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R            Springfield Ladies Saturday Club (Springfield, Mo.).

71                    Minute book, 1921-1928

                                    One volume, 231 pp.

 

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This is a minute book of a women’s club at Springfield in Greene County, Missouri.  The vol­ume in­cludes minutes of meetings, 8 January 1921--12 May 1928, and lists of members, 1923-1926.

 

The Springfield Ladies Saturday Club was a social and study group organized in 1879.  It was one of the oldest such clubs in the state, and was one of the earliest members of the General Fed­eration of Women’s Clubs of Missouri.  The Club's fortnightly meetings usually consisted of two parts.  The first was devoted to reports on  and discussions of historical and political topics, and the second part included musical performances and literary reviews.  Faculty members from Southwest Missouri State Teachers College and from Drury College were frequent lecturers and guests.  The club supported civic and social improvements through the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, maintained a scholarship fund, and contributed to the Greene County Tuberculosis As­sociation and the Burge Hospital.

 

The club’s minute book contains minutes of meetings beginning 8 January 1921 and con­tinu­ing through 12 May 1928.  Newspaper clippings reporting on the meeting were fre­quently tipped-in and in some cases constitute the only record of the meetings.  The volume also includes separate listings of members for 1923-1924, and 1925-1926.

 

 

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