The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-05
GRAND ARMY GOSSIP.

Major W. 0cofnld, . former member AZ
the Twelfth Kansss and an old settler Of
Miami County, died in that county on The
18th, aged eighty-five years.
Frank p. Blair, No. 8, Woman's Relief
Corps, recently gave fair and festival at
Central Turner Hall, st. Louis, continuing
two days. The proceeds were for the bene-
ft Of the relief fund.
At meeting Of the executive committee
of the Southwestern Iowa and the North
western Missouri Veteran Associations r.
Gently held at Maryville, Mo-, Creston, Ia,
was selected Is the next place Of holding
the reunion. and the early part OF Septem-
Der the time.
The veterans of the Soldiers Home at
Leavenworth are said to be very much in
need of reading matter. and at q late meet
ing of Lincoln POST and its auxiliaries at
Topeka a committee was appointed to re-
ceive donations for a library, and all
donors are requested to write their names
in books sent.
There is a strong desire on the part of
many of the leading members of the g. A.
r. in Omaha to secure the next reunion of
the department of Nebraska for thes city.
The annual meeting will be held in Red
Cloud next month, at which . number of
bids from the interior towns will be Inade
for the reunion.
A meeting of the original members Of tie
committee of the Grant Monument Asso-
citation was held at the office of General
Miles at Fort Leavenworth the other even
I'm triY al hay nf tho INIT
tee were nearly all present. A committee
was appointed to secure charter for the
association. The treasurer was directed to
invest the funds on hand, some $1,000, to
the best advantage.
The fifth annual epcampment o; the de-
partment Of Kansas, Grand Army of the
Republic, will be convened at Wichita,
Kan, on Tuesday, February %, 1855, at
two o'clock 2. m. All railroads in the
State will issue round trip tickets for one
fare. The department president of the Wo-
mans Relief Corps and Colonel of the Kan
sas division of the Sons of Veterans, have
both signified their intention of converting
their respective organizations in annual
meeting at the same time and place.
Mrs. Lizzie Anderson, wife OF Major T.
j. Anderson, of Topeka. Kan. died in that
city on the 18th. aged thirty-eight years.
During the past three years che has given
much OF her time to the organization and
promotion of the Woman's Relief Corps,
auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Re-
public. She was one of the original found
ers of the organization, having assisted in
its creation during the National encamp-
ment at Denver in 1855, since which time
her life has been given up to bringing joy
into the families of destitute soldiers.
On the evening of January IS there was
organized in Lincoln, Neb.. q new G. A. r.
post that is intended to be in the nature OF
State organization. and one that shall
have in it all the elements OF long life.
"Appomattox" is the name adopted for the
new post, and its projectors propose to in
Guide in its membership large number OF
prominen. ex-soldiers from all sections OF
the State. This is designed 20 be the be-
ginning of e new home for sucn comrades
as have been connected with weak posts in
the State and been dropped from the rolls,
but whose individual members may wish
70 retain membership in the order.