Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-06-10

I LenL4ON lie NAMES Vi ti4OsC WIZ "SAS
/ in need.
A charity ball, given in November,
was a success socially as well as
/ financially and Melted the club, in
round numbers, close to $4,000. At
I Christmas time, baskets containing
/ Christmas dinners We're sent out to
/ y families, thus bringing a little
/ Christmas cheer to large number Of
/ children, who might not otherwise
/ have had any Christmas.
The calls for help were so insistent
I that in March the social committee
arranged a Hard Times party which
proved a substantial benefit to our
sadly depleted treasury. The hospital
bill for a widow was then paid, an
oculist's bill for another poor woman,
an unfortunate mother was provided
with a layette, and so the good work
went on.
During the summer we were called
upon to help a family, who, while
touring from Portland Ore, to Rhine
lander, were laid up on the road near
our town by illness, the whole family
suffering from ptomaine poisoning,
from which two Of the children passed
away at a hospital Our club helped
out on the expenses Of this family
and also provided a layette for the
mother.
For several years, our club has as
sisted our city library by providing
pen iodicals for the reading tables, and
this year we followed our usual Gus
tom by giving yearly subscriptions to
the leading magazines to the amount
Of $4700. We also gave $500
toward magazines for the reading
room at the high school which had its
inception This year
A local history, or record Of the
early days in Hurley, on which the
library committee had been working
for more than a year, was presented to
the public library. The book contains
articles Of interest to the community
about pioneer times. Also, each Of
our churches had its history written
up and given to US; Iron county's
record during the war is told by
newspaper clippings; and a history of
the town of Kimball is also included
among its pages. We have some
stories still promised US, and while the
book is not complete vet, we feel that
we have at least made a start in com
piIing the history of our community
We had as our guests during the
year. on different occasions, the Wo-
mans Club of Saxon, and the Hamil-
ton Woman's Club.
In October, at a special meeting, our
club was addressed by Mrs. Ieadbet-
ter, our district chairman on "The Ad-
vantagcs of a Woman's Club to the
Community" This talk was greatly
enjoyed and proved very helpful to
US at the beginning of our club year
Among The interesting programs
which we had during the year might
be mentioned, the demonstration of
the Oral Method of Teaching the Deaf
The teacher of the deaf in our city
schools very kindly brought her class
to our meeting and gave us presen-
tation of her work which was interest
ing in the extreme.
On another occasion we had the
pleasure Of listening to Miss Marjorie
Johnson on "The Problem of the I'M
migrant Miss johnson has done
work among the immigrants at Ellis
Island and her accounts of her per
onal experiences with the newcomers
to our country gave us much food for
thought We felt greatly benefited
by her talk as we have many of the
same problems to meet in our COM
munity.
One Of our members gave us an in
leresting account of the Oshkosh Ju-
bilee celebration which she attended
in October.
Referring again to our expenditures
we gave SO to the loan fund. An
other $1,000 was given toward the
purchase of piano for the "Pureair"
sanatarium at Bayfield, We also
sent a delegate to the state conyen-
ton at Appleton.
At the beginning Of the year, our
membership was small, and while we
have not put on a campaign for new
members, we have experienced growth
until we now number 81 on our roll.