The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-02-24
G.. A. r.
Annual Encampment at Rockland-Re-
ports and Election of officers.

| The annual encampment of the Maine posts
OF the Grand Army of the Republic was held
IN Rockland, Tuesday. The encampmet met in
farwell hall at II o'clock and was called to
order by Department Commander 1. S. Bangs
OF Waterville. One hundred and thirty-three
delegates representing % out of the 81 Maine
| posts were reported present. Reports were
made by Assistant Adjutant General A. M
Sawyer, Assistant Quartermaster General
george HI. Abbott, Inspector W. G. Haskell,
Judge Advocate benjamin Williams, Chief
Mastering Officer G. f. Foster Medical Direc-
tor Atwood Crosby and Chaplain r. L. How.
Gd.
From the report of Assistant Adjutant Gen
eral Sawyer it appears that there were at the
end of the fourth quarter for 1879 borne on the
rolls of the Department as in good standing "a
posts with membership OF 1884. During 1880
eight posts were mustered in making the whole
number 80. Since December 81 three new
posts have been mustered in and two reorgan-
lZed, making the total number Feb. 81, 1881,
81. The present number of comrades is l, 934
a gain of 800 since the last report Sixteen of
the old posts have gained in membership and
eight have lost. The largest gain was made
loss by Wilson Post of North Turner-14 OF
the eight posts organized during the year,
Douty Post No. % of Dover has the largest
membership 63.
The new posts are Mountfort, No. %, Bruins
WICK; Douty % of Dover; Erskine "a of North
w hltetield; j, f. Appleton % of Pennington;
Thomas F. Rideout 26 of Bowdoinham; A.
Lincoln 20 of Wells; McGilvery 30 of Sears
port; !. s. Sampson 81 of Milo; George Good
WIN 80 OF St. Adams; Farragut q of Bridgton;
joel A. Haycock "a of Calais; --33 of
North Vassalboro.
The total amount expended for charity dur
ing the year was $2,30S 81. OF this Bosworth
Post, No of this city spent $1,924.63.
There are four ladies relief corps in the state,
Bosworth Relief Corps, No. 1, Portland; Heath
Relief Corps. No. 2, Gardiner; Sedgewick Re.
lief Corps No. 8, Bath; B. III. Beale Relief
Corps No. 4, Bangor.
Resolutions of thanks were adopted to Col
John Marshall Brown and the First Regiment
nj. V. M, and the Portland Cadets for escort
furnished at the semi-annual encampment in
Portland.
The tax was raised from to 10 cents on each
member per quarter.
The following officers were elected
department Commander-W. G. Haskell of
Senior Vice Commander-John II. RAYMOND
of Bath.
Junior Vice Commander-A. B. Adams of
Wilton.
Medical Director-Beniamin Williams, I'd,
of Rockland.
Chaplain-Rev: r. l. Howard of Bangor.
Council of Administrations. O. Wads-
worth, Bangor; r. X Galley, Portland; Levi
G. Flint, Monson; j. L. Pierce, Machias; W.
q. Clayton, Bangor.
Delegate at large to the National Encamp-
ment-C. A. Boutelle, Bangor.
Alternate-A. d. Stetson, Bath.
Delegates to the National Encampment-S.W w.
Lane, Augusta; George F. Jenkins, Togus.
Alternates-FrankA Adams, Brunswick; W.
K. Ripley, Kenduskeag.
The officers were installed by Chief Muster
ing Officer John +. Foster of Bangor
Department Commander Haskell made the
following appointments:
Inspectors. o. Rogers, Bath.
Judge Advocate-H. f. Blanchard Aupns
Acting Assistant Quartermaster General
George III. Abbott, Portland.
An invitation was received from Gen. W. S,
Tilton to hold the next annual encampment at
Togus, and it was accepted, the date to be
fixed hereafter.
Louis Wagner, 'Commander-in-c chief of the
National Department, arrived on the II o'clock
train and was received by the staff of the
Commander of the Maine Department. With
Chaplain-in-chief j. f. Lowering he attended
the encampment in the afternoon.
In the evening grand camp fire was held
in Farwell Hall, which had been splendidly
decorated for the occasion by the comrades of
Edwin Libby Post. A substantial supper was
served, after which toasts we're responded to
by Rev. r. L. Howard of Bangor, r. x. Cat
ley OF Portland, Commander-in-chief Wagner,
Rev. j. F. Lowering, Commander l. S. Bangs
of Waterville. w. G.. Haskell of Lewiston, w,
y. Fuller OF the Rockland Courier, and Major
Myrick of Augusta. Excellent music was fur
nished by the Orpheus Club. One of the most
attractive features of the evening was the
walters drill by company of young ladies.
A Bummers' Convention, presided over by
Comrade r. X Galley, followed the camp fire.