Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-05-20
Nebraska
VETERANS ASK FOR
ENCAMPMENT HERE
State Gathering of Grand Army Men
Passes Resolutions Urging Move
to Get National Meet.
HONOR PAID TO GENERAL DODGE

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MINDEN, Neb.. May 1S.--CSpecial Tele-
gram.)-A million-dollar rain did not
campen the ardor of the 700 delegates
and visitors who are attending the thirty
ninth annual encampment of the Depart-
ment OF Nebraska Grand Army OF the
Republic.
Delegates today passed resolutions call
ing on Omaha to make an effort to Sc
cure the national encampment.
Election of officers will take place to-
morrow. For department commander.
George c. Humphrey of Lyon post No. IL.
Grand Island, is making an energeti>
fight.
Four towns are In the field for the next
encampment. Hastings, Lexington, York
and Aurora.
Tuesday, the opening, brought 500
visitors and the program for the day was
given in the afternoon. The campfire
last night. when Commander-in- Chief
Palmer was the principal speaker, was
teld In the Auditorium and all the pa
triotic orders were represented
Rain Prevents Parade.
Rev. L. r. Welsh. acting for Mayor
Watt. welcomed the encampment, and
responses were made by Department.
Commander o. II. Durand OF the Cram
Army. President Of the Noman's Relief
Corps Mrs. Addie Hough, President of the
Ladies of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie Mrs. Carrie F. Peters and Division
Commander of the Sons of Veterans r.
u. Strother.
Mrs. Sarah z. Fulton, national presi-
cent OF the Woman's Relief corps, Is also
attending the encampment. Because of
the two inches of rainfall the streets were
impossible for the parade and the side
walks were utilized.
The citizens of Minden had made elab-
crate preparations and the decorations
are equal to those at any former encamp-
ment. Five thousand extra lights illum-
mate the street at night.
The feature of Wednesday afternoon
was the presentation of a silk flag to the
Minden High school by the Woman's Re
lief corps and also the presentation OF a
picture of Abraham Lincoln to the school
ty the Ladies of the Grand Army.
Resolution for Omaha.
Flags were also presented to each of
the sixty-nine school districts OF Kearney
mercisl club. In the afternoon the BUSH
ness session of the Grand Army was
held in the opera house and the follow
ihg resolution favoring Omaha for the
next national encampment was unani-
mously adopted:
To the national encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic: Recognlz-
ing the united efforts Of our comrades of
the city of Omaha in their laudable ef-
forts to secure the 1915 national encamp-
that being the semi-centennial year of
our organization. and will result in the
largest patriotic meeting ever held upon
the American continent; and, further.
Recognizing the fact that the city of
Omaha il located in the central state of
the union surrounded by the richest and
most extensive agricultural country in the
world and with her population of 10000
people has become the metropolis Of the
aSsommodations which esspy VIII place aO'i
in tn crank OF great convention cities,
and beyond all this we recognize her
with the true western spirit; therefore,
be IT,
Asks Open Days.
Resolved. That the department Of the
Nebraska Grand Army of the Republic
endorse the efforts of our comrades and
ask the city of Omaha to open her doors
and invite the national encampment to
meet within her borders in 1916; and.
We pledge ourselves to do all within our
power 10 assist in securing this great
meeting. ever mindful of the fact that
1t will make the Greater Omaha even
greater than before.
We recognize the fact that just across
the river lives q modest man whose serV-
Ices We're invaluable during the civil war
and whose energy and enterprise have
made him more than any living man the
leading spirit In the upbuilding of the
great northwest. 1t was he who conferred
the trend of commerce to the city OF
Omaha. 1t was he more than any other
man who encouraged our comrades to
come west. making condition that has
caused Nebraska to become so great
Compliment General Dodge.
We refer to Major General Grenville NJ.
eral now living of the civil war, but who
is recognized as a great empire builder;
and In hts honor and in honor OF our
comrades Of this nation do we earnestly
request that favorable action may be
taken by the commercial bodies of that
great and prosperous city to not only
honor themselves, but to honor the state
from this department to the 1915 national
encampment session In Washington are
hereby requested TO use all honorable
efforts 10 bring TO Nebraska the 1916 ses-
sion of the national encampment.
One of the features OF the afternoon
session and in fact of the whole en-
eampment. is the interest and enthusiasm
shown by the Grand Army for the Sons of
Veterans. and resolutions have been pre-
scented to be acted on tomorrow looking
for much closer amalgamation of the