Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-05-04
KANSAS GRAND ARMY.
II. Coulter Elected Department Com.
mander Resolutions Condemn PEN
sion Commissioner Evans.

Hutchinson, Kan, April ss.-Th
Kansas department &. A. r., which
holding its annual encampment here
elected officers for the ensuing year
adopted resolutions and acted on tn
reports of the various committees
Holton was selected as the place TO
holding the annual encampment mex
year. Topeka got the state reunion
The following are the g. A. K. officer
elected
Commander. 0. II. Coulter, Topeka: senio
vice commander, John Besnerr Jetmore; iunio
vice commander }. b. Palmer, Wichita; chap
lain, d. d. Akin, Peabody; medical director, $
M Colladay, Hutchinson. Council Of admins
tration: d. Fl. Ballard Barnes John b. Camp
bell Kansas City; Ben Pagan Ellsworth
Charles Harris. Emporia; A. W. Ashcroft. Cha
mute. Delegates TO the national eneampmen
at Philadelphia First district, b. s. Foster
Hiawatha; G. W. Johnson, Seneca, Second
A. Dobson, Ottawa. R. W. Blue Pleasanton
Third, Kirk Brown, C0wley; G. A.. Mitchell
Montgomery. Fourth, w. A. Morgan. Cotton
wood Falls; Isaac Hammond, Eureka. Fifth
u, p. Pealer, Salina; Thomas Dever. Junction
City Sixth, 0. H. Durand Mankato; W. H.
Mitchell Beot. Seventh A, w. Smith Nc
Pherson; Henry Shadd. Sedgwick
THE resolutions adopted vigorously
condemn Pension Commissioner II.
Clay Evans for his official attitude to-
ward the old soldiers. ask for a con
gressional investigation of the pension
department and for remedial legislation
governing it. A resolution thanking
Gov. Stanley for his attitude toward
and treatment Of the old soldiers Of the
state was introduced, but, upon motion
OF Maj. T. J. Anderson. of Topeka, was
tabled.
A resolution was adopted congratl-
lating the Twentieth Kansas, now do
ing heroic service at Manila, and also
complimenting the other regiments
raised in Kansas during the war with
Spain. The encampment resolved in
favor of pensions of not less than $12 a
month for all widows of veterans, and
in favor of military instruction in the
public schools. 1t also declared in fa-
vor of having American flags hoated
from the schoolhouses in the state
This other societies elected officers as
follows:
Women's Relief corps President Mrs. Min
ME D. Morgan, Cottonwood Falls, senior vice
president, Mrs. Ida c. Chaplin Hutchinson;
junior vice president Mrs Mary Il. Clogston,
Eureka treasurer, Mrs Eliza Davidson, Abb
lene; secretary, Mrs, Belle G. Harris, Emporia;
chaplain, Mrs. Jennie R. Marsh, Manhattan
Ladies' of the G. A. R-President Mrs. Della
Rawlings, Kansas City; secretary Mrs Mary
u. Stanley, Atchison; senior vice president Mrs
Emma Richie, Wichita; junior vice president
Mrs, Annie Beelcr, Ottawa; treasurer, Mrs. An
Meta Lundy Winfield; chaplain, Mrs, S. Engle,
Lawrence.
Ladies Aid society-Prosident, Mrs, Eva
Outcnlt. Burlington; vice president, Miss Jessie
BEEN Hutchinson chaplain, Mrs Sadie George,
Wichita; treasurer, Miss Josephine Rich Bur-
lington council of administration, Miss Lou
Wilson, Oberlin; Mrs Maud Redmond Burling-
ton chief of staff Mrs b. Bailey, reading,
Sons Of Veterans Commander l.. b, Price,
Mnlyanc, senior vice commander. james T.
Scllens, Bunker Hill; junior vice commander,
Charles Hedrck, Hutchinson; division council,
Guy Sellic, Emporia; c. Il, Holmes, Florence;
WiltiaH kirlwood, Marysville; delegates to
national convention, W. p Wilcox Emporia
G. L. DenniSon, Erie; Columbus Borru Oher-
lin; j. l.. PapeS Wichita.