Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-24
ENCAMPMENT NOTES.

watch. which is to be held at Camp
Emery. Shipmates who were on the
Monitor in the fight with the Merri-
mac; shipmates who were on the kear-
sarge when she sank the Alabama
shipmates who served Porter up the
Mississippi and Admiral Farragut on
the Hartford at New Orleans and Mo-
bile bay and others who served in the
squadrons along the Atlantic coast
will be present and spin sailor yarns.
Four more stores were yesterday
added to the list of mercantile houses
WHICH will close from 10 to 1890 We'd
nesday in honor Of the G. A. r. vet
Grams. They are the Louvre. Kings
Palace. r. P. Andrews Paper Company
and NJ. Philipsborn & Co.
Sd Army Corps reunion. requests that
the resident members of the Sd Corps
meet him at the headquarters of the
corps. room number l on first floor OF
the Emery building. Monday morning
at 9 o'clock for the purpose Of max
ing final arrangements for the reunion
OF the Sd Corps next Thursday even
ing: also for the assignment Of COM
rades for duty at corps headquarters to
receive visiting comrades and furnish
The Department of Kentucky will
arrive Sunday
Mrs. F. E. Payne. 514 South I'd street,
Watseka, ILL.,, is here for the W. R. c.
encampment Two of her brothers Will
liam c. Smith and Joseph A. Smith,
were members of Company K, 39th
Ohio and her husband. Charles Payne.
was a member of the 9Th Missouri
Cavalry.
Comrade Clarke A. Crum of Kansas
City. Kan, who served in the 18th
United States, and participated in many
mock, station, Va; the Wilderness cam
paign. Spottsylvania, the siege Of Pc
tersburg and Antietam. under Gen. War
rem, who commanded the 9Th Corps, has
reached Washington for the encamp-
ment.
Comrade and Mrs r. NJ. Tillespie are
here from Bakersfield. Cal. Mr.. Tillespie
served in Battery F. Independent Penn
sylvania Light Artillery (Hampton's
battery. They expect to remain here
two weeks and then will go south, then
back to Los Angeles.
Gen. J. w. r. Cline and his daughter
Pearl are at the Hotel Harris during
the encampment. Gen. Kline formerly
was commandant at the Ohio Soldiers
and Sailors Home, and is past senior
vice department commander of Ohio.
Word was received today that Capt
Elder Cooper of Evansville, Ind, who
is former commander of the Loyal
Legion of that state is coming to WASH
ington to take part in the celebration,
making his headquarters at the New
Ebbitt Hotel. 1t is expected that a
number of his Indiana comrades will
accompany Capt. Cooper. Two others
from whom word has been received to
the effect that they will be here to take
part in the activities are George E.
Tillie of Jamaica. n. Y, and S. H. Olson
of Galesburg, Ill.
Arrangements are being made for the
placing on sale at the Ebbitt OF tickets
for the observation stand in the court
of honor by the citizens committee.
The Departement of Washington and
Alaska will arrive Sunday. The Off
GERS of the Woman's Relief Corps are:
President, Dora n. Riddell. Seattle: sec
rotary, Clara S. Taylor. Seattle; treas
urer, Helen Burke. Seattle: senior vice
Junior vice president, Hattie B. Dun
lap, Mount Vernon: chaplain, Ellen
Hatch, Port Orchard; inspector. Eunice
Durant, Prosser: counselor. Myra Ben
nington, Ritzville; J.. and l. ofhcer. Net
tie Horner, Ellensburg: patriotic in
structor, Lettie E. Baumert, Aberdeen:
press correspondent, Gertrude A. KEEL
|logg, North Yakima.
Comrades of the Morton Rifles are
coming to the encampment. NJ. L. Dean
of 9O4 New York avenue northwest is
making arrangements for a reunion of
this organization.
Assistant Inspector General P. D.
Kenyon of Oklahoma has reached the
city and announces that possibly $50
veterans will come here from his state.
He Is a resident of Oklahoma City. He
was captain of Company c. 18th Illinois
Regiment, and was in command at the
battle of Acworth, where he was cap
tured, being retained as a prisoner for
five months.
DR. Peter Lamb of ST Cloud Fla,
who was a drummer boy in the van of
the 18th Ohio Volunteers when the
regiment responded to the call Of
and will march in the parade next
Wednesday.
James Tanner. past commander-in-
chief of the G. A. R.. and the Misses
Tanner will receive their friends Mon
day evening in honor of their house
guests. Past Communicating Chief Gill
man and Past National President of the
Woman's Relief Corps Mrs: Mary E.
Weissert and Mrs. Weissert. Past De-
partment Commander of Nebraska Ad-
ans and Past National President Of
the Woman's Relief Corps Mrs. Abbie
A Adams. Past Patriotic Instructor of
the G. A. r. Longfellow and Miss
Longfellow.
Members of Col. James S. Petit
Camp, No 8, L. S W. v. who have vol
unteered for duty at Camp Emery, are
meeting at Camp Emery today for final
instructions as TO the entertainment Of
the veterans. They will be addressed by
Past Commander chief John Lewis