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There must have been five hundred people present to see the 

 exhibits, to give us the encouragement of their presence and to 

 hear the talk. 



This last year we held our third annual fair and, though the 

 season was not opportune, we had many kinds of farm products. 

 The girls' part was fully maintained to its high standard. We 

 had with us again Mr. Wright, and he seemed to appreciate the 

 opportunity to come back to us. 



The club has now kept up its regular monthly meetings for 

 over three years with unabated interest. After we had been 

 running a short time we met only once a month, and then when 

 the moon gives a good light, so the old folks can see to come as 

 well as the young. 



Our club has attained considerable prominence through our 

 section of the State. We frequently have some one with us 

 to make us a good talk on some topic of general interest. Among 

 these have been Uel Lamkin of Clinton and Senator Wallace 

 Grossley of Warrensburg and others. Our ministers also have 

 been good in coming out and giving us short talks. 



Such, in brief, is the history of our Farm and Home Im- 

 provement Club up to the present, but if I am to tell you what 

 we have been doing in the neighborhood to help ourselves I 

 should not stop here. We had hardly got our improvement club 

 well organized and going before the women of our community 

 had conceived the idea of organizing a club all to themselves, a 

 club like the town women have. So one beautiful June after- 

 noon they met at one of our farm homes, about twenty-five of 

 them, mostly married women, and effected an organization that 

 has since joined the State Federation of Women's Clubs. They 

 now have thirty or more members. They have up to the present 

 devoted most of their study to home economics. They have 

 provided several high-class entertainments for the community, 

 some pay and some free. They have given receptions once a 

 year to their husbands and sweethearts. And last spring, when 

 word was received that the sufferers in the Ohio flood were in 

 need of aid, the club raised seventy-five dollars for them in one 

 afternoon. This was done over the telephone. 



Now I have not time to tell you about the boys' band or the 

 girls' embroidery club, although it would serve to show you 

 what can be done by the young people of any community that is 

 worth while if they want something going on. 



