The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-12
ORDER OF EASTERN STAR
THIRTK-sECOyD ANYUAL SES- SION HELD HERE YESTERDAY.

4 Large Attendanee-The Order Re
 ported in a FIourIshing state-Mrs.
 Chapin of New Hartford Chosen
 Grand Matron-Elect.
 The grand chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star held it's thirty-second an- nual session here yesterday in City Mission hall, with nearly all the sub ordinate chapters represented by dele gates. Mrs. Mary J. silloway grand matron, of Hartford, presided anu made a report of the work of her office for the year, noting the fiourishins state in which she found the loeal chapters in the court of her visitations' An address was also delivered bs Grand Patron Milton c. Isbell of Anso- mia, and the other grand officers read their reports. The financial standing of the grand chapter is the best in it's history.
 The report of the grand secretary, Mrs. A. L. stebbins, showed a general increase in the membership. The total in Connecticut is rapidly nearly the 5000 mark. The total number of chap ters in the state is 52.
 Mrs. Ida Fiske of Hartford read the traasurer's report for the past year. The total receipts w7ere $1,617.16, and inc expenditures $S74.01, leaving a bal ance of $743.15.
 The election of officers was taken up in the afternoon. Mrs. Ellie Lines Chapin was advanced to grand mat ron, Mrs. Lima Baldwin to associate grand matron, and Mrs. Lima E. Pond to grand conductress. The officers were installed in the evening, and the an nual session closed in form.
 Mrs. Ellie Munger Lines Chapin, the grand matron-elect, is the wife Of Frank M. Chapin, treasurer of the Chapin-Stephens company of Pine Meadow (New Hartford), and is the youngest daughter of the Hon. and Mrs H. Wales Lines of Meriden' In July, 1899, she became g. member of the Mayfiower chapter, No. AT, o. E. S., of New Milford. In December of the same year she was elected the second worthy matron of her chapter. In 1900 she was appointed grand Ruth by Grand Mat ron Mrs. Harriet I. BurWell, and in 1901 she was appointed grand Esther by Grand Matron Mrs. Hattie L. Ewen. In 1902 she was elected associate grand condctress in 1903, grand condustress, and in 1904 associate grand matron She is also a member of Susan Darlington Clarke chapter, D. A. R., of Mariden, gaining her eligibility from several Revolutionary soldiers. She traces her ancestry back also to the Rev. Timothy Stevens, the first minister of 'the Church of Christ in Glastonbury to the Rev. Thomas Hooker and Elder Brewster of Mayflower fame. Mrs. Chapin, as well as her husband, is a member of the Chapin Family associa- tion, being 8 direct descendant of Dea- con Samuel Chapin, thus making her only daughter, Catherine Lines Chapfn, doubly descended from Deacon Samuel Chapin.
 Mrs. Sara T. Kinney announced the following state committee on patriotic education:
 Chairman, Miss Clara Lee Bowman, of Bristol, president-general of the National society, D. A. R.; members of the committee, Miss Mary M, Abbott, of Watertown; Miss Angeline Scott, of Norwalk; Miss Alice E. Reynolds, of New Haven; Miss Florence M. Fisher dick, of Meriden; Miss Alice Norton, of Berlin; Miss Mary E. Brooks, of Tor rington; Mrs. Marian R. H. Lillie, of New London; Miss Olive D. Sanger, of Danielson; Miss Mary M. Partridge, of Jewett City; Mrs. D. A. Markham, of Hartford: Miss Elizabeth Brewster, of Norwich; Mrs. Israel W. Chappell, of Wi1limantic; Miss Fannie L. Wordin, of Bridgeport, and Miss Mary E. Latin rop, of Derby.