Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-24
SEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION.
Arkansas Division of United Daugh ters of the Confederacy Meet in Opening Session in Circuit Court Room-Proceedings
 of Day-Delegates
 Welcomed.

The seventh annual convention of
 the Arkansas Division of the United
 Daughters of the Confectionery met in
 opening sessionWednesday morning at I 1O:30 o'clock in the circuit court room,
 which was hardly recognizable in it's
 elaborate floral and flag decorations.
 Upon the wall to the rear of the ros-
 trum, where the eye first rested in entering the auditorium, hung
 the old battle stained flag, which
 was carried through the four years conflict by the Jackson Guards, hay ing been presented them by Mrs. Tom Matthews.
 Palms, ferns and the greenery of
 vines had been used to pretty and graceful effect about the rostrum and upon the walls. Cotton too, the suggested emblem of the organization
 was scattered here and there, playing no inconsiderate part in the general decorations while the array of 'stars and bars" in small flags added to the general effect and further i'm pressed the nature of this occasion as a memorial to the lost cause, in which the soldiers of the South had the sym pathy and support of her women. In harmony with this idea were the in scriptions upon streamers, such as "Way Down South in Dixie," ''The Southern Woman Still Lives," ''Old Veterans, We Love You," and "Wel- come by the Daughters of the Confed- eracy."
 About twenty delegates were pres ent when the convention was called to order Wednesday morning, though this number will probably be increased to between thirty and forty Mrs. R. M. Laird, president of Lucien c. Cause Chapter, occupied the chair and deliv- cred the invocation.
 Then musical number, 'tDixie,o D sung by choir composed of Mesdames G. A. Hillhou&e, R. w. Randy, J. L. Jones, w. A. O'Neal, A. D. Holland, Misses Dot Thornburg, Mary Laird and Gene Randy was listened to. Dixie never fails to reach the Southern heart; the music of the old song touches any heart, but it awakens sen timent and revives recollections with those who fought for and prayed for the arms of the Confectionery, hence it was peculiarly appropriate.
 Mrs. Charles H. Wilmans delivered | a beautiful address of welcome, re- ferring to the fact that Newport had | not yet been founded in the days of the civil conflict, but never had her gates swung back in a more cordial l welcome; that there were veterans of | the gray here however, who would greet warmly the brave women who had inspired them in darkest hours, and women too, whose prayers had | been offered for the flag as well as younger blood, who only know of those trying times by song and story, all ''salute you; h ail you; take your hand in ours and crown you with one welcome as with flowers"
 Mrs. Clementine Boles, in a we'll ex- pressed response, thanked the local chapter for their hospitality and gen erous welcome, and spoke of what love feast these gatherings had proven to those who had often been in attend ance and the new recruits. She also paid higl tribute to Southern chiv- airy.
 Mrs. B. 0. Benton, the retiring pres ident, spoke of this state as the land of her nativity, making her daughter of Arkansas aswell as of ohe Confeder- acy. The speaker made several rec ommendations-one that the deaths of