Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-02-14
THE G. A. r. ENCAMPMENT.
Indications Point 10 Large Attendance at
Bangor. This Week.

+ Bangor, Me. Feb. 3.-tSpecial THE
annual encampment of the Department of
Maine G. \. r. will meet in this city.
this week. The veterans will begin to
arrive here on Tuesday and on the eve
ming of that day the council will de in
session at fhe Bangor house which will
be the headquarters of the department
officers during their stay in this city IS
yet no definite programme of the en-.
eampment can be announced as several.
of. the prominent men who HAZE been in
vited to- attend the sessions have not
been heard from. Gen. c. p Mattocks
of Portland, has sent word, that he can
not represent. a. he had arranged to be
absent fran the State .atsthat time, apd
Rev. C. q. Mosher of Bangor who .Eas
invited to. address. the soldiers has sent
his regrets as he has. an engagement to
lecture elsewhere. Gev. Powers. Adj,s.
tant General John T. Richards Ind Gen.
S.SD. Leavitt of Eastport, have been m
.vited to attesd ana IT. is expected that
they will all be here and address the
meeting%
The encaMpments will begin at To- A. NJ
on Wednesday, and the first day. will lie
devoted to. addresses BY post commands
ers and others and BY routine business,
At night there will be a. social meeting
| for the comrades and the members of the
National Woman's Relief Corps will held
a reception. for the veterans at the kana
gor house. On Thursday will be held the
election Of officers. and at. night. will
come the campfire at WHICH addresses
will be made by the prominent men pres
ent, while there will be pleasing enter
tainment including music by the Y. NJ &c.
A. orchestra, singing by the Apollo quar-
tet and readings by Virginia May Ring
of Orono
During the encampment open house VIII
be kept by both Beale and Hamlin posts
at the hall of Beale Post in Columbia
street Here will be dispensed to visit
| ing veterans the most generous hospital
lity-and that means plenty of good things
1 to cart.
A great. deal of interest is being mani
Tested among the Veterans throughout
the State over the siection,of 3epaYtment
commander for the Maihe.Gs A. r. for
| the next year. There are twp candidate :
FLOR the position, EX-Gov. Frederick Robbie
of Gorham and Seth r. Snipe. Esq. of
EBath. Both men have scores of friends
| among the veterans and the position will
| not be,won without a hot fight.
| There is probably no man in Maine who
is better known than Ex-Goe. Robe. He
has always been closely identified with
the welfare of the State and the various
offices which he has occupied has brought
him in contact with all classes of peo-
pie. Coy. ROBBIE is nearly77 years of age.
He was born In Gorham and received his
preparatory education at Gorham acad-
envy and entered BQwdOin college in Isl.
graduating four years later He decided
on medicine as a profession and took a
medical course at the Jefferson Medicai
| college in Philadelphia in lsli lie be-
/ gan practice at Biddeforl and remained
| there for eleven years, removing to wal
doboro where he practiced for three
years.
| Returning to his native town he re-
NAMED until the breaking out of the war
and on June |. 1861. he was appointed by
| President Lincoln as paymaster OF the
| / nited States Volunteers. lie served IN
| the Army of the Potomac until 1868 Wheil
| he WAS transferred to Boston as cniel
| paynlaster of the department OF New
| England In 1864 he was sent to t1e 'uh-
! year. or until 1865 when he was ordered
10 Maine 10 pay the soldiers at thelt
/ muster-out of service. His services were
recognized by Il brcvet commission, dated
Nov a. 1865, of lieutenant-coionel ..
| He retired from the service July -. iSpo
He then engaged actively ~ poii'irs 'a ~, IN
1857 he was in the State Senate anu he
has been Il member OF the Les iI@, ~. .
ten times. He was speaker OF the House
lss and ls was 50, member sSd and ed 'h issi-s
rs :, delegate 10 the Republican ma
onal convention in 1872 and nd fs s'nte s som n
l MIN. rIe was appointed a commisslon-
er the Paris expps.ti"n ror s,s and and
served two terms as Maines CHIEF nagis-
trate During his term as s EoteraGS rau s,3
in which ne has always niaii, ne Voc,
great deal of Interest. ,,,,h thr bushes,
prominently. connected Win var, ar Of ~
interests offthe western par Pr. p ~ me
State. He is a director IN ~, ang Mon ' Nh
4 Rochester Railroad Co. me ,,i i.oi NJ
tuai Life Insurance. So, ". y which h.. "a !,
tional Bank of Portland; ~; u 10 dnvatns
also president. and 10 w''''" ~
great deal Of his tines