The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-08-22
SPANISH WAR VETS
MEET In PALATKA
And Enjoy Annual REUNION
JOughin the New Com
mander.

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this city Tuesday, William M. Hussol
camp playing the part of host.
Some thirty or forty veterans rep
resenting the six different camps il
the State were present. Headquart
ers were established at the Putnam
House.
At 10 a. m. the encampment was
called to order bv Commander j. L
Burt of w. M. Husson camp and Rev
?. Q. Cason pronounced the invoca,
ton.
Addresses of welcome, brief but elo
quent, were made by J. C. Calhoun
for the city, G. W. Bassett Jr., fol-
the local camp, and H. A. Davis fol
the board of trade. Responses were
by department officials.
Following the Introductory ceremo.
my Commander of the Department
Maj. j. W. Sackett presided over a
brief business session at which re-
ports were made and new officers elec-
ted as follows:
W. A. .oughin, Tampa, department
commander.
Edw. Anderson, Jacksonville, Sc
nior vice commander.
j. L. Burt, Palatka, junior vice COM
mander.
J. S. Maxwell, Jacksonville, judge
advocate.
J. D, Points, Palatka, inspector.
M. b. Darnell, Key West, marshal.
The delegates to the national en-
campment were also named as follows:
John O'Donaghue, j. S. Maxwell,
M. A. Wilcox and M. B. Darnell.
The city was well decorated with
the national and department colors,
and several old veterans of the war
between the states, both federal and
confederate, were on hand to view and
talk with their younger fellow sold
iers.
At 1870 p. m. the visitors went to
Welaka on the Wilson launch Marga-
ret, where they were entertined by
the citizens of the pretty river town
to bounteous dinner with barbecued
meats. The dinner was served in the
towns pretty park under the trees
and the ladies Of the place were pre-
sent to see that all were properly sup
piled. This trip and the dinner at
Welaka will remain as the supreme
pleasure of the 1918 encampment.
"The trip up and back from Wela-
ka was most enjoyable" said that old
vet, L. NJ. Dardine. 1--WE had re-
freshments, and there were stories
and singing and music which was pro-
duced by my accordian,a veritable old
time instrument of the camp in the
CO.'S and which the boys seemed to en-
joy. We veterans of the early war
certainly appreciate the kindness of
W. NJ. Husson camp in inviting us to
The whole affair at We
Iaka was up to date"
DR.. Main of Welaka, a member of
W. M. Husson camp but citizen of
Welaka seemed to be master of cere-
monies at that town and he was ABLY
assisted by all the citizens.
At night the delegates were enter
lained at Dutch lunch in the
Putnam House, presided over by Com
mander j. L. Burt as toastmaster.
Toasts were responded to in hap
py manner by Capt. J. D. Points, Com
mander Joughin, Major ]. w. Sack
ett, and Col. Geo. D. Love of the Jack
3onville Metropolis staff. 1t was q
free-for-all luncheon in which good
feeling prevailed and songs of the
Did camp life were revived.
Maj. Sackett and Col. Love Of Jack,
5onVille were accompanied by their
wives who participated and lent the
'harm of their presence to the meet
ngs and the excursion. They are pa
5rlotic and charming ladies and seem
ed at home in the company of soldiers
who had shared with their husbands
n the hardships and joys of army life.
Commander W. A. Joughin desires
% build up the department of FLORIDA
He is anxious that every veteran of
he Spanish-American war should en-
'oll with the nearest camp. This is
necessary in order to protect the gov
eminent in after years from impos-
.ers, as well as keep roster of the
men who participated in the brief,
strife. This list will have
1 historic value.
Before leaving Palatka Commander
Joughin named his staff as follows:
Chief of Staff, Geo. D. Love, Jackson
Vile; Department Adjutant, T. F.
Pearce, Tampa; Quartermaster, c. s.
Allen, Tampa, the names of appoint
nents for historian and aids-de-cam
will be announced later.
Last week The News in giving the
names of the members of the local
camp who had died it mentioned DR..
W. w. C. Wall and A NJ. McIver.
Others of the men who went out with
he Palatka company have also pass
ed to the great beyond honored and
'evered by their surviving comrades,
Jut their deaths occurred before the
of the camp. Capt.
Husson, in whose memory the camp is
lamed is among the number of the
lead, as so also are Eugene Gay,
James f. Lane, Tom Beal and per
maps others whose names we do not
low recall.
Palatkans are specially pleased at
he honors bestowed upon our own
Spanish War veterans. Capt. John
D. Points was reelected Department
and ]. L. Burt was elevat-
I'd to the post of Junior Vice Com
and in the regular order he
will be advanced to the Office of De-
lartment Commander in two years.
Palatka has some veterans who saw
war at its worst, and Capt. Points
'omes naturally by his soldierly quail.
ties. His father, Capt Jos. d.
Points, still an active an honored cit
zen of this city, was in General Pick
ett's command, and so years ago last
month participated in the famous
Pickett's charge at Gettysburg, a
,harge that for daring and sacrifice
IS without parallel in war. Then we
nave n younger soldier who did some
lighting in a later war We refer to
Sam Hafer, the left-handed book.
keeper at Budington's wholesale gro