Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-04-30
Women Are Hobsonized by Com
mander-in-Chief Nevius
During the Evening.
NEW OFFICERS INSTALLED.
Utah Is Compllmcntcd by the General
Tor IT. Work In Furthcrlng
Cause OF the Grand Army.

The twonty-sevenh annual encamp-
mont OF the department OF Utah. g. A.
r.. was concluded last night with
banquet and "a good time. At tho ar
tornoon session. the following officers
for the ensuing year were chosen:
Lucicn Il. smyth. department conn
mander.
w p. Rowe. senior vice department
commander.
William Crome. junior vice depart
Z ment commander.
Rev. w. C.. Ncazey. chaplain
Joseph Milliron medical director.
j. j. Cortez and John Geiger dole
! gates to the national encampment.
j. II. Wolcott and william Lundy,
alternate delegates TO the national en-
csmpment
Council OF administration-W. D..
Gaby, post No. /; william Crossman;
VpoSt No 3. A. II. Foling, post No. 4;
elias Price. post No. 81 J. K. Bishop,
post No. 8.
Thomas HAMS. assistant adiutant
general and assistant quartermastor
general.
Candidate to be returned TO national
cncampment as senior vice commander,
William II. Bostaph.
The Daughters OF Veterans also were
IN session. and chose these officers:
Mary b. Lawrence, president.
Mossie ROby. senior vice president.
Lizzie sleatcr junior vice president.
W PnkertOn. chaplain.
I3essis Day. treasurer.
Eessie l. kesln, secretary.
Gada Richards, patriarchial fnstruc-
Tor.
Della Sperry. musician.
Lydia NJ. Cody. guide.
Ray Redmond. guard
Miss Armstrong, assistant guard
Trustees-Mary Watrous. Bessie
Bovce. Nellie Robinson.
color bearers--First Bessie smith;
second. Mamie Sleater; third. Roberta
Sleater; fourth, Edith Cassidy
WOMEN ALL HoBsoNIZED.
The evening ceremonies were partic-
ularly interesting. They included the
installation Of the newly elected ON
GERS, and a banquet A feature en-
urely unprovided for, but sprung as
surprise for the ladies Immediately in
terestcd, was an osculatoTy feat on
the part Of Comander-in-c chief Nevius
who was present the objects OF this
style Of sally being the newly chosen
lady officers. The latter did not ap-
pear averse Ia the trying ordeal" in
fact as the command was given for
ANtlN u IdlA lIAu INC ANI INC hAHbAils
stunt. they did so smllingly.
The commsnder-ln-ch gaze a
sketch Of the struggles between the
blue and the gray I'm the time Of the
great unpleassntness, remarking his
qualification that the angry feeling be-
tween the north and south was fast dis
appearing. IN Fastening this. the or
ggnization OF the women Is proving a
valuable factor.
In the last year. the deaths I'm the
ranks Of the G. A. r. numbered 10 00O
an increase Of 1000 over the record OF
the previous year. The speaker held
that now there IS no nnrth. south. east
or west, but all one common country.
The old soldiers of the confederate
army had forgotten the bitterness Of
the past, except IN sections where Il is
kept alive by the Daughters OF tho Con-
federacy. Gen. Nevius praised the wo-
mems organizations in the q. A. r.,
the w. r. G. having raised over $4,000
600 for the support Of disabled veterans
and widows. He said THE record Is
that the Utah department had the
greater representation at the national
encampmgnt at Toledo by far. Nearly
40 per cent OF its membership was rep
resented in the meeting yesterday. This
Is q showing which perhaps has never
been made by any other state The
Utah department boasts that it has
a larger number of members from