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GRAND ARMY MEN
 HAD LONG TRIP
To National Encampment in
 Salt Lake City, for the
 Week, Beginning Today.

In the general orders 1SSued TOT the 43rd national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. which assemblies at Salt Lake City, Utah, for the week beginning to-day, announce ment is made that headquarters will be established at the Knutsford hotel in parlor A, and a meeting of the executive committee of the national council of administration is scheduled for to-day. The national council of administration will meet at head quarters tomorrow at 10 o'clock. The following have been detailed for duty as members of the committees:
 CredentiaIs-Adjt.-Ge Frank Cole. chairman; Charles A. .Suydam, Penn Jere Dew, Missouri: Charles Harris, Kansas; George A. Newman, Iowa; James Mulliken. New Jersey; John H.. Roberts. California; Assistant Quarter master Gen. J. H. Holcomb.
 Rules, regulations and ritual-Rob- ert B. Beath, Pennsylvania chairman :; A. G. Weissert, Wisconsin; John L. Parker. Massachusetts,: E.. R. Monfort, Ohio; c. B. Adams, Nebraska; Edwin C. Milliken. Maine; N: P. Chipman. California; Charles A. Orr, New York: A. J. Gahagan, Tennessee.
 The department commanders and their assistant adjutant generals were to report promptly to the committee partment officers, representatives and past department commanders in at tendance and, upon the verifcation of such list. they will receive from the adjutant general badges for which they will make receipt and they will report to the adjutant general at headquarters on Tuesday. at 3 D. m. Officers of the encampment, members of the council of administration, past commanders-in-chie and past senior and junior commanders-in-chief will receive their badges direct from the Padjutant general. 's--.- :
 The committee on rules, regulations and ritual will meet at headquarters at p. m. Wednesday at Room 200 and those desiring to present written or oral arguments to proposed amend ments are requested to do so at that time. A semi-ofhcial meeting will be held in the Tabernacle at p. m. Tuesday, when addresses of welcome will be delivered by the governor of Utah. the mayor of Salt Lake City and the commander of the depart ment of Utah. Greetings and reports will afterwards be received from the auxiliary and allied organizations. to which responses will, be made by com rades detailed by the commander-in- chief This meeting will be an open sone, at which all comrades, citizens and visitors will be welcomed.
 The parade of the Grand Army will take place on Wednesday in Main street, which is 132 feet wide and will be newly paved with asphalt especial " TOT LnlS OCcdS1On, DeIOr6 the QdIG or the encampment. Comrade Alvan Edmunds of Sumner post, No. '12, De- pertinent of Oregon, has been appoint ed national color bearer. A state ment in detail is given in the orders of tfe special railroad and hotel ac- computations. The aides-de-camp on the staff of the commander-in-chief will report upon arrival to J. Cory Wi1ians. chief-of-staff. at the Conner cial club.
 ha. on,C oil ;e under the charge and supervision of Mrs. W. H. Jones, chairman of Salt Lake City and she will give any in formation in her power concerning Army Nurses will be ouartered during the. week at the Colonial hotel where they will be provided with accommo- dations and headquarters room.
 The business session of the encamp- ment will be called to order at 10 o'clock Thursday at the convention hall. Among the proposed amendments to the rules and regulations is one as to military titles. which comes from Pennsylvania, as follows: 2
 Resolved. That as the misuse of military titles in the Grand Army of the Republic continues, that election or appointment to office in the Grand Army of the Republic does not there by confer any title to military rank the department of Pennsylvania ap- proves and recommends to the 43d na- tional encampment the adoption of an amendment to the rules and regula- tions which will prohibit the improper use of such titles.
 A recent order of Commander-in- Chief H. M. Nevins announces the deaths of Past Chief John S. Rountz at Toledo, O.; De- partment Commander Charles E. Fcote at Kalamazoo. Mich: Past Department Commander Thomas A. Creigh at Omaha. Neb., and Assistant Adjutant General D. I. Carson, depart ment of Georgia and South Carolina at Atlanta, within the past two months.
 The Connecticut comrades left Springfield last Thursday and Journey was made in special Pullman cars