The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1882-10-19
OUR HAVERSACK
And the very Substantial Ratons Which it Contains
for the RNYs.


for the Boys.
The G. A. z. is to be extended into Idaho.
A camp of the Sons of Veterans has been or
gained at Hazleton, Pa.
\ charter has been asked for to organize
G.. \. Il. Post at Ellettsville, Ind.
A new Post of the G. A. R. is to be established
at Marshall, Saline county, No, very shortly.
Post No IA Cnls) has been organized at
Avon, Illinois, for three months 1t has now
forty members.
Post Reno, No. So, at Nickerson, Kansas,
recently organized, has now over fifty members
and is still recruiting.
A delegation from Post and other Granl
Array Posts of Boston visited Gen. Lander
Post at Lynn, Thursday evening.
Thoburn Post, G.. A. r., held Campfire at
Martins Ferry, Ohio, last Wednesday evening,
to which they invited their lady friends.
George w. belong Post, No 10, G. A. R., was
organized on September 18th at Honolulu,
Hawaii, with half hundred comrades Joined
or in prospect
A new Post of the Grand Army of the Re-
public is to be established at Iron Furnace,
Ohio. There are already tweRty-seven MEM
bers, and charter has been applied for.
A grand festival will be the first entertain
ment i'll the Grand Army series, at Martins
Ferry, Ohio, this fall and winter, and the dates
are marked for the ID, Sd and 4th of No.
vember.
Several members of the W. II. Sargent Post,
No. 20, G. A. R., GAINESVILLE, Wis, under COM
mand of S. c. Cobb, visited Darlington, Wis,
on Tuesday evening last to organize Post in
that city.
Since last issue of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE,
we have had the pleasure of sending to Nation
al Headquarters requests for the organization
of Posts at Charlenoix, Mich, and at Spring
Mills, New York.
A committee of arrangements has been ap-
pointed by the W. H. Sargent Post, No. 20, G.
A. R., of Evansville, Wis, for the purpose of
holding dance on the anniversary of the or
ganization of the Post, October Goth.
The veterans of Rawlins Post No. 1, Grand
Army of the Republic, smoked around their
Campfire at Cosmopolitan Hall, Washington,
D. c., Saturday, and passed the cheering glass
around mid the sound of old camp songs.
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on the staff of the Commander-in-C Chief, G. A.
r., by the appointment Of Augustus Harring-
ton, aide-de-camp, this being one of the four
from the Department in that
State.
Commander-in-C Chief Vandervoort of the
Grand Army of the Republic, viii be in Balti-
more on the 9th inst, to participate in the
ceremonies of dedicating q new hall to Harry
Howard Post, on South CarrolltOn avenue, near
Baltimore street.
Post 10, G.. A. R., of Stoneham, Mass. opened
its fair Friday evening in the Town Hall. Tho
Post paraded the principal streets early in tho
evening, and the exercises at the hall consisted
OF an address by Department Commander Geo
II. Patch, of Boston.
Last week there was organized in Rivermore,
Cal, by Senior Vice Department Commander
J. NJ. Davis, Lou Morris Post, No. A, Grand
Army of the Republic. Eleven old comrades
of the war of 1861 and 1865 were duly mus
tered, and T. F. Carnduff, Past Post Commander
of Candy Post, No. Is, and Comrade George B.
of Lyon Post, No. S, were transferred
to Lou Morris Post by card.
delegation from Gibbs Post, of Warsaw,
New York, comprising Assistant Inspector, J.
NJ. Smith, Augustus Harrington, member of
the staff of COmmander-in-Chiof Paul VAN
dervOort, and Comrades II. \. Swan, c. II.
Croker, and Frank Johnson, attended special
meeting of L. F. Taylor Post, of Attca, on the
evening of September so Attica Post has q
of over seventy comrades in good
standing, although it has been organized but
little over n year.
John A. Dix Post G.. A. f., held an open
camp meeting at Druid's Hall, san Jose, Cal,
last week, which was well attended by friends
of the Post, their wives, and daughters. \ fine
literary and musical programme was carried
out, including Aud Lang Syne, by members
of the POST remarks by Commander Taber;
quartette, Soldiers Farewell" Comrades Par
vim, Nourse Purdy, and Russell; Sherman's
March to the Sea-" COmrade l.. d. Combc;
% America" by the members. Supper and q
social time followed.
At Wyoming, n. Y, the Charlie Bills Post of
the Grand Army of the Republic has been
instituted by Col. A. 3. Lawrence, assisted by
delegations from James s. Wadsworth," John
p. Robinson" "John VI. Hutchinson" and
: Gibbs Posts The officers installed arc: E.
H. Owen, Commander; c. H. Miller, S. V. c.;
]. T. Faulkner, J. V. c.; c. L. COwley, Adju-
-ant; Henry S. Strong, Quartermaster; J. B.
Russell, Surgeon; J. A. Strayline, Chaplain;
Elisha Lewis, o. D.; George c. Welton, o. e.:
F. Litz, Serg't-Major.
monument erected BY the Twentieth
Maine Veteran Association on ROundtop, Get
,ysburg, was unveiled on Wednesday, Gen.
,ral Joshua Chamberlain, former commander of
he regiment, with a large delegation of vet
,rans, and Colonel John B. Bachelor, superin-
endent of tablets and legends of the Gettys-
,urg Battlefield Memorial Association, went
rom Boston by the Fall River Line Monday
hight. General Ellis Speer, of Washington, ID.
J., with large number of ex-Othcers and
friends, arrived at Gettysburg Tuesday even
ug.