Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-08-21
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A flag presentation viii be made Z. H..
Curtis Post, of Keelville, Cherokee coun-
ty, on August30, by Mr.. Frank Milford.
It has been decided to hold a soldiers
reunion in Topeka during the time the
State Fair is held. Undoubtedly the
boys will be out in full force.
Burlingame Chronicle: The Woman's
Relief Corps of this city is in a prosper
GUS condition. 1t numbers twenty-five
members, and several applications for
membership are now pending.
Kansas was represented in the Ma
tiOnal Encampment, w. r. c., by Louise
II. Brown. President Allie Myers, Sec
rotary; Lizzie Anderson, Barbara h.
Pond. Annie Shackley, Addie Allen
Helen AIcCune, Carrie E. Quinby, Dele
gates; Jennie Haynes, Delegate at-large.
The survivors of the the old First Kan
sas regiment abandoned the project of
celebrating the battle of Wilson Creek IN
AtchisOn, as the anniversary fell on Sun
day. A number of the survivors visited
Leavenworth on that day, however, and
held business meeting of the associa-
ton.
Washington Register: 1t has been de-
termined, we understand, to have no u.
A. r. reunion at this place the present
Fall This will give the comrades at
Clifton a chance to get up their district
reunion without any interference at
other points. We hope they will get up
a reunion that viii draw to 1t every post
within fifty miles, and that they may
have one Of the grandest times ever had
at a reunion in this part Of the State.
Commander-in-chief Kountz announc-
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on his installation, the remainder to be
deferred for General Orders: Adjutant
General, w. w. AlcOrn, Toledo, 0. The
Headquarters will be at Toledo. The
COmmander-in-chief, having been one
of the original advocates of WOman's
work auxiliary to the Grand Army,
crystaliZed into the WOman's Relief
Corps, has rendered the Corps a head
quarters for the year, which will also be
at Toledo.
It is certainly noteworthy that the
/ Woman's Relief Corps, but one year old
should receive official invitation from
that long established and notable organ
| ization, the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie, to be present at the installation Of its
National officers, and to install their
own officers in the presence that body
The Grand Army of the Republic is not
an organization which would stop to of.
! fer empty and undeserYed hOnOrs even
! to body of Well-meanlng women. There
was gallantry in the act, but not mere
] gallantry. The distinguished and unsO-
! licited hOnOrs conferred upon the Wo-
mans Relief Corps could only have re-
solved itself out of a profound feeling Of
/ respect and admiration for what this or
! ganiZatiOn has really accomplished as
as well as for the great earnest of the fu-
] a in h lfo1a
to their organization.
The following is a brief history of the
new Commander-in-chie of the Grand
Army, J. S. KOuntZ: The story of Com
mander-in-cheif KOuntZ's life is soon
/ told. He was born in Lucas county
! Ohio, March %, 1916. In his 10Th year
! he enlisted as a drummer boy in the
/ Thirty-seVenth Ohio Volunteers. His
| part in several bloody fights was confined
! TO drumming until, accompanying his
regiment in the charge upon the heights
of Missionary Ridge, a friend fell by his
side, when he threw away his drum
! seized a musket, and took manly part
| IN the awful struggle This is the Incl
! dent cOmmemOrated in Mrs. SherWood's
poem, and which gave KountZ the title
| by which the verses are also known. He
fell IN the battle, wounded in the leg
/ which afterwards was am utated. Upon
his return home, an orphan, but sOlacee
by the love Of a sister, he recommended
study and prepared himself for business
life. His ability in this direction was
soon manifested, and with success came
the recognition by his fellow citizens Of
his fitness for position of public useful
ness. As Treasurer of Lucas county he
served two years, and the next two was
! Commissioner of Records. He then
opened an Office in Toledo as insurance
agent, and is now the proprietor of an
agency doing a business Of $50, 900 a year
When the Grand Army of the Republic
was organized in 1866, Kountz entered
! it. He has been three times Adiu
tant of his Post, three times its Com.
mander, and once Assistant Quartermas
ter General of the Department Ofthe Ohio
In 1881 he was elected Commander oil
his department by a unanimous vote
/ During his year of Office he organized
100 posts, and increased the member
ship of his department from $50 to Z.
$50, that IS about 400 per cent. The ar
gument for his election as Commander
ln-chief was backed by such figures as
these, and prevailed, Notwithstanding
his comparative youth and the claims o.
distinctin possessed by the other excel
lent men nominated for the position
! COmmander-in-chief KOuntz is a married
man, and the father of five children.
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