The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-29

Our membership has increased a
dozen or more this month, but we have
not yet the usual number of plates set
for this date. October has given us
such ideal weather that Hreturns' and
new men may yet appear after cold and
storms; There is yet farm work TO be
done, both for wages and relatives;
This morning as we left the dining hall
and HAMBURGER steak the thermometer
registered 13 degrees below freezing at
suface, and the boys on outside detail
| were looking for their mittens. So we
guess that Nov. may bound the au-
tumn and bring the boys. This is
home for soldiers who have none, re-
gardless Of almost every other cond1-
| it's office that when restlessness prompts
| member of it to take a furlough for
a week or a NORTH, he is generally at
tackled with nuostalgia and returns by
the middle Of his limit17homesick. %"s
Death trifes with our roll, altho our
i longevity compares favorably with an
equal number of people outside It Is
here, as in all similar gatherings, we
die in squads. From The middle of
September till Oct. 10 there were no
deaths On the latter date William
Davis died. He was young man from
the war with Spain and was registered
from Company G., Fifteenth United
States infantry, altho he also served in
the Ninth United States infantry, in
. which under General Chaffee he
marched to the relief of our legation at
entered the Home March FL, 1904. from
Meeker county. Leonard Bachelor dice
; Oct. IS, aged 80. He did long service
in the One Hundred and Thirtieth Hi
| nois infantry and has son in Brainerd
Mimi, who cared fol: his obsequies ant
buried him at Rochester, Mimi, among
relatives He died of a complication
of chronic diseases and old age. Henry
A. Burr died Oct. 10. He served /,
l Company H, First Nevada corps, an
was IS years old. He came from Min q
neapolis and was buried at Lakewood
: George Beerman died Oct. 90. Il
i served in Company I, Sixth Minnesot
$ infantry and was IS years old. He die
:; suddenly in Cottage A.. while sittin
y y in the reading room, in which wer
}. several Of his companions, ncludir
= his chair-dead, without any previou
complaint or demonstration and with
q out any visible disease. He was booke
y as having rheumatism. He served /
y the same regiment with our chaplai
q and was counted brave, faithful so
d der and here was always ready fc
e duty. His funeral was on the Sunda
s following and was largely attende,
d His brother and two nephews wei
l. present from Northfield, Mimi, H. his pi'
IS neer home. His body, accompanied b
le the usual escort, was laid in. the SO
diers' lot in beautiful Lakewood. !, FIX
10 the first time since the erection of Co
IS tage 4, the mourning barge swung fro
ID it's door.
# Charles E. Churchill died Oct 26. E
le served in the Second Minnesota j
10 fantry thru it's weary work. He can
in from the northern part Of the stat
to ago, was buried here, and was about Z
IN John E. Glow died this Saturd:
he morning, Oct. %. He had been in Il
lis hospital five years and in the Home
or wear longer. He was first sergeant
e Company I of the Mounted Range
Is and was SO years old. He came fro
at Rochester, Mimi, where his wife
,er buried, and where at his request
ne body will go. He died Of the infirn
to over headquarters flies at half ma
op 1t is rumored that there has also be
ng recent death Of man on furlou
from the hospital but the case is n
we'll authenticated. If so, we salu
whoever and wherever.
One might suppose that in this
ganized burial society deaths wol
ne tend to wide shadow Of sadness. n
so. 1t is more like matter of bu
mt ness. Who ever saw an undertal
e aro coy: or a good soldier scared on
70 feld-that is, after he got well into
"a Just now there is ftbiznis' gatheri
.ba leaves, protecting f1ower-roots, mendi
low the storm sash and filing the bins w
Of winter 8 supply of vegetables.
ED - "
div Ground was broken this week for
be- woman's building and very CONNIE
ers able progress made in the excavat
cti-. for the foundation and basement.
Gus be ten feet clear, and to be utili
ing thruout - It is the purpose to compl
vas this basement this fall. A quarry
limerick has been uncovered con
of niently near-about quarter of a n
,me distant-and the sand required is fol
but in the excavation. The building,
Off all the rest, does not stand with
this cardinal points Of the compass, but
itch the Minneapolis plan, cut little
the bias, so that its 220-foot front
and faces southwest, and with the n
yer part, which fronts nearly east, ha
lese front of over 100 feet, and will I