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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-01-08
sesk,A.eun.A Club.


The Seek-A-Fun-A club held their
annual New Years eve party at the
home of Mrs. Emma Bolran at River
side park. Miss Ruth Barr and Miss
Esther Davis entertained the com;
pany with instrumental and vocal
music. New Years resolutions were
adopted for various members of tbs
club. This furnished much amuse'
ment. Among other resolutions adopt
ed was one. TO send greetings to
the absent members. Mrs. Lois Yeaple
Frost of Windoin aud Mrs NJ. Bohan
Garvey of Pennington. II was de
clded that all present would meet
again ON the next New Years eve
at the same dwelling. Greetings
were extended TO the year 1916, and
the gathering adjourned. all singing
"lt's n Loug Way to Tipperary."
Entertained Gentlemen Fricrss
Arfhue Ihaeh aufnrf a sned a mart q
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From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
Dan Cupid started the new year
bad. There is no doubt about II,
and he ought to come around and
apologize for himself. It's all right
to say that The Course of trne love
never did run smooth and all that
sort of dope That's and old story,
and does not excuse him one bit for
getting his darts crossed and mixed
and fired promiscuously. Excitement
reigned in the license factory at the
court house today, news that an elop-
ing couple was on its way to be
splieed at Mankato. having. preceded
the fleeing pair. with the wires hot
around Mankato with orders from
the girls relatives 10 apprehend them
before the irrevocable act was con-
sfinmated
Up to three o'clock the couple had
not put In an appearance, having EVIL
IDENTIFY gotten Wise To the fact that
relatives we're ON their trail. 1t
came TO light. however. that 1t was a
case of having two strings to one
bow. or Two beaux to one string to
be more exact. the young lady. who
by the way, Is sweet sixteen, having
an elderly lover, favored by her par
ents. and younger one favored By
herself. For further particulars see
any heart. interest moving picture
drama. A hereft father came to town
today mourning the loss Of his sew
enteen year old son. who bad been
captured by twenty-year old young
lady. aud inyeIgled into the bonds
OF holy natrimony. when he slioula
have been studying his arithmetic and
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Thomas-pavey.

lnomaS-DaNey.
Miss isabelle Daisy Thomas. daugh-
ter OF Mr.. ami Mrs. $. s. Thomas
of G2I North FIFTH street. aud AIR.
Clifford Davey. son OF NJ. and Mrs.
W. Il. Dayey Of All Van Brunt street.
were united In marriage Yesterday
afternoon at the. Methodist parsonage
by REV. w. II. Kecsey, the pastor.
The bride and groom left on the aft
ernoon train for short wedding trip
to the twin cities. and upon their
return win make their home In this
city. The bride Is popular young
lady and has been attending the
Commercial college for some time
past The groom Is q member of the
firm of Dayey & Hurd.
Mrs. Emma Jones of III North
Bread street entertained friends New
Years night to an oyster supper.
Plates were laid for twelve, and the
evening was spent with singing and
music.
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lundoren-Hennett.

Miss Marie Lundgren and Mr.. Don
aid Bennett were united in marriage
yesterday afternoon nj the home of
the bride in West Mankato.
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Delightful Reception.

bttt8HHdt nc$IPtfSHs
A very delightful social event oc
Cured at the home of Mr.. aud Mrs.
A. W. Anderson. $40 Byron street.
en- New Years day, 1t being the sill
yer anniversary of their wedding.
Tho Misses Agnes and Isabel. daugb-
tiers of Mr.. aud Mrs. Anderson. had
issued one hundred and twenty In.
vitations for a noon4lay reception.
Tie guests were relatives of Mr..
and Mrs. Anderson, all being from
out of town. Those present were
mir. and Mrs. Little, Miss Little and
Dir. Tom Little: Mr.. and Mrs. James
Morrow and daughter. Hattie; Mr..
and Airs. Charles Cramer and chill
dren; Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest cramer
ana children and Roy Cramer of Ma
pleton: Mrs. Allen OF Marietta; Mr..
and Mrs J. II. Anderson, Jr.. Mr..
and Mrs. ]. ID. Little and daughter
of Good Thunder: Mr. and Mrs. Judd
Getty and children OF Lamberton:
Mrs will and daughter. Mr.. and
Mrs. Oachs. son and daughter from
Herman: Mr.. and Mrs. Emery Healy
Of Grapeland: BELLE Cramcr Mr.. and
Mrs. Getty, Mapleton; Mr.. and Mrs,
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Glass Reunion.

Glass Reunion.
The high school class of 1919 win
hold their reunion at the high
school this evening at 1880.
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Entertained Gentlemen Friends
Arthur Ibach entertained a party
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view Of the victorious Union troops at
the closing Of the Civil War will be
one Of the principal features of the
Grand Army Encampment. which is
to be held at the National Capital
September 81 to October 8. of this
year.
From the asphodel meadows of the
dead will troop to each veteran the
spirits Of all those crude country boys
his company; who held up their right
hands, and in the many-keyed tones
OF the school room recited the solemn
oath to defend the United States of
America against all enemies and op-
posers whatsoever. foreign or do
mestic: there will troop to him the
spirits of the thousand boys of his
yet loosely Joined regiment, who re-
ceived from their governor the bright
new flags which their blood was to
consecrate and glorify.
There will troop to his side those
who touched his elbows when they
sank to death amid the thunders Of
Chickamauga or the sulphurous hor-
rors Of the burning wilderness.
Fifty winters have wept over their
clay. and the roses Of fifty springs
have bloomed in fragrance from the
soil their blood enriched. They are all
living to him. They have been very
much alive to him ever since their
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marching host into comparatively the
finest military weapon ever forged to
execute a nations will.
1t was led by men whose names will
forever shine in our history as types
of the highest soldiership. joined to
the purest patriotism.
First Day OF Review.
The first day the Army Of the Po-
tomac. in a dense column which filled
the wide avenue from curb to curb
marched by from early morn until
late at night. No better demonstra-
ton of the marvellous efficiency which
had been attained in its four years
schooling in war can be given than
in perfect military order by a given
point in a single day. This would be
impossible in the best drilled legions
of Europe today. And with that
army, what recent and vivid memories
marched? OF the months of bloody
welter on the Peninsula. OF the bat
tie surges over the oft-reddened plains
of Manassas. OF that awful Septem-
Der day, on the banks Of the Antietam.
which closed with $4,000 boys in blue
living dead or wounded. OF that still
more bitter December day at Fred
ericksburg, when $4,000 fell in an
assault fore-doomed as hopeless. OF
that wasted opportunity at Chan
cellorsville. which cost 10000 men and
the sanguine hopes Of the close Of the
war. OF the momentous three days
at Gettysburg. which finally turned
back the tide of Lees great army
at the price Of 5000 Union dead, and
Il. 900 wounded. OF those thirty days
of mortal wrestling between the Union
and Confederate armies from the
Rapidan Of the James, which cost the
Union army $4,000 men, and filled
every household in the South with
mourning. OF the months Of anxious.
persistent. infiexible siege Of Peters
burg. OF that most magnihcently
thrilling Of all man-hunts in history,
the bloodhound rush Of Grants whole
army after Lees, for a hundred miles,
over Virginia's brakes and bournes
until the end came at Appomattox.
For four long years the people had
been walking daily with the grand,
grim. unconquerabfe Army of the Po-
tomac through the Valley of the
Shadow Of Death, with only infrequent
ascents' to the mountain peaks of
victory. but now 1t was fresh from the
complete overthrow Of its mighty an
tagonist. These were the men who
had been through all this. the sur
vivors of the host which had accom-
plished 1t all. bearing the nass around
which they had unfalteringly gathered
no matter how disasters thickened.
At the head Of this Mississippi Of
warlike force rode its Commander.
George Gordon Meade-tall, grim.
specialized. his broad shoulder bent
AZ II by the weight Of the burden he
had carried from Gettysburg to Ap-
pomattox-
Sheridan. the whirlwind OF battle,
was missing from the gioriouD CaSalry
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Reynolds only saw the beginning OF
the battle he opened at Gettysburg
Grand old John sedgwtck had fallen
beneath a sharpshooter's bullet al
Spottsylvania. and that superb ex.
ample Of genuine American aristo-
cracy. James s. Wadsworth. had re-
ceived the last Of his wounds in the
Wilderness.
The next day came another host
mighty as the first, vying with 1t in
the greatness of Its history and the
magnitude of its achievements
strangely like it in many things
strangely unlike in others.
1t was Sherman's army marching
into the Capital from the conquest OF
half a continent, ending on the banks
of the Potomac a march begun foul
years before. two thousand miles away
on the banks Of the Ohio.
Men From The West.
They were all Western men. The
State builders Of the great country
beyond the Alleghanies. Their battle
flags. bore the Inscriptions: BEL
mont" "Donelson." "Shiloh." Cor
inth," "Pe-ryville." stone River"
"vicksburg." "Chickamauga." Mis-
sion Ridge" Atlanta" Savannah
"Carolinas." "Bentonville." and a thou
sand minor battles, each Of which
had thrilled the peoples hearts to the
core.
They were restless, aggressive men;
tiger-like in attack. and wild bears on
the defense, who had hunted down
and fought their enemies in every
State in the Confederacy. No noun
tain-top was too rugged. no swampy
fastness too impenetrable to shelter
any man who drew a sword or raised
a flag in hostility to the Government.
While the Army Of the Potomac was
chained to Washington. and fought all
its battles within a few score miles of
the Capital, they marched and fought
over territory exceeding that Of the
battling grounds Of all Europe.
Their appearance showed they were
wider rangers, freer lances than the
Army of the Potomac. The men of
the latter approached more nearly the
Regular Army model Of dress, march
ing and manoeuvres. The Western
Army was rather careless as to dress
and equipments, only caring to have
enough to show that they were Union
soldiers. Nor did they bother much
about proper cadence, and absolute
perfection Of alignment. but moved
with the long. swinging stride which
had carried them with marvellous
swiftness over eleven stateA
At their head rode the General-in-
Chief. William Tecumseh Sherman
with the laurels Of Atlanta, the march
to the sea, through the Carolinas. and
the surrender Of Johnston, still re-
cent and fresh. Tall and sinewy, With
rugged face and cleaning eyes. he
looked the ideal leader Of battle and
conquest BY his side. with armies
sleeve. rode one Of his principal
lisutenantD-olivsr o. Howard. tho
Christian soldier. and tie CemmAndsr
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Of the Army Of the Tennessee from
Atlanta to Washington.

Army OF The Tennessee.
There now rode at the head Of the
Army Of the Tennessee John A.
Logan. the greatest volunteer general
Of the war, whose sword had won him
that eminence from the starting point
of a colonel Of a regiment
The Fifteenth Corps, which had
been commanded by Sherman in the
Vicksburg campaign, and afterward by
Logan in the Atlanta campaign, and
through the Carolinas. was led by Will
liam B. Hazen. the hero Of Fort Nc
Allister.
The Seventeenth. McPherson's old
Corps. was commanded by Frank p.
Blair. the soldier-politician. who. with
Nathaniel Lyon, had saved Missouri
to the Union.
The Army of Georgia was command
ed by the quiet scholarly Henry W.
Slocum. whose face reminded one OF
Dante's.
The Twentieth Corps was command
ed by Fighting Joe Mower" who had
entered the army in 1s47 as q private
In the engineers. and had been made
a major-general for the passage Of
the Salkehatchie.
The Fourteenth Army Corps which
Pap" Thomas had fashioned and
made "the Rock Of Chickamauga" was
ing Jefferson c. Davis, every inch q
soldier. who had given the best taste
Of his quality at Pea Ridge. when.
having fought successful tight
through. at great loss. on one part Of
the line. had feds his brigade at once
to another part and helped win the
battle there.
The triumphant troops missed on
the reviewing stand the face Of all
others they had most longed to see.
that Of the great-hearted. kindly Lin
coin, who had fallen beneath tho
assassin's bullet q few weeks before.
His place was taken by President
johnson. At his side stood the great
organizer Of victory. the iron-willed
Stanton, Secretary Of War.
Most interesting of all in that group
was the rudy bearded. stoop-should-
cred, quiet man with three stars in
his straps. who had commanded all
the armies Of the United States in
the last decisive year Of the war. A
Tanners clerk when tho war began:
a colonel in his first campaign. who
won every promotion by soccass upon
the field o. battle: who was constantly
called to come up higher" because
he had done 90 well below; who had
never fought but to win: and never
organized but to succeed. The end
Of the war saw him the sole com.
mAnder Of . million battls-tFained vet
erana the mightiest host IN every way
that the world had ever seen subject
to one mans will. and there was but |
one voice - to the eminent fitnsss for
that pinnacle Of unprecedented great.
nes Of Lieutenant 0snsral Ulysses
Grant
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President johnson and General Grant
will again pass in grand review. This
time before President Wilson and
members Of his Cabinet. 1t may be
the last encampment which the Grand
Army will ever hold. Certainly II
will be the last one for many of the
aged veterans and there is no likeli-
hood that another such reunion will
ever be held at the National Capital.
In the fifty years since 1865 four
out Of every five of those comrades
have been relieved from their tours
of earthly duty. and gone on to join
Grant. Sherman, Meade, Thomas,
Sheridan, Logan, and Farragut in the
advance camps beyond the broad Po-
tomac of Eternity.
They will be with him on the grand
parade. however. just as palpably as
the applauding throngs along the line
of march. 1t will be only a few years
at most when he will rejoin them in
answer Here" when the angels call
the roll in the Eternal Morning.
AS the veteran marches I'D Penn
sylvania Avenue he will face the west
ern sun, typical of all his remaining
marches through life. Henceforth he
set Of life that ever comforted the
eyes Of passing veterans.
This strifeful old world has seen
many imposing military pageants since
first the sword began to devour, by
way of saying the last word in dis
putes But never. not even
In the glory that was Greece
And the grandeur that was Rome,
not even when Napoleon marched his
agle-bearing legions back to Paris
from the wreck Of empires and the
destruction Of dynasties, did the hours
keep pace with the march of SO
mighty a torrent of warlike power as
swept in unbroken tide along Penn
sylvania Avenue for two wide-archins
May days Of 1865.
In numbers It was bewildering: in
history, startling: in character, over
whelming.
Its banners showed the scars of
more than a thousand battlenelds,
many of them the bloodiest in his
tory, and were consecrated by the
lives Of half a million young men who
had fallen around them since i1rst
unfurled. A mightier army than
Napoleon led to the mastery Of Eu-
rope had persisted in carrying forward
those banners to victory. Each one
Of the myriads Of bronzed young vet
Grams who strobe up the avenue in
the pride Of trained and perfected SOL
diership, represented an average Of
nearly half q score Of youthful COM
panions who had started in with him.
but who were now sleeping In shall
low graves. lingering on beds Of pain.
or scattering back to their homes a.
syreckags drifting from the vortex Of
the "far flung battle line"
Four years Of incessant battling
with . foe Of finest mettle had also
burned out all the dross and the weak
lings. and moulded and tempered that
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Corps. which he had wakened to its
strength. and fashioned in the forge
of war into the mightiest mounted
force that ever drew saber. He had
been rushed of to the Rio Grande. to
throttle an exotic Empire planted in
Mexico by Napoleon III. who counted
US Of too little worth. Sheridan was
well-spared. however, for awhile later
the imported Emperor was taken out
and shot
Cavalry Led BY Custer.
The Cavalry was led by such incom-
parable lieutenants as the theatric.
dashing George A. Custer. and the
quiet. gray-eyed George A. Crook.
The Second Corps. each man in its
perfectly aligned ranks prouder of his
clover leaf badge than of a peerage in
the United Kingdom, was led by An
drew A. Humphreys. an ideal Ameri-
can soldier and corps commander.
The Fifth Corps. whose Maltese
Cross had badged the dead in the fore
front Of every line of battle of the
Army Of the Potomac, was led by tall,
slender. knightly, Charley Griffin,
who had four years before entered
the Corps as an enthusiastic young
battery captain, and was now wearing
the double stars of a mator-general
well earned in more than a score of
hard-fought battles.
Those who on breast or cap wore a
Greek Cross as a proud armorial bear
ing were the men who had followed
the leonine John Sedgwick, until his
character had become theirs. They
were led by tall, precise. formal Hora-
ito g. Wright. an Engineer Oficer all
through. But he could drop his
theorems and triangulations with re-
markable quickness when the bugle
called. and hurl the Sixth Corps like
an avalanche to break the backbone
Of the Confederacy at Petersburg, or
smash the heads Of Lees columns at
Sailors Creek.
The Ninth Corps-"Burnside's Ge-
ography Class"-which had carried
its cannon and anchor badge from
Roanoke Island to the Antietam, and
then to Vicksburg and East Tennessee,
to return to the Army Of the Potomac
for the Wilderness and the siege Of
Petersburg, was led by another En-
gineer Omcer. John @. Parke. with
the memory Of the gallant work Of the
Corps4at Fort Steadman only q few
weeks old.
The finest array Of light artillery
then In the world came by under COM
mand OF tall. swarthy Henry ]. Hunt.
a devout believer that Providence was
ON the side that had the most cannon
and worked them to the best advan-
tage.
Many of the loved and trusted lead
ers now belonged to history. The bril-
liant Kearny and the steadfast Stevens
had fallen At Chantilly. in sight Of the
Capital they were defending. Reno
had died It South Mountain as his
Corps had reached the crest It was
assaulting. Mansfield and Richardson
pasDed into the beyond st Antistam.
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The poet INLAND sang:
Take. o. boatman. thrice thy fee
Take. give it willingly:
For, invisible to thee.
Spirits twain have crossed with me"
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NOT m e re y
spirits I W al n ,
b ut spiri I S
in scores and in
battalions will
march with every
gray and bent vet
eran in the Grand
Review on Penn
sylvania Avenue
in Washington on
Wednesday. Sep
TENDER %, 1918.
The parade of the
Grand Army vet
Grams along this
historic thorough
fare a half CEN
fury after the
Snacfacrlor "a
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names went down together on the
enlistment roll.
Fully as alive are those who after
touching elbows with him throughout
all the trials and dangers Of years of
terrible war, marched shoulder for the
last time in the triumphal pageant of
May 1924. 1865.
Then had come a change as marvel
Gus as that which four years before
had transformed the uncouth coun-
try boys into veterans surprising
those Of Caesars legions.
The magic wand Of peace laid a
dissolving touch upon the bands of
steel forged in ,a.e fires Of battle.
The firm-knit companies and regi-
ments melted away into the broad
level sea Of American citizenship.
The boys who had bearded into men
University Of Destruction at once be-
came potent factors Of peace and up
building.
Four Presidents Of the United States
came from among them. They sat in
the august Supreme Court and filled
the Senate and House of Representa-
tives, governors. judges. eloquent
preachers Of the Gospel, skilled ply
sicians. presidents and professors
Of colleges. merchants and man
ufacturers. seemingly. without num-
Der came from among lads who had
gone straight from the little red school
house to a four-years' course at the
fiery front.
They built the great railroads across
the continent, they transformed the
savage haunted wilderness west of the
Mississippi into mighty states filled
with homes. schools and churches.
This momentous work was never
too absorbing to prevent their paus-
ing in it from time to time to gather
with their comrades in the glad old
equality Of the camp and the march,
in the meetings OF the Grand Army
Of the Republic. There the robed
minister and the dignified Judge be-
came once more 'Comrade Bill" and
"Comrade Jim" to those who were
giving their years to building up farms
and following useful trades.
May Be Last Reunion.
AT the forthcoming Encampment
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Remnant Of Victorious Host That Marched On
Pennsylvania Avenue At the Close
of the Civil War.
Veterans Of the Grand Army Will Again Pass In
Review At Encampment AtNational CAPITAL.

BY COL JOHN McELROY PAST SENIOR COMMANDER N
A. r.
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AT the forthcoming Encampment
the remnants Of that mighty army
which passed In grand review before
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