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PRICE FIVE CENTS‘V-',■**\bout Mvsterious DeathMiami DaugntersConfederacy Presented a Programof Rare Interest.PAPER BY MRS, LUMMUSMusical Features and EloquentAddress by County Superintendent R. E. Halll***v.v.4* /ii§v •*£***tv - k-:-v- mi I mmlm • Wm » s®5C * s*s.r* *- w. .-/*■.vA'A■Pgwi. i. ..'A'fe-;-;• - : - :u~MRSP ANT IN—n tin, interpreter and clerk of Eliseo Aries innate at Washin gton, has become the ?t ate Lansing. I) Antin started for id he died near San Luis Potosi, and Is had warned him not to go into Mexit some Mexican affairsBefore the brilliant colors of the crossed banners of the Union and of the Confederacy, Southern Cross chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy, last night presented to a large gathering in the Woman’s Club auditorium a most interesting and impressive program in honor of the great general whom both the north and the south delights to honor, Robert E. Lee.With flags draping the platform and bowls of red hibiscus adding to thecolor brilliancy, the program was fromfirst to last one of great interest.It was opened by the playing of Dixie by Mrs. Leroy Smith, in which also the audience joined very heartily, and this was followed by the invocation by Dr. Cason.Mrs. J. X. Lummus th*»n read a most eloquent tribute to the life and character of Robert E. Lee, and Mrs. Eugene RomDi delighted the audience with the rendition lt;*f two songs, “Ah Love, Awake/’ and “I Knew a Lovely Garden/* Mrs. Romfh’s lyric soprano was never heard to hotter advantage.Mr. R. E. Hall, superintendent ofschool.,, then gave the following tribute to -Gene ai Lee;*»FORLarger Than the Deutschland toFollow That Vessel to[America.INew London, Conn.. Jan. 19.—It is learned from unofficial sources that another submersible, said to be larger than the Deutschland, is expectedhere.Warehouses of the Eastern Forwarding Company, here, is stored with a cargo of rubber, copper and nickel, waiting the arrival of the Deutschland, whose arrival is expected in advance of the larger vessel.James L. McGovern, the Bridgeport collector of customs, conferred with the officials of the company, ft„ i. L. - ______Prof. Hall’s Address.“It is r*«»t considered good form to begin an address with an apology, but in justice to myself I am compelled to say that 1 received notice only two days ago that 1 was chosen as one of the speakers for this occasion. Being a busy man two days is a very j short time in which to prepare an ad-i dress of any kind, but when 1 am ask -fed in that short time to say somethingI about the greatest man the wholesouth has over produced and to eulogize a general who is pronounced bv many authorities to be the greatest military leader of the nineteenth cen-| tury, I might be pardoned for under-I taking a task so far above my ability j to perform. But being a married man 'I have learned to move when woman speaks and to speak when woman1 am personally much gratified that 1 have been selected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy of Miami to add even a feeble word to the much that can be said of Marse Robert the beloved leader of the Confederacy. In his own veins coursed the proudest blood of American manhood and it is Robert E. Lee the man, of whom I would speak this evening.“We might compare General Lee the soldier with such military geniuses as Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar. Napoleon, Frederick the Great and j even out own Washington Marge Robert does not suffer in the com par-*
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Miami Herald
Miami, Florida, US
Sat, Jan 20, 1917
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