The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-23
Indiana OAR.
Activities

Activities
Next meeting of the national
board of management is scheduled
for Oct. IA and Is in Washington,
D. C. Mrs. James B. CruickshTw,
Indiana regent, who will attend, will
go from there to Atlantic City in
company with Mrs. James F, Trott-
man, state regent of wisconsin. to
attend the second annual confer
ence of the eastern division to be
held Oct. Is and II.
Mrs. C. B. Fuller. Washington,
D. c.. national chairman of the
genealogical research committee, has
sent a letter to Mrs. Theodore
Craven, indianapolis, state chair
man, requesting that each Indiana
chapter have a working committee
on genealogical research. For the
preservation of records for succeed
ing generations, chapters are asked
to copy town and county records of
marriage, marriage bonds, wills,
deeds, land warrants, land patents,
bounty warrants to soldiers of the
Colonial and Revolutionary wars,
church records, baptisms, marriages,
deaths, membership rolls, cemetery
and burying ground tombstone in
scriptionS down to 1875, family
Bibles, not limited to D. A. r. men,
berS, but those belonging to families
in this county down to 1875. Date
of publication, name and residence
of present owner. Masonic and other
organization rolls should be stated.
All records should be sent indeXed
and binding is desirable.
Records should be typed on white
bond paper, one side only, size 81ax
IL inches, with 1l5-inch margin on
the left side for binding. All ma
terial should be sent to the national
chairman by Feb. 10, 1881, in order
to be reported at the continental
congress in April, and that dele
gates may see their state contribu-
tons in the library at that time.
1t is the ambition of the national
society to have the most complete
genealogical research library in the
country.
Announcement is made of the
withdrawal Of Mrs. A. A. Brewer
of the John Conner chapter, Con-
nersville, as candidate for state COR
responding secretary. Mrs. Brew
er's removal to Mishawaka in the
northern district for residence
makes her ineligible for the office.
According to the state bylaws, the
state corresponding secretary must
live in the same district as the
state regent. Both candidates for
state regent, Mrs. Wilbur Johnson,
indianapolis, and Mrs. Roscoe c..
O'Byrne, Brookyille, reside in the
central district.
John Conner chapter presents the
name of Mrs. leila r. johnson, also
a member of the chapter, for the Of
flee of state corresponding Secre-
tary, subject to election at the
state conference at Richmond in
October.
1.-THE travelling library" is a
unique feature of the work Of Mrs.
John McF'adden, Gary, director of
the northern district. Since the be-
ginning of her term as state director
in April, 1928, Mrs. McFadden has
purchased 100 books. Ninety-one
are D. A.. r. lineage books and the
remainder miscellaneous books on
genealogy. When a chapter is to
be organized or needs assistance the
books are brought by Mrs. McF'ad-
den, who has organized six chapters
in the northern district in the last
two years and has two more in the
process of organization.
Mrs. Edward E. Reynolds, Lafay-
cite, state chairman OF the preser-
walton of historic spots commit
tee. has sent to the state reciprocity
bureau, of which Mrs. Thomas r..
Barker, Danville, is chairman, an
historical sketch of Indiana, written
by DR.. Christopher V. Coleman, dl-
rector of the state historical bureau.
The article was prepared for the
National Guide to Historic Spots" a
project undertaken by Mrs. H.
Eugene Chubbuck, former national
chairman, and abandoned by the
present national administration as
too expensive.
Mrs. James B. Crankshaw, Fit.
Wayne, state regent, will be guest
of honor at the first meeting of the
season of Major Hugh Dinwiddie
chapter, KnightStown, Sept. 5. She
also will be a guest at the opening
meeting of the Pottawatomle chap
ter, Gary, Sept. 8.
Bishop Campbell Gray, Misha-
waka, will be guest speaker at the
meeting of Wythougan chapter,
Plymouth, Sept. IL. He will talk on
Southern Mountain Schools" Mrs.
jeanette Bunnell will lead in the
singing of southern melodies.
Mrs. Sarah Whitmer, curator OF
the William Henry Harrison man
sion for the last five years for the
Francis Vigo chapter, Vincennes
has completed her work and has
gone to Danville, Pa, with her
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