The morning news., 1897-04-28
COLONIAL DANES CONVENE.
THE GEORGIA sOCIETY's FOURTH
ANNUAL MEETING.

The Limit of Elections to Member
ship Reachcd-Mrs. YOunE's Paper
on The Colony of Georgia and Its
Founders, a Feature of the Meet
ing-The Board of Officers Re-eIect-
ed-The Members Present at the
Meeting.
The fourth annual meeting Of the Geor-
gia Society Of the Colonial Danes OF Amer
lea was held yesterday at the Low resi-
dence on Lafayette square. There was
large attendance of the officers and mem
bers and the meeting proved a very inter-
esting one.
The following members were present:
Mrs W W. Gordon, Mrs. Thomas S Nor
gan, Mrs. ]. j. Miller Mrs. A. r. Lawton,
Jr., Miss Eugenia NJ. Johnston, Miss An
ME Y. Jones, Mrs. J. r. Lamar of Angus
ia. Mrs. Louis G. Young, Mrs z. w. Mel
drim, Mrs. c. H. Dixon, Mrs. II. G. JEFF
ferries of Augusta, Mrs. Annie J. Waring,
Mrs. John Nisbet, Mrs. William Garrard,
Mrs F. H. Miller of Augusta, Mrs. II. c.
White of Athens, Mrs. p. A. Stovall, Miss
Emily A. Lawton, Mrs Henrietta b. Alex
ander of Augsta, Mrs. w. S Bulloch, Miss
Emma Bulloch. Mrs. Joseph b. Cum
ming of Augusta; Miss Clare deGraffen-
reid Of Washington, d. c.; Mrs. George P.
Elliott of Beaufort, Mrs. Edward Karow,
Mrs. Robert Neely of Waynesboro, Mrs.
Leonard Phinizy of Augusta, Mrs. John
Sullivan, Mrs. Thomas f. Screven, Mrs.
George J. Baldwin. Mrs. ]. w. Butt of Au-
gusta, Mrs. Hampton l.. Ferrin, Misses
Orme, and Mrs Orlando e. Cohen, Savan-
nah.
Mrs. w w. Gordon, president Of the so
ciety, presided, and opened the meeting
with brief, but appropriate, address. The
officers submitted their reports, Miss Eu-
genia NJ. Johnson as recording secretary,
Mrs A. r. Lawton, Jr.. as treasurer, Mrs.
J. r. Lamar as registrar and Miss Annie
Vane Jones as corresponding secretary.
An interesting feature of the meeting
was the paper read by Mrs L. G. Young
upon ''The Colony of Georgia, and Its
Founders" The paper will be printed In
pamphlet form for distribution among the
members and friends of the society.
All the existing officers we're reelected,
as follows:
President-Mrs. w. w. Gordon.
First Vice President-AIrs. T. S. Morgan.
Second Vice President-Mrs. J. j. Wilder.
Recording Secretary-NIiss Eugenia M.
Johnston.
Treasurer-Nfrs. a. r. Lawton, Jr.
Registrar-Nirs. j.. r. Lamar.
Corresponding Secretary-Miss Annie
Vane Jones.
The following new members Of the board
of management were elected to succeed
the five retiring members: Mrs. J. B.
Cumming, Augusta; Miss Anna c. Ben
ming, Columbus; Mrs. Edward Karow,
Mrs George J. Baldwin and Mrs. A. +.
Mills Savannah.
The society is in a prosperous and flour
ishing condition. The membership has
now reached 100, and under the bylaws
adopted at the previous annual meeting,
only twenty new members can be admit
ted annually. A number Of applications
for membership have been received but,
as the society is quite exacting in its re-
qurements, not all of those who applied
were elected. The greater part of the So
ciety's membership is IN Savannah as the
result of which the headquarters are here.
Among other business of the meeting,
new seal was adopted. Heretofore the
seal of the state of Georgia has been used.
The seal which will be used hereafter Is
that of the trustees Of the colony of Geor-
gia. The design of the seal is two figures
resting upon urns, representing the Sa-
vannah and Altamaha rivers, the north
eastern and southwestern boundaries of
the province, between which is seated the
genius Of the colony, with a cap Of liber-
ty on her head a spear in one hand and
cornucopia in the other.