The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16
United Daughters
 0 The Confederacy
omelal organ Alabama Division.

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 The rules, lists, etc, will be sent by the Recording Secretary General, Mrs. A. l.. DowdelL Opelika, Ala. to tho Division Recorders Gas soon as she re- ceives their names and addresses) the U. D. C. furnishing same. The rules now require all orders for Crosses to be with the Custodian three weeks be- l fore date of presentation so that those for January 1S will have to be there by December 29."
 Mrs. J. Asa Rountree: has been ap- pointed Division Recorder. Cross of Honor. and you will send all orders for Crosses to her. taking care that the certificates, alphabetical lists and data, Presidents order for Crosses, and mon- ey, are enclosed.
 At the Gulfport Convention, MT. Gun ningham offered to send the "Confed- crate Veteran gratis to every Chap ter of our order, with as many as ten \ members. As soon as the minutes con- taining revised Chapter rosters were rec I ceived copy was sent Mrs. Rapley. ! Corresponding Secretary, who Fwnl cons | municate with Mir. Cunningham. Your President has expressed appreciation and thanks to Mir. Cunningham for you for this generous dissennnation3 of
 
 gain to each of US. and assistance in | program work as well,
 1 Several Chapters have responded to | the appeal for funds for Arlington, Wirz and Morgan monuments. A strict account will be kept of all funds re- ceived for these objects, which will ac- cumulate as they are sent for each sep- arate and distinct object, and be for warded as designated to proper author ities. As
 Send these contributions to your President, Mrs. J. N. Thompson. Tus- | cumbia.
 ImpOrtant Letter from Recording sec- | ..1e retary.
 As there seems to be some misun- l derstanding regarding manner of send- ing out minutes this year, I deem it | best to come before the chapters again through our onlcial organ.
 l In the distribution of minutes this year the largest chapters received a greater number of copies than hereto. fore--it Is hardly necessary to explain why 1t seems proper and just that a Chapter with a very large membership should receive more than those whose l list is small. In former years it was also customary for all chatpers to send 25 cents to Jefray expenses on minutes. this covering in every instance the cost l l utes have grown with the growing d. vision in interest and bulk and the charges correspondingly greater. Even last year 25 cents did not cover the | cost of sending, the cost being 30 cents on the smallest batch sent by express. Some of the. chapters had followed the Instructions of previous year. twhen minutes of course were not so bulky) and sent only 25 cents. so to, avoid con- fusion added from my own purse the additional cents for each of these chapters, being very glad that I could give myself that pleasure, ard thereby send these minutes prepaid This year all minutes to all chapters (outside of IMontgomery) have been, sent wherever and to every chapter which sent the % cents this money has been returned with the explanation already given. If any chapter seeing this has seut money for minutes and has not received such notification, I shall consider 1t a fa- vor if the sender will write me ttlshf 1 may investigate. ' As intimated before the naihntss of this year are larger than last fiiere- fore the cost of send asSbeenf 8 aitl tie more Some chap eoo,E may figg have received as mafiy as last gea r, have made express{ exceed what chap l ters would care to pay. The minutes left after distribution are now in the hands of the Recording Secretary, and some of them, of course, must keep against "a rainy day. such as distri- button to new chapters formed, send | Ing to other States who ask exchange of minutes. etc. However. there will be some left, and 1T any chapter feels | it to the interest of her chapter to have one or two more, and will write me for same will take pleasure in forwarding them. And just here let me say that one of the most profitable days any chapter could spend would be a day set aside for reading the proceed ings of all conventions as set forth in published minutes Let us not stop with the special proceedings of first and second days reports, but read also chapter reports, which are not only In- Iteresting, but will astonish us with | their marvellous results, make us proud of the work being done by the chapters of our Division, and finally do not forget not only to read but to study the constitution and by-laws.
 I would not thus presume to give this advice were it not for the fact that many chapters have written me asking Information which this perusal of the minutes will furnish better than Icoull l possibly give it Yet Jet no one think I do not welcome the cheerys letters of inquiry this Is for others who do not I write
 It is a matter of deepest regret that find three new chapters left off the roster of the present minutes. I shall not go into explanation of, ,A'whys and wherefores" of this oversight, except to say that 1t was no fault of the print CTS; and as my shoulders are being broadened daily. shall just take this little additional blame on them for the sake of keeping in practice, and beg the forgiveness of these young chapters at Jasper. Georglana and Evergreen. with a promise that they shall be giv- en all the more prominence for this mistake of omission. The President