The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-12-02
ADVISOR leaves |! !
after SERVICE
Of THREEyEARS
Miss Elsie GRAersleeve to Be Mar
Fied IN January to Wen Known
Mercer County Farmer.


women than We have in our Mer-I
Ger county home bureau. To have
had the privilege Of working with
them, to have had q part in estab-
fishing this splendid organization,
to me was great pleasure and II
is my sincere desire that the home
bureau will live long and prosper"
stated Miss Elsie Gildersleeve, for
three years home adviser Of Mercer
county and an active worker In
community affairs, who yesterday
severed her connection with the
Mercer county home bureau. Miss
Gildersleeve rendered her resigna-
ton to the bureau several months
ago.
Miss Gildersleeve will leave Aledo
tomorrow and will visit with rela-
tives in Illinois for several weeks
before going to the winter home OF
her parents at Deland, Fla. When
she returns to Mercer county in the
spring she will not come back as
county home adviser but as the
home adviser to one of Mercer coun-
TVS well known farmers, Glenn
Gilmore, of Ohio Grove township.
Mr.. Gilmore and Miss Gildersleeve
will be married during the early
part of January at Deland.
Miss Gildersleeve has been hon
ored by many social events given
her by home bureau members and
has received many beautiful gifts
for use in the new home.
With the departure Of Miss Gill
dersleeve the headquarters Of the
home bureau in Aledo will be closed.
as no successor has been secured
to take her place. The work Of the
home bureau. however, will be car
ried on by the officers until a new
adviser can be obtained. Officers
of the county organization are:
President. Mrs. w. H. Clarke; Gee
rotary, Mrs. c. e. Duvall; treasurer,
Mrs. L. B. Canum. Miss Corrine
Baldwin, who has been acting as
assistant home adviser, will also
discontinue her work at the office.
AS county adviser Miss Glider
sleeve has probably taught more
women the value Of cooperation and
worked more tirelessly in her eff
forts to educate the women OF the
county in modern methods Of house
work than any other person in the
county. She has personally super
vised the work of the II units Of
the home bureau and has intro
duced many new ideas in modern
labor saving household equipment
in the county.
Her work among the girls Of the
county has been especially valua-
BILE, as she has. interested many
girls in the art of cooking, canning
and sewing. The New Boston
girls club, which Miss Gildersleeve
took to the state fair, won several
prizes in a demonstration Of sew
ing. Credit for the establishment
| of hot lunches in several Mercer
county rural schools is due to the
efforts OF Miss Gildersleeve.
Three years ago Miss Gildersleeve
/, came to Mercer county to cooperate
with the state university in estab-
fishing a home bureau. The task
proved to be one that required a
great deal of hard work and one
that met with many disappoint-
ments and discouragements, but due
tn the tireless efforts Of Miss Gil
! dersleeve the Mercer county home
bureau is today one OF the most
progressive in the state.
The October number Of the Home
Bureau Bulletin contained the fol-
lowing letter written to the mem
bers of the home bureau:
"As / shall not see all Of you al
our meetings, l want to take this
opportunity to say a few last words
to YOU as an adviser. In the first
place, l want to try to express te
you il I can what it has meant te
me to have had your loyal support
your interest in the home bureau
and your faith in the work itself.
I'm the beginning of this worl
together, back in the days OF food
conservation, We encountered
great many discouragements AM
idisappointments. Many times have
IL come home from our meetings
with a heavy heart and had it moi
ibeen for those Of you who realized
the higness of the thing we wer'
trying to do, those of you who stool
|by and held on when all odds seem
ed against Ms, am afraid l shoult
Il have given up in despair.
But those hard days are over To-
most OF our units, We rejoice Il
say, and we have entered into
more promising and useful stage o
iexistence. We, are now ready to d
1.-THE things for which We are organ
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