Newport daily independent., 1903-11-02
REPORT OF PRESIDENT.
Paper of Mrs. o. D. Watson Read to Daughters of Confederacy in State Convention at Invitation cf
 State President.
Madame President and Ladies':

Madame President and Ladies:
 It is my happy privilege and pleas
 ure this day to bring to your attention
 a little band of workers in Newport,
 the Junior Memorial Association, and
 the only memorial association com posed of children in the state. In
 doing so feel that am not alone in
 the sentiments expressed, for you
 must all rejoice at every new star,
 however diminutive, which appears
 in the midst of our women, working
 so earnestly and consistently toward
 the end that the generations to come
 shall hear aright the great tragedy of
 the Southern Confectionery, and that
 there are ever outstretched willing hands to place laurels in loving mercy | by word and deed toward the history
 of those men in gray, the hosts of Lee
 and Jackson.
 | This association was promoted by a l little junior from the Crescent City,
 Beatrice Cookie, a grand daughter of
 James F. Pagan of Arkansas, and her
 mother, Mrs. Irene Pagan Cookie, to- gether with the encouragement of the Lucien o. Cause chapter of our city.
 It was organized June 18th with a
 membership of sixteen and now
 numbers almost twice that many. All
 of it's officers are from the ranks, that
 is, they are children themselves, with
 one exception, the president, which
 position it is my dear privilege to fill. They hold monthly meetings at which a short program of music and real
 war time experiences learned from their elders are related, and dainty luncheons are served to tempt even the youngest to attend. Their dues, though small, are regularly paid. This fall they gave 2 pickaninny candy pulling at the home of two of it's members, tb little Misses Minor, and as the minimum of ten cents per plate was all that was charged, the $11 cleared was considered large amount to add to their bank account. With this they expect to make Christmas offering to the old soldiers at the home in Little Rock and to any others whom they may hear of not so fortunate as to have little folks of their own to make merry the Yuletide season.
 On Decoration Day they assisted very considerably the Lucien c. Gau- se Chapter in placing upon the graves of both Confederate and Federal sol- diers cross of honor and wreath of glory made of tender blossoms, and this is to be one of their most sacred duties. It is, also, the purpose of these little men and women to assist with their mite in the erection of monu- ments to their honored dead.
 Mrs. w. J. Behan, President of the Southern Memorial Association, learned with much pleas ure of the existence of these dear Juniors, and most earnestly and cor dially invited them to affiliate with the Confederated Southern Memorial Association, send their youthful dele gates to meet with the veterans their annual reunions, and finally fall heir to the glorious work the women of the Confederated Southern Mem orial Association is doing wherever it's banner waves. And now thank ing you Madam President and ladies 1 for the courtesy you have accorded | us in inviting this report, shall only | ask that every daughter and son of the Confederacy remember with love and sympathy the Junior Memorial Association of Newport, Arkansas.