The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-11-23
LoRIDA. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER %, 1917
STATE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
A SPLENDID INSTITUTION
Delinquent Girls Find a Home With
Every Comfort and With Motherly
Care From Those in Charge
MORE FAVORABLE LOCATION
NOT TO BE FOUND

ling oaks, covered with hanging moss
la mile east of the city of Ocala, near
the beautiful Silver Springs road, has
I recently been erected the latest addi-
ition to Florida's public institutions,
jthe State Industrial School for Girls.
The board or state institutions
might have travelled in every county
in the state and they never could
have selected more favorable loca-
: tion for this home
This school was created for the pur-
pose of preparing delinquent, depend
ent and wayward girls for lives of use-
J fulness, and this will be the aim of
] Mrs. Florence J. Range, the efficient
superintendent. Every year sees tens
J of thousands of young women enter
ing the industrial world as new re-
J cruits. This year. on account of the
war, with women taking the place of
men in all vocations, will see the
igreatest increase of women workers
in the history of the world
4 When discharged from the home,
these young women will enter a new
life, better prepared to take up the
: Responsibilities that will overtake
them. Some day these girls are going
to see the results of training given
,, them by Mother" Range, Mrs. Part
: ridge and Miss Davis, and look back
: with fond recollections of how they
were comforted by these good women
| These girls get plenty of outdoor
( exercise, and are provided with COM
Portable clothing. They are required
to work in groups, according to age,
doing the cooking, washing, house
work and sweeping, and everything
from the kitchen to the parlor is as
, tidy as new pin. Unlike other pub
lie institutions, the dining tables are
set family style, with white linen ta-
blec1oths, china and silvreware, and
the food is well prepared by a group
of the girlsu nder the leadership of
Mrs. Partridge, the matron, WHO sees
that each of them is provided with
plenty of good, Wholesome food.
Beautiful centerpieces of needle
craft are executed By some of the
! older girls and quilting done in the
home will be placed on exhibition at
1.-THE Marion County Fair this month
and also at the coming state fair in
Jacksonville.
Every probation officer in the state
now feels relieved, as we have a state
institution that will solve the girl
jproblem, and each of them will CO.
loperate with the superintendent in
her grand work of preparing these
girls for lives of usefulness, and at
the same time look out for their re-
lligious training as well as giving them
. a school education besides the special
. training that they will receive in do
: mestic science in addition to instruc-
ton in all branches of home work.
nj The landscape work for the new
!. home will be done by convict labor
! after the building is completed, under
4 the supervision of Mr.. Purvis, at the
i direction of the Florida Agricultural
: Experiment Station at Gainesville
: which is a guarantee that it will have
: as fine an appearance as either the
!. state farm or other institutions.
The contractors will turn over the
q new building to the board some time
: in early December, and its opening
II will be attended by members of the
board of state institutions and many
other prominent men from all sec
tions of the state The board will
f then accept the building from the con
= tractors, and Governor Cats will pre-
: sent it to the superintendent, Mrs
a Range.
al The new building will be one of the
4 best equipped of its kind in the south
j. ern states. 1t is a three-story struc
+ ture, built colonial style, with tapes
) try brick walls and tile roofing, with
1t massive. front porch, 42x13 feet
I-lwith reinforced concrete steps and
q floor tiled, with a double staircase
a leading from both sides, southern ex
posure. The rear of the building has
d also a large porch. with exits leading
81 from the first and second floors. The
' size Of the building, including porch
les. is S0x42 feet
The first floor or half basement con
q sists of a large dining room, kitchen
Ell and pantry. with cement floors, ani
hltwo detention rooms, two toilets ant
aIbath rooms, with tile floors and wains
! lcoting five feet high. and each close
; has installed the very latest plumb
ling fixtures with automatic actin