The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-11-15

ing by sweet Little Elizabeth Rem
froo Cooper, of Monument Erected
by vance County Daughters Of the
GOnfcdefacy, the Exercises Being
brilliant Throughout. with Fully
$500 Present-A Banquet to Con-
tolerate Veterans Ending Il Great
Gay III Henderson.
BY EDWARD 4. BRTTTON.
Henderson, Nov. 10.-A glorious
work by noble women came to fuI1
Irultion here today, when, as sweet
little Elizabeth Renfroe Cooper pulled
the cords releasing a covering of Con-
Tolerate flags and revealed to the
thousands h cheered a magnificent
Confederate Of gray gran
ite, thirty-tive feet high. Surmount-
luE the shaft is the bronze figure Of
a Confederate private in fighting trim,
his rifle at present arms
The day was one to which Hender-
son and all Vance county has looked
Onward with the keenest interest. 1t
WAS a great day, ideal in it's sunshine,
tempered by the breeZe-a Southern
autumn day as fit for the Out-Of-dOOr
exercises us could be g ined. Erect
ed at the front of the lawn, midway
betWeen the courthouse and the resi-
dence OF Mr.. A. G. Zollicotfer, there
gathered here for the exercises fully
900 people, the day being one in
which tribute was paid, not alone to
the heroic dead, but to the splendid
Womanhood forming the membership
OF Vance County Chapter. United
Daughters CT the Confederacy, by
whose efforts, under the able leader
ship of its president, Mrs. Sidney P.
Cooper. the monument was erected,
becoming HendeTson's chief ornament.
The for the exercises of the
day was elaborate, and every feature
of it was carried to success. Begin
ming with a procession, in which Con
federate veterans, State soldiers,
school children and citizens took part,
there came next the formal exercises,
the unVeiling of the monument, ad-
dresses by Governor w. w. kitchln
and Gen. Julian S. Carr, commanding
the North Carolina Division of United
Confederate Veterans, who We're hap-
PLY introduced. there being vocal II
instrumental music. The day came to
. happy close at an elegant banquet
in honor Of the Confederate veterans
given by the Daughters OF the Con-
feGeracy. In speech after speech, II
in private conversation, splendid trlb-
utes were paid the noble daughters
Of Vance county, who made the event
possible by their energy, sacrifice ana
heart-lOve for the Veterans OF the
Grey.
\ Great Crowd Present.
Il was at 1880 that the great crowd
gathered on the courthouse green
and, filling the street, heard the
sound Of approaching music and head
fE - Do, Y IN ID JJnnynT com m a H0eT
Of Henry /. Wyatt Camp, United CON
Tolerate Veterans, who Walked with
Miss Jessica Smith, daughter OF the
designer of the Stars and Bars, there
anne the veterans Of Henry L. wyatt
camp and visiting veterans, there De
Iug some $50 present during the OK,
t~rcises. Next came automobiles anu
carriages containing the speakers,
members of the Daughters Of the Con-
f.deracy and invited guests, these
passing through the porch OF the Aoi-
I~icoffer residence to the handsomely
decorated stand at it's side, the oeco-
r@tiOns being of Confederate f1aSs on
the branches of North Carolina pines.
Here G%oernor Kitchin stood and re-
Viewed the procession of pupils OF the
Henderson graded schools, in charge
of superintendent j. T. Alderman and
the teachers, there being in line nearly
SIX hundred children bearing small
Confederate flags. AS these passed
the Harriet Cornet Band, in new ana
handsome uniforms of garnet and
black, rendered music and then came
the Vance county military. Company
=, Third Regiment, in or
capt. w. H. Wester, with First Lieu
tenant r. j. Jones and Second Lieu
tenant Perry Rose, the company snow
ing up finely in it's khaki uniform. Inc
"details Of the procession were IN
charge of Mr.. w. 3. Parham, CHIEF
marshal, and his assistants, Messrs.
bennett Perry, Leslie Perry, Thomas