Davidson County women in the world war, 1914-1919, Part 12

Author: Gilmore, Rose Long
Publication date: 1923
Publisher: Nashville : Foster & Parkes
Number of Pages: 530


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ALTRUSA CLUB


Business and professional women make up the member- ship of the Atrusa Club, of which Miss Julia Hindman was the World War president. At the first call this club turned it- entire efforts to the Nashville Chapter. Red Cross, and general World War work. Two of its members. Mrs. E. W. Frye and Mrs. Anne Porterfield Rankin, were supervisors in charge of the night classes of the Tulane Red Cross workrooms. where business women employed during the day had an opportunity to contribute their bit during the evening hours. The success of these night classes of business women who gave their time and strength is described in the records of the Red Cross, Nashville Chapter.


Among the women of Davidson County who rendered the most valuable and tot var service during the World War were the following members of the Altrusa


Jobr Blikr Mr J. Hongh Guest. Me -. W. A. King. Mrs. Mada Miller. Miss Pear! Mit Gertrude Cook. Miss Daisy Compton. Miss Mary & ampin, Miss Annie Cooper, Miss Mr. Frances Fetes, Miss Cordelia Erwing. Miss Lucile Fort. Miss Julia Hind - Frite I schien. Miss Elcanal Meacham, Miss Julia Mitchell, Miss Gertrude Naive. Rust Miss Rosa May Rust. Mies Mary Louise Sloan, Mis- Mars Und Miss Mary Wycliff.


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WORLD WAR WORKERS OF SUNSET PARK CLUB


Left to right: Mrs. William E. Beard. President : Mrs. P. DePierre, Mrs. Frank Weakley. Mrs. Harry S. Vaughn, Mrs. E. L. Geistman. Mrs. Spiller Campbell. Mrs. R. H. Wilson, Mrs. Jo. W. Towler, Mrs. George Reed, Mrs. Herman Trotter. Mrs. Miller, Mrs. J. C. Casey.


Miss Emma Sloan was one of the most loval and efficient workers in the Nash- ville Chapter. Red Cross. and received a certificate as an instructor.


All members signed Hoover pledge cards and registered for service. War Sav- ings Stamps clubs were formed by the members of the Altrusa Club and a number of them cultivated Victory Gardens. A contribution of fifty dollars was given the First Red Cross Drive for funds. in May. 1918. and during the summer of 1918 over five hundred gallons of raw material were canned and preserved by the members. Miss Julia Hindman gave to the county one of the Gold Star heroes. Jehu Hindman. who was reared by her.


SUNSET PARK CLUB


The Sunset Park Club. with Mrs. William E. Beard as war president. in 1917. converted its activities during the war from social to patriotic purposes. This was done at the request of Mrs. A. B. Anderson at a meeting at which she was hostess in July. 1917. Every member of this club joined the Nashville Chapter. Red Cross. and the club formed a Red Cross knitting auxiliary. which was instructed by Mrs. Mary M. Hotchkiss and Mrs. Claude C. Christopher. with each member of the club enrolled. Each week a number of knitted articles were turned over to Red Cross headquarters. The Sunset Park Club membership was active in all World War activities. Owing to many of the members being housekeepers with small children. the principal activities of the club were confined to knitting and such work as could be done in the home. A roster of the club members is filed with the Nashville Chapter. Red Cross Knitting Department. Mrs. Harry Vaughn was president of the club in 1918, and Mrs. Herman Trotter. secretary and treasurer.


REVIEW CLUB


Mrs. Claude Waller was the World War president of the Review Club. and under her leadership the club developed keen interest in all patriotic endeavors. Each member signed food pledge cards and contributed a set of knitted garments for the soldiers. The knitting was brought to the meetings, which were open forums for discussions of patriotic subjects. All literary reviews of this club during the war period dealt with World War problems. The entire membership worked in every branch of women's service during the war.


The personnel of this organization consisted of:


Mrs. Percy D. Maddin. Mrs. J. M. Anderson. Mrs. J. B. Atchison. Mrs. Leslie Warner. Mrs. Alex. Caldwell. Mrs. Jesse M. Overton. Mrs. G. M. Neely. Mrs. Charles S. Caldwell. Mrs. George E. Blake. Mrs. James E. Caldwell. Mrs. W. W. Berry Mrs. Claude Waller. Mrs. Robert F.


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M. W. A Punti, Mr. James ( Bradford, Mas. S. S. Crockett. Mis. John Carpenter MF Got. W. Fall, Mrs. W. ( Duke, Mrs. Reau E. Folk, Mis W. I. Granbers. Mrs. Mary aff ten Fazer, Mrs. Walter Keith. Mrs. John Bell Keeble, Mrs. J. 11. Aukland. Mrs. Thomas Weber. Mrs. Charles Martin, Mts. Hunter McDonald Mts, Walter Stokes, Mis. Thomas M. "1 1. Mrs. D. R. Stubblefield. Mrs. Jesse 11. Thomas, and Mrs. A. G. Brand in.


This club had the distinction of furnishing more State leaders than any other Hab in Tennessee.


HALCYON CLUB


The Halevon Club had a membership of twenty young women at the beginning of the war. Under the leadership of Mr -. W. H. Levine. the president. the club was rrorganized into a public service body. The members complied with all government requests for food conservation and registration. and were actively engaged in all departments of the Nashville Chapter. Red Cross. Each member of this club was also a member of the Girls" Patriotic League. As a club they subscribed one hun- dred dollar- to each Red Cross drive and formed W. S. S. clubs.


VASTA ILLE CHAPTER. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE WOMEN


No organization was more active in World War work than the Nashville Chapter of the Southern Association of College Women, with Whis. R. Sherrill Maddox as World War president. Many of the members of this chapter gave their entire time to organization- en- gaged in work for the soldiers and exerted their influence toward keeping up the morale of the people at home. They also worked toward getting a bill through the Tennesee Legislature for the stand- ardization of colleges in Tennessee.


The educational work of the chapter during the war period was based upon "The World at War." and a definite study of war conditions was con- ducted.


The principal war work of this organization consisted in the raising of $1.000 for Armenian relief and the support of an Armenian orphan for a year. which amounted to one hundred and twenty dollars. Mr -. A. B. Benedict, a member of the association. was chairman for the Armenian Relief Committee.


The chapter compiled a monthly magazine for the Vanderbilt Hospital U'nit "S" Marcas, with Miss Adelaide Lavon as chairman. Books and vietrola records were donated to the mountain school at Elkmont. Tennessee, and contributions were made to the Home Funding Society and to the Blind Relief Work. The chapter had a taldle one day each week in the Surgical Dressings Department of the Red Cross. Individual members did Red Cross work, sold Liberty Bonds and engaged in every public service made necessary by war conditions. Each member of the chapter con- tributed two dollars to the College Loan Fund. which was converted into Thrift Stamps. The members of this organization established a precedent by making their pre-ident. Mrs. R. S. Maddox. a member of the National Educational Association.


Mrs. Jolin Kreje was chairman of the Program Committee of the chapter during the war. and was assisted In the following: Mrs. A. B. Benedict. Mrs. T. W. Contcher. Jr .. and Miss Adelaide Ivon.


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MAGAZINE CIRCLE


The membership of the Magazine Circle of Davidson County was limited to thirty- five. and under the leadership of Miss Elizabeth L. Bloomstein. World War presi- deut. and Mrs. Joseph Abrams, secretary, this club meaut thirty-five active workers in every branch of World War service. The circle's work as a whole was the adoption of a French orphan, and seven French orphans were adopted by individual members. The circle contributed generously to the Belgian Relief Fund and to the fund for Jewish War Relief. Many of the members held official positions in the Nashville Chapter, Red Cross. the five Liberty Loans. War Savings and Thrift Stamp campaigns, and all patriotic movements. In the conservation of foods. the Magazine Circle canned and preserved approximately 6.000 quarts of fruits and vegetables. Miss Sadie Frank. a member, served with distinction in Armenia and Turkey, after the signing of MISS ELIZABETH L. BLOOMSTEIN the Armistice. The Magazine Circle sponsored Dan Wasserman, a Gold Star hero, for the Davidson County Memorial of the Kiwanis Club. The following members served as leaders in various war organizations: Mrs. Leo Schwartz, Mrs. Henry Teitlebaum, Mrs. Dave Rosen- feld, Mrs. Reuben M. Mills, and Mrs. Lee J. Loventhal.


Individual members adopting French orphans were: Mrs. Lee J. Loventhal. Miss Stella Rich, Miss Carrie Rich, Mrs. Dave Rosenfeld. Mrs. J. Lowenstein and Mrs. J. W. Martin.


PEABODY WOMAN'S CLUB


Mrs. James E. Caldwell was the World War president of the Peabody Woman's Club, and its principal activities were the formation of a Red Cross Auxiliary, which met each week. the purchasing of $1.500 in Liberty Bonds. and the establish- ment of an agency for the sale of War Savings and Thrift Stamps at the Peabody College book store. Each member was active in the following war organizations. many of them serving as chairmen: W. S. S. and Thrift Stamp organization, Red Cross, Canning Units. Liberty Loans, Army Comfort League, National League for Woman's Service. and the Woman's Committee. Council of National Defense. From among its members the Peabody Club furnished more chairmen for the various branches of World War service than any other club in Tennessee.


RUTLEDGE MAGAZINE CLUB


The Rutledge Magazine Club. with Mrs. O. N. Hollabaugh as World War presi- dent, was composed of twenty-two members. which meant twenty-two patriots. In- stead of following the literary and social pursuits. for which it was formed. this club reorganized itself during the war period into a knitting unit. Immediately thereafter a surgical dressings Red Cross Unit was formed. which met each week. Hospital garments for the Red Cross were also made by this club. War Savings Stamp and Thrift Stamp clubs were organized by the membership of the Rutledge Magazine Club. and every member joined the Red Cross. All signed Hoover pledge cards and several cultivated Victory Gardens. More than two thousand quarts of fruit and vegetables were canned by the members.


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Mrs. E. t. Wright, a member. served as Sectional Chairman for South Nashville Woman's Committee. Council of National Defense: three members were ward chair- ment of the Woman's Committee. Council of Defense: one an auxiliary leader for the Red Cross: one a teacher of a free class in shorthand: and one adopted two French orphans.


The annual spring luncheon of this club was abandoned and the funds saved were used for the support of two French orphans. Mrs. W. A. Oughterson. Mrs. W. L. Quarles and Mrs. Mary R. Harris, members of this club. held many important chairmanships throughout the war. as did its president. Mrs. Hollabaugh.


BELMONT MAGAZINE CLUB


The Belmont Magazine Club, with Mrs. John H. DeWitt as World War president. had an active membership of twenty-five women. all of whom were engaged in World War work of some capacity. Every member signed Hoover pledge cards: a number of Victory Gardens were cultivated. and much food was saved by canning the products of the gardens, The club formed a knitting circle during the summer months and completed twenty kits. Each member of this club did active work in some department of the Nashville Chapter. Red Cross. As a club. ten dollars was contributed to the Woman's Committee. Council of National Defense: one hundred dollars to the W. S. S. and Thrift Stamp organization: three French orphans were adopted by individual members: and two members served in the Emergency Canteen Service. Nashville Chapter. A. R. C.


There were thirty-five stars on the Belmont Magazine Club's service flag. Two of the club's members. Mrs. William R. Manier and Mrs. Joseph R. West. were termed the World War mothers of the club. The former had three sons in service and the latter four. Mrs. W. H. Richardson. a member. was one of the club's staunchest supporters in every war activity. and the president. Mrs. DeWitt. was an active worker in the Canteen.


PAN HELLENIC ASSOCIATION


The Pan Hellenic Association voted not to abandon its regular monthly pro- grams for war work exclusively. because the nature of its work was of value in the reconstruction period. Miss Maybelle Saunders was the association's president. and the club's work for three years had been a study of vocations for women with a view to collecting data to be available to every local college girl who would be in- terested. The association did splendid war work along with it- regular program. and met one day each week at Nashville Chapter. Red Cross Headquarters. Many of the members knitted articles for the soldiers at home and many volunteered to Live in various other capacities, always serving with success.


LE JOUR CLUB


I teas commendable feature of the World War work of Le Jour Club with Mis- Nettie Ve Murray as president and Mrs. W. F. Bowlin as secretary. was the fact what this or mization assisted in taking care of some particular family from which Me leal-winner had gone to war. They adopted a four-year-old daughter of a Soldier of the A. F. F. whose mother was forced to earn the family's livelihood. Insaddition to clothing and other necessities the club gave the child many pleasures.


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Le Jour Club had a special day to sew on hospital garments at Red Cross Ilead- quarters each week, and organized itself into a W. S. S. and Thrift Stamp club.


FRIDAY MORNING LITERARY CLUB


Out of a membership of twenty-five, the Friday Morning Literary Club, with Mrs. George E. Blake as the World War president, not one went unregistered for pa- triotic service. Three of the members registered for automobile service, one for gardening, one for journalism. and the remainder for hospital service. Every housekeeper in the club signed the food pledge cards and each of the twenty-five members kept Thrift Stamp cards. The club adopted twenty-five French orphans, preserved over 1,000 quarts of food, and was enrolled one hundred per cent for Red Cross work. Several members of this club received certificates as instructors in the Surgical Dressings Department of Red Cross. In every drive for raising war relief funds, the Friday Morning Literary Club had some member as leader. Each mem- ber was engaged in some branch of service of the Woman's Committee, Council of National Defense, and the five Liberty Loans.


In answering a questionnaire sent out by the President regarding services ren- dered in educational propaganda of the Woman's Committee, one member's answer was: "The most strenuous war service I do is to try to keep my mouth shut."


Mrs. Blake, President of the Friday Morning Literary Club, was one of the most convincing four-minute speakers on all war propaganda in Davidson County.


A roster of this club during the war is as follows:


Mrs. George E. Blake. President: Mrs. John Arnold Bell, Secretary; Mrs. William Berry, Mrs. Claude C. Christopher, Mrs. George Dibrell, Miss Lizinka Farrell, Miss Alberta Fite, Mrs. George Frazer. Mrs. Fred Fuller. Miss Mai Grantland. Miss Madge Hall. Mrs. James Hamilton. Mrs. Weaver Harris, Miss Louise Hall, Mrs. Eugene Jones. Mrs. George Kirkpatrick. Mrs. John Kreig, Miss Katherine Morris. Miss Fermine Pride, Mrs. Arch Trawick, Miss Mary Fite Turley. Mrs. Thomas I. Webb, Mrs. John Wilson, Mrs. Douglas Wright. and Mrs. Clarence C. Woodcock.


TWENTIETH CENTURY CLUB


While each member of the Twentieth Century Club, of which Mrs. Wendall Me- Faddin was World War president. did varied and untiring war work, the club as a whole organized a W. S. S. and Thrift Stamp organization and oversubscribed its quota. Two orphans were adopted by the club. and the members rendered a splendid service in volunteering as assistants in classifying books for the soldiers. Each member was associated with some branch of the Red Cross work and took part in every war relief campaign.


NASHVILLE METAPHYSICAL CLUB


Each member of the Nashville Metaphysical Club, of which Mrs. Elizabeth Frve Page was the founder and World War president, answered every call during the entire war period. The president was a member of the State Publicity Committee and conducted a column in The Nashville Tennessean, called "This. That and the Other," which was used by the varions war organizations for propaganda and which received favorable comment from National authorities. Mrs. Page also contributed a number of war poems which were helpful to leaders of the many war drives. While the membership of this club was small, they gave willingly of their time and means to every patriotic endeavor. They adopted and published a prayer. compiled


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BY their president, which was distributed over the country by army chaplains and leaders of religious organizations as an expression of their sentiments in the great conflict.


SOUTH NASHVILLE FEDERATION


The South Nashville Federation had for its president Mrs. E. C. Wright. who was also a sectional chairman for the Nashville Woman's Committee. Council of National Defense. The splendid work accomplished throughout the entire war in South Nashville was due to the experience and executive ability of the members of this club. The work of the members of this federation will be found with every patriotic movement in this volume. Many of them were chosen to lead important committees.


Mrs. Wex Caldwell. World War President of the Tennessee Federation of Women's Clubs. inspired to a large degree the splendid results achieved by the federated club women of the State, and especially of Davidson County. during the World War. Every faculty of her mind was attuned to patriotism. In addition to many olheial duties. well performed. in various war organizations, she carried on the automobile business in which her three sons were engaged at the time of their en- listment in the service until they were discharged from the army. A> State Chair- man of Food Conservation during the war. Mrs. Caldwell "scooped" Herbert Hoover with the pledge card idea. and as a member of the Advisory Council of this volume she ably assisted with the preservation and publication of records herein contained.


In May. 1923. a memorial tablet was erected at the Tennessee Vocational School. at Tullahoma. in honor of Mrs. Caldwell by the federated club women of Tennessee. which was an honor worthily bestowed. This school was founded during Mrs. Caldwell's administration as State President of the Federation of Women's Clubs.


VIRS. ROBERT FISK Bennie Briggs1


Vr Robert Lusk. Chairman of Entertainment Committee at the Belle Meade Golf and Country ( lub dorme the World War, was an able assistant in all of the many benefit entertainments for World Was schief work held at the Club. At her request the Executive Board gave over the , ob house without compensation throughout the war for all the entertainments given in its quarter -.


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QUARTERS OF MISS WILL ALLEN DROMGOOLE IN THE NAVAL SERVICE DURING THE WAR


Her picture appears in the upper left-hand corner of the cut. In the left of the hut was the Canteen Department: the room to the right was used as a library and for insurance business. Between the two a small room and bath served as quarters for Miss Dromgoole, who was the first woman volunteer from Tennessee to enter the service, enlisting the first of May, 1917 She acted for some months as publicity veoman, sending out such publicity as directed by Capt. Philip Andrews, of the U. S. Navy. She also did recruiting work for some time along the waters of Mary- land, Virginia and North Carolina. One of these recruiting crnises covered the historic country of Raleigh's lost colony, the entire cruise covering three months.


For more than a year Miss Dromgoole did shore duty at a small base in Virginia. where she collected. through the papers and otherwise. more than a thousand books for the exclusive use of seamen. She also sold a large amount of government in- surance.


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Army Comfort League MRS. PERCY WARNER. President


DAVIDSON COUNTY WOMEN IN THE WORLD WAR, 1914-1919


OUR PRAYER


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God save our splendid men. Send them safe home again: God save our men. Keep them victorious. patient and chivalrous: They are so dear to us: God save our men.


ARMY COMFORT LEAGUE


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MRS. PERCY WARNER Member of Advisory Council of this History


Tribute by Mrs. Percy Warner


To the patriotic and liberty-loving women of Davidson County who were mem- bers of the Army Comfort League. Words cannot express the loyalty and devotion to service rendered by these women from the first day the Tennessee soldiers mobil- ized until the last one was discharged. The inspiration I received as leader of such women enabled us to carry on to success the splendid achievements of this or- «anization.


No body of women in America answered the call to arms more readily and more whole-heartedly than this one. No sacrifice was too great. no task too difficult, as we were inspired by the fact that we were "mothering" our own boys.


(Signed) MARGARET LINDSLEY WARNER (MRS. PERCY).


President. Army Comfort League.


Nashville, Tenn .. February 11. 1922.


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Army Comfort League MRS. PERCY WARNER, President


The Army Comfort League was the outgrowth of the Army Comfort Circle, of Nashville, organized July, 1898, during the Spanish-American War, with Mrs. Henry Beaumont as president. At the end of the war the activities of the circle ceased, until the troubles on the Mexican border developed in 1916, at which time the or- ganization renewed its services under the leadership of Mrs. Jesse M. Overton.


On April 22, 1917, after the entrance of the United States into the World War, the members of this circle called a mass meeting at the Tulane Hotel and perfected the new organization. Mrs. Percy Warner was unanimously elected President. Through the courtesy of the management, the weekly meetings of the League were held in the assembly room of the Tulane Hotel. Mrs. Warner appointed the fol- lowing officers to assist her in the volume of work confronting the new league:


Mrs. Georgia Knox-Berry, First Vice-President; Mrs. M. S. Lebeck, Second Vice-President; Mrs. Thomas J. Tyne, Third Vice-President; Mrs. Laurent Brown, Recording Secretary; Mrs. Mary C. Dorris, Corresponding Secretary; and Mrs. Lou Rascoe, Treasurer. The last three officers served until December, 1917, when, upon their resignations, Mrs. W. B. Shelton was appointed Recording Secretary; Mrs. John G. Gilmore, Corresponding Secretary and Press Chairman; Mrs. T. Leigh Thompson, Treasurer, and Mrs. John O. White. Assistant Treasurer.


An advisory board was selected from the various local women's organizations. the personnel of which was:


Mrs. Edward Buford, Y. W. C. A .; Mrs. John Hill Eakin, Centennial Club; Mrs. Jesse M. Overton, National League for Woman's Service: Mrs. Alex. S. Caldwell, Federated Clubs; Mrs. Robert F. Jackson, Colonial Dames and Red Cross: Mrs. Harry W. Evans, Navy Comforts Committee: Mrs. John C. Brown. State and County U. D. C .; Mrs. Henry Teitlebaum, Council of Jewish Women: Mrs. Bruce R. Payne, Peabody Woman's Club; Mrs. B. D. Bell, East Side Civic League: Mrs. James H. Kirkland. Vanderbilt Woman's Club: Mrs. W. A. Overall, Nashville Equal Suffrage League; Mrs. W. Winter Lyon. McCrory Chapter, D. A. R .: Mrs. E. A. Price, State D. A. R.'s; Mrs. James Frazer, Nashville Woman's Committee: Mrs. Robert W. Nichol. County Woman's Committee; Mrs. Eugene Crutcher, Parent-Teacher Association: Mrs. Marv P. Bang, W. C. T. U .; Mrs. James E. Caldwell, Campbell Chapter, D. A. R .; Mrs. K. T. Mc- Connico, Cumberland Chapter. D. A. R .; Miss Louise G. Lindsley, of the Ladies' Hermitage Association; and Miss Mary Ratterman, Godmother's Auxiliary.


The purpose of the League was to supervise the comforts of the Tennessee sol- diers, especially those who had no relatives or friends, and to send help directly to the individual. From a small nucleus. under Mrs. Warner's able leadership, the Army Comfort League grew to a membership of seven hundred women. The work inaugurated at the camps in Nashville followed the boys across the seas and on to the battlefields.


In Mav, June and July, 1917, when the First Tennessee Infantry was stationed at Camp Jackson, Nashville, Tenn., the League built and equipped a reading room for the regiment stationed in that camp: and tri-weekly entertainments were given for the soldiers by the best talent of Nashville. under the direction of Mrs. Kinnard T. McConnico and Mrs. H. Louis Sperry.


In equipping the reading room, Mrs. Joseph H. Thompson donated a victrola: Mrs. Mary C. Dorris, stationery. distinguished by the equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson, for whom the camp was named. The die for the stationery was presented by Mrs. Thomas J. Tyne and Mrs. B. F. Wilson. A bookcase and many books were supplied through the efforts of Mrs. George H. Williams, Mrs. John Steadwell and Mrs. M. S. Lebeck. The daily papers of the State were obtained through the efforts




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