The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-07-07
AT BURLINGTON, JULY %.
Place and Date of Annual State Encsmp.
ment, Spanish War Veterans.


Place and Date Of Annual State Encsmp
ment, Spanish War Veterans.
The following orders have been ISSUED
liking the place and date for holding tn,
annual encampment OF the department
OF Vermont, United Spanish War Vet
Grams, and proposing certain changes il
policy;
headquarters Department Of Yer
mont, United Spanish War Veterans,
General order No, ,.
rSt. Adams, VT, July 9, zoos.
Il. The annual encampment OF thi'
department will be held in Burlington
tuesday, July 2s, 1908 Department
headquarters will be established in the
Van Ness house the afternoon OF that
day and the encampment session will be
convened in The hall Of James w Flynn
camp No. 0, at 1880 o'clock in the even
ing.
III. This being the tenth anniversary
of the period OF service of the Vermont
troops in the war with Spain, it is earn
estly hoped that comrades with avail
themselves Of the opportunity to enjoy
a happy reunion and campfire by attend
ing tile encampment.
Fiji. The important business Of re-
organizing the department will come be-
fore the encampment and comrades,
whether regularly elected delegates to
the encampment or not are urged to be
present and take part in the council that
will pass up such proposition to this end
as may be laid before it.
Vermont furnished not more than
1850 troops, all told, in the war with
Spain, and even this number greatly ex-
ceeded her quota. II is very doubtful II,
to-day, there are more than 800 veterans
of the war resident in this state, and
they are so dispersed that il has already
been demonstrated that it Is impossible
to maintain a separate camp of the order
in each Of the twelve towns in which
company Of the First Regiment Of lnfan-
try, Vermont Volunteers, was recruited.
The department commander will, there
fore, propose to the encampment the de-
STABILITY Of maintaining about three or
four camps in the department, so stu
ated that, by each enlisting its member
ship in the country conveniently near.
the entire state will be covered. BY
this means, all comrades may have an
opportunity TO be enrolled in the order,
even il it is not practicable for them to
be regular in attendance upon their
camp, and thus may be able to enjoy all
the advantages of atfiliation with the
United Spanish War Veterans when out
side the state. The department com
mander il well assured that, under some
such plan as this, many comrades not
now situated so as to be able to partici
pate in the active work of the order,
will be glad to enroll themselves in it
and contribute annually to its main
tenace. He is informed that such
plan OF reorganization will be approved
by the commander-in-chief and arrange
ments made whereby such camps as may
so elect can surrender their charters and
merge their membership in some other
camp of their choice.
Tho department commander earnestly
urges the serious consideration OF this
upon all comrades, and be-
speaks their attendance and cooperation
in the encmpment 60 the end that the
department, in some practical form, may
be saved 70 the state.
by order Of
Frank l. Greene,
Department Commander"
Officials;
John q. Norton,
"Adjutant."