The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-26
WAR OF ROSES
now GOING On
". w. c. A. Membership Campaign
Starts with TWO sides Going In
With Dissemination
to Win.
THE WHITES AND REDS
How Points Are to be Made IN Con
test for New ANNIVERSARIES
to start Girls
Work.

The fall membership campaign
which commenced Friday night In
the form Of WAR Of the Roses" with
the business girls on the white rose
side and the school girls on the red
rose side. promises to be an exciting
land productive struggle. All associa-
Ition girls are asked to line up on
| their respective sides and work hard
for the coming week.
! Miss Clement, the leader OF the
white rose girls. called meeting OF
her leaders Thursday evening, which
was well attended and most enthus-
iastic. Plans for the week were talk
ed over and doubtful points explained.
If the business girls do as good work
as they did last winter the school
girls will have large contract to I'LL
in keeping up with them, Miss Meta
Hummer, their captain, is we'll known
las very efficient leader In anything
she undertakes, and she is supported
lby other especially strong business
girls. &.
The captain of the school girl side
has called on every girl who Is an as
ISOLATION member to do her duty, ana
every one who has not yet joined but
lis interested In any phase OF the girls
work; the high school student branch
with It's splendid meetings, parties,
spreads, picnics, social service and
dramatic work; the gymnasium,
where larger plans than ever before
Iare being made for the benefit and
enjoyment OF the girls all the way
from the second grade to the high
Ischool; the story and surprise hours
flor the younger girls or the clubs.
(which will be formed at their request;
lis cordially invited to enlist. Any
lgirl, old or new, gaining ten points,
according to the rules laid down, is
to be given her tuition in any class
she desires and admitted to the Order
Iof the Roses. The girls work COM
Imittee. Miss Harriet Solomon. Miss
Eva stevens and Miss Nina Reck arc
hoping and planning for a large ana
HAPPY family this winter. and Miss
INutting, the girls work secretary. Is
preparing to make the time and mon
lev spent at the association by them
well invested.
"A number of parties have been
planned to start the girls work, the
program is as follows:
| On Tuesday afternoon at 4:3O
O'Clock, the girls OF the grammar
school are to have backward party.
lin the auditorium. II is to be most
backward affair, from the invitations
which will have to be read by the
help of mirror. to the Virginia Reel
with which the party will close. The
girls are welcome to the dressing
rooms in the basement to use when
getting dressed backwards. II Is sug-
Igested that they come directly from
school. Any questions which may
come up should be referred to Mary
IBeardsley who has the plans In
charge.
On Wednesday afternoon the girls
lof the fifth, sixth and seventh grades
of the Lincoln and Terrence schools
viii be entertained in the gymnas.
ium. while those of the same grades
lin the Garfield and George Washing
ton schools will have their party IN
the auditorium. Both will commence
lat 4 o'clock, the girls OF the different
schools being provided with knots or
ribbons to distinguish them.
1 The same plan will be followed witt
the fifth sixth and seventh graders OF
the Jefferson. Carey and Wells schools
on Friday afternoon. The girls OF the
IM ellis school going to the gymnasium
and the others to the auditorium.
The plans for all these parties arc
being carefully worked out with q
large numbers Of helpers, and 1t Is
hoped that they will prove to be
Ihappv introduction to association
lgood times for many girls.
Rules Governing the Contest.
All girls enlisted shall be associa-
ton members.
All girls gaining ten points shall be
given their tuition in any association
class they choose.
! The points shall be counted as fol
lows:
One for each new membership. Re
newals, that is memberships which