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WOMEN’S FEDERATION OF CLUBS TO MEET IN BUFFALOAnnual Canvantion af Empira Stata Body to Bo Hold July 4.Buffalo.—Throughout the state ofNew York In cities or towns wbero there I* a woman's Hub the members are on the alert dally with preparations for the forthcoming annual meeting of the Empire State Federation of Women's Cluba. The meeting will last two days and will be preceded by a meeting of the executive committee on Friday, July 4. Mrs. C. A. Bell, chairman of the committee, is urging every member to !*o present.The departments of the federation’s work are social settlement, art and embroidery. art* and craft, mothers’ meetings. literary, department for the aup preesion of lynching. Juvenile and community uplift work. Large delegations are expected from New York city. Brooklyn. Binghamton. Albany. Rochester and Syracuse. The federation is a member of the Northeastern Federation of Women's Clubs and will send representatives to the annual convention of the latter, which meets in Cambridge. Mass.. In AugustThe Empire State federation has bad a wonderful growth since Its organisation about five years ago. It hne a competent corps of officers and heads of the various departments. The president Is Mrs. Mary B Talbert, a woman of wide experience, In educational work and conditions as they exist among our people. Mrs. Talbert wna born In Oberlln. O.. of North Carolina parents. 8he Is a descendant on her maternal aide of Richard Nichols, who compelled Peter Stuvvesnnt to surrender New Amsterdam and who was for a time governor of New York state.Mrs. Talbert graduated at the age of sixteen from the Oberlln high school and with the assistance of former President .lames H. Fairchild was able to enter Oberlln college. While a student at Ol»erlln she was treasurer of Aeolian, one of the two college societies. In 1880 she became a teacher in Bethel university. Little Rock. Ark., and in 1887 she was elected assistant principal of the high school in Little Rock. Mrs. Talbert Is the only colored woman who haa ever held the position of assistant principal in this school. Since her marriage to William U. Talbert ehe has resided in this city.
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Denver Star
Denver, Colorado, US
Sat, Jun 28, 1913
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