The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-05-22
COMMANDER IN CHIEF COMING
Formal Order is Issued by Commander
Announcing Plans for Encampment-
Cities and Villages are Urged to Hold
Observance of Memorial Day.

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/ For the first time in seven years a
! commander in chief of the Grand Army
Of the Republic will attend a depart
ment encampment in Wisconsin when
the veterans from all over the state
come together on June 8 at Neenah
and Menasha.
! Commander in Chief Alfred w. Beers
has notified Department Commander
George Spratt Of Sheboygan Falls
that he will reach Milwaukee on the
morning of June 8. Arrangements
have been made for special train to
leave the Northwestern station there
at II 80 a. M, which will carry the
commander in chief, the Milwaukee
4 contingent and will pick up the old
soldiers at Madison, Oconomowoe, Wau-
kesha, Whitewater, Kenosha, Racine,
! Burlington, West Bend and Fond du
Lac. The train will arrive at Neenah
and Menasha about 2 o'clock. The
opening exercises will occur at the ar
mory at night.
Commander Spratt has appointed as
a committee on reception to welcome
the head of the organization Past
Commander in Chief A. g. Weissert,
Past Department Commanders Hiram
~. Smith, Frank A. Walsh, W. D.
Hoard, J. P. Rumble, D. G. James, B.
r. Bryant, Plinny Norcross, J. A. Wat
rous, F. A. Copeland, Leander Fergu-
son, A. B. Lang, w. II. Grinell, Sam
II. Tallmadge, John W. Canes, John
G. Martin, A. III. de Croft, S. A.. Cook,
former congressman Of Neenah; D. G..
/ Sampson, III. w. Rood, w. D. Carr and
Mayors G. B. Clark and N. G. Kennel
4 of Neenah and Menasha, respectively.
! The committee expressed the desire
/ that Commander Spratt also become
one of the reception committee and
this was agreed to by the department
commander.
| Aids to the commander in chief dur
ing his visit have been appointed as
/. follows: J. T. O'Doughlin, George D.
Breed, j. w. Baldock, j. L. Beer, j.
d. Howard, J. r. Brabazan, A. w.
Ballard, j. M, Wadleigh, R. w. Bryant,
w. A. Wyse, G. W. Cose, H. H. Hoff-
man, j. F. Reardon, Fred Wardrobe,
~. w. Evans, E. Davidson, Carver n.
Griffith, J. M. Holley, A. P. Jackson,
j. E. Jones, J. H, Waggoner, Simon
Smith, r. Ell. johnson, J. T. Hanson,
w. P. Clarke, J. w. Thomas, George
w. Farrar, I'll. G. Putnam, Thomas
Steele, Fred Kusel, DR.. L. G. Arm
strong, Orville Strong, DR.. B. G. B.
Brett, George Jeuck, ]. R. Varnett, j.
W. Dougherty, Merritt Stinson, John
EG. Clark, B. S. Williams, E. B. Helm
street, S. Whilloker, G. L. Brink, H. M.
i Stark, A. R. Munger, James A. Rope,
/ Charles A. Corbett and John w. Bell.
The opening exercises will be under
1 the auspices OF the Woman s Relief
/ Corps with Mrs. Laura E. Maloney,
state president, presiding. The COM
mander in chief will make one of the
1 addresses of the evening and one of
/ the features will be the presentation
Of beautiful silk flag to the high
1 schools of Neenah and Menasha.
The first business session will be
| held in the armory at 10 a. m. on June
| 10 and the parade will take place on
/ the afternoon of the same day. All
/ the business and campfire sessions will
be held in the armory, while the chief
stopping places of the officers and
veterans will be at the National Hotel.
/ On the night Of June 10 there will
be a big campfire session at which a
number of the best speakers of the
order will be heard, including the COM
mander in chief.
In his order regarding the encamp-
ment, issued from Madison on Satur-
/ day, Department Commander Spratt
i urges that all members of the organi-
cation join in agitating for appropri-
ate exercises in all cities, towns and
| villages Of the state in observance Of
| Memorial Day. He has expressed it,
in behalf of the members of the or
ganization which he represents, as the
desire that the observance of the day
/ be perpetuated when all the survivors
of the war of the rebellion shall have
passed away.
/ It is also asked in the department
commanders order that Memorial Day
speakers and pastors be requested by
the veterans to make mention of the
battle of Lake Erie, fought on Sept.
13, 1913, and it is declared by the
order that there should also be cele-
brations on this anniversary of the
/ other important battles Of the war
of 1912.
i DR.. G. 81. Ripley has gone to Fond
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