The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-02-23
Meeting of the Woman's Club

Meeting of the Woman's Club
With a small attendance, includ-
ing several of the new members, the
regular meeting of the Woman's
Club was held Saturday afternoon at
the club rooms. The president, Mrs.
C. R. Tydings, presided. Minutes Of
the last meeting were adopted as
read.
Mrs. William Hooker attended the
state conference of charities and cor
rections held recently in Gainesville,
and in the non-attendance of the club
delegate on the meetings, she
brought back to her home club a
splendid report of what was done
during the three days session. The
conference had it's beginning under
the auspices of the Federation of
Women's Clubs three years ago and
is strongly allied with it, many of
their motives being one and the
same. Mrs. Hooker spoke of the
favorable results that would be de-
rived from having associated chart
ties and corrections established in all
over At the conclusion of her re-
port she mentioned her delightful
official visit to the clubs in Jackson
vile and to the one in st. Augustine.
A resolution indorsing the pur-
chasing of the lot east of the A. C..
l.. station by the city for the cree
ton of municipal buildings and the
building for the city hall, to contain
room to be known as a rest room,
was read and when voted on the
motion was carried.
The remainder of the meeting was
devoted to listening to an interesting
program by the forestry committee
whose able chairman is Mrs. R. A.
Burford. For the occasion Mrs. Bur-
ford invited the government forester
who has been in the county several
weeks inspecting the reservation,
and Mrs. Harper, state chairman of
forestry, to address the club but
both were unable to be present, the
former having to leave Sunday for
Washington and the latter on ac-
count of illness.
Not being present at the last bus
mess meeting, Mrs. Burford made a
brief committee report. Twelve trees
have been planted at the hospital
and thirty on the Silver Springs
road and three on that road have
been dedicated to the three presi-
dents of the Ocala club, namely, Mrs.
Hooker, Mrs. Jack Camp and Mrs.
Tydings.
Miss Marie Won Engelken opened
the program by playing in her usual
attractive style ITO the Spring."
musical number by Grieg, after
which Mrs. Burford read short pa
per written by Mrs. William Sim
clair discussing forests. Protecting
forests is comparatively a new un-
dertaking in the United States, for
the government has lent a helping
hand for only eight years and the
success of the new movement is visi-
BILE everywhere. The planting of
maratime pines for their great COM
mercial value in the Marion county
reservation was mentioned. The pa
per was greatly enjoyed, also the
singing of two very appropriate
songs by Miss Cecile Downs: The
Ask and Oak" and THE Ash Grove"
"A Dissertation on Silver Springs"
was the title of the attractive paper
read by Mrs. George Bitch. Mrs.
Bitch is the new chairman of civics
and at the conclusion of her inter-
esting article she emphasized the
great Importance of preserving the
natural beauties of Silver Springs,
when the city begins to erect docks,
etc. She also laid stress on the ad-
vantages of beautifying the Silver
Springs boulevard
Forest Dreams was then played
by Miss Won Engelken, which con-
cluded the afternoons program.
Half an hour was spent pleasantly
over the tea cups, tea and waters
being served by Misses Ophelia Saw
tell and Kathleen Jackson.
The Presbyterian, Methodist and
Baptist sewing circles met this aft
ernoon for their. regular hours of