Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
Briefe for Veterans.

POST 162 has Endorsed the Homestead bill
THE ladies auxiliary to Post IS will open a
bazaar in the near future.
Posi- Al appointed its Memorial Day Commit.
tee at its meeting last Wednesday.
PosT 1865 preparations for the observance OF
Memorial Day are well under way,
POST 54s, of Williamsburg will be well rep.
resented at the Boston Encampment.
A REUNION of the blue and gray will be held
at vicksburg. Miss. May 25 to 30 inclusive.
CoMRADE WEBB, of Post 8, Philadelphia,
was visitor of Post 157 on Thursday evening.
The annual encampment of the Department
of California will be held at San Jose April q,
% and g.
GENERAL WIN. T. SHERMAN has been
Club, of New York.
POST 157 will re-make its request to be de-
tailed to decorate at Oakland Cemetery on
Memorial Day this year.
THE joint Memorial Day Committee will
meet in Common Council Chamber, Municipal
Hall, next Saturday at P. NJ.
CoMRADE GEO. STEDDEFoRD. of Post sB, is
very low at his home on Sheffield street. Allie
gheny, with typhoid-pneumonia.
THE soldiers monument erected by Posts ss,
l2S and 1872 in their lot in Uniondale Cemetery
will be unveiled on Memorial Day.
CoMRADE o. N. HEAD, of Post 259, will in
spect Post III on next Tuesday evening A
tull attendance of members Is of course desired.
POST 236 has received thanks from Geary
Circle No. T. Ladies of the Il. A. R., for a do
nation OF SIS toward the Soldiers Widows
Home.
CoMRADE GEORGE BOOTH, City Clerk, and a
member of Post l57 has been elected treasurer
of the Central Relief Committee, which office
r1.xz 11A1 nAn
OF the employees in the office Of C,mrade
John Laylor, the new Tax Collector of Phila-
delphia, two-thirds are veterans. and the posi-
tions they fill are the most responsible and best
paid in the office.
CoMRADE GENERAL DANIEL e. SIcKLEs,
Sheriff of New York city and county. gets up
at o'clock in the morning and studies law
three hours every day in order to better under
stand his duties.
THE g. A. R. National Pension Committee
met in Washington on last Thursday to con-
slider the situation. what is desired to be &C.
complished. what is possible to accomplish and
how to accomplish 1t.
THE regular monthly muster of Post 8 will
take place tomorrow evening. Several COM
rades will be mustered. The stereopticon,
which makes this service IN Post doubly in
terestng, will be used as usual.
PosT received last week from Congressman
d
of a COPY of resolutions regarding the soldiers
homestead bill, which he stated he would pre-.
sent to the House and have referred to the
proper committee.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE was 63 years of
age on April TO- On that date he filed an ap-
pllcation for his pension of sS per month. to
which he is entitled as veteran Of the Mexi-
can War. He will give this pension TO the
Orphans Home at Charlottesville, Ind.
AT its meeting last Thursday, Post 157 in
structed its Amusement Committee to make
arrangements for an entertainment IN the near
future for the benefit of the relief fund, The
increasing number of calls for charity necessi-
tates this. The details will be announced
later.
PosT 1875 Memorial Day Committee, with
Comrade VIM. T. Powell as chairman, and the
committee from camp 4 Sons of Veterans, are
preparing for the Memorial Day services in the
different cemeteries in their district. The
school children will as usual furnish flowers in
abundance.
AT last Mondays meeting of Post lotter
was read from Comrade w. B. Coyle, ". D..
Chairman of the Soldiers Relief Committee,
acknowledging the receipt of q donation to the
needy ex-union soldiers and sailors Of Edmund
county. South. Dakota and thanking the post
for the same.
CoMRApE PRESIDENT HARRISON was re-