Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-28
Grand Army Notes.


Posr l62 had its regular large muster last
night
MANY Of the comrades who will 60 to Mil
waukee will be accompanied by their wives.
Posr 236 continues to increase in membership.
night meeting.
GENERAL JOSHUA L. CHAMBERLAIN will
preside over the exercises of Maine Day at
Gettysburg in October.
THE annual reunion Of the Grand Army
Posts in Northumberland county will be held
at Sunbury. the county seat. on October g.
BOTH Judge Cummin and Treasurer Thomp-
son, the principals in the distribution of the
Johnstown Relief Fund are active members Of
the q. A. r.
Posr ISIS fair will begin on October Is, at
Salisbury hall, Southside, and will continue
six weeks. The proceeds will 60 toward the
Charity Fund.
A NEAT roster of national officers and the
different Department Commanders and Assist
ant Adjutant Generals has been issued by
Adjutant General Weigel
THE names and addresses of all surviving
members of the Excelsior (''Sickles' ~
Brigade are desired by the Secretary, John b.
Coyne. Custom House, New York City.
ADJUTANTs of Union Veteran Legion En-
campments are requested to forward at once to
the Adjutant General the names rank. COM
pany and regiment OF all comrades who have
died since January ], 1889.
The comrades Of Post 30 at Johnstown are
getting ready to give their hall q complete
overhauling. They own the building, using
the second and third foors for meetings. The
first floor is let for business purposes.
The following new encampmeuts of the
Union Veteran Legion have been mustered:
No. Al at Cincinnati, o.; No. 42 at Warren, Pa;
N Do No A AZ lurto n /.
No. As at Butler, Pa; No. 46 at Brookville, Pa.
CoMRADE g. @. CLARK, who has the agency
here for General Beath's History of the G. A.
R. -" has removed his office from 4OS Grant street
His comrades can now find him in Curry Uni
versity building. corner Sixth street and Penn
avenue.
THROUGH Department Headquarters the
certificate of membership authorized by the
last National Encampmeut can now be had. II
is fitting testimonial to the military services
of the old soldiers, and no veteran should fail
to secure one. The cost Is only Is cents.
COMRADES J. B. EATON and Henry Often
doefer went to Erie, Pa, with Henry Shenk.
the Erie contractors delegation of 80 or 70
Pittsburg employees to participate with them in
the comrades say they had a very good time.
THE comrades of John c. Thomas, of Post
2s6, deeply sympathize with him in the loss, by
death, of his l6-year-old son Walter. The
young man was bright and promising and his
death is a terrible blow to Comrade Thomas
and his family. The burial took place Friday.
JOHN 8. GRAFT, Duquesne way and Fourth
street, Secretary of the Eighty-ffth Pennsyl-
vania Regimental Association, desires the
names of all the surviving members of that or
panization He is arranging for the re-
union of the surviving members at Scottdale
ON the 9th of August.
Posr ISIS annual basket picnic will be held
on Tuesday. August Is, at Castle Shannon
| Grove, on the Castle Shannon Railroad The
only expense will be the railroad fare, which
will be % cents for the round trip. This In
cludes the incline fare. All the old soldiers,
their families and friends are invited
| glorious time will be had no doubt
A MEETING of the Regimental Association
of the sixty-second Pennsylvania Volunteers