Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-12
American Gold Star
Mothers

The American Gold Star Mothers
held an executive session in the home of
the president, Mrs. Seibold, last Tues
day evening.
Communications were read from Pat
rick j. Hurley, Secretary of War; Mrs.
Lowell Fletcher Hobart, president gen.
eral, D. A. r.; Mrs. Ethel S. Wilt, presi-
dent of Kenneth Nash Unit; Brig. Gen.
George Richards of the Marine Corps:
Mrs. Josephine P. Kelton, Mr.. Michael
Insulbach, adjutant of Blind Veterans
Chapter; Miss Margaret Hagan, Red
Cross field director at st. EliZabethS S;
Miss Agnes v. Brophy, director of Red
Cross at U. S. Veterans Hospital; Mrs.
James e. Martin of Indiana, Mrs. George
Horatio Gorham. Mrs; Modesto M.
Wolfe Of Syracuse, N. Y; Mrs. Ida K.
Barnett of Neenah, Wis; Mrs. Winfield
Scott Holmes of Hastings, Nebr.; Mrs.
Mary j. Bates of Jackson, Mich; Mrs.
B. d. Harrington of New York, Mrs.
Catherine FitzsimonS of Kansas City,
Mo-; Mrs. Helen Miller of Pennsylvania,
Mrs. Olive Carpenter, visiting in Niagara
Falls, N. Y, and Col. J. Miller Kenyon.
Mrs. j. M. Gallagher, president of the
Gold Star Mothers in Pennsylvania, was
in Washington during the week and
visited Mrs. Seibold.
Two applications for membership were
approved one from Mrs. Isabella D.
Black of Breckenridge, Colo, mother
OF three hero sons as follows: Henry
Graham Black, killed in France while
serving in the 147th U. S. Aero Squad
ron; Elmer S. Black, serving in the
Marine Corps, 18th Regiment, I'd Brig
AIDE, 57th Machine-gun. killed in action
IN Nicaragua, and Ralph Clayton Black,
| returned to his widowed mother after
7 being wounded in the World War. The
| other application was from Mrs. Lucille
Lassus of New Orleans, La, mother of
Eugene Joseph LaSsus, who died at
Camp Hancock, Ga, October 10, 1918.
Five resolutions of national interest
were approved for presentation to the
Women's Patriotic Conference on Ma
ton January 20, 80, 81. The following
, delegates have been appointed to rep
resent the American Gold Star Mothers
| during the conference at Memorial
Continental Hall: Mrs. Mary j. Bates,
jackson, Mich: Mrs. Eugene S. Bruce,
| Washington, D. c.; Mrs. George B.
Burling, Richmond Hill. N. Y; Mrs.
Olive Carpenter, Northwest Park. Md. !;
Mrs. Ben H. Fuller, Marine Barracks,
D. c.; Mrs. Mary e. Green, District OF
| Columbia; Mrs. Winfield Scott Holmes,
/ Hastings, Nebr.; Mrs. Carrie j. Scarf,
! College Park, Md. and Mrs. Frances
E. Hibbs, Mrs. Roberta Estell Jacobs,
Mrs. Mary K. Killeen, Mrs. Hattie l..
Hurley, Mrs. Fannie F. Meeks, Mrs.
William j. Seelye. Mrs. Josephine
Talks, Mrs. Margaret E. Loveless, Mrs.
E. M. Nash. Mrs. Margaret E. Warfield
and Mrs. George Gordon Seibold, all of
| the District of Columbia.
The regular meeting will be held
January 81 at the Hamilton Hotel, when
officers will be elected and plans will
be made for the entertainment of visit
/ ing Gold Star Mothers who will at
| tend the patriotic conference.
Mrs. E. M. H. Guedry will be chair
man of the hostess committee.
Mrs. Florian Lampert, Mrs. Bessie
| Wheatley, Mrs. Modesto M. Wolfe, Mrs.
Mathilda Burling, Mrs. Catherine Fitz-
simons, Mrs Fannie Meeks and Mrs.
Seibold are some of the mothers who
! are going overseas during the year.