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We have now (March 1, 1913) a paid membership of forty-five 

 and have had as many as seventy-three in attendance at a single 

 meeting. Our annual dues are only twenty-five cents, as we have 

 no expense except postage. We meet in the courthouse at the same 

 time the men hold their meeting in the same building. At the last 

 meeting, February 22, several of the men left their meeting to come 

 over to ours, especially to hear Mrs. Staples talk on poultry. 



Pettis County Home Makers' Conference. 



To stir up interest Mrs. Sneed and I telephoned every woman 

 in the county we could reach by telephone and had each one tell 

 her neighbors whom we could not reach in this way. The majority 

 of our members are country women and we hope eventually to have 

 representatives from every community in the county. We are 

 especially anxious to get in close touch with the rural schools and 

 in this endeavor we are meeting with hearty co-operation from the 

 teachers and from the county superintendent of schools, Mr. T. R. 

 Luckett. Results can be seen already in the schools, and we are 

 aiming to make our Pettis county rural schools the best in the 

 State. 



We are also planning to send a goodly delegation to the S'tate 

 conference at Columbia next year and hope by that time to be able 

 to report on much work accomplished. 



