The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-10-30
GIRLS CLUB
MAY GET funds
Organization To Better Con-
ditiOn of Young Women
May Be Legatee of War
Camp Service.
LEADERS FAVOR The PLAN
Would Increase Present Membership of
Girls Club To a Thousand Girls and
Have Leading Organizations of the
City Foster It.
LEADERS FAVOR THE PLAN

The Girls Club is to be the residuary
legatee to War Camp Community Serv-
ice, if the present plans of the leaders
of this work are carried out. Under an
order from Washington the War Camp
Community Service work comes to an
end on Thursday evening The Keno
sha committee which has worked so eff
fectively in this service is going to
have funds on hand and it is now the
belief of these leaders that these funds
ment which will be worthy successor
to the War Camp Community work.
The committee declares that one of the
greatest needs of Kenosha is an organi-
cation for girls. Under the manage
ment of Miss Creekmore the Girls Club
has been making rapid strides and it is
believed that with the fostering care
of the leaders in the community work
and with the financial support which
it is possible to be given from the
funds that the Girls Club may be made
a real power for good in I-enosha.
Seek Thousand Members.
II can not speak for the entire com
mittee,o said W. D. Martin, chairman
of the War Camp Community Work in
Kenosha, but feel strongly that the
work among the girls should be en-
couraged. | feel that with the proper
encouragement this Girls Club can have
a thousand members in Kenosha and
that it can be brought to fill the place
Of real organization to offer some of
the right kind Of sympathy to girls
who have no established home in Ke-
nosha. The money which we have on
hand will provide for the proper care
of the club for at least six months and
believe that by that time the organi-
zation can be made such a. power in
Kenosha that the future of it would be
made the accepted burden of other
organizations in the city. If we can
show the people that it is going to
be real aid to the girls Of Kenosha
| feel that it is going to merit even
greater support than our movement
haS III tH0 past.
Not Solely Social Club.
The plan as outlined would provide
not solely a social gathering place for
the girls, but club home which would
give to them a lot of the advantages
of home. There would be gatherings
of social nature, but it is probable that
these would be limited to one night q
month. The program as outlined for
the next few months would include
dance for this month, musical and
dramatic entertainment for next month
with the understanding that members
of the different units would volunteer
their parts on the program, a bazaar
for later in the winter with one booth
under the management of each unit
Special courses in self development for
girls would be arranged with a close
cooperation between the schools of the
city and the club. 1t is certain that
social centers and night schools will
open wide their doors to the young wom-
en- and aid in making the plan a success.
Girls Anxious for Venture.
The close to two hundred girls now
organized under the club banner are
anxious to get the chance for an extern
sion of their work and the leaders
would have the greatest possible CO.
operation from these young women.
Plans are now being talked for club
house for the girls.
The Henry M. Simmons Church has
been considered, but with the posi-
bility of this going to the Masonic
order several other places are in pros
pect. To carry on the experiment for
the six months period it is believed that
the rooms over the Merchants and Saw
ings Bank would furnish ample quart
ers. Formal announcements Of the plan
Il