Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1909 — G. A. R. VETERANS ARE NOW IN ENCAMPMENT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

G. A. R. VETERANS ARE NOW IN ENCAMPMENT

Ketcham of Indiana Enters Race For Commander-In-Chief. Salt Lake City, Utah, Aug. 10.—The first day of the forty-third national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic found 30,000 veterans and visitors quartered in this city with the

prospect of having their number Increased to 50,000 by tomorrow. Drum and fife corps paraded the streets and at the various headquarters

bands furnished martial music. Campfires were addressed by Com-mander-in-Chlef Nevius, Senior Vice Commander-In-Chief J. Kent Hamilton, Past Commander-in-Chlefs Charles G. Burton and Eli Torrance, Mrs. Mary E. Gilman, national president of th® Woman’s Relief Corps and Genevieve Longfield Lane, national president of the Ladies of the G. A. R. The fight between St. Louis and Atlantic City for the encampment of 1910 Is to be warmly contested. For commander-in-chief, Governor Van Sant of Minnesota and W. L. Ketcham of Indiana continue to be the active candidates. Friends of L. T. Dickerson of Illinois urged him to seek the honor, but he declined. In consequence a sentiment in his behalf for 1911 is being developed. Every state of the late Confederacy has a delegation here.

GENERAL H. M. NEVIUS.