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The E. S. Rugeley
chapter of the U.D.C. had a called meeting at the home of the president
on Tuesday afternoon to make final arrangements for the unveiling of the
beautiful new monument to our confederate dead. The ceremony will take
place in the afternoon at
two-o'clock
on Friday, the 17th of January, instead of the 19th as was first
intended, in order that the school children may attend in a body. We
expect to have some good speakers here at that time and cordially invite
everyone to come out and help us make this a day that will long be
remembered in the history of
Bay City. Judge Norman G. Kittrell of Houston, Gen. Felix Robertson and Gen. Van
Zandt of Ft. Worth and Col. Joke Wolters, are among the out of town
speakers. The governor of the state, Mr. Colquitt has been asked, but we
fear now that he will not be present on account of the state legislature
being in session at that time. Mr. John E. Linn will make the address
for the Daughters, and Judge Holman will receive the monument as the
representative of the county.
We hope for a good
representation from all the nearby chapters, Victoria, El Campo,
Wharton, Palacios and Angleton. A reception will be given for our guests
on Friday evening at the home of Mr. Henry Rugeley. Little Misses Mary
LeTulle Rugeley and Lucy Phillips will pull the cord that tears away the
veil from one of the most perfect pieces of workmanship in the state,
and the one great work of which the E. S. Rugeley chapter is proudest.
The
Matagorda News,
January 10, 1913
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