Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-30
Announcement of Additional
Ones on Staff of Department
Commander r. T. st. John
GENERAL ORDERS No. 8 ISSUED
A New and Important Recommends
ton is Made, With Reference To the
Inevitable Decrease In Membership
Sub Organizations a Measure OF
Eoonomy-The Orders In Detail.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special 10 IlmeS-hepuOACdH.
les Moines. Sept. 30.-Department
| Commander r. 7. ST. John OF the Iowa
q. A. r. has just issued General Or
ders, No. 3, in which he makes the fol-
flowing additional appointments on the
staff:
Aides de -camp--Isaac Patterson post
No. a. st. Ansgar; V. a. Jones, l6l'
Forest City; Il. S. Ormsby. 100. En-
metsburg: l.. l.. Bixby. 1866, Esther
vile; Andrew w. Taylor, 1858, Oakland
z. J. McCullom, ZIG, Cresco; II. n.
Lard, 263, Tabor; ]. o. Stewart, 235,
| Cedar Rapids; A. B. Hart, SO. Clinton;
M. ID. Reed, 20, Council Bluffs; ID. j.
Palmer, 10S Washington.
/! III this order the commander taxes
occasion to review the incidents of the
encampment at Boston. with especial
reference to the trip Of the Iowa dele
CATION.
| An important recommendation with
refe, ence to membership is made as
follows:
| Your commander desires to call at
tention to a matter especially dwelt
upon In the address Of the commander
in-chief, and quote from that address.
The most strenuous efforts have been
made during the year TO stay the de-
crease In our membership; but natural
causes Nnder such decrease inevitable.
It is left tor ue to cling the more close
ly together IN the bonds OF our order"
Recognizing the inevitable. the rules
and regulations. (see chapter 2. article
2, section I'D have authorized the di-
vision of post members into resident
and nonresident members: have given
the department power to authorize
posts to fix territorial limits within
which resident members may be found.
The initiation Of this movement is with
the departments, and each department
may act for itself in SO authorizing it's
posts to divide their members.
"Outposts may be allowed by post
OF such departments, whenever there
is sufficient number of applicants;
two. three or dozen, and they can or
ganize under the third paragraph Of
section two. and in this way can keep
in touch with this grand fraternity so
long as they are spared and when the
time comes, in the providence of God.
for passing away, be then az now, part
Of the Grand Army of the Republic"
Moreover, such sub organizations
are a measure Of economy, both to the
order and to the individual. Above all
1t keeps us in touch with one anoth-
err"
Where charters. hg to limited
numbers. have t., lie surrendered, It
, should he the aim OF every comrade
to at once deposit his transfer card
with thu nearest post"
II urge upon department command
ers and post commanders and COM
rades generally, to discuss Sec II of
Art. 2, Of our rules and regulations,
and urge its use to the end that many
not now aware of easy conditions OF
membership may be added to the rolls"
The department commander sub
mits this matter to the consideration
Of the comrades of the department,
hoping they may discuss it in their
post meetings.
Any post or comrade desiring the
Journal Of the last department. en-.
campment or others so long as they
last, can have the same by dropping
a card to the A. A. G. at Des Moines.