o
Devils Lake lecture to them on the sub
:ject, telling what they have accomplished
in their schools and how to go about it
Boxes for waste paper and refuse have
been placed along the main street witt
the inscription, ''Help to keep Langdor
clean" They hope to take up some
juvenile work next year
! Walpeton Civic Improvement league
has representative committees from
their two literary clubs. They have hac
cans for paper and refuse placed or
their streets. Had President McVe,
give them talk. his subject being "The
Making of City," One new idea is
they had articles upon civic work ap-
pear in the paper Prizes are offered
for the most improved lawns during
the season of 1910. the mayor giving
| $40 and Woman's Literary club $lo S.
being apportioned to each of the four
city wards They hope to make this all
annual affair
Many of the clubs have had cleaning
up days in the spring. These good re-
ports come from all over the state. and
we feel that We have reason to feel en-
couraged
The Civic Improvement league of
! Valley City can report progress and a
measure of success in its work, though
it has fallen somewhat short as yet Of
realizing all of our ambitions. Finan-
cial embarrassment has been one Of its
l1andicaps. though i'll this t undoubtedly
! shared the common fate Of most organ
! izations of the same kind
One phase of work Of which the
1,,r,,o =. r,+1,or -ro.J * that of the