The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-21
Il YEARS WORK
NOVA CAESAREA CHAPTERS
ANNUAL MEETING.
Excellent Reports Presented by officers.
Constitution Forbids Chapter to
Join Federation.

Interest in the annual meeting of Nova
Caesarea Chapter. Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, which is being held this
afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Austen
McGregor, 1866 Broad street, centres
in the election /of officers for the
coming year, the slate showing the names
of two candidates for each office. The
race for the regency lies between Mrs,
Jonathan H. Huntingdon, who has held
that office for a number Of years, n Mrs.
Everard B.. Hopwood, who has been the
chapters registrar.
The reports for the year were submitted
by Mrs. Charles Granville Jones, the cor
responding secretary; Mrs. John b. Lee,
jr., historian; Mrs. Arthur E. Lebkuecher,
treasurer, and Mrs. Everard B. Hopwood,
registrar. The minutes Of the last annual
meeting and of the years monthly meeting
We're read by Mrs. William A. Sayre.
Mrs. Jones stated that during the year
1,3H notices and invitations and 81 let
tiers had been sent out. She read a letter
from Miss Margaret Henry, Of Maryville
College, Tenn, telling of the progress of
Lillian S%tinnett, the young girl from the
Tennessee mountains, who is benehting
by the Nova Caesarea scholarship. Miss
Henry's report was very favorable. Mrs.
Jones also read a letter from Mrs. Donald
Mclean, president-general of the national
society, explaining why Nova Caesarea
could not join the New Jersey State
cause a clause in the constitution pre-
vents the utilization of the D.. A. r, with
any federation or similar body.
Mrs. Lebkuecher's report showed that
the balance from last year was $S7.3
The years receipts were S975, and the
disbursements were $339.S7, leaving a pres
ent balance of $122.5O.
Mrs. Hopwood stated that since last
January twenty-seVen applications for
membership had been received, and sent
out for veriication, etc. or these seven
had been returned to her, and their owners
admitted to membership. Mrs. Hopwood
told BRIEFLY of the methods used to verify
the applications, etc.
Mrs. Lees report was most interesting,
giving an account of the special and his
torical events of the society during the
year. In that time there were three trans
fers to other societies, and two resigna-
lions, the names having been given dur
Ing the year. Mrs. Lee spoke feelingly
OF the death of Mrs. Henry Atterbury,
paying a tribute to the qualities which
made her loved. She spoke of the interest
shown by chapters all over the State in
the olu oak 10 De USED IN LurnlSninS the
New Jersey room at Continental Hall,
Washington. h oak was taken from a
buried ship on the Delaware shore of the
State, and at present Is stored at Wood
bridge. Mrs. Lee said that every member
of the chapter had sent her patriotic dol
lar to Washington; that $40 in gold had
been given to the Newark High School
student who had written the best his
torical essay on New Jersey, and that a
donation of $40 had been given to>-the
Southern Industrial Association.
A musical program will be rendered by
Mrs. d. Frederick Burnett, soprano, and
II. B. Ackerson, tenor. A social hour
will conclude the afternoon.