The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-08-29
ON A BUSINESS BASIS.
The Ex-Confederate Home is
to Be Recognized.
PLAN FOR A STOCK COMPANY.
Important Action Taken at tn
Liberty Meeting.
PLAN FOR A STOCK COMPANY.

From the Kansas City Times.
LIBERTY, Mo-, August 27.-The ex
confederates of Missouri will continue
to look after their own. The Higgins.
vile Home was built and has been sup
ported by those of Missouri who honor
brave men who fought for the lost
cause, and the ex-confederates intend to
continue to maintain the Home them
selves, and to care for all the men of
Missouri who wore the gray and who in
their old age need a place to rest. A
plan was adopted to-day by the ex-con-
federate association which will place the
Home upon a sound financial basis.
The condition of the home rendered it
necessary that some new plan of support
be adopted, and at the meeting today a
long time was spent in discussing the
various plans presented.
The plan adopted was proposed by
Judge Henry M. Ramey, of st. Joseph,
and proposes to form a stock company
with a capital of $500, 900, with shares
at $50 each, to run for twenty years.
BY that time, it is reasoned, all of the
old soldiers will have pass ed away, and
then the property may be disposed of as
the shareholders see fit. A committee
composed of Major Harvey Salmon as
chairman, William H. KEENAN,, James
w. Boyd and DR.. j. w. Allen was
appointed to consider the feasibility and
legality of the proposition and to draft
the report. The friends of the Home
feel confident that the adoption of this
plan will result in securing funds
sufficient to carry out the benevolent
object of the Home. 1t vas Endorsed
by business men as well as lawyers
such men as Samuel Kennard, President
Bannerman, of st. Louis, Judge Val
liant and Clint Allen giving it their
hearty approval. Judge Ramey will
prepare the new charter Immediately
be considered by a committee composed
of Judge Leroy Valiant, of st. Louis,
]. W. Boyd, of st. Joseph, w. H.
KEENAN,, of st. Joseph, and Ben Philips,
of st. Joseph. Upon their approval
Major Bannerman will apply to the
secretary of state for a new charter and
a new association will be formed.
There are sufficient funds in the treas
ury, as reported by Capt. A. E. Asbury,
of H~igginsvIlle, to maintain the Home
until the new association is formed.
The officers serving at present will
retain their offices until that time.
The orators were Col. II. A. Newman
and Senator Hiram Bledsoe, who spoke
to a large crowd at the fair grounds.
The time and place of the next reunion
was not decided upon, the strongest bid
for it coming from the Warrensburg
delegation, which was headed by Captain
John Robertson and G. II. Christopher,
the owner of Pertle Springs, but on
motion it was decided to hold the next
meeting in the town or city which will
off er the best inducement of substantial
aid to the Home.
Many of the more prominent members
of the association arrived in Liberty
last night for the business meeting
today. Among them were Major James
of st. Louis, president of
the association; Major Sam Kennard,
v~ice-president of n of the st. Louis
districts; Captain Frank Gaiennie, of
st. Louis, also a vice-presldent; Captain
Bob MuCulloch. of st. Louis, Colonel
o. III. z. Catron, vice-president from !
the Fourteenth district; w. c. Bron-
augh, Captain A. E. Asbury, of Hig-
ginsville, treasurer of the association;
Captain Mark Belt, of Higginsville,
member of the board of managers.
Resolutions were passed eulogizing
the Daughters of the C~Onfederacy for
their earnest and untiring efforts toward
the successful maintenance of the
Home, and commencing them to
efforts in its behalf.
The present reunion was in every
respect one of the most successful and
harmonious mes ever held, and GER
5ainly at no other meeting has more
important business been discussed and
upon, and the delegates all feel
hat the Home will not have to be
sustained as it has been, but will now
De run on a purely business basis. The
shareholders Will have a voice in its
lffairs in proportion to the amount they
AVE invested in its stock.