The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-08-06
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i be carried on during the coming fall
n winter. w. e.. Hopes, president
of the commercial club, was chairman
OF the meeting and will appoint q
committee OF five to arrange for the
details of financing. The Women's
Civic league Is taking a prominent part
In n work.
a trades carnival will be given IN
November by the Women's. Civic league
at Grand Forks for the purpose. Of rais4
ing funds for carrying on additional
social service work during the, winter
months. The women are already busy
securing contributions from the various
large wholesale houses and mean to
make IT. a big affair, lasting probably
two or three days: An elaborate enter
tainment programme by both ho
professional talent will be provided for
each evening.
The Woman's Civic league at Ellen
dale believes in working for the com
fort and enjoyment OF The farmers as
well as the town people and has taken
up the work of boosting for better
roads leading into the city. Their ar
gument is that such a step would be
appreciated by their rural cousins and
that the city needs the cooperation Of
the farmer as well as the citizen for
growth and civic Improvement gener-
ally. The league is also urging the
business men to demand a rural te1e-
phone system for the beneft Of the
farmer.
Mrs. Booker T. Washington Is to be
president of the National Federation
or Colored Wor1er's clubs the coming
year, having been elected July 26, at
Shs n mfs. fone eq r. aiESs q p Mi HamBsGn
is first Vice president. At the meeting
resolutions were passed indorsing the
action of the Minnesota club women In
their protest against the "'rnanlfestly
Inadequate sentence recently imposed
In the McNabb white slavery case by
Judge McPherson,Y Mrs. w. r. Fran
els. president of the. MINNESOTA State
dressed the convention on Conservation
of the Home.
sibley house, the old historic land
mark and museum of Minnesota, has
again come into Its in acquiring
valuable works Of art for its collection,
for Mrs. D. w. McCourt Of st. Paul,
who is state corresponding secretary
for the Daughters OF the American
Revolution, has just succeeded in OBJ
tanning for the Daughters of the Am
erican Revolution the original sketch
es made by Edwin Rowland B~lash1eld
OF New YORK for the works in the
state capitol. The sketches of the en-
tire collection of pictures of the Fifth
Minnesota regiment at the battle of
Corinth, Miss, on Oct. 4, 1889, made by
MT 5IaBhHS4U, VIII De IN the hanNS OF
the Daughters of the. American Rev
olutioh by the anniversary of the bat
tie, which. will be Oct. 4, and will be
placed in Sibley house at Minadota. In
one Of the sketches Archbishop. John
Ireland, in his United States uniform,
is in evidence, as he was chaplain of
the regiment. The D. A, r., has es-
pecial appreciation for this feature of
the sketches, because is was through
the efforts of Archbishop ireland that
they succeeded IN obtaining SibIey
house. Mrs. McCourt wrote to Mr..
Blashfeld asking for the sketches, and
she has received an answer from him
complying with her request. The
sketches will be probably better appre-
ciated in this state than in any other
part. of the country, as they embody SO
much that pertains to the state and its
history.
Mrs. Percy v. PenhypacKer, who was
elected president at the recent bien
NAL convention of the National Fedora
ton OF Women's clubs at San Francis
co, has due appreciation of the magni-
tude of the position to which she has
been called and the responsibilities thai
1t entails upon her. 1t is an office that
possesses f~ar-reaching and tremendous
power. The organization performs
work of vast import for the uplifting
and betterment of the women of Amer.
with, greater responsibilities, nor ha;
within his power the performances Of
more vital services than that which are
embraced within the limits of action OF
more vital services than those which
are embraced within the limits of ac.
ton Of the president of the NatienA,
Federation Of Women'B clubs.
This organization, which reaches into
the homes of the people of nearly every
town and city in the United States, has
perhaps q greater grasp of the real
needs ana aspirations of the masses o.
Citizenship than the political partie:
YYs hi6S sfg aoR RnG1fSg f RH R miR' as M sn,
does, the great factor for permanent
beneft that the organization can BIZ
made to serve, is entering upon hei
term OF ONCE deeply impressed wit
the responsibilities that rest upon her
For many years the people OF Austir
ana OF Texas have had an ahecttonatt
regard for the woman who now heads
the National Federation of Women
clubs. She has long occupied a posi-
ton of prominence and honor in the
educational and literary affairs of thu
state. She is author OF the histor5
school in the commonwealth. She FRS
wrote the Texas history twenty-foul
years ago and since then 1t has beer
revised several times.
What. led you to take up club
woman's work." she was asked.
MY greatest inspiration to enter
this field of endeavor was my hus.
band" h said. at was my husband
write the history of Texas. When
questioned my ability to accomplish
that task, he said3 4 know you car
do it,"
Mrs. Pennypacker's home in Austin
Is beautifully situated under almost the
very shadow of the state university
She finds no happier way of passing
h time than living in this comfort.
able home, surrounded by her aged
mother, her children and books and
looking after the manifold cares and
duties Of the household.
She admits that the new responsible.
tiles which she has taken pom her.
self involve an enormous mount OF
labor, but she feels that the things te
be accomplished are well worthy the
] additional efforts that are required oil
/ her. 1t is largely a labor of love. None
of the officers of the organizations re-
ceives any salary.