The herald., 1897-01-13
RIVERSIDE
G. A. r. Men and w. r. C. Women In
stall Officers

G. A. r. Men and W. r. C. Women In
stall Officers
| RIVERSIDE, Jan. 12-There are MANY
| pleasure spots along the trough road
to travep and the silver lining to the
dark cloud without last night was found
in Riverside at Odd Fellows hall. Tho
occasion was the joint public instal!a-
| tion OF the new officers of the Grand
Army post and Woman's Relief Corps
| of this city
| Notwithstanding the steady oownpour
| or rain without, and which had contin-
ued at intervals during the day, there
We're tully three hundred people sat at
| tables and partool OF as fine a spread
as the people of this city have been per-
mitted to enjoy for sometime The ban
cuet opened the evenings program. and
lhls large number were served most
| Gelightfully by a bevy of daughters of
veterans. this particular work being en-
| tirely in their hands
| Company NJ of the National guard was
in evidence in goodly numbers under
! command of Capt. Eason, and all in full.
dress uniform. adding glitter as well as
| good looks, to the assembly
After the banquet which was over a.
o'clock, the instalaton of officers of the
two bodies had place in the lodge room.
|
| to the dancers
| The officers installed for the Relief
Corps, Mrs. Stephen Squire. past prey
| dent, acting as installing officer ably
! assisted by Mrs. J. H. Roe, We're: Mrs.
| Z. M. Dexter, president; Mrs Mary
| Shappeil, senior vice president; Miss
Pearl Smith, junior vice president; Mrs.
M. NJ. Davis. treasurer Mrs. Dr. c. w.
| Sylvester, secretary; Mrs. c. A. Chris
tern, chaplain; Mrs. Ida Hutchinson.
conductor; Mrs. A. H. Jefferson. guard:
Mrs. d. S. Strong. assistant guard; Mrs.
II. II. Monroe, Mrs. DR.. c. c. Sherman
| and Mrs. c. A. Christern, delegates to
the department convention; alternates.
Mrs. DR. w. S. Ruby. Mrs. Chappell and
| Mrs. Little
| AT the close Of the installation cere-
| mony Mrs. NJ. M. Davis, the retiring
| president of the corps was. in a few we'll
chosen remarks by Mrs Dexter present.
ed with a beautiful chiffonier of five
| drawers.
| A couple of songs were rendered by
Mr.. Rogers of the Santa Rosa mine
which were well received
capt: M. NJ. Davis, acting as INSTALL
| ing officer assisted by H. c. Hebbard.
| lnstalled the following officers of the
| g.. A. r.; c. M. Dexter, commander:
| Geo. D. Jones. senior vice commander:
! Lester p. McCullom, junior vice com
| ter; Thos. z. Stibbene, surgeon; VIM.
| K. Sellon. chaplain; Frank Coolidge of
| ficer of the day; Fred O. Lathrop, officer
| of the guard; Chas. A. Lantheaum, adj
| jutant; Geo. B. Smith, sergeant-maj jor:
Henry Raley, quartermas ster sergeant
| Another presentation closed thse ex-
| ercises. Commander Dexter in the
| name of the post and the ladies relief
society, presented Mr.. Lantheaum, who
had just been installed adjutant for the
sixth time, and who has always been a
faithful officer with fine suit of clothes.
This is the working office of the order.
Comrade d. G. Mitchell having been
called to the chair. pleasing musical
program was rendered in which the male
quartet. composed of N. s.. II. w. and
Fred N. Hawes and Pros Kennedy. Miss
Nellie Morris, TIE Burrell family COM
posed of Capt. Burrell. his son o. ]. and
daughter. Mrs. M. r. Plasted, took part.
Mrs. Kendall, department secretary
of the w. r. c., of Minnesota, who Is
spending the winter in Riverside. was in
troduced and made few remarks.
Games were INDUCED in for a short
time and the enjoyable evenings enter
tainment wac at an end. 1t was esti-
mated that there were fully one hundred
old soldiers present.
The union run of the wheelmen to
Lakeview yesterday was a grand sue
wheelmen from Riverside and a num-
ber from outside points, making total
of sixty-nine. A large number of aides
were in attendance The run was very
easy both ways and but very few went
dead All report a pleasant time, and
hope the wheelmen will have a number
of union runs during the season.
The fine rain we have been having
came just at the right time for the dry
| farmers and to lay the dust on our ex-
ceMent roads.
Reed Quitman of Sage was in the city
today. Mr. Quitman has located a num-
Der of mines in that part of the county.
On his return from Lakeview yester-
day, "Barty'' Cox had quite a fall from
his wheel coming down the Box Springs
grade. He smashed his wheel quite
badly and was severely bruised about
the body.
John McNab was a passenger this
morning for Berkeley.
Miss Avery well known in this city.
left here this morning for Sacramento.
Robin Shelley departed today for San
Francisco, where he goes to attend
school.
Rev. H. B. Gage was a passenger over
the Santa Fe this morning for Los An
geles.
o. Miller Robertson, who arrived from
England few days ago, has taken I'D
his abode at Arlington.
The fire alrm box on Eighth street and
Santa Fe railroad has been changed to
the south side of Eighth street on the
railroad. The number Is 81 The box
on Eighth and Main has been changed
to Seventh and Main and the number
changed to "a The rest of the alarm
boxes will be placed as soon as the wire
It put in. The work is in charge of Frank
Yeable.
Judge Noyes was kept busy this morn
ing granting naturalization papers.
Those who cast off all allegiance to
Nova Scotia and swore by the consti
tuition of the United States were Rupert
Shaw, Sydney D. Pelton and Charles w.
Mcleod, and Samuel Lynn preferred
our government to that of Canada,
IL. McPhee. proprietor of the Santa
Ana Blade, was Riverside visitor to-
day.
d. f. Myens of Moreno spent the day in
this city.
The public installation of the G. A.
r. ard w. r. c. will be held in the Odd
Fa1lnwS' hall