Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-03-10
FOREIGN WAR
VETERANS TO HOLD
ENCAMPMENT

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Delegates to the State encamp-
ment to be held at Sterling, ILL.,, June
%, % and "a, 1922, will be elected at
the next regular meeting of the Lieut..
Ennis G. Stillwell Post No. $50. of
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.
s., Monday evening, March 6, at 8
o'clock, in the Post hall, third floor,
Champaign National Bang building,
No. Is Main street, Champaign, as
announced by Post Commander A. v.
Wilbome. Let all members be pres
ent at this meeting.
Plans for the encampment are as
follows:
Three big days and two sleepless
nights u WHIST ths pramoters promise
the lncampment will be, and all of
their plans are being made toward
that end. There will be free boxing
matches on the streets of the city;
six bands will furnish music day and
night, and there win also be concerts
by the massed bands under the direc-
ton of Earl E. Holdridge, director of
the Sterling Military band.
Outstanding among the many free
attractions which will provide enter
tainment for delegates and visitors
will be the celebrated Sterling Lady
Zouaxes, champions of the world on
the 10-foot wall, who have also the
distinction of giving the longest silent
drill ever attempted by any drill
team. These skillful young ladies
will appear at various times during
, the three days of activities.
The list of speakers for the en-
campment includes the names of men
dill Mccormick; Congressman John
C. Mckenzie, ranking member of the
House committee of Military affairs;
Oscar E. Carlstrom, Commander-in-
Chief of the United Spanish War
Veterans, and Gen. George Bell, Jr.,
Commanding the 9Th Corps Army
Area, u. s. A., have accepted invita-
tions to attend and address the ex-
service men, while invitations have
been sent to. President Warren G..
Harding and Gen. John J. Pershing.
Robert G. .Woodside of Pittsburgh,
Pa, Chief of the Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars has been in
vited to attend the encampment, and
Department officers of the organiza-
ton have signified their intention of
attending the convention.
An outstanding feature of the
three-days meeting will be the dedica-
ton of Friday afternoon to the Unit
ed Spanish War Veterans. At that
time all activities of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars will be suspended in
honor of the Boys of '98, who will
dedicate bronze tablet from the u.
S. S. Maine" and a captured Span
ish cannon, taken by American troops
at San Juan Hill.
An attractive spot in the city has
been selected for this memorial to
the Veterans of the Spanish War
and the exercises of dedication will
be most elaborate. The arrangements
for the U. S. w. v. celebration are in
the hands of Gus Hanson, Charles
Johnson, and Wesley Yingling.
Friday night will be "Cootie night"
with Grand Seam Squirrel James A.
Wright of Chicago, in charge, and a
spectacular parade will be feature.
Every agency in Sterling is CO.
operating with the Veterans of For
eign Wars in arranging for the en-
campment, the Sterling Association
of Commerce, representing the manu-
featuring, business and professional
interests of the city, having taken
charge of the general arrangements
to draw at least $4,000 people to
Sterling during the three days. An
executive committee from the Assoc
iation, composed of Burt ]. Sneed, NJ.
d. John, and Major Harold Warf is
cooperating with the officers of Bert
E. Brown, Post No. 326, V. F. W.,
who are: Fred G. Allai, commander;
L. d. Morgridge, adjutant, and Rus
sell A. Burleigh, chairman Of conven-
ton committee.
The interest of all veterans Of
Illinois will be centered in Sterling on
June 22, 23 and "a, and hundreds of
the "boys" will journey here TO par
take of the countless good things to
be provided.