Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-22
Scattering ShotH

CoMRADE TAYLOR TURNER was elected
Chaplain OF Post l57 last Thursday evening.
The matter of Post ISIS annual picnic will
be brought up at the posts meeting next Tues.
day.
CoMRADE JOHN WRIGHT, a member of Post
3, died yesterday at his residence, 2l29 Liberty
avenue.
CoMRADE J. B. EATON. of Post 8, passed the
civil service examination, and last Monday be-
came postJflce employe.
DEPARTMENT headquarters were moved to
the elegant new rooms, at lO25 Arch street,
Philadelphia, week ago yesterday.
CoMRADE BERNARD COLL. of Post ISL. de-
mics that Comrade Hughey Madison has left
the Sixty-second Regiment and Joined the
Ninth Reserves.
PosT mustered comrade last Monday even
ing. The Amusement Committee reported that
the addition TO the relief fund by the receipts
from the Drummer Boy" was 81 600.
DEPARTMENT COMMANDER DENN1sroN
who attended the Mercer meeting OF Friday
evening" remained at Mercer yesterday the
day. sun
DEPARTMENT COMMANDER DENN1sroN
Will visit the new Department Headquarters
this week. He will leave Pittsburg on Thurs-
gay and viii be in Philadelphia on Friday and
Saturday.
modelled The cases are being taken ont and
new shelves put in. When finished some new
DOCKS all be added to the already valuable
collection.
Posi- l2S will 60 to Boston in strong numbers
IN August to attend the Encampment. The
famous Grand Army band will accompany the
post and delight the Bostonians with It's music
Comrade Thomas j. Sample was in Boston Iast
week, making arrangements for quarters for
the post.
AMY MCGOWAN, the sweet little girl who
on Memorial Day unveiled the monument
erected by the three Allegheny Posts is dead.
a few days after the unveiling she was taken
sick with diphtherla and died week before last
She was daughter of a veteran who preceded
her in her departure from this earth
CoMRADE W. A. CAMPBELL, of Post 81 is
srffering severely at his home near Homewood
station, the result of a wound received at Get
tysburg. He was shot in the shoulder and
lung, and it is believed that the bullet is now
in bis lung and is causing the pain and hem
orrhages. he was improved somewhat last
week.
ARRANGEMENTS are under way for Joint
meeting of Posts IS and l62. The meeting will
be open and the Department Commander will
be present A good programme of music and
speeches will be arranged, and it is expected to
pelhg looked for. 1t is supposed the arrange
ments will be concluded shortly and the meet
ing held in the near future.
THE officers and Executive Committee of
the Northwestern Association met at Franklin
on Friday, June l3 1t was resolved unani-
mously that the seventh annual reunion of the
association be held on September TO- 1890 in
case SATISFACTORY arrangements can be made
VIII IaIWays I0r transportation. The place of
meeting 10 be IitusYile or Franklin: choice of
the TWO places to be made by the officers.
AT a meeting last week at Middlesboro. XIV.
the Grant and Lee Monument Associ.tion was
permanently organized. The Subscription
Committee reported Sl4I00 received At the
meeting 1000 was subscribed The associa-
tion will erect equestrian statues side by aide
OF Generals Grant and Lee, the former looking
south and the latter looking north and vit6
hands extended to each other in friendIv O-rasn
signifying the blue and gray united, 'F'
A sTRAwBERRY and ice cream festival will
be held by Post IS, on Tuesday, at the hail in
the Telephone building, corner of Sandnskv
and South Diamond streets. Allegheny. Tbe |
comrades and their families of ali the nos+s |
are cordially invited There will likev he sso,.e
music or other entertainment to make the /
affair more enjoyable. Comrade Haunan