The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-31
LOYAL WOMEN FAVOR
A CLEANER KE0KUk

park to the cemetery, in the name or
the Civics Division of the Woman's
club using some five hundred elms
for that purpose. The trees in the
Rand park, with Mr.. Christian
l4aislek valuable assistance, were
named with both botanical and com
mon names. These names, unfortun-
ately have been scattered and lost.
The club also planted the Roose-
welt President Roosevelt him,
self assisting in the planting.
Second The library was brought
up to modern methods. The library
building itself was partially recon-
structed the card-catalogue system
introduced and trained librarian in
stalled. The library had been gener-
GUS to the club and had allowed the
use of the lecture room back Of the
library without payment of rent. AS
partial compensation for this, We
placed in the reading room the chill
dren's table and chairs
Third The kindergarten was sus-
tanned for a year by the educational
department and Miss Strong of Gales
burg was brought over to instruct us
in the best methods.
Fourth:-A sewing school was con-
Quoted for several years under able
teachers and assistants. This was
| free to all children, colored as well as
white as many as three hundred often
being In attendance They We're train
ed by system developed in the
New York college of Teachers and
/ in use in many church schools.
Fifth:-The home department had
course in household economics.
While engaged with this, its members
| compiled and published cook book
which is now owned by the Unitar-
1 ian ladies and is in every way excel
| lent. They also had Jane Adams
| give morning lecture. The club
bought, and the city put in, the drink
ing fountains used in Keokuk. 1t
raised portion of the money by a
midsummer fete for the grading ana
| improvement Of the Triangular park
at the head of Fifth street. 1t main
| tanned rest room.
! 1t had, or was interested in, two
| flower parades.
| 1t gave prizes for the best gardens
and also distributed seeds.
4 1t put in waste paper baskets, and
agitated an anti-eNpectoration ordi-
/
passed by the city until sometime at.
i forwards.
There was an art exhibit memorable
! for the fact that Hopkinson Smith
was a distinguished guest.
/ There was class in parliamentary
law under DR.. Mary Hoyt; art and
literature classes, class in psycholo-
gy. Manual training was strongly
! fought for in the club.
! We had plans and specifications for
around the union station and for the
conversion of the ground on the bluff
above into a. park. In these plans We
had the assistance Of Major Meiss
and Mr.. Goodrich, who had maps
! drawn, showing the water courses
and the railroad tracks, and there
were plans for the leyee also. But
the street cars changed their route
! and the water power became immi-
nent and this work now falls upon
/ the citizens of today
/ The last official act of the club was
a lecture on the care of trees by
Prof. Beach of Ames college, and in
assisting financially in trimming the
boulevard trees.
4 One thing was always noticeable
the industrious woman at home was
the industrious woman in the club.
Lives broadened under the stimula-
! ton of happier activities and more
genial companionship. Selfishness
and narrowness were naturally elimi-
mated.
And so, after all, woman's club is
really worth while-both In its work
and in its comradeship.
Tree Trimming.
4 Miss Sadie Marian Becker spoke
A on tree trimming and plead for a
correct method of tree trimming. She
i said, after telling just how tree
should be trimmed. that while most
of the trees in Keokuk are not scien-
4 tifically trimmed, still there must .e
some man in Keokuk, some place
who understands correct tree trim
ming, for near Eighth and Franklin
there are trees trimmed scientifical
l ly. Miss Beckers talk was practical
/ and full of suggestions which might
easily be followed.
Mrs. Clara Sheldon spoke on the
cooperation of the school Children
she spoke of the plan which was sue
cessfully carried out number Of
years ago in the Carey district. A
club of boys was formed whose duty
it was to keep the grounds about the
building clean They were most en-
thusiastic and their work proved thai
the mol nal child is not foe t.