Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-05

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article is the second.
The womens work has been directed
by Mrs. Theodore w. Johnson, chair
man OF the local committee of the
Women's Section, State Council of De-
Tense. Her associates on the commit
tee are Mrs John E. Craven, vice
chairman; Miss Katherine Walton, re-
cording secretary; Mrs. Robert B.
Dashiell, corresponding secretary, and
Mrs. Elliott II. Burwell, Jr., treasurer.
Miss Mary Randall Magruder is the
secretary to the committee. The
committee has organized the women of
the country by districts, the leaders in
the districts and members of the dis
trict committees being as follows:
First District-Leader, Miss Lucin-
da Sellman, Davidsonville; Miss Leah
Fellows, Davidsonville; Miss Augusta
Jones. West River; Miss Jennie Col
linson, South River. and Miss Irene
White, Galloways.
Second District-Leader, Mrs. Henry
Viking, Iglehart; Mrs. Burch Beard,
Chesterfield; Mrs. A A. Cook, Water
bury; Mrs Ashby Duvall. Parole;
Miss Watkins, Davidsonville; Mrs. st.
George Barber, Chesterfield.
Third District-Leader. Mrs. F. NJ.
Duvall, ST. Margarets; Mrs. Charles
Humphrey. Arnolds; Miss Sarah Stall
ings, Marley, and Mrs. Roland Teel,
Severna Park.
Fourth District-Leader, Mrs. Beau
regarde Clark, Jessup; Mrs. r. A.
Hammond, Jessup; Mrs. ]. o. May
nard, Jessup, and Mrs. Claude Arnold,
Annapolis Junction.
Fifth District-Leader, Miss Anna
Brayshaw, Glen Burnie; Miss Annie
Ray, Hanover: Mrs. McCracken,
Brooklyn Miss Irene Shipley, Han
over; Mrs. Holland, Hanover, and Mrs.
Warfeld, Forest Park.
Eighth District-Miss Harriet Estep,
Pindell; Mrs. t. j. Hall, Tracey's
Landing; Miss Sallie Hutchins,
Friendship; Mrs. George Dent, Church
ton. and Mrs. H. Martin, Tracey's
Landing.
This countrywide organization works
under the division heads of the wom-
ems committee who direct the several
classes of work outlined at the head
quarters of the Women's Section of
the Council of Defense The social
and welfare field is handled by Mrs.
Craven. Much of that work is done
through the Red Cross Chapter, about
which something will be said later. 1t
may be noted at this point, however,
that in one department of that work,
care of the families of men who have
taken up arms, Miss Nellie Ennis, the
sub-chairman, reported 40 cases at
tended to in May
Mrs. Burwell directs the thrift de-
partment She has had some difficulty
in forwarding the "Win-the-War Prod
uct Contest" because of the labor
shortage in the county, but energetic
effort is being devoted to war gardens,
nevertheless and results are beginning
to appear. This department also is
vigorously carrying on the food con-
servation and home economics cam
paigns. These movements are in
charge of Mrs. T. ]. Hall and Mrs.
Joshua Linthicum, respectively. Mrs.
Burwell's department also took lead
ing part in organizing the Women's
Club of Anne Arundel County, which
has established headquarters in two
rooms over the Annapolis Bank, which
were given without cost by that in
stitution. These quarters are made
a gathering place and rest rooms for
the women who come to Annapolis.
Under Miss Walton. very thorough
educational campaign has been devel-
oped, affecting all classes of war work
and reaching people in every section of
the county Miss Walton is assisted
in this by Mrs Weems Ridout, Miss
Kate Kelly, who looks after the ele-
mentary schools and Miss Louise Lin
thicum, who devotes herself to the
high school, and by committee COM
posed of Mrs. Robert Moss, Mrs. L.
Dorsey Gassaway, Mrs. Nicholas II.
Green, Mrs. Ralp E. Root and Mrs.
Maynadier Colhaun. This work of pa
triotic education recently has been
made a part of the women's work in
behalf of the war savings fund, in the
campaign for which the women are
as active as the men. Meetings have \
been held in many of the schoolhouses i
throughout the county, and upon num- 1
erous occasions in Annapolis. 1t is /
difficult to overstate the educational |
value of these efforts. Experience
elsewhere. as well as in Anne Arun-
del, has demonstrated that such meet
ings have been among the most effect
ual means of informing the masses of
the people of the essentials involved