Clash Over Bonds Report Tops D A R Session
At Continental Hall the Daughters of the American Revolution confronted a heated dispute over treasurer Mrs M E S Davis report on railroad bonds. Delegates demanded the overdue financials while Mrs Davis defended investments in Baltimore and Ohio Union Pacific and Chicago and Alton bonds after committee advice.
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Daughters of the American Revolution
Davis
Jacks
Mra. Davis
Mussey
McLean
Elon Spencer Mussey
Magsey
New York
Baltimore
Ohio
Union Pacific
Chicago and
Alton
Mre Massey
New York City
D A R officers discuss investments and 1907-08 finances
The report details expenditures for payroll rent and printing and notes the permanent building fund balance as of October 1. Mrs Main cites bank interest at 2 percent and an expert investment plan for bonds. A gain of about $500 is reported from interest and bank balances. Congress votes to adopt the finance committee’s report amid extensive sessions.
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Main
National Board
New York
National Metropolitan Bank
Bryan
Tennesssee
Congress
Finance Committee
D A R Reports Submitted At Short Daughters Session
D A R members attended last night’s Congress session with many at state meetings to nominate regents. Reports from standing committees were read by chairmen as the meeting opened with songs by Mary H. Leefe and Ethel Texter. A telegram from the Sons of the American Revolution offered greetings and thanks.
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D. A. R. Congress
Mary H. Leefe
Dellebe
Fiuhagezeit
Rheinholt Becker
Ethel Texter
McLean
Cornelius Amery Pugsley
Committee On Revolutionary Relief For” Memorial
Continental ‘Hall
A. A. Kendall
Washington
Tatlowel University
Alexander Ennis Patton
Matthew Scott
Insurgent faction names leaders in push for control
A faction called insuraents plans to strengthen its grip on a women’s organization. It lists state delegates and names officers including vice president general Mrs. K. Eppley and historian general Miss G. R. Hetzel. Ellen Washington Howard of Alexandria may run for president general Thursday.
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H. Terry
New York
A. E Patton
Pennsylvania
Chamberlain
Tennessee
Spinman
Virginia
Lindsay Patternet
North Carolina
Swift
Califor
Insuraents
Oles
Virginia “Mill
Aline Solomons
Sainis
District of Columbia
Anti Forces
K. Eppley
Jock A. Gilfillan
Catherine Barlow
Virginia M v
Louise Fiat
G. R. Hetzel
Charles W. Brown
Minnie T. Bickley
Aline Soomons
Ellen Washington Howard
Alexandria
George Washington
Daughters' Fight for Congressional Influence in Continental Hall
Rival factions name states and leaders in a contest over control of Congress. Administration forces allied with Mrs McLean claim strength to win, with officers listed including Donald McLean as President General and Mrs Charlotte Emerson Main as Vice President General among others.
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Charlotte Emerson Main
Warhington
New
New York
Continental Hall
McLean
States
Strugett
Congress
Jessie
Donald McLean
Sener
Elisabeth F Pierce
John Puat Barnest
Chapllain
Esther Frothingham Nobte
Amos & Dréper
Gaerl
Mabel
Swormstedt
J UaWin Gadsby
Henry S.bowren
Helet M Baynton
J Morgan Smith
Alabama
Elen Spencer Muscey
District of Columbia
D A R Officers Allocation Echoes State Contests
Mrs Donald McLean failed to secure New York indorsement for re election as president general and Mrs Charles H Terry of Brooklyn won the New York vice presidency general post. Various state regents and vice regents were elected across Pennsylvania Connecticut Maine Virginia Michigan Arkansas West Virginia Wisconsin Delaware Colorado Georgia Alabama Ohio Texas and other states with Mrs Seabrook Sudmore of Houston named regent of Texas and the Children of the Revolution founded by Mrs Murphy of Ohio.
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The
Daughters of the American Revolution
New York
Charles H. Terry
Brooklyn
New York State
James Griswold Wentz
New York City
Terry
Connecticut
Tracey B. Warner
Charles Creighton
Thomaston
Maine
Charles Johnson
Waterville
Samuel W. Jamison
Roanoke
Virginia
John D. Horsley
Lynchburg
Grand Rapids
R. H. Pyre
Detroit
Arkansas
John McClure
Little Rock
Hayman
van Buren
West Virginia
BR. H. Edmonston
Morganstown
Douglas E. Newton
Hartford
Wisconsin
Ogden H. Fethers
Walter Kampater
Carry Speakman
Smyrna
Delaware
Agnes Cumming
Colorado
John Campbell
Denver
J. T. Mallaby
Pueblo
Anna Caroline Benning
Columbus
Georgia
Edgar Ross
Macon
William Bills
Alabama
Aurora Pryor McClernnan
Athens
Rhett Goode
Mobile
Ohio
New Willard
Edward Orton, Jr
Calumbua
Mears B. Wager
James L. Botsford
Geeral
Seabrook Sudmore
Houston
Texas
J. ¥. Swain
Port Worth
Children of the Revolution
Murphy
H. G. Root
Bennington
Isa Clifton
Continental Hall
Continental Educational Society
Massey
Foraker
Janet Richards
Philip Mark Shannon
Butta
Washington
Monmouth
Charles Lee
Randolph Kelm
Thomas QC
Towles
Congress
Elizabeth Benton
Missouri
Itreet
Northwest
Thomas B. Tombs
Kansas City
Louise Rogert Reynolds Fisher
National Society of the D. A. R
Donegal
Lancaster
Mary Washington
Board of Management
Army Cook Recovering After Saloon Attack Near Fort Washington
James E. Stasher a cook in the Seventhirteen Company Coast Artillery was badly hurt in a saloon near Fort Washington. He is now a patient at Army General Hospital. Private Williams accused of the assault is in the guard house under arrest.
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James E. Stasher
Seventeenth Company
Coast Artillery
Fort Washington
Army General Hospital
Wiliams
Slusher
French chef at Norwegian legation arrested for embezzlement
Louis Guinot a 31 year old French chef at the Norwegian legation 1758 Rhode Island avenue northwest was arrested on a warrant charging embezzlement of 20 dollars from the legations March grocery account. He admitted stealing and losing the money at Benning and was locked in cell at the first precinct. He will be arraigned in Police Court.
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Legation
Rhode Island Avenue
Christian Henge
Guinot
Pennsylvania Avenue
Cromwell and Baur
Benning
Gulnot
First Precinct
Washngton
Paris
New York
Espey Dismissed From Government Printing Office
Foreman T A B Espey of the blank sewers division at the Government Printing Office is dropped from the rolls after a March susp ension on technical charges. Chief Inspector Moore and Acting Foreman Ashen led the inquiry, Public Printer Bullings ordering dismissal. Espey says he does not know the grounds and denies insubordination, cites a three-day furlough dispute as a possible cause.
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Ditigion
Government Printing Office
Moore
Espey
Ashen
Bullings
Aghion
Churches Menace Mayors Over Liquor Sales Act
A West Jersey Presbytery resolution calls on churches to use New Jersey Crimes Act against mayors or officials failing to suppress crime after being notified. Rev H R Rundell of Atlantic City offered the measure at First Presbyterian Church, with 160 ministers and laymen attending. The report on credentials caused mild sensation as it criticized ministers being called before a committee and the treatment of candidates.
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Washington Post
Atlantic City
N.S
West Jersey Presbytery
Mtemperanes
Ilegal Sales
Honoi
H. R. Rundell
First Presbyterian Church
Committee On Credentials
U S Cruiser Princet on to Amapala for Zelaya Talks
The cruiser Princeton, once at Amapala, has sailed to Corinto to pick up President Zelaya of Nicaragua. He will go to Amapala for a peace conference with President Figueroa of El Salvador, possibly joined by Guatemala’s Cabrera. The U S will aid with Mexico in preventing border hostilities while guerrilla bands on the frontier seek to operate without the leaders’ approval. The Central American situation remains satisfactory.
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Amapala
Corinto
Nicaragua
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Amapalo
Siguera
Salvador
Cabrera
Guatemala
United States
Mejle
Mexico
Figuera
Weather Conditions and River Bulletin Update
Weather report from the Weather Bureau notes high pressure over the western region and a moving lake region disturbance bringing snow in the Lake area and showers in the Ohio Valley and Middle Atlantic States. Warmer Atlantic coast conditions with colder Missouri and upper Mississippi valleys. light snow for the Lake region and Gulf States showers expected Wednesday. generally fair weather out of the Rockies by Thursday. River bulletin reports rivers at Harpers Ferry, with both rivers described as cloudy.
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