Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-04
PERSONAL---SOCIAL
D.AR.CONFERENCE
JANUARY 27 TO 80
Business Sessions of Large
and Important Gathering
in Penn-Harris Hall

Club women throughout the state
are eagerly awaiting the sessions of
the postponed Pennsylvania State
conference, Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution, to be held in this
city, January 27-S0. The Penn-Har-
ris Hotel will be headquarters and
hll business sessions of the con-
ference will be held in convention
hall of the hotel. This will be Vic
tory Conference" and distinguished
speakers, both men and women will
be here from various parts of the
country. to represent not only the d.
a. r. work. but peace and recon-
struction movements also.
The conference will open with a
patriotic rally Monday evening. jan
uary % at o'clock, to which every
one interested is invited. Miss Cora
Lee Snyder, regent of Harrisburg
chapter, will preside and Abner
Hart, Will lead community sing
ing. accompanied by the Updegrove
Orchestra.
Bishop Darlington will make the
invocation and the speakers will in
clude Mrs. George Thacher Guern-
sey, president general of the organi-
Zaton, Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook,
the Pennsylvania state regent and
the Rev. Dr. Robert Bagnell, of this
city, who recently visited European
camps and who will speak on From
Lexington to the Sedan. or how
America paid her debt to France"
Interesting Events
There will be three days of busi-
ness. with reports from all state
chapters, timely addresses and mu-
sic. Tuesday evening, the Cover
nor and Mrs. William c. Sproul will
receive the congress and men guests
at the Executive Mansion. the first
social event OF their administration.
! Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock
Harrisburg chapter will be hostess
at tea given in the historic home
of Mr.. and Mrs. William Elder Bal
| ley Mrs. Bailey being chairman of
the reception committee.
wednesday evening the Rev. DR..
| Henry w. a. Hanson, of this city,
Will lecture in convention hall on
The Man Without a Country" beau
tifully illustrated with lantern slides.
| Members will have the guest privi-
/ lese for this event.
Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock
the bishop and Mrs. James Henry
Darlington have invited the confer
enee to the See House for an infor-
mai reception.
The PENNSYLVANIA d. A. r. has
been most active in all war work.
giving ambulances to France, diet
kitchens to various camps in this
country and assisting not only in
money 19NiShlN nNnanInd h,,t h,-,
sonal work as nurses and on war
boards both at home and overseas.
First Committee Meets
| Mrs. Samuel Il. Shope, chairman
| of the general committee on pages
and ushers called a meeting at her
residence, 6l0 North Third street.
| for yesterday afternoon. There were
1 twenty-two women in attendance, all
! OF Whom are most enthusiastic over
! the conference and what it will mean
to the Harrisburg chapter. This
committee was subdivided into three
sections with the following men,
/ bers: Credentials. Mrs. Mabel Cron-
Use Jones, Mrs. Harry c. Ross. Mrs.
Frederick II. Marsh, Mrs. Harry
1 Hench, Mrs. james I. Chamberlin.
Mrs. B. +. Blough, Mrs. d. Bailey
! Brandt, Mrs. Mary B. McCrea, Mrs.
John Sherger and Mrs. James b.
! Mersereau. Ushers, Mrs Charles B.
Fager. Jr., Mrs. William H. Bishop,
Mrs. A. Boyd Hamilton. Mrs. John
j. Moffitt, Mrs. Frederick c. Nor
/ genthaler, Mrs. Truman p. Ettele,
! Mrs. George w. Bauder. Mrs. James
! Y. Sieg and Mrs. John Leiby. Bureau
| of information, Mrs. Charles Reed
! Miller, Miss Emily Melick, Miss Ida
Evans, Mrs. James Criswell and Mrs.
| Robert H. Thomas, Jr
/ Tea followed the meeting with
! Miss Snyder presiding over the tea
cups and Mrs. Marsh pouring cloco-
late. The table centerpiece was of
| yellow marigolds and fern.