San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-15
VICTORIA SHOWS CEUBWOMEN
OF THE STATE HOW TO TAKE
CARE OF A BIG CONVENTION
Men Do the Cooking and Everybody Turns Out
From Farmers to Small Boys to Entertain Visitors.
u Club Reports From Over Fifth District Show
Important Work Done During the Year.

have as an auxiliary branch, a COM
mittee to give service to ex-service
men, and insisted. that it meant
great deal to the men to know thai
the good women Of the country were
everything they did. Mrs. Penny
hacker described a church service at
which she had recently been present,
given in further conservation of the
service flag which it was so proud
to own. but had almost forgotten. A
roll call was given Of the names that
correspondent TO every star on its
length and each man either answered
to his name with an account Of him.
self and his doings since the war, or
the name was responded to by some
friend or member of his family, or
the answer was made by the minister
"Died. member Of the Church Tri-
umphant."
Had Community Sing.
During war times those flags stood
for the faithful service of the men
to us; in peace times let that same
flag stand for our faithful service TO
them. Let every community that
owns a service flag in churches,
schools and halls, search again for
each man that the stars represent and
follow him up. Let every man know
that he is valuable to his own com
munity. No locality must rest until
every man is accounted for, and helped
if he need it.
One of the interesting features Of
the meeting was community sing"
directed by David Griffin in the court
house square. Nearly a thousand chill
dren from the county as well as the
city schools took part in this music.
Members of the Victoria Choral Club
which has the sponsoring Of better
music for its purpose. have been 60
ing regularly TO the outlying schools
and training the children TO take part
in this program of songs which was
so successful that number of repe-
titions of it have been planned, in
series of community sings" Rev.
Robert McCutcheon is president of the
Victoria Choral Club and Mrs. Nc
Cutcheon is the acompanist.
Victoria seems to possess much
musical talent. In addition to those
singers already mentioned are Misses
Katherine Sitterle, Constance Zir-
jacks, Maud O'Connor and Miss Irene
Murray, all promising young pianists.
At the memorial service held Saturday
morning. a double mixed quartet COM
posed of Mesdames Walter Klein.
Frank Grain, J. Ray Gefvais, Fred
Shields and ]. Harry Jones, Theodore
Anderson, NJ. NJ. johnson and DIR. +.
G. Gray, sang Crossing the Bar.
and the same men singers sang a
beautiful sacred quartet, both a
capella.
The two largest entertainments Civ
en-, of a purely social nature, were
theh president evening"" and the
Bronte Club golden jubilee dinner.
given in celebration of their fifty
years of organization.
In Muslin Froclzs.
At the Bronte dinner party, every
thing possible was done TO empha-
size the long and prosperous club life
that the Brontes had enjoyed. The
members of the club were all dressed
in ruffled muslin frocks, cut from "A
pattern handed down from 1873, and
wore their hair parted in the middle
with WATERFALL" of curls in the back,
Olu-IdSulOneu SOHSs we're sung ". .hiS.
Frank Grain and Mrs. John Clegg,
and appropriate toasts wre given by
Mesdames l.. b. Randall. Z. NJ. Tracy,
II. W. Dodd. +. b. Shields, Robert
Clarke and w. II. Stoner. Mrs. j.
Ray Gervais, president of the Bronte
Club, presided in graceful fashion.
Mrs. C. g. Carsner, formerly of Vic
toria, but now living in San Antonio,
the only surviving charter member Of
the Bronte Club, was an honored
guest.
The presidents evening" was CIV
en- to, speeches by the president of the
Fifth District, Mrs. ]. G. George of
Brownsville, A Forward Look; the
president of the State Federation,
Mrs. Lee Jose.h Of San Antonio,
The Immediate Demand" and in
teresting People / Have Met" by
Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker of Austin.
Visiting musicians, Mrs. Charles
Grunder, pianist, and Mrs. Il. NJ.
Caldwell. soprano, both Of Corpus
Christi; Mrs. Clara Duggan Madison,
pianist, and Miss Mary Howard. So
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