Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-18
Annual Conference Of the Maine Society Opens Augusta
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.,ose who won American independ-
ence.-
,,aa with delegates and visiting
nnambers at the opening of the two
me- aprs' conference, % of the 35 chap
u srs IN the State being represented
delegates. Following two busy
LESSONS a banquet was held last eve-
-, ar the Augusta House and
n ,n1 a very enjoyable feature. The
pUference will be continued with
w. sessions today, at $50 A. NJ. and
$50 P. nj.
state officers Reelected
THE entire slate of officers of the
,raine society was reelected yeSter-
sav afternoon, the list being as fol-
u ,ans. Regent, Mrs. Blaine S. Viles
~ "a Augusta; vice regent, Mrs. Fred
o.;ck f. Lowell of Portland; record
60 secretary, Mrs. Herbert w. Hall
~ Hallowell; corresponding secre-
.arv Mrs. Bertha Holmes Williams
~ Augusta: historian, Mrs. Alfred K.
ames of Machias; registrar, Mrs.
Tlnra E. Potter of Topsham; treas
urer Mrs. Edna G. Hutchins of Co.
lima: auditor, Mrs. o. A. Hodgkins
- Houlton; librarian, Mrs. Forrest
Colby of Bingham; chaplain, Mrs.
Charles f. Steele of Pennington !:
and State custodian, Miss Luetta
King of Portland.
Vote was passed that the society
accept the invitation of the Rebecca
Emery Chapter of Biddeford-Saco
for the holding of the State advis-
. ory board meeting in October of
This wear, this motion being made by
Mrs. William H. Fisher, regent of
Koussinoc chapter of Augusta.
Portland to Entertain Next
Conference
II was voted to accept the invita-
tion of the Elizabeth Wadsworth
chapter of Portland for the enter
tainment of the next conference in
March, 1927.
The delegates attending the Con-
tinental Congress in Washington
next month will go uninstructed as
to nominees except for those from
this State, according to the vote of
the conference.
Report was made that the Georgia
conference has endorsed the candi-
dacy of Mrs. B. G. w. Cushman of
Maine for the office of national vice
president general.
Conference Opens
The State officers and guests were
escorted to the front of the hall by
pages from Koussinoc Cvhapter of
Augusta at 10 o'clock yesterday
morning, the March of the Priest
esses" from alfalfa" (Mendelsohn)
being played by Miss Caroline Fenno
Chase of Augusta, pianist. The
pages who We're dressed in white,
were: Miss Katherine B. Wyman,
Miss Dorothy Viles, Mrs. Mary J.
Burleigh. Mrs. Catharine C. Burleigh,
Mrs. Frances P. Martin, Mrs. Ruth
Y. Hussey, Miss Georgia Metcalf,
Mrs. Marion f. F'lynt, Mrs. -Muriel
II. Tiffin, Mrs. Mabel L. Ingraham,
and Miss Marjory Hussey.
Mrs. Viles who presided over the
sessions with dignity and grace
then called the 2Sth State conference
to order. Devotional exercises in
Guiding reading from the Bible and
the Lords prayer, were conducted by
the State chaplain, Mrs. c. W. Steele
Of Pennington. The salute to the
flag was given under the direction of
Mrs. Florence Waugh Danforth of
Skowhegan, and the audience joined
in the singing of America" led by
Lillian Small of Dexter.
GREETINGS from koussinoc Chapter
Asserting that this is the second
time this year that Koussinoc Chap
ter of Augusta has had the honor
and privilege of having the State So
ciety meet with them, Mrs. William
b. Fisher. the chapter regent, bid the
society welcome.
Welcome By Mayor Mclean
The address of welcome was given
by Mayor Ernest l.. Mclean of Au-
gusta, who spoke as follows:
Il most gladly welcome to Augusta
the State organization of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution.
Your very name arouses the loyalty
and patriotism of every real Ameri-
can. The true sons and daughters of
the American Revolution must have
surging in their veins the spirit which
made it possible for a few ragged,
poorly armed and i'll provisioned SOL
dlerS to conquer a great nation. /
welcome you, not merely because your
name recalls a glorious past, but be-
cause, that spirit abiding in you, gives
assurance of help for the present and
progress for the future.
One of your Objects doubt not, is
70 perpetuate the memory and spirit
OF the men and women who achieved
American independence. But that OBJ