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Local Woman's Club Meeting


The Woman's Club met in the
regular session, Wednesday afternoon
at 400 O clock. Because OF the in
clemency OF the weather, fewer OF
the members than usual were present
only 10 members responding to roll
call. Mrs. r. NJ Mann, of Clio, Ala,
and Mrs. g. p Minglcdorf of Cluraw
S c. both prominent members of the
Club, last year, were honored gusts.
After the reading OF the minutes
of last meeting and a short business
session. Mrs. Lon Dickcy gave an
interesting and exhaustive report of
the Convention at Athens, last week.
Her report follows:
Following a brilliant reception given
by Mrs. James White, ST., who resides
in the old Ben Hill mansion in Athens
the Doth annual convention, Georgia
Federation OF Womcn's Clubs, was
opened with prayer by Rev. Walter
Anthony, OF the First Methodist
Church, who prayed especially Tor the
homes and loved ones OF the women
assembled here and that they might
DC pei HlIlJth 10 lCbtllI ih 7'I'tg ~
them after deliberations were conclud-
ed. And now let us all pray together, y
he said, and concluded with the Lord S
Prayer in which the immense audi
ence gathered in the University Cha
pei, joined
Judge G.. c. Thomas, Mayor OF Ath-
ems, followed with a brilliant address
OF welcome in which he referred TO the
assembled body as "The steering wheel
OF all that is pure and holy" He
paid tribute to Lady Aston as a south
crn woman who was serving her gen
Grafton, and said he fully expected to
see some OF his audience in the halls
OF congress some day"
Chancellor Barrow, feeble and bent
with age and service, rose to ask us
to feel at home in "our own chapel,
that of the University Of Georgia" He
said he regretted that the matter OF
admitting women to the University
was deferred so long, that they never
felt for a minute that the University
was too good for the women, but that
the women were too good for the Uni
versity He said when he visited our
home towns the first thing hc looked
for was a Confederate monument in
which there was never stone laid
in bitterness. but in love and loyalty.
q don't think he has ever been TO
Fitzgerald.)
DR.. Jerc M. Pound asked that, since
we were to be his guests at the State
Normal school Thursday evening. that
he be permitted to offer his welcome
on that occasion together with the
nine hundred souls on the grounds out
there.
Miss Mildred Mel. Principal of Lucy
Cobb Institute, welcomed us charm
ingly and plead with the federation
TO get behind the educational system
OF Georgia and try to put our schools
and colleges where they belonged,
along with the educational institutions
OF other states. altogether one of the
best speeches made)
Afr bright, but brief, welcome
from Mrs. Charles Smelling. conven-
ton hostess, Mrs James +. HAYES, our
beloved president, responded in her
usual happy vein She said Exposing
people TO information was education"
and that the women assembled there
wanted to know many things, naming
a list, and concluding: They want to
know a candidates record and what
he stands for before they vote for
him"
Mrs. T. c. Geise, of Dawson. State
chairman OF fine arts. then introduced
Mrs. Rose V. S. Berry. of Berkeley.
California, as orator OF the evening,
Described as "A gifted daughter of
the West the land of sunIit skies and
majestic forests" Mrs. Berry looked
the part in the first place, and with
her sweet speaking voice held her au-
dience spell bound as she traced mu-
sic from the dawn of creation to the
birth of the opera; literature from its
inception to the birth of poetry: and
art on down through the centuries in
its various lines of development. This
address was declared by many to be
the classic of the convention.
1t would take a Sears-R oebuck cata-
logue to record the many brilliant and