Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-28
NEBRASKA SOCIETY
HAS 800 ENROLLED
CIasSed Among Most Active
of State Organizations in
Local Social Life.
BY MARGARET Ii. DOWNING.

NEBRASKA S local state society. ike
the majority of those which have an
active social n-political life at pres
ent, is the successor of the Republi-
can Club, organized in 1895 by Edgar
c. Snyder, now United States marshal
for the District of Columbia and one
OF the veteran newspaper correspon-
dents of Washington. Mr.. Snyder
had served the omaha Bee for %
gears when he retired at the invita-
lion of President Harding for the less
exciting post of marshal. He formed
the Republican Club very soon after
he had taken over his duties in the
press galleries of Congress. and he
continued at the head of this organi-
cations affairs until, together with
scores of other similar societies, it
fell under the ban of the civil Serv
Ice for political activity among the
Government employees. He then per
: suaded the several hundred residents
of Nebraska to join the state Society
on the lines now familiar to the
Washington public and he became the
Airst president of the body which was
organized.
Representative Andrews at Head
For two terms Mr.. Snyder was head
of the Nebraska State Society. and
his work in the press galleries becom-
Ing more arduous and eXacting, he
gave way to Representative W. +.
Andrews, who carried on" in faith
full fashion. The reorganization oc-
CURED in 1904, and of the first officers
then selected, the treasurer, Hardy A.
Harding, has given excellent service,
and was recently chosen to guard the
finances for the twenty-second CON
e'ecutive term. The other officers
named at the last annual meeting
were: Miss Edith Lothrop, president;
Jack Lee. vice president, and Miss
Bertha Henderson, secretary. The
executive committee is made up of
The officers and one representative
chosen from each congressional dis
trlct, and those who were recently
chosen members of the committee are
Mrs. j. w. Crabtree, Edgar c. Snyder,
Miss Billy Dunn, Mrs. Jane Durham,
Allen .Crozier and Miss Ruth Elder.
There are three other committees. of
switch the chairnen are: Social, Mrs.
j. E. Morgan; entertainment, Mrs.
Edna Coleman, and publicity. Jack
Lee.
500 Members Enrolled.
The society has about 500 mem
bers and this includes the entira
congressional delegation and some
former legislators like former Sena-
tor Gilbert Hitchcock. who lives in
Washington in Winter, and former
! Representative Andrews. Four or
five meetings are held at conven-
lent dates and TO designated places,
and in Summer there is always a
picnic in the grounds of the State
University of Maryland, formerly
called the Maryland Agricultural
College.
The president and Is members of
the teaching staff of this seat of learn
ing were at one time members of
the faculty of Nebraskas State Uni
verSity at Lincoln. and so each sum
mer the hospitality of the grounds
and the buildings is more cordially
offered the State Society for its an
nual meeting.
Nebraska at home and in Washing
ton has many distinguished native
sons and daughters, but there also
are two Of the most eminent of public
officials now living who feel as ten
derby toward the State as though
they had been born and reared there.
and these two, Vice President Dawes
and Gen. PerSning. are members of