The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-27
4. wInona e. Reeves Of keokuk 10
President Of the Organization
and Presldes at the
Convention.
|rANY IN ATTENDANCE
~. Samuel Shaw Parks Of Chicago
/ VIII Likely be Elected to Sue
ceed Mrs.
Reeves.

ST LOUIS. Sept. 27.-Delegates to-
me- P. E. o. supreme convention, in
session at the Buckingham Hotel. con-
unued to arrive all day yesterday and
Ne corridors of the hotel were filed
nth suit cases and bags all so much
hike the porters had trouble in dis
fneuishing them Mrs. Harry Wag-
oner and her corps of aids met every
rain and seldom missed delegate,
known by her white and gold badge.
ID the lobby of the hotel the delegates
alked politics of the convention at
Intervals, the general feeling seeming
10 be that Mrs. Samuel Shaw Parks,
of Chicago will succeed Mrs. Winona
Reeves as president at the election
Friday.
Only two st. Louis women are ELI
rible to supreme offices. Mrs. Charles
Iddiols and Mrs. Birney Dysart have
been presidents of the state chapter.
Mrs. Parks is the wife of a Chicago
lawyer and has many social graces
that would fit her admirably for the
office, her friends say. Mrs. Iddiols is
talked of for organizer, but she is
not willing to say she will accept If
elected.
The executive board met yesterday.
Miss Edna Nelson was a candidate
for initiation last night. The guards,
dressed In white, formed a line
through which the officers, also
dressed in white, passed. and then
formed a line about the platform
where the ceremonies took place.
Miss Nelson will be the youngest
member OF the Chapter O, the ST.
Louis branch, and probably the young
est member of the entire organiza-
ton.
The delegates and guests of honor
enrolled at p. m. in the rose room
Of the Buckingham, where the conven-
ton is being held. At o'clock the
convention was called to order, the
march to the platform through lane
Of white-robed women carrying ban
ners of the order, being pretty fea-
ture. After the singing of the opening
ode, devotional exercises were led by
Mrs H. c. Boardman. Music followed
with choruses from Achilles in Scyros
admirably led by Ottmar Moll. Mrs
Charles lddiols, past state president
welcomed the delegates and guests, a
response being made by Mrs. Samuel
Shaw Parks. Miss Faith Campbell
sang solo and the introduction OF
guests of honor and sureme officers
followed. Committees for the conven
ton were appoited, the report of the
credetials committee was read, the
roll called and Mrs Mary d. Lawrence
OF Kansas City, the speaker of the
evening, introduced.
Mrs, Lawrence is a lawyer, and g
past president Her subject was ''Stal
Light referring to the five-pointed
star, the emblem of the order She
quoted from Shakespeare in the open
Ing lines OF the little candle thai
.nrows its beams, typical OF the gooe
deed that so shines in naught.
world.
The guards who formed the line
through which the officers marched
We're Mrs. Charles F. Jennings, chair
man; Mesdames John A. Gillespie
wallace G. Capen, l.. V. Roach, N. NJ
hendall, Percy Farmer, Burton Bo
nannon and Misses Florence l.. Put
nam, Katherine May Farmer, Grac,
nail Lange and Izellah Bullow.
The convention will be called t,
order at O'Clock this morning. At
O'CLOCK sixty automobile will take th
guests for ride over ST. Louis, re
turning in time for the afternoon
meeting at 2:15. This evening tn
ueiegates and their friends will be tn
guests OF the st. Louis chapter at tn
oiympic Theatre.
most comprehensive 'Informatiol
bureau has heen established in tn
south lobby Of the hotel, which wa
presided over yesterday by Mrs. III.
uohter and her aids. Pennants ar
w sale, with postal cards and othe
aecessities of the traveller, white an
eoia being the color scheme.
MISS prouty, the organizer. has jus
sohe back from trip to South Ame
va 10 organize chapter
MISS Mary Csmond, editor of the /
= ~, Is one of the avowed suffragist
:, ehe convention. While the organiz;
..oh mas never taken any vote on tn
question, many of the members ar
uot opposed to suffrage.