CHAPTER AF P. E. O. SISTERHOOD

BY MRS. ELIZABETH NICHOLS.

The local organization of the P. E. O. Sisterhood, chapter AF will celebrate its twentieth anniversary June 6, 1912, with a membership of about forty. This is not, properly speaking, a women's club, but an organization whose year book follows much the same lines of literary and parliamentary work as the clubs with the added tie of sisterhood. The primary object is general improvement, individual growth in charity and a better comprehension of and adherence to the qualities of which the five points of the talisman, the order's golden star, are typical--Faith, Love, Purity, Justice and Truth.

The P. E. O. Sisterhood has as its greatest interest, educational work among young women and has established an educational fund, to which all local chapters contribute and from which any worthy young woman, whether a member of the organization or not, when properly endorsed by P. E. O.'s can obtain money for a college education. The local chapter supplemented this work by keeping young children in school--having given out during the last year over one hundred garments and purchasing many shoes for children who would not otherwise have been able to attend school.

The officers of Chapter AF for the year beginning March 1, 1912 are: President, Mrs. Elizabeth Nichols; vice-president, Mrs. Parathena Crawford; recording secretary, Miss Fannye Shrock; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Mabel Finkbine; treasurer, Mrs. Olive Savery; chaplain, Mrs. Margaret Cole; guard, Mrs. Minnie Treat; journalist, Miss Carrie Wilken.

From: Industrial Edition, published by Atlantic News Telegraph, Atlantic, Iowa, 1913, pg. 29.

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