The Girls' Guild of Guy
Without adult supervision, fifteen young girls organize their own charitable aid society to support the Sunday school.
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The little girls of this place, of their own accord, have organized an aid society which promises to vie with the older aids. With no older heads to help them they have formed the following plan, and there are about fifteen members already to carry it out: They have for superintendent Miss Vera Pearson; for president Laura Pearson. The treasurer is Amba Bryant, and chaplain Josie McMahan. Each member must bring one cent every meeting and the meetings are each Saturday. Their work is piecing a quilt, the proceeds of which go into the Sunday school fund, as does all other money they collect from time to time. Little girls of Guy are surely progressive and quite original.
“Little girls of Guy are surely progressive and quite original.”
Youth-led mutual aid and fundraising efforts remain a vibrant part of rural Washington's civic fabric today. This story highlights a moment of early 20th-century grassroots organizing that mirrors contemporary youth climate and social advocacy movements.
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