The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-15
Grand Street Parade.

campment, and this parade will be
the first of the big events of the gath
ering. Counting the battalion of
United States regulars and the three
big military bands, there will be about
1000 men in line.
The route selected by Adjutant
General Fridge is as follows:
Bailey avenue to Gallatin.
Gallatin to West Capitol.
Capitol to State.
North State to Mississippi.
Mississippi to West.
West to Capitol.
Capitol to Parish.
| Parish to Taylors brick yard.
Taylor's brick yard to Livingston
road, and to Camp Sample.
Today's Program.
The usual routine will be gone
through today, with special details of
officers of the Seventeenth Infantry
as instructors.
The feature of the afternoon will
be a brigade review at 6 p. m, same
being under command of Major Mccoy,
and will be reviewed by Gen. Keesler
and his entire staff
The battalion regulars will give
Butts Manual at $50.
Last Nights Ball.
I The dance at the pavilion last night
was but a repetition of previous
nights, only the crowd present may
have been slightly augmented. 1t did
not seem that there was room for an
other couple on Tuesday night, but a
few more seemed to have reached the
floor, and all Of them had "the best
time of their lives" as one Of the
, young lady dancers expressed it.
| The ladies who were to serve the
merrymakers as chaperones last nigh
we're Mrs. Isadore Dreyfus, Mrs. R. L
{ Saunders, Mrs. Charles McDavitt
Mrs. w. R. Hollingsworth, Mrs. S. H
: Mclean, Mrs. Peyton Hall, Mrs. R
/ d. Jones, RS. J. J. Hood, Mrs. Fayett'
| Ware, Mrs. W. ]. McElveen, Mrs. J
5 S. Cooper.
j The chaperones for tonight are Mrs
: A. c. Crowder, Mrs. E, F. Noel Mrs
a C. Jones, Mrs. Chris Herbert, Mrs
n ]. T. Savage, Mrs. J. w. Power, Mrs
s P. S. Merrill, Mrs. Lamar Ross, Mrs
g C. A. Richardson. Mrs. Albert ZehndeI
e Mrs. J. F, Graves.
Gen. Keesler as Host.
Old-fashioned Southern hospitalit
is dispensed at The headquarters O
Gen. S. R. Keesler, aud seldom doe
he sit down to meal W. 'thout con
. pany." =.
Gen, Keesler is broad and CATH
in all things and when it comes t
playing the host he does not seem a
all partial to any one class or age o
men or women.
Among his guests during the en-
campment there have been some Of tn
: highest of the state officials, inclut
ing the governor, and the guests o
' the governor and his wife; there hav,
been old men and women, and thos
. of middle age, but LAST though by nj
- means least, there have been score
of the younger members of Jackson
society.
A cordial and hearty welcome ha
been extended to one and all, tn
high and the low in official life, tn
rich and the poor, fare equally as wei
and all are made to feel at home.
Reception at Mansion.
$ Mrs Noel, the wife of the Cover
9 or, threw open her doors yesterda
\ afternoon to the wives and sweet
r hearts of the officers of the army a
n well as to other visitors in the Capita
a CITY during these gala times, and wa
D assisted in receiving by a very of a
a handsome women as were ever With
9 the walls of the Mansion. Hundred
e of the ladies of the >city, as well a
,. their guests, called during the afte
d noon and were most delightfully."- el
tertained.
Later in the evening Gov, Noe
It played the host to the officers of tf
S. camp, and hundreds of his friend
t. and neighbors called to pay their r
r spects and to become personally a
d uuainted with the men of war.