Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19
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Union Veteran Legion.

| Union Veteran Legion.
Two new applications for membership
were read at EncampmentN No. last Monday
| night
CoMRADE R. H. HUMPHREY represented
Etna at the inspection of No. 6. He could
| represent whole county.
| CoMRADE F. II. KIRKER, an old Roundhead,
turned up at No. at the last meeting. He
resided in Florida last winter
CoMRADE Ex-CoLoNEL COMMANDER R. D.
BARKER, of No. G. was reported on the sick
| list at his home ON Knoll street.
THERE was a splendid turnout at the last
| meeting of No. s inspection night. Com
rade Hay polished the boys nicely.
CoMRADE GEORGE HUNTER, an officer at
riverside, attended the last meeting of No.
8. He says the boys down there are quiet.
CoMRADE DIR. R. W. WELLER, who has been
quite i'll for several months, was at the last
meeting OF No. g. He is Weller than he
was.
NEARLY every comrade of No. 6 who was
present at the last meeting took blank ap-
plication, and each one promised a recruit
soon.
CoMRADE j. H. STEVENSON of Encapment
No. 6, will have q chance to score No. (if
they deserve it) at their inspection to-mor-
row night.
CoMRADE DANKs, Chaplain in Chief of the
Union Veteran Legion, was reported to En-
campment No. l as. being sick on Monday
night last.
CoMRADE BECKER, of Mansfield, who has
been quite sick for q long time, was reported
to Encampment No. 1 as being about the
same as for the past year.
CoMRADE LIEUTENANT COLONEL WILLIAM
HUMPHREY, of No. ], paid visit to No. last
thursday evening and gave the boys a brief
address. He promised to come again.
The project of the Veteran Legion going
TO the washington Fair in body was spoken
OF at No. 6. If they go the Changers had bet
ter keep an eye on their prize chickens.
CoMRADE REV. MCKEE, Of the Liberty Street
Methodist Episcopal Church, member of
Encampment No. l. spent several days very
pleasantly at Mountain Lake Park last
week.
U. V. L. HALL on Sixth avenue, will be
crowded tomorrow night at the inspection
OF encapment No. ], and to hear a talk
from Comrade Pearson on his travels along
the Pacific coast.
THE Seventeenth Pennsylvania Cavalry
was represented at No. on inspection night
by Comrade j. P. Ross. AS he has moved
into Allegheny from Bellevue he promises
to be around often.
IHE propriety of having a picnic in the
near future was discussed by No. at its last
meeting and committee was appointed to
coHSluer anu report thereon. The commit
tee consists of comrades j. II. Stevenson
Henry Kiern and FL. Monath.
ENoAMPMENT No. mustered four recruits
on Monday night last: John D. Gowan,
Company G, One Hundred and Thirty-ninth;
George W. Dales, Company d, Eighty-ffth
pennsylvania Volunteers, and David Nc
Cleary, United States Marine Corps. all good
and tried men.
CoMRADE c. F. McKENNA, (the only living
private of the One Hundred and Fifty-ffth),
Chairman of the Entertainment Committee
OF Encampment No. !, has been granted q
leave of absence of two weeks, to visit Yel-
low Stone Park and see if it would be suit
able place for the encampment to hold a
picnic this fall.
THE following named soldiers got their
pension papers last week through j. H.
Stevenson & Co.: William Hunziker, Com
pany A, Thirteenth Pennsylvania; John
Schorr, Company I, Seventy-fourth Penn
sylvania; Robert Campbell, Company II,
Fifth Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery; Will
lam Roosevelt, Company G, First Maryland
Cavalry; Clark II. Dexter, United States
steamer Montgomery; Jesse Kuhn, Com
pany 1, One Hundred and Twenty-third
Pennsylvania.