The Washington times., 1923-05-12
History to Repeat
at Monticello
Breakfast

Preparations for the Monticello
breakfast to be held at Rauscnef
on May 10 are nearing completion,
and 1t is evident that there Will pe
81 ooodly sum to swell the fund Tor
the purchase of Thomas Jefferson
old home. The breakfast IS pelIls
arranged under the auspices OF the
jefferson Memorial Foundation ana
Mrs. Walter Tuckerman, chalfllf'li
of the committee, regTetfully an
nounces that the lists are no"
closed.
Mrs. Delos Blodgett and MIS-
Charles Gray Matthews VIII pe
hostesses for two tables, both naIle1
for Deacon Hart, founder OF haft.
ford. Conn, and a fighting parson u
colonial days, with the Bible IN one
hand and the sword in the Other
seeming paradox frequently founo 81
history.
Mrs. Hugh Nelson will preside az
the Thomas Nelson table-nameu TOT
Tom" Nelson. said to have fired the
first shot of the battle of yorktown
and to have ordered the guns tram.
ed upon his own house on 'llil'
General Nelson was commandment
chief of the Virginia forces at tne
surrender of CORVALLIS, a gailahl
soldier and great friend of Jefferson:
Nelson is great name IN Tue
church. in the state and in literature,
and represented on this occasion o9
Mrs Elizabeth Nelson Lunn, MFst
John Farland, Mrs. Charles Nelson
Warden. Mrs. Frank HitchcocK'
Mrs. Nelson Cowles, Mrs. Louis
Scherer, Mrs Hamilton Talcott ielu
Naps Gnl1th9afe Tucker.
The Richard Henry Lee table, pre-.
sided over by Mrs Violet btali
.Janin. will be especially for the NJ
tjonal Society Of the Colonial DANES
of America in the District OF CORN
hia and will include Mrs. Janin, MISS
Powell. Mrs. Paul Evarts Johnson
Miss Virginia Miller, president OF the
Society for the Preservation OF VT
pinia Antiquities, and a generous
friend of all patriotic movements III
this line: her sister, Mrs. Arthur
Fendall: Mrs. Chubb-Tucker, MRS;
Joseph Atkins and the Rev. anu
Mrs. Dunlap. ,,,
Mrs. Beverley Randolph Mason
will preside at the table dedlcateo
to George Mason, of Gunston Hail'
at which her daughter, Miss Julla
Mason, will be hostess. The guests
will include Richard Nelson Mason
DR.. and Mrs. William Beverley Ma
son, Admiral Cary Grayson, Mrs
Hunter Moss, Mrs. Gilmer Mason
Easley, Wardlaw McGhl Mason
Robert Mason Heth, Mr. and Mrs.
Benjamin f. Minor, Dr. kopert
French Mason, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor
Burke, Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard Her
bert Fowle, Mrs. James e. Rhea,
Mr1
Mrs. BENJAMIN Rush Logic has
filled two tables. the first named
for her husbands ancestor, John
Taliaferro. called THE Ranger,
because of his valor in the Indian
wars in 1892, and the second table,
The Patrick Henry"
Her guests will be MIR. and Mrs.
John S. Barbour, DR.. and Mrs
George Tully Vaughan, Dr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Hardy Taliaferro,
MFR. and Mrs Richard Parke, Mrs
Van TaliafeFro. Mrs. Jobe; Mrs
Everard Todd. Miss sArmatt, Mrs
Edward Payson Hall, Miss Taylor
Logic, Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin Rush
Logic and the guest of honor of the
Colonial Danes in Virginia. the
Rev. James Freeman, DID, who is
making an address on the occa-
sion.
s.
Mr. and Mrs Henry B. McCor
mick of Harrisburg, Pa. who came
to Washington by motor are stay
ing at Wardman Park Hotel.
s.
Mrs. Walter Ross has joined
her husband at Wardman Park
Hotel, where they expect to re-
main indefinitely. MIR. Ross is a
prominent attorney of Evanston
Ill.
DR.. Wa1er A. Wells is at the
Ami a ssadnr In Atlantic CITY