Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-03
Grand Army Mhi.perinRs.

GENERAL j. D. Cox will deliver the Grafton
at the unYeiling of the Garfield monument at
Cleveland, o.
THOUSANDS of veterans are going to their
graves, and the distance for many is short
painfully short.
PosT Al, of Lawrenceville, is steadily grow
ing in membership with brilliant prospects
ahead for several months.
THE next issue of this column will be under
the administration of United States President
Comrade Benjamin Harrison.
GENERAL STEWART L. WooDFoRD will, on
the invitation of Post 8, Gettysburg Pa, de-
liver the Memorial Day Grafton at that place.
THE eleventh annual Encampment of the
City Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, March
IL, IA and l5.
CoMRADE ALoNzo WILLIAMS, of Provi-
dence, is the newly-elected Commander of the
Department of Rhode Island which now mum:
bers 7, 726 members in good standing.
CoMRADE WILLIAM H. GRAHAM, County
Recorder, will represent Abe Patterson Post
No. S8, of Allegheny. at the inaugural cere
monies of President Comrade Harrison.
COMPANIES and H, Fourth Massachusetts,
Cavalry were the first United States troops to
enter Ricemond, April 8, 1855. The battalion
was commanded by Major Atherton n.
Stevens, Jr.
MRS. FRANCIS SHERMAN MoULToN, sister
to General w. T. Sherman and Senator John
Sherman, and widow of Colonel Charles W.
Moulton, died at the residence of her son,
Charles w. Moulton, Jr., in New York, Febru-
airy 21, at the age OF 10.
THE Illinois Department of the Grand Army
of the Republic has adopted resolution pledg-
ing the department to support President Com
rade Harrison in just and fearless admins
tration of National law, equally alike in every
State in the Union, for which his splendid
abilities so well fitted him.
THE Department OF Pennsylvania needs all
the recruits it can get, te remain for another
year the Banner Department" of the G. A. R.
The Departments of Ohio and Kansas want
that honor. want it badly, and unless the COM
rades of Pennsylvania realize this fact and
hustle and secure recruits that are floating
about, the banner will be lost.
CoMRADE SAMUEL HILLS is member of
the Kentucky Legislature, and at its last
session he did not forget his old comrades and
the G. A R. He succeeded in fighting bills
through, authorizing the loan Of arms to the
G. A. r. Posts from the State Arsenal and to
make Memorial Day legal holiday. The
latter measure Is certainly victory for old
vets and the G. A. R. in .'Old Kaintuckn at
least.
JAMES II. WILSON CIRCLE, Ladies of the
G. A. r., was instituted last Monday evening
at Springdale, in the presence of large audi
ence. Mrs. Lydia Smith, of Allegheny, assisted
by Department President Mrs. Carrie v. Sher-
riff, installed the following officers of the newly
born circle: President, Mrs. Margaret Stoup;
Senior Vice, Mrs. Bakely; Junior Vice, Mrs
Barnes; Secretary, Mrs. Hoax; Treasurer, Mrs.
Hare.
CLEVELAND, o., is to have within year or
two handsome and expensive soldiers monu-
ment paid for by the general tax levy, In mem
ory Of the soldiers of Cuyahoga county in the
late war. 1t will cost in the neighborhood of
$4,000 which is said to be about 1000 more
than the cost of the beautiful National Soldiers
Monument erected by the muIifcenee of the
United States Government in the National
Cemetery at Gettysburg.
The Grand Army Of the Department of Kan
sas undoubtedly includes in its ranks more
State officials than any other department. The
following list is in evidence: Governor Mar
tin, Auditor Mccarthy, Treasurer Hamilton.
Attorney General Taylor, Assistant Adjutant