The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-03-29
GRADATIM CLUB
DELlG'HIFlH HOST
WELL KNOWN ORGANIZATION
INFORMALLY ENTERTAINS
AT MASONIC TEMPLE
splendid PROGRAM PREPARED

VI LLlNDlD NUunHW / I'LL HNLD
. MRS. COE, STATE PRESIDENT,
MAKES INTERESTING AND
BENEFICIAL ADDRESS !
The members of the Gradatim Club
concluded their meetings for the year
Wednesday afternoon with a semi
public session, given at the Masonic
Temple. Mrs. w. T. Coe, of Wayzata,
president of the Minnesota Federation
of Women's Clubs, was invited to be
present. She accepted and further
more gave a short talk. In addition
each member was privileged to bring
with them one guest. There We're about
fifty present.
The meeting began at three o'clock
with an informal hour. The guests
were received in the lodge room by
the president of the Gradatim, Mrs.
Theodore Dock, who presented them to
Mrs. Coe. Next in line was Mrs. E.
J. Lewis, state custodian of the feder-
ated clubs.
The lodge room was made homelike
in appearance with the arrangement
of the divans and chairs. Plants, can
delabra and beautifully shaded piano
lamp, together with the side lights
completed the setting. The guests
talked in groups until time for the
/. program, while the soft strains of an
; Edison machine furthered TIE pleas
urableness of the hour.
Mrs. Dock announced each number
of the program and introduced Mrs.
Coe in brief, fitting speech. The pro-
gram follows:
Reading -. Miss Eva Davis
Assisted by Misses Clara Carr
and, Miss Agnes Lynne.
Solo-"From the Land of the Sky
Blue Water" :. Mrs. Victor Conklin
Reading ........ Miss Marian Lewis
Address ~. ~ Mrs. 'Coe
Solo-"I Did. Not KNOW. ........
~ !. -: !. !. ..s q Mics Clara Carr
Reading-isTh Unknown Rider'r..
: ~ I. Miss florence. Sharkey
Miss Sharkey responded to an en-
core with Saving a Seat at the Ben
efit.o The program lasted an hour in
all and the entertainment committee,
Mrs. Christianson and Miss Annabel
Emerson, are to be congratulated on
their discretion and success in arrang-
ing and choosing. Seldom is there an
entertainment wherein every number
is interesting and not over long.
N Mrs. Goes address was on Rural
hubs" Her talk was brief, but nee
=. .assarily helpful to her audience ano
was plentifully interspersed with
spontaneous humor that individualizec
her. The speakers opening remarks
were of congratulatory nature to the
club on the work they were doing ane
a personal tribute to Mrs. E. j. Lewis
for her interchangeable efforts in the
interests of the federated clubs. IL
her main speech on country clubs, sht
Impressed upon her audience the de
STABILITY of having the farmers wit
as a club member. She said they shouts
be encouraged to join. The preslden
made one reel that although the III
of an average farmers wife was NOR
or less lonely yet conditions wer
steadily improving; that they were I'm
proving through the efforts OF tn
women Of these communities and tina
their membership into 4 club like tn
Gradatim, as an example, would b
invaluable both to. them and to tn
club. However, Mrs. Coe said tn
women oftthe city should take the in
* itiative ana that they must be frIendi
and approach on an equal basis.
At the conclusion of the program
ice cream and cake and candies wer
served and shortly after the guest
departed.
The committees were: Program
Mrs. Christianson and Miss Emerson
Decorating, Mrs. Sprague and Mrs
Bohall; Refreshment, Mrs. Lamb an
Mrs. Conldin. xssss sg
The Gradatim Club has been an or
ganization Since 1885,. It lis primaril.
study club, But it's Interests hav
extended much further, more espec
tally along the line of civic improve
ment. Since it's birth it has been in
strumental in securing many thing
for the betterment of Sank Centre
such astthe library, the rest room an an
the Stockade boulder. In addition t
this tie til. Club has been untiring in it,
efforts for a better and cleaner cit.
and have done mmore than any othe
body in bringing such conditions abou.
The members are also active in gtvlnt
to endowment funds and relief WORK
The club is charter member Of Tn.
State Federation Of Women's Cl1bs.
Mrs. j. F. Cooper and Misses Win
Z, 1ifred Cooper and Harriet Erwin LEI