The National tribune., 1908-07-16
DEPARTMENT OF OHIO, G. A. R.
Commander Sharer issues Stirring
,x General Order.

Grand Army OF the Repub,lc,
Alliance, O., Jgne IS, 1908,
General Order No. Ii
Atthe AID Annual Encampment, he'll,
at Lima, O., June 16, II, IS and 19
1908, the following officers were elected
for.the ensuing year:
Department Commander, J. H. Shar
er, 'A11fance, o.; S. V. c., George Hall
Lima O; J. V. G., J. H. Spraguc, Nor
walk, O.; Medical Director, DIR. S. w
Collins, Jacksonville, o.; Chaplain, Rev
Orville Reed, Toledo, o. Council o
Observation-Disclosures H. Newton, Ma
fietta, o.; Chas. A. Miller Cincinnati
O.; A. w. Stiles, Rock Creek, o.; Henri!
S. Moses, Canton, o.; w. S. Mathews
Toledo, Q.
Having been elected and installed
Department Commander, l hereby as
sumo command and announce the fol
lowing staff appointments:
Assistant Adjutant-General, T. T
Smith. Columbus. O.; Assistant Q. NJ
General, E. E. Scranton, Alliance, o.
1nspector-General, Chas. Griswold
Cleveland, o.: Chief Mastering Officer
George H. High, Cincinnati, O.; Judge.
Advocate, ]. C. Bishop, Columbus, O.
Senior Aid-de-Camp and Chief of Staff
w. G. Bentley, Salem, o.; Chief Bugler
]. C. joss, New Philadelphia, o.; De.
partment Chorister, ]. W. Hanclz, Jack.
son, O.; Patriotic Instructor, Z. A. Jones
Columbus, o.
They will be obeyed and respected &C.
cordingly
II. The Assistant Adiutant- Generals
Office will be permanently established
at Columbus during the incumbency of
the present administration. 1t will be
located in Rooms Nos. 500 and 500,
American Savings Bank Building, cor
ner of High and Town streets, where
all communications pertaining to the
business of the Department should be
addressed.
The Department Commander desires
to impress every comrade in Ohio from
the humblest to the highest honored,
that these rooms shall be their home
during the ensuing year when in the
Capital City. They will be. open from
$3.50 a. m. to 4:30 p. m, and some one
will always be in attendance to extend
the glad hand of comradeship and
cheerfully impart any desired informa-
ton or advice.
III. Comrades, we are standing on
the threshold of another year. Are
We better fitted for the work of the
year to come by the experience of that
just past? In our last year have we
had more bitters than sweets? Do not
our blessings outnumber our ADVERSE
ties? With many the past year is but
an additional line on the scroll of time.
II has lltleI Dy WITHOUT leaving scarce
~ mark of its passage. With others
II has left its scars. 1t is well that our
blessings do not blind us to our pos
sibilities of the future, and we can
learn from our adversities, humility,
patience and faith for all that may be
in store for US. Time was, time is and
time will be. Our record for the past is
made; our present record is now in
hand, and it behooves every comrade
in the Department to work and act that
the record of the future will not cause
regret or shame. Therefore, seek out
the humble and unfortunate, and by
your unselfish comradeship show to the
world you are ever ready to stand by
those who stood by you, and lend a
helping hand to those who have no
earthly helper.
". The regular semi-annual reports
are now due. Pos, Commanders are
earnestly requested to see they are
promptly forwarded to the Assistant
Acknowledgement.
All drafts, checks and money orders
should be made payable TO e. E. Scran-
ton. Assistant Quartermaster-Gener
but inclosed in the report sent TO the
Assistant Acknowledgement. The prop
er Post Officers will be sure that all
reports are verified before sending out,
to avoid the necessity of returning them
for correction.
v. Post Commanders are most re-
spectfully and earnestly solicited to re-
port to the Assistant Acknowledgement
the names of live active comrades, one
from each Post for every delegate elect
ed to the Lima Encampment, who will
try to gather the unaffiliated ex-Union
soldiers into the Grand Army. The
comrades so named to be announced in
the. next General Order as Aids-de-
Camp on the staff of the Department
dnr Orc+ 10, a. 10
unable to find anyone in his Post who
will do duty on this line, he is hereby
kindly asked to report his own name
for the appointment, the same not to
be deferred later than July Is
VI. The AID National Encampment
of the Grand Army of the Republic
will be held in Toledo from Aug. 81
to Sept. 5, 1908. In all probability this
will be the last time that Ohio will be
thus honored. It is therefore the earn
est desire of the Department Com
mander that Ohio. the State that was
first in war, has always been first in
peace, and will ever be first in the
hearts of our countrymen, should again
show to the visiting comrades from
other States and TO the Ohio comrades,
whose hearts are always filed with joy
and gladness when permitted to par
ticipate in one of these historic home
comings, that the same patriotic spirit
that actuated her citizens in 1S61-1S65
TO respond in greater numbers than
her quota, is still pre-eminent in this
majestic Commonwealth. Then, my
comrades, let US all strive to be pres
ent in such great numbers, and make
such magnificent showing in this. the
hast great parade of soldiers of the
civil war that may ever again move
within our borders, that the glory of
Ohio will be carried to every fireside in
the land.
VII. At the Lima Encampment res
olution was unanimously adopted, in
structing the incoming Department
Commander to appoint comrade in
each County of the State TO try and
secure a suitable place or position for
each one of the young ladies and gen.
tlemen who are graduated or whose
time has expired, at the Ohio Soldiers
and Sailors Orphans Home at Xenia
] regard this as one of the most laud-
able matters that has ever been
brought to the attention of any Ohio
Encampment. These young people
many of them fatherless or mother
less. or both, are nuTtured and cdu-
Gated at this splendid institution, but
when their time has expired or they
have been graduated in some depart
ment and are ready to be sent out into
the world, they confront one of the
greatest problems in human life. TIC
whom shall they go for counsel or adj
vice? Who is there of influence thai
will give them an audience or a sec.
ond thought? These are the men this
resolution wants to supply. i there.