Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-09
Grand Army Splinters.

| Grand Army Splinters.
RECRUIT DAVIS was mustered into Post 162
last night week..
CoMRADE K. s. REEs. OF Post 157, is re-
ported still improving.
| CoMRADE D. A. JONES arrived home last
week from his Washington campaign.
A MEETING of the officers of Lyle Circle
was held at the home of the President. Mrs.
| Mary Sample, Monday.
Posr 259s regular monthly meeting for
| October will be held next Tuesday evening
Important business will be brought up
CoMRADE KIRK, of Post 81 Philadelphia,
and Comrade Sample, of Post l2s, were Wis.
itors at Post SSs meeting Tuesday night.
THE bad luck of Senior Vice Department.
Commander William o. Russell still pursues
him. He is now laid up with sprained
| ankle.
| PosT ISL has been ivited to the Columbus
| Day celebrations at the different lower
| Southside schools. Details will be sent to
| each school.
| SURVIVORS of the Eighty-f1fth One Hundred
and First and One Hundred and Third Regi-
| ments will hold q reunion at Williamsburg
| next Thursday
CoMRADE THOMAS R. Boss of Post l55, who
| has had severe siege of illness, is able to be
h,
| slowly but surely.
IT is now Comrade Kirker, of Post So, he
having boon admitted last Tuesday night.
| Another proposition is on the tapis and
more are on the way.
TIE twelfth annual reunion Of the Four.
| eeenth Pennsylvania Cavalry Association
was held in the q. V. L. Hall, u Sixth ave-
nue., yesterday afternoon.
COMRADES MoRELANp, Dettfs and others
gave their "reminiscences of the trip to
Washington, Baltimore. Gettysburg, ETC., at
the meeting of Post lbl, last Tuesday
evening.
POST IS last Tuesday evening voted its
| congratulations to Mrs. Carrie v. Sheriff,
wife of Comrade Charles f. Sheriff on her
election as National President OF the Ladies
of the G. A. h.
The annual reunion OF the surviving mem
bers of Hampton's Battery will be held this
year on Columbus Day, October II, at the
armory Of Hampton Battery b, Fifth avenue
market house, at t7P.M.
The many friends OF Captain Samuel Con-
ner Circle will be pleased to learn that it
will be re-organized tomorrow evening.
Quite q number of the prominent workers
OF the order will be present.
A LITERARY and dramatic entertainment
under the auspices of Colonel william H.
Moody, W. R. c. No. 2 auxiliary to the G.
A. r., will be given in Grand Army Hall,
Grand View avenue, November 8 and 4. A
fine programme is being prepared.
THERE will be reunion of Company +, One
Hundred and Second Pennsylvania Rsgi-
ment, at the residence of Comrade L. T. Nc.
Grath, No. 1922 Carson street, Southside, Oc-
tobcr ~. All members OF the company and
friends are cordially invited to attend.
MAJOR A. NJ. HARPER Post 1871, OF Braddock,
is making arrangement for the holding of
mn, ,Hrai IN hall in ha Nor.
negie building. 1t will take place within
the next two weeks and will be an event OF
unusual magnitude, both to the veterans
and the public.
PosT So has already appointed Commit
tee on Arrangements for the trip to the In
dianapolis encampment next year. The
persons who accompanied the post to Wash
ington were so well pleased with the ar.
rangements that many have already signi-
fed their desire to 80 to indianapolis with
the comrades of S.
Posr AIS open entertainment to its friends
Wednesday, evening was very enjoyable.
Those who were there will anxiously look
for the next one to come of, but the outside
frienos of this post being very numerous,
and IL being desirable to have each one pres
ent at least once during the winter series Of
entertainments, the plan OF rotation will
have to be adhered to.
RELIGIOUS services will be conducted this
1itSfhVOh Nv " CiOShs W ". II. hlpUoy TOSG
No. H. at the Ladies OF the G. A. r. Home,
Hawkins station, Pennsylvania Railroad.
Comrades and ladies of the G. A. r. ara
especially invited to be preseut. Lunch will
be served for benefit OF home, at a small
cost. Trains leave Union station at 1925,
l:S0 and ESQ; returning trains arrive in Pitts
burg 645, $50, 7S0, s:l0 and 300.
CoMRApE CHARLES HoLYLAND of Post 1852,
while in Washington ran up against an old
comrade he had not seen for 80 years. While
standing on street talking to veterans
whom he thought he did not know, he dis
covered that they were Illinois men, and
talking further was greatly surprised to
find that one old grizzled fellow was Cliff
Wharton, who was an officer in Ellsworth's
United States Zouave Cadets, to which Com
rade Holyland belonged.
Posr SIS annual memorial services will be
held in the hall on Fourth avenue tomorrow
night The comrades who have died in the
past year are John E..Williams and James
McFadden. Comrade John S. Lambee will
deliver the memorial address. The choir
will be led by DR.. McCandless Mrs. j. Sharp
Mcdonald will likely not be able to be pres
ert on account of the severe illness OF her
mother. This will be the first time she will
have missed attending these services and
her absence will be much regretted by all.