The WCTU of Iowa held an annual convention each October in churches across the state. Women became members of the WCTU of Iowa upon signing the WCTU of Iowa Constitution, pledging to perform temperance work, and paying annual dues.
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Mike Chasar lives in Iowa City where he is a frequent contributor to 'Poetic License,' a Monday feature of the Iowa City Press-Citizen's op-ed page. More of his writing is available online at Poetry, Word for/Word, The Cortland Review, and The Iowa...
One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.