The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-11-22
VALLEY CLUBS
HAVE WORKED
Year Book Of State Federation
Shows Them to Have Done
Much Civic Improvement

In progressiveness, in dealing intel
ligently with practical subjects and in
good team work among the members
the clubs of the Yakima valley are
well to the fore, according to the
reports of the past years work in the
state federation, contained in the year
book which the printing committee
has been distributing the past week
The work of the joint art and health
committees of North Yakima, made
up of representatives of the five fed
Grated clubs, comes in for special
mention praise.
Woman Park Commissioner
But if the North Yakima club wo-
men have been active and done eX-
cellent work the past year, the club
women of the lower valley have been
no less So Sunnyside, in particular,
has an enviable record. 1t has a
park commission and a woman mem
Der, Mrs r. c. McCredie. who is now
president of the state federation. Fol
lowing lecture on landscape archi-
lecture given there last spring by H.
F. Weed of Portland, who had pre-
viously given three talks in North
Yakima. the Woman's Civic Improve
an ordinance creating a park com
mission. A town forester" who is
an expert tree man and who super
intends the planting of all shade
trees on the city streets, the planting
of school grounds and even. when
requested, of private grounds. was
hired.
The Civic Improvement club also
A,,I,, -,
tho schools, offered a prize in the
high scaool for the best essay on con-
sarvation, and plans the formation of
@ junior civic league and of Par
ents' and Teachers association"
Art Exhibit Rcmuncrative
The Kennewick Woman's Literary
club has also shown enterprise and
ability to carry out plans. The art
committee held an exhibit of Copley
prints in connection with the State
Travelling exhibit. From the pro
Needs it gave a picture to the high
school, another to the grade showing
most interest in the exhibit refunded
to each grade half of the price of ad-
mission, to apply on Il picture and
had a residue of $50 with which to
purchase children's books for the Ii
DTdTN- During lIllS tNnlDlt, Int w o.
mans club of Kennewick bought and
presented to the library the Manu-
script Book" from the mural deco
rations of Alexander.
Favored Bond Issues
The Kennewick Literary club was
Instrumental in carrying through n
100000 school bond and a $40, 900
sewer bond; is working for better
-anitary conditions and local food
insp 7ctor; started a rose campaign re-
sultng in the planting of hundreds of
roses; has had several tree planting
days and win, the coming year, have
civic committee and organize a jul
nior civic league.
In library extension work. the lower
valley towns are way to the fore.
Sunnyside and Prosser both have
$4,000 Carnegie libraries, being the
smallest cities in the state to support
such institutions Mabton has a 800
volume library. Hanford has a library
of 400 books purchased by the Ladies'
Circle which raised $3.50 to buy them
A room in the school building is used
and the library is open two days a
week. y library association consist
ing Of both men and women has just
been formed.
The Kennewick library, for a time
supported by private interests, has
now been taken over by the city. Ac-
eording to Mrs Joseph Lannin. of
Sunnyside Zillah, Granger, Grand
view and Toppenish are doing pre-
liminary work looking towards libra
ries
Valuable Gift
Pasco has a $4,000 Carnegie IL
brary, dedicated last June. TO this
library the mayor of Pasco gave q
$4,000 collection of the handiwork of
the Indians of the Northwest, a col
lection upon which he had been at
work for the past twenty years
The Municipal club of Ellensbure
Is working with the county commits
sioner for boulevard, and park and
is financially helping the new Y. NJ.
C. A.
Committee Members
The Yakima valley has two repre-
sentatives among the officers in Mrs.
r. c. McCredie of Sunnyside. pres
ident; and Mrs. w. w. Robertson of
North yakima, recording secretary.
Other club women who have been
given places on the standing COM
mlttees are as follows: Arts and
Crafts, Mrs. F. B. Ketchum, Coterie
club, North Yakima; badge and stamp,
Mrs. Richard Strobach, Womau's club,
North Yakima civics, Mrs Joseph c.
Gawler, Portia club, North Yakima
and Mrs. l.. NJ. Lantz, Woman's Civic
Improvement club, Sunnyside club
extension, Mrs. F. C. Hail, Woman +
club, North Yakima and Mrs r. c.
McCredie, Sunnyside; conservation,
Miss Alice b. Scudder, Woman 5
club, North Yakima food sanitation
Mrs. Olive Kurtz, Portia club, North
Yakima; health committee, Mrs. e. ].
Warner Riverside club, Sunnyside;
Mrs A. II. Henry, Portia club, North
yakima; industrial, Mrs j. L. Hughes,
NV entieth Century club, North Yaki-
ma; legislation Miss Sue NJ Lom-
ard. NFoman's club North Yakima
library extension Miss Ida Green La
dies Literary club, KennewiclS; liter
allure. Mrs A. e. Larson, Twentieth
Century club, North yakima. chair
man; music, Mrs. r. J. Dawson La
dies Musical club. North Yakima
Mrs. Frank L. Showers, Woman
Civic Improvements club, Sunnysde
Mrs E. K Sheldon, Ladies' Musical