Club news 4-12-15

Lamplighters Club

The Lamplighters FCE Club met March 19 at New Salem Methodist Church in Daisy. Members tacked and machine-quilted five quilts and made chair covers until the noon meal. Jackie Kurre, hostess, provided the meal. The meeting was called to order at 1 p.m.

The minutes were read and approved. Unfinished business was discussed. Dolls for Child Advocacy Day were collected.

Verla Mangels and Margaret Friese gave a short report on the FCE County Council meeting.

New business was discussed that included bringing books for newborns to the April club meeting.

Linda Sebaugh gave the program, the New Missouri Mix, and provided samples of the mix. The next meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday at the home of Verla Magels.

Nancy Hunter Chapter DAR

Mary Ann Kellerman receives a DAR teapot from Charlotte Slinkard, Nancy Hunter DAR Chapter regent.

On March 24, 2015, the Nancy Hunter Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution met at the home of Mary Ann and Bert Kellerman. One hundred years ago, March 15, 1915, the chapter met in the same parlor of the house with Marie Oliver, designer of the Missouri State Flag, as hostess. Oliver became a member of the chapter in March 1904.

The minutes from the 1915 meeting were read by current secretary Sue LeBruyere.

Minutes from previous meetings also held in the house beginning in 1905, written by Winifred Johnson and Sadie Kent of the State Normal School, were read by chapter officers: Charlotte Slinkard, Carolyn Webb, Kaye Hamlin, Karen Ruth Lang, Catherine Allison, Carol Cannon and LaFern Stiver. In the early minutes, Oliver spoke of her trips to Washington, D.C., and the need to liquidate the debt on the DAR Continental Hall. Other topics mentioned were furnishing the Missouri Room in the new DAR building and placing markers on old Kingshighway, beginning in Southeast Missouri.

Following the program, a tea table was arranged with "dainty refreshments" as described in the early minutes. Copies of the old minutes and a China DAR teapot were presented to the hostess. Guests included Annie Criddle, Sherry Vick, Reagan Brown and Nora Zimmer of St. Louis, an associate member of the chapter.

A business meeting followed the program. The president general's message to the chapters was read by Slinkard, regent. The National Defense message was given by Janet McClanahan. LaFern Stiver reported that two volumes of Plymouth, Massachusetts, Church Records (1620 to 1859), published by the New England Genealogical Society, was given to the Genealogy Room of the Cape Girardeau Public Library in memory of Dorothy Points.

The next meeting will be April 22 at Cape Girardeau Public Library. Dr. Frank Nickell will present the program.

The May meeting will be held at the home of Edna Ruth Fischer.

-- From staff reports