Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1911 — SOCIETY TO FETE TROOPS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SOCIETY TO FETE TROOPS

Entertainment Planned for Office ; at Chicago Tournament. One day of the National Military Tournament, to be held in Grant Park, Chicago, July 23 to 3v, will be Grand Army of the Republic day, when the Cook county veterans of the war will be the guests of the tournament. The special feature of the day, of course, will be the parade and drill of a full company of veterans. Other special days will be Association of Commerce day and Govenor’s day. On the latter day Governor Deneen will review the assembled guardsmen. There is to be the usual social side to the entertainment of Chicago’s mil-

itary visitors. The officers and their wives from Fort Sheridan and the officers coming from other states are already receiving invitations to numerous affairs to be given in their honor. Dinners, dances, theater parties and other entertainments are being planned. According to the precedent established last year most of the prominent clubs in Chicago will throw open their doors to the visiting officers and everything will le done to make their visit in Chicago enjoyable. The officers of the regular army who attendee) the tournament last year were entertained in such a hospitable manner that all of them were anxious to accept the invitation of the Association of Commerce to attend this year’s pageant. Owing to the mobilization of the troops along the Rio Grande, however. Secretary of War Stimson decided that It wsi advisable to permit only the from Fort Sheridan to take part in the tournament.

The Twenty-setenth infantry and the Fifteenth cavalry, ar per the orders of the war secretary, are now preparing to enter Grant park. Both of these regiments are quartered at Fort Sheridan. Besides the regular soldiers from Fort Sheridan. Colonel Gignilliat, commandant of cadets at the Culver Military academy, has accepted the Invitation of the Association of Commerce and notified Tournament Manager Young that he will bring 300 cadets to the encampment. He will also bring with him the famous Black Horse troop of cavalry.

The Mess Call Answered.