Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-13

In the RANKS.
CoMRApE GEORGE s1As Of Post 15l, was a
visitor OF Post 9S6 Friday night.
A DELEGATION from Post 236 visited Circle
No. on Tuesday night, and had q good
time.
"CoRPoRAL" TANNER passed through Pitts
burg last Thursday. He will come again this
week.
yCoMRADE GEORGE F. SCHWARTZ was on FRI
day night elected Officer of the Guard of
Post 236.
DIR. NARDYZ was mustered into Post Mon
day night. He served in the One Hundred
and Sixteenth Pennsylvania.
QUARTERMAsrER GEORGE Roth, of Post 2S6,
has resigned, and Comrade D. W. Smythe
has been appointed in his place.
SENIOR Woe COMMANDER RUSSELL visited his
post, No. l5l, last Tuesday. 1t being his first
visit since his election it was quite an event.
CoMRADn J. E. JOHNSTON, Of Post 288, will
soon remove to New Jersey for his health.
He has been an active worker for Post 236,
and will be much missed.
COLONEL ELLSWORTH CIRCLE No. ~, Ladies
of the G. A. R.. will hold a necktie social
next Saturday evening at their hall, corner
of Price street and Fifth avenue. All sister
circles and posts are invited.
THE committee on Comrade McClelland's
memorial reported at Post 259's meeting last
Tuesday evening. The report was unani-
mously adopted, and a copy will be sent to
Comrade McClelland's relatives.
CoMRADE A. P. BuRcHF1ELD returned from
the East last week. While away he visited
a number of posts, among them that or
Commander in Chief Palmer, in Albany.
There he witnessed perfect work.
PosT 236's Washington Committee will
give an entertainment in Turner Hall, Al
lentown, in Mary. The committee is COM
n T 7,
7. q. Jones, L. Shuck and James Mccormick.
CoMRADE MoARE, OF General J. B. Sweitzer
Post No. 4s0, is unable to leave his room, but
he wishes and prays that, even If it should
be his last night out, he will be able to
attend the flag presentation to his post,
which will take place in the near future.
ApJurANT JOHN N1cHoLL, of Post 16s, at the
meeting Saturday, March 8. read an elab.
CRATE history Of the post since its installa.
ton. The boys think so much Of it that the
history will likely be reproduced in printed
form and distributed among members OF the
post.
Posr will present the Drummer Boy" at
the Bijou Theater the second week in April.
Last Monday night special committee to
take care of this matter was added to the
added are j. K. Wallace, s. P. Gamble and Il.
L. McGaw.
PosT l5Ts memorial service will be held
Sunday, March 27. Past Department Com
mander Stewart was to have delivered the
address, but word was received from him
last week saying that he was in South
memorial service.
LAST Monday evening, Post b46 appointed
Washington Committee to make arrange
ments for the trip to the National Encamp.
ment next September. As this is the first
encampment that the post will have at
tended in a body, the boys expect to have Q
large crowd. and are confident of q good
time.
Posr 259's memorial service will be held on
Tuesday evening. March %, in the post
room, II Sixth avenue. The meeting will be
an open one. The following committee OF
arrangements has been appointed: Com
rades William ?. Herbert, Edward Abel. W.
R. Thompson, j, NJ. Schoonmaker and Gus
Schwarm.
The Executive Committee will meet in the
Pension Office next Friday evening and fix
the time for the convening Of the next Cen
eral Grand Army Day Committee. Ali mem
bers are urged to be present and report for
settlement all outstanding bills. The COM
mittee will adjourn early and take in the
Hastings lecture in Old City Hall.
Ex-ApJUrANr GENERAL D. H. HASTINGS will
deliver his lecture on the Johnstown food
in. Old City Hall next Friday night for the
benefit of the Kelley Cure Fund Of the
Womans' Temperance Alliance. These are
the ladies' who so kindly gave up Old CITY
Hall for the Grand Army banquet the time
of the encampment. The comrades will now
reciprocate.
LAST Monday night number Of the COM
rades of General j. B. Sweitzer Post No. 46O,
with their wives, went to the residence of
Comrade Pryce, on Thirty-ninth street, and
celebrated with him and his wife their
twenty-first wedding anniversary.e One of
the most enjoyable features of the evening
was the piano playing OF Comrade Pryces
daughter, who is quite an able musician.
SECRETARY x. S. REEs, of the General Mem-
orial Day Committee Of the Old City, has
issued q call for the assembling of the com.
mittee for 1892 The meeting is to be held in
Council Chamber at o'clock Saturday even
ing, April q The posts embraced in this
committee are Nos. g. Al, 157. 206 $50. $50 and 1
zS0 Comrade Rees requests each post COM
mander to appoint five comrades as repre-
sentatives ON this committee.
THE ladies' auxiliary of Post So. with q
number of comrades, surprised their Presf-
dent, Mrs. J. K. Hutchinson, last Thursday
evening at her home on Federal street. 1t
was Mrs Hutchinsons birthday anniversary
ana to show their appreciation Of her serv.
ices, the ladies presented her with q beauti-
full gold and onyx breast pin. At the Same
with an after-dinner cup, the size Of . quart
measure.
OK Wednesday Post 50 buried Comrade
Joseph Murray, late Of the One Hundred ana