The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-08-19

and thirty of the regiments which
fought in the civil war are expected in
the city tomorrow to attend the re-
union of the Seven Counties Veterans
association. The day will be spent at
Nay Aug park where individual re-
unions of the several regiments will be
held, business of the association trans
acted, and number of excellent speak
ers heard.
| At 8 o'clock tomorrow morning the
various posts OF the Grand Army OF
the Republic, and Sons Of Veterans of
the city will assemble at G. A. r. hall,
and will march to the Delaware, Lack
awanna and Western railroad and
Delaware & Hudson railroad stations,
to receive the visitors. Bauer's band
and drum corps of thirty pieces will
aid in the reception. BY 10 o'clock 1t
Is expected that all of the visiting dele
cations will have arrived, and shortly
after they have been mustered together
a street parade will be held. The line
Of march will be short, up Lackawanna
avenue to Washington, and past the
soldiers and sailors monument to
Linden street, where cars will be found,
waiting to transfer them to the park.
| THE REUNIONS.
They will reach the grounds about
1880 o'clock, and reunions will then
take place Of the various regiments,
and members of the navy or artillery,
as we'll as of the Prisoners Of War
association. At noon lunch will
be served by the Women's Relief
Corps, No. SO, the ladies of the
G. A. r. Circle No. 10, and the
| ladies auxiliary branch of the Sons OF
Veterans. A nominal fee will be charg-
| ed, and the wants of the children Of
the Hartford Soldiers Orphans school
will be supplied by a committee Of
| ladies, free of charge.
At 2 o'clock in the afternoon the
annual business meeting of the asso-
citation will be held, to fix the date
and place Of the next meeting and for
the election of officers. Recorder w. L..
Connell will deliver an address of well
come, and this will be responded to by
the president of the association, Col. F.
l.. Hitchcock. Hon. Fl. NJ. Edwards,
president judge of the Lackawanna
court of common pleas, will also speak,
and addresses will be delivered by a
number of prominent visitors.
Following the speaking an exhibition
Of fancy horseback riding will be given
on the plateau, by Lieutenant Andrew
Smith Of the Ninth United States
Cavalry, j. Whitaker Page of the
Pennsylvania Military college, and
Lieutenant L. H. Ripple, jr., of the
Thirteenth regiment. The public is in
vited to be present at the reunion,
and attend the exercises.
rJDCTIT TCCTYI0N
The following has been issued by
Secretary Z. w. Pearce of the associa-
ton:
Headquarters of the Seven County Veter-
ans Association.
The twenty-thrd annual reunion of the
association will be held at Nay Aug park,
Scranton, on Wednesday, Aug. co. 1902.
Comrades: Time is rapidly thinning our
ranks, and ere long our annual reunions
will cease, and these meetings and camp
fires of the veterans of the great civil
war will soon be events of the past We
urge you therefore to make every effort
to attend the next meeting of the asso-
citation. Many of the comrades eyes are
getting dim. their hearing dull their
hands palsied. but the same old fire of
loyalty still burns in their breasts as it
did in the sixties.
They are as anxious to see and grasp
your hands now as they We're in the days
of war. The survivors of Libbie, Belle
Island, Salisbury, Andersonville and
other rebel prisons will be there The
heroes of o,227 battlefields, who fought
on land and sea will be there. and to
make grand success and have an en-
joyable time, you, yourself must be there
Do not disappoint your old comrades La
dies of Woman's Relief corps, No. so, will
furnish refreshments. Speeches of well
come will be made. Old songs will be sung
as the boys used to sing around the
camptires at the front forty years ago.
Every one is invited to be present.