The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-03-01
THE MEMPHIS REUNION.

mittee of the Confederate reunion fol
1901, committee was appointed to joir
with the several commercial bodies OF
Memphis to visit Washington and in
vite President Mckinley to be the guest
of the city of Memphis on the occasion
of the reunion in May next. The com
mittee will leave for the national capital
in a few days.
As the time for holding the reunion
approaches the several committees are
becoming more active. The city is be-
ing canvassed by the committee on
hotels and accommodations and every
available room is being registered. A.
D. Langstaff, secretary of the commits
sary committee, a sub-organizationo OF
the general committee in charge OF
Confederate reunion arrangements, has
been very active in the past week or 30
in the discharge of the duties assigned
to him. He is engaged in planning ways
and means for caring for the Confeder-
ate veterans when they come to the re-
union. Many of the commands will
very likely bivouac in order to observe
strict army regulations, and if it should
prove true they will have to be cared
for the same as if they were in actual
service again-but with more care for
their comfort. The commissary COM
mittee is to look after these matters.
Mr.. Langstaff announces that it is the
purpose of the committee to have the
means of caring for every Confederate
veteran whether he is able to pay his
own way or not, and they will do so il
| it is possible. They want it understood
that the commissary committee is not
organized to look only after those who
are able to pay their own way, but to
look after the rest as well.
DR.. j. M. Kellar of Hot Springs, Ark.
president of the association of medical
| officers of the army and navy of the
Confederacy, and DIR. Deering S. Rob-
erts of Nashville, Tenn, secretary of
the association. were in Memphis re-
Gently, in conference with DIR. G.. B.
Malone and DIR. r. w. Mitchell of the
medical committee of the Confederate
reunion, relative to the meeting of the
association, which is to occur in this city
during the reunion of veterans in May.
DR.. Malone and DIR. Mitchell went over
the ground with the visiting gentlemen
and Drs. Kellar and Roberts expressed
the greatest satisfaction at what had
been planned and arranged by the med
ical committee for the comfort and con-
venience of the association during its
meetings.
At a recent meeting of the medical
committee A. D. Langstaf appeared
before the committee and called atten-
ton to the fact that committee, of
which he is a member, held in trust
81, 400 left over from a larger sum of
money raised number of years ago
for sanitary purposes in Memphis. He
stated that he was willing to turn over
this money to be used for sanitary pur-
poses during the reunion in May, pro-
vided the proper authority be secured.
Thereupon DR.. r. w. Mitchell moved
that the executive committee of the re-
union be requested to take the neces-
sary steps to secure this money to be
used for sanitary purposes.
The Mozart society has completed ar
rangements for musical festival to be
given in~May during the reunion. The
main feature of the festival will be the
appearance of the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, under the direction of
lists for the concerts will be Nine. Mere
nth, soprano; Miss Crawford, alto; E.
G. Towne, tenor; DIR. Carl Duff, basso.
The Mozart society festival chorus
will render cratic Messiah for one con-
cert and some shorter cantatas and
operate excerpts for the others, and in
asmuch as these concerts will be given
for the entertainment of the Confeder-
ate veterans, it is hoped to enlist the
participation of every singer in Mem
phis in order to make the festival the
greatest possible success.
The finance committee under the di-
rection of A. B. Pickett, has nearly
completed it's labors. It was resolved
at the first meeting of the executive |
committee that $5O,OO0 would be re-
CURED to make a grand success of the |
reunion. Chairman Pickett then and |
there promised to have this sum on |
hand in ample time, and he has kept |
his word, as more than $40, 900 is now |
in bank subject to the committees |
check.
Oklahoma &c Gulf railroads have al |
ready officially announced a 1-cent
mile rate and the other large trunk |
lines entering Memphis are expected to |
make a similar announcement within a
few days.
Brigadier-General j. N. Thompson,
q. G. ", of Tuscumbla, Ala, is desirous
of information concerning William
Barney, an ex-Confederate soldier, and
would be glad to ascertain whether he
is dead or alive as there is an amount
Of money that has been bequeathed
him by relatives.
Experiments in the greenhouses of
the University of Nebraska to develop
a new species of nasturtium have proved
and the new flower is in full
bloom. Its chief quality of excellence
is that it is continually and profusely in
flower.
Teaching the Child.
We never know what part of the days
experience will register itself indelibly
upon the little child's brain. parent