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Saturday Club
1908
10 09 Shakespearean reader C. E. W. Griffith
secured for meeting WG
1909
02 26 Miss Maude MacPherson, Saturday Club were hostesses at reception tendered to retiring librarian WG
1910
01
21 The following
officers were elected to serve during the coming year: President, Miss Edna M. Chadwick; Vice
President, Miss Elsa Baumann; Secretary, Miss Stella Hertel,
Treasurer, Miss Jennie Needham. The play
“Julius Caesar” by Shakespeare is now being read and studied in the club. WG
02
25 Washington’s
Birthday Observed WG
1911
04
20 The last regular
meeting of the Saturday Club for the season of 1910 and 1911 was held the
afternoon of Tuesday, April 18th. The
program for the season has been pleasing and instructive and the average
attendance during the year has been exceptionally large. Thursday, April 27th, has been set aside as
Library Day and the members have arranged for a card party to be given at
Masonic Temple the afternoon of that day.
Quite a general invitation has been extended to the ladies of Watertown
to attend this party, the proceeds of which will be given to the public
library. The ladies hope for a general
attendance. The small sum of twenty five
cents will be charged. WG
05
04 About one hundred and twenty guests
responded to the invitations issued by the members of the Saturday Club for a
card party given in Masonic Temple assembly room Thursday afternoon, April
27th, the proceeds of which were to be given to the public library. Bridge and duplicate whist [a form of whist
in which the hands are preserved as dealt and played again by other players],
five hundred and cinch were played, and for those who did not care for cards,
other games were provided. Frappe [similar
to sherbet] and wafers were served and when the guests said their adieus there
were many expressions of pleasure over the very enjoyable afternoon they had
spent.
ELSON
PRINT. The
Saturday Club held a special business meeting in the magazine room of the
public library Tuesday afternoon, May 2.
Reports were received from the committee having the card party in charge
and it was found that $25.00 could be turned over to the library board. From the club treasury the sum of $10 was
given to the fund being raised for Mr. Gibson, the blind man whom some of our
charitably disposed people are trying to start in business. It was also possible for the club to purchase
one of the Elson pictures which were on exhibition in the library last week,
Stratford-on-Avon, Shakespeare’s birthplace.
They expect to have the picture framed and later hung in the club room
of the library. [This citation prompted
a search of the storage area of Watertown Public Library
and the finding of this large-size print] WG
1912 Armistice celebration participant WDT
1986
Retired Watertown High School history teacher Myra MacInnis has been chosen by the clergy roundtable to have her name given to the Main Street bridge in the annual Name the Bridge contest today as part of the River Days celebration. MacInnis taught history for 48 years at Watertown High School. She was nominated by the Saturday Club for her “integrity, character, humor, and love of people.” The club, affiliated with the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, also stressed her continued interest in community affairs, pointing out her activity in the Saturday Club as well as other organizations. WDT
