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 Confederate Veteran

Robert E. Lee Chapter, No. 644, held its last meeting December 28 at the Confederate Memorial Home. Following the regular order of business, Mrs. Wallace Streater, Chapter Historian, presented many interesting facts concerning our great leader, Robert E. Lee. Music and refreshments were also enjoyed. The Chapter is planning a reception to the local veterans to be held the latter part of January. The baby Chapter in our Division is the local Winnie Davis Chapter, organized in the fall of 1911 by Mrs. Marion Butler, and its membership is composed of young girls in the Division, only the young unmarried women being eligible to C. IN .:K city.

MRS. MAUDE HOWELL SMITH. President District oi Columbia Division, 1. D. C. Mei tht Pn sldenl (irnor.il. this Chapter, [ts members are most active in all benefits and entertainments of every kind given by the Division or any of its Chapters. In addition to its charitable work, the Winnie Davis Chapter enjoys a round of social activities during the year. At the January meeting on the 26th the following new officers were installed: Miss Nell R President; Mrs. W. H. Thrall. Miss Catharine Carroll Bowie, Miss Josephine Saunders. Vice Presidents: Miss Asha Wells. Re. Secretary; Miss Mary Key Compton. Corresponding Secretary: Miss Helen Griffith, treasurer; Miss Jane Dodge, Registrar; Miss Aliee Theobald, Historian; Miss Lena Wilkins, Parliamentarian; Mrs. E. Buchanan, CWodian. The Division gave a benefit card party at the Cairo on Friday afternoon, January 14. Many prominent women in Washington took a deep interest in this affair, and as patronesses its success, both social and financial, was assured.

The Mary Mildred Sullivan Chapter, U. D. C. of New York City, held its annual meeting on December 6, 1915.

In her report the President, Mrs. Algernon Sydney Sullivan, whose ripe judgment and wise counsel have for four active and eventful years guided the destinies of the CI dwelt upon the fact that during the past year this Chapter had entered a field of constructive activity in combining its educational and memorial work. In memory of its deceased associate member, James Rice Buford a veteran of Company A, 3d Virginia Cavalry, it has through the generosity of its First Vice President, Mrs. Elizabeth endowed in George Peabody College for Teachers. Nashville. Tenn.. a summer scholarship for the use each summer of a teacher from Brunswick County, Va. Veteran Buford's life-long home.

The tenure of office of Mrs. Sullivan and Mrs. Phillips having expired by constitutional limitation, they were elected Honorary Presidents of the Chapter, and the following active officers were elected: President. Mrs. Livings! ler; First Vice President, Mrs. Silas F. Catchings; Second Yicc President, Mrs. Lucy Randolph Cantley; Recording Sec': '"- I hn J. Lordan; Corresponding Secretary. Miss Catchings Thcrrel: Treasurer. Mrs. Francis Edwards Hill; Registrar. Mrs. Eugene Frayer; Historian, Mrs. William Ward Childs; Recorder of Crosses. Mrs William H. Williams. The 6th of January, the fourth anniversary of the organization of the Chapter, was celebrated according to custom by a >n at the home of Mrs. Livingston Rowe Schuyler, er and incoming Pn [ the Chapter. SOi IN A DIVISION. Since the Division convention in Aiken, November 18 and st South Carolina Chapters have held meetings and heard reports from their delegates of the proceedings of that body. These representatives returned to their homes filled with fresh 1 .1 for the work of the organization and have urged upon the various Chapters the necessity of coion in all of the end the order. The John 1 lanes Chapter, of Jonesville, has the honor of giving to South Carolina Division its new President, and in token of its appreciation of her and of the position she fills the Chapter recently tendered to Mi v. McWhirter a brilliant 'ion. It is noticeable that in their December programs a number of Chapter-:ilk«s or papers describing a Christmas before the war. will be valuable history sometime ami art well worth preserving. The two Chapters in <. planned a real Christmas tree for the - living at the Soldiers' Home in that city. Now in tin evening of life it is a beautiful thing to revive in the old hearts memories of long ago. and some of the ack again when they stand once more around a Christmas tree, their very own, and receive into gnarled, kno:: trembling hands Christmas gifts from the good 1 oi children, old as well as young. An Anderson Chapter sent yulctidc cheer, arranged in attractive style, to 1I1,, County Home for Indigents. In all of the Chapters the study of history, especially of the South and of their own State, is a part of the monthly work. One Chapter has planned for the coming year to make the