The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1913-05-09
EDUCATIONAL MEETING AT THE
WoMAN'S CLUB

| One of the largest and most inter
esting meetings that the Woman
Club has ever held was that at the
club rooms Saturday afternoon, about
seventy-five being present.
/ A short business sess ION was held
at which Miss Mays. of the legisla-
tive committee. and Mrs. Gary, cor
( responding secretary. read letters re-
ceived from our representatives at
Tallahassee, assuring them that they
would work for the several bills relat-
ing to the reform school, better mar
riage laws, the robin bill (which has
now already been passed., and 9th
ers.
! The matter of the merchants clos
i ing at one o'clock on Thursdays was
also gone into. and with only one or
two exceptions all have agreed to do
so and by June first it is hoped thar
every merchant and other business
firm in the city viii agree to close at
one o'clock
Mayor Robertson offered to pay for
the planting of the camphor trees on
! the club lot. also for watering and
caring for same A committee was
appointed to see about cleaning up
the lot and having it surveyed.
The club gave 81 towards the $50
to be given as a prize for the best re-
suit from the girls tomato clubs. and
we hope an Ocala girl will capture the
prize
Mrs William Hooker gave a splen-
did report of the biennial council just
held at Washington, and which she at
tended Before the biennial adjourn
ed there were 2034 delegates register
ed the greatest number heretofore
having been 250. Tuesday morning we
will give a synopsis of her report.
Mrs. Otis Green, chairman of the
education committee, had prepared a
splendid program for the afternoon.
Miss Nellie Stevens presided. She
introduced Mr. w D. earn, who made
splendid talk about the new school
building, and asked for the ladies
help in circulating the petition call
ing for an election TO bond for S75, 900
for school improvements Ia law al
lowing for the bonding having been
passed last Noyember). The club
will go to work as soon as possible
to aid in calling the election.
Fifty or sixty thousand dollars viii
be spent on a new building. a ten
thousand dollar addition to the pri-
nary school. and Gya thousand de-
lars for improv emerte at Howard
Academy
Miss Mays then delivered a magnif
cent talk on Education for Efficien
cy," which we have been asked to
publish in full
Rev. Bunyan Stephens made a
beautiful talk on Mothers Day, using
as his text the following:
Mother suffereth long, and is kind
mother envieth not; mother vaunteth
not herself, is not pulled up; doth not
behave herself unseemly; seeketh
not her own; is not easily provoked;
thinketh no evil; reioiceth not in in
EQUITY. but reioiceth in the truth:
beareth all things, believeth all
things, hopeth all things, endureth all
things" / Cor 1874, z
His speech was short but extreme
Iy beautiful, telling of the origin of
the idea, the beautiful emblem Of the
white flower, etc.
Mr.. J. H. Workman made the con
Guiding speech. using as his subject,
Club Relation to the Schools" and
he acquitted himself splendidly He
said that what the school most needs
is symnathy and encoura gemenr and
he thanked the club fer Ell they have
already done for the school and ask
ed their further ala for better equip
ment-phyejca apparatus, an addi-
Jion to the school library )of which
there are now only two better in the
statel establishment IF new depart
meuts, etc. His talk was very excet
lent and wen received BIZ the clu5
women.
Mrs. camp reported that the club
already has the money to put sanitary
drinking fountains ia the school.
which viii be done at some future