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school directors, visit the country schools. Many lines of 

 work are being successfully conducted. 



The report of the Johnson County League was given by 

 Mrs. Hutchison, who said' the club was the result of the moving 

 schoolwhich was conducted last summer under the auspices 

 of the College of Agriculture. The main effort of this club is 

 to make home more attractive to the boys and girls. She 

 thought home conveniences most important. She told of a 

 gasoline engine which cost $40, and it was turning the washing 

 machine, the cream separators, pumps water and does many 

 other things. This county organization has 200 members, the 

 membership being divided into districts. 



Mrs. Phillips told of the Jackson township organization. 

 This township has no railroad in it, but in 1909 a fair was held 

 which brought people together and aroused the spirit of progress. 

 A year ago a high school was established and the women or- 

 ganized to assist. The club is called the Jackson Township 

 Improvement Association. Mrs. Phillips said the most earnest 

 workers in her association were the women who lived in the 

 plainest homes. She advocated the naming of country homes- 

 Mrs. Cora Chapin told of the Rural Improvement Club 

 and the Appleton City Club. She said they both sent delegates 

 to the biennial meeting of the State Federation of Women's 

 Clubs and to the International Congress of Farm Women at 

 Tulsa, Okla. They had introduced lectures and various 

 literary and social entertainments, besides contests in household 

 economics lines. Contributions to various philantropic objects 

 had also been made. 



The meetings of the various departments of the Home 

 Makers' Conference were so numerous and scattered that it 

 was difficult to obtain reports of each, but in so far as possible 

 all written addresses and club reports were collected for the 

 annual report. The executive board recommended holding 

 semiannual meetings of the board at such times and places as 

 the president shall decide. 



