The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-05
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC.
TWenty-Ninth Annual Encanpment, Louis
Vile, Ky, September 9th to 18th, 1895

| I Wenty-Ninth Annual Encampment, Louis
vile. KY, September 10th TO I4th, 1895
Comrades and Friends-For the
tTenty-ninth time since the OrganiZa-
| ton Of your noble body will you meet
! in encampment. You will leave your
homes now with smile on your griZ-
Hled face, the face that wore an anxious
look some thirty years ago. The rat
fle OF musketry, the roar Of the cannon
and the screaming of the death-dealing
shells have been supplanted, through
your deeds of heroism on the field of
battle, by bonds Of peace and eternal
friendship. The breeZes now watt to the
ears OF your declining age those soul
inspiring airs that touch the hearts of
the American citizen and make them
live for one cause.
The past is forgotten. You are to
meet on the banks Of the Ohio river,
in city that is famed throughout the
breadth Of this fair land for the hos
pitality Of its people. Your line of
march will be strewn with flowers. Old
Glory will greet the eye everywhere,
and Louisvilleans will meet you as
brothers. Let all the boys who wore
the blue go; let them mingle with the
good people of Kentucky, and there
in friendship, bliss, recall anecdotes and
sing the campfire songs that made the
Welkin ring in the olden days. Your
old commanders, Grant and Sherman.
VIII be with you. not in flesh and blood
but in spirit; they will look down upon
you from a home where no dissensions
exist, and when taps are sounded for
that long sleep that knows no waking,
friendly hands will stretch out to guide
you to the throne of your maker.
Tickets will be on sale September Sth,
9th and 10th, and will bear final linn
it Of October 6, 1895. Round trip rate
from Wichita 1880. Less than one
fare.
THE DIRECT WAY TO LOUISVILLE
For many years the MISSOURI Pa
CIF1C and IRON MOUNTAIN ROUTE
have catered to the wants of tie Grand
Army of the Republic. Too much atten-
ton or elegant service cannot be offered
men who in their prime imperiled their
lives and homes for their country'S
cause. Now that peace reigneth DER
the land, and the veterans are about
to journey from their homes to meet
IN annual reunion, the Missouri Pacific
railway system desires to call their at
tention to the excellent facilities offered
by its lines TO reach the Kentucky me-
tropolis, in quick time and elegant SER
vice.
From all points in Missouri. Kansas,
Nebraska, Colorado and Indian Terri |
tory, as well as from points in Arkan-
sas and Louisiana, this system operates
daily fast trains equipped with Pull |
man buffet sleeping cars and reclining !
chair cars to st. Louis, where direct !,
connections are made with all lines for !
the site of the Twenty-Ninth Annual |
When the 'smoke Of bat !
tie" has cleared away "a term used |
where railway competition exists, and .
the advantages of the various lines |
have received due considera ton, If the |
wearers of the blue will place the Mis-
souri, Pacific on an equal footing with !
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friendships account.
For further information, call OF adj
dress. +. f. BLECKLEY,
2. and T. Agent, ia n. Main ST., Wich-
ita, Kan.
II. G. TOWNSEND,
G p A ST Louis Mo.