The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1936-01-16
Two Tell
OF Life In
Southland
Addresses by Two Members
Feature Program of
Woman's Club.
OTHER NUMBERS
ADD TO INTEREST

Despite the northwest wintr,
weather outside the inside of the
Woman's Club rooms for their regular
january meeting Tuesday, afternoon
had decidedly Southern atmosphere
Mrs. Otto Nordstrom, decoration chair
man, arranged the numerous plants
candles, etc., very attractively tt
harmonic with the program fol
the day.
The usual business routine was gone
through quickly with Mrs. Mount pre-
siding. The Lions Club resolution con-
corning their cooperation to help get
rid of bill boards and preserve our
natural scenery was read Also. a
letter from Mr. Webb of the fores.
service explained the progress in the
matter of leaving timber on the sides
of the roads. Mr.. Webb stated that the
forest service is arranging to do this,
but they have no control on some of
the roads and the club should write to
the various owners of these lands, the
A. c. NJ, Libby Lumber Co., ]. Neils
Lumber Co, and the Bonners Ferry
Lumber Co, asking them to cooperate
toward this cid.
Would Support Constitution
Under legislation. Mrs. A. c. Herbst
spoke on the various efforts of certain
organizations to change the constitu-
ton Of the United States and told of
non-political organization which is
trying to prevent any such movement
Slips containing pledges to support
the constitution were available to sign.
Mrs. w. N. Curtis, international re-
lations chairman, brought to mind the
unrest and uneasiness caused by the
Swedish affair in Ethiopia
For fine arts, Mrs. r. w. Orr dis
played another picture in the Mellon
donation to Washington's art temple.
She also explained the quilt pattern
state contest among the club members
and urged some of the excellent quilt
makers of the club to participate. The
annual 1c-a-member to the Penny
Art Fund was voted at her suggestion.
Mrs. E. E Jaqueth, program chair
man, announced the February meeting
to be the joint civic meeting, date to
be given later.
The report of the Seal sale. under
Mrs. r. w. Billings, showed the fine
sum Of S9016. This is a very worth
while project and the results were
very gratifying.
A letter was read from the National
Youth administration explaining a new
project which will be put in force. It
1F
ing them to the State Library Com
mission who will send them out to
places that do not have library facili-
ties More publicity about this project
will be given later.
The Libby Woman's Club has been
asked to take care Of the ticket sale
for the annual Presidents Ball to be
given soon
Tells Of Life in Georgia
The program for the day, "The Deep
South" was in charge of Mrs. c. d.
Rowe She introduced Mrs. j. T.
Brindley, who read very interesting
paper on the South. Although she
was born in Georgia, Mrs. Brindley has
been in Montana since 1906 However,
she related several incidents about life
IN Georgia that showed the customs
and character Of the people. She said
the Old South was a land of fertile
fields, great plateaus, etc and The
early settlers came and started the
great plantations The New South is
the building up after the Civil War
and had ruined so many of the beauti-
full places Now the South ranks with
the rest of the nation in industry, art,
and education. Mrs Brindley gave a
short history of the negro question
and what is being DONE especially by
education to help them. At the end
Of the paper she, read, in the negro
dialect, a clever little poem.
Before and during the program sew
eral Southern music numbers were
given A quartette comprised of Mrs
Wiprud, Mrs. Krall, Mrs. Fl. r. Rich
ards, and Mrs. collars, sang Honey
Town and Dixie Land Mrs. Wiprud
sang two solos, "Suwannee River" and
Mighty LAX Rose" accompanied by
Miss Inez Ratekin-
Describes Trip Through South.
Mrs. Rowe talked most Interestingly
Of her recent trip through the South.
During the four weeks she was there
she saw so many beautiful and in
teresting places that she said she would
Just have to skim over the outstand-
ing ones.
All through the South there are a
great many toll bridges and the Rowes
went over one soon after leaving
Minneapolis. In one place they went
over four within ten miles. In SPRING
field the home and tomb of Lincoln
were visited with much interest The
Ohio river fully deserved the title
Beautiful Ohio" in Mrs. Rowe's
opinion. In fact, she said that many of
the Southern rivers were character
istically lined with trees and shrubs
which bent down to the water making
them truly beautiful The negro sec
tons Of the towns were interesting and
their cabins were often built UP off
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