Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-29
quarter centennial celebration in Old City Han

on April Q.
| ADJUTANT CHARLES HoLYLAND, Of Post
| 1872 who was confined to his bed by the grip fol
| week. is better.
| Posi- 157 has accepted an Invitation to attend
the twenty-1fth anniversary celebration In AL
legheny on April 6.
THE grip has struck Post l55 very hard. Up
ward Of 20 comrades are suffering from the
troublous complaint.
| MAJOR JAMES L. GRAHAM. Of Post 2l5. Ii
| back at his desk in the Revenue office, after re-
covering from a severe cold.
| CoMRADE W. W. SCOTT, of Post 8, has been
laid up at his home in Sewickley for nearly
| three months with rheumatism.
COMRADES Stewart, Grifiths and Lockhart
of Post SS, are on the road TO recovery. Com
rades Kelly and Pauline are on the sick list.
MAJOR MoNTooTH, of Post 8. has been
| honored By the appointment as Judge Advo
cate on Department Commander Boyer's stah
PosT 1872 will visit the Soldiers Widows
Home at HAWKING station to-day and attend
| religious services. The train leaves at 2:25 p. H.
AT Post 1855 meeting on Friday night the
post decided to 60 to Detroit Encampment in q
Pullman palace car over the Ft Wayne Hail
road.
THE arrangements for the twenty fifth ami.
yersary celebration IN Allegheny are about
will be issued.
Posi- 155 will hold its open meeting at the
new hall on Friday evening, April TO- The hall
is one of the finest in the city and fitting
home for Post l56
THE father of Colonel W. d. Reed, OF
Post 8, died on Thursday at Rochester, Pa.
Comrade Reed has the sympathy Of his COM
rades in his bereavement
PosT has contracted with the management
OF the Bijou Theater for a week in April, 1892,
when military drama win be presented, prob
ably the Drummer Boy of Shiloh"
AMONG the sufferers from the grip are men,
bers of the family Of Comrade Emil Poerstel,
of Post l57. Comrade Poerstel his wife and
several of the children have been attacked.
THE arrangements for the Pittsburg celebra-
tion of the quarter centennial in Old City Hall
on April are being completed. The speakers
and programme will be announced next week.
CoMRADE BENJAMIN HARRISON hasn't lost
his fighting blood yet. as was proven by the Red
Room episode. He quieted the intoxicated in
vader with a blow between the eyes, straight
from the shoulder.
CoMRADE A. P. BURcHFIELD of the COM
mittee on the quarter-centennial celebration in
Allegheny has received word from Past De-
partment Commander Thomas j. Stewart. &C.
cepting the invitation to deliver the address.
RELIEF No. i, NJ. P. G.. will assemble at its
new meeting place, Post No. 8 Hall, next Sat
urday evening, As this will be the first NEE t.
ing in the new hall and the only meeting in
April, large attendance of members is ex-
pected.
CoMRADE CHARLES r. DUNG. OF Post !, is
recovering very nicely from his recent sick
ness. He was at the post meeting last Monday
and was very cordially received by his old COM
rades. C0mrade Negley has been very watch
full over Comrade Young during his illness.
THE sixth annual reception Of General
Thomas Circle No. "a, Ladies of the G. A. R.,
which was to have taken place at Salisbury
Hall, Southside, April 2, owing to the re-
cent fire will now be held at Odd Fellows Hall
corner Sarah and Eighteenth streets, April 20
Posi- Is, Philadelphia, has one of the finest
halls In the Grand Army. The post purchased
the property. which was a church. All the
lower part is used as a social room, furnished
with billiard and pool tables and shuttle
board; in the basement is rifle gallery. Back
Of the social room is the kitchen and all the
necessary utensils for cooking, and dishes to
set q table for 400 people. The post room is 40
by IS feet In the clear, with a 2S-foot ceiling,
three large ante-rooms and closets This room
is furnished grandly. Handsome statuary, silk
fags and portraits of prominent generals
abound. Many q Pittsburg comrade has en-
joyed an evening in the home of Post ~.
Among the members are many OF the most
prominent citizens, judges, lawyers, doctors
and others.