Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-03-25
GEORGIA D. R.
CONVENTION IN
ALBANY APRIL |

ALBANY, March 25.-The Throna-
teska Chapter, Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution, has about completed
arrangements for entertaining the
state convention which will be held
here April l, 2 and 8. This is the
first time Albany has entertained this
convention and members of the local
chapter and other womens organiza-
lions in the city are making elaborate
plans for the visitors.
The session will be held in the mu-
nicipal auditorium, Mrs. J. r. White
head, the local regent announces. The
delegates will be entertained in the
homes of the city, and a committee is
busily at work aassigning the expect
ed visitors to the homes already Of
fered in ample abundance. The en-
tertainment committee is composed of
Mrs. ]. w. Walters and Miss Willie
Walters, chairmen; Mesdames S. j.
Jones, A W. Muse, j. C. Keaton, J. W.
Gillespie, E. Pate, S. w. Anderson, c.
r. Gleaton, w n Ticknor, r. G. Riley
and Mercer Brown.
Mrs. w. E. Smith, chairman of the
credentials committee, has already re-
ceived acceptances indicating that the
gathering will bring together one OF
the most notable arrays of prominent
women ever assembled in Albany or
this part of the state. The list of &C
ceptances includes Mrs. Sheppard w.
Foster, Atlanta, vice president general,
from Georgia, N. S. d. A. r.; Mrs. VIM.
Lawson Peel eX-vice president general
A. R.; Mrs. John NJ. Grantham, Ma
rietta, eX-state regent, Georgia D. a.
R.; Mrs. S. B. C Morgan, Savannah, ex
state recent and honorary state regent,
Georgia d. A. R.; Mrs. J. H. Redding
Waycross, honorary state regent, Geor-
gia d. A. r.. Mrs Herbert Franklin
Tennille, president u. D. c., Georgia;
Mrs Samuel M. Inman, Atlanta, chair
man woman's committee, Georgia di-
vision, council of national defense;
Miss Alice Baxter. Atlanta, ex-presi-
dent, L. D. c., Georfia; Mrs. Anna
Caroline Benning, Columbus, ex-state
regent D. A. r., Georgia, N. S. D.
A. R.; Mrs. William l.. Wilson, Savan-
nah, president Georgia Society Colonial
Danes; Mrs, l. Fitzpatrick Madison,
director General Federation Woman's
clubs; Mrs. Nina Hornady, Atlanta
president, Daughters OF 1872; Mrs, T.
Z. Parker, Macon, eX-state regent D.
A. F., Georgia; Mrs. James S. Roun-
savall, Rome, eA-state regent, D. A, R.,
Georgia; Mrs Ira Yale Sage, Atlanta,
ex-state regent, d. A R., Georgia; Mrs.
Porter King, Atlanta, ex-state regent
ID. A. R., Georgia; Mrs. Harriet Gould
Jeffries, Augusta, honorary state re-
gent, d. A. R., Georgia; Mrs. George
Thatcher Guernsey, Washington, D.
c., president general N. C. D. A; Mrs.
Matthew T. Scott, Washington, D. c.;
Mrs William Henry Wait, Ann Arbor,
Mich; Mrs. George Maynard Fins,
Waterford, Conn. Mrs. John Marshall
Slaton, Atlanta.
State officers who have notified the
credentials committee that they will
be here are: Mrs James S. Wood. Sa-
vannah, safe regent; Mrs. Oscar T..
Peoples, Gainesville, first vice presi-
dent; Mrs. W. c. Vereen, Moultrie, sec
ond vice president; Mrs. Max E. Land,
Cordele, state recording secretary;
Mrs. M. L. Myrick, Savannah, state
corresponding secretary; Mrs. Rufus
Brown, Augusta, state treasurer; Mrs.
Lula H. Chapman, Quitman, state au-
ditor; Mrs. A. l.. wilkins Eastman,
state librarian; Mrs. ]. L. Walker,
Waycross, state historian; Mrs E. A.
Thomas, Atlanta, state editor; Miss
Alice May Massengale, Atlanta, as
sistant state editor.