Volume 17 , Issue 9

1915 - Guthrie Rest Room For Visitors Is Popular

In The Guthrie Daily Leader, dated 22 March 1915, Monday, we find a popular place inaugurated in Guthrie, Logan county, Oklahoma, at city hall by the women's auxiliary, for the comfort, convenience and help of the visitors from the farming communities and the surrounding towns. I thought on Alva, Woods county, Oklahoma in the Northwest part of the State had a "rest room" for travelers.

The news article mentioned that this movement originated with the Women's Auxiliary to the Farmers' Institute, where the need and importance of a place where visitors to the city could rest and have their headquarters was first discussed and then taken up by a committee who canvassed the situation and consulted the business men, practically every one of whom agreed to contribute toward the support of a room.

The City Commissioners agreed to furnish the room formerly occupied by the City Council on the first floor of City Hall and the rest room was opened up on June 20, 1914, with Mrs. Susan Inskeep in charge.

Since then the room had been kept open every day and had come to be the resting place for the great majority of people coming to town and having an hour or more to wait after their trading or other business was attended to.

Mrs. Inskeep had proved to be a model matron and looked after the comfort of all visitors, caring for children while the mothers did their trading, helping visitors to and from the trains keeping a watchful eye on young =girls away from home and doing the many other necessary things coming up from day to day.

During the time the room had been opened over eight thousand people have visited it and made use of its comforts and conveniences. There was a wash room for the ladies, couches and rockers, tables for writing and for eating lunch and many other conveniences and the visiting public, men, women and children were invited to make the room their headquarters when in Guthrie.
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