Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-08-11
A GRAND EVENT.
THE SEVENTH ANNUAL ENcAMPMENT
OF SONS OF VETERANS
To b Held in Wheeling Next Week. Large Crowd
Expsctsd-fhs Big Parade on Friday.
Somsthing About the Affair.

The seventh annual National Encamp-
ment of the Sons of Veterans win open in
Wheeling Wednesday morning next, Aug
ust Is, and continue three days The Ex-
ecutiye Committee are rapidly bringing the
arrangements to state of completion, and
the meeting promises to beone of the largest
and most successful yet held.
The larger part of the delegates are ex
pected here on Tuesday and on the after
noon of that day 3 meeting Of the Council
in Chief will be held. In the evening al
G. A. R. Hall on Main street, an exsmpl-
festion of the secret work of the order will
take place.
The Eucampment proper opens at the
Grand Opera House at 9 o'clock, and con-
tinues in session with reoesses until Fri
day at noon. On Wednesday evening o
mint camp fire of Sons of Veterans and G.
A. K. will be held ut the Grand Opera
House, to which the public is invited.
The grand parade will take place Fri
day afternoon, and the encampment will
close with a good social time at Wheeling
Park, the remainder of the day to be spent
at that resort. The Opera Honse orches-
ira and band has been engaged for the oc-
casion and there will be other music.
Among the Camps that have signified
their intention of coming in bodies are Gar
negie Camp of Pittsburg, forty strong, the
Steubenyille and Wellsburg Camps,
and Barlow Camp Of Washington
county, all of which are in
full uniform. The Wheeling Light Guards,
the wellsburg military company, the Ha-
nswhs Rifemen and the Governors
Guards are also expected to be present and
participate in the parade. Col. Freer, OF
the First West Virginia Regiment, has is-
sued an order for all troops in the regiment
to attend, and rs excursion rates will be
given on all railroads coming into the city
on that day, no doubt u large part of the
regiment will be here. The Executive
Committee is also DESTROYS that all u. A
r. posts in the vicinity he present and
take part in the parade, and are earnestly
requested to do so.
As all the delegates and other guests
will be in full uniform. the parade will
undoubtedly be one of the finest affaiis OF
the kind ever seen in the city. All citi-
zens are requested to assist in making the
occasion a notable and successful one by
decorating their houses and places of busi-
ness on Tuesday and allowing the decora-
tions to remain until the close Of the En-
Campment.
The Western delegates with Comman-
der-in Chief Abbott will arrive in the city
at 6:25 Tuesday morning, and owing TO
the early hour the reception will he an In
formal one. The New England delegates
will leave Boston Sunday afternoon on
special train and arrive here probably
Monday evening. The delegates from the
Middle and Eastern States will arrive
Tuesday morning at 1l:a0 on a special
train over the B. 6. O., leaving Philadel-
phia Monday afternoon.
Among the distinguished guests expect
cd present are Col Retie and wife, and
Judge Hatch, OF Buffalo, N. Y. Mayor
Davis, of Pittsburg, the founder of the
Sons of Veterans, will arrive here
Monday with his wife, and they will be at
com panied By Mrs. O'Brien, President of
the Ladies' Aid Society, who is their guest.
Mrs. O'Brien finished her business here
and left for Pittsburg yesterday.
The Ladies' National Aid Society, aux
Hilary 10 the Sons of Veterans, will meet
here Mt the same time and will hold their
sessions in G. A. K. Hall. Fifty or more
delegates are expected to be present.
Visiting members OF the press are re-
quested to report to Adjutant Geo. A
Huntington. The work of decorating the
Grand Opera House and G. A. R. Hall will
he commenced at once and by Monday
evening everything will be in shape to re-
ceiye guests.