Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-27
Company II, Spanish-American
War Soldiers, Come Together
For First Reunion
ANNIVERSARY GREAT SUCCESS
Thirty Four Members of tho Company
Wero Present, and Permanent
Organization Was Perfected, SO That
Anniversary Reunions Will Be Hold
Each Year-old Times Are Recalled.

In commemoration of their departure
for service in the Spanish American
war. thirty-four members Of Company
II, Forty-ninth Iowa infantry volun-
teers, came together in the Masonic
hall Wednesday night in the first ami
versary reunion the company has held
since it was mustered out in Savan-
nah, Ga, May Is, 1899. The evening
was one Of "reminiscences and incidents
Of the service, and the affair was n
most pleasant one for those who at
tended.
Upon a table fashioned in the form
of u gigantic H." the banquet was
spread, and draped up from the cor
ners to the chandeliers above We're
ribbons Of red, white and blue. In"
company flag, presented to the COM
pany by the young ladies of the city
in Des Moines. was draped on the wall,
and later in the evening 1t was present.
ed In the name of the company to Capt.
C. S. Aldrich, by Lewis j. Rice.
A most excellent banquet was serv-
ed nv the ladies Of the Eastern Star,
and over the punch and cigars the fol-
lowing toasts, which recalled the hap
py and humorous incidents of the thir-
teen months service in this. country
and Cuba, We're responded to:
Camp Mckinley b. L. Moi
fatt.
PAY Day; What We Did With the
60"-Sergt. l.. j. Rice.
Company Mess, DO You Wish 'er?
TAX 'er!"--Corp. B. c. Whitehill, OF
State Center.
"The Wreck Of the Hesperus, by the
Boy Who Stood on the Deck'-Corp.
q. w. Dingwell. of Abel.
".rhe Ladies of the orty-ninth"-
Private Guy Savage, Of Monmouth, Ill.
killing the Tarpon, the One Fish
Story of the Service"-Lieut. Il. M.
Haradon.
spirit of the Isle, cognac"-sergt.
Alfred Batty.
TAPS and After" Private II. 10.
Burllhart, of Gearing.
COMPANY Hin am''-Capt.
C. s. Aldrich.
Corporal Harry ]. Rodgers presided
as toast master. The opinion of those
present was so unanimously in favor
of continuing the reunion, in future
years. that the committee composed OF
G.. IS. Aldrich, chairman, B. +. Moffatt,
r. NJ Haradon, l.. j. Rice and Harry
J. Rodgers, which had charge of the
details of arrangements, was retained
tc plan for similar gathering in this
city on March &c of next year. 1t will
also have charge of the plans for re-
membering those members of the COM
pany who are buried in Riverside on
Memorial day.
Those who were present were as fol-
lows:
Adel--E w. Oingwell.
Hudson---Dr. z. G. Mcmillan.
Minneapolis. M. Vertz.
Monmouth-Guy Savage.
Des Moines-E. L. Watrous, Arthur
Cox.
Roland-Olai s. Jondahl
Melbourne-Chris Christensen.
State Center-B c. Whitehill.
Zearing-H e. Burkhart.
Clemons-Martin A. Gaunt.
Albion-George B. Grace.
Marshalltown-L. j. Rice, E. Brad
dock, A. II. Larson, r. M. Haradon, S.
b. Packard, Jr., Guy Everist, Orville
fHolcomb, b. F. Moffatt, Harry j. Rod
gers, c. S. Aldrich, Alfred Batty, Clar-
ence Head. George P. Thornblade,
James H. Ellis, e. ]. Reed Ebenezer
Flitton, Jerome Hull w. P. Gaffney,
Charles Elery, Ralph Morgali, Reuben
Stump and Walter Hollingsworth.