Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
sIDELIGHTs OF THE d. A. r.

One of the outstanding gifts pre-
scented during the congress was the
handsome Colonial secretary, given by
Mrs Alfred j. Brosseau, honorary presi-
dent general, to the president generals
office in honor Of Mrs. Lowell Fletcher
Hobart.
The Clifford Battle Chapter Of
| Greensboro, N. c., was represented by
; Mrs. zeb Vance Conyers. Mrs. Charles
Richard Whitaker is State regent Of
North Carolina.
Mrs. Emma Bredbenner of Easton,
: Pa, was busy page at the congress.
! She was accompanied to Washington by
| her daughter, Miss Betty Bredbenner,
who was delegate to the G. A. r..
Congress.
China delegates were Mrs. Harold
D. Dickerson of HubbardWoods, Ill,
State regent; Mrs. Hollis Wilbur, who
regent Mrs. Nettie MacNair Of Shang-
hal, Miss Emma Lester, and Miss
Eleanor Wilbur, who was the platform
page for the delegation.
Plans now are being made by the
Missouri Society, Daughters q the
American Revolution, to celebrate the
Tavern at Arrow Rock, Mo, often called
'Missouri's most historic spot" The
celebration will be held in october,
the exact dates to be set later.
Mrs. Howard Bailey of st. Louis,
who became State regent yesterday, is
in Washington and one Of her first an
nouncements will be regarding plans to
celebrate the Old Tavern's Tooth BIRTH
day anniversary.
At the present time the Missouri So
ciety of the D. A. r. is raising an en-
dowment fund of $4,000 to maintain
the historic old inn.
Mrs. Eva E. Morgan of Saco, Me-,
national chairman Of committee on
legislation in United States Congress Of
the D. A. r., years ago forsook the pro-
fession of legal stenographer for the
study Of law. She was one of the first
women in Maine to pass the Maine bar
examination under the State board
system, and has been admitted to prac-
tice in the State, United States Circuit
and United States Supreme Courts. She
was awarded her bachelors degree by
the Chicago College of Law.
As o member of Rebecca Emery Chap
ter since 1910, she has served long in
D. A. r. work, and is just beginning her
fourth year as parliamentarian of the
Maine State conference.
Mrs Morgan is not only a public
speaker of wide reputation but has also
found recreation in writing.
Mrs Wilson H. Hamilton of Sigourney.
State regent Iowa, stated that while
California could claim residence, Iowa
after all was the place where the first
President of the United States from
West of the Mississippi was born, so on
August 10, last, Pilgrim Chapter at
Iowa City had placed tablet to show
the world that Herbert Hoover was born
there 55 years ago. Iowa's membership
has been active In educational work.
Mrs James Robert Mckee of Green
wich, Conn, has presented to Miami
College, at oxford. Ohio, the life-sized
portrait of her grandfather, the late
Rev. DR.. John Witherspoon Scott. paint
ed of him in the White House during
the administration of his son-in-law
President Benjamin Harrison The por-
trait is to hang in the dormitory which
the D. A. r. has built as memorial TO
its first president general, Caroline
Scott Harrison, q graduate of oxford
College, of which DR.. Scott was one of
the early presidents and from which
Mrs. Harrison was graduated short
time before her marriage to Benjamin
Harrison.
Mrs. Robert H. Woodrow, delegate
from Birmingham. Ala. is member of
the Alabama Oficers' Club and national