The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-22
REUNION Of
j. c. V'S IN
PENSACOLA
Old Vets to Gather Here
Next Month for 18th
Convention.
MAJOR GENERAL JEWELL ISSUES
ORDERS, AND GIVES INFoRMA-
TON REGARDING THE REuNIcE
Low RAILROAD RATES FOR
THE OCCASION.

| The seventeenth annual reunion OF
+! the Florida division of the United
Confederate Veterans is TO convene
here October %, for a session OF two
days, and inasmuch as the railroads
! have agreed to give reduced rates on
! this occasion, there will no doubt be
large gathering here. Major Gen
eral Jewell, commanding the division,
| has issued the following orders call
| ing the reunion:
General Order No. 5.
Headquarters Florida Division, Uni
| ted Confederate Veterans, Jackson
vile, Fla, Sept. II, 1907.
The seventeenth annual convention
and reunion of the Florida Division,
United Confederate Veterans, will be
! held at Pensacola on Wednesday and
Thursday, October 23d and oath next.
All camps in this division shall be
represented. Eacn camp y entitled
to one delegate for every twenty
members in good standing, and one
additional delegate for any fraction
over ten members; but each camp in
good standing is entitled to at least
two delegates.
Camps in arrears for dues for any
year, including 1907, are not in good
standing and not entitled to repre-
sentation.
All camps which have not already
done so will at once report to ColoneI
r. J. Magill, adjutant general, at
Jacksonville, giving names Of dele
gates, RENTING dues. and reporting
names Of members in good standing.
New Camp Formed.
The division commander is pleased
to report a new camp organized at
Brownsville, in Calhoun county, with
in the Jurisdiction of the First Br1-
gade, named Clark Camp, No. 1852,
with w. B. Clark as commander and
a. j. Wood as adjutant-
The following railroads have gener-
ouAy given rates of one cent a mile
each way, plus % cents, to the re-
union: Atlantic Coast Line, Florida
East Coast, Georgia, Florida and Ala
bama, Georgia Southern and Florida,
board Air Line.
stations only October 21st, 22d and
23d, good to return up to midnight Of
October 26th.
This gives a rate for the round trip
OF say, from Jacksonville, S7.65;
Ocala, $3.50; Orlando, 5000; Palatka,
$3.50; Tampa, $11l0. etc.
About the Reunion.
All comrades of the United Confed-
crate Veterans, and all Sons of Con-
federate Veterans, and ladies of the
Daughters of the Confederacy are
cordially invited.
The comrades of Ward Camp No
10, United Confederate Veterans, and
the generous citizens of Pensacola gen.
orally, ask all to give them big gath
ering and are determined to make
the social features of this occasion
unusually interesting and pleasant.
Your commander is glad to say
that he has the promise of the pres
ence with us of the beloved past COM
manders of this division and now on
lOrably commanders thereof, Major
Generals Z. NJ. Law and Francis P.
Fleming
Sponsors and Maids.
The division commander has pleas
ure in announcing the following ladies
as sponsors and maids of honor:
Sponsor-Miss Daisy Hyer.
Maids of Honor-Miss Julia FLOYD
Lee and Miss s. Cary Abercrombie.
These ladies are daughters of
brave and loyal soldiers of the South
ern Confederacy and will be rsspect-
ed and honored as official representa-.
! tives of this division with that chiyal.
ric devotion peculiar to the South and
its manhood.
Commanders will read this order to
| their camps at the first meeting after
its reception; and the members of the
division staff will request the news
! papers in their vicinity to publish the
same for the information of the com.
| rades and others.
MAI GEN. VIM H. JEWELL,
Commanding Florida Division. United
Confederate Veterans.
| Official:
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