The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-22

here she was the guest of Mrs, Ralph
Weibls Of Eighth street south.
The Maids and Matrons will be en-
tertained by Mrs. A.. e. Cannon on
Saturday afternoon of this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Jones OF La
Moure are visitors in the city today.
They are guests at the Gardner hotel.
The Island Park Charity circle will
meet with Mrs. A. w. McNair tomorrow
afternoon. A large attendance is de-
sired. a.
Mrs. Minnie Neuberger eturned this
morning from Minneapolis, where she
enjoyed a weeks visit with friends and
relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. Kindred are en-
Pertaining as their guests during the
Grain Growers convention, Mrs. HUI
bert and Mr.. and Mrs. Burnett of Cum
mings, N. D.
The Misses Rose Clark and Helen
Gapgley will give a box party this
Of Anamoose, N. D., who Is visiting
friends in the city.
Frank Woman returned to Minnea-
| polls last evening after a several laws
| visit in the city. Mr.. Woman acted as
best man at the Weld-Pomeroy mar
rage nuptials Tuesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank F. Ike arrived
~ Inc Guy inns morning from spokane,
Wash, where their marriage took
place last week. After a few days
visit at the K. j. Ike home, they will
go 10 Ray, N. D., to make their home.
The Fargo w. c. T. u. will meet
tomorrow afternoon at 8 o'clock at the
home of Mrs. F. H. Wilder, 1121 Sew
enth street south. The programme for
the afternoon will be ar Informal de-
bate on Woman's Suffrage. Leaders will
be selected and sides chosen.
Miss Grace Crawford of Cedar Rapids,
Ia, who has been a guest at the Frank
Weld home in Moorhead, left Yesterday
afternoon for her home. Miss Craw-
ford was here to attend the prenuptia1
parties and the wedding of Miss Weld
and Mr.. Pomeroy, an event of Tuesday.
Mrs. George Dawson, Mrs. Elma
Faust and Mrs. E. C. Griffith will en-
terrain this evening in compliment TO
Miss Marian Gearey and Herbert Stew
Jan. 2S, at the brides home. The party
his evening will be given at the Daw-
son home on Ninth street south.
Miss Karen Braasten gave a prettily
appointed luncheon yesterday, comDli-
mentary to Miss Ora Burrell of Ana
tm Wsnfx N, m D.; Sewers Gs were tbe pi e?ccseddfqq for
School of nurses and the graduate
nurses of st. Johns hospital. The ap-
pointments were in red and white.
Miss Ora Burrell who is a guest at
the Graduate Nurses club was the hon.
ored guest yesterday afternoon at q
party given by the members of the
Graduate Nurses club at their home on
Eighth street north. The afternoon
was spent in visiting and n~eedlework.
The graduate nurses of st. Johns hos
pital entertained in Miss BurrelIs hon
or last evening.
st. Paul Pioneer Press: st. Paul is
RI have n norm T1nft hnn1nIJ - org fnp
women's clubs. Within two months it
will be one of the few cities with
rooms where Women's organizations Of
all kinds may c~ongregate and visiting
women may be entertained. The Wo-
mans Welfare league, which has been
working on the question of a club
house since last July, has evolved a
plan. The league has leased the upper
floor of the Ordway building at Fourth
and Market streets and has obtained n
sufficient number of tenants for other
parts Of the building to warrant it's be-
ing remodeled by the owners into such
the .Women's clubs. The main foor
where the league has been holding its
meetings for some time. is to be arca6-
ed and shops will be installed on both
sides. Plans are being completed for
the second floor, to include an entrance
from the outside, executive offices for
the league, committee rooms, rest
rooms. dressing rooms, a dining room,
Oil oSSSlI4bIy holl vi Oil duu1IOi Iulll ~
by 70 feet. The league will serve
luncheon and afternoon tea and will
cater for supper or luncheon. 1t Will
cost the league 500 a month to main
tain the headquarters. A campaign was
started to guarantee this sum by the
subscription of so cents a month by
200 women. Fifty such pledges wore
made. Several donations Of furniture
have been offered for the rooms and as
soon as the necessary pledges have
been made work of remodeling and
furnishing the rooms will be begun.
Women's increasing opportunities
are much heard of now. but in some
instances at least women in earlier
times discharged duties and held Of
fees that are not numbered among
their present advantages. In the later
middle ages there were in England
women burgesses, and sometimes wo-
men church Wardens. a post that fire.
quently entailed farming and trading,
keeping parish accounts. managing
parish entertainments, the latter an
occupation with which she is very fam
liar :now-and she represented the
parish at the archdeacon's court. Old
documents tell Of women being occas-
ionally entrusted with the charge of
state prisoners, and sometimes they
helped to collect loans for the king.
A Duchess of Warwick was hereditary
sheriff of Worcestershire and rhe
widow of one of the Dukes of Norfolk
was Countess Marshal and and as such
wore the robes OF the Garter on st.
Georges day. Women were in. BUSH
ness on a, large scale in those days,
engaging in foreign commerce. One
Margery Russell of Coventry, must
have had a business of fairly extensive
size as we read of her being robbed of
her merchandise of the value of eight
hundred pounds by some men Of Spain.
Being a woman Of energy she did not
accept her loss quietly. Obtaining let
ters Of marque that empowered her to
seize goods belonging to cOuntrymen
Of the offenders, her indignation car
ried her too far and she took more
than her due. She was ordered to re-
store two ships. but we are told that
she refused to do SO. The end of the
difficulty is not made known. but ws
are left with the impression that the
woman traders of the middle ages were
we'll able to look after themselves.