Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
Grand ARMY Bulletin,

CoMRADE THOMAS W. BAKER, of Post s. and
wife returned from the lake region about
Detroit week ago yesterday.
CoMRADE W. ]. PATTERSON, of Post 157, and
wife got home from Atlantic City In time to
attend the Rock Point celebration,
THE "Sixteeners," Soldiers Orphan school
graduates, held their annual reunion at
Reading last Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday.
THE Grand Army Day Committee will meet
next Saturday at . P. NJ, in Council Cham
Der, to settle up the business of Tuesdays
celebration.
The National Encampment of the Grand
Army will be held in Chicago in 1898, while
the Worlds Fairis in Philadelphia
Press. Correct!
COMMANDER SAMUEL Scor-r, of Post So, ar
rived home last Monday from his sojourn in
New York. Brooklyn, Long Branch, Ocean
Grove and other resorts.
A BSG time was had by the comrades Of
Northwestern Pennsylvania last Wednes-
day at Franklin. A parade and campfire
were among the features.
The "Sunflower Brigade Band" Of Allie
gheny, wilt be on hand at the "Roundhead"
reunion at Butler next Wednesday to en-
trance the audience with their unrivaled
music.
Posi- ISL will hold an open meeting on Sep
tietam, when the memorial volumes donated
by friends of the Post will be formally pre-
sented.
NEXT Wednesday Butler will be the scene
of a triple reunion, that of the Seventy
eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, the One
Hmdredth Regiment C'Roundheads'') and
the Seventh Cavalry. 1t is predicted that
the affair will be grand success.
CoMRADE CHARLES F. SHERRIFF, OF Post ss,
left for Washington, d. c., la st Friday, to
meet his wife, Mrs. Carrie V. Sheriff, Past
Department President of the Ladies of the
q. a. r. Mrs. Sheriff. and family have been
al Atlantic City for some time. They will
return home tomorrow.
THE National Encampment of the Sons of
Veterans will commence at Minneapolis,
Mimi, tomorrow. The delegates from this
vicinity left yesterday. An effort will be
made to have the National Encampment
held at Washington, ID. c. next year during
the Grand Army encampment.
CoMRADE HENRY SCHULTZ, of Post and wife,
after sojourning at Detroit, Mt. Clemens,
Huron and thereabouts, returned home a
week ago Yesterday. When Comrade Shultz
asks for sliced tomatoes at a hotel now he is
extremely careful to speak very plainly as
he does not cure particularly for sliced raw
potatoes.
EVERY little while the story springs forth
that the G. A. r. is political organization
lated by tricky politicians. and as a rule
these charges come from members of the
organizat ton. The veterans owe it to them
selves and their order to clear out the politi-
cal scallvwags who are draSglnga worthy
organization down.-Shd1pSblTg Herald
A GOOD deal of "big TALK is hear about
the way ''the big four, of Pittsburg, wheeled
our delegates from the Washington road to
Lincoln, Neb. Some folks are plastic any
how.-Pntsbmg Press. Come, comrade, be
less ambiguous. Surely you do not mean
that our delegates were plastic enough to
allow their opinions to be nodded from
Washington to Lincoln by "the big four"
The citizens of Indiana, Pa, have rendered
invitations to the survivors of the following
commands to hold grand reunion in their
county seat next Thursday. Fourteenth
Pennsylvania Cavalry, Eleventh, Fifty-ffth,
Fifty-sixth, sixty-first, Sixty-seventh, Sew
enty-fourth, Seventy-eighth, One Hundred
and First, One Hundred and Third, One
Hundred and Fifth, One Hundred and
Thirty-1ifth, One Hundred and Forty-eighth
and Two Hundred and Sixth Pennsylvania
Volunteers, and the Eleventh and Twelfth
Regiments of Pennsylvania Reserves.
AMONG those who have accepted invita-
tions to be present at the dedication of the
Schuylkill county soldiers monument at
"Baldy' Smith, Major General d. McM
Gregg. Ex-Governor Andrew G. Curtin, Gov
ernor Pattison and staff, Brigadier General
Rustling, Colonels Donnelly and Sewell, of
New jersey, and others. Major Gent rails II.
". Slocum, Daniel T. Sickels, Joseph W.
Hawley, Horatio Gates Wright and CoIonels
o. {. Bosbyshell, d. NJ. Wetherell, John Z.
BARTLETT. The President and staff have been
invited.