Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-10-17
DAUGHTERS or
THE mCONFEDERACY
Held Notable Meeting at Hunting
ton This Week.
OFFICERS WERE ELECTED
FOR ENSUING YEAR

iCn EHn
Mrs. McSherry Reelected President
n Miss Poweli Of shepherdstown,
Recording Secretary-Much Inter-
est Was Shown In Meetina-Mrs.
McSherry a Delegate to Convention
Huntington, Oct. 10.-With the
election of officers the annual conven-
ton of the West Virginia state Fed
GRAFTON Daughters of the Confederacy
in session at Carnegie hall closed to
meet ext year at Morgantown. The
convention was one Of the most pleas
ant in the history of the state fedora
ton, having been particularly pleas
ing both to the people Of Huntington
and the Daughters OF the Confeder-
acy. Thursday night a grand recep-
ton was rendered by the local chap
ter at the Elks hall in honor of the
visitors. The affair was one of the
most conspicuous social successes of
the year.
The sessions were busy and inter-
esting ones, many important matters
having been acted upon. A memorial
service in honor of the members of
the state federation who have died
since the last convention was held.
The chapters were called and the
names OF the departed members of
each reported to the convention. A
selected choir sang Nearer My God
to Thee"
The committee recommended the
adoption of a state seal and the Sc
curing of a die to be placed in the
hands of the recording secretary; the
appointment of a state registrar; con
tributions of the several chapters to
the funds being secured for the erec-
ton of monuments al Arlington and
Shiloh; the placing ola West Virginia
exhibit in the Solid South room 1t the
Confederate Museum at Richmond, to-
gether with the appointment OF a re-
gent and vice regent to care for the
exhibit; the adoption Of a resolution
fayoring arbitration in international
disputes but refused to recommend
the bringing of the general convention
to West Virginia.
These recommendations were taken
up in the order and several OF them
were discussed at length. The adop-
ton of a state seal was ordered and
a committee appointed to design suca
a seal. The die which has previously
been used by the state secretary is
the property of Berkeley Chapter.
On the question of contributing to-
wards the erection of monuments at
Arlington and Shiloh the convention
expressed itself as favoring contribu-
tons towards these ends and also ia
voring the erection of a shaft at
Charleston.
The convention also voted for the
appointment of a state registrar who
shall keep a record of the members
of each chapter. The recommendation
for an exhibit in the Richmond mu-
scum was also favorably acted D
Peace by arbitration was heartily APP
proved by the convention the resolu-
ton adopted being highly commenda-
tory of the attitude taken by the
American government on this ques-
ton. Belated reports from Morgan
town and Hedgesyille were heard.
Mrs. McSherry, the present presi-
dent, was elected as a delegate at
large to the general convention at
Atlanta, Ga, in November.
The addresses by Mrs. L. G. Buff
ington, president of the local chapter.
Miss Maurel, of Parkersburg, and
Mrs. McSherTy, the state president,
were enthusiastically received. In a
tliCl Ldih Mfc. Lively, q uISILDCT VI
the West Virginia tuberculosis so
ciety, made a strong plea for the G.
operation Of the chapters in fighting
the white plague" The reports of
the seventeen chapters represented
were very interesting and showed
the activity of the organization in
providing for the needy soldiers and
erecting monuments to those who fell
in the strife. The historians report
was heard with much pleasure ami
manifested the earnest effort OF that
officer, Miss Mary Stribling, to collect
accurate data relative to the four
years of bitter struggle and the fol-
lowing years of the Reconstruction
Previous to adjournment the West
Virginia Federation of the U. D. c.,
elected officers as follows: