Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-09

connected with the veteran Legion. ne TO
ports everything prospering nicely.
PosT 15l is in very fourishing condition.
Old members who have been on the dropped
list are coming back and new members are
being mustered every meeting night.
THE Chairmen of the subcommittee of the
Memorial Day Committee of the posts of the
old city proper, are requested to present all
bills to Comrade John F. Hunter at once.
w. b. KELLER, the Inspector General of the
Department of Pennsylvania. was one of the
sufferers of the food who were fortunate in
saving their families but he lost all else.
DEPARTMENT COMMANDER STEWART and
ters in a tent at Johnstown and are attending
to the immediate needs of the stricken COM
rades.
AT meeting last Friday of Colonel Ellis
worth Circle, Ladies of the g. A. R., 1t was
proposed to send the soldiers and their families
of the Johnstown sufferers SIS out Of their re-
lief fund.
CoMRADE W. J. PATTERSON. of Post 157,
| is the Chairman Of the Old Soldiers Relief
| Committee, formulated in the interest of the
| comrades Of the Conemaugh Valley, An ex-
| cellent selection.
THE Union Veteran Legion yesterday sent q
large number Of shoes and stockings to Harry
| Williams, of Encampment No. 2 to be dis
| Sributed among the suffering children OF old
| soldiers at Johnstown.
ENCAMPMENT No. 45, q. v. L., Butler, Pa,
will be mustered by National Commander
| Pearson next week. This encampment has 100
members on the roll, every one Of whom
| served more than three years.
ALL organizations and individuals in interest
| with old soldiers and widows and orphans are
requested to send their contributions to Treas
urer Denniston. for the old soldiers of the
Conemaugh Valley who have lost by the flood.
TALK about Allegheny river water doesn't
scare the old soldiers at all. "Why," said one,
many a time I've drunk water thousand
times worse than any which comes down the
river and was mighty glad to get it." War is
dreadful.
AT the regular meeting of the Ladies' Aid
Society to Davis Camp, Sons of Veterans, a
committee was appointed by the President,
Mrs Cornelia D. Foulk, to raise fund for the
Johnstown sufferers. The committee is
actively at work.
NATIONAL COMMANDER PEARSON accom-
panied by General Gallupe and DR.. Sep, of
Encampment No. !, U. V. L., visited Johns
town on Friday and relieved the wants of some
of the old soldiers by quietly handing them
some good sized national bank bills.
CoMRADE ]. B. EATON returned to this city
on Friday from Johnstown and reported that
the work of relief among the old soldiers was
progressing nicely. He returned to the devas-
tated region yesterday to assist the department
commander in distributing the contributions.
COMMANDER T. G. JONES, of Post 236 was
so highly pleased with the way the comrades
turned out to church, and on Decoration Day
that he invited them to his house last night, to
partake Of fruit lunch. AT the same time
and place S25 was donated to the Johnstown suf-
terers.
THE detail from Post 157 deserve special
mention for the creditable manner in which
their duty was performed at Oakland Cemetery
on Memorial Day. The detail consisted of
Comrades Geo. H. Hush, w. B. Evans, w. G.
Harris, Peter Dooney, DIR. James P. Orr, James
Milligan, Matthias Market land John Lauback.
COLONEL ]. A. DANKs is no longer at the
Cyclorama, but is now ready to fill engagements
to lecture, and also make engagements to give
to the people a verbum cyclorama or word
picture. of the great battle of Gettysburg. A
little book of original and selected songs by
the Colonel will soon be ready. The Immortal
Blue" and "Union Veteran Legion Band' are
two stirring songs.
CoMRADE EDWARD FISHER, of Post 8,
visited Johnstown by direction of the Execu-
tive Committee. He got to Sang Hollow on
Saturday evening and walked to Johnstown
Sunday morning. He returned with a compre-
hensive report of the suffering and distress of
the unfortunate citizens The comrades of the
Grand Army are deeply indebted to Comrade
Fisher tor his labor OF love.
The unwarranted oficiousness of persons
having no right to interfere caused no little
dissatisfaction to the parents and children of
the Fourteenth ward (Soho) school. in dong
that which resulted In portion of the flower
pots for Memorial Day donated by the children
being left at the schoolhouse and not delivered
at the cemetery. The Memorial Committee
have provided against any like occurrence in
the future.
ENcAMPMENT No. ], Union Veteran Legion,
of this city, very properly adopted resolutions
highly complimentary of Comrade ]. B. For
aker, Governor of Ohio, who without delay or
red tape forms promptly and generously came
to the relief of the people of Johnstown in their
great distress. The Governor acknowledged
the compliment paid him in his usual graceful
manner by letter forwarded to Comrade Frank
@. Dorrington.
A CHANGE has been made in the date of the
summer encampment of the Department of
Pennsylvania at Gettysburg on account
of the postponement of Pennsylvania
Day" at the battlefield until September
IL. The encampment will be heled from Sep
tember to Is inclusive, and will give the
comrades the opportunity to attend the dedica-
tion of their respective regiments monuments,
and at the same time participate in the en-
campment exercises.
"a MEMBERSHIP of the Grand Army of the
Republic is equivalent to the possession of the
cardinal principles of fraternity, of charity and
of loyalty. The fraternity of the organization
is seen in this gathering. The charity IS shown
in the grand work they are engaged in to-day,
and in the noble foundation being made for
such work in the future. That these comrades
are imbued with the spirit of loyalty no living
man would dare to question" Mayor Barker
Providence, K. l., in recent speech.