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would have representatives at the State meeting — the Missouri 

 Home Makers' Conference held in Columbia, the second week of 

 January of each year. 



So far, the Pettis County Home Makers' Conference is the only 

 county organization in the State. The way there had been pre- 

 pared by Mr. Jordan in organizing the farmers of the county pretty 

 thoroughly. That, with a very much alive set of officers, has put 

 the organization on its feet and it has already a greater member- 

 ship, larger meetings and more enthusiasm displayed than the farm- 

 ers' organization of the same county. Local clubs are being organ- 

 ized in communities near Paris, Kirksville and Rockport. 



Further information and aid in regard to the organization of 

 these clubs may be obtained by writing to Secretary T. C. Wilson 

 of the State Board of Agriculture, at Columbia, Missouri. Printed 

 copies of model constitutions and by-laws for local home makers' 

 clubs and farmers' clubs may be had also from Mr. Wilson. 



Such organizations have become great powers for good in 

 almost all the states around us, and we hope that Missouri women 

 will not be slow in taking advantage of the aid that the State 

 Board of Agriculture is so willing and anxious to give, and that 

 eventually every township, if not every school district in every 

 county of the State, will have its club. 



THE PETTIS COUNTY HOME MAKERS' CONFERENCE. 



(Mrs. J. B. Mockbee, Sedalia, Mo.) 



The Pettis County Home Makers' Conference was organized on 

 the seventeenth of December, 1912, during the short course for 

 women given at Sedalia, by Miss Nelle Nesbitt, Institute Lecturer 

 for the State Board of Agriculture. Though only a few were 

 present we elected the following officers : President, Mrs. Harry 

 Sneed, Sedalia ; Vice-President, Mrs. Emmett Bouldin, Hughesville ; 

 Secretary, Mrs. J. B. Mockbee, Sedaha; Treasurer, Mrs. F. F. 

 Combs, Sedalia. At this time a meeting was called for the last 

 Saturday in December. The last Saturday in each month was 

 chosen for the regular time of meeting, on account of that being the 

 time already chosen by the Bureau of Agriculture. This makes a con- 

 venient time for the women from the country to come in to Sedalia, 

 as they can come in with their husbands. Our membership rose to 

 twenty at this first meeting, which was merely a preliminary one, 

 where we made out the program for the next meeting which was 

 to be held January 26, 1913. 



