Arizona republican., 1912-01-25
WOMEN GATHER IN CON-
 CONVENTION IN THIS CITY
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 Der who had taught and aided
 Mexican woman in her employ in
 the buying and use of food
 The Prescott representative. who is
 q member of the juvenile court com
 mittec, told of some cases Of neglect
 of children, and environment of chil-
 dren that produce cases for the ju-
 Vcnile court, and advocated reform
 ing the parents"
 The delegates of Tucson club
 brought the. following message from
 President Wilde of the state univer-
 sity: 'I regard the women of Ari-
 zona as the key to the larger popu-
 larity of the university in this state"
 A paper read by Gertrude Smith,
 the representative of the Madison
 Improvement club, is given in full
 below. This paper contains the gist
 of all club effort that is lasting or
 helpful-mutual improvement and
 helpfulness:
 Madam President and Members of
 the Federation-Out in the country
 five miles northeast of Phoenix, in
 the community known as the Madi-
 son district. is located the Madison Improvement club. This club is dis
 tinctly a country club. Each and
 every one of it's thirty-two members live on and in some cases operate a
 ranch This club wns organized in
 September. 1911. The primary pur- pose of the club was 10 raise money to pay for piano which had been bought the preceding spring. This fund dragged through the whole summer with only s5 in it. The ladies of the club decided tO meet every Thursday afternoon at the va rious homes of the members for the purpose of making all sorts of useful and practical articles to be sold at a baZar. In December we gave our ba
 gar: along with it a chicken pie din her. After all expenses of our baalr and chicken-pie dinner were paid, we found We had in round numbers to our credit the sum of sS3 Our ba gar and dinner were given in the only public room in the community. We found this assembly room very poorly and scantily furnished. In fact. it contained the unpaid-for piano. an old rusty stove, some four or five smoky kerosene lamps. a few porcelain dishes. some tin knives. forks and spoons. We also found in the room a conglomeration of dis carded school benches and broken chairs. We immediately saw a fuller future than the mere plying for piano Since that time we have bought and paid for three acetylene gas lamps, which shed a clear, beau l tiful light We have also bought and | paid for tables. chairs, silver. some aluminium cooking utensils, and have | our piano debt almost consumed. and | we have in our treasury tbe sum of S75. IL is our purpose to make our assembly room sweet. clean. beau tiful. artistic room for the holding of l all public meetings of our commu- nity. Inst year we did not follow any course of study. since our club Il was the only means of bringing us together, and We found it such joy to know each other and be in II each others homes, so instructive and II helprul to hear each lady tell how II she succeeded with her share of farm life, it was simply impossible to find room for a course of study. We were so interested in Mrs. As review of how she produced the finest straw berries of the community. She told US the species of plant she planted. her preparation of the soil. her meth nd of irrigation, her method of cul- tivation, pruning and fertilizing. all of which led to delicious red berries. the admiration of the club. As equal Iy interesting and helpful was Mrs. B's rendition of how she matched and reared 300 incubator chicks into healthy. thrifty laying hens. Mrs. C. gives her experiences with young tur- keys. how and what she feeds them while real young, the change of food and care as they grow older. and astlv how she fattens them for the market. While needles fly and busy hands are turning out aprons, sun oonnets, quilts and all sorts of use ,ul things. we are each gaining from the other ideas that help us live our ives easier and better. Having had ast years experiences and knowing ,ach others needs, we have now de- ,ided to take up a course of study, put our very first topic will be par law.
 The purpose of our club has been .o know each other better, to help : sach other more, to band ourselves together as one unit for the purpose Df helping our community to improve, .o help our community progression n the language of our club motto. 'To change and change is life, To move and never rest; Not what we are. but what we hope
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