The annual election of officers and a review of last year's work were two of the principal features of the meeting of the Federation of County Clubs held Saturday at the Chamber of Commerce, with women from nearly every section of the county in attendance.
The new officers of the club are Mrs. Rufus M. Person, president; Mrs. S.W. Whitesides, vice-president; Mrs. John M. Walker, secretary; and Mrs. W.F. Baker, treasurer. Mrs. Person succeeds Mrs. Robert E. McDowell. Mrs. Whitesides succeeds Mrs. W.E. Cunningham. Mrs. Walker succeeds Mrs. C.W. Hunt, and Mrs. Baker succeeds Mrs. J.L. Parks.
One of the principal features of the occasion was an address by Miss Martha Creighton, district agent in home demonstration work in the Piedmont section, with headquarters in Greensboro. She was formerly home demonstration agent of this county and was the principal factor in organizing the home demonstration clubs of the county into a federation. She talked about the advantages of organization and made valuable suggestions about reorganization.
There are now 14 home demonstration clubs in the county, with several other neighborhoods considering organization, and five girls’ clubs, according to the report of Miss Marian Davis, home demonstration agent, to the federation. There are between 400 and 500 members in the clubs. The girls’ clubs organized by Miss Davis, since she took up her duties here recently as home demonstration agent, are Nevin, North Charlotte, Hoskins, Dixie and Pineville. Mallard Creek and Trinity are to organize home demonstration clubs in the near future.
Mrs. John Purser of the Charlotte Woman’s Club extended an official invitation to all members of the club and their husbands to attend a reception to be given in their honor at the new club house of the Charlotte organization on Elizabeth avenue April 27.
Considerable interest at the meeting was shown in the report on the number of club and community houses represented in the federation. Sharon and the Park Road communities already have community or club houses, the Huntersville club has a club room, and Nevin and Observer home demonstration clubs are expecting to make some provision of this kind for their members in the near future.
From The Charlotte News, April 18, 1921
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