Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-10

AUGUSTA LOCALS.
G. A. R. ORDERS.
-. ,muor.ant Orders Sent Out from Win
throp Headquarters.

s.o,n the department. hS""i""i "a
.,s,ns G. A. r., by the department COM
-,snser Hon. L. T. Carleton;
ue.douarters Department of Maine,
heao'c Grand Army of the Republic.
Winthrop, Me-, May t. 1897.
General orders NO :.
~ ,he annual encampment of the de-
nv 1.,,,ant of Maine Grand Army OF the
pnnnhlic held at Lewiston, April lo-16,
!sel The following named comrades We're
l l,an,ed no the positions named
e'r1.ammander, Leroy I. Carleton, Post Il,
Winthrop; senior vice commander, Hor-
BOLSTER. Post 14S, So. Paris; junior
ace A. commander. James j. Chase, Post
Wy. ,hase,s Mills: medical director, John
~ .9cC;regor Post S. Montague; chap
r. w Webster. Post 19l, Newport;
a ia,,r of administration, II. II. Black
,relI Post lis. Newport; > H. smell, POST
., Winthrop; Hillman smith, POST A. T.
u nN,n,,,aston: Stanley Plummer, Post s.
Dexter ana Eu"ai" h'N'' ~
armore Falls.
Nj. Representative at large, w. S.
vercross. Post 8, Mechanic Falls; alter
nate AZ large, A. b. Sumner. Post lSs,
I nhec representatives, D. l.. Warren
post "a. Standish; Ray p. Eaton, Post 100,
. n brunswick; 5. y. Bennett. Post "a,
Norwav. John Daley. Post As. Togus;
lanes II. Bell Post ISL, strong; Moses
Stafford Post 90. Kittery; n. *. Il.
Smith Post "a. North Whitetield; f. {.
Milliken. Post ?. Portland; alterhales,
George G. Downing. Post %, Dover; John
q S'ster Post 165. Bangor; George B.
HASKELL post l20. Lewiston; John Brad
,a~ post IS Cornish; Seth 7. Snipe. Post
i Rath; James l.. Burns Post ~. Wash
ington. James w. Ambrose, Post 81,
sherman. and y. r. DeverauX, Post %,
Ellsworth. ,.,,,.
commanders staff are hereby announced:
Assistant adiutant general. Lorenzo Il.
Hiu Post lS, Augusta. assistant quarter
master general, Arthur NJ. Sawyer. Post
3 Portland. 81 Free street; Inspector. Her
Nor, r Sargent Post 2, Portland; judge
advocate. Moses A. Stafford, Post SO, Kit
tery: chief mastering officer, Fred ID,
limit. Post II. Waterville. and chief of
staff. H. T. Frost, Post l6I. Wayne.
Pension committee: Comrade John d.
Anderson. Post rs, Cray Comrade Cyrus
T Wariwell, Post 40, oxford, and Com
rade p S Kelly. Post d, Winthrop.
The following appointments upon the
staff of the department commander are
announced: Senior aide-de-camp. Frank
]. Davies. Post q. Winthrop; TO be aides
de-camp: Roswell C. Harris, Post 4,
Bath: Charles II. Veazie, Post 76, Cas-
tine: ]. B. Getchell. Post So. Troy; Thos.
F. Mccain, Post 16i, Sanford; +. 3
Tarr. Post 100, Lewiston; B. r. Bean,
post Sc. Saco Alonzo Adley, Post 1877,
Richmond. Shirley Merrill, Post II. North
Turner; Richard T. Bailey, Post p,
Bridgton: John Askitt. Post 67, Bry-
ants Pond: NJ. L. Fisher. Post 10. Ken
duskeag; G. f. Wentworth, Post CD, Cam
den: Francis NJ johnson. Post Il. Spring.
field; Woodbury. Weymouth, Post II. LIS
bon Falls; Erastus Massure. Post ILL.,
Portland: Frank j. Savage, Post so. Fair
field; W. B. Taylor. Post SO, Newcastle;
Nba g "a
John W. Caldwell. Post 81, Sherman
Mills; Charles r. Whitman, Post a.
Cooper's Mills; Marshall c. Sturgis, Post
1Ol Gorham; Daniel II. Jones' Post 1i2
Randolph and H. A. Hutchinson, Post
"a, Bethel.
All official Communications on business
of the department should be addressed TO
Lorenzo B. Hill, assistant adjutant gem
eral, Augusta. Maine. All acquisitions
for supplies for posts should be sent to A.
NJ. Sawyer assistant quartermaSter gen
eral, 81 Free street. Portland. Maine,
who will keep on hand everything in the
line of G. A. r. supplies of the best quail
ity at prices less than can be obtained
of any outside party. Orders from ma
tional headquarters require that all post
supplies be purchased of the assistant
quartermaster general. Make all checks,
drafts and money orders payable to y.
M. Sawyer assistant quartermaster gen
eral. The thirty-first national encamp-
ment of the Grand Army of the Republic
will be held at Buffalo, n. Y, the session
opening at 10 o'clock A. NJ, August %.
1897
While arrangements are not yet COM
pleted, the delegation from this depart
ment. consisting of the department COM
mander and staff. representatives ana
aiternates and other comrades, viii
probably leave for Buffalo. August u,
arriving in time to participate in the pa
particulars will be issued as soon as all
arrangements are completed. In the
meantime the department commander ur-
gently requests all comrades, who pur-
pose attending the encampment, at Buff
lalo to send their names to Assistant
AdJatant General Lorenzo =. Hill, Au-
susta Don't delay this until near the
Time but send now.
All members of the Grand Army of the
Republic and their families and friends,
can avail themselves of the low rates
winch are promised by the railroad au-
thorities. Headquarters train will go via
Maine Central Mountain Division. The
route selected. rate of fare, probable cost
Tor each person to make the trip, and
complete particulars relative to the ma
'ionai encampment will be given in a cir
calar which will be issued soon.
The comrades of the department of
New York, whose splendid hospitality is
Known everywhere among G. a. K. men,
nave been at work since September, 1896,
ana all indications are that this will be
one OF the most successful encampmentS
held In many years.
Memorial Sunday will be observed May
o. BY command of
LEROY r. CARLETON,
Department Commander.
Lorenzo 3. HILL Assistant Adjutant Cen
eral
Headquarters Department of Maine,
Grand Army of the Republic.
Winthrop. Me, May 3, 1891
General orders, No g.
e. Memorials day, May 80 occurring on
sunday, the following day. Monday,
May Il, will be observed as Memorial
uaf, IN accordance with the usual GUS
TOM, and the rules and regulations, UNI
ltss exceptional circumstances in any
particular post render it impracticabie.
~ which, case special orders will be is
sueu permitting it otherwise.
memorial day is not a day to be spent
III fdle sports or frivolity. but ii is a day
" huingiy honor the memory of those
VINO Tell defending the best government
ever devised by mortal man.
comrades, There is nothing in all the
world you or | can do for the dead,-they
are beyond our help: we can add to them
Nv glory. we can give to them no immor-
saity: the glory that trailed in the
eioads after their sun had set falls with
rs ms heavenly benedieton upon us who are
nsihg, and it is to commemorate the i'm
mortality of the ideas for which our COM
laues fought and died that you will carry
sdriands and festoons of flowers and
aeVerently place them upon the graves