The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-09-11
CLUB NOTES

Grand Forks Times: One of the Inn
portant discussions taken up at the
September meeting of the Women's
Civic league yesterday afternoon was
tne need for a general fall cleaning up
OF the city as well as a spring clean
up. such step is especially import
anS TINS year as next month the North
meets here for its annual convention
n SO widespread has become the
tame OF Grand Forks for its cleanliness
that ~ is quite possible hat many of
ane visitors Will examine every nook
y corner. just to see IL all they have
heard about Grand Forks is really
true. For this reason the league will
put forth every effort to have the city
10 excellent condition in that regard
ana VIII begin an agitation campaign
at once to have every property owner
do his share. The league wants all
alleys cleared of any of the summer
CORRECTION of refuse, 1t wants all va
cant lots cleared of rank weeds and
every yard, back and front, as neat
n tidy as 1T is possible to make it.
me city council undoubtedly will care
Tor the cutting of weeds on vacant lots
but league officers will be glad to re-
celVe reports from anyone bou Sec
lions of the city that need attention.
Ihe regular business of the league in
cluded a report from the committee
named some months ago to arrange a
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coming year. Mrs. Samuel Torgerson
as chairman, made an excellent report
ana the plan was accepted. During
the next year, under his new system,
the leagues business meeting will be
held on the first Monday of each month
and the third Monday will be set aside
Tor a programme meeting. The pro-
grammes will include a study of sub
1ects pertaining to civic betterment
and the committee will at once COM
pile the years programme and have
1t printed in booklet form. Much at
tention was given to plans for the an
nual meeting the first Monday in
October when all dues must be paid,
annual reports made and the general
business of the year closed UP. Elec-
ton of officers takes place at that
time. There is a movement started in
the league to have the Junior league
boys transferred to the direction of
the commercial club as an organize
ton of junior citizens and this was
given much discussion but no action
was taken.
Bismarck State: The williston wo-
mems Civic league has the largest
membership of every club in the state
federation with it's total list of 100. 1t
is the only club that maintains three
club divisions! civics department, do
mesttc science department and literary
and musical department. Each depart
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programmes for the year. All mem
bers of all departments must join the
Civic league and do active civic work
II called upon but members of the
Civic league may or may not join the
other club departments, as they choose.
There are about t~hirty-ive active
members in the domestic science de-
partment and thirty in the literary de-
partment. Meetings are held in the
basement assembly room of the public
library. A kitchen is also furnished In
this basement where cooking demon
strations are held in the domestic
science club. These rooms are also
used for public ~banquets, lectures and
entertainments. The league furnishes
a piano which it purchased upon the
opening of the library. They also
bought the kitchen range and installed
it and supplied dishes for serving and
they are building the park round the
library and it was the Civic league
that secured this beautiful $25, 900
library as a gift for Williston. The
Civic league has never solicited con-
tributions since it's organization. Thoy
have raised an annual sum of $1,000
to $1,000 by giving various entertain
ments and promoting many new and