On October 6, 1900, the first permanent womens club in Amarillo was formed in the home of Floriede Ware. The name of the club was J.U.G., short for Just Us Girls. Their friends knew them only as Jugs. Reportedly, the selection of the name came after much discussion. I tried to find a date for when the slang meaning of jugs first appeared, but could not find one. If the slang meaning of jugs was known before 1900, then the women in the club were either extremely naïve or extremely brazen. Anyway, the club started a library in 1902 that eventually became Amarillo Public Library. The first photo shows the twelve charter members of the J.U.G. club: Misses Pearl Bethune, Sue Beverey, Corrie Brower, Maude Crossett, Lave Eakle, Margaret Harrell, Stella Huff, Ollie Hughes, Clara Smith, Mamie Trigg, Floriede Ware, and Kate Williams. The second photo was taken in 1903 and shows in the back row J.U.G. members Floriede Ware (Mrs. Sam Vaughan), Iva Nobles (Mrs. Frank Storm), and Trulie Works (Mrs. Bailey); and in the front row Bernice Russell (Mrs. Hayes), Mamie Trigg (Mrs. B. W. Owens), and Corrie Brower (Mrs. Jim Richardson). The third photo shows J.U.G. member Louise Russell. The fourth photo was taken in 1977 and shows Junior J.U.G. members. Standing from left to right are Beulah Stanberry, Mary Coleman, Frances Nobles, and Hortense Woodburn, and seated from left to right are Geneive Scott, Mabel Lutz, Louise Russell, and Myrtle Kuykendall. Two other members not present were Alma Dodson and Irene Gentry. After donating and receiving donations of 125 books, the ladies moved to a building on Fourth Street and opened their library to the public on October 4, 1902. Library membership costs $1.50 annually. The library would eventually evolve into the Amarillo Public Library.
Posted on: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 23:33:26 +0000
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