Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1913 — Indiana Woman Organized Home Economies Association. [ARTICLE]

Indiana Woman Organized Home Economies Association.

Lafayette Courier. Under the leadership of Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith, of Cambridge City, 300 women from Indiana farms trough into existence at the farmers’ short course at Purdue university a new organization called the Indiana Home Economics’ Association. Its objects, three in number, are to promote the general knowledge of home economics, bring into affiliation., all organizations dealing with this subject and secure the teaching of home economics in the schools of the state. Mrs. Meredith was elected president, Mrs. Meeks, of Praker, vice-president, and Mrs. Lewis Taylor, of Newburg, secretary-treasurer. The new association starts out with a charter membership of fiftyeight. The women believe their organization will be an agency for good in the state and they hope to accomplish in the way of promoting knowledge of proper cooking, clothing and other wholesome influences in homes in general. An executive committee has been named composed of the three officers and Prof. - G. I. Christie, superintendent of agricultural extension, and Miss Mary Matthews, professor of home economics at Purdue, as advisory members. The women adopted a resolution urging the legislature to give Purdue SIOO,OOO with which to build and equip a suitable building for home economics and also adopted a resolution endorsing the housing bill drafted by Mrs. Annie Fellows Bacon and recently introduced in the general assembly.