Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-02

PosT 12Ss fair continues as successful as
ever
THE fair of Post Al closed another very sue
cessful week last night.
THE Ladies' Auxiliary to Post Ss, will hold
bazaar in the near future.
THE Department Encampment Of West Vir-
ginia will be held at HarrisVille on April % and
ENoAMPMENT No. 81, q. V. l., was mustered
at ScottdaIe Friday night by Chief Mastering
Officer E. F. Seamon.
COMMANDER IN CHIEF ALGER will be at
campfire to be lighted at Parkersburg, W. Va,
on Friday, February e.
THE Union League Club of New York will
tender General William T. Sherman birthday
reception on next Saturday.
REHEARsALs for Post Ss presentation Of the
Drummer Boy of Shiloh" at the Bijou, will
commence in about week.
AT the meeting of Encampment No j, U. V.
l., tomorrow evening, Colonel Danks will read
history Of the Sixty-third Pennsylvania Reg
iment.
THE annual reunion of the Third Division Of
tne Ninth Corps will be held at Harrisburg. on
March 25 the anniversary of the battle Of Fort
Steadman.
DELEGATES can secure transportation orders
Tor transportation to Shamokin from the Ad-
lutant Generals Office by calling upon Major
Denniston at the City Treasurer's office.
THE widow Of the late General Judson Kill
patrick recently presented to the War Depart
ment the large cavalry saber which was worn
Dy the General during the war.
PAST COMMANDER MONTGOMERY COOK. an
active member of Post SS, is LAID up with some
fractured ribs. He was engaged at his busi-
ness as painter when misstep caused the ac-
cident.
On next Wednesday evening there will be a
joint open meeting of Post Isl, Women's Re-
lief Corps No, and Camp Sons. of Veterans
at the hall of Post Isl. The friends Of the or
ganizati0ns are invited.
BY unanimous vote Naval Post No. 400,
Philadelphia, has decided to recommend, as its
preference Of the two bills-the dependent
soldiers bill and the service pension bill-tO be
brought before Congress at this session, the
service bill.
THE sick list of Post Isl is distressingly large
at present. Sergeant Major Frank Parker and
John 81. Jones are both quite low. The others
are comrades Patrick Shovelin, W. o. Russell,
Hartman Coleman, Herman Zedel and Past
Commander John Detlis.
CAPTAIN JOSEPH A. MOORE. late of Company
B, One Hundred and Forty-seventh Pennsyl-
Vanja, now living at Campbell, Pa, has written
and published In pamphlet form spirited &C
count Of the services of his regiment in the
three momentous days at Gettysburg
CoMRADE JOSEPH F. DENNIsToN was last
week renomlnated for the position OF City
Treasurer. In the nominating convention
many of the delegates were Grand Army men,
there being members from every post in the
city. There were nine who were members OF
Post III, the gallant old Majors post
On last Monday Secretary Proctor Of the
War Department, under authority of recent
act of Congress, purchased of the heirs of the
late General Shields, for $4,000, the sword
worn by the General during the late war. The
sword is . very handsome one, and will be
placed among the relics of the War Depart
menI.
As THE time of the Department Encamp-
ment draws higher, accommodations at Sham
okin grow scarcer. He is wise who, by next
Thursday, secures a berth in one of the sleep
ing cars, if he has not already secured accom-
modarions, arranged for by the delegates Com
mittee on Transportations. To secure berth
notify Chairman W. H. Lockhart, 40 West
Diamond street, Allegheny, or COmrade 0. M.
Head. SO5 Liberty street. or Comrade W. F.
Speer, So Center avenue.