Information Sheet

 

 

R         Dexter Monday Club (Dexter, Mo.).

457                  Scrapbooks, 1941‑1969.

                                    Twenty-nine volumes.

 

MICROFILM

 

 

 

These are scrapbooks and “Press” books of the Dexter Monday Club, a women’s club at Dexter in Stoddard County, Missouri.  The volumes include the club’s printed yearbooks, news­pa­per clippings, correspondence, photo­graphs, and miscellaneous materials regarding the activi­ties of the club.

 

The Dexter Monday Club was organized in 1922 and in the same year entered the Mis­souri Federation of Women’s Clubs and the General Federa­tion of Women’s Clubs.  Mrs. W. C. Dieck­man was the first president.  There were thirty‑six members in 1922.  By the 1960s, the member­ship had risen to fifty.  Although it was primarily a social organization, the Mon­day Club also un­dertook civic and charitable projects.  These included sponsorship of a Girl Scout troop, college scholarships for high school seniors, and donations to the Stoddard County Home, Mis­souri Veter­ans Hospital, American Red Cross, the Boy Scouts, Boys Town and Girls Town of Missouri, and the Stoddard County Society for Crippled Children.  The Monday Club was also very active in promoting the Dexter Public Library and the hospital.  Funds were raised primarily through annual sales of calendars which noted the birthdays of area residents.

 

The scrapbooks and “Press” books were annual projects of the club.  A committee of two club members was appointed each year to assemble the materials.  The scrapbooks were submit­ted for judging at district and state conventions, and scoresheets and awards are present in many of the volumes.  Each scrapbook includes the club’s printed yearbooks, newspaper clippings, lists of offi­cers and past presidents, memorials to deceased members, miscellaneous materials pertain­ing to the club’s projects, and various printed materials from the state and national federations.  The ear­liest scrapbooks in the collection, for 1941‑1942 and 1944‑1945, in­clude photographs of Dexter County men who served in the armed forces.

 

Seven of the volumes in the collection are “Press” books, which are companion volumes to the scrapbooks for those years.  The press books contain program notes for the year’s meetings and newspaper clippings concerning the Monday Club’s meetings and events.  The press book for 1966‑1967 also includes club yearbooks for 1922‑1923 and 1931‑1932.

 

The volumes have been arranged in chronological order.  Most of the scrapbooks have ta­bles of contents but the volumes are not indexed.

 

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