The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-17
OF GENERAL. INTEREST.
Miss Patton Entertains.

OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Miss Patton Entertains.
Miss Nancy Patton entertained nuns
Der Of members OF the younger society
set at afternoon tea froni five to seven
Monday, April 10th, and at cards I'm
tho evening. a5ij
Her home, No. sol West Franklin
Street was tastefully decorated with
palms and American Beauty roses
Receiving with Miss Patton were Miss
Cary and Rosalie Valentine, Dorothy
Christian. Mary Saunders, Lucy Ford
workman, Fanny Miller, Margaret Niche.
|sof Staunton, Va; Nora Randolph and
Grace Perkins.
Those invited for the evening were
Misses Eleanor Lindsay, Ella Buck. Mary
Crump. Edith Taylor Helen Adams,
Helen Tanner, Sarah Chamberlayne
| Charlotte Bemiss, Elsie Harrison, Archer
Joynes Elizabeth Cooke, Isabel Carter
Laura Jones. Chloe Tyler Cooke Frances,
and Virginia Tyler. Genevieve Lathrop
Gay Montague. Barbara Trigg, Virginia
Whiteley Zaideo Branch. Josephine Ell
| lett and Messrs. Harry and William
Frazier Richard Saunders, Lloyd Taylor.
John Boyd, Karl Walker, Samuel Nor
gan. Hugh Rose, John Miller, Bernard
Jones, sOley MlIeT, JaIIlcS w llGh y e lCh-
EFT Lathrop, William Miller, Louis Cutch-}
ms Harold iThreadcraft, Talmage Dom
nan, Charles iWortham. Frederick VAL
entine, Corydon Sutton. David Grant,
| Robert Walker. Lnndon Wexford.
| Mrs. Arthur Phipps Ripley, Of New
York. will2,po.N the chocolate and 4lMrs.T
James =. Tyler, Jr.. will preside at the
Lemonade table. a + tsSi''
Danes Exhibit.
| It Is In the Octagon House, at Wash
| ington, D. c., says the jamestown Bulle-
tin. that the Colonial Danes of the Dis
| trict Of Columbia will hold their colonial
exhibit this year. beginning the nth OF
| April. the anniversary Of the founding Of
| the first Episcopal Church at Jamestown
| in 1909, It Is said.
| The proceeds OF the exhibition arc to
! be devoted to the restoration and preserv-
alton of the church. which was the first
established In America by Englsh-speas-
| Ing people, Catholic church. having been
built at st. Augustine,fit Is said, about
a half century earlier. B
Tea Is to be served every afternoon,
| and there Is to be a grand ball during
| the week, which anybody can attend and
dance on purchasing ticket provided
| he or she appears in the costume Of a
colonial ancestor. Provision for the pur-
chase OF tho ancestor may be possible,
also, though no Information on this sub
ject is supplied by the ladies In charge.
Continental Congress.
The Continental Congress. D. A. r.,
was called to order in Continental Hall
at 1890 Monday morning by the president
general, Mrs. Donald Mclean. Invocation
and prayer by the chaplain-general. Mrs. s
Tennis Hamlln. followed. Then camo
music and the address OF welcome by
| Mrs. Mclean.
The congress will be called to order at
10 A. M. to-day. Mrs. Mclean will an
nounce committees on the recommends
lions OF national officers and mako her
| report as chairman OF the national board
Of management,
Next In order will come reports from
the vice-president, Mrs. Charlotte Elmer
son Main. in charge OF the organization
OF chapters; from the haplain-general,
Mrs. Tennis Hamln; from the recording
secretary general Miss Mary Desha; the
| corresponding secretary general. Miss Vir-
gina Miller; the regstrar-general, Mrs.
Stewart Jamison; tho treasurer-general.
Mrs. NJ. r. s. Davis; the historian and
the assistant historian-general. Mrs. J. =.
Doll!ver and Mrs, M, 8. Lockwood; the
librarian-general. Miss A. M, Solomon,
! and others.
Mrs. d. l.. Purcell and Miss Roberta
Allen will represent tho Commonwealth
Chapter. Miss Lucy Clair Atkinson and
Mrs. Smith will go from the Old Do
mnion Chapter,
Carnival Opening.
The Floral Carnival for tho benefit OF
the Womans Christian Association Day
Nursery and Free Kindergarten will open
at the Masonic Temple. April 18TH, ut $3.50
| p. NJ It will be opened with prayer by
the Rev. Robert w. Forsyth rector OF
St. Paul's Church. Mayor Mccarthy will
deliver the address, and Mr.. j. Stewart
! Bryan will act as master OF ceremonies,
Thilow's Band will furnish music. assist
ed by vocal talent of high order.
Committee Meeting.
| Mrs, Emmett Harris requests her COM
mittee to meet her Tuesday morning,
April l7th at II A. NJ, IN the assembly,
room of the Woman's Christian Assocla@
| ton, This will be tho last meeting until
the opening OF the Floral Carnival Bazaar,
It is important that there shall be full
| attendance.
D. A. r, Meeting,
The Commonwealth Chapter, Daughters
Of tho American Revolution, will meet
to-day at noon at No. 1ll4 West Avenue.
Mrs, Gentry's Committee,
Mrs, y, C. Gentry wishes her committee
for the Floral Carnival to meet her this
morning ut II o'clock, In Masonic Temple
to tranact business OF Importance and
| facilitate the distribution Of badges.
For the Carnival,
All Baptist ladies Of the city, who will
contribute to die Floral Carnival are
requested to send their contributions on