The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-22

NEWTON. Feb. 21.-[Special ]-Wichita
took the plum at the thirteenth annual
G. A. r. encampment here today. w. L.
Campbell of Wichita, was elected com
mander.
The vote was taken this afternoon. j
B. Cook Of Chetopa and Colonel T. B
Gerow of Atchison contested with Mr..
Campbell, but were both beaten by a ma
iOrity of forty.
Lawrence secured the next encampment
The dates were not set.
Tim Slower of lola was elected senior
rice commander. Mrs. E.ith Wood
II Pittsburg, was elected state
president of the Woman's Relief corps.
The remaining officers will be elected to-
morrow.
This afternoon a great parade of the
veterans took place and tonight monster
meeting is being held at the rink.
1t was showing here this afternoon. On
account of the cold weather and snow the
attendance at the encampment is not SO
large as was expected.
Less than /, 500 'boys in blue" have reg
istered and most of those are from neigh
boring counties.
The city WAS we'll decorated with flags,
banners and bunting, while portraits of
Grant, Lincoln, Sheridan, Sherman, Gar
field and other famous generals adorn the
windows of many of the principal tusi-
ness houses.
The Ragsdale opera house, which seats
I200 persons, was completely occupied at
O'Clock p. m. and was scarcely large
enough to accommodate all,
The parade which was to have taken
place at p m. was postponed until to-
rorrow on account of the snow and cold
weather.
Each train brings in few new delega-
tions and tomorrow's crowd will be quite
large.
The Wichita G. A. r. drum corps of six
members made good appearance and dis
persed music during the day.
Nothing of interest was done at the
morning session of the G. A. K.
The Sons OF Veterans held their eleventh
annual session this morning in their ar
mory on north Main street The honor of
exemplfyiDg the rituals was given to the
Hutchinson division, which they did in a
way that reflects much credit upon their
order as division. Nothing Of impor-
tance was done il, their ranks today as the
annual election of officers is postponed un-
til tomorrow.
The Woman's Relief corps hold their
session in the Methodist Episcal church
on North Main street. A report of the
officers was heard in the forenoon meeting
and the past president, Lucy Reed Jones,
was presented with II diamond studded
gold badge in recognition of her services to
the order during the past year.
Twenty;bree circles We're present and
represented MS follows:
Lincoln circle No. l, Topeka.
Antietem circle No 2 Parsons.
Leavenworth circle No. S, Leavenworth
Back Eagle circle No. 10, Horton.
Jules Williams circle No. II, Oskalcosa.
Grant circle No. II, Topeka.
Mission Ridge circle No. IA, Grenola.
Chanute circle No. 16 Chanute.
Pap Thomas circle No. IS, Great Bend.
Garfield circle No % Emporia.
Onaga circle No. 26, Ouaga.
Phil Sheridan circle No. 20, Hutchinson.
Lew Wallace circle No. "a, Florence.
Winfield circle No 40. Winfield.
Lecompton circle No. 45. Manhattan.
7. Is. Plumb circle No 46, Newton.
L. N. Sweeney circle No. IS, Pawnee
Rock
Milan circle No 40, Milan.
Walton circle No %, Walton
General Sherman circle No. 81, Larned.
Kingman circle No. a. Kipgman.
Lizzie Webb Hayes circle No. 55 Hays
City.
Caroline Harrison circle No. So Wichita
The report shows much good work ac-
complished during the past year, and also
shows membership of 7,l55, and cash OH
hand amounting to 81 pa 95.
A beautiful sword is 10 be given away to
The most popular past or present post
commander during the encampment. The
voting SO far lies between three men-Rob-
.rt Dougherty (Newton), 1G6; J. Allen
Porter (Sterling), l13; NJ Ragan (oedg-
Tlck), Pa The sword is a present from
EIltor NJ III (rraybiil of '.Ieya.lla ~