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| executive ability. In her hands the Of
flee of recording secretary general mas
been admirably conducted.
Mrs. James Pryor Tarvin was first vice
! president of the Kentucky division with
| Mrs. Mckinney. She was also chairman
of the constitutional committee, the most
/ important committee of the state divi-
sion at that time. Mrs. Tarvin is the
widow of Judge Tarvin of the Kentucky
! circuit bench. She is now domiciied In
| Washington, d. c.
of the convention is the information
booth, in charge of Mrs. Archibald
/ Young. 1t began it's work Saturday. and
+! its labors continue throughout the week
An endless variety of duties have been
| assigned the bureau. The members nave
! answered questions ranging from the
| dynasty of Rameses 1 down to the way
to get to Alexandria. Mrs Young has
been ably assisted by Miss Fannie Weeks,
| vice chairman: Mrs. Warrington King.
Mrs. j. l.. Monroe. Mrs. E. E. Fisher.
| Mrs. Charles V. Perteys. Mrs. Walter y.
Ramsey, Mrs. F. H. Gilmore, Mrs. f. F.
| Parham and Miss z. Daniels.
| From Florida a large delegation has
! come to the convention. The chairman
of the delegation is the state president
Miss Esther Carlotta, a Sister of Charity
of the order of the Society of the Renun-
citation of the Episcopal Church, well
known for work among poor and home
| less girls. and for devotion to the memo
rial work of the Daughters of the Con-
| federacy.
i Sister Esther Carlotta is rated as a
brilliant speaker and as writer in both
| prose and poetry A parliamentarian of
ability, she is the author of manual of
parliamentary law and has for two years
served as chairman of jurisprudence for
the U. D. c. and is still member of
! that committee, also serving this year on
| the finance committee.
For four successive years she has been
elected president of the Florida Division.
| L. D. c., and under her guidance work
| in the state has grown and prospered.
| Mrs. Clarence w. Maxwell of Jackson
vile is state treasurer for the Florida
L. D. c., charter member of the char
| ter chapter of Florida, Martha Reid No.
10. Mrs. ]. d. Sinclair and Mrs. M. E.
| Drew are two other members of this
chapter, the former an executive officer
of ability, the latter a we'll known writer.
| Mrs. Robert Howard Gamble. another
member of the Florida delegation is
member of distinguished Tallahassee
! family. a woman of charming PERSONAL
| ity and the widow of the chief of the
famous Candles Artillery Of Florida.
Mrs. w. H. Dial and Mrs. J. S. Vann
represent Elizabeth Harris Chapter of
Madison, Fla. Mrs. Dial is closely re-
lated to several families of Virginia and
| is known in Richmond society circles.
| while Mrs. Vann now makes her home
| in Washington.
Gainesville, the university town of Flor
ida. is represented by Mrs. A. R. Harper,
Mrs. J. D. Stringfellow and Mrs. G. 4.
Broom, all prominent members OF j. }.
Finley Chapter. L. D. c.
Mrs T. J. Darracott represents Lake
| land, while Miss Elizabeth Grady comes
from Apalachicola, Fla.
Mrs. r. P. Nelms and Mrs. ]. c. Miller.
from Jacksonville, representing two of
women and enthusiastic Daughters Of the
| Confederacy, make up the full compile
ment of the Florida delegation.
Miss Alice A. Bristol gave reception
/ to the Daughters Thursday afternoon.
Receiving with here were Mrs. Lizzie
George Henderson of Mississippi, former
president general; Mrs. James A. Roun-
saville of Georgia. former president gen
the Mississippi division: Mrs woodbury..
president Kentucky division: Mrs. Mary
Cecil Cantrill of Kentucky. Miss Mamie
Randolph Heth. president of the South
ern Relief Society; Mrs John Miller
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States minister to Switzerland; Mrs.
Gore, wife of Senator Gore of Oklahoma:
| Mrs. James Henry Parker. president of
| the New York Chapter, the chapter that
| has extended an invitation to the gen.
| eral association to entertain in 1913; Mrs.
| Merwin, former president District of
Columbia division; Mrs. Walker of Nor
folk. custodian of the flags.
| Mrs. Matthew T. Scott was prevented
| by a meeting Of the Baltimore D. A. r.
committee from being in the receiving
| line.
| William Jennings Bryan and Mrs. Bry-
an called during the afternoon.
| Miss Mary B. Peppenbring of South
| Carolina chairman of the educational
committee and Mrs. James Pryor Tar
| vim of kentucky introduced the guests
| to Miss Bristol.
| A resolution submitted to the commit
! tee on resolutions sets forth that the
president of this convention shall appoint
a committee of five to confer with ap
propriate authorities Of the Home for
Needy Confederate Women of Richmond,
Va. to consider the advisability of the
| transfer of this home to the United
Daughters of the Confederacy. upon
terms and conditions. legal and equitable.
! as may be agreed upon, and report the re-
suit of this conference to the next ses-
sion of this convention
| In support of the resolution the follow
ing argument was presented by the Vir-
/
..The growing demand for admission
into the Home for Needy Confederate
Women at Richmond, by feeble aged and
penniless women of the sixties, quickens
| our desire to enlarge this work. This is
| impossible save in a limited manner. with
out additional income.
This institution. which celebrated it's
| twelfth anniversary October 10, was
| founded for the care and maintenance of
| the destitute wives. widows, sisters and
daughters of Confederate women in our
state, and there are few similar institu-
| tions in the south. This home has shell
| tered and supported fifty-eight to sixty
women who would otherwise have been
| on the cold charity of the world, and of
| this number one is from New York, one
| from California, one from Kentucky, one
from North Carolina and one from the
| District of Columbia.
| 1T is the earnest hope of it's board of
directors that this home shall become the
work and property of the United Daugh-
| ters Of the COnfederacy. sheltering the
women from every section of our country
| Mrs. Arthur E. johnson entertained at
| a tea Thursday afternoon for the United
Daughters of the Confederacy delegates.
| She was assisted in receiving by Mrs.
Belva A. Lockwood, Mrs. H. L. Hodgkins,
Mrs. Ellis Logan, Mrs. Grace Porter Hop
| kins Mrs. Shelton. Mrs. Josephine Rich.
Mrs. Lawrence Quirollo, and Mrs. ]. Mil
Ter Horton Mrs. J. W. Wrenn and Mrs.
C. C. Galloway poured tea. The other
assistants were Mrs. Wilbur Hinman,
Mrs. NJ. c.. Latta, Mrs. Emmart, Mrs.
Van Castrel. Miss Heider. Miss Margaret