The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-28

Ijtteringt0n
nty On Ne1U Idea
ents brought their family of little
daughters back to the homeland te
be reared. The long voyage was
made in sailing vessel, steamers he.
ing then unknown.
Start of the Library.
AS soon as Sophia learned to read
she began to use her scissors to cliu
the articles which interested her and
to save them. AS she grew older she
learned the need of classifying her
treasures and then began the period
of scrap books. ~ Before her maria 90
she had accumulated large volumes
of classified clippings upon almost
every conceivable subject. After this
event her hands and heart were filled
with the new and exacting duties of a
pastors wife, mother and home maxi
er. Still the thoughts within her
burned to find expression. and keep
ing pace with this was the old pas
sion for clipping and conserving til.
material which came her way. Dur
ing this period her pen was not idle
and many of her sketches and stories
found their way into the magazines
of that day.
About this time she was offered nv
college, an outfit of empty files and
cases, in return for some special lit
erary work. She joyfully contem-
plated these possessions, having re-
allied by now that life was ali too
short for the making of scrap books.
And thus she was enabled to bring
into being long deferred idea. that
of the cyclopedia and reference IL
brary.
But now an accident while driving
caused painful and permanent spin
al injury, which checked the active
life she loved. Deafness crept unon
her and failing eyesight, but the IL
brary was still the object of her ef-
forts, enfeebled though they had be-
come, and as she was Obliged gradn-
ally 10 lay down nearly all other lit
7rary labor, the thought grew upon
aer as to how she might thus help
me world in her circumscribed
sphere of action.
Then followed the death of her
lear husband and with this, the de-
'lslon, bravely made, to leave the old
N1chlgan home and come west with a
laughter to locate in Montana. And
10 the novel library came to Mon
ana, to that newer country where
public libraries were not so common.
help to many needing reference
lelps.
Legacy to the Club Women.
Now, when appointed to the office
II chairman of the bureau of infor- .
nation for the Montana federation.
mother vision rose before her. This
vas to build bureau on the broad
ines of the cyclopedia reference Ii :,
rary and leave it as a legacy the !
Tub women of Montana. The former
YORK mad grown very slowly but with 9
ne help of all the women of the :
tate to collect and clip and the one =
ralned pair of hands to file and in .
ex, the work might become of splen- :
Id growth in the short time allotted
all probability, the one who had :,
cen the vision and who had at once =
ct about to make it reality. :,
me files of this new bureau are :
most empty now but there is no
eason why they should long remain b
>: II all club women were to con- -
.lbute their mite by sending clip -
lngs they might soon be filled and =
JUS provide for members all kinds -
available information concerning ~
[ontana, it's history, it's industries, q
achievements, it's men and wom- r
4, and the men and women every Fl
mere and the contributions thew
ave made toward life.
MRS. Titterington will probably
ever meet with the women of the
ate and she could hardly hear their 81
'lces II she did. She seldom leaves II
er home, but through the legacy 81
hlch she is preparing for the women ~
her adopted state, they will hear !
er voice when other tones are for a
,tten 81
A recent book from her pen has es
st been accepted by the publishers. tl
is story whose scene is laid in the =,
ountalns she has learned to love so
I'll and underneath whose snow
pped peaks she waits the final sum. ye
ons. But while she waits she OF
ames a younger generation by II
aklng each passing day render it's al
II toll OF l.ours we'll spent and W
len Lilies busy day draws to it's dc
ose she can rest assured that lii
accomplished, something
done Z
las earned a nights renose