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MONUMENT The AIM
COLONIAL DANES RESOLUTION
RELATIVE TO OGLETHORPE
MEMORIAL.
WILL PLAN NO OTHER WORK
TO DISSEMINATE LITERATURE
AMONG SISTER SOCIETIES.

Society Begins This MOrning-Of-
fcers Nominated Yesterday viii
BE Elected, as Well rs New Mem
bers of BOard-Dames Protest
Against Removal of City En-
Characterization Describing IL
rs Beautiful Amended to Read
"HistOricaI."
At the session of the Georgia So
! ciety of the Colonial Danes which
will be held in the drawing room OF
the De Soto this morning, the officers
who were nominated yesterday, will be
elected. AS announced in the Morn
| ing News, the retiring officers were
renOminated. These are: President,
Mrs. Joseph ]. Wilder, of Savannah;
first vice president, Mrs. Louis G.
Young of Savannah; second vice pres
ident, Mrs. Joseph r. Lamar, of Au-
| gusta; honorary vice president, Mrs.
Ira Y. Sage of Atlanta.
The election of the eight ladies' who
will take the places of one-third of
the board, which retires under the
| constitution of the society, will also
take place to-day The new board, con-
sisting of the newly elected and the
sixteen old members, will then proceed
to the election of the following officers:
Recording secretary, corresponding sec
retary treasurer, registrar, historian
and genealogist. 1t is probable that
the present encumbents will be re-
elected. These are, respectively, Mrs.
Louis M. LeHardy, Mrs. William L.
Wilson, Mrs. w. G. Morrell, Mrs.
Charles G. Barney, Mrs. George M.
Brown and Mrs. T. s. Morgan.
There will be no business of import
| ance before the society. outside of
the election of officers, except the re-
port of Mrs w. G. Charlton on the
| finances connected with the erection
of Oglethorpe's water battery at Fred
erica. This will show that there is
now on hand a little more than $500,
all of which will be needed in COM
pleting the work and paying for that
which has already been done.
The Opening Session.
The first days session was an inter-
esting one. The principal business be-
fore the society consisted in the NOM
ination of officers for the ensuing year,
and the adoption of resolutions look
ing to the enhancement of the Ogle-
| thorpe Monument Fund and to the re-
tention of the present City Exchange
building.
The most important resolution offer
ed was that of Mrs. Charlton. It pro-
vided that no other work be under
taken by the society, after the COM
pletjon of Frederick, other than that
of the erection of a monument to Gen
Oglethorpe. The motion was enthu-
siastically carried. 1t was reported
that the work at Frederick would be
completed in few weeks, and it was
the sense of the meeting that the oc-
casion be made an important one.
VIII Interest Sister Societies.
Ways and means of raising the fund
for the monument were exhaustively
discussed Mrs. Vice President Lamar
called the attention of the members
to the fact that she had found that
the Colonial Danes in sister states
had evinced unusual interest in the eff
forts of the Georgia society to raise the
fund. She said that the DANES in
the national conventions had interest
ed themselves in the matter, and that
she was confident that if some efforts
were made to bring the matter to their
attention, they would prove fruitful.
These ladies, she said, were familiar
with the history of Roger Williams,
Penn, Winthrop, and others, but knew
little of Oglethorpe.
Accordingly, it was determined by
resolution to disseminate literature
among the members of the sister So
cieties. To this end the Monument
Committee was instructed to have
copies of certain papers relative to the
movement printed and sent to all of
the societies of the Danes. The ar
ticles which will be printed are the adj
dress made by Mr. Lamar of Augusta,
on the occasion of the unwilling of the
memorial at Fort Augusta, and the ad-
dress of Mr.. Charlton, on the making
of Georgia, both of which are of great
historical value.
1t was also the sense of the meeting
that no aid should be asked in the
movement outside of the patriotic So
cieties and the people of Georgia. 1t
was brought to the attention of the
meeting that there were many persons
who considered the movement as one
entirely within the confines of the pa
triotic societies, and it was urged that
every effort be made to disabuse the
mind of the public of this impression,
and to invoke their support generally.
Exchange Not beautiful"
A resolution of Mrs. Warnings was
offered by Mrs Ellington, asking that
the present City Exchange building be
not removed. The text of the resolu-
ton, as at first offered, was Resolved,
That we, the Colonial Danes, at this
our general meeting, protest against
the removal of this beautiful old struc-
ture." On motion of Mrs. Charlton
the word beautiful was stricken, and
historic" substituted, it being agreed
that the latter word was descriptively
more correct.
The report of the president, Mrs.
Wilder was read. This treated main
ly with the work which has been I'M
der way at Frederick, which has formed
the main task before the society dur
ing the period covered by the report.
The hope was also expressed that the
dissatisfaction existing between GER
tain society of the national order
would be eradicated so that all might
work together with noble unanimity
of purpose.
At the meeting were Mrs. D. r. An
derson, Mrs. Walter Charlton, Mrs.
Raymond Demere, Mrs. Charles NJ.
Dixon, Miss Mary Ellis, Mrs. w. w.
Gordon, Miss Eugenia Johnston, Mrs.
Joseph r. Lamar, Mrs. ]. NJ Lang,
Mrs. Charles Lloyd, Mrs. George Mac
Whorter, Mrs. p. w. Meldrim, Mrs. S.
H. Miller, Mrs. Maria Minis, Mrs. l..
M. LeHardy, Mrs. Thomas S. Morgan,
Mrs. w. G. Morrell, Mrs. T. S. Wylly,
Mrs. R. w. Thiot, Mrs. George w. Ow,
ems, Mrs. ]. ]. Warning, Mrs. Charles
Barney, Mrs. ]. ]. Wilder, Mrs. w. L.
Newcome, Mrs. l.. G.. Young, Mrs. w.
D. Simkins, Mrs. Eldred Simkins, Mrs.
Fleming Tinsley. Mrs. Edward c. An
dqrSOn Mrs Harherf NIrS A