Florida, its history and its romance; . purchase of a park, containing about forty acres, to be preserved as a park for the use of the citizensand a playground for children. By energy, persistence and persuasion, with opposition from many,the committee finally won. The park, purchased for $12,, and named McKinley Park, is nowvalued by the trustees at $100, In 1902, the Club established three traveling libraries, being the second in the State to sendthese traveling bits of sunshine and knowledge to those living in remote districts. They were greatlyappreciated, and proved a blessin
Florida, its history and its romance; . purchase of a park, containing about forty acres, to be preserved as a park for the use of the citizensand a playground for children. By energy, persistence and persuasion, with opposition from many,the committee finally won. The park, purchased for $12,, and named McKinley Park, is nowvalued by the trustees at $100, In 1902, the Club established three traveling libraries, being the second in the State to sendthese traveling bits of sunshine and knowledge to those living in remote districts. They were greatlyappreciated, and proved a blessing to those who were away from circulating libraries. In 1903, the Club, with the idea of owning its own club house, formed a corporation from amongits members, calling it the Tuesday Club House Association, to which the Club donated $,as a nucleus for a club house fund. Since then, the aim and energy of the association has been benttoward securing funds to build a house, suitable for the housing of the progressive Tuesday Club—. NEW POWER PLANT OF THK GREAT WESTERN POWER COMPANY IN THE SIERRAS one that would be a credit to the city and the women who have worked so tirelessly for the better-ment of their homes and their city, and now they feel that the romance of action, full of pulsing lifeand strong endeavor, has repaid them—in the fullest, in the mingling of personalities, in the culmin-ation of hopes, fruition, purposes and work, for one great object has been accomplished, and, in a fewmonths, the Club will be housed within a $30, building, which will ever be a monument to theindomitable will and energy of the earnest workers who have labored for the good of one and all. In thought, energy and achievement the Club women have not spared themselves in any usefulwork, but have felt they were not called into time to curl up in our hollow shells, but are here for apurpose, and are working for the common welfare, knowing there are vast social movements evincedevery
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