Faulk County, SD History .....Chapter XXVII - Tuesday Club 1909
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THE TUESDAY CLUB.



    The Tuesday Club of Faulkton was organized in the fall of 1897 as a literary

club exclusively for ladies. Meetings were to be held every Tuesday evening from

October first to May first.



    The early membership was limited to sixteen and in later years to twenty.



    For several years Shakespeare's plays were the chief study, and not one year

has passed without some study of one or more of the plays of the greatest master

of literature.



    Carlyle said: "The study of history is the preliminary to all right and full

understanding of anything we can expect to find in books," and the club

recognizing the fact, has made thorough study of the history of nearly all the

great nations of the world. With the history has been included the study of

geography, literature, art, music, government and the people. Three complete

years have been devoted to the study of America and three years to the study of

England. Other countries studied are Germany, Russia, Scandinavia, Holland,

Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Greece, China, Japan and Mexico.



    Each year one program at least has been devoted to both the question of

Household Economics and the Woman Question.



    In 1906 the club raised one hundred dollars to pay for trees to be planted

in the city park.



   During the club years 1906-7 the club wrote a "progressive story" the main

incidents of which were all authentic facts in the knowledge or experience of

the writers. The story was named "Three P's" or Pioneer Pen Pictures of Dakota,

and was published in book form in the fall of 1907, and has met with a ready sale.



    The "open meetings" of the club, once or twice a year have always been

counted among the leading social events of the year.



    In October 1907, the tenth anniversary of the organization of the club was

celebrated by a grand banquet, to which husbands and friends, to the number of

seventy-five were invited.



    The following is the list of presidents names from the beginning: Belle F.

McCoy, Sylvia G. Bottum, Mable R. Morse, Carrie M. Norton, and Sue C. Moulton.

The club joined the "State Federation of Women's Clubs" in 1900, and has been

identified with all its projects for general welfare and charity.





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HISTORY OF

FAULK COUNTY

SOUTH DAKOTA

CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS



TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS



ILLUSTRATED

19O9

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