S A.N ANTONIO EXPRESS: SUNDAY 'MORI'' GOVERNOR HOBBY INVITED TO ATTEND CEREMONY HERE FEBRUARY 21 I Daughters of American Revolution i92o._____________ Trail of Spanish Explorers HISTORIC ROAD esen FZ 1 I . Z - . ” TO RE DEDICATED >tate m . 7' | I AT»aA.R.MEEMGp MM Win .Ii-ilwr ; ir.nl for til--iin. winch h, uic a.l.lr,-S,r, ind ilurbord, v ■, ' - Mrs. Claude Antonio do ' T s V; f,; V '>? cS *. < '?S?M ^ - inry Hyman. •*•/•. :/ • ; ■' >at l'amla"" : : : •, ,,r„..afa-s iiWM H • ■ : the St. An- < A- M - /*■ | i ,V'* \5 $ wiu include p®p* k m % \y>/ ;v -m >■ M> iU' *< '< ' ?> , '** $8* rs. Lipscomb -\vC '-V' - >> V$& ' Him mmsmm ind members ,: Icty, tho sis- ' - !i:a ba, tho ’Boy and teachers Hobby will :ca6ion. ompletlon of luo Real, or :h begins in Texas to tho and twenty- through San Antonio from Mexico Mississippi, will be held in San Pedro Park at .’1 p. in., February 21, under the auspices of the National Society of the Daughters of tho American Revolution, ac-rdiug to announcement from the Cham-r of Commerce today. The Chamber of Commerce is co-operating with the D. A. It. in making arrangements for the affair. Tentative plans for the dedication of the historic old King’s Highway were submitted by letter to the Chamber of Commerce by Mrs. Lipscomb Norvell of Beaumont, State regent of the National Society of tlie Daughters of the American Revolution. Arrangement of the details of the program, in so far as they will be handled by the D. A. R., will be under the direction of Mrs. Harry Hyman, regent of Alamo chapter, and Mrs. Claud Kccrau, regent of San Antonio de Bexar chapter. Mrs, Norvell announced in her letter that Governor Hobby has been invited to attend the meeting on February 21. She stated further that special invitations to the open air dedication are being engraved for mailing. ‘•Let us honor our State and our Nation by having a ceremony in keeping with Washington’s birthday. Sentiment marks not only trails, it builds nations. It is the flower of civilization,” Mrs. Norvell wrote. ‘‘The trail in the beginning was a road traveled by the Indians und the monks. It blends tho five historic elements in our Texas history, the Indian, the French, the Spaniard, the Mexican and the American. It Is a great moral landmark, a path of the traders and heroes of our Nation, whose dauntless struggles loft us the richest heritage In the world’s history. “This slender thread of a road was surveyed as the northern boundary of Austin’s first colonists' grant. As San Antonio was the objective point traveled by thousands of people in the Southwest, it was called the ‘‘Old San Antonio Rond” from Natchez, Miss. Preceding the coming of the Americans the explorers traveled it, giving In their diaries the Spanish league distances i El Camino Real, the Royal Highway. ---------------------------------- r” across the Incod in San elled on the a efforts of has served Trails com-hc American Old Camino ■ State. She ho old trail has worked Boulder in San Pcdra Park which Us the first of 123 monuments marking the King's Trail through Texas and Louisia/ia. i almost indefntlgably to accomplish that purpose. Mrs. Norvell is now the presiding State regent of the Texas Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and Is one of the early members of the society. She is descended from distinguished ancestry, John Alden of the Pilgrims of 1020, who came over in the Mayflower, being one of her forefathers. Mrs. Norvell has membership In tlvo Daughters of tho American Revolutlo/ti, through eight different ancestors, a member of the Virginia Historical Society, the American Folklore Society, tho National Historical Society, Daughters of 1S12, Daughters of tho Confederacy, the Daugh- ters of the Republic of Texas. ! She is a writer of some note, having writ- ' teiv a. number of biographies of early Texans and stories of Texas history. She has Served the society as State registrar, Rotate chairman of the old trails committee, chairman of the Southern division o£ the. old trails committee, and as chapter re- j gent. i The program of the ceremony as ar- * ranged by Mrs. Norvell, Mrs. Claude Keer-au, regent of the Sun Antonio de Bexar Chapter, und Mrs Henry Hyman, regeut of the Alamo Chapter. Is: i Bugle call, buglers from Fort Sam Hous- j ton and Camp Travis. i Invocation, Dr. Bertrand W. Stevens ! "Onward Christian Soldiers,” Army Post Band. r I Salute to the colors, bugler," ,,\V,7*y'' r*’ n „ A115s ■ f ° < Aho. * if?'3 ox u JOD no”1 soirrS poini'n oqq i|11a\ opnxn pnq -f'onq qojq.tt mom -oojYii: in: pjxxosxo oq sanxni pun onuosqn sjq jo oSmmi.\pu Suxqm nx s.inisjuim uuorloj -n?j °o.iqj jo osjn'oo aqq flnxiuasa.i nx uopon siq pun Siijsnnq .fjnqajnnc* SiijsspxisxiV m uojqox: s,mopxso.xrj nqq xion.uqoq uop.uujiujao -sip d.ivqs x: oqnxn pinoqs ajjqnd nqj. I a\Tn SHI AVVHd ‘Sxq posrnox qxxaxu oqq ui ott ox pan -pxu aqj jxj p.'.xoq xoqqn oaoji oqi qnq • a oq qx:qx xxnpu ri oq.w spuaux * ,fq poqjooso uaaq ‘qnqxidsxp fi.xnqs.jaqa,|