The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-07
COLONIAL DANES TO MEET.
THEIR SECOND ANNUAL GATHERING
TO BE HELD HERE EEXT
WEEK.

The Georgia Society Growing and
Extending Its Membershfp-The
Meeting to BE Attended by Mem
bers From Augusta and Athens.
The State and National officers.
The Georgia Society Founded in
savannah Just Two Years Ago.
] The Georgia Society Of the Colonial
| Danes OF America will hold its second
annual meeting at the residence of Mrs.
I W. W. Gordon, April IS. The members
| Of the society are looking forward with
much interest to the occasion, which viii
I necessarily be a pleasant one.
The society was organized in Georgia
/ just two years ago, and now has members
in Augusta and Athens. As the organiza-
/ ton was perfected here Savannah. of
course, has the largest membership The
membership would. no doubt, have ex-
/ tended to other parts of the state before
| now, were it not for the rules and bylaws
| governing the society. To become
member one must be invited by another
member, and a second member must rec
ommend the prospective member. The
members are elected by the board of man
/ ayers, and more than one adverse vote
bars the one receiving them from member
| ship. The society has no chapters at diff
/ ferent cities, but covers the entire state.
| 1t is expected before the meeting the
board Of managers will elect about twen-
/ ty members who have been invited to
/ join the society. and this will extend
| its membership to Atlanta, Macon, and
| other cities. The last meeting of the So
/ ciety held here a year ago was AZ the
| residence of Mr.. William Low, and it was
/ remembered at the time that in that resi-
dence at different times Gen. Robert L.
Lee, William Makepeace Thackeray and
| Lord Rosebery, England's present pre-
mier, have been entertained.
| The officers of the Georgia Society viii
| probably all be present at the meeting.
! They are Mrs. w. w Gordon, president
1 Mrs. Henry r. jackson, first vice presi-
/ dent; Mrs. Edward c. Anderson, second
/ vice president: Mrs. A. r. Lawton, Jr..
/ treasurer; Miss Eugenia tombstone, re
| cOrding secretary; Miss Annie Nane Jones,
! corresponding secretary; Mrs. Thomas s.
/ Morgan registrar: Mrs. Louis G. Young,
| historian, and the managers are Mrs.
/ J. ]. Wilder, Mrs. p. W. Meldrim, Mrs.
! Thomas Screven. Mrs. Charles II. Dixon,
/ Mrs. Joseph r. Lamar. Mrs. Hattie Gould
| Jeffries of Augusta, Mrs. John Nisbet, Mrs
Annie Warning Mrs. William Garrard and
| Miss Emma Bullock.
The officers of the national society are
| Mrs. Howard Townsend of Philadelphia,
/ president; Mrs. Beverly Kennon of Wash
| ington, first vice president; Mrs. Henry G.
| Banning of Wilmington, Del, second vice
| president; Miss Elizabeth Byrd Mich
olas of Washington, treasurer; Mrs. Viii
| liam Read Of Baltimore, secretary; Mrs.
/ L. II. Jackson of Baltimore, assistant
! secretary. and Mrs. Frederick A. Packard
of Philadelphia, registrar.
! The annual meeting Of the Georgia So
| ciety should take place in January, but
| April was selected on account of the more
| favorable weather conditions. The meet
ing will be held about o'clock in the after
| noon. The meeting will consider the reg
ular yearly business and viii, besides be
| somewhat of a social nature. The officers
| will report on what has been done during
| the year, and the business of the society
for the coming year will also be dis
| cussed. The president, Mrs. w. W. Cor
| don, will go to New York Just after the
meeting to attend a meeting of the exec
| utive committee, composed of the presi-
| dents of the societies of the original thir-
| teen states and the District of Columbia.
| This meeting will be held at the
| Waldorf hotel April %, and will be for the
| purpose of considering and acting on any
| important questions concerning the bust
| ness and interests of all the societies.
/ Some of the members are advocating a
change. in the colors from the blue and
| buff to the red and white, the old colonial
/ colors, and another matter to be consid-
| cred is the selection of a national anthem.
| All the meetings of this society are marked
! by the greatest courtesy and consideration
! of each member for the Others. The meet
| ingS are most harmonious and pleasant
| and such thing as wrangling, which US
| ually characterizes meetings of organiza-
| tons of most any kind, is unknown
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| society are handsomely engraved and are
! of the finest parchment. In some of the
| states the members are required to pay a
! fee for this certificate, but the Georgia
| society presents them to all who are elect
| ed members. The state societies each
! select their own badge. That of the Geor-
/ gia society is a handsome design in gold
| and enamel Above it is the American
| eagle and around the edges the thirteen
| symbolic stars. The meeting of the So
| ciety here will be attended by a number Of
members from Augusta and Athens.