The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-06-08

''Breathes there man with soul so
dead
That never to himself hath said:
This is my own, my native land?' .
This beautiful patriotic sentiment
was the keynote to the monster pa
rade and demonstration in Ocala on
Tuesday morning.
1t is variously estimated that be-
tween seven or eight hundred to one
thousand took part in the parade.
Some of the merchants had their
places of business decorated in honor
of this event and all OF the stores
we're closed until twelve-thirty o'clock
in order that no one need miss the
parade and other exercises.
The parade formed shortly before
ten o'clock on Fort King avenue in
front of the armory and the Temple
and led by the Qcala band marched
to the Harrington Hall corner and
thence around the square TO the
court houao, where the speaking took
place.
Major c. A. Nash and Mr. q. ".
Tompkins, riding beautiful mounts,
acted as marshals of the parade.
Following the band marched Com
pany A (the Ocala Rihes), followed
by the Ocala High School cadets led
by Capt. F. E. Weihe. Next came the
Woodment of the World. followed by
the physicians and hospital nurses.
and following them was the Red
Cross section. composed of about eigh-
teen lovely young girls and matrOns
dressed in the regulation Red Cross
costumes. They were led by Mr. l..
R. Chazal, chairman of the Ocala
Red Cross, and they looked so ex-
, ceedingly charming that there wasn't
a person in the vast crowd assembled
but that would have been perfectly
willing to have been i'll if they could
have had any of them as a nurse.
Misses Elizabeth Hooker and Carita
Camp marched first, carrying the Red
Cross banner. and the other young
Red Cross nurses were Misses Adele
Bittinger, Mary and Agnes BurfOrd,
Mary Mcdowell, Mamie Taylor, Ruth
and Susie Erwin, Annie Moorhead.
Mae Stein, Helen Brown, Onie Cha
zal, Blair Woodrow, Frances Taryer,
Mrs. John Taylor, Mrs. Order Per
kins and Mrs. Harvey Clark.
. Following the Red Cross section
came the Veterans and the Daugh-
tiers. Most of the veterans must have
gone to Washington, because Major
L. T. Izlar was the only one who
showed up to take part in the parade.
After the veterans came the Knight
Templars, the canning club girls, the
Junior civic league, the w. c. T. T.,
the L. T. LIS, the Woman's Club, the
Eastern Stars, the Rebekahs, the K.
of P's.. the Odd Fellows, the school
cnlIQron, the IRE ucpdi bHiOAIs hAOA VI
registering age and other citizens.
The members OF each lodge wore
the insignia of their order and carried
their flags and banners; the mem
hers of the woman's club each wore
their club flower, a poincettia bios
som: the canning club girls wore
their uniforms, and the little junior
civic leaguers, led by their directress'
Mrs. H. A. Davies, were particularly
attractive in their red, white and blue
costumes. as we're also the little jul
nior temperance union members, in
charge of Mrs. G. W. Martin, and led
nv Uncle Sam and Miss Columbia.
After the whites came the negroes
also didived into their various organ
izations. followed by quite number
NJ the school children. just as
manv colored as white people showed
their patriotism by participating ID
this big parade. Nearly everybody IN
the uarade, both white and colored'