Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1923-11-15
CELEBRATES
18TH BIRTHDAY

On Monday afternoon the Porti
Club fittingly celebrated its twenty
eighth birthday by giving a luncheon
at which the Past Presidents OF tn
Club were the honor guests. At {
table decorated in purple and white
sat the Past Presidents and the acc
ing President Mrs. r. d. Bradshaw
the club members, about fifty OF
whom we're present at the luncheon
which was served in the club rooms
being seated at smaller tables. The
interval between the clearing of the
tables and the opening of the meet
ing resolved itself into a social hour
when the Past Presidents from out of
town were the central figures. The
regular meeting which was called to
order by the, President at 2:30, was
swelled by the presence of many club
members who had been unable to
come to the luncheon. Mrs. Earl
Dibble, the corresponding secretary
acted as Recording secretary in the
absence of Mrs. Ferrell.
During the business meeting the
resignation as Club Director of Mrs.
T. D. Landon was read and regret
fully accepted, as Mrs. LandCn has
been a prominent worker, both in
the library, on the Board of Direc
tors and in general club activities.
1t was the unanimous wish of the
club that Mrs. Landon, who leaves
next week to make her home in Cal.
ifornia, be presented with some
suitable souvenir by the club, COM
mittee with Mrs. Albert White as
Chairman, was appointed to pur-
chase and present the gift. Re-
ports of committees were heard, Mrs.
Crump OF the Welfare Committee, |
reporting that the Rummage Sale
held last week had netted nearly
one hundred and fifty dollars. On !
motion made by Mrs. McGlinchey
matters of great Importance relating
to our State Institutions, were post I
poned for discussion at the next reg
ular meeting. When the regular
business had been disposed of Mrs. |
Bradshaw turned the meeting over
to Mrs. NJ E. Wood, Chairman of .
the program committee.
Miss Mildred Barton opened the
,,-;FI, daIiabtfuI1,y rapdarad
piano solo. This was followed by
two beautiful vocal solos by Mrs.
Jack Whalen, accompanied by Mrs.
]. L. Mcdonald. Mrs. Wood, then in
troduced the numbers on her pro-
gram, which consisted of talks by
the guests of honor, the Past Presi-
dents, whom the speaker gracefully
designated as Mothers of Portia'.
These ladies being called upon in
the order of their seniority of office,
only in this case the order was re-
served and the first talk a clever
rhymed history of club activities,
was given by Mrs. Bradshaw, the ,
acting president. The next was
Mrs. Hogue, who stated that the out
standing feature of her term of Of l
flee was the securing of financial ]
support for the library from the city, I
the sum of six hundred dollars being |
set apart each year for the use of the [
library. Mrs. D. c. Chase, who came ]
next told of how, during her year, {
the club purchased two Liberty '
Bonds in the fall of 1919. The speak '
er was followed by Mrs. A. P. Scritch- t
field, of Weiser, who spoke in the t
warmest terms of her constant feel !
ing of kinship with Portia. 1t was {
during Mrs. Scritchfields term that |
the club membership grew from 35 t
to 1876. t
Miss Shamberger in a delightful {
little speech told how her term of |
office had been one of quiet for c
Portia. She was followed by Mrs. s
Celia Moss, who told of many little I
incidents in the past life of Portia. G
Mrs. J. B. Burns of Boise, was the t
next speaker. 1t was while Mrs. t
Burns was President, the Free Pub l
lie Library, now grown to such i'm f
portant proportion, had its inception t
and its actual beginning, Mrs. Burns 1
too spoke in the most heartfelt |
terms of her feeling for the old S
club of which she was one of the i
charter members. Followed Mrs. c
with comparison of
the old times with the new. The
speakers grave contention that in t
the old times we were more studious, q
more high-brow, was borne out by t
the list of subjects impaired to have t
been studied by Portia in the days of
her youth. None of these subjects ]
went by name of less than seven v
syllables and the audience was be- {