The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-10-14
Woman's Building
At State Fair
Organization of Committee to
Raise Necessary Funds to
Erect Building

Erect Building
/ Editor Daily Item:
1 Will you please favor the We
mans Building movement of the
lState Fair Association. of which
THE undersigned is chairman FOL
Sumter county. by publishing ths
attached notice in today's Item
All interested will greatly appre-
iciate your Kindness.
Yours truly.
Mrs. Horace HARDY.
October II. r9e2.
| The administration of the State
Fair Association with Mr.. Robert
IN. Cooper. of. N isa cky as president
is desirious of establishing a State
Fair of which every citizen will be
sproud. and toward that end have
lput on a statewide canvass for life
members.
a Woman'.s Building with Mrs
Wilson G.. Harvey as state chair
imam and Miss Marguerite Roman
as state organizer has been formed
to solicit funds for q Wonlan's
Building where only women's work
will be featured. Every State
Fair has a representative Wonan's
Building except South Carolina
The one just recently opened al
Nashville is very beautiful. Wa!
should not South Carolina have one
just as beautiful.
The women OF the state are re-
spending splendidlv and twenty-five
teounties have chairraen who arr
working te raise their quotas. Lee
Florence and Laurens have already
done so. The following are the
torganized counties which under the
able leadership OF their ehairmen
are al making cseditable reports:
!! !!.Aliendale. Mrs. j. AZ. Patterson;
Aiken Mrs. Alice Guy Courtney:
iBarnwen, Mrs. G. NJ. Green: Berk-
| teley, Mrs. John c. Rigby:: Calhoun
Mrs. William c. Hane: Charleston
Mrs. T. T. Hyde: Darlington, Mrs
Albert James; Edgefield, Miss
zena Payne; Fairfield, Mrs. Herbef1
Huff: Florence. Mrs. Duncan Nc
IKenzie; Cherokee. Miss Leila Nor
gan; Greenyille. Miss Eta Nc
Gee: Greenwood, Mrs. Thomas j
fKinard;; Horny. Mrs. W. II. AM
brose; Lancaster Miss Eta Skip
fper: I.aurens. Mrs. George NJ
Wright: Lee. Mrs. l.. IL. Jennings;
LeNington. Mrs. Is. E. Croft: ker-
shaw, Mrs Edwin Muller; MARI
bore, Mrs. ". Ii. Fletcher: Orange
burg. Miss Ma:ie Slater: Richland
Mrs. Cora Cox Lucas; Sumter. Nrs,
Horace Hardy: York. Miss Marie
Fewell: Union. Mrs. J.. ". MlNson..
The club women are deeply IN
sterested in the movement, real
izing the value of such q building
te every type of woman. The fed
Grated clubs. and those not in the
federation. also Council of Farm
Women from all parts of the state
are taking life memberships, some
have taken several. Among some
| of those who have subscribed are:
The American Legion: Auxiliary OF
/ Columbia. l.: killian- Fair. Lawn
club, /. Blytheweod. i College Place
Home Demonstration Club. Coluna-
bia. /: Clinton Civic Improvement
, Association, Clinton. 3, j. Z. ker-
shaw. L. d. C. Chapter, Laurens. 1;
Laurens. City Civic League, /: The
Wednesday Literary Club, Laurens
/: the Business Noman's Club
Laurens. !: Una-Alcot School I'M
provement club, Una. I Hampton
County Council of Farm Women
! i: Winnsboro Mill 'Woman's Club
L: the. Old Homestead Club. Dar-
iington. /: Lee County Federation
OF Women's Clubs. United Dangh-
ters of the Confederacy. Bishop
vile. MacDowell Music Club. Bish-
opville. The Fine Arts Club. Bish-
opville, Civic League OF Lynchburg
/: Uhited Daughters of the Con
federacy Gafney. L: Country Club
,Gaffney. /: Sumter County Council
of Farm Women, Sumter. i: Home
Demonstrates club. Sumter. /;
Civic League, Conway. /: Count.
Council of Farm Women. Fairfield
1: County Council of Fsarm Women
Beaufort. /: Carlisle Book Club
s.fcCol1. /: five Home Demonstra-
ton clubs IN Union, County Will
each take /, and many others.
Mrs. George Vanderbilt. president
of the North Carolina State Fai!
has accepted an invitation to as
sist at the ceremony of the laying
OF the corner stone of the Wo-
mans Building at the Fair grounds
Monday. October 23. This ceremony
Will take place IL twelve o'clock,
Governor Harvey. Mrs. Vanderbilt
and Mrs. Harvey Will make short
addresses Bishop F'inlay will
make the opening prayer and 5ene-
diction. There will be appropriate
music while the stone is being low
cred,
* reception will be given for