Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-30
GUESTS ENTERTAINED.
Reception rendered Mrs. Minot, Ma
tional President of W. r. C..

One of the pleasant receptions of the past
week was that rendered by the Department
of the Potomac Womans Relief Corps.
Mrs. Ida J. Hart president to Mrs Fam
ME B. Mnot. national president of the
Womans Relief Corps
Mrs. Minot, who is a resident of the old
Granite state, has been in Washington sew
eral weeks, first a delegate from the re-
lief corps to the National Council of Wom-
en-, then in attendance upon the national
congress of the Daughters of the America
Revolution. Mrs. Minot was accompanied
by Mrs. Calista Robinson Jones. past ma
tonal president of the Womans Relief
Corps and now national counselor.
1t was not until the official duties in con-
nection with the national bodies Of women
were at an end that Mrs. Minot found time
to accept the hospitality of the Department
of Potomac. She went from Washington
on tour among more northern states to
attend the department conventions, begin
ming with that in Baltimore Md. She ex-
pressed herself much pleased with the
courtesies extended her while here
The department president Mrs. Ida j.
Hart. opened her hospitable home for the
reception. and it was crowded throughout
the evening with members of the patriotic
orders of women and veterans.
The front parlor was handsomely dec
GRATED, yellow bunting being Topped and
festooned about the walls and caught up
with big yellow daffOdilS, while bouquets
mantel, the book cases and tables. Tiny
silk flags appeared in the bunting at inter-
walls of eight inches, forming a f1uttering
fringe of red, white and blue, while large
silk flags draped the doorways and arches.
The second parlor was in red bunting and
red carnations, the department colors, while
the supper room. where refreshments were
served was in red, white and blue, the
walls being almost buried under a mass Of
flags. In the center of the prettily ar
ranged supper table terraced mass
Of yellow daffodils red carnations and blue
hyacinths in fringes of fern.
AS special guests of Mrs. Hart with Mrs.
Minot and Mrs. Jones were Mrs. Flo Jamison
Miller of Monticello, H. and Mrs. Agnes Hit
Of Indianapolis, both past ma ional presidents;
Mrs Ida V. Hendricks. past national senior
vice president. and Mrs Ida A Oldroyd,
junior vice president. Mrs. Helen Stone.
chief of staff. presented the guests. Mrs.
Hart had as her assistants in dispensing
her hospitality her three charming daugh-
tiers.
Among the guests present were Depart
ment Commander Tasker and entire staff.
Past Senior Vice commandments John
McElroy, Past Department Commanders
Arthur V. Hendricks Col. Israel Stone and
Abram Hart. Past Department Presidents
Mrs. Annie w. Johnson, Mrs Anna 2.
Peck, Mrs. Margaret b. Tew, Mrs. Anna
8. Hamilton and Mrs. Ida l.. Chase. Senior
Vice President Mrs. Marian Parker. jr.,
Vice President Mrs. Fannie E. Worder,
chaplain. Mrs. Julia West Hamilton; pa
troitic instructor. Mrs. Emma Newton; L.
and 1. officer, Mrs. Matte e. Mcclure; in
spector, Mrs. Anna Hoa gland; secretary,
Mrs. Emma c. Littlejohn; treasurer. Mrs.
Sarah E. Beech: press correspondent, Mrs.
Isabel Worrell Ball; chief of staff, Mrs.
Helen E. Stone; Mrs. Anna NJ. Baden. Mrs
Burke. Mrs. Margaret Bradt. Mrs. Caro-
line Fisher, Miss Augusta Rabb. Mrs. Cor
rick. Mrs. Corrine Strickland, Mrs. Ger
trude Strickland, Mrs. Marie Smith, Mrs.
Mary Thatcher. Mrs. Agnes Keller, Mrs.
Jennie r. Thompson, Mrs. Mary v. Goundie,
Mrs. Mamie G. Davis, Mrs. Tillie Dun
ham, Mrs. Nora B. Atkinson, Mrs. Fannie
Pratt. Mrs. Daniels. Mrs. May E. Latten.
Mrs. Noerr. Mrs. Tasker, Mrs. Johns, Mrs
Bradley. Mrs. Van Dor. Mrs. Julia Rob-
erts. Miss Bitz. Mrs. Mary Dow. Miss Dow.
Miss Anna E. Hoagland, Miss Maria Jor-
dan. Mrs. Elizabeth c. Months, Mrs. Cath
crime McMongal, Mrs. Lucinda Gruber
Among the veterans present were Messrs
Newton Hamilton, Worden, Wheeler Dam
iels, House. Galleher, Frost, Peck, Crisp,
Jerome Johnson. Prof. B. T. Janney. Bon
mis-, Venderhoof and Meader