Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-08


Autumn. Plans for the coming year
were made The committee in charge
of the program included Mrs. Robert T.
Burrus, Mrs. Bert E. Frost, Mrs. Ellyne
Strickland and Mrs. Gibbs Lyons.
The Quota Club held a dinner meet
ing May % at the WomenS University
Club. H. c. Corpening, supervisor of
vocational rehabilitation, told about his
work.
Miss Eleanor Eckhardt, president. has
been elected Washingtons delegate to
the annual convention of Quota Inter-
national. which will be held in Winni-
peg Canada, on June II, IL and 10,
with Miss FTieda Kenyon first vice
president, as alternate
The yearly theater benefit night will
be June 10, at the National Theater.
Excelsior Literary Club held its final
meeting and picnic May % at the home
of Mrs. Henry Fenno Sawtelle. Mrs.
Ellis Logan gave a short history of the
organization, which has just closed its
forty-third year. and extended an invi-,l
tation to the club to participate in
series of pilgrimages to shrines of his
torical and cultural interest. Mrs. Wal |
ter Asmuth, president and chairman of
the year book committee, announced |
the title of year book as 1.-THE Prize |
Awards of 1880" and outlined a pro- |
gram for future activities. After the
meeLlIlR dUJOuIIlSQ PlSAl1S SuPPCl "o@o
served and there we're recitations, songs
and speeches.
Daughters of Union Veterans of the |
Civil War, Mrs. Ellen Spencer MusSey |
Tent No. l, met Monday evening at 1902
Fourteenth street The meeting was |
called to order by President Mrs. Anna |
c. Horn. Miss Lenora M EchelS was |
initiated as a member Of the tent An |
invitation to join in the celebration by |
Wsn1 JITVll
School at 3 pm. was received and color
bearers appointed to attend.
The report of the committee consist |
ing of Mrs. Horn, Mrs. Bugbee, MISS
1 Meyers and Mrs. Carr, designatedto deco
rate graves of soldier dead at Mount |
Olivet Cemetery on Memorial day was
made. and recommended graves be more |
suitably marked to enable them in fu-
ture to find the soldiers graves in this
cemetery Also omissions from graves
in Arlington of flowers and flags, which |
had been noted. A committee was APP
pointed on flags, Miss Meyers, Miss
Conmerford and Mrs. Temple.
The lawn fete June Is at Sixth street |
and North Carolina avenue southeast
was planned. Col. Oldroyd'S birthday |
anniversary will be observed. The COM
mittee in charge is Mrs: Temple, Miss
Hamilton, Mrs. BontZ and Mrs. Burke.
Memorial services were observed for
Mrs. Cora Davis, who died May 20.
Loyal Temperance Legion.-The Ep-
worth Junior High League of the Ep-
worth Church South have elected the
following officers: Elizabeth Bryan,
president; Aubrey Small, vice president;
Anna G. Webster secretary; John Whit
sal, treasurer; Miss L. WetZel, leader;
Mrs. Whitsal. assistant leader. Persons
interested in the activities of the Legion
or want to become members are in
vited to attend meetings held every
Sunday at $50 pm. at the Epworth
Church, Thirteenth and East Capitol
streets southeast.
Abraham Lincoln Circle Ladies of the
g. A. R., met at the Willard Hotel June
2. Memorial day reports were given, also
reports of the convention of District OF
Columbia Federation Of Women's Clubs
by the president. Mrs. Media Bergren,
Mrs. Sarah Deeds and Mrs. Weber. The
circle adjourned to meet in July.
The Washington Readers Club.-The
June meeting was held at the home Of
Prof Charles S. Richardson of the
University of Maryland. w. Alfred Fall
coner, president, presided.
The program was in charge of Prof.
Richardson and Mrs. James F. Hart
nett Miss Phoebe Steffey delivered an
intercollegiate prize winning Grafton on
1.-THE Constitution" This was followed
by selections by Miss Augusta Machen
and Miss Sarah Bruce Hobbs, new men,
berS Of the club. The remainder OF the
program consisted of tmpromptu read
ingS by the following Members: Mrs.
Elizabeth L. Bugbee, William B. Crowel,
Mrs. Constance M Goodman, Wiley 0.
Ison, Mrs. Isabel Pechin Macarthur,
Clarence E. Ruebsam and Mrs. Mary r.
Ruff
Refreshments were served, Mrs.
Charles S. Richardson being assisted by
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delphia, and Mrs. Constance M. Good
man. retiring president; Mrs James F.
Hartnett and Mrs. Sarah Morrison
Smith.
Women's City Club.-The club house.
~ Jackson place, will be the scene of
O card party for house betterment Tues
day at and 8 o'clock. Several club
sections are planning to attend in a
body.
Miss Florence Ward, chairman of hos
pitality, will preside at the dinner of
the business and professional section
Wednesday at $50 o'clock. Edgar B.
Brossard, chairman of the United States
Tariff Commission, will speak on "Agri-
culture and the Tariff"
Additional new chairmen appointed
for the coming year are: Miss Sara
Grogan, membership; Miss Laura Ber-
rien, bylaws; Miss Margaret Patch,
elections; Mrs. Gladys Ball Middlemiss,
forum luncheons; Mrs. A. j. McKelway,
child welfare; Mrs. Frances Merchant,
city planning; Mrs Clara Wright
Smith law and legislation; Mrs. S. NJ
Parker public amusement; Mrs. Edith
Sears, drama: Miss Gertrude Walter,
music; Mrs J. K. Freiot Contract Study
Club.
The National DeIphian Society of
Washington, ID. c., organized a new
chapter at the Hotel Roosevelt, May 81,
and held its first program meeting June
4 The membership Is selected from
among women anxious to advance along
cultural lines and at the same time de-
velop the individual until her express
sional facilities grow to be part OF her /
daily capital.
The subject under consideration at |
the meeting was THE Achievements of .
Prehistoric Man, Upon Which Our Civ
ilization Rests" and was led by Mrs |
Lillian Ashman Bernhard, field Secre- |
tary, which included discuss ons of /
Three Epochs of Pr historic Life by |
Mrs. w. NJ. Dixon; Discovery of Fire |
Mrs. C. M. Godfrey; Primitive Homes"
Mrs. Ruth H SnodgraSs: Development |
of Food Plants" Mrs. T. A. Huntley; |
Demonstration of Animals" Mrs. Rob- |
ert j. Bates: Primitive Clothing" Mrs |
Ethel G. Carpenter; Discovery of Met |
ais" Mrs B. F. Bryan; Art and Pic
ture Writing" Mrs. H. A. Latane; Re |
lgion of Primitive Man." Mrs. L. w.
Frances.
The business session was presided |
over by the president, Mrs. Charles F.
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