Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24
300 SIXTEENERS
ATTEND REUNION
Select Pittsburgh For Next
Meeting; Name Harris =
burgers Officers

More than 800 members of the Six
composed Of children of soldiers of
tho Civil War educated in soldiers
orphans schools of the state, attended
the biennial reunion of the organ
ization in this city to-day.
Business sessions were held during
the morning. with the election of
officers. and the selection of a place
for the sessions in 1918. Pittsburgh
was chosen from four cities.
officers elected were: President. G..
w. Givler, Tyrone; vice-president,
west, Miss Maude Kletter, Pittsburgh;
east, Mrs. Irene Brenneman. Harris
burg; recording secretary, Mrs. Laura
A. Keefer, Millersburg; corresponding
secretary. c. Day Rudy, Harrisburg
financial secretary, Jacob A. Gramm,
Harrisburg; treasurer, D.. w. Cotterel,
Harrisburg.
rs the Camp Curtin Memorial Meth
odist Church. now under construction,
is not near enough completion, the
ceremonies for the dedication of the
S~ixteeners' memorial were postponed.
Tonight a big banquet will be held in
tho Chestnut Street Auditorium. To-
morrow some of the members of the
association will take a trip to the Sol
diers' Orphans School at Scotland,
l o. Wills OIIlSES are pldIIllllS a ITlD
to Hershey. The reunion will end to-
morrow.
Members of the societies of the
McAlisterville and Whitehall schools
met yesterday afternoon.
Tonight at the banquet music will
be furnished by the Updegrove orches-
ira and the following will make short
addresses: c. Day Rudy, Professor
William c. Reem, retiring president;
the Rev. B. H. Hart, Francis A. Fry,
William E. Lemon, Clyde E. Brown,
DR.. George S. Morrow. Mrs. Francis
Graham Ferris. George Kammerer.
Guy Eadie, Judge John w. Kephart,
Kephart and Judge Thomas ]. Ford,
of Pittsburgh.
Opening Session
Almost 200 members of the Associa-
ton registered yesterday. The ninth
reunion of the society of McAlisterville
Soldiers Orphans school vas held
in the afternoon, opening at 2.So
o'clock, with Vice-President E. S. Ar
mold, of Washington, D. c., in charge.
McAlisterville was chosen as the place
for the next meeting of this branch,
and the following officers were re-
elected: Francis A. Fry, OF Newport,
president; E. S. Arnold. of Washing
ton, vice-president; G.. w. Givler. Of
Tyrone, secretary.
The White Hall reunion was held at
Camp Hill. on the site of the old
White Hall school. The following Off
GERS were elected for the ensuing two
years: G.. H. Kammerer. this city,
president; Clarence Moret. Mechanics
burg, vice-president; Elmer Moret,
Mechanicsburg, financial secretary;
Mrs. Stella Fickes, Newport, CORE
spending secretary.
Speakers at the McAlisterville So
ciety meeting were Mrs. Francis Fer
ris, c. Day Rudy, Maggie Crooks,
Jacob Gramm and John Bender.
Last night a get-together meeting
was held in Chestnut street hall where
the following program was given:
Vocal solo. Mrs. Irene Brenneman;
piano duet. the Misses Lenhart; read
ing, Miss May Limbaugh; piano solo,
Miss Ruth WEIGH; reading, Miss Helen
Sheesley; vocal solo. Mrs. Maude Min
gle; reading, Miss Grace Lenhart;
vocal solo, Lewis L. Lenhart; address,
es, by the following members: Ed
ward S. Arnold, Washington, D. c.;
William E.. Lemon, Woodbury. Heights,
Pa; Mrs. Laura Keefer. Millersburg,
and c. Day Rudy. this city, Jacob
A. Gramm, financial secretary, of this
city, presided.