News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-13
BOYS IN BLUE,
The Depa tment Meeting in Boston-Gen.
Aiger Present-Large Increase In Mem
bership.

The Depa tment Meeting in Boston-Gen.
Aiger Present-Large Increase In Mem
bership.
The Department of Massachusetts of the
Grand Army of the Republic opened its
twenty-third annual encampment at fremont
Temple, Boston, Feb. 5, Department Com
mander George L. Goodale presiuing. Com
.nander Goodale delivered a long and ex-
haustive address, embodying the substance of
the reports and touching upon the principal
questions to come before the convention.
The commander quoted from the report of
Assistant Acknowledgement Monroe, which
stated that the membership in good standing
Dec. 81, 1888, was 20,9l6; gain during the
year $3.50. A total of 24,O71. Lost by death,
disch rye and suspension, 2374; showing a
membership in good standing, Dec. 81, 1889,
of q .697. Six new posts have been institut-
ed. as follows: Veteran Post, No. 1874, Read
ing, March 7, 1899; fifty-six charter members.
Thomas A. Parker, No. 1876. Pepperell,
March 20, 1889; thirty-two charter members.
ID. G.. Anderson, No. 1856, Great Darlington,
March 20, 1899; twenty charter members.
Berkshire, No. 1877, Pittsfeld. April, 1899 +;
forty-nine charter members. Mt. Miller, No.
1913, Plainfeld, Nov. 10, 1899; sixteen char
ter members. William B. Eaton, No. 1919,
Revere, Jan. 10, 1890; twenty-four charter
members.
Commander-in-Chief General Russell A.
Alger was present at the morning meeting,
after which, he, in company with his staff,
paid visit to Governor Bracket at the State
House by whom he was warmly greeted
Previous to the converting of the delegates
In the temple, the Veterans r ghts Union
held meeting in Chapel Hall in the same
building, at which COmrade W. F. Lane OF
Charles Russell Lowell Post 7, G. A. R., presl-
dent of the board of control, presided.
Colonel Charles L. hnpgood, superintendent
of the bureau, presented his report, which
showed total of S1627 expended in charity
during the year. Tue following officers were
elected:
President, W. F. Lane, Post I; first vice
president, E. P. Loring, Post 10; second vice
president, G.. n. Harris, Post 4; third vice
president, j. r. McCrillis, Post 43; secretary,
g. ID. Stiles, Post IS; treasurer, j. Edwin
Hunt, Post 26; advising council, H. n. Potter,
Post 120; S. Henry Wilson, Post 80; Charles
0. Fellows, Post So; III. b. Lakeman, Post
40; William H. Burgess, Post 116.
woMAN's RELIEF CORPS.
In response to orders by the president of
the Woman's Relief Corps, Mrs. Emma B.
Loud, the eleventh annual convention o. the
corps was opened in the Meionaon Al the same
time with the G. A. r. Encampment. The
am unit turned over to the different pots of
the state, was S6776.63, while the va.ue of re-
lief other than money given to needy veterans
was S2464.10. The Soldiers Home benefited
by this distribution to the amount of S1065. 10.
The amount of the relief fund for so diers
aud sailors and their families of the different
corps y as 81, 46S.45 The general fund foots
up to the handsome sum of S11 1852. Be-
sides this the property of the corps is valued
at S34, $500; and of this an cunt $632.S6 was
used i'll the extra furnishings of the Soldiers
Home.
The report of the secreta Y, Miss Mary E.
Ell lot, showed the number of co ps instituted
during the past year to be 9, making total
of 125 in the State, one corps having surren-
der' d its cha ter. There has been an in
crease of 1857 new members, SO of whom
were admitted from other States. Upon the
mortuary lists fifty-five deaths are registered.
The total membership on Jan. l, 1889. was
7751, and on the same date in the present
year 1912 names were register d. The men,
bership up to the opening of the convention
had increased to 90l0.