The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-02
Sons of Veterans.

Gen. George H. Thomas Camp No. IL
| held its regular monthly meeting last
| Friday night and elected Raymond
Wolff and Edward T. Byrnes as dele
gates and and w. Wolff and F. l..
Marsden as alternates to the MARYLAND
Division. Sons of Veterans. Encamp-
ment. 1t was unanimously voted to
favor the election OF Past Commander
Charles NJ. Overacker, of Lincoln No.
/ ?, as commander of the Maryland Di-
vision at the division encampment to
be held in May. After the business
session there was a social hour. at
which members of Thomas Post. G.
A r., Woman's Relief Corps. were in
vited guests. Refreshments were
served by a committee consisting of
the younger members of the camp. 1t
was voted to include a social hour at
the conclusion of each meeting of the
camp hereafter
Gustave E. Beckman. of William B,
!, Gushing Camp. No. 80. and chairman
of Terminal Station flag committee,
who has been i'll with grip. is able to
report for duty.
Past Commander Harvey V Speel-
man, national press correspondent of
the Sons of Veterans, u. s. A, and
j. Clinton Hiatt, junior vice comman-
der of William B. Cushing Camp, No.
2. assistant national press correspon-
dent, will visit Garfield Camp at Bal
timore tomorrow evening.
Corbin Birch. secretary of Gen.
George H. Thomas Camp, No. IL, is
chairman of a special committee to
arrange for the annual excursion to
be given to Marshall Hall in June.
Past Commander Charles NJ. Over
acker, of Lincoln Camp, No. 2, this
city. has been announced as a can
didate for commander of the Maryland
Division. and his name will be pre-
sented for that office at the encamp-
ment to be held in Baltimore May
1924.
Commander Richard F. Miller, of
the Maryland Division, has announced
the organization of a new camp of
Sons of Veterans, with a membership
of forty-seven at Hagerstown. This
! camp is auxiliary to Reno Post, No.
3. of the Department of the Potomac,
Grand Army of the Republic.
Application has been approved by
Division Commander Miller for a new
camp of Sons of Veterans, U. S. A, at
Moundsville, West Virginia. This
camp will be attached to the Maryland
Division.
Applications have been received for
the organization of new camps at
Cameron, New Msrtinsville, Sisters
willie, Wheeling and Elkins, W. Wa
All Of these places are within the
Jurisdiction of the Division of Mary
land.
large delegation of members of
Washington Camps of Sons of Veter-
ans, U. s.. A, attended a meeting of
Garfield Camp. in Baltimore. Monday
evening.
Col. A. E. B. Stephens, commander
in-chief, Sons of Veterans. U. S. A, will
| make a tour Of the eastern part Of the
country early in April. He will attend
the Massachusetts and New Hampshire
Division encampments, at Boston and
Concord respectively, and it is probable
that on returning to his home in Gin
cinnati, Ohio, he will stop of and make
the Division Of Maryland an official yisfe
This may be in connection with the/Ap-
pamattox Day. celebration. to be held
The national encampment OF the Sons
| of Veterans for 1916 will be held in Kan
sas City, NO., the week of August %,
in conjunction with the encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic and
| afhliating patriotic organizations.