The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-02
LADIES OF q. A. R.
Organization Planning for Convention
 Busy Days in Cleveland.

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 Busy Days in Cleveland.
 Cleveland, Aug. 29.-The ladies of tn
 Grand Army, of whose committee Mrs
 Maria P. Cahoon is chairman, are mak ing elaborate preparations for the en
 tertainment of the delegates to the con
 vention of the organization to be hel(
 encampment week, September F ant
 Is. The committee will have at its dis
 posal during the entire week an auto ] mobile which will be used for the pur-
 pose of meeting the delegates on theil
 arrival at boat landings and railway i tstations and escorting them to theil
 hotels and which will be in service be- and the place of the convention in the Young Mems Christian Association building. The women have issued a hansome card of invitation to recep- tion to be given in the Hollenden be- tween and Il o'clock on the evening of Tuesday, September 10, in the honor of Mrs. Rita Lee Toby, the national
 president, and the other national off,
 cers and delegates to the convention.
 Mrs. Toby has appointed Mrs. Lena F.. Hyland, who is department president
 for Ohio of the order. Mrs. E. J. Ken
 nedy and Mrs. Maria F. Cahoon com
 mittee on reception to welcome the yis-
 itors at the national headquarters room
 at the Hollenden.
 Commander in Chief Rassieur has
 named the committeee on credentials of the encampment in the persons of
 T nr,1 icf- ant Adjutants General Rodgers of Mis- souri, Thacher of Connecticut, Kassen of Ohio and Robbins of Colorado and
 Wyoming. This committee will sit on September 10 between the hours of and in the evening and between the hours of 1 and 5 in the evening on September il in room 12S, the Hollen- den. There they will receive the ere dentials of the delegates at the heads of department officers who will, the credentials proving correct, receive the badges for the delegates, and also at the hands of another committee com posed of William H. Armstrong, Thom- as Scott and Nicholas W. Day, the tickets assigned pro rata. to the depart ments for the reviewing stand. The appointments of Ernest Kretchmer as color bearer and Christian Fricke as bugler, both Missouri men, is announc- ed by the commander in chief. The department of Arkansas has submitted as a proposed amendment to the rules and regulations of the Grand Army, to be acted upon at the encampment, the insertion of the word voluntarily in the clause debarring anyone from mem- bership who has ever borne arms against the United States. This Is de- signed to admit men who were coerced into serving in the southern army but escaped to the Union ranks and fought there, earning an honorable discharge.
 The civic and industrial attractions of this large and important city will be for the inspection of encampment week visitors. Many will without doubt enjoy the operations of the varied and extensive manufacturing interests of the city and will be pleased to inspect the fire department in which the city takes such just pride and several of the largest and best equipped houses all of which are centrally located and may be inspected at any time. The ife-s saving station, one of the best on the chain of lakes and thoroughly well equipped, will give an exhibition which will include the capsizing of beat md the throwing of a line on Tuesday, September 10, at 2:30 ?. m.
 The headquarters train of the de- ,artment of New York will leave the at 10 a. m. September 9, aking in 43 cities and towns of the l mpire state on the way to the en- including Albany, Utica, | Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo. Stops | or meals will be made at Kingston at | loon, at Syracuse in the early evening nd at Rochester and Buffalo late in he evening.
 Stephenson Post, No. 30, of the Grand lrmy, which is named for Dr. B. F. stephenson, the founder of the order. nd is located at Springfield, H., his Id home, will leave Springfield over he Wabash in time to arrive in Cleve- md on the morning of September 10. he other posts and all members of indred and auxiliary orders in the icinity are invited to accompany this ost on its train.
 George G. Meade Post of Philadel- ma, the oldest post or the Grand Army the Department of Pennsylvania nnounces in a circular the arrival of le post in Cleveland on the morning of eptember 10. It will probably bring its VII band and be accompanied by a amp of Sons of Veterans to carry it little flag.
 The twenty-sixth reunion of the , nited States Veterans Signal Corps , i'll be held In the insolvency court 'om for September 10 to September
 inclusive f Survivors of the First Vermont Cav- I ry are invited by President George <
 Crosby of St. Johnsbury and Secre- ny s. H. Wood of St. Albans, Vt, c fcers of the regimental association T
 attend a reunion to be held at 10 .
 m. Thursday, September 12, in the s " room in the postoffice building.