The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-09-13
COUNTY CLUB WOMEN
HOLD FINE MEETING
SAUK CENTRE LADIES HOSTS
TO 100 VISITORS WEDNES-
DAY AFTERNOON
INTERESTING ADDRESSES.
SPLENDID WORK OF CHILD VEL
FARE BOARD REVIEWED
BY THE SECRETARY


Wednesday the Gradatim Club of
Sank Centre entertained the first reg
ular meeting Of the Stearns County
Federation of Women's Clubs, re-
Gently organized. One hundred and
nine out of town guests registered
from st. Cloud, Paynesville, Melrose,
Brooten and Freeport. Fourteen
clubs are now members of the organ
ization.
The meeting was held in the Meth
odist church and parlors which were
warm and Hastily decorated in au-.
tumn flowers. A buffet luncheon was
served at 1900 o'clock. The bust
ness meeting was called to order by
the president, Mrs. Willard Freeman
of st. Cloud at ] 80 p. M The sec
retary,I Mrs. Maurice Hoeschen of
Freeport, was unable to attend be-
cause of illness, and Mrs. Claude
Drago of st. Cloud was appaointed.
to act as secretary pro tenn. ss,-.-s.
After the singing of America Rev..
5. s. Wyand of Sank Centre gave the
invocation. This was followed by a
vocal solo by Mrs. Lester Brown of
this city, and was greatly enjoyed.
Mrs. G. K. Bohall, president of Gra-
datim gave the address of welcome to
which Mrs. H. H. Townsend of Broo-
ten, gracefully responded. This was
followed by delightful vocal duet
by Mrs. Ward and Mrs. Russell Coop
er of Sank Centre.
Reports from the various clubs fol-
| t0Wnh 1--WE Ro1n AL Al J
OF Gradatim Club during the past
year and Mrs. Rossman told of the
| activities of the Woman's Relief
Corps of Sank Centre. At Paynesville
and Melrose their. Women's Clubs
have ben able to accomplish much of
lreal value to their respective COM
lnunities. Melrose' are to be
especially commended for the stand
they have taken on the public dance
hall law enforcement. +,
MIS-. Herbert Falk of Sank Centre
gave the treasurer's report, and Mrs.
Ben Dubois of Sank Centre gave the
report of the publicity committee and
talso on the object of the organiza-
ton. The object was adopted as pre-
scented by the constitution committee.
Miss Esther Sprague gave the report
on the Americanization booth at the
Stearris county fair. -. =.
AS there was no further business
the meeting was turned over to the
chairman of the program committee,
Mrs. c. L. Atwood of ST. Cloud. The
lady spoke of the II state institu-
tons under the Board of Control, one
which is located at Sank Centre, deal
ing with delinquent girls, and one at
st. Cloud dealing with delinquent
men under 25 years of age. She
spoke of the interest of all women
in the youth of the nation. Children
and their well being come first in
every true woman's plan Of life,
whether it be their own or the child
engof the community, For that rea-
son the program committee devoted
the first meeting to Minnesota pro-
gram of Child Welfare. In 1917 SO
laws were passed out of over 40 intro
[duced in the state legislature which
placed Minnesota about third in the
United States in the care and protec-
ton it gives the defective depenent,
delinquent and neglected children.
These laws are administered through
the Children's Bureau of the Board
of Control. The Federation was for
tunate to have Miss Elizabeth Yerxa
case supervisor of the Children's Bu-
reau, with them as the afternoons
speaker. +
Miss Yerxa gave an informal and
very informative talk on conditions
in Stearns county. She said we were
much more interested in affairs at
distance from US, such as the EARTH
quake in Japan or some frightful dis.
aster in the Near East, that we were
in things under our very eyes.
She told of 500 or more cases
which have passed through the hands,
Of the Stearns County Child Welfare
Board in the four years of its exist
ence. She cited three cases as ex-
amples of reconstruction of young
lives which the Board is accomplish
ing in our midst.
Miss Yerxa laid great stress upon
the necessity for Investigation into
homes in which young boys and girls
are placed for adoption, or merely
temporarily. Stearsn county has had
owed 20 placements and adoptions in
the past year and three children were
ordered removed after investigation
by the Child Welfare Board:
If family truely love child they
will legally adopt it. Where they
refuse to do this there is usually
some Interior motive-in many cases
they want cheap labor.
Miss Yerxa spoke at length upon
the administration of Mothers PEN
sions. under the law. She told of the
advantages to the child in being kept
with its mother and the necessity for
constant supervision because of
changing conditions in these homes
Miss Yerxa than talked of deli
quency upon the problem of the UNI
INa.4Inuod f.o,,a Iy.ef pano