The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-07-12
AUxILIARYDEFENsE COUNCILS
Each Township Expected to Appoint
Chairman to Confer With City Wo-
men's League Of Council of Defense
Discuss Plans for Conservation.

course of honor Tuesday afternoon
| Royal Neighbors League in the Meth
| odist church of the town, they perfect
| ed an organization to cooperate with
| the Women s Council of Defense of Ke-
nosha county. Mrs. Dan O. Head, the
chairman Of the Women s League for
this county, was present at the meet
| ing and explained in detail the various
ways which women of the county could
help the nation in this great war for
civilization and humanity. The women
.sstarted the ball rollin - by appoint
ing Mrs. G. Martin to represent Pleas
ant Prairie township and the town of
Pleasant Prairie in the County Council
of Defense and it is hoped that this
will lead to similar action on the part
of every township and town in the
county.
Women in war time was the theme
of the various talks given, before the
sixty enthusiastic women who attend
ed the meeting. One of the plans sug-
gested by which women could help to
stave off the starvation which threat
ems this country and our Aallies, was
| for each woman to can one dozen cans
of vegetables, which were to be stored
away and be used only when an actual
/ dearth of food exists in this country.
Women of the community, who were
known for their marvellous abilities in
culinary arts, explained their favorite
methods for canning fruits and gave
advice which will no doubt prove ben
eficial to many of the less experienced
housewives Of the community. So sue
cessful was this first meeting that plans
were made to hold another in the near
| future to discuss more at length what
women could do at home to help Amer
lea win the war.
| In commenting on the meeting Mrs.
Dan Head said that women s meetings
of this nature throughout the county
would do much to simplify the work
laid out for the Council of Defense to
raise the efficiency of Kenosha county
to it's highest point. The most diff
cult part of the work is to get the
problem before the women of the rural
communities and organizations in every
township like the one at Pleasant
| Prairie would do much toward solving
this difficulty. With county wide
organization which will inform the
mothers and wives of the county Of
their duty in this time of need there
is no doubt but what the women will
do their "bis' in whatever way the
state and national officers shall direct
them.
At the meeting of the advisory COM
mittee of the Women IS Council at Guild
Hall on Monday afternoon, practically
every woman Is organization in the
city of Kenosha was represented and
offered the services Of the various or
ders and clubs in making the women s
work in the county reach the maximum.
If it happened that any organization
/ of women has not AS yet received mott
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Head has authorized an invitation to
be extended through these columns
to such to be present at the next meet
ing of the committee.
The local women s council has been
notified that the University of Wis
consin will offer for one week, begin
ming Wednesday, July IL, practical
course in home economics, which will
teach and demonstrate the most sue
cessful methods of canning fruits and
vegetables so as to prevent waste of
these during this all-important year.
Any woman may receive the entire in
struction by attending any two days
of the course and it is hoped that many
Kenosha women will avail themselves
| of this opportunity to make themselves
more efficient in the way now offered
to them to serve their country. The
plan is for those who attend to con-
duct demonstrations before classes of
Kenosha women so that a large percen-
tage may profit by the extension
/ course.
With the statement of the German
chancellor that our enemy must fight
to exhaustion, if need be, renewed in
terest should be taken by women in the
Food Conservation Pledges, which Ke-
nosha county women will be asked to
sign IN the very near future. The
pledges have not yet arrived from the
state council but they will be imme-
diately circulated upon their receipt.
A copy of the pledge, which cannot but
prove interesting to those women. who