The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-06-13
WINS FIGHT
Next State Encampment of Grand
Army to be Held in Racine
in June of Next Year
NAMED COMMANDER

The forty-6 first annual encampment
of the Wisconsin department, Grand
Army of the Republic, closed at
Oshkosh Thursday night with the
election of officers Of the Grand Army.
The Grand Army elected the fol-
lowing officers
Department comnlander-John G.
Martin, Mineral Point.
Senior vice commando r-E. T. ELS.
worth, Oshkosh.
Junior vice commander H.
Gets, Grand Rapids.
Medical director-samuel B ell,
Beloit.
Chaplain George w. Case. Portage.
Trustees of Veterans home ire
elected)-J. P. Rundle, Milwaukee;
c. H. Henry, Eau Claire.
In addition, the following delegates
and a1ternates were chosen to repre-
sent the department at the National
encampment, which is to be held at
Saratoga, n. Y, in September.
De1egates-W. E. Hallock, Juneau;
Charles spoor, Burlington; J. T..
Hays, Oregon; C. H. Baxter, Lam
caster; C. H. Davis, Baraboo, Louis
Holzhaeuser, Milwaukee; D. w.
HOWE, Milwaukee; H. B. Allen, Mil
waukee; William DeSteese, Fond du
Lac; James Fl. Botsford, EauClaire;
w. M. Walker, Oshkosh; N. M. Ed.
wards, Appleton; Edward Lalond,
Amigo; John H. De Graw, Barron;
IF. A. Wilde, Milwaukee; Ezra
Stewart, Brodhead; w. E. Osborn,
La Crosse.
Alternates- Henry Fink, Mil
waukee; w. Fl. Grinnell, Beloit; Noses
Walker, Berlin; Orville Strong,
Dodgevi1le; Henry Kinder, Mil
waukee; A. Lakewood, Oconomowoc;
Ralph FL. Smith. Waupun; G. H.
Cooke, Mondava; Fl. E. Coats,
| Neenah; Thomas Steele, Depere; H.
H. Hoffman, Amherst; D. J. Ollie,
| Prescott; Newton Bliss, Baraboo;
George Hale, Kenosha; Huge Philler,
Waukesha; G. l.. Brink, Hartford /;
| L, A. Brace, Eau Claire.
| There were three cities ia the ace
to be chosen as the place for holding
the next encampment. These we're
Racine, Madison and Superior, and
the claims of each were we'll presented
by delegates from those cities. Ra-
cine had the call In favor, however,
and was chosen by large majority
vote. The dates for the encampment
are fixed by the G. A. r. post or
posts that will be charged with maxi
ing the arrangements. At the same
time and place the annual encamp-
ments of the Woman's Relief corps,
Ladies of the G. A. r. and Sons of
| Veterans are to be held.
| Resolutions we're adopted petition
| ing the national encampment to so
change its ruling that the property of
any post which shall hereafter be-
come extinct be turned over to the
local town library or failing this
that they be deposited with the
county register of deeds as valu-
able mementoes of the civil war;
instructing the judge advocate gem
eral to examine the state pension laws
of the various states aud report to
the next encampment satisfactory
state pension bill for the purpose of
bringing such bill to the next 1egis-
lature of the state of Wisconsin; dep
recating the fact that the attaches of
the federal pension department by
means Of unnecessary questions and
dilatory red tape are obstructing the
operation of the pension laws SO that
many pensioners are passing away
Without full attention in this regard.
| and urging that the ommander-in.
chief of the Grand Army and the G..
a. K. pension committee present this
view of it to the president and the
federal pension commission; indoors
ing Bishop Samuel Fal1ows, of Chi
cago, as chaplain-in-chief Of the
Grand Army of the Republic.