Evening star., 1923-04-17
NOTED HERE AND THERE
AT THE ID. A. r.
Gossip News and Views Heard and Seen Among Delegates
at Conventions Meeting Place.
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business. 1t Is believed that many
OF these meetings will form virtual
caucuses for the elections At any
event, what goes on behind the doors
of the meetings will be interesting,
although definite word of it Will
probably never como out directly.
Miss Marion Howard Brazier.
Journalist and author. is at the con-
Jones Chapter. Boston, Mass. She 10
the former regent and founder of the
chapter. which was organized In 1893.
Since that time she has been attend
makes the and 4h
cnapter was organized In honor OF
ADMIRAL Dewey and the United States
Navy and Is the only one with this
name in the United States.
The New. Willard Hotel was the
scene of brilliant gathering yester-
day. when the Daughters Of the
American Revolution Of the District
TO the congress and the officers of
the national society. in compliment
to Mrs. G. Wallace w. Hanger. their
candidate for the Office Of president
her. to be candidates for the other
active national officers.
The guests, who were introduced by
Col. Robert U. Patterson. were pre-
sented in turn to Mrs. Hanger by
Mrs: William b. Hardy. state regent
Of the District of Columbia. Those
receiving with Mrs Hanger were the
president general Of the nar'onal
society, Mrs. George Maynard Minor;
Mrs. Thomas A. Edison of New Jersey.
Mrs. Henry R. JOY OF Michigan, Mrs.
II. Eugene Chubbuck OF Illinois, Mrs.
Samuel Elliot Perkins of Indiana, Miss
Harriet Perkins Marine of Maryland.
Mrs. Robert F. Johnston of Iowa, Miss
Elnranra f,t Nf no
cut, Mrs. Edward Lansing Harris of
Ohio, Mrs. Will c. Barnes of Arizona
and Mrs. /. B. Mcfarland Of Texas.
Those assisting were: Mrs. Selden
p. Spencer, chaplain general; Mrs
John Francis Yawger, recording sec
retary general; Mrs. Marshall Elliott,
corresponding secretary general; Miss
Emma t. Strider, registrar general;
Mrs. Livingston L. Hunter. treasurer
general; Miss Jenn Winslow Coltrane
historian general; Mrs. Frank Dexter
Ellison, librarian general; Mrs George
W. White. curator general; Miss Lii
liam M Wilson, reporter general to
the Smithsonian Institution; Mrs Cas-.
stus B. Cottle, New York; Mrs. James
T. Morris, Minnesota: Mrs Edward
Schoentgen. Iowa: Mrs Heath. North
Carolina; Mrs. William II. Calder, New
sas; Mrs. Howard L. Hodgkins, Dis
trict Of Columbia: Mrs. Frank Mon
dell. Wyoming; Mrs. ]. L. Buel, Con
necticut: Mrs. William NJ Reynolds,
North Carolina; Mrs. Willard T. Block
illinois; Mrs. Mccall, Georgia, and
Mrs. Sewell, Maine
Mrs. George Maynard Minor, pres-
dent-general of the Daughters OF the
American Revolution. and Mrs. G. Wal
lace w. Hanger, who Is a candidate
to succeed Mrs. Minor, will be honor
guests at the RACES ball this even
ing at Rauschers, when the Abigail
Hartman Rice Chapter will be host
r. congress this week at Continental
Memorial Hall. Mrs. Bertrand Z.
Trennis is regent OF the chapter, and
Mrs. Frank Morrison is general chair
man of arrangements for the ball.
afternoon at the National Club OF the
American Association of University
Women. 1884 street. for the officers
and members Of the Daughters Of the
American Revolution. Mrs. Frede rick
F. T. Johnson. regent of the Mary
Washington Chapter, will act as
hostess.
As usual. delegates are already look
ing forward to the pilgrimage to Mount
Vernon, scheduled for Friday. DR. Kate
Waller Barrett, state regent OF Eir-
ginia, is chairman OF the committee in
charge of the excursion, ard viii have
the visitors under her care in taking
them to the shrine of George Washing
ton, located In her native state.
Assisting here will be Mrs. William
HYDE Talbot. chairman OF the national
old trails committee, as vice chairman
of the committee, and a committee of
well known women from various states.
Among them are MrE A. Marshall
Elliott. Maryland Mrs. Nathaniel Bea-
man. Virginia. Miss Jenn Winslow Col
trane, North Carolina; Mrs. w. s.
Corby, District of Columbia Miss Emma
L. Crowell, Pennsylvania; Mrs. Luther
Derwent. Illinois, Mrs. Frank D. Eli
son, Massachusetts Mrs. Samuel H.
HazIett, Maine; Mrs Fltzhugh Lewis.