Typed as spelled and written
- Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number 170
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, November 18, 1931

MARLIN SENDS DELEGATION
TO WOODMEN CIRCLE MEET

All day Rally of Members of Order
in This District Slated
at Austin

Cedar Grove No. 6 of Marlin will be represented at an all day Woodman Circle district convention at Austin Thursday by Mrs. Ollie Reed, guardian; Mrs. Celestine Portele, recording secretary; Mrs. Amelia Portele, financial secretary; Mrs. Esther Raines, Mrs. Bertie Henderson, and possibly others.

Mrs. Mary E. LaRocca, national president; Mrs. Dora Alexander Talley, national secretary, Omaha, Nebr., and Mrs. Etta Davidson, Houston, national director and state supervisor, will take part.

The districts of Mrs. Laura E. Krebs, Austin, and Miss Bessie Dolan, Mrs. Markaret Sykes, being district manager of this district, and Miss Frank King, Taylor, are combining for the occasion.  Mrs. Krebs is state treasurer and Miss Dolan is a member of the national legislative committee.

Sessions will begin at 10:30 in the morning.  Members of the Austin grove will serve luncheon at noon.

In the afternoon there will be junior graduation, presentation of pins to members who have belonged a quarter of a century or more, demonstration of the floor work by the Austin and Taylor junior drill teams and by an adult team from Austin.  A reception and dance will close the program.

Mrs. Davison to Report.

National and state officers will speak.  There will be a school of instruction.  Mrs. Davidson, former Marlin resident, will report on the juvenile campaign now in progress as tribute to Mrs. LaRocca.  The campaign was named for the latter's youngest daughter, Mary Catherine LaRocca.  The "Big Sister" movement will be discussed.

According to Mrs. Mary Marek, financial secretary of the local (missing) the society will make the November monthly payment for members who have belonged for two years or more.  The society has maintained a record of waiving one monthly payment each year for members since 1921.

Mrs. LaRocca and Mrs. Talley will tell about the Pennsylvania children's cottage now under construction as the second big unit of the society's for Aged Members and Orphan Children at Sherman, Texas.

On the first floor will be a spacious living room with fireplace, a reading room and study equipped with blackboards, house mother's office, dinign room and kitchen.  On the second floor will be eight large, airy bedrooms, including an isolation room for entering children.  In the basement will be two big play-rooms.  Of brick construction, Georgian architecture, the new cottage will accomodate 20 children and a house mother.

The herd of Jersey cows furnishes fresh milk for the children, whose diet includes 19 fruits and vegetables raised on the farm.

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