Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-02
Mrs. Wilson Guest
Tuesday Night at
Stratford Dinner
Mrs. Charles D. Lanier,
Originator of Movement
to Save Famous Hall, Will
Be Present.

Mrs. woodrow Wilson will be an
honor guest at the brilliant Stratford
dinner, which Is to take place Tuesday
evening at 1880 o'clock at the Willard
Hotel under the auspices Of the Robert
E. Lee Memorial Foundation of the
District of Columbia, Of which Mrs.
Joseph E. Washington IS director. The
local committee Is to be especially hon.
ored too in the presence at the dinner
of Mrs. Charles d, LAnier, originator
of the movement to save Stratford Hall
In Westmoreiand County, Virginia, as
national shrine and recently elected
life president of the national founda-
ton. Mrs. Lanier has strongly patri-
otto background in her family ancestry.
She comes of the North Carolina Alex
ander family which gave six signers to
the Mecklenburg Declaration of Inde-
pendence, and which is prominently
identified also with the history of
Louisville, KY, and Nashville, Tenn. as
is the Field family, from which she
also springs. Her husband, Charles D.
Lanier, is the son of the Southern poet.
Sidney Lanier. They have made their
home for many years in Greenwich,
Conn, and Mrs. Lanier will come on to
Washington from that city especially
for the Stratford dinner.
Miss Ethel Armes, national executive
secretary of the foundation, will also
be a guest at the dinner. She has come
| to Washington from stay of some days
| at Stratford and is the guest of Senator
and Mrs. Harry B. Halves. Although
her family has been identified for some
| generations with official life in Wash
ington Miss Armes' home has been in
Birmingham, Ala, and she is now a
resident of Greenwich Conn. Her
mothers father, John Bozman Kerr, was
/ ~
and charge d'affaireS of Central
America; and her father, John Leeds
Kerr, was in Congress from Maryland
for ?6 years. She is the daughter of the
late Col. and Mrs. George A. Armes
Oucy H. Kerr.
Mrs. Halves, with whom Miss Armes
is staying while in Washington on
work for the foundation. has been
identified with the Stratford move
ment since its inception, and is one of
those whose name appears on the GER
tiflcate of incorporation for the ma
tional Robert E. Lee Memorial Founda-
ton. She is member Of the national
board of directors, chairman of the
committee on management and en-
ployment for Stratford and also chair
man of the committee on temporary
repairs, positions that bring her into
almost daily contact with affairs on
the estate. She is actively interested
in the movement to preserve Stratford
both here in Washington and through
out the country and has taken table
for the dinner of Tuesday night.
An unusually interesting feature Of
the dinner is the number of State and
patriotic societies that have taken ia
bles for the event. They will be GEN.
tiers of attention, as they will be gay
with the flags of the various States
and organizations represented. The
list, with the hosts and hoSteSses for
each Of these tables includes: South
ern Society, Mr.. j. Cloyd ByarS presi-
dent; United Daughters Of the Con-
federacy, Mrs. Lucy H. Boggs; Commo-
dore Matthew Maury Chapter, u. D. c.,
BILE. Mr.. Thomas Sim Lee; Dixie and
Hilary Herbert Chapters, U. d. c.. Mrs.
q. L. Ettenger, regent of Dixie Chap
ter; Kentucky State Society," Lieut.. Col.
Allen w. Gullion, president: MasSa-
chusetts table, Mrs. E. A. Hartman;
LEnfant Chapter, d. A. r., Mrs. AL
bert n; Bags; Virginia table; Mrs.
resentative Tucker ofs'Vrginia; North
Carolina table. Miss Ethel Bagley and
Miss Belle Bagley; North Carolina
State Society, Capt. Percy w. Foote,
U. S. N, president, and Mrs. John H.
Small, vice president: California State
Society, Maj. Charles w. Freeman,
president; South Dakota State Society,
Mr.. Isaac Pearson; Colonial Danes, Mrs.
Everard r. Todd; Society of Colonial
Wars, Mr.. Caleb G. Magruder, COVER
nor; Sons of the American Revolution,
Mr.. william Knowles Cooper, presi-
dent designate; Georgia table, Senator
William j. Harris; Sons of the Revo-
luton, DR.. Thomas T.. Green.
Although the sale Of tables and seats
has been very large, some excellent
reservations may still be made ut the
headquarters of the foundation, Room
121, Willard Hotel.