The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-10-22
GENERAL ORDER NO 8 TO
U. G. VS.
Headquarters Florida Division. Unit.
ed Confederate Veterans-Ge General
Order No. 8.

iiNoufooi tCio L iOl iud DlN lSlOH, OlIt'
ed Confederate Veterans-Gen Aral
Order No. g.
Gainesville, Fla. Oct. -. 1915.
To the Florida Division. United Con-
iederate Veterans:
Beloved Comrades-Th nearby
date of our twenty fifth annual con.
yention calls me to my duty TO YOU
IN making this announcement:
AT our convention at Lakeland,
October. 1914, the city of Palatka,
Florida, was selected as our next
annual meeting place, emphasis
given to the invitation and the
subsequent events decided your d.
vision commander, after consuita-
ton, to change the location to Ocala,
Fla. Therefore our reunion will be
held at Ocala, on October 1929,
1915. The citizens of this splendid
city after inviting us to be their
guests, have been laboring indus
triously to make our reunion a rec
ord-breaker alone the line of cordial
hospitality and pleasurable Incl
dents.
The year 1915 has marked by
events that emphasize the mingling
of joys and sorrows in our lives :.
The Grim Reaper has moved indus
triously into our ranks; many of our
best known and most beloved have
gone to meet us no more here upon
earth. Those whom you loved to
honor with confidence have gone to
their reward. These thoughts cast
their shadows across our ways as we
too, must soon follow as our ranks
, grow thinner, and our forms bend
with increasing age. Let our hearts
grow warmer and love light in our
eyes CLEAN brighter as we meet once
more in annual reunion.
| Your commander would admonisll
= in love those comrades who have not
kept their good standing by remit
TING their dues. Let each camT
come speedily up to this Requirement:
and let very camp be represented al
Ocala.
Your commander has the Joyful
privilege of announcing to the divis
ion the completion of the monument
to the memory of the Women of the
Southern Confederacy. The splendid
work of your board of trustees II
worthy of your highest appreciation
and they have earned you most at
fectionate consideration. They report
to these headquarters that the wcrl
is complete in every detail and con
tractors paid in full. Let us rejoice
Your trustees have arranged an elab
crate program for unwilling Thu
beautiful tribute to our women. !
street parade in automobiles, will
music and marching state troops is ;
feature. Platform speaking and th'
unwilling eXercises-all of these ant
much more have been provided for /!
the city of jacksonville. Every vet
eran in the State should be at tn
celebration.
The A. c. l.. r. r. is the ofiicia
route to the reunion in Ocala, Fla.
and to the unwilling at Jacksonville
Transportation rates to the unveilin
and reunion have been arranged a
very small cost: an additional cost O
$3.50 from Ocala and Gainesville I,
the unveiling in Jacksonville and re
turn to Ocala will be charged, 81
your n Arrest railroad agent.
give a cordial invitation to tn
! Daughters of the Confederacy and tn
Sons of Confederate Veterans. TIL
division commander pledges YOU III
freedom of our convention. Come an
be with MS
The sponsorial staff of the genera
commanding will he the ladies VIII
accompanied the division to the re
union in Richmond.
On account of the unvetling of III
womcns monument in .lacksonvill
on the 2Gth, we won be able to hay
the opening exercises the evening 10
fore as heretofore but will have
on the morning of the eth. CWed
nesdayl.
Now, comrades, God bless you, an
: hiring you to ocala in a spirit of 10y,
, Let us-if We differ-differ in low
and let our watchword be-, I'VE ar
Brethren"
L. w. JACKSON
, adiutant General and Chief of S;e:.
By order Of
JOHN A. ROSBOROUGH,
Major General. Commanding, Florid