Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-09-15
VETERANS GO HOME
G. 4. R. ENCAMPMENT COMES
TO A CLOSE
RACINE MAN is HONORED
Resolutions Endorsing Alger Adopted
Proposition to Admit to Mem
bership Soldiers Who Have Served
il Spanish War Laid on Table
Auxiliary Orders Eject Officers

Cincinnati, o., Sc I. 10.-The G. A.
election Of officers Friday and ad-
journed. The following were e.ected
by reclamation: Senior vice CON-
| mander-in-chief, W. C. tombstone
Cincinnati; junior vice COMMANDMENTS
| chief, David Ross, Delaware; surgeon
general, Dr.. Pierce, Nebraska; chap
chief, Col. Lucius, Indianapo-
| lis.
The national council Of administra,
ton was appointed in part as follows:
Iowa, Thomas Bell, Fairfield; Mich
igan, Samuel J. Lawrence, Wyan-
Go.te; Minnesota, ]. NJ. D. Graft
Pennington; Missouri. F. NJ. Sterritt,
st. Louis; North Dakota, Harrison
Allen, Fargo; South Dakota, A. R.
Anderson, Hot Springs; Wisconsin,
! H. J. Smith, Racine.
The ceremony Of installing the new
ly elected officers was performed by
Ccmrade Wagner Of Pennsylvania. A
felicitous speech by Commander-il-
Chief Sexton was followed by a vote
/ Of thanks to retiring Commandments
i chief Gen. Goblin and others.
Reso utions endorsing Secretary
Alger were adoptel. The report of
| the committee Oh pensions demanded
that the national pension departments
treat the claims of old soldiers with
more consideration and liberality.
| A proposition from Tennessee to
amend the rules so as to make sol
diers who had been conscripted in the
rebel army, afterwards served in the
union army and honorably discharged
eligible to membership in the Grand
Army, was referred to a special com
mi tee CT five with instructions to re-
| port to the next encampment. A prop
osltion to make eligible to member
| snip soldiers who had served in the
war with Spain was laid on the table.
After the installation of officers the
encampment adjourned sine die.
The Woman's Relief Corps selected
the following officers: President. Mrs.
| Flo. Jameson Miller, Monticello,
ILL.,; secretary, Miss Matte Jansen.
Illinois; counselor, Mrs. Emma P.
| Wallace, Illinois. Among the reso-
lutions adopted was one thanking
Miss Clara Barton, president of the
Red Cross society, for her official
work in relieving the restitution in
| Cuba and thanking the president of
the Woman's Relief Corps for estab-
fishing emergency funds for nursing
! the soldiers during the Spanish war
! AS the treasury of the G. A R. was
found to be about empty, the ladies
! of the Woman's Relief Corps made
an appropriation Of $4,000 for the
benefit Of their brothers.
/ The Ladies Of the G.. A. R. elected
the following officers: President,
Mrs. Agnes Winslow, Chicago; vice
president, Mrs. Capoon, Elyria,
! Ohio; junior vice president,
Mrs. Willis, San Francisco;
tree surer, Mrs. Tobey, Logansport,
Ind: chaplain, Mrs. Stevens, Newark,
n. j.: counsellor, Mrs. Davey, Du-
luth: council of administration, Mrs.
j Lynn Dewars. Lincoln. Duluth; Mrs.
! Wall, Lawrence, Kan; Mrs Sherna1
Keokuk, Ia. The president will ap
point a secretary and other officers.
! The Daughters Of Veterans C. A.
RI elected and installed the follow
ing officers: President, Miss Anna
, Clark, New York; senior vice presi
dent, Miss M. Lizzie Kimball, Massa-
| chusetts; junior vice president, Miss
! Lillian Philips, Illinois; chaplain
/ Miss Bertha Discus. o.; treasurer la
| J. Allen, massachusetts,.