WOMEN'S CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS

By Julia Mills Dunn

GENERAL CHARACTER

To attempt any definite approach towards a complete history of the clubs and organizations of women in Rock Island county, would be akin to the task of enumerating the stars in the sky, or the leaves in a forest. The propensity for organization and the spirit of cooperation joined to an active philanthropic sense would Inevitably lead to the formation of the numer­ ous classes, clubs and societies one finds on every band and renders the task an exceedingly difficult one.

MOLINE

Passing by the Woman's Christian Temperance league and the Woman's Library league of early seventies, whose titles sufficiently indicate their purpose, and the Woman's Suffrage Association organized here by Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, with a long array of church organizations, and the Ladies Aid societies of all the churches, which are often, if not always, the real motive power behind the minister, this article will touch only on the important points of the most prominent organizations.

THE FORTNIGHTLY

DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

THE WOMEN'S CLUB

WOMENS CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION

THE KINGS DAUGHTERS

ROCK ISLAND

 

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