The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-03

Reg.strar--Miss Emn Holland. Scale.
 cHAIRMEN OF coMMlTrEEs
 Historical committee-Miss M. '. Bullock. ,fonumen. al ccmmi,tee-Mrs. L. c. Daw-
 son. Montgomery.
 Children of the Confederacy -Mrs F. Chapter Extensiou committee-Mrs P. H.
 Fillmore. Montgomery.
 Program for the opening exercises of the seventh annual convention of the Ala bama Division U. D. C.:
 Tuesday, May 12-City Hall, Tuscaloosa. Meeting of Credential Committe, s;So a. m. Mayors ofice.
 Convention called to order 10 a. m. Prayer Rev. l.. O. Dawson.
 Address of welcome on behalf of city, by the Mayor, Judge W. G. Cochran. Address of welcome. R. E. Rcdes ! Chapter, Mrs. ]. C. Harrison. Response, Mrs. Mary G. Plckens, Greensboro.
 Presidents annual address. Report of ,redeutiai Committee. | Reading of minutes. l Credentlsl Committee-M M. W. 1 Camper, Florence. Chairman; Mrs. J. D. Bcale Montgomery: Mrs. J. N. Thomp- sen, Tuscumbia; Mrs. B. 5. Ross, Au- ! burn.
 The Credential Committee will meet at | 9:30 a. m. in the Mayors office, just op- ! DC site the City Hall, and all delegates are requested to present their credentials ! promptly.
 Some of the Chapters have failed to send in the roster of their officers and members to the Secretary. Mrs. E. B. Ross Auburn, and to the Registrar, Miss Elma Holland of Scale. as requested to do by a circular letter from the corres- bonding Secretary. These rosters will greatly facilitate the work of the Gre dential Committee at the convention and necessary for the secretary to have im- Inediately after the convention in order to have the minutes of the convention promptly turned over to the printer. Below will be found a list of the Chapters whose revised rosters have not bsen sent either to the secretary or the registrar.
 1. Selma.
 9 Barbour County (Eufaula.)
 Mobile Chapter.
 4. Huntsville.
 ,. Joseph E. Johnston, Athens
 f. Troy. Troy.
 7 Marengo Riffs. Demo poiiA
 g. Father Ryan. Grenvillc.
 Q. Secession Capital. Montgomery.
 TO- John T. Nforganf Ta.ladega.
 Il. Verbena, Verbena.
 12 James D. Webb, Greensboro.
 13. Clayton, Clayton:
 14. Jce Wheeler Decatur.
 15. William H. Forney. Anniston.
 16. James Cantey. Scale.
 l7. Andrew Barry Moore, Marion.
 IS. Geneva. Geneva.
 Our readers will be greatly interested in the following letter from Mrs. Aurora P. Mcclellan of the Joseph F. Johnston Chapter, Athens, who is now in Wash ington. and has been a visitor to the Confederate Bazaar at Richmond. Many Chapters in our State have contributed valuable boxes containing salable articles for the Alabama both, and with all honor and praise to those who have done we'll and to others who have done what they could. we earnestly request that Chapters who can. and friends on the outside, who feel interested in the cause for which these e1terprls!ng and indefatigable women of Richmond are working, will sfnd money and salable articles to replenish the Alabama booths Mrs J. II. Drake. an Alabamian by birth and the charming Vice-Regent for Ala bama of the Confederate Museum. is in charge of the booth that repr' sents her native State. and we are told by Mrs. Mcclellan has for her assistants an un- n tring corps of splendid workers. / Let us encourage these. our noble rep rssentatives, by collecting articles and money to be sent them.
 My dear Mrs. Dowdell:
 A fraternal impulse prompts me to send you "a snapshot" of the Confederate bazaar at Richmond on two conspicuous dates in it's calendar April IS and 20, Washington City Day and Alabama Day.
 AS the guest of some members of the National Capital Chapter, I had the hon or to wear their badge, and to share the courtesles of the Pennsylvania Railway on this excursion
 The Reception Committee. of which Miss Mamie Heath was Chairman. gave us a true Virginia welcome. Her stan was a detachment from Lee Camp. whose grey uniforms would have been all in-