Evening journal., 1914-05-06
RHEIMS
ORDER TO THE Vets
New Department COmman-
der of G. A. R. Announ-
ceS New Staff
FOR
SOME CELEBRATIONS

and other officers. ar I
ranging for a celebration Of Mothers
Day on May 10 and Memorial Day /
on May 80, and Flag Day on June IA. /
The order is as follows:
Department of Della ,
ware, Grand Army of the Republic /
302 Concord Avenue.
Wilmington, Del, May 2. 1914.
General Order No. 3
1. At the 34th Annual Encampment I
of the Department of Delaware, |
Grand Army of the Republic, the fol-
lowing officers were elected OF ap-
pointed and installed:
Department Commander--John 7.
Rheims, Post No. 20, Smyrna.
Senior mmander-Henry w.
Hancock, Post No. >, Wilmington
Junior INSTRUMENTATION r.
Walker. Post No A. Wilmington.
Medical Director-Dr. David Stew
art, Post No. 8, New Castle.
Chaplain-Benjamin ID. Bogia, Post
No. ., Wilmington.
Assistant Adjutant and Assistant
Quarter Master General. S. Litzen-
berg, Post No. >. Wilmington.
Department Patriotic Instructor
VIM. Mendenhall, Post No. 2. VIII
mington.
Council Of Administration.
Matthew S. Cain, Post No. /, Will
mington.
Daniel L. stanton, Post No. ?, Will
mington
George p, Phillips. Post No. a. VIII
Ira Lunt Post No. 8. New Castle.
VIM. B. Wilmer. Post No. 23, VIII
mington.
II. The following additional ap-
pointments are hereby announced:
nspector-William A. Truitt. Post
No. z, Milford.
Judge Advocate Edward f. Wood,
Post No. 3, Dover.
Chief Mastering Officer-David r..
Ennis, Post No. IS. Georgetown.
Chief of Staff T. Davis. Post No.
30, Smyrna.
III. The following named Com
rades are hereby appointed Aides-de-
Camp on the Staff Of the Department
Commander, and they will be obeyed
and respected accordingly.
John T. Hobbs, Post No. l. Whining
ton.
John F. Mclaughlin. Post No. 2,
Wilmington
VIM. Denny. Post No. 8, Dover.
Asbury Sterling, Post No. A. Will
mington.
John W. Hudson. Post No. 5, New
Castle.
Allen Reed, Post No. g.. Dover
John n. Lecompt, Post No. Z, Mil
ford
Thomas A. Mullen, Post No. 9, New
ark.
John Bullock. Post No. 1S, Whining
ton.
Joseph H. Enos, Post IA. Odessa.
c. r. Lewis, Post No. IL, Bridge
Vile.
G. W. Bennum, Post No. IS, George
town.
R. D. Short, Post No 1s, Harring-
ton.
H. W. Perkins, Post No %, VIII
mington.
John W. Harris, Post No. %, Sea-
ford.
George Adams. Post No. 26. Milford.
Geo. Anderson Post No. 2S, Smyrna.
VIM. r. Tucker Post No. 20, Smyrna.
Aides-de-camp who have not provided
themselves with the proper badge for
these important positions tas they are
representatives, OF the department COM
mander in each post should do so. The
proper badge is the regulation star OF
our order pendant to a flag ribbon, with
a cherry colored border. and rank
strap at top with two Silver leaves on
a black field.
Mothers Day.
". Sunday. May 10, Is Mothers
Day, and il is recommended that avery
comrade should honor the memory OF
his mother, who had TO fight her bat.
ties at home with more courage and
sacrifice than did their sons on lant
and sea from 81 to '65, by attending
divine service on that day. and wear 3
white carnation as a mark of respect.
Memorial Sunday.
Sunday, May "A, is Memorial Sunday
and all comrades are requested to at
tend services on that day and return
thanks to an All Wise Providence that
they have been preserved nearly fifty
years after the greatest war of moderr
times.
Memorial Da.
Saturday. May so, 1914, will be oul
most sacred day of all the year. Thl
custom so wisely iuaugurated by Pos
Commander-in-Chef Logan. in 1865. hai
been growing more sacred every year
and on each recurring Memorial Day w
have more graves to decorate and fewe
. comrades to do the work. Now com
rades, we soon must look to some on
else TO assist us ia this work. Tn
query then is who better than our SON
and daughters can assist us in the worl
now, and take our places when we ar
all mustered out. It is the request o
p your commander that in all of your Slc
mortal services you invite the son
= and daughters of veterans to assist yol
in strewing with beautiful flowers tn
lowly mounds that mark the last rest
, ing place of so many of our comrades
and plant above their heads the starr.
flag for which they fought.
Flag Day.
Sunday. June IA, 1914. will be tn
! 18TH anniversary of the adoption b
the Continental Congress of tn
Stars and Stripes as the flag of tn
! United States of America. And in al
the wars in which our country ha
: been engaged since that time Il ha
! been carried triumphantly by ou
soldiers and sailors on land and Sc
: without the loss of a star or a blen
ish upon its stripes. II is now III
emblem Of free people, and it
eminently fitting that one day in eac
: year should be set to do it specii
honor. Comrades, let US do our pal
in rendering respect to the flag "
fought for and saved, by flying