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The Seventh Ward had the distinction of having the headquarters of both the city and county woman's committees, the Tulane Surgical Dressings workroom. and the Y. W. C. A. located within its boundaries. The largest number of business
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THE FIRST CANNING CLUB ORGANIZED IN NASHVILLE.
The club was under the supervision of Mrs. R. E. Porter, Sectional Chair- man for North Nashville Woman's Committee.
Those in the group are, left to right, Mrs. Nettie Earls, Miss Mary Barnes. Mrs. Joe Odom (Ethel Joyce), Miss Flora Porter, Mrs. Collins, Mrs. Mary Mills. Mrs. Fanny Baldwin, Mrs. J. A. Porter, Mrs. George Goldtrap, Mrs. R. E. Porter. Chairman. Miss Josephine Bergland, Mrs. James Brown, and Mrs. George Reed.
women who composed the night classes of the Red Cross Tulane workrooms were drawn from this ward, which came second in the city in registration of workers. The Seventh Ward was the home of nine large apartment buildings, which furnished more women volunteers for house-to-house canvassing and general activities than any other ward of Nashville.
The Woman's Committee of the North Nashville Section proved to be one hun- dred per cent in every drive and campaign for war relief work. In addition to those already mentioned, the following women served as chairmen of some work of this section during the war period:
Mrs. M. M. Van Tien, Mrs. Harvill Ilite, Mrs. J. W. Van Tien, Mrs. M. M. Harvill, Mrs. George M. Hite, Miss Margaret White, Miss Margaret Hawkins, Miss Cassie Mai Overall, Miss Marian Dempsey. Miss Madeline Fritz. Miss Virginia Mackenzie, Miss Bessie Mackenzie, Miss Ethel Moxley, Miss Nellie Mau Edgar. Miss Beatrice Edgar, Miss Aderine Hawkins and Miss Gertrude White.
Mrs. R. E. Porter. Chairman. was highly commended by state and Nashville officials of the Woman's Committee for the efficient service she rendered at all times in all forms of World War work in the North Nashville Section. Mrs. Porter as an official worked with the same ability as a private.
SOUTH NASHVILLE DIVISION OF THE WOMAN'S COMMITTEE MRS. E. C. WRIGHT, Sectional Chairman
The South Nashville Division of the Woman's Committee was organized in October. 1917. with Mrs. E. C. Wright as Sectional Chairman. Mrs. Wright held mass meetings in each of her respective wards, at which organizations were per-
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fected for the Twelfth, Thirteenth. Fourteenth. Fifteenth and Twenty-second Wards. which were under her jurisdiction. The personnel of Mrs. Wright's organization is as follows:
TWELFTH WARD
General Chairman, Mrs. C. M. Price: Departmental Chairmen: Mrs. Frank Cook. Mrs. Frank Davis, Mrs. W. W. Knox. Mrs. Albert Mitchell, and Mrs. Charles Robinson.
THIRTEENTH WARD
General & hairman. Mrs. W. H. Tanksley; Departmental Chairmen: Mrs. James Campbell, Mr -. Matt W Murray. Mrs. Charles Bringleman, Mrs. Paul Harvill, Mrs. J. T. Allen, Mrs. Il. Il. Newell. Mrs. W. 4. Dickson. Dr. Cecelia Rich, Miss Cora Ilager, Miss Ethel Carroll. Miss Edna Smythe, and Miss Lavinia Mur
FOURTEENTH WARD
General Chairman. Miss Bessie Allen: Departmental Chair- men: Mrs. John Griffin. Mrs. Joe Minton, Mrs. E. A. Dodd. Mrs. Etta Gwinn, Mrs. John Hunt. Mrs. Emma Alley. Mrs. N. D Alley. Mrs. Sam Farris, Miss Jor Winton. Wiss Sophia and Miss lien MeElroy.
FIFTEENTH WARD
Miss Gladys Wilson. General Chairman: Departmental Chair- men: Mr -. J. D. Turner and Mrs. F. E. Aford.
SIXTEENTH WARD
Mrs. R. A. Griffin. General Chairman: Departmental Chair- Font Kuabrought men : Mrs. Alex. Irving. Wrs. W. (. Phillips, Mrs. J. W. Fin- ney. Mrs. Ambrose Plumlee. Mrs. Robert 1 .. Longhur-1. Mr -. J. K. Johnson, Mrs. L. A. Miller, Mrs. F. L. WeMurray. Mrs. C. ( . Young. Wrs. I .. A. McMurray, Miss Mannie Irving. Mrs. Ollie Williams, Miss Cleo Bell, and Miss Nettie Me Murray.
This ward surpassed all others in the city in Parent-Teacher, Garden and Child Welfare work. Mrs. R. A. Griffin was Nashville's most successful leader in rum- mage sales. Mrs. Alex. Irving was active in every campaign and drive throughout the war. always going "over the top."
TWENTY-SECOND WARD
Mr -. W. A. Oughter-on, General Chairman: Departmental Chairmen: \rs. J. N. Steadwell, Mrs. A. N. Hollabaugh. Mrs. Robert Gentry, Mrs, Kenneth Cayce. Mrs. Paul Ilarvill, Mrs. Charles Stetson, Mrs. (. W. Willard. Mrs. Robert fay. Mrs. Noal Wood. Mrs. Walton Me Alister, and Mr -. Hallum Goodloe, Miss Sammie Estill. Miss Ruth Cullom. Miss Lena Bradley, Miss Eugenia Fields, Miss Alier Cullom. and Miss Myrtle Gillintine.
This ward was noted for their success in the Liberty Loan and W. S. S. cam- paigns. Mrs. Onghterson served as captain in many of the drives. The members of the Rutledge Magazine Club were able assistants in all phases of work of the South Nashville Woman's Committee, and were largely responsible for the effective organization perfected by Mrs. Wright.
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WAR DRIVES
The organization of the Nashville Woman's Committee was in charge of the Second Liberty Loan campaign. Mrs. Joseph Warner served as Chairman-General of this Loan, which was conducted at the Nashville Woman's Committee Headquar- ters on Eighth Avenue. Mrs. Warner used the organization of the Nashville Woman's Committee, assisted by the county, and $419,950 was raised by her and her sub- chairman in the Third Liberty Loan. A detailed account of this campaign will be found with the Liberty Loan chapter.
During the fall seasons of 1917 and 1918. $1,000 was realized from the sale of Allied Relief buttons by the Nashville committee, and lunches. smokes and jellies were sent to soldiers in the army camps for Thanks- giving. Nineteen washing machines with personal greet- ings were also sent them at Christmas time in 1917. The Nashville Woman's Committee conducted the sale of Red Cross Seals in December, 1917, and $2,000 was realized from the sales.
Under the chairmanship of Mrs. David Rosenfeld, of the Social Service Department more than one thou- sand dollars was raised to be used in the relief of suf- fering babies whose soldier fathers were in the army and whose mothers were left destitute.
Miss Della Dortch, State Chairman of Home and Foreign Relief Work for the Woman's Committee, con- ducted a button sale for the Belgium Relief Fund at the Tennessee State Fair in 1917. assisted by a commit- MRS. ROBERT OHH, JR. ( Mary Boyt Howell) tee from the State and City Woman's Committees. Sev- eral hundred dollars was realized by this means, the buttons selling for ten cents each.
Miss Dortch formed a Junior Branch of Belgium Relief Work through the Nash- ville Committee, with the following officers: President, Miss Lucile Wait: First Vice- President. Miss Lenora Kenny; Second Vice-President. Miss Ethel Weinberg; Secre- tary, Miss Hilda Bruce: Recording Secretary, Miss Virginia Billings; Treasurer, Miss Adele Bach: Chairman of Ways and Means, Miss Eloise McCarthy: Chairman of Program, Miss Catherine Nichols; and Chairman of Publicity. Miss Katherine Barksdale.
Miss Dortch's Committee held a Tag Day on December 14, 1917, for the pur- pose of giving Christmas cheer to the invalid children of Belgium, and over $1.800 was added to the relief fund as a result. The following children and chaperones were workers:
FIFTH AVENUE AND CHURCH STREET
Mrs. P. A. Murray, Chaperone; Workers: Miss Lucile Wait, Miss Lena May Rowland. Miss Maude Howell, Miss Ethel Smith. Miss Anne Warner, Miss Dorothy Fuqua. Miss Ruby Kadel, Miss Louise Smith, Miss Rebecca Way. Miss Elizabeth Breen. Miss Mary Rice Anderson, and Miss Bessie Louise Archibald.
SIXTH AVENUE AND CHURCHI
Miss Lenore Kenny, Mrs. John M. Kenny. Mrs. Miles Williams and Mrs. William Billings. Chaperones; Workers: Miss Helen Burns, Miss Jane Davis Smith. Miss Dorothy Sanders. Miss Ethel Nance, Miss Mary Melbourne Clements. Miss Ida Belle Mitchell. Miss Gladys Mitchell. Miss Virginia Billings, Miss Mary Elizabeth Waddey, Miss Mary Frances Blair. Miss Eleanor Berger, and Miss Lucy Ann MeGugin.
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SEVENTH AVENUE AND CHURCH
Mis- Kate Barksdale. Chairman, and Mrs. I.von Childress, Miss Cornelia Barksdale and Mrs. F. W. Hooper. ( Lapersones: Workers, Miss Harriet Childress, Miss Virginia Witherspoon. Miss Catherine Witherspoon, Miss Juha Fay Norwood, Miss Estelle Crandall, Miss Frances Denton, Mess Julia Hill Woolwine. Miss Helen Solinsks. Miss Martha Coles, Miss Louise Proctor. Miss Fhzabeth Hooper. Wiss Elizabeth Vustin. Miss Frances Hill. Miss Mildred Austin, and Miss Madeline
ERJITH AVENUE AND CHURCH
Miss Lillian Taylor. Chaperone: Workers: Miss Evelyn Myers, Miss Rebecca Johnson, Miss flatte Elhs, Miss Catherine Harris, and Miss Rosalyn Martin.
FIFTH AVENUE AND UMION
Workers: Miss Eloise Mccarthy, Miss Helle Otterson, Miss Aline Duncan. Miss Evelyn Simpson, Miss Frances Stokes, Miss Curtis Suell, Miss Elizabeth Brown. Miss Louise Brown. Miss Sarah Nestor. Miss Catherine Wilson. Miss Catherine Ogden. Miss Marian Skeggs, Miss Elizabeth Harris, and Miss Susan Ewing, with Mrs. Jordan Stakes, Jr., Chaperone.
MRS. FIMAP M FOSTER (\mna Stratton] Mr. Foster collected the largest vand of funds tikon in on iny one coinse ne Al thế miny Jag Days hely in Nastaole Oring the World Wir
FOURTH AVENUE AND UMION
Workers: Mis- Catherine Nichols, Miss Elsie Pflaster. Miss Pattie Malone, Miss Martha Foster, Miss Elizabeth Bryan. Miss Margaret Andrews, Miss Juanita Kinkead, Miss Rost Silverstein, Miss Adelaide Proctor, Miss May Belle Gregory, Miss Mildred Anderson, Miss Essie May Booker. and Miss Dorothy Mimms, with Mrs. Ross Handly as Chaperone.
ARCADE
Miss Hilda Bruce, Chairman: Workers: Miss Madelyn Jones, Ass Olive Rose and Boy Scouts.
I MON STATION
Mrs. George Williams, Chairman.
THIRD AVENUE AND UNION
Miss Ethel Weinberg. Chairman; Mrs. Fred Goldner. Chaperour: Workers: Miss Leah Lusky. Miss Irene Goldner, Miss Hortense Goldner, Miss Harriett Woolwine, and Miss Mamie Freidman.
PUBLIC SQUARE
Boy Scouts, Chairmen.
EIGHTH AVENUE AND BROAD
Miss Dorothy Thompson and Miss Ellen Lewis, Chairmen; Workers: Miss Elizabeth Harris. James Ward, James Swindell. Jack De Witt. Allen Culbert, Miss Mary Agnes Payne, Miss Martha Paste. Harris Ingram, Miss Dorothy Doss, and Miss Elizabeth Doss, with Miss Elizabeth Biulord, Chaperone.
FOURTH AVENUE AND CHURCH
Miss Durathy Frank and Ma- Evelyn Meyers, Chairmen: Workers: Miss Helen Fishgall, Miss Della Bloodstein, Miss Mary Lou Martin. Miss Evelyn Joseph. Miss Marian Swindell. Miss Ethel Breen Miss Dorothy Frank, Miss Dorothy Fishgall. and Miss Danelle Weinbaum, with Mr- Regben Mills as Chaperone.
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Miss Rosalie Dalsheim served as Chairman of Badges and the money raised by the Junior Branch on this day was sent by Miss Dortch to the Belgium minister.
The sale of Belgium Relief buttons, which was inaugurated at the Tennessee State Fair grounds and continued for a longer period over the entire city of Nash- ville, and throughout the state, netted the sum of $60,000.
On September 20. 1917, another button day was observed under the supervision of Mrs. Edgar M. Foster. East Nashville Chairman of the Allied Relief Work, and the proceeds of this day's sale went to the suffering women and children of Belgium. Mrs. Foster's committee raised the sum of $9.975 from the sale of Allied buttons in a few days' time.
In the Third Liberty Loan Campaign, which was under the supervision of the Nashville Woman's Committee, Mrs. Adair Lyon Childress was appointed by Mrs. James S. Frazer as Chairman for Nashville. Mrs. Childress was assisted by the Board of the Nashville Woman's Committee, supplemented by other patriotic organizations. The total amount raised by Mrs. Childress and her assistants in this loan was $1.185,- 100. She used the headquarters of the Woman's Committee, on Eighth Avenue, for Loan Headquarters. A detailed report of this loan also may be found with the Liberty Loan Chapter.
FOOD CONSERVATION
MRS. CHARLES S. CALDWELL, General Chairman MRS. WALTER L. JONES, Chairman of Campaign
Mis. Charles Caldwell, Chairman of Food Conservation for the Nashville Woman's Committee, according to Government demands, requested that her com- mittee educate the housewives of Nashville in the most correct methods to conserve and econ- omize in the preparation of foods, and yet not deprive the "special dish" of its nutritious value. To Mrs. Caldwell and her committee is due the first observance in Tennessee of wheatless, meat. less and sugarless days. Mrs. Charles Caldwell personally visited every school, church, society, elub and patriotic gathering in Davidson County during the first few months of the existence of her organization, in an effort to impress the public of the necessity of this new economy so foreign to American people. She was instrumental in carrying her cause to the colored population. also, with splendid results. Mrs. Caldwell was ably assisted in this work by the members of the Nashville Housewives' League. of which she was president. Mrs. J. W. Black, a valued mem- ber of the League, gave the first demonstrations of eggless cakes in the county and a number of other economizing dishes.
In October and November of 1917 a cam- paign for food conservation. at the request of Herbert Hoover, took the form of a house-to-
MRS. CHARLES CALDWELL. ( Annie Foster)
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house canvass with food pledge cards that the housewives were asked to sign. The greatest good from this campaign was the educational improvement that resulted in bringing the needs of the Government to every home in the county.
Mrs. Charles Caldwell appointed Mrs. Walter L. Jones General- Chairman of the Food Pledge Campaign of Davidson County. So successfully were the wards organized by Mrs. Jones that out of the 20,000 cards allotted Nashville, 28.169 pledges were secured by the following ward chairmen, appointed by Mrs. Jones. who each appointed the personnel of their committees:
FIRST WARD
Miss Bessie Brand, Chairman; Committee: Mrs. E. W. Dempsey, Mrs. J. L. Lawrence, Mrs Alice Steiner, Miss Flora Porter. Miss Margaret Hawkins, and Miss Hazel Cooper.
SECOND AND THIRD WARDS
Mrs. R. E. Porter. Chairman, and North Nashville Woman's Committee Section.
FOURTH. FIFTH AND SIXTH WARDS
Mrs. J. C. Lusky, Chairman.
SEVENTH WARD
Mr -. Avery Handly, Chairman: Committee: Mrs. Richard Dake. Mrs. Sam Pritchett, Mrs. John Roesch. Mrs. Reuben Seay, Mrs. John Nolen, Mrs. Gus Kornman, Mrs. Baxter Moore. Mrs. Frank Stahlman, Mrs. Will Raymond, Mrs. Lewis Anderson. Mrs. Steve Lenehan. Mrs. Lou Lusky. Mrs. Isaac Miller, Mrs. D. T. Kimbrough, Mrs. John Hudson. Mrs. Joe Zanone. Mrs. Victoria Roach, Mrs. George Tompkins, Mrs. Eugene Johns. Mrs. W. L. Arnold. Mrs. Frank MeGavock. Mrs. E. S. Gardner, Mrs. Morris Wilson, Mrs. Ross Handly, and Mrs. P. M. Tamble. Miss Ellen Nance. Misses Sarah. Martha and Frances Cornelius. Miss Lillian Taylor. Miss Theresa Mcgavock. Miss Matilda Porter. Miss Margaret Rose, Miss Grace Rose, Miss Catherine Fichbaum. Miss Elizabeth Eve. Miss Rebecca Porter. Wiss Lutie Jones, Miss Elizabeth Binford. Wis- Louise Tompkins, and Miss Amilee Throne.
EIGHTH WARD
Miss Florence Adams, Chairman; Committee: Mrs. J. T. Jonnard, Mr -. W. L. Nelson. and Mrs. I. N. Hyde.
NINTH WARD
Mr -. T. J. Nance, Chairman; Committee: Mrs. Henry Curran, Mrs. J. Earle Collier, Mrs. Lyon Childress. Mrs. Henry Morgan, Mrs. Clarence Waggoner. Mrs. H. J. McSweeney. Mrs. A. E. Hill. Mr -. W. A. Daniel, and Mrs. William Martin.
TENTH WARD
Mrs. C. K. Colley, Chairman: Committee: Mrs. Minus Fletcher, Mrs. W. G. Waldo, Mrs. John Barksdale, Mrs. E. P. Blair. Mrs. J. R. Thompson, Mrs. W. B. Campbell, Mrs. J. E. Clarke. Miss Laurette Wallace, Miss Margaret MeKensie. Miss Mand Ballard, Miss Kate Barksdale, Miss fone Blair, and Miss Cornelia Barksdale.
ELEVENTHE WARD
Mrs. Charles Kinkead, Chairman: Committee: Mrs. Charles Hillman, Mrs. J. O. Burge. Mrs. J. Knox Polk. Mrs. Paul De Witt. Mrs. William MeKeand. Mrs. Edward Polk. Wiss Frances Hillman, and Miss Louise Sanders.
TWELFTH WARD
Worked by Men's Committee. under Lockart Doak, Chairman of Davidson County.
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THIRTEENTH WARD
Mrs. James II. Campbell, Chairman; Committee: Mrs. Steve Driver, Mrs. II. F. Bradshaw, Mrs. Lon Tanksley. Mrs. James De Wees, Mrs. R. J. Geiger, Mrs. William Alloway, Miss Lainda Murphy. Miss Louise Murphy, Miss Elizabeth Allen, Miss Amy Rich, Miss Nannie Dodd, Miss Bessie Drifoos. Miss Carrie Tanksley, Miss Louise Bass, Miss Edna Bass, Miss Mary Coles. and Miss Mary Hawks.
FOURTEENTH WARD
Miss Sophie Dale, Chairman; Committee: Mrs. John Griffin. Mrs. Bessie Allen. Mrs. Irene MeElroy. Mrs. Amy Clendenning, and Mrs. Bessie Alford.
FIFTEENTH WARD
Mrs. F. E. Alford, Chairman; Committee: Mrs. Frank Carr, Mrs. L. A. Tanksley, Mrs. Dan Burleson, Mrs. Will Jacobs, Mrs. Rowena Kleizer. Mrs. Charles Brengleman, Miss Laura Seawell, Mi+ Ethel Harrington, and Miss Gladys Wilson.
SIXTEENTHI WARD
Mrs. Russell Longhurst. Chairman; Committee: Mrs. W. A. Beasley, Mrs. William Mc- Murray, Mrs. W. C. Phillips. Mrs. P. G. Mallory. Mrs. Charles Thomas, Mrs. Hugh D). Brien, Mrs. J. R. Bazell, Miss Bessie Poteet, Miss Laura Bosworth, Miss Irene Westbrook, Miss Hattie Faller, and Miss Margaret Faller.
SEVENTEENTH WARD
Mrs. H. W. Hurt, Chairman; Committee: Mrs. Alex. Barthell. Mrs. Sam Douglas, Mrs. Frank Maddux, Mrs. John A. Jones. Mrs. E. N. Brown, Mrs. J. N. Rose. Mrs. George Price, Mrs. Charles Averitt, and Mrs. Robert Orr, Jr.
EIGHTEENTH WARD
Mrs. G. A. Davis. Chairman; Committee: Mrs. H. W. Spicer. Mrs. R. D. Wilson. Mrs. Horace Smith, Mrs. Hellen Graves. Mrs. J. H. Malone. Mrs. Green Benton. Mrs. Olney Davies, Mrs. Hubert Sawrie, Miss Mary Ilall, and Miss Gladys White.
NINETEENTHI WARD
Mrs. John D. Sharpe, Chairman; Committee: Mrs. J. W. Dillard, Mrs. Clay Faulkner. Mrs. H. B. Parrish. Mrs. Robert Whitsitt. Mrs. F. M. Elam, Miss Winifred Ilughes. and Miss Mary Eubanks.
TWENTIETH WARD
Mrs. R. L. Sawyer. Chairman: Committee: Mrs. J. J. Marshall, Mrs. Charles Ridge, Mrs. F. J. Hudson. Mrs. J. A. Marshall, Mrs. J. F. Corbett, Mrs. E. G. Johnson. Mrs. F. J. Smith, Mrs. Fred J. Ehrhart. Mrs. W. A. Rawls. Mrs. C. R. Curran, Mrs. Pitt Stiles. Mrs. E. S. Hughes, Mrs. J. L. Hopkins, Mrs. W. T. Estes. Mrs. Richard Mackay, Mrs. E. B. Runnell. and Mrs. Sam Allen.
TWENTY-FIRST WARD
Mrs. A. J. Dyer, Chairman; Mrs. T. Leigh Thompson, Assistant Chairman; Committee: Mrs. Frank Bass, Mrs. Houston Dudley, Mrs. John Hooper, Mrs. Fred Young, Mrs. Will Erwin, Mrs. E. W. Foster, Mrs. Hamilton Love, Mrs. John Lellyett, Mrs. C. B. Dodd, Mrs. Alfred Merritt. Mrs. A. S. Wilson, Mrs. Wilbur Florsheim, Mrs. C. H. Crawford. Mrs. Charles D. Jones. Mrs. L. S. McPhail, Mrs. Charles Loventhal. Mrs. J. L. Bryant, Mrs. John Hawkinson. Mrs. Nathan Anderson, Mrs. Van Coles, Mrs. Duncan Davis, Mrs. George Clarke. Mrs. W. T. Young. Mrs. W. H. Witt. Mrs. Stuart Pilcher, Mrs. Fielding Gordon, Mrs. J. W. Sewell, Mrs. A. J. Rutherford. Mrs. Lee Cantrell, Mrs. C. E. Skinner, Mrs. C. C. Dabney, Mrs. Walter Clarke, Mrs. R. G. Cox. Mrs. J. H. Buist, Mrs. Gillespie Sykes. Mrs. J. D. Goodpasture. Mrs. J. J. Greer, Mrs. M. M. Cullom, Mrs. J. A. Manley, Mrs. Clifford Sinclair. Mrs. Martin Loventhal. Miss Elizabeth Smith, Mis Mary Dyer, Miss Stella Vaughn, Miss Sadie Frank, and Miss Vivian Owen.
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WARD CAPTAINS OF THE FOOD PLEDGE CARD CAMPAIGN OF WHICH MRS. WALTER L. JONES, WHO APPEARS IN THE CENTER OF THE PICTURE WAS CHAIRMAN-GENERAL ..
Others in the picture are: Mrs. Avery Bandly, Mrs. Alice Steiner, Mrs. C. K. Colley, Mrs. Kenneth Gayce, Mrs. Russell R. Longhurst. Mrs. R. L. Sawyer. Mrs. John D. Sharpe. Mrs. Mrs. J. Barthell. Mrs. A. J. Jarvis, Mrs. \ N. Hollabaugh. Mrs. M. M. Moxley, Mrs. F. O. Graner, Mrs. E. F. Lusky, Mrs. Charles Brengleman, Mrs. G. A. Davis. Mrs. Hymie Cohen, Miss Aimer Marks, and Miss Mary R. Smith.
TWENTY-SECOND WARD
Mrs. Kenneth Cayce, Chairman: Committee: Mrs. Howard Ansley, Mrs. Grady Parham, Mrs. Curtis B. Hally, Mrs. Noah W. Cooper, Mrs. J. E. Edwards, Mrs. N. B. Nieken, Mrs. T. O. Lampkin, Mrs. J. W. Billington, Mr -. E. E. Pearson, Mrs. W. J. Stokes, Mrs. W. A. Oughterson. Mrs. Nathan Martin, Mrs. Leland Hume. Mrs. Robert Mckay. Mrs. Henry Gwinner. Mrs. I ral Word, Mrs. Arthur Cooney. Mrs. T. J. Rose, Miss Mabel Cowan. Miss Mamie Burke, and Miss Ada Fields of Peabody and her class in Home Economics.
RICHLAND ADDITION
Mrs. W. O. Tirrill, Chairman: Committee: Mrs. Hlabelle Wilson, Mrs. W. Il. Richardson. Mrs. E. Van Schaack, Mrs. Benjamin F. Moore, Mrs. R. C. Kenyon, Mrs. Will Kirkland. Mrs. James D. Porter. Mrs. Ernest Williams. Mrs. Dave Lowenstein, Mrs. John Henry Smith, and Wr -. E. S. Brugh.
TWENTY-THIRD WARD
Mr -. F. 1. Morgan, Chairman; Committee: Mrs. William Bramwell. Mrs. E. J. Shepherd. Mr -. I. T. Hall. Mrs. W. 1. Harris, Mrs. J. E. Estes. Mrs. S. 1 .. Me.Affrey, Mrs. Luke Mont- gomery, Mrs. Jesse J. Hitt. Mrs. John Nichols, Mrs. Frank Turbeville, Mrs. Lawrence Nichols. Mrs. W. M. Goodlett. Mrs. C. A. Horner. Mrs. Vernon Sharp, Mrs. J. Washington Muore. Miss Joner Taylor, Miss Sue Queenor. Wiss Pearl Ring. and Miss Helen Denny.
TWENTY-FOURTH WARD
Mr. R. K. Koumons, Chairman: Committee: Mrs. J. W. Young. Mrs. W. R. MeCullough. W. W. V. Thompson. Mrs. I. M. Rhea, Mrs. J. B. Young. Mrs. W. W. Owens, Mrs. I. W. Drumwright, and Mrs. Will W. Wyatt.
TWENTY-FIFTH WARD
Mrs Joseph Hooper, Chairman; Committee: Mrs. Roscoe Mathews, Mis. Inez Houten, Mrs. Aisin Lasblev. Mrs. lat Malone, Mrs. J. D. Goodwin. Mrs. B. C. Wright, Mrs. Conrad Miller. Mr. Goodle Cockrill, Mrs. Neil Jones. Mrs. Ansie Bass, Mrs. John Bratton, Mrs. J. W. Hooper Slr- | \ Bradley. Mrs. B. J. Young. Miss Charlie May Felts, and Miss Eva Wright.
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COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN
Mrs. Reuben Mills, Chairman: Committee: Mrs. Eph. Lusky. Mrs. Joe Simon, Mrs. J. B. Weil, Mrs. Aaron Johnson, Mrs. M. A. Lightman, Mrs. Louis Loeb. Mrs. Sam Cohen, Mrs. Lee Bissinger. Mrs. Haiman Cohen, Mrs. J. W. Stein. Miss Elizabeth Bloomstein, Miss Amy Rich. and Miss Bettie Cohn.
VICTORY GARDEN ASSOCIATION
The Nashville Victory Garden Association came into existence March 1, 1918. in connection with the Nashville Woman's Committee work. at a mass meeting of representatives of all war organizations and clubs of Davidson County. The meet- ing was called by Mrs. Alex. Caldwell, State Food Chairman of the Woman's Com- mittee. Council of National Defense. at the Chamber of Commerce. Mrs. Charles S. Caldwell was elected President of the Davidson County Garden Association at this meeting. Other officers were: Mrs. James C. Bradford and Mrs. Alex. Cald- well, Advisory Board; Miss Emma McGowan, Secretary. and Miss Alma Oliver, Chairman for Central Nashville.
The official message had been received from Washington that the South must not only feed herself. but raise a supply of food for the soldiers. necessitating the cultivation of every back yard and vacant lot in Davidson County. The erection in Davidson County of the tremendous Powder Plant, which was the largest in the world and which greatly increased the population of the county. made this phase of work more important than any other county in the South. A stupendous work was done by the ward and district chairmen of the Woman's Committee, in securing the privilege from the owners of all vacant property in the city. As a result, over 18.000 back yard gardens, and over eight hundred acres of ground were put in cul- tivation throughout the county.
Prior to the formation of the Garden Association a similar work had been car- ried on through the Parent-Teacher garden movement, under the supervision of Mrs. James C. Bradford and Miss Alma Oliver, Chairman for Central Nashville. A successful tag day was held by this committee for the purpose of purchasing garden seeds for those not able to buy them. Over eight hundred dollars was real- ized from the day's proceeds. Mrs. Bradford and the officers representing the grammar schools of the Parent-Teacher garden movement were chairmen of the day. They were:
Glenn. Mrs. L. A. Enoch: Trimble. Mrs. W. A. Fox: Whorton. Mrs. M. M. Moxley: Hill, Mrs. Lou Lusky; Schwab. Mrs. J. C. Brock: Head. Mrs. T. II. Burleson and Mrs. J. C. Walker: Caldwell. Mrs. W. W. Johnson: Elliott, Mrs. C. F. Stiner; Knox. Mrs. Ed Ridley: Centennial Park Mothers' Club. Mrs. King Sparks.
Miss Mary Welch had charge of tags. Mrs. Alex Irvine was general assistant for the day in the organization of workers.
Miss Alma Oliver. Chairman for Central Nashville, gave many demonstrations of the "army in the furrows" by supervising the planting of numerous gardens, with the assistance of the grammar school students. A special demonstration of the products after the garden had matured was given by Miss Oliver, and was highly commended by a government official who was in Nashville at the time.
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