Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-10-23
U. D.. (. CONVENTION FORMALLY OPENED City, Schools, Veterans. Citv Beautiful, Sons and Daugh- ters Welcome Delegates. - 100 DELEGATES HERE convention Will Be in Session Four Days-Reeeption For Visitors
 Tonight.
100 DELEGATES HERE

pays Reception For Visitors
 Tonight.
 The delegates to the seventeenth | annual convention of the Arkansas l. plVlslon of the United Daughters of .iie NoIllederacy were given an en- thuslasCc welcome last night when tue openlng session of the four days 1 meeting was held at the Bluff City Club hail. The welcome was eXtend- ed jointly ty representatives of the city, the Confederate Veterans. Sons o1 veterans, local chapters of the IT.. U. C., the public schools and the City Beautiful Club. Mrs. B. E. Benton, president of the David o. Dodd Chap 1 ter, Daughters of the Confederacy, presided. Nearly hundred visiting delegates were in attendance.
 several fine musical numbers add ed to the pleasures of the evening, In the absence of Mayor A. c. Jordan, who. is in Little Rock, Acting Mayor Fred Fox welcomed the visitors on behalf of the city. The address of Hon. Charles Coffin, of Batesyille, was especially interesting and Mrs. L. K Land, in welcoming the visitors on behalf of the City Beautiful Club dis played hersusual talent for originality and kept the assemblage in an uproar with her fine humor.
 The program as carried out fol- lows:
 Music, selected, Miss Julia Will Hams.
 Invocation, Rev J. M. Lucey. iE
 Welcome from the City, Hon. Fred Fox.
 Welcome from J. Ed Murray Camp, U. c. ", Prof Junius Jordan.
 Welcome from Jno. Selden Roane Camp, U. s. C. ", Hon. H. K Toney.
 Welcome from Ella K. Newsom Trader Chapel, U. D. C., Miss Anna King Flournoy. ss Welcome from the r: Schools, Col. Sam Taylor Welcome from City Beautiful Club, Mrs, ? L. K. Land. Hese=-.sgy. Welcome from D. A. R., Mrs. Julia Noel. s
 Welcome from David o. Dodd Chapel U. D. C., Mrs. H. A. Mccoy. 5 Solo, selected, Miss Bessie Brown. Response to Addresses of Welcome, Mrs M. w. Cole, member of Anna Spencer Semmes Chap. U. D. C., Will son, Arkansas. ., "Hurrah for the U. D. e. Newsom Trader Chapel Chorus
 Introduction of State President, Mrs Homer F. Sloan.
 "Interesting Incidents of the war, General Chas. Coffin. B. Dixie" U. D. c. Chorus. | Program For Today.
 Convention called to order by State President, Mrs. Homer F. Sloan.
 Prayer, Rev. w. c. Davidson.
 II Dreampt I Dwelt in Marble Halls" Miss Caro Hightower.
 Ritual-Leader, Mrs. M. l.. Bell. Presentation of Gavel-given by Mrs. Marion Dewoody Pettigrew to Arkansas Division U. D. c. (This gay el was made from a maple tree that grew on the battlefield of Marks MilD, Mrs. Earl Phillips.
 Acceptance-by the State Presi- dent, Mrs. Homer F. Sloan. Report of Credential Committee,
 
 Miss Julia Noel.
 Placing Chapter Flags, giving Mot to-Custodian, Mrs. s. c. Alexander. :. Music-"Song of the Flag, Mrs. Hinton Ferguson.
 Report of State Officers.
 Report of Auditing Committee, Mrs. c. l.. Moore, Jr. Report of Member General Commit fee for Notices, Emblems and Souve- nirs Mrs, Mary Cook Morrow. Lunch. 12:3O-Compliments David Owen Dodd Chapter.
 Afternoon.
 Convention called, first vice presl- dent in chair, Mrs. T. J. Sifford.
 Invocation, Rev. w. c. Davidson. Parade Review" Aqrunclatlon Academy Orchestra,
 Presidents Address, Mrs. Homer F. Wilson.
 Report of Chapters Report of Director of Children or Confederacy, Mrs. Pratt Cates.
 Renort on Confederate Museum' Mrs. B. B. Benton.
 Music-s feet e d-Miss B es sic Brown. o,. ,,u ,x,vo, bv the Daughters of the American Revolution complimentary to Daviu Owen Dodd Chapter, U. D. C.. visiting delegates and friends, United Con!ed- erate Veterans and Sons of Confed- crate Veterans.