The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-10-04
SOciQl"Qnd Personal
ID. A. r. Head Will
Be HOnOred on
Visit To City

Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, presi-
dent General Of the National Society,
Daughters Of the American Revolu.
ton will be here October IL. She is
enroute to Washington, ID. c. from
the west coast where she has been
for the past six weeks attending the
State Conferences. Mrs. Cooks home
is in Cooksburg, Penn, but she
spends the greater share of her time
at National Headquarters in Memoir
ial Hall, Washington, ID. c. Mrs.
Cook is in active sympathy with the
most progressive methods of educa-
ton, an able parliamentarian. a just
presiding officer, an executor of es-
tablished records. Conversant with
local, state and national club work.
she is admirably equipped to fill the
high office of President General.
Mrs. VIM. S. Walker, organizing
secretary general of Seattle, Wash
ington, who with Mrs. Cook is en-
route east to attend an Executive
meeting and meeting Of the Board
of Management Of the National So
ciety, will also be guest of the
State d. A. r. Besides being active
in d. A. r. work for l6 years, she is
president and trustee of the Day
Nursery of Seattle, one of the larg-
est philanthropic societies of Seattle,
an active worker in "The Children's
Orthopedic Hospital" and such or
CARNATIONS. Her latest and most
notable achievement was the estab-
fishing of a University home for
young women who are attending the
State University. Asked at the North
Dakota state conference last spring
about this project, she remarked:
western women can do anything"
North Dakota Daughters of the
American Revolution from every
chapter in the state will be assem-
bled here on October IL to meet Mrs.
Cook and Mrs. Walker. This patrio-
tic society which began in North
Dakota in 1915, has eight chapters
and BAL members. Four chapters in
the state have SO or more members.
From April % to April "a, 10000 ap-
plicants were admitted to the nation
al society, three of these being real
daughters. A real daughter is one
whose father served in the Revolu-
ton. In April this year there we're
10 real daughters living in the Unit
ed States.
There are chapters of the society
in every state in the union, includ-
ing some island possessions. Recent
ly chapter was organized in China
and one in Paris.
Unlike any other organization the
D. A. r. is responsible to the Gov
eminent of the U. S. for their activi-
ties and a report of work done must
be submitted to Congress each year.
The workings of the society are fix
ed.
Among the state officers who will
be here to greet Mrs. Cook are Mrs.
Eric Thorberg, Bismarck, State Re-
gent; Mrs. Thomas Kane, Grand
Forks, State Vice Regent; Mrs. H. l..
Lincoln; Fargo, Recording Secretary;
Mrs. John Bowers, Mandan, Core
spending Secretary; Mrs. Paul John
son, Grand Forks, Treasurer; Mrs.
A. NJ. Powell, Devils Lake, Registrar;
Mrs. Kate Glaspell, jamestown, Lii
brarian; Mrs. J. Ross Mckenzie, Car
rington, Historian and Mrs. A. A.
Stowell, Valley City, Chaplain.
The two entertaining chapters are
Mandan of which Mrs.'L. N. Cary is
regent and Minishoshe Chapter Of
Bismarck with Mrs. F. L. Conklin as
regent. The program includes as it's
speakers Governor Nestos, Judge
Christianson, j. L. Bell, Mrs. Cook,
Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Thorberg, Mrs.
Powell and Mrs. Kane.
A luncheon will be given at Man.
dan. A ride will precede the lunch
con and dinner will be given at
Bismarck.