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Show : Women's Civic Club Has Fine Record : WWW The following facts concerning concern-ing the history of Bingham's Women's Civic club are taken from a "History of UhiRliam Canyon" Can-yon" written by Beatrice Spcnd-love. Spcnd-love. The club is active today and is a member of the Utah State Federation of AVomcn's clubs. The Women's Civic club organized or-ganized in 1907 has a record of numerous notable achievements. This club does charitable work, for many years having distributed distribut-ed Thanksgiving baskets and raising funds for many projects. The club has done a great deal to foster more ideal play grounds and play supervision for the children chil-dren in summer time. It was "through the Civic club that we first hear of interest In a library. In the town record of March 10, 1920, we find the following fol-lowing entry: "Mrs. A. C. Cole, Mrs. Ed. Heather and Mrs. Thomas Thom-as Nerdin of the Women's club appeared before the board in relation re-lation to the establishment of a public lbrary, and asked for the board's aid in the establishment of such a library. The town authorized au-thorized the construction of necessary ne-cessary shelving in a room given by the Commercial club and oth- W W WWW erwise agreed to assist in the furnishing and equipping of said room." The Women's club asked the citizens to donate books to the library and Boy Scouts went a-bout a-bout town gathering up such donations. do-nations. The club raised funds for the purchase of some books and though the final collection was small and certainly diversified, diversi-fied, it was a beginning. As there was no space available availa-ble for reading rooms, the library libra-ry was open only two evenings a week, at which time books could be taken out. Mrs. Nerdin and Mrs. Cole acted as librarians for eight years, rendering their services ser-vices gratis. January 25, 1928, at the request re-quest Tf the club a special municipal mu-nicipal election was held to decide: de-cide: "shall the town of Bingham Bing-ham establish and maintain a free public library, and levy a tax of one mill on the dollar for the purpose of maintaining the same?" The result of the election was 98 against and 17 for the establishment estab-lishment of the library. This was very discouraging to the Women's Wom-en's club, Irut the town board agreed to give the club $30 a www - I month to help maintain a library. Also the court room was partitioned parti-tioned and one room of the space given for the use of a library. The ladies donated $10 for "the purchase of new books and a librarian li-brarian was paid $5 a month for her services. During the depression depress-ion year the town had to reduce its financial aid to $15 a month, which is the amount given for library purposes at present. . There are now one thousand books in the library which number num-ber is frequently augmented by the Women's Civic club. -A committee com-mittee of three ladies is appointed appoint-ed to select and purchase new books each year. The club has at present a large membership, women who have served as presidents of the club include Mrs. J. B. Myers, Mrs. A. "C Cole, Mrs. Eugene Morris, Mrs. Eugene Chandler, Mrs. Will Meyers, Mrs. Bert Roberts, Rob-erts, Mrs. James Nerdin, Mrs. Edwin Johnson, Mrs. Theo Ches-ler, Ches-ler, Mrs. C. L. Countryman, Mrs. Joe Kemp, Mrs. W. H. Harris, MYs. S J. Grandquist is the president presi-dent for 1937-38 Next week: The Organization of the Bingham Volunteer Fire Department. |
