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Application for charter is filed [Woman's Club]
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| Identifier | LCWHC_JVB225 |
| Title | Application for charter is filed [Woman's Club] |
| Author/Creator | The Williamsport Sun (Williamsport, Pa.) |
| Publisher.digital | Lycoming College Archives |
| Description | Newspaper story on the application of local women to form a Woman's Club. |
| Subject | Woman's Club (Williamsport, Pa.) |
| Topic | Arts
Private lives
Social reform
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| Digital Collection | Williamsport Women: Words, Images, Actions: 1875-1925 |
| Holding institution | James V. Brown Library |
| Date.original | 1924-10-30 |
| Date.digital | 2010-06-09 |
| Type.original | Text |
| Type.digital | Image |
| Format.original | Microfilm |
| Format.digital | Black & white tiff, original resolution 600 dpi, scanned at Madigan Library, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA., using a Canon 300 scanner, use of which is gratefully acknowledged. |
| Related files | Part of Lycoming College Women's History Collection. http://www.lycoming.edu/library/lcwhc.html |
| Coverage.geographical | United States; Pennsylvania; Lycoming County; Williamsport |
| Rights | May be used for educational purposes as long as a credit statement is included. |
| Transcript | Application For Charter Is Filed Woman's Club Formed to promote Social Intercourse and to Acquire Club House. Names of Subscribers Announced. The application for a charter for The Woman's Club of Williamsport was filed yesterday at the office of the prothonotary in the court house. The position states that the corporation is formed for the purpose of "promoting social intercourse among its members and the acquiring and holding of real estate for the establishment and maintenance of a club house or building for the convenience and enjoyment of its members and also the convenience and enjoyment of other women's clubs or organizations to whom the privileges of the said club of club house may be extended." The business of the club is to be transacted in this city and the corporation is to exist perpetually. The following are given as the names of the subscribers: Avis A. Cochran, Lucy O. Scott, Helen K. Davis, Mabel Harran, Minnie I. Swartz, Anne H. Perley, Sara Grundy Deamer, Louise L. Chatham, Emily White Almy, Ruby Webster, Ada W. Thorne, Anne L. Cheyney, Eleanor Dawson Decker, Lottie Lawshe Walker, Mary Ames Haskin, Helen Cochran Rewalt, Margaret Geddes Lundy, Katherine Lawson Beeber, Mary Smith Wilson, Blanche A. Barclay, Helen E. Peaslee, Emma H. Brownell, Mary Annette Hunt, Frances R. Carson, Henrietta Baldy Lyon, Marguerite F. Taylor, Margaret S. Foresman and Anna C. Sprout. The directors are as follows: Helen Cochran Rewalt, Margaret Geddes Lundy, Mary Ames Haskin, Eleanor Dawson Decker, Ada M. Thorne, Anna C. Sprout, Henrietta Baldy Lyon, Louise L. Chatham and Lucy O. Scott. The corporation is not for profit. Its capital stock is $50, 000 divided into 1, 000 shares of the par value of $50 each. The annual meeting of the stockholders and the election of officers and directors will be held on the first Saturday of January of each year beginning on January 3, 1925. The teams of officers, other than the board of directors, shall be for one year or until their successors are duly elected. At the first annual meeting three directors shall be elected for the term of one year, three directors for the term of two years and three directors for the term of three years and at every annual meeting held thereafter the corporation shall elect three directors to serve for the term of three years. The stockholders of the corporation shall have power to enact by-laws, impose annual dues, regulate the admission, suspension and expulsion of members to and from the privileges of the club, provide for the extension of non-stockholders and non-members of the privileges of the club and to impose the conditions under which the privileges to be enjoyed by each class. The succession of corporators is to be maintained by the sale and transfer of shares of capital stock but the stockholders shall regulate the manner of the transfer of said stock and impose the condition upon which purchases or owners of shares of stock may be admitted to privileges of membership and retain the same. |
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