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scores of visitors and topping this
southern hospitality will be the
luncheon given by the Trustees of
the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace
Foundation following the dedica-
ton ceremonies. This, the most for
NAL of all the festivities, will be
staged at Ingleside, the rambling
building of Colonial architecture.
which until just recently was known
as the Stonewall Jackson Country
Club Ingleside is situated on a
high elevation just outside of Staun-
ton, with mountains and natural
woodland in the background and a
velvet-like lawn gives a charming
approach to the house from the VAL
ley pike.
A profusion of flowers, many
gathered from the lovely gardens
around Staunton, will decorate the
spacious rooms of the club where
the dignitaries will be treated to a
typical southern meal.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson
Is Honored at Manse.
A fitting prelude to the events to-
day was the luncheon given yeSter-
day to honor Mrs. Woodrow Wilson
and to show her the completed
shrine. The luncheon was served in
the Manse, as the house is familiarity
known, on an antique table covered
with an exquisite lace cloth and
graced in the center by a swan
filled with yellow tulips, pansies and
spirea. In the dining room also is
a sideboard of the period of Presi-
dent Wilson's birth and everywhere
In the room were clusters of blos-
SONS from the gardens of members
of the Augusta Garden Club. Lunch
ing with Mrs. Wilson in these sur
roundings were Judge and Mrs. D.
Lawrence Groner of Washington;
Mrs. D. c. Sands of Middleburg and
Mr.. and Mrs. Graham Cootes of New
York, the former the artist who exc
cuted the portrait of President Will
son which hangs in the Manse as
well as the one which adorns the
wall at tie White House. Also pres
ent WSes Col. Peyton Cochran, who
will be master of ceremonies at the
dedication and who when q student
at Princeton was the president of
the first Woodrow Wilson Club.
Mrs. Cochran likewise was at the
luncheon as were Mrs. Watt Gibbs
and Mrs. Wilfred Hamp of Staunton.
President Will Be First to Sign
Register in Wilson Home.
The widow of the wartime Chief
Executive during her stay at the
Shrine yesterday, saw for the first
time the handsome red fooled leather
register, which President Roosevelt
will be the first to sign today. This
register is placed in the room where
President Wilson was born and on
the desk used by him at the White
House and presented to the founda-
tion by his widow. Also In this
room is the lamp used by President
Wilson when he was q student at
Princeton and which was lighted
every night of his occupancy of the
Executive Mansion. Aaletter written
by President Wilson to his father,
who was pastor of Staunton's First
Presbyterian Church, now a chapel
Of Mary Baldwin College, has been
framed and adorns q wall of the
room.
Secretary and Mrs. Hull
To Head Receiving Line.
At the luncheon to be given by
the trustees today, there will be
q formal receiving line, headed by
the Secretary and Mrs. Hull, the
latter the president of the foun-
dation. Others receiving will be
Senator Carter Glass, first vice
president of the foundation; Senator
Harry F. Byrd, second vice presi-
dent; Secretary of Commerce Jesse
II. Jones; Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
McKelden Smith of Staunton, Sec
retary and assistant treasurer. Also
khe other trustees including Mr.. Nor
man H. Davis, chairman of the
American Red Gross; Mr.. r. w.
Boiling, Judge Groner, Mrs. Gilbert
N. Hitchcock and Mr.. Edward r.
Stettinius, jr.
President Roosevelt will not at
tend the luncheon, having decided in
favor of picnic with the members
of the party who are accompanying
him.
Lord and Lady Halifax
To Be Guests at Fete.
The Governor of Virginia and Mrs.
Sames H. Price will be among those
at the luncheon, as will the Mayor
OF Staunton, Mr.. George Cottrell;
Mrs. Wilson, Gen. and Mrs. Wade H.
Haislip, His Britannia Majesty's Am
bassador and Lady Halifax, Assistant
secretary of State and Mrs. Breckin-
ridge Long, Mrs. Claude A. Swanson,
widow of the Secretary of the Navy;
Col. and Mrs. E. Griffith Godson
and Mr.. and Mrs. Huston Thompson.
The director of the Mint, Mrs.
Nellie Tayloe Ross, who accompanied
Mrs. Norman E. Mack of Buffalo, N.
Y, to Staunton, will also be guests
at the luncheon.
Others expected to attend the
function at Ingleside are Mrs Henry
D. Flood, whose late husband was q
member of Congress from Virginia,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Morris, Mr.. and
Mrs. Roland Ringgold and Mr.. and
Mrs. Quincy Wright.