Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-06-02
Eureka News
FIRST WOMAN'S CLUB REPORT.

The First Woman's Club has held
two meetings a month, one business
meeting, the other a program meeting
the past year There have been seven
programs under the departments of
Legislation, Montana Products, Fine
Arts, International Relations and Amer
Jean Home. The Montana Products din
ner, which we give annually was very
successful We celebrated the Washing
ton Bicentennial with special program
in February At this program, Mrs.
Dennis Flahaven, state chairman of the
International Relations Department, adj
dressed our club. While in Eureka, Mrs.
F1ahaven addressed the grade and high
school students and gave a public adj
dress entitled, THE Spirit of Wash
ington in 1882" at the high school audi
torium We felt very fortunate to have
Mrs. Flahaven with us. There were two
social meetings this year, one in honor
of our teachers.
The district meeting was held in Eu-
reka September 28 and 20. 1t was large
" through the efforts of our district
president Mrs L. W. Fetterly, that
this meeting was success.
1t was our good fortune TO have the
Scholarship girl chosen from our town.
The Scholarship girl Of District One
is Miss Winona Harvey, who IS prov
ing herself credit to our district. The
Eureka Club Is proud of her.
We attended to our usual Christmas
community work. Several ladies gave
silver lea to raise funds for the Com
munity Tree. The club sponsored a
Christmas Tag Day in which the Camp
fire Girls did the tagging. The pro-
ceeds from this were also used for the
Community Tree. The Club cooperated
with the Auxiliary 10 the American Ie-
gion and the citizens of the Eureka
community in filling and distributing
Christmas boxes for the poor
We packed two Christmas boxes for
the soldiers at Fort Harrison and gave
our annual gifts to the State Orphans
Home and to the Florence Grittendon
Home.
The Seal Sale chairman reported that
the refund from the Seal Sale has been
used very profitably IN serving hot
lunches and milk to the children Of the
grade school who were not able to buy
their hot lunches and milk. Lewis Fet-
terly sold the seals in Eureka. Alter
the seal sale refund money was ex-
hausted. the club paid for the lunches
and milk
We entered into the Montana Prod
ucts Contest securing as many sigma
lures to the pledge as Was possible
We repaired the tennis courts again
this year buying new tapping and other
necessary materials. The work was
done by young men who arc interested
in tennis
We had constructed 4 gravel walk
in Pershing Park and a bed q poppias
was planted around the monument.
We also bought materials for turn-
stile gate for the park which Mr..
Frank Thomas built and placed We
bought material for benches which
were constructed under Professor Day
supervision. These benches have been
placed in Pershing park.
A first and second prize was gwen
TO the constructors of the two best
bird houses built in the grade school
manual training class last year
The club contributed to The expenses
OF the contestant in the state extempor-
aneous writing contest
We planted blue spruce tree, dedi-
eating it in honor Of our retiring dis
trict president, Mrs /. w Fetterly, who
has always been an efficient and tire
less worker in club activities.
HAZEL M JONES,
President