The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-08-23
MRS. LARUE Home
FROM The EAST

4
Il am just home from the supreme
convention of the Ladies of the Mac
cabees of the World held at Atlantic
City and the supreme convention OF
the knights of the Maccabees held at
Cleveland, and I have had the most
| enjoyable time l have ever had in
my life." said Mrs Mabel T. LaRue
at her apartments at the Y. w. G. A.
this morning.
Both conventions were perfectly
wonderful and the entertainment pro-
vided us at both places was simply
superb. In fact don't see how any
thing could have been more perfectly
| arranged. First we went to Atlantic
| City, where the convention Of the wo-
mems order was held at the Marlbor-
cugh- Blenheim hotel overlooking the
ocean, which began about ten days
before the knights convention COM
menced at Cleveland.
"At the conclusion Of our conven-
ton, we took special train. chartered
purposely for the trip, and went to
Cleveland. where we were the guests
of the knights order and were enter
tanned in delightful style at the Hol-
lenden hotel and at Dover inn over
did from beginning to end.
THE sessions of our convention at
Atlantic City were held in the famous
sun parlor of the Marlborough len-
helm, which is built right out over
the board walk, and there at all
times, during the two weeks we were
there, we could look right out over
the beach and see the breakers and
| the bathers, the famous resorts and
the people on the walk at the prom
made hour, making it ideal for the
holding Of such a meeting.
There were many distinguished
personages present, including Mrs.
| Charles Warren Fairbanks Of Indi-
annapolis, who was accompanied by
her husband, former Vice President
Fairbanks, Mrs. w. Ellis Cory, who
was formerly Mabel Gilman, and
Mrs. Charles w. Schwab, whose hus-
band heads the United States Steel
/ corporation. All the appointments of
the convention were complete in ev-
cry detail
when we arrived at Cleveland"
/ continued Mrs. LaRue, I'VE were met
at the station by the uniform rank
of the knights of Maccabees, who
stood in two files, with swords pre-
scented, while the 200 women who
came from the east passed down be-
tween, each being presented with a
huge American Beauty rose as she
stepped from the train.
1--WE were escorted to the Hollanden
hotel and in the evening we had ev-
erything that heart could desire to
make our time pleasantly spent. There
were pageants, automobile tours over
the city and through the famous parks
of the forest city, out through the
cemetery past the James A. Garfield
tomb and through all the resorts on
the lakeside. The Cleveland people
let nothing escape us and made our
stay there one that will long be re-
membered.
THE Cleveland convention was the
first one to be held outside the ma
tional headquarters in Detroit. This
year they decided to break away and
hold their conventions in other cities
so Cleveland was chosen as the most
suitable spot for a convention city
1T will perhaps be of interest tC
all the North Dakota Maccabees tt
know" went on Mrs. LaRue, ''that
Miss Bina West of Port Huron, Mich.
was elected supreme commander Of
the order at Atlantic City, being ele-
waited to that high position from the
office of supreme record keeper, which
place she has so creditably filled since
the organization of the order in 1892
Miss West gave us a very clever ad-
dress when she accepted the gavel al
the Marlborough Blenheim.
THE great affliction which has be.
fallen the order, Is the recent deatf
of Mrs. Lillian M HOLSTER of De.
troit, who has so long been the su.
preme commander of the organiza.
ton. Mrs. HOLSTER passed away jus
: ten days after the adjournment of tn,
Atlantic City convention, and all tn,
state commanders were requested tt
attend the funeral at Detroit, bu
other pressing duties just at tina
time kept me away"
Mrs. LaRue viii soon enter into hel
lodge activities in the state and will
prepare her fall schedule in the i'm
mediate future. The other officers O.
the supreme lodge, which may be o.
general interest to all North Dakots
Maccabees are:
Supreme Lieutenant Commando
| MIS- AiASO Do LOChSs 1SllN0rI OO1s
Supreme Record Keeper - Mis-
Frances d. Partridge. Port Huron
. Mich.
Supreme Finance Keeper Mrs. Mel
lie c. v. Heppert, Akron, o.
J Supreme Chaplain-Mrs. Minnie w
Aydelotte, Oakland, Cal.
J Supreme Lady at Arms-Mrs. Laurs
B. Hart, San Antonio, Tex.
Supreme Sergeant-Mrs. Mae c
Summers, ST. Louis.
Supreme Sentinel-Mrs. Helen T
Burt, Huntington, w. Va.
Supreme Picket-Mrs Josephin,
Thomas, Memphis, Tenn.
Mrs. Nels Thompson of MissouIa
Infant oyad her two doYoIt1re 49,,