Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-10-06
COUNTY CLUB
WOMEN CONVENE
HOLD MEETING AT CITY
HALL-EIGHTY- ONE
ATTEND

The Marathon County Federation of
Women's clubs celebrated its first
birthday by big annual convention
at the city hall yesterday, nearly a
hundred members of city and county
clubs attending. All ahose who were
present declared it even more of a
success than the first, or semi-annual
get-together meeting held in this city
last spring and that the social and ed
ucational features of the meeting am
ply repaid those who attended.
The meeting was called to order
at 10:45 in the morning by Mrs. A. F.
Schoitz OF Rib Falls, president of the
Federation. In brief talk she told
of the work of the clubs and the
aim of the federation in extending the
influence of the work for better homes,
better schools and better communities.
to make Marathon county the best
county in the state should be the OBJ
ject.
Each Club Represented
Each of the clubs represented by
delegates was then called upon and
the delegate responding, told of the
work and accomplishments of her club
during the past year and of the plans
for the future. The activities related
covered wide fields of usefulness, gem
eral community work, providing hot
lunches in the schools, promoting
community social activities, parties
and picnics, forming cemetery associ-
ations, developing community ideals
in the upbuilding of home conditions,
home dressmaking and many other
lines of nedeavor.
Miss Cora Lansing, Wausau libra
rian, Mrs. l.. A. Pradt, Mrs. S. S. Din
gee and Marshall spoke briefly.
At noon the delegates repaired to
the Central house for dinner and at
1870 the afternoon sessions were be-
gun with twenty minutes of commu-
nifty singing led by G. H. Ingraham.
Mrs. Nellie Kedzie Jones of Madison,
spoke on the use of milk and the ne
cessity of milk. She reviewed the SUI
premacy of Wisconsin as a dairying
state and made a plea to all to use
more milk. "Unless we see to it," she
said, that people learn to use more
milk butter and cheese in their homes
we are going to lose out some of these
days. Use more milk to keep up the
price of milk so that farmers can af-
ford to keep pure bred cows. Our
children will be better nournished and
we will keep production going"
Origin of Clubs
Mrs. H. S. Richards, former presi-
dent of the state federation and mem
Der of the national board of the gem
eral federation, was the principal
speaker of the afternoon. She told Of
tho nriyin Of ap,c nj, he
Through the efforts of a newspaper
woman who started the first club in
1868. From that modest beginning the
membership has grown to include two
million women. Twenty-one years
later, in 1889, the national federation
was formed and held its first biennial
meeting in 1890.
"Women's clubs said Mrs. Rich
ards, meet a perfectly natural desire
for companionship and recreation. The
work of women keeps them closely at
home and the more they are kept at
home the greater is the need for the
club. Club meetings should be a time
of recreation and inspiration. If we
can raise the standard of the home we
raise the standard of the nation. We
can make our own neighborhood a fit
place for our own people to live in"
In speaking of the work of the clubs,
Mrs. Richards said that some one must
start good works and this the women's
clubs always do. Later, when they
have proved good thing they are
generally taken over by the school
boards, as for instance the kindergar-
ten idea originated at Madison by
women, or by the community as a
whole Mrs. Richards concluded her
talk by answering a number of ques-
lions relating to federation and to the