Typed as spelled and written - Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Forty-First year - Number 84
Marlin, Texas, Friday Morning, April 10, 1931

DISTRICT FEDERATED CLUBS
IN SESSION AT BRYAN

Large Attendance and Much Interest
Shown in Convention
of Women

Bryan, Texas, April 8 -- The thirtieth annual session of the fourth district, Texas Federation of Women's clubs, convened in this city Wednesday at noon for a three-day session.

Delegates began arriving by Tuesday night trains.  Many came in Wednesday morning by automobiles and buses and each train during the day brought many delegates and visitors.  Registration was held at the Municipal building in charge of the registration committee.  Mrs. F. B. Clark, chariman; Mrs. E. J. Howell, Mrs. Charles Myers, Mrs. E. W. Crenshaw, Mrs. T. E. Wallace, Mrs. Fred Jones, Mrs. J. P. Dobyne and Mrs. William Wimberly.

At noon Wednesday a luncheon was served at the Woman's Club building for the district board members at which Mrs. Magee W. Barry of Bryan, life member of the district board, ws the chief speaker.  Mrs. Barry spoke on the organization of the federation and the need of changes to meet the new conditions in the twentieth century--social and economic.  She stressed the fact the federation was organized to operate in the nineteenth century and new methods were needed to meet the demands of the new day and new age.

The members of the executive board present were Mrs. R. F. Lindsay, Mount Pleasant; Mrs. J. W. Fincher, Houston; Mrs. J. L. Brock, Bryan; Mrs. R. E. Caudle, Houston; Mrs. Earl Middleton, Beaumont; Mrs. Maggie Barry, College Station; Mrs. H. B. Fall, Houston; Mrs. Fa. A. White, Port Arthur; Miss Nettie Brosig, Navasota; Mrs. S. J. Alexander, Hearne; Mrs. J. C. Nable, Waco; Mrs. C. H. Neblett, Houston; Mrs. S. P. Cauglin, Houston; Mrs. Russell Larue Vernor, Port Neches; Mrs. R. I. Lenoir, Sour Lake; Mrs. F. L. Herzik, Schulenburg; Mrs. W. E. Huwieler, Alief; Mrs. A. K. Newby, Houston; Miss Willie Rogers, Bryan; Mrs. Ralph R. Deets, Houston; and Mrs. J. K. Rosson, Waco.

A board meeting followed the luncheon, presided over by Mrs. J. W.
Fincher of Houston, president of the fourth district.

No other business session was held in the afternoon which was given over to locating delegates and visitors in the homes assigned them in Bryan and College, and various social features.

From 5 to 6 o'clock in the afternoon tea was served the visitors in the Key on the college campus as a courtesy of the extension service.  The Key was built and equipped by the extension service a model farm and is open to visitors at all times.  The tea was presided over by the following women of the Extension Service Club; Miss Mamie Lee Hayden, chairman; Mrs. A. L. Smith, Mrs. S. C. Evans, Mrs. H. H. Williamson, Mrs. James Rosborough, Mrs. E. N. Holmgreen, Mrs. R. R. Lancaster, Miss Minnie Mae Grubbs and Miss Bess Edwards.  The visitors were entertained at dinner in the homes where they are
being entertained.

Following are the officers of the fourth district:  Mrs. J. W. Fincher, Houston, president; Mrs. W. P. Wallace, Beaumont, first vice president; Mrs. J. L. Brock, Bryan, second vice president; Mrs. R. E. Caudle, Houston, secretary-treasurer; Mrs. Earl Middleton, Beaumont, parliamentarian; Mrs. Edward Rotan, Waco; Mrs. M. W. Sims, Bryan; Mrs. Maggie Barry, College Station; Mrs. H. B. Fall, Houston, life member of the board.

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