Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-10-26
MUST PRESERVE
 OLD STATE HOUSE Daughters of the Confeder- acy Demand It-Mrs Will
 lis Elected President.
Q 0 N T F s T SPIRITED
Mrs. Wherry Makes Plea For Cid Sol diers-Mcet in Little Rock
 Next Year.

The DaHgh CTS of the Confederaey of Arkansas before closing their seventeenth annual convention here yest .Tday to meet in Little Rock next year, unanimously voted to adopt a dlvi5 on flag, to convert the Prairie Grove battlefield ino a Confederate park and to not only urge the Leeis- ature to preserve the old State House for d museum bat to aid ill beautfy- ng and interesting themselves in the new State Capitol and ;ts grounds. Ac- st.on was also taken that Il result i'll the placing of memorial window in the new State Capitol in memory of David o. Dodd. he young Confederate nero
 Mrs. Earle W. Hodges, wife of the secretary of state, delivered the prin- cipal address aZ.he final session of the Daughters. She spoke on '"The Old State House." Her appeal for ts preservation stirred the enthus- laslc ladies on and it will not be safe for a member ef the Legislature to oppose their movement ill the Gen. eral Assembly. In closing Mrs. Hodges was given quite an ovation when she Sd Il:
 "The men of Arkansas are helping, ut after all it is the women of the stata who are not going to allow the building 70 be sold. It has been stated that, if il were sold at public auction under favorable conditions, the purchase or saIes4priee would amount if div ded up equally, to about two cents for eachapessen in Ark ansa5. The women of the state will 10, insist upon their pos age share of tne proceeds, but rather will join hands with the patriotic men and save the building and grounds from the auct4cneer's hammer. Out n iron stands old Lady Baxter an old civil war cannon that was used dur ing the Brooks Baxter War, doing silent sen incl duty through the long years; nearby is recently placed granite monument in honor of tie nero of 'Lundy's Lane, Gov. Miller, who said, I'll try, sir little farther on another granite slab, placed there 70 keep gleen the memory of heroes If he bloody Xties, while the swans on the old fountain seem to bathe 'oraver in the spray from aboye-all of them bring silent message to aach of Ills which says the old State House shall be kept as lcng as chiv- airy reigns' in the hearts of Southern | people"
 Officers Elected.
 The state division unanimously en- 1 dorsna New Orleans as the next meeting place of tho general U. D. C.. convention. This was preceded by the election of officers, which re- suited in a spirited contest for the presidency. Mrs. Homer F.. Sloan 1 the retiring president was urged to permit her name to be offered for | reelection. "I am your retiring pres dent, love you best in the world ; she said, "but I cannot accept the
 honor again. I have no bee in my bonnet"
 The names of Mrs. R. B. Wills, of Fay etteville, and Mrs. w. B. Folsom, o1
 Hope. were presented. Mrs. Forney Smith in a speech contended that the
 smaller chapters were being discrim
 natea against by the larger ones ir
 he selection of state officers, but
 Mrs. Orlando Halliburton, of the same city, took issue with her and de-
 clared that the minutes of the chap
 .ers and the state organization would
 not bear out the charge. The votlns
 was close and exciting, but Mrs. Will
 lis Was chosen and made nea
 speech of acceptance. She said sh