Dream of Home for Widows of Druggists to Be Realized
Dallas Morning News
Sunday, 9 September 1945
Section 3, Page 2
By Ruby Clayton McKee
A dream soon will become a realization for the Dallas Druggists Wives. The fulfillment of that dream will mean a white colonial home for widows of druggists.
The home will be known as the Mattie Adams Home for Widows of Druggists, where the women may find companionship and comfort. Planned primarily for the care of the Dallas members, it may later include the widows of Texas druggists.
Named in honor of Mrs. Walter D. Adams of Forney, club founder, the home will be financed through the Mattie Adams award fund. Tentative plans call for a large porch, where members may spend their evenings in their favorite rocking chairs; a large reception room, kitchen, dining room and many bedrooms.
“It will not look like an institution, but instead will be a place women may call home and each will retain her individuality,” Mrs. Hubbard Finley said Saturday. Mrs. Finley is the permanent chairman for the home. “It will be located near Dallas and its grounds will be beautified so that the women can enjoy the gardens as if they were their own.”
Contributions to Be Accepted.
Women who can afford to be paying guests will make their contributions but no member will be refused admittance because she is financially unable to pay the fees.
Mrs. Finley’s committee is composed of Mrs. Dell M. Mason, president, and Mrs. H.J. Cann, immediate past president. The entry of the United States into World War II handicapped the plans of the club for the members immediately began their war activities. The $1,600 War Bonds will be added to the fund for future financing. These will be increased through the special events sponsored by the women and by contributions.
The Dallas Druggists Wives organization, officially the Ladies Auxiliary to the Dallas County Pharmaceutical Association, is limited to 100 members. It consists of wives of retail druggists, wives of wholesale druggists, wives of drug travelers, who sell or detail pharmaceuticals, and wives of drug manufacturers.
The members feel the object of the organization will be cemented with the completion of the home. That object is to united closely in a social way families of the Dallas County Pharmaceutical Association, assist the state organization and render philanthropic work in the city as deemed possible.
The auxiliary was organized March 15, 1921, by Mrs. Adams, whose husband is still active in business at Forney. It boasts that Mrs. Adams is still one of its most active members and honors her at a special meeting each year. Members boast, not only of her untiring efforts in their behalf, but also of her striking appearance. Slender, gray-haired and aristocratic, Mrs. Adams is always smartly dressed, sometimes in dark clothes, with blue as one of her most becoming colors. She has expressed deep appreciation for the honor the auxiliary has bestowed upon her in promoting the home where widows, already friends in the auxiliary, can continue that relationship in years to come.
Regular meetings of the druggists wives, held the first Tuesday in each month, September to June, [end of article]
