The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-02-22
Committee Which Has This Depart
ment In Charge Gives Evidence of
Its Faithful Work on
This Line.
MANY ITEMS OF INTEREST
Luneheons Given by keokuk Civic
League Is Chronicied-Out-
lines Are Given for Next
State Meeting.

The bulletin committee of the Iowa
Federation of Women's clubs, Mrs. ]
g. Grundy, chairman, is doing excel
lent work, as is evidenced by the fol
. lowing, which contains much Of in
terest IN connection with the work oil
Iowa club women:
When the biennial meets in Iowa
City, May 1921, the general sessions
Will be held in the University Of Iowa
auditorium, which is located in the
Hall of Natural Science. one of two
largest Of the seven Bedford stone
buildings on the campus.
The auditorium has seating ca
pacity of 1,200 persons. Many speak
ers have praised the acoustic proper
ties Of the room.
The Laysau Island exhibit, which is
expected to interest many of the del
egates to the biennial, is also located
in the Natural Science building, just
off the balcony of the auditorium Ar
rangements have been made by the
local biennial board to have Profess
sor Homer R. Dill explain personally
the details of this cyclorama to the
groups of delegates who view it. Pro-
fessor Dill was the leader of the ex-
petition which went to this island
west of Hawaii to secure the mater
ial for the exhibit. He was in charge
of the group OF four men who lived
on this island where no human beings
exist and which is populated by 8,O00,-
600 birds.
There are other large assembly
halls in the University of Iowa which
will be used by the committee and
group meetings which will be held in
connection with the biennial. The as
sembly hall Of the college Of liberal
arts will seat between three hundred
and four hundred and one hundred
persons can be accommodated in the
lecture room in the home economics
building, which is just across the walk
from the hall of natural science IN
case of emergency the large rooms in
the college Of law can be used and
also large class rooms in the new
physics building, all of which possess
comfortable elevated seats and many.
OF which are provided with desks or
desk arms.
There are likewise good1y num-
Der of laboratory rooms adjoining the
in the hall of Natural Sci
ence which will be utilized for COM
mittee meetings. Arrangements prob
ably will be made for voting in the
basement Of this building.
The chairmen of the various com
mittees of the local biennial board in
Iowa City have started preparations
for the convention. Already marked
progress has been made Mrs. Charles
Baker, chairman of the hotel commit
tee, has been SO industrious in pre-
senting the hotel facilities to the dele
gates that mistaken impression has
gone abroad, according to reports
which have been receiveG in Iowa
City from some ofNthe clubs. The
idea prevails in some quarters that
extensive preparations will not be
made for the delegates who do not
wish to go to the hotels. This is a
according to statements of
the Iowa City club women. They as
sert that they expect to make the Gus
tomary provision in private homes for
a larger number of delegates than
can reasonably be expected to attend
The increased interest of club wom-
en- in civic affairs. is everywhere ap-
parent. There are few towns, of aver
age size in Iowa, where club women
are not working along civic lines
following are a few instances in sup !
port Of the above statement.
The women's improvement associa- ]
ton of Keosauqua has awakened in !
terest in civic improvement by start !
ing d civic essay contest for the pu- !
pills of the high school.
kellogg ladies were guests Of the /
GrinneIl Civic league when Mrs Fan !
ME F. Morse, superintendent and i
founder of the Minnesota state home |
school for girls told of this ideal place /
where delinquent girls are given. dur
ing their detention. an impetus and /.
opportunity to become good citizens. !
Carlisle can boast of a Woman's /
Booster club which discusses and de- /
velops civic work in that little city. /.
The WOman's club OF Audubon re-
Gently were the hostesses to S. c. Ker- /
berg who gave them much valuable /
concerning the question |
of city sewerage. At the same meet |
ing primary election was conducted
in order that the women might under /
stand the proper method of voting, /
and the conducting of public cleo |
tons.
The women of Melcher to the num-
Der of about forty have organized a |
civic league, the object of which is to |
beautify the city park and otherwise /
improve the town.
The Humboldt Woman's club is in.