The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-10-19

OecreIary-MrS. OtlS IL. 1fendIy'
Treasurer-Mrs g. D. Cole.
= Historian-Mrs. Catherine Rood.
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Editors Note This article which was
written for publication on Friday was
held over because of lack OF space.
The Mines. Roy Z. Dorr, S. G. New
man, A. E. Buekmaster, Harry Skinkle.
Otis L. Trenary and the Misses Flora
Dexter and Amy Newman are back
from Milwaukee where they attended
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton annual state conference at which
Mrs. John P. Hume was reelected state
regent.
The ticket headed by Mrs. William
Howard Crosby of Racine and Mrs.
James f. Trottman of Milwaukee,
strong though it was, by reason of the
prominence and standing of the Mines.
Crosby and Trottman, was defeated by
a vote of twenty-four to sixteen.
Mrs. Otis L. Trenary, the only Keno
sha woman on the state ticket, who
has just completed year as state Sec
rotary was reelected although she was
known to be in sympathy with Mrs.
Crosby. It was therefore recognized
as personal compliment that she was
reelected to the office of secretary
when others in opposition to Mrs. Hume
went down to defeat. Mrs. Trenary s.
opponent for the Office was Mrs. Alice
Norris of Elkhorn. Mrs. Trenary re-
ceived twenty-five votes of a possible
forty, the largest number of votes re-
ceived by any candidate who had an
opponent in the election for office.
Visitors Refused Floor.
The matter of the bylaws, bone of
contention, was not satisfactorily set
tied and much rancor remained in the
hearts of the delegates at the close of
the session.
The refusal of the courtesy of the
floor to Mrs. A. J. Eimermann and 9TH
er visiting daughters caused adverse
comment as this had been granted in
other years. The courtesy was even
refused to Mrs. Henry L. Cook, chair
man of the national by laws committee,
when she asked for recognition.
Refused Minutes of Meeting.
When the minutes Of previous meet
ings were demanded, Mrs. Hume re-
fuSad IA haxya 4La,,5 80 4 ,-s.4sI 1lz
peal became so urgent that Mrs. Ire
nary was asked for them. It then
TRANSFERRED that in her absence tempo
rary secretary has been appointed at
the Wisconsin chapter meeting in
Washington, D. c., and that she had
never been able to get copy of the
minutes of the meeting. Upon the sug-
gestion Of Mrs. James Trottman that
Miss Sturtevant of Oshkosh had an
unofficial shorthand transcript of the
minutes of the Washington meeting
which she took for the purpose of re-
porting to her own chapter, the con-
vention demanded that she be allowed
to read them and permission was grant.
ed.
Appeal From Chairs Ruling.
On number of occasions during the
conference, appeals were made from the
rulings of the chair to the house, and
these appeals were not put.
Two candidates for the national
office of president general were present,
Mrs. George G. Squires of st. Paul and
Mrs. George T. Guernsey of Kansas.
When Mrs. Squires was called upon
for an address, she made one and in the
course of it said: "We ought to gov.
ern our society in such a way that fric-
ton will be reduced to minimum.
Let each one act according to her con-
victions, but let there be no hard feel
ing if some one else does not agree with
her. 1t any member is a candidate for
any office support her, if you wish,
with your whole heart and soul, but do
not throw mud at her opponent"
Generous to Absent Rival.
Mrs. Squires did magnanimous
thing in suggesting that the literature
OF Mrs. Horton, third candidate for
the president general Is office who was
unable to be present, be circulated.
This was done although it was said
that previous TO her making the sug-
gestion request had been made for
the literature to be distributed and
that this had been met with failure.
The hope on the part of many that
the state conference would clear away
the clouds of unrest and dissatisfaction
which have been apparent in D. A. r.
matters for some time past, was not
materialized as there is still fractional
rancor existing.