The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-10-21

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ment fund and report much Chart!
work.
The Tuesday Club, Valley City, con
tributes all material used in the year:
study to the public library, besides ex
ira donations of books and magazines
| They have given to the endowment
fund, Belgian relief and local chart
ties.
The Woman's Club, Valley City, has
been very active socially and includes
the men in most Of their club func
lions.
The Woman's Study Club, Wimble
don, gave an entertainment for the
! benefit of the Belgian relief fund, fin
anced a lecture by DR.. Libby to which
I the general public was admitted free
! distributed coal, clothing and feed
to the needy at holiday time. Liberal
contributions were made to the Long
fellow Home fund, general and state
endowments to the Egret fund. Bird
conservation has received special at
tention, and anti-fy campaign was
waged and a physical director secured
for the school children during the
summer months.
On July 5 the eighth annual dis
trict federation meeting convened in
Valley City. The Chautauqua was in
session at that date and after a fore.
noon devoted to business, the dele
gates were invited to Chautauqua
park, where they enjoyed the presen-
tation of peace pageant, staged by
Miss Cora Patten of Chicago. Various
delightful social features and the
warm hospitality of the Valley City
clubs added to the pleasures of a
highly successful meeting.
The following is the full text of
President Minnie Jean Nelson's ad-
dress at the opening of the session:
Members of the North Dakota Wo-
mems Clubs and Friends:
What l have to say this afternoon
ought not to be dignified as an lad
dress,' but rather a report.
Nine years ago this month your
speaker attended the North Dakota
state federation meeting at Fargo as
a delegate for the first time. The
real meaning of this organization she
realized also for the first time as re-
sponsibility was placed upon her. She
was elected your corresponding secre-
tary because Mrs. Frank White was
elected president and the correspond
ing secretary must come from the
same town.
Today the North Dakota federation
of women's clubs has been in exist
ence for eighteen years. 1t is there
! fore just double the age it was nine
years ago Ill L d1SO.
After living the first nine years
there were 81 clubs in the federation
and 1913 members. One of the duties
of the corresponding secretary was tt
issue the federation year book.
Well do l remember what l the1
considered the arduous task of col
lecting the data and compiling it from
the 81 clubs. Today our recordin!
secretary, in issuing the year book
must collect the data from 200 club
with a membership of over 4,200.
If we continue to grow at that sam
rate, think how many clubs there will
be when the federation is double tn
age it is now!
), We must live up to our POSSIBLE
ties. We are organized for "mutua
helpfulness, acquaintance, and tn
promotion of higher intellectual, socis
and moral conditions" AS the yout
grows and develops better muscles b
realizes the need of an organized min
for more effective work. The Mort
: Dakota federation is no longer chill
and it's demands are greater. Th
+ work has more than doubled. We al
: better organized to do the work "
: have to do than we were when ha
our present age.
/ We now have the state divided int
; eight districts with state federatic
officer, known as a vice president, pr
U siding over each district. Meeting
q are held in each of the eight distric
J. every year.
j. Nine years ago no district meeti1
had ever been held. These distri
5 meetings have done more than al
= other agent to bring about intere:
zeal and concrete results. By the
t meetings the spirit of federation-se
j. vice for others-is being carried to 6
IL parts of our great state. Because
y this closer union of the women of
Il district they have concentrated upt
. some special work in number of d