The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-02-02
Woman's Club Meeting

club rooms with the president, Mrs.
C. R. Tydings in the chair. Minutes
| of the last meeting were read and
adopted.
The president announced that Miss
| Palmer would commence her dem
serving of citrus fruits at $50
fo'clock Monday morning in the club
| rooms. Mrs. A. Y. Strunk, on &C
| COUNT of i'll health, resigned as chair
| man of the custodian committee and
| it was with deep regret that her res
fgnation was accepted. The board
| held a meeting prior to the club
meeting and voted on the following
whom the president announced as
new members: Mrs r. L. Lang, Mrs
William Anderson, Mrs. J. c. Cald-
well, Mrs. w. X. Lane, Mrs. H. F.
| Watt, Mrs. George Close, Mrs. E. H.
Martin and Mrs. G. C. Sheppard.
Mrs. William Hooker, president of
the State Federation, read commun-
| ications from DR.. Ellen Lowell Stew
ems, state chairman of health, and
spoke tersely of the work now in
progress to esta b1ish state sanitar-
ium for tuberculosis. The state
makes an appropriation for the COM
municable diseases, smallpox and.
yellow fever and an effort to have
tuberculosis included among the
communicable diseases will be made.
DR.. Stevens asks that the money
| from the Christmas stamp sales,
heretofore used by the health COM
mittees of the clubs, be turned over
to the state health committee to be
used towards supporting a sanitar-
ium. Written communications have
been sent to all of the clubs and
only twenty had responded favora-
bly,. The Woman's Club of Jackson
sille has promised $3.50 towards the
maintenance of the sanitarium and
that club now keeps a special nurse
for Tuberculosis cases and during
the past year 500 cases were treat
ed. Florida has three bacteriologic-
al stations, other states have only
one, seldom two, and the death rate
from tuberculosis in Florida is one
out of every eight. The club voted
sales to the state health committee,
and the secretary was instructed to
send the check Immediately.
There are only few places in the
state that have records of vital sta
tistics accurate enough to be &C
cepted by the federal government,
and the women's clubs have been
asked to aid in the movement inau-
gurated, compelling all the towns
and cities to keep complete and &C
curate statistics. The Federation
president suggested that the health
committees appoint chairmen for
each ward in a town or city and that
those chairmen work with the doc
tors. The Federation president also
urged that the club president ap-
point an editor to send club notes to
: state papers.
1t was voted that the picnic given
annually by the club would be chang
: ed to a banquet. Reciprocity day,
3, which makes delightful club spiyit,
was discussed and no doubt willy be
included in the calendar hereafter
for in a radius of an hour and a
half run in cars there are four clu BIS,
Leesburg, Wildwood, Dunnellon aud
Gainesville and numbers of Others
only few miles further
A letter from Mrs Clarence Camp,
president of the woman's auxiliary of
the Marion County Hospital, &C
knowledging check for $40 was read
, The hospital has one room known as
the Woman's Club room.
; Miss Deem was appointed a dele
gate to attend the state conference
of Charities and Corrections in
Gainesville, Feb. 13-15th All mem
bers were invited to attend
The president called on Miss Lula
Robertson, member of the club in
Ehzabethtown, Ky, to address the
club, but she stated gracefully that
: while in Ocala she was attending the
club meetings for inspiration as their
>, club had only membership O.
thirty
Mrs. T. E. Bridges, OF the outdoor
art committee, solicits donations O
| he
Mrs. Jack Camp Of the buildin.
committee, read the contract between
Messrs. McIver & Mackay and tn
club and the club voted unanimousl,
that 1t be signed by the president
/ Material is being rapidly placed OF
d the ground for the club house.
On next Saturday afternoon tn