The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-12-29
Sophia Bronson T'i;tter;ngton
Starts at Seventy On Ne1u Idea

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ents brought their family of little
be reared. The long voyage was
ing then unknown.
Start Of the Library.
AS soon as Sophia learned to read,
she began to use her scissors to elm
the articles which interested her and
to a v them. AS she grew older she
learned the need of classifying her
treasures and then began the period
of scrap books. Before her marriage
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 MAX
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 the
material which came her way. Dur
ing this period her pen was not idle
n many of her sketches and stories
found their way into the magazines
of that day.
About this time she was offered by
a 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 hat life was all too
snort for the making of scrap books.
And thus she was enabled to bring
into being a long deferred idea, that
OF the cyclopedia and reference IL
brary.
But now an accident while driving
caused a painful and permanent SPIN
al injury, which checked the active
life she loved. Deafness crept upon
her and failing eyesight, but the Ii
brary was still the object of her eff
forts, e%nfeebled though they had be-
come, and as she was Obliged gradu-
ally to lay down nearly all other lit
erary labor, the thought grew upon
her as to how she might thus heln
the world in her circumscribed
sphere Of action.
Then followed the death Of her
dear husband and with this, he de-
cision, b~ravely made, to leave the old
Michigan home and come west with a
daughter to locate in Montana. And
so the novel library came to Mon
Jana, o mat newer country where
public libraries were not so
a help to many needing reference
helps.
Legacy to the Club Women.
Now, when appointed to the office
OF chairman of the bureau of infor-
nation for the Montana federation.
vision rose before her. This
was to build a bureau on the broad
lines of the %cyclopedia reference Ii
brary and leave it as a legacy % the
club women of Montana. The former
work had grown very slowly but with
the help of all the women of the
state to collect and clip and the n
trained pair of hands to file and in
dex, the work might become of splen-
did growth in the short time allotted
in all probability, the one who had
seen the vision and who had at once
about to make it reality.
The files of this new bureau are
almost empty now but there is no
reason why they should long remain
so. II all club women were to con-
their mite by sending clip
pings IACy HllSHl SOOu De IllleQ and
thus provide for members all kinds
OF available information concerning
Montana, it's history, it's industries,
Its achievements, it's men and wom-
and the men and women every
where and the contributions they
made toward life.
Mrs. Titterington will probably
never meet with the women of the
state and she could hardly hear their
voices if she did. She seldom leaves
her home, but through the legacy
which she is preparing for the women
of her adopted state, they will hear
her voice when other tones are for
A recent book from her pen has
Just been accepted by the publishers.
is a story whose scene is laid in the
she has learned to love SO
we'll and underneath whose snow
capped peaks she waits the final sum.
mons. But while she waits she
shames a younger generation by
making each passing day render its
full toll of hours we'll spent and
when Life's busy day draws to it's
close she can rest assured that
Something accomplished, something
done
Has earned a nights repose."