The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-04-19
IOWA.

The following is a correct list of new Depart
ment officers: Department Commander, Jno B.
Cook, Post No. "A, Carroll; Senior Vice Depart
ment Commander, Chas. L. Davidson, No. 76,
Pattersonville; Junior Vice DepaI tment Com
mander, Geo. w. Bywater, No. 81, Des Moines !;
Medical Director, A. J. Hobart, No. IS, Clinton !;
Department Chaplain, j. B. Kasbeer, No. 81,
Marshaltown; Assistant Adjutant- General, w.
l.. Culbertson, No. A, Carroll; Assistant Quar-
termaster-General, John K Deal, No. Al, Car
roll; Mastering Officer, W. T. Wilkinson, No. Z,
Des Moines. The Delegates to the National
Eneampment at Denver are as follows: w. r.
Manning, No. Is, Newton :; w. V. Lucas, No.
AZ, Mason City; Geo. L. Wright, No. 90, Dem
nisOn; w. III. Salada, No. IL, DeS MOines. At
Large: N. Townsend, No. Is, Newton. Alter
mates: VIM. Yount, No. A. Anamosa; Henry
Fry, No. 6, Atlantic; Robert Head, No. %, JEFF
ferson; III. G. Ford, No. 20, West Side; G. W.
Chafe, No. SO, Dexter. The per capita tax of
the Department for the new year is the same
as last-ten cents. The Department Encamp-
ment appointed Comrades L. S. Tyler, No. 2,
j. B. Morgan, No. /, and n. Townsend, No. 10,
a committee to prepare and present suitable
testimonial to Past Department Commander
Hogin in recognition of his distinguished
services Resolutions were also adopted direct
ing the Chaplain to keep record of deaths in
the Department, the list to be read at each an
nual Encampment, and providing for the open
ing of register of ex-soldiers at the State fair
The largest number of Posts mustered during
the last year by any one Comrade was twenty
six-the work of Special mastering Officer
Charles FL. Fish, of Newton. The report of
Commander Hogin, read at the recent Encamp-
ment, makes the following showing of the
strength of the Department:
1--WE now have one hundred and fifty-eight Q5s)
Posts and an aggregate membership in good stand
ing of four thousand seven hundred and sixty
4760)-a gain of Lightweight (sS) Posts and three
thousand four hundred and sixty e. 400 members.
We have in addition to this mustered eight (Sl
Posts in Dakota Territory, NOW Il permanent De-
partment,l making grand total of ninety-siX (96l
Posts mustered during the year. We have also
twelve (l2l petitions for Posts ready to muster.
The amount in the treasury when assumed COM
maud was three hundred and twenty-six dollars
1925, but we Were called upon to pay the last
three-quarters of per capita tax due from our pre-
decessors to National Headquarters and after pay
ing this amount and other unpaid bills there was
LETT balance of two hundred and forty-five (S2i5)
dollars. Our Assistant Quartermaster-G General 5
reports shows that we now have about fourteen
hundred (Sl, 400 dollars on hand.'
Assistant Adjutant- General Townsend's re-
port, the main points of which are given in
the above extract from Commander Hogins
report, is very full and complete for which he
deserves special credit, in view of the fact that
on entering office he was under the necessity
of deyising an entirely new series of books and
system of keeping accounts.
Comrade William G. Allen, Wapello. Louisa
county, Iowa, writes us that on the 2Sth ult.
Commander Z. j. Oehiltree, of Morning Sun
Post, assisted by comrades of his Post, mus
tered A. NJ Taylor Post No. 153, at Wapello,
with twenty charter members. The following
officers were elected and installed Commander,
William G. Allen; s. V. c., B. F. Wright; J.
v. G.. s. F. Small; Adj't, George NJ. Bell; @.
NJ, George w. Hayden; Surgeon, T. s. Bell;
Chaplain, George s. Nellis; o. D., N. w. Mo-
Kay; Q. G, w. g. Saunders; s. NJ, J. B. Jar