Repoj-t of Missouri Farmers' Week, 



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Mrs. Holland and her little 

 daughter. 



REPORT FROM "COUNTRY CULTURE CLUB" OF HUDSON, 



MISSOURL 



(Mrs. Jesse Ellis Holland, Montrose, Mo.) 



I come before you this morning as a 

 member of and a delegate from the Country 

 Culture Club of Hudson, Missouri, to tell 

 you, as best I can, something of what we 

 have striven to accomplish through our 

 organization during the past year. 



Our club was organized in June, 1911, 

 with some twenty members, and during the 

 remainder of our initial year our time was 

 devoted almost exclusively to the study of 

 Home Economics. This year, however, de- 

 siring to broaden our line of work, we have 

 combined Home Economics and literature 

 and the enjoyment of this line of work has 

 been unanimously voted a success by our club members. We meet 

 at the various homes on the second Wednesday of each month. Our 

 motto is "Happy Homes," and I cannot better tell you our object, 

 than to quote from our Year Book, "To be alive in every part of our 

 being, to realize the possibilities that are in us, to do all that we can, 

 to become all that we are capable of becoming, this is the aim of 

 life." At our annual meeting we decided to publish and use a 

 Year Book, and this we have found quite helpful in our work. 



We assisted the Farm and Home Improvement Club, another 

 organization in our community, in giving the home picnic and 

 product show in September, which was largely attended and was 

 pronounced a splendid success. Many premiums were given for 

 bread, cakes, plain and fancy, sewing, corn, fruits and vegetables — 

 in fact, for very many things which boys and girls can produce 

 upon the farm or in the farm home. This picnic is an annual occur- 

 rence. At the last one Dean Mumford gave an address. 



Being a federated club, we are much interested in the club 

 work of the Fifth district, in which we are located, and five mem- 

 bers of our club attended the district meeting at Nevada, in October, 

 and three of our members will be in attendance at this Home 

 Makers' Conference. 



Another feature of our work which is proving quite a popular 



