The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-05-04

litical or religious creed you will find q
cordial welcome to our city and oul
homes.
! Here southern manhood asserts itself
and southern womanhood is valued at
/ q preminm. So that at all times you
! may feel safe and that you are in the
i hands of friends, who win feel 1t a
privilege 10 be permitted to guard you
and attend your every want. fiat any
time some of you, coming from New
! Orleans or some small town in the
state should hear much noise at times,
do not be alramed, for it will be only
the Elks' who like all boys, love noisy
fun and do not mean any harm by it,
! and who in the course of time may yet
grow up quiet and useful men. In
fact, if you are startled 5y many noises
pay little attention to them. for YOU
will find Shreveport basy place where
everything keeps step to the march of
commerce. but never too busy to ex-
tend the hand of welcome to the strang-
ers and put at their service the best we
have.
NOBLE END IN VIEW.
In The name of all of our citizens
bid YOU welcome, and beg you to feel
assured of our profound sympathy with
you in the noble end yoa have in view,
to perpetuate the memory of all who
Loyalty served our dear old southland
in the time of the peril of her sorrow,
and her suffering, and we can but hope
that when the last gray picket has been
relieved from his post in time. your or
ganiZation will remain 10 guard the
honor of he dead, and that the sonce
mighty host which served under Lee
and Jackson, johnson and TAYLOR,
Forest and Stuart, bat which will then
have vanished from earth will linger in
memory with our people when dear
old Dixie increased in power and
wealth will be the founder of men, as
they behold the products of the inielli-
gent Toll of the sons and daughters de-
scending from the men who never
tlnched in the presence of death and
who never whined while facing the
difficulties under adverse conditions re-
sulting from defeat aud poverty, and
from woman whose answering devo-
ton. patient suffering and uneomplain-
ing spirit in the midst of disaster made |
them the model heroines in the worlds |
record of roble deeds of womanhood. |
Then some unbiased person shall
write the history really of the great |
conflict at arms and the terrible struo-
gle for life ard independence. which |
followed the surrender of the armies of |
the south. Southern manhood and wo-
manhood will be found equal quanti-
ties in the preserveratlons of untarnish- |
ed honor, and the display as unawed |
industry and zeal, which has today |
made the once blessed southland. |
again blossom with the flowers of prom |
Use delopfng to glorious fritage and
placed in one months song of hope, in
place of the sad measures. which once
we were compelled alone to sing.
| profoundly regret the sadly neces-
STATED absence of the president of our /
local chapter. who mourns at the bier |
of the dear dead in another state. and |
whose whole soul is SO profoundly alive
to the noble end you have in view and
the work you are doing.
Daughters of the Confederacy, in
the name of my comrades, in the name
OF our true women, in the name of the
culture, the zeal and energy embodied
in our citizenship, we bid you thrice
welcome to our city and our homes,
trusting that your stay amoug us may
be pleasant, your sessions harmonious
and that, when you go from MS, you
may take with YOU only pleasing men,
nrips of rnur visit |