The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-08
MEMORIAL DAY WAS POSTPONED BY CAMP Date Was Changed from April
 26 to June 3 TO JEWELL MONUMENT Arrangements Made to Send Delegates To New Orleans convention-com-
 munication From G. A. R. Is
 Read-other Business.

At the meeting of Camp Hardee. .. c. N yesterday afternoon a motion was carried postponing the Memorial Day services of the camp from April 26 to June 3. Dr. J. c. Abernathy then moved that the regular meeting which will take place on April 21 be held at Elmwood cemetery at 2:30 D. m, and that the un- yelling of the monument occur at that time. His motion also provided that all Veterans, Sons of Veterans and Daughters of the Confeedracy in Jefferson county be invited to attend It was passed. An amendment to extend the invitation to the Grand Army of the Republic was unanimously adopted.
 Adjutant J. Lawler Darby read the fol- lowing document which was accepted as being the sense of the association in re- gard to a programme for the unveiling ceremony:
 Our deceased commander had appointed Comrade Felix Mclaughlin to deliver the address at the unveiling of the monu- ment, but he declined to do so. He then appointed Dr. Abernathy in his place, as he was chairman of the monument com mittee, and it was largely through his eff forts that the monument was erected
 He also intended to invite Mrs Charles G. Brown to make talk, and Professor Robertson to read short poem. After all was over, he resired that the yeter- ans and ladies sing, Nearer My God to Thee" Chaplain Wells should open with the invocation and close with the bene- diction.
 The above being the wish of our be- loved and late commander, I personally desire, as his adjutant, that it may be literally carried out by the camp. and that the ladies mentioned by him shall contribute to the occasion by their pres ence and sing Nearer My God to Thee
 The following communication was read which met the favor of the camp: Camp Hardee No. g, U. C. V.
 "Comrades-Th department of Alabama, Grand Army of the Republic, will hold it's eighteenth annual encampment on Monday, April 16. A camp fire will be held at Cable hall at o'clock in the even- ing following, to which you are all cor dially invited.
 "Our commander-in-chief, (CorporaO James Tanner, and Adjutant General John Tweedale will be present Addresses will also be made by other prominent G. A. k. and ex-Confederate Veterans
 Please attend and en;oy the occasion with us. ,.and bring your families Frater- nally yours, E. D. BACON,
 Asst. Adjt. Gen'l. 's5
 motion by ex-Governor Joseph |, Johnston that the chair appoint delegates and alternates to the reunion to be held in New Orleans, April 25-27. was accepted and it was further determined that these delegates should be allowed to select the official route to the convention city.
 The special committee on the monument reported that the memorial shaft in Elm wood cemetery has been completed and that it comes up to the terms of the con- tract Whe treasurer stated that he had paid the builders $200 dollars on the ac count of $21s He further reported that there is now the sum of sill .65 In the treasury.
 The secretary stated that the historian of the camp desired the names of all Veterans in Birmingham who were pres ent at the surrender of Lee at Appomat- tox. and arrangements were made to fur nish the required list.
 c. w. Mitchell was elected to member ship in the camp.