The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-06-11
leIlIl WOMEN SHARE
M cgUlTaI's DEFENSE
1xtt Prumincnt Members Of States
landing Woman's Organization
Asked 70 Meet and Discuss
Plans For Work.

~ sixty leading women of Virginia
have been asked to meet al 10 O'Clock
"a the morning of June 10 in the sen
Sate chamber TO perfect the organiza-
1 tton OF the Virginia division of the
umar,.s committee OF the council
of national defense. and to determine
I how best the Virginia women may
nervc their country at this time oil
Xkri. Plans and methods to be fol-
lowed will be discussed, and an cleo
ton Of officers and an executive COM
mfttec will take place Mrs II. B,
Munford hns been asked by the ma
ticnai orvs nizatiou 10 art rs chairman
az the Virginia body. and she was re-
que sted by the Virginia council of de-
tense to call a meeting OF prominent
women TO thrash out plans for the
country.s defense
Governor Stuart viii address the
meeting. as VIII also General b, w
Nichols, superintendent Of the Nif-
E4rriss VI NJ institute i'+ii' n
az the state council of defense. Rich
ara EVELYN Byrd, chairman of the
~xecutive committee OF, the council.
will speak also. The following wo-
ynen have been asked TO attend the
meeting;
Miss aiethea SAFpen, -ststa resent
Daughters of the American KeVolu-
tlon: Mrs William Ruiian Cox. presi-
den; Society OF the Colonial Danes,
Mrs. w samuel Kern. president Ma
t1onai Society. Daughters OF i9t2, EN- :
poria. Miss Nell Preston president
Omitted Daughters OF the ConfederscA Z.
Seven Mile Ford; Mrs. Kate Waller
Harrett. Florence Crettenden mission,
a I'd
;dent woman's Christian Temperance
union. Lincoln. Miss Ellie McNca,
Association Collegiate Almanac, sweet
Rriar; Miss Lucy Coleman. Bneergar-
ger, association. Miss Virginia McKen-
new. Southern Association Of College
Women. Petersburg Mrs. William A
Burrows, Mothers Clubs and Parent
Teachers association: Miss j. Doug
las Wright, School and Civic leagues
Mics K f. Halves president Young
woman's Christian association: Miss
Louise Price. national child labor corr
msttee; Mrs r. a. Scheduled Day
Nursery. Danville. Miss Lucy witt.
Social Settlement Mss Lille Bar
bour. garment workers Miss Lucy
MAson women in industry. MIS-,
Stuar. Nichaux, National Housewives
league; Mrs s =. Marshall. Garden
Clubs of America; Mrs, II. E. church.
Farmers union fwolnen) Amherst.
Mrs. pannil Rucker. farm women:
Miss 0rie Hatcher. bureau of Noca-
ton for women; Miss Agnes d. RAN
Golph, Tuberculosis association, Mrs.
Jane &. Ransom. public health work,
Miss Ruth Robertson. State Nurses
association Mrs. Il. =, Valentine,
president Equal Suffrage league; Mrs.
r. D. Williams. president Association
Opposed to Woalans Suffrage; MIS-
John Hagaaf president Federation OF
woman's Clubs. panviiie; Mrs. II. j.
Myers. council OF Jewish women; Mrs.
J. Allison Hodges. chairman Virginia
Sectional National Civic federation;
Miss Gabrielle i'age. American Red
Cross; Mrs. w. W. Sale, National
Lea gue for Woman's Service. MISS
Louisa r. Davis. president woman's
auxiliary. diocasa Of Virginia. Lees
burg; Mrs. John r. i.etcher, president
wcman's auxiliary. Southern diocese
or virginia. Norfolk; Mrs. Carolina
walton. president Virginia s"nodical
Nouan's auxiliary. 'resbyteran
church. Farmv.lIc; Mrs. ". s Meffett,
State Teachers association Radford;
Mrs NJ C. Patterson. president Wo~
mans National Farm and Garden as
sociation; Miss Anna Peterson. social
workers: Mrs, j. Tyler Jobson. Ma
t1Gnal society Tor SoCtat Hygiene, IVA g
j. Taylor Eilyson. president Associa-
;fscn for the E'vegexs les' 81 >SlTgi1rta
Antiquities. Mrs. G. G. Burton, presi-
dent Kings Daughters, Balona Mrs.
r. A.. Cary, president Hugueaot Evan
Eelical society; Miss Ella Agnew
ElAckshurg. Mrs. Norman N0 RAN
aolph, Mrs. Kate Peasants Minor.
Mrs Jane Lroyenson. president Re-
hecca assembly. Odd Fellows, Mrs.
s.yuiien r. Thomas. president Woman s
Missionary union; Mrs. J. ". O'Con-
nor. president ladies' auxiliary. Order
OF Hibernians; Mrs. Lee Britt prcsi-
dent Virginia woman's board of mis-
sions. NJ. f. church. South, Norfolk;
Miss Ellen Kent Christian woman
board of missions. Louisa. Mrs. Julien
H. Hill, Eucharistie league of the
Sacred Heart cathedral; Mrs. John
Murphy Catholic Woman's club.
Mrs. Claude A. Swanson. Miss Ellen
IL Glasgow. Miss Mary Johnston. Mrs.
Charles G. Bosher. Mrs George Bar
nett womans branch Of the Navy
league. marine barracks, Washington.
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