The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-11-03
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The United Daughters of the Con-
federacy of the state of Kentucky
held their annual convention in Bow
ling Green the past week. Mrs. Basil
Duke, who has been the much below
ed president of the Kentucky Daugh
tiers for the past two years, (as long
as one person can remain in office),
presided over the convention. She
is stately and exceedingly charming
woman and presided over the meet
ing with much dignity and grace.
Nor were the other state officers in
any way lacking in these necessary
qualities.
Mrs. Sallie Marshall Hardy, anoth-
er very gracious and pleasant Ken
lucky woman, is sister-in-law of
Senator James P. Taliaferro, of Jack
sonviile, and is the recording secre-
tary of the Daughters in this state.
The chapter in this city is known
as the Albert Sidney Johnson chap
ter, and is, of course, the largest in
the state. They sent twenty-one
delegates to the convention, among
the number being our hostess. The
oh Tor Il, d
Grafton snd allowed us the great
privilege of attending the convention
as their guests, and we were enter
tanned at very delightful boarding
house at Bowling Green.
Bowling Green is a very pretty
town of 1900 Inhabitants. The
country is beautiful and rolling and
the homes there are lovely. The peo-
pie there are cordial in their manners
and Kentucky hospitality is splendidly
demonstrated by her delightful men
and women. During the convention
the doors of the city were opened
wide to the guests, and everyone had
a royal time. There was reception
musicale and several smaller affairs
for the visitors, given by the Bowling
Green chapter. At the annual cleo
ton of officers at this meeting Mrs.
McKenny, of Paducah, was elected
state president for the next two
years.
Together with our host and hostess
we spent yesterday at Aammoth
Cave, one OF the most wonderful
wonders of nature. To get TO the
cave one goes from GLASGOW juno
ton "a distance of ten mi .es) on a
dummy" which looks slightly the
worse for wear and tear. At the
cave is quaint old rambling hotel
set on slight elevation. The hotel
has been built for many years and has
entertained some very distinguished
and renowned visitors in its day. 1t
fits in beautifully with the place and
makes one feel greatly at home. 1t
is not at ali imposing like our mod
ern hotels, but is more like big, old
fashioned country home.
As soon as we arrived we donned
our cave suits, and with an expert
guide and several other people that
had preceded US, started out on a
tour of the cave.
The dome just beyond the entrance
of the cave is wonderful and inn
mense. To those that have visited
this wonderful place it would be
foolish for me to try to tell them
about it, and to those that have new
er made the trip it would be absurd,
as could not begin to give them any
idea of the weirdness, the wonder
fulness and the awfulness of it all.
We went firsC over what is known as
the long route, walking distance of
nearly eighteen miles, making the
trip in nine and half hours. Shortly
after we started we discovered that
we had two bridal couples in the
party -one a very young couple,
bright, witty and attractive, and
they certainly made things lively for
US. The other couple were aged
about 10 and As years, modest. timid
and demure, and added their share