Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-04-15
d. A. R. SCHOOL GOES
TO FLOYD COUNTY
Decision Reached at Important
Meeting in Lexington-Local
Chapter Represented

ference, State D. A. F., held Wed
nesday in Lexington. Mesdame
J. G. Bosley and Lewis Neale, 0
this city, attended the meeting a
delegates from Boonesborougl
Chapter.
The session was in the private
dining room of the Phoenix hotel
Mrs. J. M. Arnold, of Covington
the state regent, presiding. Will
her were Miss Annie Samuels, o.
Frankfort, State D. A. R: parlia
mentarian; Mrs. William Rodes
state secretary, D. A. R; Mis-,
Lizzie Grimes, of Paris, state
treasurer; Mrs. John A. Herring
of Georgetown, state historian
| Mrs. Christopher D. Chenault
chairman of the committee to in
vestigate sites for the school. The
State D. A. R. decided at the last
regular Kentucky conference to
build in the mountains.
At the called conference there
were II chapters represented and
four state officers present. making
% voting delegates in all.
Rev. Richard Gillespie. Of the
Maxwell street Presbyterian
church, gave an eloquent prayer
and the delegates sang two stan
zas of ''America."
After stating the purpose OF the
extra session and the plans de
cided by the State ID. \. X. to
build school in the mountains OF
Kentucky. Mrs. Arnold called up
on Mrs. Chenault to give her re-
port of the sites to be considered.
The idea of founding this d. \.
r. state school in the mountains
was originated by Mrs. Chenault,
who for many years has wished
that the Kentucky chapters would
begin educational work i'll their
mountains to train children in
patriotic spirit and knowledge.
Mrs. Chenault began her report
by saying that the committee has
found difficulty i'll attempting to
crowd into six months what they
had expected to do i'll year. Her
report was a splendid one giving
the sites which had been investi-
gated in Floyd, Lee, Elliott, Men
flee and Leslie counties, and tell
ing of the offers made, the gener-
'osity of the mountain people, and
their appeals and anxiety for the
extension of educational work.
Mrs. Chenault had written hun
dreds of letters and sent out pos
tails as well, and she and her COM
mittee had made very thorough
investigation in the short time,
the report being extremely inter
esting. At the close she made two
recommendations, one that the
school be called the Kentucky D.
A. r. Mountain School and the
other that all the regents Of the
state chapters be appointed on
the permanent committee for the
building of the school after the
site had been selected. The motion
for the naming of the school was
laid on the table and the matter
will be decided upon at the regu-
lar state conference to be held in
Frankfort in October by invita-
ton of the Frankfort chapter and
the Susannah Hart Shelby chap
ter of the state capital.
Mrs. Charlton Alexander, Paris,
read the report Of the committee
who went to Floyd county last
autumn to investigate the site
which was finally chosen. The Of
fer from there was the new school
six and one-half acres of
land and subscriptions from the
people, the land valued at $4,000
and the school at $1,000. Mrs, |
William Rodes presented the ap-
peal of Sandy Hook, in Elliott
county, within more easy radius,
a needy and poorer county. The
matter was finally decided by IA
to II votes in favor of Hueysville
as the site. 1t is on a branch rail /
way of the c. & 0. and by the i
postoffice of Bosco.
Mrs. Chenault favored the Lee
county offer of 100 acres of fertile
land and she hopes for the school
to be agricultural and vocational.
Before the closing of the con- !
ference Mrs. Victor Dodge an
that the Bryan Station
chapter, d. A. R.. will nominate
1t the conference in the. fall one
Of their members, Mrs. William
Rodes, as state regent.
Among the officers, delegates
and visitors for the conferencet
we're:
Mrs. T. M. Arnold of Covington,
Mrs. John Herring of George I
town, Miss Annie Samuels of
Frankfort, state parliamentarian !.
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