The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-10-12
First Meeting of the Woman's Club
A Most Delightful One.

II the first meeting of the Woman's
Club is an indication of what the year
is going to be, then the club is going
to have one of the most delightful
the most enjoyable, the most harmoni
Gus and the most prosperous sessions
that it has ever had.
The first meeting was well attend
ed and the program was a splendid
one. The new officers occupied their
places on the rostrum and after the
Ireading of the minutes of the last
meeting in the spring and few an
nouncements Mrs. w. T. Gary. the
new president, greeted the club in
one of the finest addresses ever de-
livered before the club. We hope to
be able to publish Mrs. Gary's address
in full in a few days. 1t dealt with
playing in the LITE of the nation and
of what her work has already come to
mean and what it is going to mean to
future generations 1t was as we have
said so fine a speech that we would
like all our readers to be able to per-
use it later.
After Mrs Gary's address she call
ed on the past presidents of the club
to tell the club of their summer vaca-
lions dealing particularly of the things
that most impressed them during
their absence from home and without
exception it Was something connected
in some way with the great war
now that is engaging the attention of
the whole world, and that is so
fraught with meaning for the future
of our own country as well as that
of all the countries now engaged in
this conflict.
Mrs. Jack Camp was first called on
and told of a very lovely visit to Tox-
away and to Indiana She told especi-
ally of her visit to Fort Benjamin
Harrison, near Indianapolis, where
one of the officers training camps is
located. One of the men at this camp
was brother of Mrs Camps hostess
and because Of this fact her visit to
the camp was especially interesting
and she told of her visit in so delight
full manner that not woman pres
ent but that wished that she could
have had the trip with her AS so
many Ocala young men have been. and
are now in various training camps,
Mrs. Camps description of the camp
life was of personal interest to every
one.
Mrs. Burford next told of her visit
to Philadelphia in the early summer,
when she went to see her son, Lieut.
r. A. Burford, Jr., who is an officer
on the DeKalb, and who went over
with the troops with the first contin-
gent that carried Gen. Pershing to
France She told his story of seeing
a torpedo that was fired at their boat,
and of quite a number of other thrill
ing experiences that they had going
over Mrs. Burford also told of the
number of other battleships and sub
marines that she saw and went aboad
and also of her trip to Washington.
where she went especially to spend a
| day while the senate was in session.
Mis- Music Bullock then sang very
beautifully, her selection being, Good
bye Summer" followed by Coming
Through the Rye" as an encore Her
Accomplishments were played by Miss
Blake.
| Mrs. Anderson was next called on
to tell of her trip, but she said instead
, of telling of trip she would tell the
women Of the club of the reg
istering of the women of Ocala, OF
which work she had charge for the
Women's council of national defense.
Mrs. Anderson said that this work
had demonstrated the fact that should
everv man be taken out Of Ocala that
there was not single line of business
or endeavor that the women of Ocala
could not step in and conduct just as
good as the men, even to the running
of locomotive one Ocala woman hav.
ing registered as an engineer.
Mrs. Anderson spoke of the splen
did response Of the women to the call
upon them and concluded her re