The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1916-11-02
Former Alabama Senator Prin-
cipal Speaker on Program
Yesterday.
MEETING PRESIDED
OVER BY VANCE
Sons of Veterans to Hold Their
Second Meeting This After
noon.

The Mississippi Division, United
Confederate Veterans, began its
twenty-sixth annual reunion here
yesterday, the initial session having
been held at the Lowndes county
court house at 10 o'clock yesterday
morning, and having been called to
order by Col. John A. Webb, of jack
son, adjutant-general of the division.
An invocation of Gods blessing upon
the assemblage by Dr. d. B. Waddell,
of Meridian, chaplain-general, opened
the program, and then followed ad-
dresses of welcome on behalf of the
municipality and Of various local pa
liotie organizauons. ten. h. Z.
Sykes, city attorney, welcomed the
visitors on behalf of the municipality,
Hon James r. Harrison on behalf of
Isham Harrison Camp No. 81, United
Confederate Veterans, and Hon. j.
r. Frierson on behalf of the Column
bus Camp, Sons of Confederate Vet
Grams. Response on behalf of the
veterans was made by Col. w. A..
Montgomery Of Edwards. and on be-
half of the Sons of Veterans by Gen.
N. B. Forrest, of Biloxi, adjutant-
general of the parent organization.
At the conclusion of Gen. Forests
address Colonel Webb turned the
convention over to Gen. Calvin b.
Vance, Of Batesville, commander of
the division, who delivered a sterling
address. Committees on credentials
and resolutions made, reports after
which the convention adjourned until
2 O'Clock p. m.
The principal feature of the session
yesterday afternoon was the annual
address to the veterans by Capt. F..
S. White of Birmingham, former U.
S. senator from Alabama. Capt White
is native of West Point, and served
throughout the civil war as an officer
in the First Mississippi Cavalry He
removed to Birmingham number Of
wears ago, and when the late Senator
Joseph E. Johnston died in 1913 was
elected to serve out his uneXpired
term.
Other speakers at the session in the
afternoon were Mrs. V. r. Price,
president of the Mississippi Division,
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Mrs. Daisy McLaurin Stevens, former
president Of the parent organization,
and several members of the Stephen
ID. Lee Chapter, United Daughters Of
the Confederacy, of this city.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans
of the State, many of whom have al
ready arrived, will hold their first ses-
sion in the auditorium of the city hall
at 800 o'clock this afternoon. The
meeting will be presided over by Gen
A.. L. Yates of Columbia, commander
of the organization, and prominent
among the speakers are to address
the assemblage is Gov. Theodore G
Bilbo.
Sixty inmates of the State Home
for INDECENT Confederate Veterans
at Beauvoir are here to attend the re
union, having arrived over the Mobile
and Ohio railroad Tuesday morning
in special coaches which were provid
ed for their use by the transportation
committee of the Mississippi Division
United Daughters Of the Confeder
acy.
The advance guard began to ar
rive Tuesday, GeA. Vance, Gen
Webb and Gen. Forrest having
reached the city on morning and af
ternon trains, while Capt. Frarl
White, the principal speaker Of thu
reunion, came in from BIRMINGHAM
Tuesday night. Some OF the vet
erans arrived earlier ,haa expected
ana arrangements for charters ha,
rot been provided whcn they reache'
the city. Members of the entertain