Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-05-03

INTERSTATE CONFERENCE D. A. R.

An Interosting Meeting Held In Kennedy
Library Yesterday.
Spartanburg Herald, Friday.
The Interstate Conference D. A. R.,
under the aspices of the Cowpens
chapter, convened at II a. m. in their
club room.
The decorations were beautiful and
appropriate. The national colors we're
in evidence everywhere, while palms
and cut flowers gave additional attrac-
tion to the scene.
Regents and delegates were present
from Rebecca Motto Chapter: Mrs. F.
M. Jones, regent, Mecklenburg chap
ter Mrs. Stonewall Jackson, regent,
Catawba chapter; Mrs. Hugh Buist,
regent, Elizabeth Steel chapter, Sails
bury Nathaniel Green chapter, Mrs.
Jesse Smith, vice regent; Kings
Mountain chapter, Miss Leslie Wither-
spoon, regent; Columbia chapter,
Mrs. Rich ardson, regent; Esther Mari
on chapter, of Aiken, and Andrew
Pickens, Of Edge6eld, were not repre-
sented.
Among the wellknown ladies present
were Mesdames Waring, Scriven, Rob-
ertson, Gibbs, Childs and Miss J. D.
Martin, from Columbia; Mrs. Moore
and Miss Witherspoon, from Yorkville;
Mesdames Rodgers and Cleveland,
Smith and White and Miss Earle,
Greenville; Mrs. Latta, Miss Mallory
and Miss Latta, Charlotte ; Mrs. Childs,
Asheville; Mrs. Erskine, from Tryon
Mrs. Brock, Anderson Mrs. Copeland,
Laurens; Mrs. Rice, Bamberg; Mrs.
White, Fort Mill Miss Wardlaw,
Gaffney; Mrs. Walton, Gastonia.
The meeting was opened by Mrs.
George W. Nichols, of Cowpens chap.
ter, who welcomed the visitors in
warm and fitting terms and introduced
Mrs. NJ. s. Waring, state regent of
South Carolina. She made an excel.
lent address, both ft and appropriate.
Mrs. Latta, state regent Of North
Carolina, responded in a happy, charm.
ing and interesting address.
Very interesting reports were then
read fror, the different chapters repre-.
sented, which were followed by two
able papers one from Mrs. Buist, of
Rock Hill, on "How to increase our
membership" and the other from Miss
J. D. Martin, of Columbia, on "The
purpose of the organization, D. A. R."
Topics of general interest were then
discussed, after which souvenir was
presented to the delegates present in
the form of the "Year Book" of Cow
pens chapter which is a dainty little
gem aud quite worthy of this ENTER
prising chapter. Mrs. Robertson, OF
the Columbia chapter, also presented
the delegates present with the March
edition of "The New South" which
contains a sketch of three "real daugh.
ters" which that chapter numbers
among its members. An invitation
was then read from the Cowpens chap
ter, inviting all D. A. RS. in the city
to be present at reception to be given
at the residence of Mrs. w. S. Mont
gomery.
A standing vote of thanks was then
given Cowpens chapter for the most
enthusiastic D. A. R. conferenre ever
held in the state.
At p. m., the hour appointed for
the reception, Mrs. Mrs. W. S. Mont
gomery's handsome parlors were
tbronged with perhaps the most nota-
BILE gathering of representative women
that has ever graced the Piedmont
section of our historic state. The
decorations were elegant and the re-
freshments most dainty. The visitors
were profuse in their praise of the
charming hostess, of the city OF the
Spartans-its fine institutions, its beau
liiul homes and above all, its generous
hospitality of Cowpens Chapter d. A. K.