The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-04-19
HONOR DR.. FAIR,
KenOsha Man is Chosen to Represent
Wisconsin at the National Meet
ing of the S. A. R,
W. w. STRONG AS ALTERNATE.

The Kenosha Men Will Go to New York
on April 3Oth to Attend the Greatest
Gathering of BLUE Stockings Ever
Held in the United States.-ManY Dis
tinguished Guests and Members Will be
in Attendance at the Meeting.
The election of delegates to the
national convention of the Sons of the
American Revolution, which is held in
New York April 80 and May 1, was the
chief business which came before the
wisconsin chapter of the society at
special meeting called at Hotel Pfster,
in Milwaukee, yesterday afternoon.
At a session of the Board of Directors
which followed, FIVE persons were ad-
mitted to membership.
Those present at the meeting were
President Harold @. Underwood, Sec
rotary Gardner P. Stickney, w. B.
Dutton, of Racine; DR.. W. M. Farr, of
Kenosha; w. w. Wight, w. S. Smith,
DR.. y. o. B. Wingate, J. F. Pierce, DIR.
A. T. Ho1brook, w. c. Swain, X. A.
Cole and Judge George H. Noyes.
Owing to the importance of the general
meeting at New York the society was
especially DESTROYS of being well repre-
scented, and the following were chosen
as delegates in addition to President
Underwood and Vice President Charles
Noble Gregory, of Madison, who are
ex-officio representatives; J. f. Pierce,
DR.. w. M. Farr, of Kenosha, and Ellis
B. Usher of La Crosse.
The a1ternates selected were DR.. A.
T. Ho1brook, w. S. Smith, Gen. Chas.
King, of Milwaukee, W. w. Strong of
Kenosha and w. B. Dutton of Racine.
The board of managers acted favor
ably on the application for membership
of Mortimer L. Thompson, Frank
Powell, c. N. Dow and E. E. Dow, of
La Crosse, and Roger L. Merrill OF
Milwaukee.
The annual congress of the S. A. K.
will bring to New York representatives
from all parts of the country, and prep
arations for the meeting are being
made on an elaborate scale. The head
quarters of the congress will be at the
Wa1dorf-Astoria hotel. On Sunday,
April %, a special service will be held
in the evening at the old ST. Paups
church on Broadway, where the vari-
Gus patriotic societies of the city will
take part in unique program of exer-
cises. On the following forenoon the
convention proper meets at the hotel
for formal organization, adjournment
being taken early enough to permit
attendance at a reception rendered the
general officers and delegates at the
Jume1 mansion by Gen. and Mrs. Fer
dinand P. Earle. In the evening there
will be a review of Squadron A, of the
New York National Guard by Gov.
Theodore Roosevelt or by Maj. Gen.
Nelson A. Miles.
Tuesdays program includes a fore
noon business session, with reception
in the afternoon, at Sherry's, rendered
the visitors by the New York City
chapter of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution; while in the evening
the congress will close with banquet
in the grand ball room at the Waldorf
Astoria.
Among the invited guests who are
expected to attend are President VIM.
Mckinley, Gen. N. A. Miles, Senator
Chauncey M. Depew, Secretary of the
Navy John D. Long, Gov. Roosevelt,
Lieut.. Coy. Timothy L. Woodruff and
others of national distinction.