Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-17
Sesator Brock. Named
For Unexpired Term,
Assumes His Duties
New Tennessee Member of
Upper House and Mrs.
Brock Popular Additions
to Congressional Circle.

Senator William Emerson Brock, who
was recently appointed by Gov. Henry
H. Horton of Tennessee to fiji the UNI
expired term of the late Lawrence D..
Tyson, is with Mrs. Brock established for
the Winter in the Carlton Hotel. The
term to which Senator Tyson had been
elected, and it was his first service as
national legislator, will expire in
March,. 1881, bit elections to fill the va
cancy will occur next November. So
Senator and Mrs. Brock have not dis
mantled their beautiful home on Mis-
sionary Ridge outside of Chattanooga,
but viii make visits there whenever an
opportunity is presented, meantime get
ting in harness for their new duties in
the less strenuous environment of a
hotel AS Senator Brooks colleague is
Senator Kenneth Mcclellan, one of the
outstanding bachelors of the higher
chamber of Congress, Mrs Brock will
be the principal hostess for her State.
She is well equipped for her hoSpitable
duties. Though loyal and enthusiastic
TenneSSean now Mrs. Brock is a native
OF Lynchburg Va, and was before her
marriage Miss Miriam AGREE, daughter
of the Rev. Robert Roland AGREE, who
was for many years pastor of the CAL
vary Baptist Church of Lynchburg Mrs
Brock is the cousin of DR.. John Gar
land Pollard. recently elected Governor
of Virginia, and she is related to several
distinguished families of the Old Do
minion.
Missionary Ridge CIaSsed
As Picturesque Section"
Missionary Ridge, where the new
Senator makes his home, is a part of
Tennessee's most picturesque section
and from every viewpoint stretch noun
tains and valleys enchanting to the eye
and presenting fascinating historic
studies. The name Missionary Ridge
antedates Revolutionary times. when eff
forts were made from the nearby origi-
nal States of North and South Carolina
and Georgia to convert and civilize the
Indians. Mrs. Brock has been for
10 years president of the Chattanooga
Mission Board, and its successful eff
forts to reach all within the municipal
limits and beyond into the mountain
Businesses show that the spirit of the
pioneer still animates its citizenry.
This mission board operates through
community chest, which annually coll
lects from the city something like $780,
GOO, generous sum when it is con-
sidered that Chattanooga has a popula-
ton of about 10000. All the more mod
ern agencies of benevolence are in good
working order-day nurseries all kinds
OF homes for the sick and the ailing and
for all ages. Chattanooga, says Mrs
Brock, is considering the question of pro-
viding homes for the aged dependent
husbands and wives and not parting
them In their declining years This
merciful idea of caring for the aged
whose welfare becomes the duty of the
city has gained wide attention and Is
gradually being accepted in all munich
palties.
Mrs. Brock Earnest Worker
In Civic Associations.
the local Y. w. c. A. and in numerous
civic societies. Though deeply inter-
ested in politics and those measures
which relate to education, sanitation and
more stringent enforcement of the law.
like nearly all Southern women she
plays her role less vocally than her sis
ter voters In other parts of the Union.
A constant reader of general literature
and OF the topics of the day. Mrs. Brock
is q charming conversationalist and will
without doubt prove a gracious and
successful senatorial hostess
Senator and Mrs. Brock were mar
ried in 1908 and they have two sons.
The elder, Mr.. William Emerson Brock,
Jr., Is married and resides in Chatta-
nooga. The second boy, Richard AGREE
Brock, is Is and is a student at st.
Adams, In Woodley. more familiar to
Washingtonians as the Cathedral School
for Boys
The new member Of the Senate and
his family are Methodists and since
coming to the Capital have afiliated
with the Mount Vernon Church, on
Mount Vernon place Mrs. Brock will
add to the group of senatorial hostesses
who are college bred. She received her
education at the Cox College, at College
Park, near Atlanta, Ga Senator Brock
is North Carolinian and a native of