Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-24
OLD FOES AGAIN II.
At GETTYSBURG
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served at the ends of the company

served at the ends of the company
streets.
"Only veterans Of the civil war may
be provided food, shelter and enter
tainment within the great camp around
the battlefield reads the announce
mnt of the commission. Therefore,
no woman or child or any man not a
veteran will be given food, shelter or
entertainment. No veteran should
bring to Gettysburg any member of his
family or other person for whom he
will have to obtain food and quarters
outside the camp unless all arrange
ments therefor have first been made
for them before he or they come to
Gettysburg" w
No veteran will be permitted to
bring trunk into camp, his baggage
being restricted to that which he cxn
easily carry himself. The care >. =.
will rest with him. H..
The principal events Of the celebra-
ton will be held on July 1, 2, 8, and 4,
but in order to avoid congestion of
traffic ON the railroads and confusion
at Gettysburg. the camp will be opened
on Sunday evening, June 20, the first
meal to be served at supper time.
Twenty meals will be served to each
veteran during the week If he is in
camp that long and the camp will
come to and end after breakfast on
Sunday, July 6.
Veterans have planned to visit his
toric places In and about the great
area where the battle was fought and
where skirmishes occurred that led up
to it, and to hold reunions. The great
celebration, will be In full swing on the
morning Of July /, exactly fifty years
to the day from the time the battle
opened to the west of the town.
The program for the four big days is
briefly as follows:
July 1-Veterans' day. Appropriate
exercises under the Joint direction of
the Pennsylvania commission and the
commanders-in-chief Of the Grand
Army Of the Republic and the United
Confederate Veterans.
July military day Under the d.
rection of the chief Of staff OF the
United States army.
July 3-Civic day. Under the direc-
ton of the governor of Pennsylvania,
presiding and participated In by the
governors of the states, if they so de-
sire. Addresses and music
July National day. Patriotic ex-
ercises, orations, with fireworks in the
evening.
lowans Ready. to Go.
Des Moines, June 23.-This. week
will see the exodus from Iowa Of the
civil war veterans who fought at the
battle Of Gettysburg. Three hundred
and sixteen Of them have notified Ad-
jutant General Logan that they will
make the trip and that number in
cludes practically every old soldier
now living in the state who was on the
great battlefield when the tide of the
civil war was turned in favor of the
union. 49,. a.,
The Iowa special will leave from the
Pennsylvania station in Chicago next
Saturday at 4 clock in the afternoon.
Chicago will be the gathering place Of
the Iowa veterans. They will leave
their homes during the latter part Of
the week going by the most conven-
lent routes direct to Chicago. The
special will be equipped to make their
trip as comfortable as possible. Par
Tor sleeping cars and the% customary
diner, drawing room car and baggage
cars will make up the long train.
Nine Are Drowned.
New Madrid, Mo-, June 23.-Nine
members Of party of fourteen United
States engineers and other govern
ment employees were drowned near
New Madrid, Mo-, late yesterday, when
the United States survey boat Beaver,
which the party was aboard, was cap
sized in a storm.
Those drowned are: G. S. William
son, chief engineer Of Mason, O.; j. M. |
Mcconnell of Memphis; Captain Lamb, !
pilot; A. D. Coston. engineer; Harry |
Sherrell, mate, Cottonwood, Tenn;
Phil Wray of Jackson, Tenn; -
Freeman, deck hand; two rodmen,
names not known Only one Of the
bodies has been recovered. i
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