The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1899-12-01

to the unveiling Of the Winnie Davis
monument put up by the U. d. c. and
and the bronze statue of President
Davis put up by Mrs. Davis, and carried
with me very handsome floral tribute
for the grave of Jefferson Davis, The del
from the Mississippi Division, with
this card; From the Mississippi Dlvi-
sion, U. D, G., who honor themselves
in sending this tribute to the memory
of our beloved President Davis Mrs.
Davis and Mrs Hayes were very much
affected by it, Mrs Hayes being scarce
/ " able to read the card to her mother
Our delegation felt glad when we got
to the cemetery to see that it was the
handsomest piece there. 1t was pillow
three feet long and two feet wide, of
| the most beautifulwhite crysauthelnums
with border of ferns EN-
blem of the life of Jefferson Davis,
Pure. upright and true. unwounded
with tragedy ana grief We were par
ticularly glad that we sent the hand
soonest floral offering because in the ex-
ercises of the day Mississippi WAS un-
fortunately not represented
1t was explained to me afterwards
that the tickets to the platform for the
presidents were distributed while our
delegation were calling on Mrs. Davis
So knew nothing of them until having
been told that tile presidents We're to
sit on the platform. tried to go and
was told that | could not without a
ticket The Virginia ladies and Mrs.
Cnrice explained the next day and
seemed worried for Mississippi to have
been overlooked. told them that as
for myself | much preferred the con-
Portable place had, but since Missis.
sippi, Jefferson Davis state, had no
representative at all that | felt sorry
not to have been there thinking that to
the world it would seem very strange.
| was then told by the president OF the
Richmond chapter that she had written
to the president of the Mississippi Di,
vision during the summer asking Inc to
name an orator for the occasion, | re-
plild thatI hui beea pre- sident since
about the first of May, and had re.
piled to no such communication She
said she certainly sent it, Iafterward
asked Mrs. Duncan if she had receiv ed
it. She she had and had telegraphed
The name Of Stephen d. Lee, but he
had TO decline
Twas sorry that had not received
the letter. because / should have first
secured the orator and then teegraphed
the name, as think it was quite i'm
portant that Mississippi should have
been represented on that occasion; ard
| want the Division to know that did
not know Of the request or she would
have been
The monument to Winnie Davis is
quite pretty, and the bronze statue of
President Davis is qnite imposing, but
| want you to bear in mind that Mrs.
Davis put up that statue and the South
has got to bnid monument to his
memory.
The next day we received a proposal
from the y. c. V. to take from them
between twenty and thirty thousand
dollars they have already raised for a
monument to President Davis and go
TO work and build monument We
accept no restrictions no obligations
except to use this money for monu
ment to Jefferson Davis to be in or
near Richmond, and we accepted the
money with the duties with it. A reso
luton was passsd creating a perma
nent committee to be composed of one
member from each Division, said mem.
Der to be elected by tie executive board
tthe officers of the Division, and five i
members OF the L. e. V. committee.
The name of the member from this Di-
vision will be published in this column
as soon as can hear from all our exec.
tive committee. think it will be
next week, as have the votes of all |
but two
No other business which it is impo,-
tant for you to know before the min,
utes are sent out was done. The newly
elected officers are: Mrs. Weed, OF Flor
ida, President; Mrs, Reed, Of New
York, 1st Vice President; Mrs. McCul-
Tough, of Virginia, End Vice President;
Mrs. Hickman, Of Tennessee. Secretary;
Miss Meras. of North Carolina. Cor
Secretary; Mrs. Thomas. OF Georgia.
Treasurer The next meeting will be
held in Montgomery, Ala. and / am
particularly glsd became ! think it is