Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19
port ended yesterday. The attendance was

GRAND ARMY DAY COMMITTEE meeting at
Municipal Hall next Saturday at2PM.
/ PosT l2S expects to turn out not less than
| 80 men in uniform in the parade at Detroit
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE meeting at the Pen.
sion office next Thursday afternoon at 8
o'clock.
GENERAL BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KELLEY died
last Wednesday, at his home near Oak
land, Md.
A BUSINESS meeting of the Pennsylvania
Reserves Association was held at Williams
port on Tuesday.
POST l2s will be accompanied to Detroit by
Lysle Camp No. 2, Sons of Veterans, and the
Grand Army Band of % pieces.
THE comrades of Post IS are greatly pleased
that Comrade Hugh Morrison is now suffi-
GENTLY recovered to be at the post meetings.
Posi- l55 has engaged cars for the Detroit
trip for itself and the Auxiliary [Womans
Relief Corps. There are but very few berths
left.
A GRAND reunion will be held by the
soldiers of Washington county at Hender-
sons Grove, Washington, Pa, on Thursday,
August Is.
THE soldiers monument of Post 207, of
Homestead, is up and will be dedicated on
September II, the date of the anniversary of
the battle of Antietam.
THE.souvenirs for the National Encamp-
ment, it is said, will be the most elaborate
ever painted. Not line of advertising will
be allowed upon them.
Mrs. CHRISTINA SHIvELY mother of Comrade
G. F. Shively, of Post ss, died at her resi-
dence, on Carson street, Southside, at 5
O'Clock yesterday morning.
THE Twenty-eighth and One Hundred and
Forty-seventh Pennsylvania Infantry and
Knap's Independent Battery held their
annual reunion in Williamsport last Mon
day.
A MAGNIFICENT arch and tower will be
built in Detroit at the intersection of Jeffer-
son and Woodward avenues one at Fort and
Griswold streets and another at the Grand
Circus Park.
A PLACE for part OF the expected overflow
in Detroit during the encampment has been
found. The Wagner Palace Car Company
has ohered It's cars for quarters if the ac-
commodations be short.
INFORMATION is wanted of any soldier who
knew William Helm, wounded at Freeman's
Ford, Va, on Pope's retreat, August o, 1869,
by Mrs. Ann NJ. Helm, Ruth street, Thii :
second ward Pittsburg, Pa. ~
THE Detroit Committee of Post 50 have
been requested to have Quartermaster j. P.
Stewart enioined from taking his horn on
the trip. Vivid recollections of the Colum-
bus journey continue to haunt them.
DESERVED paise is given hard worker by
the Philadelphia Press thus: Assistant Ad-
jutant General Samuel P. Town works
quietly but efficiently in the conduct of his
office. Everything is done carefully and &C
curately.
POST 12S has again been honored by being
selected as the personal escort of Depart
ment Commander George G. Boyer and will
therefore lead the Pennsylvania column in
the great parade in Detroit. in which there
Will be not less than 5000 veterans.
II d
Pittsburg, desires to know what became of
Joseph Blanchard, who was enrolled in a
pennsylvania regiment, and was at Camp
enlisted as drummer in Pittsburg.
THE Columbian Exposition Committee of
the National Association of Naval Veterans
will meet at Detroit August to perfect a
national organization and elect officers.
Thomas l.. johnson, of Post No. of Chicago,
is chairman of the executive committee.
THE accredited delegates to the National
Encampment number 1000, but it is thought
not more than 500 will be present. The
Executive Committee has secured Beecher's
Hall, in the Biddle House, in which to hold
the sessions. The seating capacity on the
floor is about 800, and the gallery will hold
600.
A NUMBER of prominent ,ton comrades
will be at Rock Point on md Army Day.
Besides Department Commander Boyer,
Assistant Adjutant General Samuel P.
Town, Assistant QuArtermaster General
Williams Colonel Thomas j. Stewart and
Captain John Taylor, Quartermaster Gen
eral, are expected.
THERE was meeting of the veterans of
the Fifth West Virginia Cavalry and First
West Virginia Battery at the office of
Comrade H. P. Callow, on last Thursday
evening. They discussed the time for hold
ing their next reunion. This will be in Pitts
burg next September. The next meeting
will be on the 2sth prox. at the same place.
CoMRADE FREY of Post So, at meeting on
Tuesday evening, read very interesting
paper entitled can Answer to Why Did You
Join the G. A. R.? and What Learned After
Joining" The comrades present. of which
there was a full turnout were much pleased
with the thoughtfulness of Comrade Frey in
his efforts to entertain them and rendered
him vote of thanks.
THE Commandery of Pennsylvania Loyal
Legion has issued a handsome membership
roll. 1t is in pamphlet form and has 40
pages, exclusive of the covers. Upon these
pages are given the names of :, 1853 American
army and navy officers who belong or have
belonged to the Commandery. There is also
given, in addition to the name, the rank
held in the service, the date of election and
PosT 12s will leave for Detroit on Sunday
August 2, at o'clock. The party
will arrive at Cleveland in time for dinner
and leave at noon for Detroit, crossing Lake
Erie on one of the magnificent lake steam
ers, and arriving at the encampment city at
about 1880 the same day. No one will be
allowed on the special train of Post 12S ex-
cept they procure their tickets from the |
committee of the Post. The party will re-
turn on August9.
THE ninth reunion of the Seventy y-eighth |
Regimental Association will |
be held at Butler, Pa, Wednesday, August |
,6. The comrades and citizens of Butler |
purpose making it the most successful re-
union the regiment has yet held. There |
will be excursion rates on all railroads CEN |
tering at Butler. Generals Rosecrans and |
Negley expect to be present. r. D. Elwood |
IS President and H. IL. Bengough and Will |
A. Lowry Secretaries of the association.
THE members of Post 3's Detroit club are |
thus addressed in circular by Comrade T. |
W. Baker, President. and ]. B. Eaton, Secre- |
;ary: care you going Ito Detroit? If SO, we |
want you to attend q meeting of the Detroit |
club at Post headquarters tomorrow even
ng at which we desire the attendance of |
every member of the club and Post, officers
and be prepared to hand in your
slips and leave deposit to show that you |
mean business. The committee must know
1t once how many members want hotel ac-
If this information is not |
furnished by the 20th inst the quarters will |
oe given to outside parties who are anxious
,or them"
THE Detroit Committee of Post I2s re-
ported to the post at the meeting last Thurs
lay evening. The report includes the fol-
owing: "The fare to the comrades of the
post as at present announced is So % and to |
hose not connected with the post s6 25.
This includes sleeping accommodations |
while in Detroit for the men in the party |
md the handling of the baggage for all who I
TO- Mattresses will be furnished by the