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CHAPTER XIX.LITERARY DEVELOPMENT. (CONT'D)
The Loyal Home Workers Club of Shelby was organized by the following ladies of the town as its charter members: Mesdames Jones, Cobb, Pomeroy, Cooper, Leigh, Cook, Evans, Chestnut, Tucker, Farnsworth, Anderson, Wortman, Clausen, Helm and Morton. The organization was effected in 1896. The club was federated in 1899.
This club has accomplished much for the betterment of life in Shelby and is deserving of great credit for its achievements. It was instrumental in the purchase of a tract of land near the center of the town, which was made into a beautiful little park which has afforded much pleasure to the citizens of the town and in which they now take a proper pride. The club also raised the funds by which a cement walk was laid from the town to the cemetery, which is located a half mile south of the town. A library of five hundred volumes has been procured through the activity of this club, the books therein being available to all citizens of Shelby who will pay the small sum of five cents per week for the use of a book borrowed from the library. The membership of the club at present is: Mesdames Atchley, Beebee, Benedict, Buckley, Carden, Chestnut, Clapp, Clausen, Coe, Cook, Curry, Frum, Hale, Heathman, Jones, Laird, Mansfield, Moore, Oathout, Pomeroy, Powers, Pryor, Reams, Savage, Scott, Ward. Honorary members are Mesdames Nancy Larkin, Jennie Newman and Agnes Gochenour. The presidents of the club in order to date have been: Mesdames Alice Jones, Ada Anderson, Anna Frum, Genevra Sampey, Carrie Helm, Minnie Buckley, Katharine Pomeroy, Julia Read, Nettie Cook, Lettie Reams, Bertha Cassidy, Alice Jones, Ada Clapp, Anna Scott, Lulu Clausen, Ethel Hale. The present officers are: President, Mrs. Alice Curry; vice-president, Mrs. Flora Frum; secretary, Mrs. Ethel Hale; treasurer, Mrs. Anna Frum; librarian, Mrs. Hattie Chestnut; critic, Mrs. Lettie Reams; historian, Mrs. Katharine Pomeroy.
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