The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-23
WAR CAMP COMMUNITY SERVICE
 DOING IMPORTANT WORK AT MCCLELLAN
Rx PATRIOTIC PATRICIA

| Anniston, March 22.-(Special)-
 war camp community service Is render ing a highly appreciated service in hon | bring the returned soldiers. Lovely l entertainments are being constantly 1 planned by the organization for this | purpose.
 All men who have inhabitated Camp Mcclellan have been furnished enter | tainment by Alabama's best talent and have enjoyed the bountiful hos l'pitality that ever awaits them at the ! cieery Red Circle clubrooms.
 During the past week the war camp l community service honored the Cal houn county soldiers at beautiful ana | impressive service when several service | flags were demobilized and on Friday 1 evening in the Red Circle building with an elegant banquet.
 Calhoun citizens are proud of their soldier boys. They have d right to be proud, and are delightng in showing | i. Calhoun contributed her full share 1 of the flower of her young manhood to | the greatest army ever assembled un- der the American flag. These men have | suffered and sacrificed that our liberty might be preserved and it is most ht- | ting that the folks back home, who have watched and prayed unceasinsly l for their welfare during the anxious
 
 of rejoicing over their return.
 Twas d truly happy gathering grouped around the festal board on Fri day evening. At the reception follow l ing the banquet, sharing honors with the soldiers who had offered their lives on the altar of their country. were the mothers, wives and, sisters who fought so bravely in the home trenches TO these heroines who had proven that the soul of American womanhood was ever standing behind the heroes in their struggle for right over might be- longs, in large measure, the glory or victory
 The banquet tables were beautifully decorated by Mrs. John B. Knox ana Mrs. Emmett Ledbetter. Mrs Osborne H. Parker. Mrs. s. F. Kennedy and Mrs. w. H. Weatherly issued the invitations and planned the social features. Miss Carrie Mcclure Knox arranged, the en- ioyab ble programme presented and Mrs
 & II Powers and Mrs. B. R. Sawyer planned the excellent menu.
 Miss Iva Cook chairman of the en- tertainment committee of the war camp
 community service, has been untiring in her efforts to furnish interesting
 entertainment to the soldiers. having
 arranged every week a concert for the
 men in camp, besides numerous enter
 tainments presented at the Red Circle
 building and Lyric theatre.
 In this form of service Mrs. Ralph
 Watson Hay fDaisy Baker) of Pitts
 burg a former Annistonian. fwho, for
 several months, has been visiting her
 mother Mrs. Baker. has rendered inval-
 uable aid. Mrs. Hay is a graduate of
 the Henry Gains school of Dramatics
 of New York, and is wonderfully gifted
 as a reader. She has generously used
 her talent at scores of entertainments
 during her stay in Anniston, and is ever in demand as a reader in Pittsburg. x
 Mrs. Hay is member of the well known Southern club of Pittshurs, com posed of 1j0 prominent southern women-
 who have given cheer and comfort to hundreds of southern boys. During the war period. soldiers from the nearby camps were entertained in Pittsburg and at the cantonments by the Southern club and southern soldier boys, when passing through the city, were accorded the hos
 p!tality of the club. A brilliant ball in honor of the men from the south resid- ing in Pennsylvania is yearly even.