The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-06
SONS WILL WINE AND DINE.
ENACTMENT OF GEORGIA's FIRST
CONSTITUTION TO BE CELEBRATED.


&c orgia Society of Sons of the Revo-
luton TO Give Its Annual Dinner
and Hold Its Annual Meeting a
Month From ting
of Board of Managers Held and n
Committee AppoInted-Au Ar
engagements Entrusted to This
CommIttee-New Member of the
Society EIected-GOvernors Cam
dIer and Roosevelt viii Probably
He Invited Specially.
The Board of Managers of the Georgia
Society of the Sons of the Revolution met
in the office of the county treasurer at
noon yesterday. A committee was appoint
ed to prepare for the annual banquet Of
the society on the night OF Feb 5.
In the absence of the president Col
John Screven, and of the vice presidents
w. ]. DeRenne, Esq, of Savannah. and
Hugh Washington, Esq, of Macon, Hon
Pope Barrow was called to the chair. Be
cause of the fact that the Savannah chap
ter is the only one in the state, and that
therefore, a number of the members are
always and of necessity absent from the
meetings, most of the business is trans
acted by the Board of Managers, and to
this board the matter of arranging for the
societys annual dinner is always commit
ted.
The following committee was appointed
to look after the preliminary arrange
| ments. TO select the place where the din
ner should be held to make up the list of
toasts and to choose those who will be
| asked 10 respond: Col. John Screven
chairman; Messrs. w j. DeRenne, j. F.
Minis, Frank F. Jones and Edward s.
Elliott To this committee the entire mat
ter was entrusted, with the request that
it report back to a meeting of the socl-
ETY. that is to be held some short time be-
fore the night of the dinner. The COM
mittee is of the Board of Managers, and
not of the society's membership in gem
eral.
The dinner will in all probability be held
at the De Soto, where the dinners of the
society have been held in the past The
arrangements though, are as yet in an
inchoate condition, and nothing has been
positively determined. Everything will be
left 90 the discretion of the committee
II has been suggested that the commit
tee invite to the dinner the society
special guests of honr, the two Governors
who are among its members, Gov. Gambler
of Georgia and Gov Roosevelt of New
York Gov. Roosevelt derives his right
10 membership in the society from his ma
ternal ancestor, Gov. Bulloch, one of the
| earliest of the chief executives of the
state. 1t is hoped by a number OF the
| socety's members that a special invita-
ton viii be extended to the Governor of
| the Empire state of the North and that his
I
| permit his meeting the Governor of the
Empire State of the South, in Savannah d,
on the occasion of the annual dinner of
the society of which they are both mem
| bers.
The membership of the Georgia Society
| numbers now 49, Its only chapter is in
| Savannah, of which city most of the mem
| bers are citizens and residents. It's MEM
| bership list, though, extends throughout
| the state, and embraces descendants of
| revolutionary sires from very many of its
| cities and towns. At yesterdays meeting
a new member. Hon. Walter G. Charlton,
! was unanimously elected.
The annual dinners of the society are
held on Feb. because it is the amt
| versary of the day when the first consti-
! tuition of the state of Georgia was adopt
/ ed This constitution was adopted on
| Feb. s. 1777, so that it's next celebra ton
will mark the one hundred and twenty
| INITu year Oh lHe enactment OF the 1undd-
| mental law of the commonwealth of Geor-
/ gia. Since that time it has been many
| times modified, but it's essential features
remain the same, and are the law OF the
land to-day, guaranteeing life, liberty
| and the pursuit of happiness to every
person who dwells within it's boundary
| lines.
| The annual meeting of the society and
the election of officers will take place on
| the same day as its annual meeting. Up
! to the present time there has been no
suggested opposition to the reelection of
any of the officers and it is probable tina t
! all of them will be chosen for another
| term. The present secretary is Mr. Will
| liam Harden of Savannah, who is prob
| ably more thoroughly familiar with the
| colonial history of this state and of this
! section of the country than is any other
His familiarity with this history has en-
abled him to be of almost incalculable
| usefulness to the society in the prepare.
ton of its records.