Ideal Club (Columbus Grove, Ohio) records

The core of the Ideal Club collection lies in the ten club minute books, which contain the main points covered in each meeting. These books are useful if you want to know who was at the meetings, the quotations and stories read, and the luncheons served.

The programs begin coinciding with the minutes in the year 1915. These programs seem to give the minutes an added touch. It's interesting to the changes made in the program, which was printed ahead of time, when you are reading the minutes. The correspondence and a partial club history form a very minor component of the collection.

This collection is basically the records kept by a group of women who wanted to organize themselves into a group so they had some form of socialization.