Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1899 — TO FORM A NEW GRAND ARMY. [ARTICLE]

TO FORM A NEW GRAND ARMY.

Convention of Spanish-American War Veterans Called. A convention to consist of two delegates from each company that either served in the late Spanish-American war, or was organized with the view of being mustered into service, has been called to meet at a Washington, D. C., Sept. 4, 5 and 6. The object of this convention, as stated in the circular issued by the executive committee of the “Proposed Spanish-American War Veterans’ Association,” is to organize those who took part in the late war, or were members of provisional companies, whose intention it was to enlist in the service for the war, into a “Grand Patriotic Fraterno-Beneficial Society, or a Grand Army of 1898, having for its object, among other things, the wiping out of sectionalism in the land, the promotion of closer relations, the fostering of a more unselfish patriotism, and the corporate effort to secure the enactment of legislation, in State and nation, In the interests ’ of soldiers, the army and navy generally.” The chairman of the executive committee of the association is Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler. The headquarters and the place of residence of its secretary, William Christopher Liller, are in Lancaster, Pa.