The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-10-29
REUNION OF THE
CONFEDERATES AT
HOUSTON, TEXAS
Predicted viii Be Grandest
Ever HeldEAIl Railroads
Grant | Cent Rate.

sands of Confederate Veterans, their
relatives, friends and visitors wNo will
meet at Houston October to s in
one grand reunion.
The other conventions to meet in
Houston during week October 5 to 8,
in addition to the United Confederate
Veterans, will be the 25th annual
reunion of the Sons of Confederate
Veterans and the 21st annual conven-
ton of the Confederated Southern
Memorial Association, to all of whom
Houston extends a cordial welcome.
Miss Sadie Ruth Aldridge of Ell
Paso is sponsor in chief of the United
Confederate Veterans for the reunion
Miss Aldridge is eligible for member
ship in all the national patriotic
women's organizations in America and
is also entitled to. membership in the
Daughters Of the Republic OF Texas
She is therefore considered happy
choice as chief sponsor to the veter
ans. Miss Aldridge is the daughter
of a daughter" of the Confederacy.
Miss Lillian Webb of Jackson, Miss
issippi, will be sponsor in chief fol-
the Sons of Confederate Veterans. She
is a daughter of General John A
Webb, adjutant general of the Missis.
sippi Division of the U. C. V.
Houston expects to have a camp
Of Sons of Confederate Veterans more
than 1000 strong, to greet the veter
ans and visiting Sons and act as Of
fetal hosts to them. When prepare
lions for the reunion were started the
local camp of the Sons Of Veterans
was wholly decayed. A new camp
was organized and named Albert Sid
ney Johnston Camp, after the grea'
Texas general. In four weeks it has
grown from nothing to COZ members
The Wednesday before the reunion
had been declared Sons of Veter
ans Day in a proclamation by Mayor
Amerman, and teams of Sons, opposed
by teams of Daughters of the Confed
eracy were to work for distinguished
service" awards, signing up new mem
bers. Though the applications are not
all in, 1t is considered certain that the
camp roster has passed the 1,00t
mark, making it twice the size of the
next largest camp, that at Atlanta
Ga.
All over Texas the reunion is stimu
lating Sons of Veterans to organize
camps and revive old ones, to attend
the reunion and welcome the hosts OF
the Confederacy of Texas for wha,
will no doubt be the last time.
/: Carl Hinton, adjutant in chief, whl
has moved his headquarters from
Denver to Houston, until after the re
union, reports the organization of 2!
new camps of the s. c. v. in Texas.
Veterans who attend the reunion
need not worry about getting lost il
Houston. Arriving at the stations
they will register and be assigned tt
quarters. A Boy Scout will take each
one to his destination, and every mo
tor car owner in Houston will gladly.
pick UP veteran and set him dowr
wherever he is going.
All veterans who expect to be quar-
tered free, as is the custom, are again
warned by the reunion committee te
bring their own blankets. The war de
partment refused cots and blankets
for a camp, on technicality, and con
gress was not in session to correct the
error. The reunion committee wa,
forced to buy mattresses and will "bil
let" the veterans in schools and down
town. buildings where they will b
both comfortable and safe against bad
weather. Efforts made to rent 30 ZOO
blankets, to give each man three. fail
ed completely: they simply can not be
obtained unless they are bought out
right. So each Johnny" will have u
tote his blankets as he did during the
war
A rate of one cent q mile with "sto,
over" privileges, effective October 3
and good until October 81, has been
granted by "A railroads east of the
Mississippi river and 81 west, to mem
bers of any Confederate organization
and their families, who want to at
tend the Confederate reunion.
General N. B. Forrest, commando,
In chief Of the Sons Of Confederate
Veterans. In speaking of the grantina
OF the rate. said: Now get ready for
your crowd. This means that people
can come 20 Horston from any point
In the confederacy for lie a mile-and
the regular fare is now. aye. They
can stay until the last OF October,
take side trips into Texas and see
their friends. relatives or the country:
can attend the Dallas Fair for $1i
round trip, come back to Houston
and start home: stop off at as many
places as they like for &c a mile,
which is almost as cheap as travelling
on~a pass"