The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-10-07
OcALA SOCIAL AFFAIRS.
If You Have Amy News for this De-
partment, Call Five Double-One
or Two-Seven
Pride

or Two-Seven
Pride
| Pride of all others the most danger
Gus fault,
Proceeds from want of sense Or
want Of thought;
| The men who labor and digest things
i most
VIII be much apterI to despond than
boast. Anonymous
Private Scarborough's Speech for the
Liberty Loan :,
The Temple theater had a capacity
house Sunday afternoon when Pri-
vate Thomas j. Scarborough, an Ar
eadia boy, gave his experiences "over
there in a most graphic manner.
The program opened by singing by
the audience Of 4'The Star Spangled
Banner" Keep the Home Fires
Burning and "Buy Bonds" enthus-
Iiastically led by Miss Porter, follow
ed by prayer by Mr. M. Little. Mr..
| T. T. Munroe introduced the speaker
most pleasantly:
Private Scarborough told his story
| in such simple, manly way that
even a child could not fail to be in
terested of which the following is a
synopsis:
Thrown into the desperate fighting
around Chateau Thierry a few days
after he reached France and wound
ed three times within three DAVIS of
that time, Private Scarborough was
sent to the hospital and invalided
home. Arriving at rest camp in
this country, he had applied for a
furlough to go home to visit his
mother. The call came for liberty
loan speakers. He decided that he
would try ito do what / could for the
friends I left over there" His war.
experiences were given in plain and
simple language.
Private Scarborough is an Arcadia
man, volunteered into the Arcadia
company, trained at Camp Wheeler
with the 124th Infantry and after
several months training was trans
ferred to another command and was
sent to France by way of England.
He spent the fourth of July in South
ampton and witnessed the first cele-
bration of that day in England. He
was sent to France and to the front
almost at once His company in
French trucks was taken to Chateau
Thierry. Marching until midnight,
they slept in the rain until morning,
and went into action the next day..
They followed all day the American
barrage and captured many prison
ers. Private Scarborough with
few others volunteered for outpost
duty and crept up to the German wire
and dug in the for the night. They
heard the Germans talking all night.
The following day this brave boy was
hit in the thigh with a machine gun
bullet. He rested bit, and tried to.
go and then was hit in the chest. He
crawled near a barn and found refuge
under some trees and lay there for
hours. Here fragment from an
exploding shell hit him on the foot.
After a while he was picked up and
taken to field hospital, where he
says he was taken care of by the
"best nurses in the world" He told
some very comical stories about the
"men from Morocco which kept the
audience in an uproar Of laughter.
This young soldier is a private and
yet he is buying liberty bonds, as are
all his former comrades, whom he
GLADLY tells are all gentlemen to the
hearts core and are keeping straight
for their own and their loved ones
sake. And he urged those who stay
at home to follow the example of the
brave boys in the trenches and put
their all into bonds.
He closed by saying he hoped yet
to march with the boys into Berlin"
The many friends of Mrs. McIver,
president of the Ocala Woman's Club,
will be grieved to learn that she has
been compelled by i'll health to lay
aside her official duties for the year.
Her place in the Ocala club will be
filled by Mrs. William Hooker, vice
president, until such time as she may
be able to return to her duties. Mrs.
Hooker, who is a past president of
the Florida Federation and who serv-
| ed as the first state chairman of the
woman's committee of the council of
national defense. once more proves
/ her genuine and abiding interest in
the work for advancement and i'm
provement by assuming the leader
ship of her local club.-Times- Union.
Every one will regret exceedingly
to learn of the severe illness of Mr..
Arch Mcintosh, at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. D. E. McIver, which
unfortunate circumstance comes as a
double sorrow to this already sorely
afflicted family. Mrs. Arch McIver
is with the family and lending her
sympathy and aid in this time of
trouble. Mrs. McIver is also attended
by trained nurse.
Our young friend, George Martin