Missouri Home Makers' Conference. 



OFFICERS. 



President — Miss Alice Kinney, New Franklin. 

 First Vice-President — Mrs. J. Ed. Hall, Lamonte. 

 Second Vice-President — Miss Louise Stanley, Columbia. 

 Corresponding Secretary — Miss Bab Bell, Columbia. 

 Recording Secretary — Miss Pearle Mitchell, Rocheport. 

 Treasurer — Mrs. Cora Chapin, Appleton City. 



ADVISORY BOARD. 



Mrs. N. H. Gentry, Sedalia; Mrs. Marie T. Harvey, Kirks- 

 ville; Mrs. F. B. Mumford, Columbia; Mrs. W. C. Hutchison, 

 Jamesport; Mrs. Scott Cunningham, Palmyra. 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



(Miss Pearle Mitchell, Rocheport.) 



The Missouri Home Makers' Conference met Tuesday, 

 January 13, 1914, at 10 o'clock. A message of greeting was 

 read from Mrs. Chivvis of the Missouri Federation of Women's 

 Clubs. The conference president, Miss Kinney, in her address 

 laid stress upon the power of women to improve the conditions 

 of home making and farm life. She urged the necessity of more 

 earnest work along the lines of child welfare. She advised 

 women to take more interest in the scientific and sanitary rules 

 for butter making. She announced the chairman of the various 

 domestic science departments which were to hold meetings 

 during the conference and where the proposed plans for ex- 

 perimental work and contests would be explained. Miss Kinney 

 also gave her ideas regarding the benefit of a woman's farm 

 produce exchange. 



Mrs. Harry Sneed of Sedalia made an interesting report of 

 the International Congress of Farm Women at Tulsa, Okla. 

 Miss Louise Stanley gave a fine report on the International 

 Congress at Ghent, Belgium. She thought the education of 

 girls one of the most interesting subjects discussed. It was 



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