Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-06
CHOOSE ROCK ISLAND.
G. a. r. and w. r. G. Delegates to
Have Special to San Francisco,

G. A. r. and w. r. c. Delegates to
Have Special to San Francisco.
Mrs w. S. Coen, who has
been named as delegate from the Won.
ans Relief Corps of Cloutman Post,
q. A. r., will probably make the trip to
San Francisco to attend the National
encampment of the G. A. r. and relief
corps upon the special train to be run
upon the Rock Island, which has been
designated as the official route for the
relief corps of the state by the presi-
dent, Mrs. Jennie I. Berry. J. T. Hall,
who goes as the delegate from Clout-
man post, will probably go in the same
party. Other Ottumwans are contem--
plating the journey to the coast and
those who go will no doubt join the
special trains and go with the party
from Des Moines.
The Rock Island Special.
A general order from the traffic de-
partment of the Chicago. Rock Island
and Pacific has just gone out for the
starting of the Iowa G. A. r. specials
for the coast If necessary. This has
been caused by the increased number
of old soldiers who are planning to at
tend the national encampment that
takes place in San Francisco the mid
die of this month The Iowa special
which runs from Des Moines, starting
August 10, arriving in San Francisco
August 15, has been scheduled across
the continent as follows:
Leave Des Moines 4:35 p. m.
August TO-
Arrive Omaha GAS p. M, August 10.
Leave Omaha 10000 p. m. August 10.
Arrive Denver 3:40 p. M, August IL.
Leave Denver 10000 p. M, August IL.
Arrive Colorado Springs 1880 night,
August -.
Leave Colorado Springs 900 a. M,
August 10.
Arrive Glenwood 500 p. M, Aug
ust IL.
Leave Glenwood 900 p. m, Aug
ust 10.
Arrive Salt Lake City 1000 a m,
August Is.
Leave Salt Lake City 600 p. m,
August IS.
Leave Ogden 700 p. m. August IS.
Arrive San Francisco s:15 a. M,
August Is.
The train will be accompanied by
Assistant Adiutant General Geo. A.
Newman, and H. M. Pickell, member
of the council of administration. The
train will be made up of buffet, smok-
ing and library cars, and Pullman and
tourist sleepers.
Both the members of the Grand Ar
my and the Women's Relief corps are
planning to go from Iowa in great
numbers. The purchase of tickets has
already commenced throughout the
state and the demand is a surprise to
the railroad officials.
The fourteen coaches of the big G.
A. R. special will be decorated with the
national colors and strewn with ban
ners telling all who read that it is the
Iowa Special of the Grand Army of
the Republic and Women's Relief
Corps" Two more big coach loads will
be added to the train at, Omaha. being
taken from the Illinois Central. The
Burlington, Milwaukee and Northwest.
ern will all have special
coaches, SO that the crowds going
to San Francisco from Iowa will Dc
greatly augmented.
1t has been suggested that it would
be well for all who went to take q
lunch along. Stops will be made for
meals at frequent intervals, If there
is only one Iowa train instead of two
the train will be split into two sections
at Denver anyway.
Handsome souvenir badges secured
by Assistant Adjutant General George
A. Newman have been prepared. On
the pin part is the word "Iowa.' The
ribbon attachment is yellow with the
badge of the Grand Army emblazoned
thereon The pendant is of oxydized
silver with handsome portrait of Gov
ernor Cummins on the front side. On
the back is the coat of arms of the
state. Badges will be secured for all
who go. The governors portrait was
placed on the badge for the reason that
they would be sold both here and in
California, the returns to defray the ex-
penses of the order and it was thought
that they would sell more readily in
the west when Iowa souvenirs with the
coat of arms of the state and picture of
the governor than when mere badges
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