Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-17
INTERSTATE REUNION.

The Veterans of Kansas, Missouri and
Other States Meet in Reunion ut Chelsea
Park-Posts In Attendance.
KANSAS CITY, Kan, Sept. Q-Chelsea
park was blue with the garbs of vet
Grams of the union army yesterday who
have assembled at the great interstate
reunion. and they and the great crowds
of people in attendance were also some
what blue over the weather and tho alb
sence of speakers. Nevertheless, part
of the regular programme was salts
factorily carried out and the veterans
and their friends enjoyed the occasion
despite the gloomy weather.
The registration books at headquar-
tiers show an enrolment Of about 4 600
war veterans with from 500 to !. 600
members of the Woman's Relief corps,
200 Sons of Veterans and between $50
and 400 members of the military COM
panies at Camp Logan While a vast
majority of these visitors from Nilsson
ri, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska have
registered as individuals regardless of
the organizations to which they belong,
yet the entertainment committee and
Quartermaster Higgins have arranged
the following Grand Army posts, Wom-
ans Relief corps and Sons of Veterans
having from to 200 members each, to
quarters in the tents in the park.
Post No. gil, Excelsior Springs, Mo;
post No. 81, Caldwell, Kan; Louis
urg, Kan. post No. IS; McCook post
No. 5. lola, Kan; Vermillion. Kan, re-
lief corps; Thompson post No. 80. Yer
million, Kan; Butler, Mo, post; Lin
wood, Kan, post No $40; George Tay-
lor post No. 21e, colored, Mo-; Wash
ington post No. 10, Lawrence, Kan. !;
Jesse II. Moore post No. 1853,
Braymer, Mo-; Mcdaniel post
No ESQ, Bonner Springs, Kan. j;
Relief corps, Bonner Springs, Kan. i;
John Anderson post No. 1877, Wilder,
Kan. Rosnan post No 80, Ravenna, Mo. /;
c. A. Arthur post No. All, Nemaha.
Kan; Jewell post No. 8. Pleasanton,
Kan; McCaslin post No. III, Paola,
Kan; Custer post No. 6. Leavenworth,
Kan; De Kalb. Mo, post No. 1856; Pine
Bluffs. Kan, post No. S13; Shawnee
post No. POS. Leavenworth, Kan /;
Twelfth Kansas regiment; John c.
Fremont post No. 1872. Norris, Mo, David
Reeves post No. $50, Smithville, Mo. i;
Kansas City camp Sons of Veterans;
Quenemo, Kan, post No. 321; Second
Kansas regiment. General Curtis post
No. 1o4, Spring Hill, Kan; Eudora,
Kan, post No. 1888; Ellsmore, Kan,
post No. IS; c. c. Mizen post No. 14s,
Toledo, Kan; headquarters ex-prison-
ers of war association; Oneida, Kan
post No. 1913; Meacham post No 179,
| Colony. Kan; Morgan R. Smith post
No. 264. Deepwater, Mo-; Dawn post
No. 3s4. Osceola, Mo-; Thomas Gordon
post No. AS. Polo, Mo; j. B. Mcpherson
post No. 81, Mcpherson, Kan; Burn
side post No. %, Kansas City, Kan.
Silver Lake post No. Is. Warrensburg,
Mo-; Col Grover post No. 7s, Warrens
burg, Mo-; L. w. Cooper post No. 81.
Lathrop, Mo-; Seneca, Kan, post No.
81; Greeley. Kan, post No. ell; Will
liam 81. Lutte post No. so. Fort Scott,
Kan; Fred Miller post No. 13o. Tina.
Mo-; Winfield post No. So.
Holden, Mo-; McCaslin post No
III. Paola, Kan; George 81.
Thompson post No IS. Ottawa, Kan.
Mt Pleasant Post No 2s3 Bolton, Mo.
Loyal post No. 155, Crayton, Mo-; Chat.
tanooga post, No. 291, Peoria, Kan.
Lookout post No. SO. Wellsville, Kan.
Dan McCook post No. 3l2, Leesville.
Mo-; Harrisonville, Mo-, post No. so;
STAN baugh post No. $50, Austin, Mo,
and Mcpherson, Kan, Relief corps