The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-29
petersburg POST TO
ENTERTAIN DELEGATES
Travellers Protective Association con
vention VIII Be Held In Cockadc
City In May.
WILL CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY
ChiId's Cot Association Was Founded
Twenty Years Ago--Miss Charlotte
Meade Bird Dies After Brief
Illness.

-, lTaNeIeTS fFOteEliNe Assn 'ie'e''
will have the honor and pleasure OF
entertaining the State convention mere
at its next meeting. which will be in
May. The r. p. a. State convention
is much-coveted prize by all Viz
ginia cities and it has been some time
since it held it's last meeting here.
A smoker and luncheon Will be held
by Post &c" next Friday night. at
which time preliminary steps Will be
taken toward making arrangements
for the entertainment Of the visitors.
Several hundred delegates attend the
State convention of the organization
annually. and. coming from all over
the State, as they do. they generally
make things lively where ever they
meet.
The convention headquarters will In
all probability be in the new Hotel
Petersburg. A full attendance of the
members OF Post &C. is hoped for
Friday night, in order that the ques-
ton Of entertaining the commercial
angels may be fully discussed.
Celebrate Anniversary.
An evening card party with dane
ing and prizes has been decided upon
by ladies OF the Child's Cot Associa-
ton a. an appropriate way of cele-
brating the twentieth anniversary or
the founding OF the association. The
party will be given in the Hotel Pc
tersburg on February 9 and several
hundred tickets have already been
Sold. The occasion promises to be one
of the most suspicious and succesSful
of the season. All refreshments neces-
sary for the celebration have been DO
mated and music will be furnished by
the Dupont orchestra
The party will not be strictly full
dress affair, and all who attend can
use their choice as to dress, The
general committee, composed OF Mrs.
Nv Moon, chairman; Mrs John @.
Barham. Mrs. !. Spooner Epes and
Mrs William Pitcher, is perfecting
everv detail for the occasion and they
are meeting with splendid success in
their efforts.
The proceeds from the party will be
donated to an endowment fund being
raised for child's cot ward, the up
keep of which would be about four
hundred dollars annually.
Since its organization twenty years
ago the Child's Cot Association has ac-
complished a great work in the com
munity and nothing appeals to pub
lie sympathies in Petersburg than the
efforts OF those engaged in tie work
to place II upon a sound basis.
Special committees which have full
charge of the arrangements for the
entertainment are composed as fol-
lows:
Music--Mrs. J. Spooner Epes and
Mrs. Ashton w. Gray,
Publicity--Mrs. W. II. Harrison. Jr.,
and Miss stone
Tickets--Mrs ]. O. Barham, Mrs
NJ. j. Rahily and Mrs. Robert Sprat-
ley.
Refreshments-Miss Grace F'aul-
coner, Mrs. Frank Hobbs. Mrs Will
liam Pitcher and Miss Lunsford
House Committee-Mrs, w. w.
O. Rarham and Mrs. l. w Moon.
Decorations-Mrs. Rahily, Mrs.
Pitcher and Mrs, NJ. A. Finn.
Prize--Mrs. J. O. Barham and Mrs
]. Spooner Epes
Miss Charlotte NJ. Bird.
Miss Charlotte Meade Bird, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Marguerite Bird and the
late Henry V. Bird, of this city, died
at the Petersburg Hospital about 10
o'clock this morning, after a brief
illness, Miss Bird was one of the
best known and brightest young wo-
men in the community. Possessed
with an abundance of energy and
good judgment. she had been able to
hold several of the most responsible
positions ever filled by any member OF
her sex in Petersburg
For several years prior to the death
of William Il Mckinney. general
counsel for the Seaboard Air Line
Railway COMPANY Miss Bird had been
Mr.. Kenney's private secretary and
confidential clerk. a position which
eylN ~ Y;rrF- to-,
to Mr.. Mckennev and his associates.
1t has been said that she knew almost
as much about and could handle Mr.
Mckinney business affairs nearly as
well as he could himself Since Mr.
McKenney's death she had been In
the law offices of i. NJ. Townsend
counsel for the y. & w. Railway Com
pany. She was q business woman in
every sense hut yet always found
time to enjoy life make friends and
enjoy their friendship. and she Will
be greatly missed by scores of her
associates.
Besides her mother she Is survived
by two sisters and two brothers
Mrs. j. MURRAY Tucker of brunswick
County: Miss Mary Bird, of Peters
burg: Professor Montgomery Bird of
the University Of Virginia, and Pro-
lessor Hugh : BIRD. formerly of WILL
liam and Mary College, but now con-
nected with the Polish relief work
at New York. Funeral arrangements
have not been completed.
Change Banking Hours.
At recent meeting of the officers
OF all OF Petershurg's banking insti-
tutiops it was determined, as a means
OF giving more efficient public service
in the community, to change the
banking hours to . A. NJ. to p. NJ.
The present banking hours in Peters
burg are from 8 o'clock A. NJ. to 3
=. Nj. The change in the banking
hours will take effect on February l i.
NO hange Will be made in the Satur-
day hours, which are from o'clock
A. NJ to IL o'clock. noon.
DIR. Charles w. Kent. professor of
English at the University of Virginia
ana chairman Of the State executive
committee of the Y. NJ. C. A.. one.
OF the most brilliant speakers in the
South. addressed the mems mass meet
ing at the local Young Mems Chris
tan Association this afternoon.
others who spoke here today In the
interest OF the membership contest
now being woged by the Petersburg
association We're: State Y. M C. a.
secretary = A. Ackey, II. j. Langs-
ton, associate student Y. NJ. C. A. sec
rotary for Virginia; w. C. McCarty.
bows NJ