Civil Organizations in Marion in 1931

A Few Of Marion's Civil Organization That Were Active In The Year 1931

 

The Woman’s Club of today is the outgrowth of a small Literary Club, which was organized in March 1920, and was composed of sixteen women, who realizing the value and also the pleasure of studying together, banded themselves together for this purpose, and Mrs. Mary Deboe Christian, who was instrumental in completing the organization, was elected the first president.

In a short while, the members of the Club began to realize the importance of co-operating with other club women of the state, thereby enlarging their scope of work and service and in May, 1921, became members of the State Federation and two years later, made another step forward by becoming members of the General Federation of Clubs of America.

When the club was only two years old, the members began to dream of a club home, and of a rest room for the women of the town and country and soon began working toward that end, and in 1926 that dream was realized in the completion of the present Woman's Club Building.

From year to year the Woman’s Club has made an honest endeavor to render service to our town and county, through cooperation with the Parent-Teachers Association, the Kiwanis Club, the American Legion, the Auxiliary and the State Board of Health in sponsoring movements for public welfare and the betterment of humanity and has assisted in a financial way, to place Public School Music in our Graded Schools and two years, have helped to defray expenses of contestants to Lexington and have at all time, stood for and boosted for better schools, in a better town and county.  (The Woman's Club is still an active organization today)

Marion Kiwanis Club

The relations between the Kiwanis Club and our High School have always been most cordial, as a natural consequence of the similarity of the objects and aims of both organizations. Our motto is “We Build” and our principle endeavor is to build the community while the chief end of our High School is to build the individual.

So it is apparent that both organizations depend upon each other. An injury to either would hurt the other and the advancement of either would benefit the other. A community of active, intelligent, educated citizens, awake to the interests and working for the betterment of the community, naturally develops a wide awake, active Kiwanis Club and likewise a wide awake, active Kiwanis Club naturally takes great interest in the greatest beneficial enterprise in the community, the high school

We both live under the motto of the State: “United We Stand Divided We Fall.” J. W. Blur, Jr. President, Homer G. McConnell, Vice-President.  (This organization has been gone for many years)

Auxiliary

Believing that the kind of school we have typifies the kind of citizenship we have and one of the chief aims of the American Legion Auxiliary being the promotion of good citizenship, we are highly appreciative of the high standard of excellence that has been attained by the public school system of Marion and wish to go on record as endorsing the efforts of our citizenship along with this line as wishing to co-operate in every way possible to hold this standard. Mrs. Frank Bennett, President. Mrs. J. D. Vaughn, Vice-President.

Ellis B. Ordway Post Number 111 American Legion

For God and Country, we associate together the following purposes: To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred percent Americanism; to preserve the memories and incidents of our association in the great war; to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state and nation; to combat the autocracy of both the classes and masses; to make right the master of might; to promote peace and good will on earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy.” Preamble to the Constitution of the American legion.

The Ellis B. Ordway Post No. 111, of Marion, is one of the leading posts of Kentucky for 11931. With a membership of 231 World War veterans associated together with the above pledge in mind, the Legion will be found backing and boosting all things that tend toward the carrying out of this ideal.   (Still a Post, but not an active one anymore, they used to be in charge of a Memorial Service each Memorial and Veteran's Day, but this was stopped in 2018, due to lack of membership.)