The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-28

Tor the round trip account Louisville
 meeting on certificate plan. The Cen
 tral passenger committee authorizes an open rate of one fare for the round trip from all points in the territory;
 tickets for sale September IS, South
 ern States Passenger association au- thorizes rate of one fare for round trip; tickets to be sold September and T. good for return to September 15,
 The Western Passenger association wip undoubtedly conform to Central and Southern rates.
 The various committees of the Sons of Veterans of Louisville and also the citizens committee are earnestly at work preparing for the encampment, and will soon be ready to announce the
 program and give full information re-
 garding the encampment. Everything
 indicates a successful meeting, with as large, if not a much larger attendance
 than ever before.
 The consolidated report of the ad- jutant general for the quaNer ending
 March 31, shows a net gain of nearly four hundred members for the quarter, notwithstanding the terrible loss in
 Ohio, and the heavy losses in Illinois
 and Massachusetts,
 Seventeen divisions show gatns,
 some of them material ones, while six show very slight losses. There have been much pruning of dead branches, and .he order was never in a better
 condition for growth. This golden op- portunity should be improved by every member of the order, in doing his ut | most to strengthen and build up our | membership,
 | By the adjutant's consolidated re-
 port for quarter ending March 31, 1896, | the total number of camps in good | standing was 1891 and the member | ship 34,964, showing a net gain over the previous quarter of five camps and 392
 in membership.
 | The report also shows that the num-
 Der of applications for camp charters
 that have been approved for March 24,
 1896, to June 25 1896 was eighty and for membership 1899, and for the same pe-
 riod, March "A to June 24 1896, it shows
 that there was issued ninety-one char l ters and the number of recruits mus | tered in 2,1l1.
 Commander Cox of the Connecticut divisions Sons of Veterans in his gen. eral orders just sent out says: Camp | No. 9 of Waterbury has the honor of
 mastering the most recruits for the first | six months in 1896. They have mus | tered twenty-one members, which al-
 most doubles the membership. This
 result reflects credit on Captain Chase and Abraham Lincoln camp. | The division consolidated reports were | delayed this quarter on account of the negligence of the captain who sent in
 camps. To the captains who sent in
 their reports promptly, the commander
 wishes to extend the thanks of himself
 and the adjutant and quartermaster
 The captains of the delinquent camps
 it is hoped, will do better next time. l The attention of the members of this division is called to the auxiliary o1
 the Sons of Veterans, the Ladies' Aid | society. The commander believes that those camps who have had camp ot I the Ladies Aid society have been ben efited by it, and that under certain con- | ditions there are other camps in this | division who would be greatly benefit ed by establishing an auxiliary l The consolidated report of the ad- jutant and quartermaster for the quar- ter ending June 30, 1896, shows the num- Der of camps in good standing in this l state twenty-nine and the member ship 874.