The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-05-02


; She spoke of the pleasure of officially
welcoming them and knew that she
voiced the feeling Of every member of
her Chapter when she welcomed them
as an individual member of her Chap
ter and as citizen Of Greenwood.
Judge s. R. Coleman, representing
the Hugh A. Reynolds Camp, United
Confederate Veterans, welcomed the
visitors, thanked them for their efforts
to perpetuate in the memory Of future
generations the great deeds of the
Southern soldiers and blessed them
for the humane acts of kindness to
old and enfeebled Confederate Veter-
ans and their families. He declared
that while none would again establish
/. slavery in the South he felt that the
cslored race was far happier during
the time when they were slaves than
they are now as freedmen. When the
u. D. c. Convention was last held in
this city, thirteen years ago, it was
Judge Coleman who welcomed them
on behalf Of the Hugh A. Reynolds
Camp.
Judge Monroe McClurg was next in
troduced who extended welcome in
behalf Of the Mildred Humphreys
Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans.
He expressed great pleasure for the
honor Of being allowed to take part in
the initial meeting of the convention
and glowingly paid tribute to the ef-
forts of local Daughters who have
made possible the erection of the Con-
federate Monument on the Court
House Green and the erection Of the
Confederate Memorial Building, where
the remaining meetings of the Con-
vention are to be held. General Nc
Clurg is an orator of rare ability and
during the few minutes of his address
held his audience spell bound.
Following quartette, Bonnie
Sweet Bessie" sung by Mesdames
Miller, Lomax, Wright and Miss
Mabry, Mrs. Wilmington introduced
Mrs. Virginia Redditt Price, Of Car
rollton, President of the Mississippi
Division.
Mrs. Price thanked the different or
CARNATIONS for the glad welcome ex-
;ended to the Convention and declared
that she was not surprised in the
east, as Greenwood's hospitality has
become famed over the state. She
inew she said, that every delegate
would have the best time that she had
lad at convention and that she was :.
proud to have the convention meet
lere. Mrs. Price is from Carrollton
md explained that as her town and :.
ounty could not entertain so large an :,
Issembly, and as Lefore formerly was !.
,art of Carroll, she felt like Carroll !.
vas in part entertaining the Conven-
ion. She declared that the U. D. G. F..
we're a band of patriotic women who :
lave organized to do honor to the !"
memory of the Confederacy. She told =
4 the work accomplished by the or
,anization and Of what is expected =
0 be accomplished in the future. VI
At the conclusion of her response - J,
he was presented, by Mrs. Lloyd - :.
in behalf of the Mississippi -
,ivision with beautiful stirling nil :,
er vase, ingraved as follows: 'In Low y
,g Appreciation and Remembrance" -
lrs. Price was much affected when -
he accepted the token Of love and ad- y
liration extended by the organization e
,hich she has headed and in voice -.
roken with tears Of appreciation she 'n
,anked them. -
Before she was seated she was again "
llled to the front Of the rostrum to -
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