Evening star., 1927-04-20

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| Mrs. John Brown Heron, Mrs. Charles
Read Banks, Mrs. w. o. Spencer,
Mrs. Eugene Fl. Ray, Mrs. Lyman B.
Stookey and Mrs. John M. Beavers.
| Many of the State delegations held
business meetings yesterday and din.
ners last night, primarily for the pur-
| pose of boosting particular candidates
and discussing matters OF concern in
their various States. since the Dis.
trict of Columbia D. A. r. held their
conference early in March, they did
not meet yesterday. Mrs. James NJ.
| Wiley is State regent of the District.
| The Sesquicentennial International
| Exposition was the chief topic of the
| Pennsylvania State meeting at which
Mrs. Brosseau was the guest Of honor.
Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook honorary
president general; Mrs. John Brown
| Heron, vice president general; Mrs.
Adam Wynat, treasurer general, and
Mrs. Alexander Ennis Patton, hon
| orary State regent and chairman of
the d. A. r. Sesquicentennial com
mittee, were special guests Mrs.
| Howland Brown State regent, pre-
sided. Pennsylvania has contributed
$36.224 during the past year to ID. A.
r. work, and plans to increase its
membership to 10000 this year.
The Ohio delegation. Mrs. Herbert
| Beckus, State regent, met at the
| Powhatan Hotel and heard an ad-
dress by Mrs. Dowell F. Hobart,
organizing secretary general and for.
James f.. Donahue of Western Re-
serve Chapter OF Cleveland, will be
placed on the chair in Constitution
| Hall as a result of the campaign she
has directed for subscriptions to the
ID. A. r. Magazine, which has won
Ohio first place in the magazine con.
test. An appropriation of $500 was
authorized for an Ohio bell at Valley
Forge.
Delegates Gather at Luncheon.
The Massachusetts delegation, repre-.
senting 105 chapters, met for lunch.
con with the State regent, Mrs James
Charles Peabody. Two real Daugh.
ters of the American Revolution are
living in Massachusetts and their
names are Mrs. Adelia Hatch and
Mrs. Mary Scott of the Deborah
Sampson chapter.
Maryland celebrated it's 100 per
cent record for all State and national
dues at it's meeting in the national
officers room at Memorial Continental
Hall. Mrs. Daniel Mershon Garrison.
State regent, presided, and spoke about
her visit to Haiti. where she was
present at the Independence day at
the American Legation. She assisted
Mrs. Eli HelmiclS in representing the
u. "A. r. at the Naval Academy when
sword was presented by the society
to the midShipmen of the graduating
class who axcelled in practical sea-
manship.
The Virginia delegation, attended by
many well known Neutrality-suspicious.
met at the Roosevelt Hotel, with Mrs.
| James Reese Schick, State regent.
presiding. The Kate Waller Barrett
Chapter has placed a f1reback dated
1874, found in the ruins of historic
Hayfield, the home of Lun Wash
ington, in the Virginia room in Con.
tinental Memorial Hall as a memorial
| to the late DIR. Kate Waller Barrett.
| former State regent.
! A feature of the State meeting
| was discussion Of the celebration
or the Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Association at Monticello last Sum
ner and the part the d. A r, took
1 in it. Included in the work done
/ by Virginia Daughters is the restor-
alton and safeguarding of the historic
| first customs house In America located
az Yorktown by the Courte de Grasse
Chapter: the Thomas Nelson Page
scholarship OF $4,000 and the Wood =
row Wilson scholarship of $1,000.
Chapter Acquires Reservation.
The Mount Vernon Chapter, of
which Mrs. U. M. Nevin Is the regent,
| reported that it has acquired Jones
Point lighthouse and the reservation
upon which it stands near Alexandria.
The Virginia ID. A. r. expressed
| their appreciation. of this service
since 1t is one of the oldest reserva-
tions of its kind in the State and the
| initial milestone of the District of
| Columbia is located there.
! The national committee on legisla-
! tion in the United States Congress,
VIII hold an important meeting today
/ at 2:30 pm. in the Indiana room of
| Memorial Continental Hall. Mrs. +.
| 9. Gregory, chairman, will preside.
Mrs. Henry w. Keyes, wife of Sena-
| tor Keyes of New Hampshire, will
| give a tea to the New Hampshire
delegation FROM to $50 o'clock
this afternoon at her home, 1909 Six
teenth street.