Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-10-29
DAUGHTERS OF TIE C0NFEDER.
ACY.

More than 200 Georg women will
assemb' e in Athens Tuesday for he
annual state convention of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy says
the Savannah Morning News This
will be the eighteenth annual meeting
of society dedicated to keeping green
the memory of those Georgians who
fought for the South iii the war be-
tween the states. Athens is preparing
to do honor to the visitors, and its
chamber of commerce has called upon
the business men of the city to deco
rate their shops and offices with the
Confederate dolors, emblematic of
those ideals which the Daughters Of
the Confederacy serve.
That the meeting should be held in
'thens is eminently s,>tab'e since
there is placed the greatest memorial
work the Georg a Daughters have yet
established not a monument to dead
rial hall, a dormitory at the State Nor
NAL school where girls of Confederate
for professional life, and where he
chapters of the state have furnished
rooms and given scholarsh ps to nee
dy students. For many years educa-
tional work of this kind has been car
maintaining the Winnie Davis Memo
rial hall the Georg a Daughters. keep
Francis Barlow Memorial fund from
which scholarships are given to the
contribut Ons for education are often
received and these are applied to a
general scho arship fund and placed
at schools n various Georgia cities.
Since the beginning more than :
goo Georgia women have been en-
rolled as members of the state branch
or an organization that is represented
not only in the South, but in many
other states of the union and that has
total membership of more that 3d.
600. Savannah has the largest chap
ter in Georgia, with a membership of
$50, and it's single contribution annual
ly to the Barlow Memorial fund is
$500. 1t maintains two rooms and
three scholarships at the Winnie Da-
Wis Memorial hall, and the children )
chapter of this city, which is also the
largest in the state, has furn shed a
third room there.
Organized in a day closer than our
own to the great struggle, the Daugh-
tiers of the Confederacy have cherished
the memories of that sad and splen-
did time, interpreted its idea S to a
younger generation, and through their
devoted labors will preserve those
deals and memories to remote pros
perity. AS the bitterness of a war
has come to be FORGOTTEN and the sense
of a united nation grows stronger,
they have gone about with loving care
marking the graves of those who died
for the Lost Cause and the sacred
spots on which its battles were fought
1t is significant that at the APP
preaching meeting n Athens, one of
the addresses, that by the president,
Mrs. Lamar, vii be on The Daugh-
ter of the Confederacv as a Citizen of
the Republic" and on the same even
ing Mrs. Stevens, of Mississippi, will
speak on The Daughters of the Con-
federacy of the South" For the first
tine the Daughters of the state will
visit n body the Winnie Davis Mem
orial hall. "A living monument" It
has been justly ca led, for its work
goes on from year to year, growing
in possibil ty for service, and the
memory of the president of the Con-
federacy, through the name of his be-
loved daughter is nobly perpetuated.
Totty Twink etoes-"An audience of
deadheads is always cold" Polly Pink