The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-02
Leads all North Carolina Daies i'm News and Circulation

| There is a hero for you to honor and
! would suggest the ladies of that family
be among your first and most honOred
benefciaries'
If all the people who have ancestors
to be proud of would help the good work
by giving dates and fact of these heroes
and their heroic deeds, their names could
be added to the history of this glorious
Commonwealth. And we should all wish
to honor our dead if we did not have the
opportunity to LAY the box of ointment
at their feet" while they were yet with
in THE Choir Invisible"
In the bylaws, Article H., is
objects of Organization-To perpetu-
ate the memory, the sacrifices and the
indomitable courage and valor Of the
men who, without regard to section,
politics or social condition responded to
the call to arms in 1916, and by the
most brilliant achievements of modern
warfare in two years swept the foe from
our Southern borders. established an
everlasting boundary line between the
United States and Mexico and gave to
the commonwealth a greater extent OF
territory than was ever before acquired
by force of arms. To procure the right
to protect and make national property
historical spots christened by that war
within the limits of the United States. To
erect monuments to the gallant dead;
homes for their widows and orphans anG
libraries-which by their dedication and
contents shall educate American youth
upon this hitherto neglected epoch or
American history"
To these objects there is another that
! hope will be added at the reunion at
Fort Worth next May:
That as soon as may be- the heroes
who gave their lives for their "cOuntrY's
good and who now are lying, Though
half a century has passed since the wa:
ended. in the "enemys country" shall
be brought home to rest until that Lass
great day when they shall go Ito meet
a smiling God" All soldiers have been
granted his. but these, the heroes of
the War of Victories"
At Paris, Kentucky, where the Veter-
ans met last September. there still lives
the widow and daughters of William z.
Simme. who in this town recruited the
famous Company Fl. of the Third Ken
lucky Regiment. When the men enlist
ed he promised them solcmnly that he
rs Lhs.r Captain. would bring them home
every one dead or alive. This company
was in the whole war and lead ;; this
hero participated in every important hat
lie Of the war. When peace was DC
cared. he searched the battle grounds
for every one of his men who had been
killed. and from his own purse paid the
expenses of transporting these remains
from the land Of the Montezumas to
tn'ir last resting place in the beautiful
Paris cemetery, The county marked
their resting place by handsom Inonu-
ment. These men are the only ones who
left or the field of battle marked dead"
in Mexico were brought back to be
buci ID in tho land for which they died.
In the Spanish war though the end has
hcCr in years so few. all TIC men who
fcus't for the United States are buried
v hin her borders under tn protection
of the stars and Stripes"
with all my heart for the work. Il.
c. Mrs. Murdock.)
Your friend ana Comradc.
J. RANDOLPH SMITH.
Henderson. \. c.. Oct p, 1902