Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-02

| MT. Clemens Mich, for a few days after the
| encampment
THE Pittsburg pension office is being reno
vated. A new brussels carpet is one OF the
| Improvements.
CoMRADB W. J. PATTERSON, of Post 15, will
with his wife go to Atlantic City at the close
of the encampment.
CoMRADE B. F. wEYMAN, Of this city, has
been appointed an aid on the staff Of the
Commander in Chief
A REUNION will be held at Butler on
Wednesday, August 26 by the Seventy
Eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers.
PosT 12S will lead the Pennsylvania column
in the great parade at Detroit on Tuesday as
escort to Department Commander Boyer.
COMRADES TURNEY AND DEAN, of Mansfield,
were given a cordial reception by their
comrades at Post sss meeting last Tuesday
evening.
CoMRADE WILLIAM McCLELLAND, Of Post
259, Adjutant General of the State Of Penn
sylvania, will be the guest of Post 155 on the
trip to Detroit.
CoMRADE HUGH MORRISON, Of Post 90, re-
turned yesterday from health-seeking trip
up North. He is not well enough to attend
the Detroit encampment
COLONEL W. A. STONE CAMP, No. 3oo Sons
of Veterans, was mustered at Bakerstown
last Thursday evening by Lieutenant Col
OHOA ALL LOy a. ~ u
THE genial Colonel Sam Moody, Of the
Pennsylvania lines west, will take good care
of the hundreds of comrades and their
families who will leave over that route for
Detroit this morning.
Mrs. SALLIE E. LINHAET, senior Vice-Presi-
dent of the Department Of Pennsylvania,
Ladies of the G.. A. R., and wife of Comrade
W. P. Linhart of Post 155, will go to Detroit
In company with Post lbs.
m,
of the G.. A. r. last Thursday. The ladies
reported that the arrangements for the en-
tertainment of the people at Rock Point on
Grand Army Day were well under way.
VISITING comrades to Post 162 are surprised
at the large attendance at the regular Satur-
day night meetings. The interest manifested
in the work by the comrades of 162, they
claim, is not eQualed by any other post in
the department.
BY order of the Council in Chief, Sons Of
Veterans, the tenth annual meeting of the
Commandery in Chief will be held in Minne-
apolis, Mimi, on Monday, August "a, at P.
M. The Council in Chief will meet in the
same city that day at o'clock An
SENIOR Woe DEPARTMENT CoMMANDER
PARKS, Of Texas; Comrade Leisure, Of Post 8,
Department. of Maryland. and Comrade
Beck, of Meade Post, Philadelphia, were
visitors at Post l57's meeting last Thursday
evening. They stopped of while on their
way to Detroit.
NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS have been notified
that there are still at Columbus, o., 1eO pieces
of baggage unclaimed from the Twenty-sec-
ond National Encampment held there in
lsss, mostly trunks: Comrades & interested s
], or Wells Post No. 45l Columbus, o.
MRS. CARRIE V. SHERRIFB will leave Phfla-
delphia this morning on the headquarters
train as the guests of posts 81 and o. For q
few days she has been visiting Mrs Anna E..
Grubb, National Treasurer of the Ladies of
the G. A. r., previous to which she and her
children were at the Florida House, Atlantic
City.
SOME time ago invitations were sent to tho
companions of the Loyal Legion to make
their h headquarters while in Detroit at the
oommandery quarters in that city. A num-
Der of the officers will be there, among them
being Commander in Chief R. B. Hayes.
side communicates.
THE programme for the Washington
county old soldiers reunion on Thursday,
August 13, is being shaped. Wilson's Grove,
one mile north of Washington, will be the
scene Of the festivities. The programme
will include short speeches, an OK roast,
dancing and grand time generally.
THE Grand Army Day Committee met in
Municipal Hall yesterday. Little was
meeting of the Executive Committee last
Thursday. The Sons of Veterans will have a
dress parade at Rock Point and will be pres
ent in large numbers. The committee will
meet again August 16
GENERAL GREEN B. RAu6, Commissioner
Of Pensions, paid Comrade Pension Agent
Bengough a visit at the pension Office last
Friday. He expressed himself as greatly
pleased with the new quarters, and sug-
gested some further improvements which
will be comfortable and convenient for all
having business with the Office.
Ar the last meeting of Post 50 Quartermas-
ter Stewart, on behalf of the post, presented
to Comrade W. 81. Cowgirl a very neat and
pretty gold badge for services performed in
disposing of large number of tickets for
the play "FaIl of Atlanta" lately given
Cowgill is more pleased with it than boy
with his first pair of boots.
TIE brigade composed of the Fourteenth
Connecticut, One Hundred and Eighth New
York, Twelfth New Jersey, and the One
Hundred and Thirtieth Pennsylvania Vol
unteers will hold a reunion at Sharpsburg
Nd on the Antietam battlefield, on Thurs
day and Friday, September II and 1s The
One Hundred and Thirty-Second has been
invited to join the brigade upon the
occasion.
ALL the posts of the Grand Army encamp-
ments of the Union Veteran Legion, sur
vlvOrS OF reglmental aSSOClAslOnS, IOyal
Legion and other veteran societies, the
National Guard and fraternal organizations,
will be invited to participate in the dedica-
ton ceremonies of the Schuylkill County
Soldiers Monument, which will be dedicated
on Thursday, October L The monument is
situated in Garfield Square, Pottstown. On
this occasion the surviving members of the
first five companies or first defenders"
will receive the badges voted them by the
Legislature.
LAST Thursday evening, In the hall owned
and furnished by William Scott Post No. 4ss,
Lieutenant Colonel ALI. G. Lloyd, of Colonel
F. b. H. Collier Camp 139, s. of ", sharps-
burg, assisted by a number Of members Of
the same camp, instituted Colonel W. A.
Stone Camp No. 300 at Bakerstown, with 20
recruits, and installed the following officers:
Captain, John Gillespie; First Lieutenant,
George Fechter; Second Lieutenant, James
Sterling; Camp Council, William Scott,
Thomas Marshall and James Sterling; Dele
gate, John Gillespie; Alternate, George |
Fechter; First Sergeant Frank Burns; Quar- |
Sergeant, r. II. Donaldson; Ser |
geant of the Guard, j. II. Brashear; Color |
Sergeant II. S. Burns; Corporal Of the |
Guard, William Scott; Camp Guard, T. j. |
Marshall; Picket Guard, j. Dobson, Chap |
lain, Harry Filton; Principal Musician, |
Harry Craner. At the close of the meeting |
the boys repaired to the handsome residence |
of Comrade Marshall, and partook of an ele- |
CANT repast. This makes the second camp |
in Allegheny county the past |
week.