The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-02-22
S. OF v, U. S. A.
J. q. Pickett, of this City, is
Made Permanent Secretary.

annual meeting that was held in Des
Moines last week.
The organization is prospecting in a
fine way and the meeting was a sue
cess in every way. The first annual
banquet was elaborate in detail and
thoroughly enjoyable. The after
dinner toasts were said to be the finest
of the kind that have ever been heard
in Des Moines.
The organization is built on the idea
of the Sons of the American Revolu-
ton and the Loyal Legion. There
will be one annual meeting and ban.
quet which will be made feature OF
the organization, Any son of Union
soldier is eligible to membership in
the organization which starts out
with list of about fifty members of
the representative men Of the state.
Members from this city are w. q. and
Thos. Shockley, DAVIS Gilchrist and
j. III. Pickett.
The new society is the result of a
a committee that was appointed last
June at the state meeting held in
Waterloo and met in Marshalltown
or Nov. 9, last, to consider ways and
means. The personnel of the COM
mittee was as follows:
A. l.. Sortor, Jr., Senior Vice-Com-
mander-in- Chief.
r. Shaw Van, Past Judge Advocate
General.
James D. Rowen, Past Colonel Iowa
Division.
viii A. Brown, Commander of Iowa
Division.
John H Pickett, Sec'y., Past Colonel
Iowa Division.
There was a temporary organization
perfected in Marshalltown as follows
President-Hon. Frank d. Jackson,
Des Moines, Ex-Governor of State.
Vice. President-Hon. Cato Sells,
Vinton, Late U. s. District Attorney.
Secretary, Col. John Fl. Pickett,
Oskaloosa, Ex-Commissioner of
Pharmacy.
Treasurer, Col. Sears McHenry,
Denison, Governors Staff, Late Pay
master.
Plans were here perfected for the
first annual meeting to be held in
Des Moines on the Lincoln anniver-
sary. This meeting held last Mon.
day was a success far beyond the
most sanguine expectations of the
promoters of the organization.
The permanent organization was
perfected with the following officers:
Captain, Ed. Jackson, Des Moines.
1st Lieutenant, Cato Sells, Vinton.
I'd Lieutenant, James e. Whipple,
Vinton.
1st Sergeant, John Fl. Pickett, os-
kaloosa.
Quarter Master Sergeant, Sears
McHenry, Denison.
Camp Council, Johnson Brigham
Des Moines, James E. Blythe, Mason
City and M. 9. Matthews, Dubuque.
Delegates at Large to the Daven-
port meeting to be held in June, VIM.
T. Chantland, Fort Dodge. Delegate,
James E. Blythe.
The banquet was the browning
feature of the Des Moines meeting
and the organization is to be con-
graduated upon the success and the
excellence of the same. Frank Jack
son, presi ent, presided over the
ceremonies of the evening and he did
so in his characteristic and excellent
way. The post prandial part of the
program was opened by J. Fl. Pickett,
of this city, who presented number
of communications from gentlemen
who were unable to be present. There
were four toasts responded to and all
were of the greatest excellence. The
first was w. T. Chantland, of Fort
Dodge, "The Relationship of the Sons
of Veterans to the Spanish-American
War" James E. Blythe, 1.-THE Union,
Unbroken and Perpetual" N. E.
Kendall, of Abba, "The Union Soldier,
Living and Dead" Johnson Brigham,
"Lincoln's Character"
The honor of the origin of the organ
ization which is destined to become
as large as the country itself belongs
to the city of Oskaloosa. John II
Pickett thought of the plan that was
followed and was carried to success
in the meeting of Lincoln day. He
was one day regretting that business
demands prevented him from taking
the active part in the organization in
a local way that would permit him ia
be in touch with the spirit of the
work. Then came the thought why
could there not be a general organ
ization that would differ from the
local camp in the point of meeting
and secret work? The idea of the
Loyal Legion was advanced to mem
bers of the state organization but the
plan did not meet with great favor
until after the matter had beer
brought under the system of the
temporary organization. 1t was ther
apparent that the work of Mr.. Picket
would bear fruit and that the move
ment was a good one. The success,
of the gentleman's work is or shoult
be very gratifying to him.