The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-07-16
Will Invite Veterans
Chamber of Commerce Will Ask
Confederate Veterans to
Hold Reunion Here

The Sumter County Chamber OF
| Commerce has requested the City
+! Council OF Sumter to extend an official
! invitation in behalf of the citizens OF
Sumter to the South Carolina Division
Of United Confederate Veterans to
! hold their 1920 reunion in Sumter.
There is not the slightest doubt in
any ones mind that the mayor and al
dermen viii gladly etxend this invita- :
ton, and that the city fathers will go
the limit in helping to entertain the
noble veterans if the convention of
veterans which meets in Greenwood
on July % and %, decides to honor
Sumter by holding the 1920 reunion in
Sumter.
Dick Anderson chapter of Sumter,
United Daughters of the Confederacy
requested the Chamber of Commerce
to invite the veterans to meet in
Sumter and these noble and patriotic
women guaranteed the commercial
organization that the ladies would do
their very best to assist in the proper
veterans should they come to Sum
ter
At the last meeting Of the officers
and directors of the Chamber of Com
merce it was decided to invite the vet
Grams to meet here, but action was
postponed until the next meeting
pending information as to what YVES
the necessary procedure. 1t was learn
ed that among other requirements the
veterans convention must receive an
invitation from the City Council as
well as from other organizations.
The delegation Of Sumter county
veterans who attend the Greenwood
reunion next week will so armed with
the most cordial of invitations from
the Sumter Chamber of Commerce,
Dick Anderson Chapter, of Sumter,
u. D. c., and from other organizations
business and patriotic, and as before
stated, while City Council has not had
time to meet since the request for CO.
operation was. sent the council only
"a few days ago, no one~wflo knows
Mayor L D. Jennings. and Council
men u. P. Booth and D. r. McCallun1
and their love and admiration of the
gallant veterans will doubt for one
moment that the city Of Sumter Will
will be in the game. with the proper
vim to bring the 1920 reunion to Sum-
ter and do their full part. officially
and personally to give the veterans
the biggest time and the heartiest re-
ception they have ever had at a re-
union.
The Sumter county veterans will
exert their influence to 'the last
ditch in the effort to land the 1920
reunion for Sumter, and the veterans
still have enough of the fighting and
the Sumter or Gamecock county spirit
to win out.
ANY organizations Of Sumter or
Sumter County which desire to join
the forces above mentioned in extend
ing an invitation to the Greenwood con-
vention should do so Immediately and
place their invitations in the hands OF
the Chamber of Commerce to be turn
ed over to the chairman of the dele
cation of veterans from Sumter county
to present to the convention next week
in Greenwood
1t is believed that with the ladies
of Sumter backing up the men, Sum
ter county will give the veterans the
biggest reception and warmest well
come they have ever received, because
Sumter women and Sumter men are
intensely devoted to the Confederate
veterans and will not be sparing in
time. effort or money to. give them
the entertainment they so richly de-
serve ut our hands.