Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-06-10
MILWAUKEEAN SUCCEEDS W. II.
GRINNELL AS HEAD OF WIS
CONSIN DEPARTMENT.
BRONZE BUTTONS NOT FOR ALL
Encamprlent Refuses to Consider Propo-
sition Permitting Indiscririnate Wear
ing of the Organizations Emblem.
AUXILIARIES ELECT NEW OFFICERS

FOND DU LAC, Wis, June S-TSpe-
cial. frank a. Walsh of milwaukee,
was elected department commander at
this mornings session of the state en-
campment Of the Grand Army of the
Republic. Other officers elected were:
Senior vice commander, - G.. Purdy of
Fond du Lac; Junior vice commander, &. E.
Skies of kenosha; m dicai director. Dr.
Samuel Bell of Beloit: department chap
lain S. S. Auch Moedy of Milwaukee; trus-
tees of Veterans home, j. z. Rund Of Mil
waukee and {. H. Heinz of Eau Claire, re-
elected; department trustee, j. L. Baer OF
GAINESVILLE, reelected.
The entire council of administration
was reelected as follows:
Or. o. w. Carlson Of Milwaukee, Ezra 8.
Stewart Of Brodhead, f. s. Veeder of Maus-
ton. Henry c. Smith OF Green Bay, Harry
J. Goddard of Chippewa Falls; delegates to
national encampment, j. NJ. BOrdSfOrd Of
Adam IazelwCod of Oconto, j. 7. Ellison
of Milwaukee, and 0. j. Burnham of Rich.
land Center. c. Z. Estabrook of Miiwau.
kee was named as an alternate.
Children Form Flag.
a feature of this afternoons pro-
sramme was the living flag in which sew
eral hundred children participated in the
court house square. The affair was held
under the auspices of the Women's Re
lief corp, which closed its annual meet
ing with a business session at | 80
O'Clock this afternoon. The ladies of the
g. Y. r. completed their convention at
the same hour and the Sons of Veterans
concluded their meetings with the cleo
ton Of officers this morning.
The most exciting event Tuesday
afternoon occurred when veteran of
fered motion providing that any man
who had seen service III the Civil war
should be allowed to wear the bronze
grand army button. The proposition
was greeted with storm of opposition
and was not even allowed to come to
vote.
Handsome gold badges were presen ted
to Department Commander GrinneH and
W. j. Mckay, assistant adjutant gen
era
The Woman's Relief corps elected Off
GERS as follows:
President, Mrs Sophie n. Strathearn.
kaukauna: senior vice president, Mrs. E l.
Maloney, Fond du Lac; junior vice presi-
dent. Mrs. Walsh. Waupun; treasurer, Mrs
Alfredo Mcintyre; chaplain, Mrs. Thompson
Mrs. Anna E. Noyes, Madison; Mrs. Ada B.
Cooper, Eau Craire; Mrs. Laura Newhall,
Plainteld; Mrs. Anna Federer, Waukesha,
and Mrs. Elizabeth Cooley. Sharon.
Oppose Lee Statue.
When Mrs. G. A. Henry of Chicago,
hrSt department commander OF the
Ladies Of the Grand Army of the Re
public was introduced TO the w r. C.
delegates she assailed the plan to install
a statue Of Robert e. Lee in the Hall
of Fame at Washington, and the pro-
posed recognition OF Butcher" Vert by
the Daughters of the COnfederacy, say
ing that it was high time that the allied
WOmen's societies of the Grand Army
Of the Republic got together to do some
thing and show the world that if was
the men of the north that won the fight
and that it was the south that was van
pushed. The denunc.atiOn of the plan
to put the statue of Gen. Lee in the
Hall of Fame was greeted by loud hand
clapping.
The Sons of Veterans elected these
oezceTs:
l apartment commander. w. c. CowIing
Waldron of Eau Claire; junior vice com
mander, E. w Dastell; secretary treasurer,
c. II. Hudson of Madison; division council,
w. H. Elwell Of Eau Claire, G.. e. Buck
staff of Oshkosh, ]. l.. Heuuessey Of Madi-
son: delegates to national encampment, +.
B. Mattoon of Sheboygan, e. E. Buckstaff
of Oshkosh, alternates. r. f. Browne of
Racine, +. G. Bridgeman of Madison. They
were installed this afternoon.
The ladies of the g. A R. elected
these officers:
President, Mrs. Ethel Irish of Fond On
Lac, senior vice president, Mrs. C. F. Ma
riam of Milwaukee; junior vice president
Mrs Cynthia Botsford of Eau Claire; chap
lain Mrs. Olcott Of Amigo, treasurer, Miss
Sylvia Wheeler Of Lancaster.