The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-14
KEOKUK WOMEN
ARE INTERESTED
They Form Excellent Audiences for
Women Physicians who Lectur>
ed on Social Diseases
and Effects.
CAMPAIGN TOOK WELL
All Kinds Of Women, Factory Girls,
Club Women, coiored Church
Women, Business Women
and High School Girls.

I That All sorts OF Keokuk women are
interested in the subject was shown
| ct the fourteen talks which wero made
| to Keokuk women Wednesday and
, Thursday Of thds week, ON the subject
OF damage to the country by venereai
diseases.
, Two lectures were given to high
school girls, three to mothers clubs,
enc to the business women, five We're
given in factories. one before mass
meeting Mt the Y. W. q. A. and one DC.
fore mass meeting OF colored women
al Bethal A. NJ. e. church.
Three leading women physiCanS OF
Iowa made the addresses, having been
sent out by the United States govern
lnent.
The first meeting was held on Wed
nesday afternoon when DR.. Lenna
Meanes addressed the mothers Club
OF the y. N. A Most OF those in attend
ance were mothers who brought their
babdes with them. showing that an eff
fort he'd been made to attend.
At 3: 80 o'clock. both Wednesday aud
Thursday DR.. May Habenicht spoke be-
fore an audience made UP Of all tho
girls in the high school.
Best Audience She Ever Had.
On Wednesday afternoon at 1880
O'clock ITO women attenced DR..
Meane's lecture at the Lincoln school
OF which she said, TT was the most
receptive audience OF the kind ever
addressed
! Sixty-hve mothers attended the leo
| ture by Dr.. Harpel at the Wells school
on Wednesday afternoon at 500
o'clock. Questions were asked and
great interest taken in the lecture. The
| teachers OF the Wells school Served
cakes and coffee following the pro
gram
| The factory meetings ON Wednesday
were full of interest to the girls Who
made one OF the best audiences OF the
series.
At the ]. G. H1binger Bros. Go. the
machinery was stopped for forty-five
minutes that all the women employees
might hear the talks. The manag ement
of this plant and OF others where meet
/ ings were held were both courteous
| and generous in giving time to this
project OF the government
Twenty-Five employees OF the Irwin
Phillips CO. remained for the meeting
which was held during the noon hour
Wednesday.
| The Factories Did Well.
Hmisapamp Brothers co. and the
Kellogg!Birge Co. each gave forty-ffye
minutes of time to their woman en-
| ployes to hear the lectures.
| Sixty women employees OF the Purity
Oats Co. and twenty-five at the Iowa
Can Co. factory heard the lecture dur
ing the noon hour Wednesday.
Two hundred fifty OF the club wom-
en- type attended the mass meeting
yesterday afternoon at the Y. W. O..
A. auditorium at which Miss Martha
| Hornish, president of the Y. w. c. A.,
presided. DR.. Meanes made the address
! and many questions were asked bear
| ing particularly on the powers and
function Of the United States health
departments on local law enforc ement.
AT 8 o'clock yesterday afternoon at
the Bethel A NJ d. church a large
| company of women heard DR.. Harpel
speak The audience was appreciatfve
of the lecture and asked many Ques-
tons at It's close.
| The series of meetings closed last
night with lecture before the bust
Eess women Of the city, with an at
| tendance of seventy-five. The rainy
weather no doubt had its effect on the
attendance.
The pleasing and womanly personal
| ity OF the lecturers added much to the
force and the effectiveness Of the CAM
paign here.