The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-04-02
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h FortniGhtly club at Fargo mot
Monday afternoon at the supreme
court rooms with a full attendance. AT
the conclusion of the roll call num-
matters of business We're dis
posed of, after which Miss Abbie l..
Simmons was elected a delegate to the
Genera Federation of Women's club
at San Francisco, which will
Jun 25-July S.
Mrs. W. +. Sudro presented a paper
On The Retterment of Health Regula-
lions in North Dakota" dealing with a
big question in a most efficient man
ier.
II club voted unanimously to M.
tribute SIS per year for the proposed
club home in which the several clubs
are to share. the building belonging to
the Unitarian society on Ninth street
and Second avenue south. The eXpcc-
tation is that social center work will
be undertaken and developed on a
comprehensive scale. and that the
closer coordination of the clubs may
result from this philanthropic depar-
ture.
Mrs. George O. Wclch of Fergus
Falls. Mimi, prominent in the club af-
fairs of that state and also an officer
in The national federation. will repre-
sent Minnesota at the first Illinois
Good Roads convention to be held in
Chicago April 3 and 4, and she plans
to make the trip in company with
Mrs. Frank White of Valley City who
state.
The Tow Literary society at Mum
lsh is an organization that has given
that city's citizens much entertain
ment and educational help since ii
was established. Programs are given
at regular intervals and large COM
panics of both men and women gather
To hear them. AT last weeks meeting
the high school chorus and Miss
levin furnished the musical numbers
and the chief feature was a debate
m Resolved. hat woman suffrage
should be adopted in the United
finnson upheld the affirmative and MIR.
levin n Mr.. Palmer the negative.
The decision was unanimous in favor
of the affirmative.
The Fargo Votes for Women league
met Monday evening i'm the basement
of the lihrary; After a short bust.
played Chopin's "Etude in G Flat"
responding to an encore with ITO q
Wild Rose" by Mcdowell.
Miss Perley was then introduced by
Mrs. f. NJ. Pollock. who presided.
Miss Perley ave a very excellent dis
course. which evinced a wide range of
study and close familiarity with the
development of the cause of equal suf-
1rage. She referred to Wyoming and
New Zealand as pioneers in their dec
laration for suffrage. and pointed with
pride to the great achievement of the
Chinese republic in bestowing the
franchise upon its ome as one of
its very first official acts.
A membership committee was ap-
pointed by the chair. consisting of
Mesdamcs Pierce. Kindred. Shaw,
shepard, Sheldon and Gilbert iaggart
and Miss Jennie Champine. Several
new members were received into the
league making a total membership of
100.
The matter Of a meeting place next
season was touched upon, special ref
erence being made to the opening Of
he Unitarian church building on week
days for club purposes. At the request
of the chairman. an explanation was
made by Mrs. Thompson relative I o the
buildings adaptation to the ordinary
and social purposes of the various
study clubs. 1t is regarded as an en-
~ceptionally fortunate. circumstance
that the building is provided with a
good stage for amateur dramatics.
various rooms suited for class work.
and. generally speaking. a well do
signed plant for civic center work.