The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1913-09-12
TWENTY-THlRD ANNUAL CON-
VENTlON U. D. c.
Monticello, Fla, Aug. 81, 1918.

To the Florida Division: U. c. ":
At your twenty-second annual con
vention, held in Lake City, October
%, "a and %, 1912. a cordial invita-
ton was extended TO you to accept
the hospitality of the city of Pensaco
la, and make that city your reunion
point in 1913. This invitation was &C
cepted with great enthusiasm. Your
commander is in receipt of com
munication from Camp Ward U. c. v
No. 10, reminding us of our engage
ment. In Difference to the wishes OF
the hostess city your commander now
announces that our twenty-third an
nual convention will be held in the
city of Pensacola, October 81, % and
%, A. D., 1913.
When we recall the splendid hospi-
tality extended to us in the past, no.
tably at Ocala, Live Oak, Barlow, Or
lando and Lake City, when we glow
with the loving memory of the sweet
comradeship renewed as we met each
other once more on this side of the
river, then let us rejoice at the near
| by prospect of once more looking into
each others faces here upon earth.
To Brigade Commanders, Officers
of the Division Staff and Camp Com
manders-Your division commander
tdmonishes you in love to perfect all
arrangements, prepare all necessary
reports and put yourselves in readi-
ness : to march without confusion on
the 21st day of October into conven-
ton at Pensacola.
The basis of representation in the
convention viii be one delegate to ev-
cry twenty members of a camp whose
per capita dues are paid, and one adj
ditional delegate for a fraction of ten
additional members; but every camp
shall be entitled to not less than two
delegates, provided that camp has
paid up its membership dues.
This has been a remarkable year of
achievements in the history of our or
ganization, and the end is not yet. 1t
has been year where personal effort
throughout the entire organization
has made itself felt; a year when
progress was the watchword, and
when the division commander and the
camp comrade alike have worked for
the better ment of our organization.
We started the year with thirty camps
organized-in good standing. We
have now forty camps-a gain of ten
camps. We have organized two Mew
camps out of total of seventeen in
the entire south. We have succeeded
in winning the grand reunion in 1914
for Jacksonville, in our own state.
We found an appropriation of $4,000
to aid us in erecting monument to
the Women of the Southern Confed-
eracy upon the statutes of our state.
We have increased the sum to $12,-
600, there being only one dissenting
vote in the house and two in the SEN
ate. We had collected less than $4,000
for our women's monument. We have
now collected $500 in cash and have
a pledge from the contractor of $500
more, making in all $500 in cash, or
equivalent, towards the $4,000 which
we must raise to make the states ap-
preparation available. Against the
$1,000 necessary to make good with
the state we have definite personal
pledges in the city of Jacksonville for
$5025, and unpaid camp pledges of
$607.50, aggregate pledges, $5632.50,
leaving balance to complete our $1,000
only $467.50 Every dollar pledged by
individual or camp is now due and
should be paid at once. They are
pledges of honor. The contractors
are pushing the work. The state is
waiting for us to make good, and we
have passed the period where pledges
unpaid are negotiable, and have
reached the crisis where only the coin
counts. Comrades, let us consider the
gravity of this situation and conc
speedily to the rescue.
Your commander is in close touch
with Major General Joseph H. Bur-
roughs, commander of the Florida Di-
vision of Sons of Confederate Veter-
4 ans. The sons are our natural heirs
and hope of perpetuating our organi-
cation is in the amalgamation of the
two organizations when the proper
time arrives. General Burroughs will
meet us at Pensacola. Let us consid-
er that no camp is perfected in organ
ization without an auxiliary camp of
sons. Let us devote the latter days
of 1913 to organization of our sons,