South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-09-08
.FORESTERS WILL
HOLD CONVENTION
EIkhart to Entertain 400 Dele
gates for Two Days of
This Week.
Special to the News-Timcs.

Special TO the News Times.
ELKHART, Ind, Sept. s. Four
hundred delegates representing so
courts in Indiana are expected to at
tend the high court convention of the
Independent order C. Foresters in
this city Wednesday and Thursday
While the first formal sessions will
not start until 10 a. m. Wednesday
in the Elks' temple, a pre-c0nvention
session was held at the temple Tues
day evening when the guard of hon
or of Companion Court samaritan
(the wOmen's divisiOn) initiated "a
class of %, in the presence OF a num-
Der of high court officials. Mrs Cora
Swartzell is at the head of the guard;
Mrs. Homer ClOutier is chief ranger
of the court; Mrs. Herbert Rowe, vice
chief ranger Mrs. Fred Martin, past
chief, and Mrs. Altes Haight, orator.
At Wednesday mornings session
Joseph Bandel, the chairman of the
general committee on arrangements,
viii address the local courts welcome
10 the delegates; Mayor Smith will
extend the city's hospitality; Hon. II.
T.. Wise of LoganspOrt high council
Tor Of the order. Will respond in be-
half of the delegates. Following this
part of the program High Chief
Ranger Hartman will call a business
session. Another business session
will be held during the afternoon.
For Wednesday evening a theater
party is scheduled at the Orpheum,
after which a dance Will be held at
the Elks' temple. The Conn SaXa-
phone quartette will furnish the mu-
sic.
Among the supreme court officials
that are expected to be in attendance
are w l. Williamson of Toronto,
deputy supreme chief ranger.
The Lafayette chamber of com
merce has notified the local commit
tee that 1t will send representatives
here to urge the high court TO hold
its next meeting in that city
Mrs. May Dunbar of 500 Sycamore
St, is dead. In failing health from
an incurable malady for Is months.
she Had been belfast for two months.
Mrs. Dunbar was the widow of Frank
NJ. Dunbar, a well-known civil war
veteran, who died on November 2S,
last.
Mrs. Dunbar who was daughter
of John and Lucinda Kelsey, was
born in Mason township Cass coun-
~, Mich, on May 30. 1850. She met
Mr.. Dunbar while employed in this
city. They were married in Ed
harrisburg on July Is, 1879.
MIS-. DUNBAR is survived by son.
Arthur NJ. Dunbar. of this city:
brother, Frank Kelsey, of Edwards
burg. and two sisters. Mrs. James
Mccall and Mrs. Henry Myers, both
of this city
The agricultural department Of
Purdue university has recommended
@. L. Metzger of Marshall county TO
be the county agent to succeed G. /.
Coffeen, who resigned because of a
with the county
board OF education in regard to ex-
pense items. The county board Will
meet in Rogers park Wednesday
and probably will ratify the nomina-
ton. The agent gets $500 a year
and 5000 expense money.
The sur -vors of the seventy-fOurth !
Indiana volunteer infantry regiment
Will hold their annual reunion at Mil |
ford next Thursday and Friday. !
Colonel Thomas Morgan Of Dixon, |
III, is 81 years old ana has made a !
practice of attending all the reunions. !
has notified Captain o. r. Chamber |
lain that he Will be present. accom- !
panied by his daughter, Miss Mary /