Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-01-27
LOCAL COMMITTEE
SERVES DELEGATES TEA
An Afternoon Reception for Visi-
tors to Conference of Chart
ties and Correction.
AT THE MUNICIPAL BUILDING.
Kindness of Annapolis People Who
Help Make Occasion a Success.

Il was "a happy Thought that prompt
cd the chairman. Airs. Robert Moss
of the local committee of the Eleventh
Maryland Conference of Charities and
/ Correction. TO entertain the visiting
delgates and thereby become better
acquainted. and give the conference "a
taste of Annapolis hospitality.
Mrs Moss, who. besides being the
chairman of the local committee. is
also the vice-president of the Confer
ence. conferred with a number of the
ladies of the local committee al meet
ing held in the District Nurses office,
and plans were laid. which were car
ried ont yesterday afternoon most
successfully.
The reception was held from 4.30 Go
6 in the Assembly Rooms of the MUM
cipal Building. Duke of Gloucester
street Besides the decorations left by
the local fire company. who recently
gave n bali. the large hall was made
very home-likes and attractive with tall
palms loaned by Kaiser. the florist.
rubber plants loaned by Seidewitz. and
number of vases of poinsettias and
carnations loaned by Mrs Kaiser ferns
by Mrs Craven. all of which were at
tractively placed
Screens set apart the Kitchen where
hot coffee was made and water was
boiled for tea. A long table. whose
centrepiece was red and white carna-
tious. lighted with candles and dain-
tily spread was presided over by Mrs
George r. Heiner. wife of Surgeon
Heiner. T. s. ~. who poured tea. and
Mrs Theodore Johnson. wife OF Pro
fessor Johnson, who poured coffee.
Those in the receiving party were
Mrs. Moss. Mrs. Fell. wife of the Presi-
dent of St Johns College; Mayor ]
T. Strange, Mrs. Thomas j. Linth-
icum, wife of the Annapolis Postmas-
ter; Miss Agnes Himmelheber, of the
Commercial Department of the Annap-
oils public school, Mrs Gage
The local committee was composed
of the following. and assisted in enter
tanning the delegates who attended the
reception, numbering some two hun
dred, besides friends from Annapolis:
Mrs Robert Moss. Mrs Joseph p. Nc
Comas, Mrs. J H. Craven. Mrs John
Fore Hines, Mrs. Eugene Worthngton,
Mrs. John W Martin, Mrs. Raymond
Stone, Mrs +. A. Gage Mrs. Hiner.
Misses CatherineWalton,M Mary Wohlge-
muth, Eleanor Drury, Isabel McNasby.
Margaret Martin, Ann Doyle. Messrs.
James F. Strange. William S. Crisp,
John dePeyster Douw, William l.. Mar
cy, Arthur Jones. Harry j. Metzger.
Charles G. Feldmeyer Martin NJ. Smith.
Charles Gates.
The music was furnished from a
handsome Victrola kindly loaned for
the occasion by the Messrs Harwitz, of
The Globe Furniture Company. and
operated by Mr.. Sears. A number of
beautiful records were played during
the afternoon. The room was decor
ated with United States and Maryland
flags, two large ones being draped
back of the receiving stand
Sandwiches, hot coffee and tea. cakes
of all kinds, ,bon-bons and minis were
served and the ladies serving were
untiring in their efforts, the District
Nurse, Miss Ann Doyle, entering into
the occasion with a vim and earnest
ness that characterizes all of her
work Mrs Raymond Stone, Mrs. J. r.
Craven. Mrs. George T. Feldmeyer.
Mrs Rippere were earnest workers,
and all helped to make the home-like
affair for the visitors the delightful
/ success It really was