Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-20

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Second district Delegates, Mrs. v.
G. Coe. Clinton; alternate, Mrs. H. G.
Horack, Iowa City: committeeman.
Mrs. William Theophilus. Davenport.
Third district--D Delegate, Mrs. E. l..
johnson. Waterloo; alternate, Mrs.
Fannie E. Filkins. Eagle Grove; COM
mitteeman, Mrs. D. n. Hurd, Cedar
Falls.
Fourth strict-Delegate, Mrs. Flora
Schlick, Charles City; alternate, Mrs.
j. E. Blythe, Mason City; committee
man Miss Wayne Weller. Nashua.
Fifth district - Delegate, Mrs. Flo
Schilling, State Center: alternate, Mrs.
Eta Agnew, Marshalltown; commit
teeman, Mrs. F. j. Lazelle, Cedar
Rapids.
Sixth district-Delegate, Mrs. Henry
Taylor, Bloomfield; alternate, Mrs.
Rhea Oppenheimer. Oskaloosa; COM
mitteeman, Mrs. b. o. Jerrel. Oska-
loosa.
Seventh district Delegate, Mrs.
John Fox Lake, Shenandoah; alternate
Mrs. H. Fl. Carter, Corydon; commit
teeman, Mrs. H. K. Evans, Corydon.
Ninth district - Delegate, Mrs.
Charles G. Saunders, Council Bluffs;
alternate, Mrs. J. NJ. Junkin, Red Oak;
committee, Mrs j. NJ. Junkin, Red Oak.
Tenth Observation-Disclosures, Mrs. j. B.
McHose, Boone; alternate, Mrs Henry
Adams, Algona; committeeman, Mrs.
Byron NJ. Coon, Estherville.
Eleventh district-Delegate. Mrs. Y.
W. Cory. Spencer; alternate, Mrs. Fred
Patterson, Sioux City; committeeman,
Mrs. Mary Mann, Onawa.
Prosperity Rsisns.
Reports of the state officers DEM
onstrated that the federation prospered
during the past biennium, as to enthus-
iasm, membership and financies. The
state now has 563 clubs. having gained
lis clubs and lost only Is. The re-
ceipts Of the biennial period were
$3,s34.70. With expenditures totaling
$2,227.2O, the federation has on hand
$1,6075O.
oetosenarian Honored.
Mrs Roma w. Woods, of Sutherland,
the venerable chairman of the badge
committee, was given a notable honor
by the biennial convention. The aged
worker in woman's field is 80 years old,
and she was elected honorary state vice
president of the federation.
message from Miss Anna NJ.
Klingenhagen. dean of women at S. U.
l., delegate to the Holland peace con-
ference, announces that she is still
at sea. The wireless, received via the
New England coast stations, states
she. can not reach Iowa City before
Saturday.
seeIey Scores School System.
"Our present plan Of seventh and
eighth grade teaching may be
customary but it is abominable, unset
entifc and unreasonable" said Presi-
dent H. H. Seerley, Of the Iowa State
Teachers College, in an address on
Recent Tendencies in Education here
before the eleventh biennial convention
of the federation.
There is better subject matter that
is much more interesting, more suit
able, more educational, and more valu-
able than that given in these grades
under the present plan and practice"
The other addresses on the after
noon program were by Prof. E. D.
Starbuck, of the State University of
Iowa, and Mr.. Henry Turner Bailey, of
Boston, Mass.
The Censorship of Motion Pictures"
was the subject of an address by Miss
Mary Gray Peck, of the National board
of censorship of motion pictures. Other
addresses were made by Mrs. Harry L.
Keefe, OF Walthi1l. Neb.. recording sec
rotary OF the General Federation of
Women's Clubs. and Mr. Havrah Hub
bard, of Boston, Mass.
W In her speechilast evening on Peace,
and the Worlds Hope" Mrs. Charlotte
Perkins Gilman, of New York, said:
World peace requires not only this
new power, but a new spirit, and
this new spirit it is the immediate duty
Of women to foster: not only thru per-
sonal influence, but in such changes in
our public education as shall teach our
children and young people to become
world citizens"
This evenings program provides for
an address by Miss Alice French
OCTAVE Thanet) of Davenport, and an
opera talk by Mr.. Hubbard
The visitors were entertained yester-
day afternoon at a reception by Presi-
dent and Mrs. T. H. Macbride, of the
state UNIVERSITY