News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-08-24
NATIONAL ENcAMPMENT OF
THE @. A. n.
GENERAL ORDERS, No. 8. ,
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Mo'yfS0flle, w., dug II, 1909. I
FALL IN vERMoNTERsi
ON TO INDIANAPOLIS
The 27th National Encampmept C.
A. r. will be held in indianapolis
Sept. 4th to Sth. The Annual Parade
will occur Tuesday, Sept. sth. The
Encampment will assemble at Io.ao
a. NJ, Sept. 6, in Tomlinson's Hail.
Vermont Official Headquarters will
be Room I2r, sd Floor in State
House.
Vermont Staff and Social Head.
quarters for G.. A. K. and w. X. c.
will be at the Bates House, Corner
Washington and Illinois Streets
Comrades, on arriving, will please re-
port to Official Headquarters and reg
lster their names, and also the location
in the city where they may be found
Comrades will assemble at Head
quarters at 9 A. NJ, Sept. sth, in full
uniform, white gloves included.
Vermont's emblem, the green sprig
of cedar, will be provided and worn
on left side of hat. Handsome
badges for Vermonters have been
provided at low cost for all who 90.
| expect to see every Department
Officer there and the Department
Staff, all of whom will be mounted.
horses having been provided. Every
Aide-de-C Camp is expected there TO
represent our state. You were all
elected and appointed for your love of
the order, your zeal in maintaining it.
and you are expected to fall in once
a year, at least, to show the world
that the same love of CoMyade. Coun-
try, and patriotism still dwells within
you.
A fine Band of thirty pieces is en-
gagged for our special use. Thanks
are hereby rendered to the w. r. c.
of Vermont for a generous contribu-
tion to the Band fund. 1t is hoped
many OF them will be there to hear.
After long waiting, at last, railroad
rates have been established Prom
all Central Vermont stations to In
dianapolis and return, 1880. Good
going Sept Ist to sth, returning Sept
10th. 1t is fully expected the time of
returning viii be extended, allowing
Comrades to attend the Worlds Fair
and make longer stop. The fare
from indianapolis to Chicago and re-
turn to indianapolis is s3.6s, thus
making the cheapest Worlds Fair tick
ct yet published. 1t is an impossible
ity to get ticket to return from Chi
cago in any other way than back vid
indianapolis.
Headquarters Wagner Sleeping Car
will leave Morrisville Sept I'D, at
$50 P. NJ, on the Boston mail train.
Quarters can be secured in this car
Tor $3.50 for each person. Send the
money to these Headquarters and a
| sleeping car ticket will be sent you.
Comrades on the line of the &. V.
Il. r. can join Headquarters train
at SwaDton, on the regular Boston
mail, Sept. ed. We arrive at Mag
ara Falls at $50 A. NJ. Sept. 3; leave
there p. NJ. same day, arriving at
indianapolis ria Cleveland and Big
-Four line at II.45 A. NJ, Sept. 4th,
where a committee of reception, for
mer Vermont soldier, Chairman, has
notified this Department, will meet us
and escort us to our hotel. / have
a few accommodations for Comrades
who desire to stop with us at the
best hotel in the city, $500 per day.
Fine accommodations in barracks
provided, with meals at * cents
each, you to furnish blankets. / adj
wise all to take lunch baskets on the
trip out. The Department of New
Hampshire will 60 along on same trip
attached to our train.
1t is expected the Boston & Maine
Railroad will make same rates as
Central Vermont; If not, Comrades
living on that line will get to Swanton
as cheap as they can, where the $751;
so ticket will commence.
The railroads have been slow in
announcing the fare, but at last
have given us as good a rate as we
ever had. / am assured from Head
quarters that this Encampment will
outnumber any ever held. Indianap-
oils is a large, beautiful city in the
center of the great west. They have
raised thousands of dollars to enter
tain us, let all go. Seven railroads
run from there to Chicago-six hours
ride, through the heart of Indiana.
Headquarters will be with Comrade
Warren Gibbs, 2257 Prairie Avenue,
Chicago after Sept. Sth. All Com
rades welcome there and their wives,
and no better, more convenient stop
ping place for you while in Chicago,
and especial low rates made for Yer
mont Comrades.
We are already assured of a jolly
party. Comrades you will "get left
if you don't 60.
G.. w. DoTY,
A. A. NILES, Dept Com.
Asst Adi't Gen.