Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-02
CONVENTION DAY
At SHORT COURSE
NINE MEETINGS OF STATE LIVE
STOCK AND AGRICULTURAL Z
SOCIETIES HELD.
HoLsTElN BREEDERS
ADOPT CONSTITUTION
Farm Women's Association Holds En-.
thusiastic Meeting and Elects Off
cers-Suecess Club Formed by Grad
yates of Two-Year Course in Asri-
culture at Iowa State College.
,pecial n Times Republican.

AInes. Feb. 2.-Yesie. day was real
convention day at the Ames winter
short course. Some nine meetings or
various state live stock and other
agricultural associations were held,
most OF which completed new organ
ization for the coming year.
The adoption OF a constitution
marked the Iowa State Hoistein Breed
ers Association meeting. as step to-
ward closer organization and better
representation in the National Dairy
Association. During the past year the
association has had no representative
in the national association because il
had no constitution. Definite action
was taken in regard TO the 1918 meet
ing of the national dairy convention
and W. B. Barney was appointed to Sc
lect two or more men 10 act as COM
mittee 10 invite the national associa-
| ton 10 Waterloo. Officers elected for
the coming year were: J. F. Cass, Wa
terloo. president: George Mckay, Wa
terloo vice president; L. w. Miller,
Waterloo, secretary; Ray Arnold, Nor
walk treasurer.
Farm Women's Association Elects.
The Iowa Farm Women's Association
held its second annual meeting Thurs
day morning. The members voted 80
affiliate with the state federation of
wcmen's clubs They also voted to pc
tition the agricultural extension de-
partment of the college to set aside
definite percentage of the Smith-Lever
appropriation for Iowa, to the promo
ton of farm women's organizations.
The officers elected were: Mrs. Nellie
Richardson. Des Moines, president;
Mrs. Francis Klinck, GAINESVILLE, vice
president; Miss Fannie Wilson, South
English, second vice president; Miss
Margaret Fugitt. Thurman, secretary
and Mrs. W. w. Gingle, Castana,
treasurer.
Success CLUB Organized.
One OF the most unique happenings
of the short course was the formation
Of a Success Club, organized by the
graduates in the two-year course in
agriculture at Iowa State College. The
club consists Of members who have
been out Of school three years. Eac1
year cup will be donated to the man
who has done the most to improve his
farm, done most for the benefit of his
community and has made good finan-
cially. A committee of three faculty
men will be judges, and will make the
mans name known at the banquet next
year.
Officers elected al the meeting of the
Iowa Nurserymens Association were
Earl Ferris, Hampton, president; E. E.
May. Shenandoah, vice president; and
H. l.. Merkel, Des Moines, secretary
treasurer.
Enthusiastic Women's Meeting.
Women are coming more and more
into their own on Iowa's farms. That's
why they were given the reins at one
of the biggest evening mass meetings
of the great short course at Iowa State
College. The audience, crowding the
assembly in Agricultural hall 10 over
flowing, was made up mostly of men,
but they cheered enthusiastically again
and again, as the women speakers told
of woman's work and her ambitions on
the farm and in rural communities.
Mrs. Nellie Richardson, Des Moines,
president of Iowa Farm Women's As
ISOLATION, presided. Other speakers
were Miss Tura Hawk. home economies
demonstration for Black Hawk county;
Miss Leonardo Goss, editor Of Farmers
Wife, st. Paul, and Mrs. \. B. Ashby,
Des Moines.
Eight Hour Day on Farm.
Miss Hawk gave most helpful OUT
look for the farm woman's future. My
dream just now Is to establish in Black
Hawk county an eight-hour day for
farm women she declared. Il feel
that farm women nowadays do more
work than their mothers used to do.
But / believe that by the intelligent
use of labor saving devices and equip
ment, the farm woman Will be able to
work but eight hours day and have
little time for recreation. An cleo
trio washing machine doesn't mean
that they are going TO have snap Of
Il, but that they will be able to con-
serve effort to use in some other direc-
nom.
Miss Hawk, who is the only home
economics demonstrators in Iowa, brief
" outlined the things that she IS
bending every effort to do in Black
Hawk county. I'm not up there to
r;plift the farm women she said.
They don't need uplifting. I'm u9
there 10 be a leader. l try to remem-
Der that women are the spenders. that
is. they buy the consumption items Of
the household, which constitute $500
per cent of the money spent, and help
them. to spend more judiciously.
Some Of the things that Miss Hawk
has either put thru or is working on
in Black Hawk county are. a cooper
ative egg marketing association, CO.
operative laundry, and community club
work. I'm hoping that the time is at
hand when every county in Iowa will
have a woman county agent" she
stated.
Feed Lambs and Quiet 'Nerves.
Mrs. Richardson, who the past sea-
son, successfully fed out 200 lambs.
gave the advice, You women who are
nervous, and don't know what to do
with yourself, buy some lambs; go out
in the yard and feed them"
women are needed on the school
board" said Miss Leonardo Goss, edi-
tor of the Farmers Wife," ST. Paul, in
her talk on "Why Leadership of Farm
Women Is Needed" "A woman will
see that the school house is clean, the
fixtures are on the wall that vines
/ cover fences ana ourpuildings, snc
will choose a teacher who Will be a
mother to the children and turn the
school house into a social center.
Country women are not only ready for
leadership but they are doing It to-
day
Country clubs promote good fell
| lnwsfip. develop latent talent. benefit
the community as whole and develop
| a country conscience, which expresses
itself in various lines Of activity" de-
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