Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1887 — GRAND ARMY BOYS. [ARTICLE]

GRAND ARMY BOYS.

California has 142 G. A. R pofcii*. Post No. 523, Madison, lull., wgv mustered Nov. 10.' There are twentv-five veterans in ibe> Vermont Soldiers’ Home. General O. O. Howard has been lecturing in San Francisco on the bat It* or Missionary R dgt*. rAfomiadecif Dover, g 11, at a recent canSpfire said that tie could smell the odor of hazed beans when eight miles away. . A movement to purchase the battlefield of Snilohis being made, and Grand Army posts will he asked to aid the project. Frank P. Blair Post, St. Louis, has raised a fund of $2 500, ami expects to send 650 comrades to attend the next National Encampment, The Soldiers’ and -Sailors’ Orphan Home at Xenia, Ohio, has 675 children as inmates. Six hundred and fifteen applicants for admission are on file. If transportion facilitierare favorable 5,000 ex-Union soldiers living in Kansas will attend the National Encampment at Columbus, Ohio, in 1888. Lincon Relief Corps, Sail Francisco, Cal., recently held a bazar, netting $482 90. Other corps in California holding bazars have met with great success. John C. Comfort, Harrisbuig, Pa., has in his possession the handcuffs worn by John Brown, the hero of Harper’s Ferry when he was hanged at Charlestown, Va., Dec. 2, 1859. The only monument erected by the Sons of Veterans in honor of ex-Union soldiers is located at Salem, Mass. It cost $6 000, the money being raised by Colonel Merritt Camp of that city. Department Commander Edward 8. Solomon, of California, on his return trip to San Francisco last month, was given a royal reception by the posts, relief corps and camps of Sods of Veterans.

Theodore Winthrop Camp No. SI, of Chelsea, Mass., was recently mustered with 118 charter members. The Grand Army presented the camp with a fine silk flag, guidons, aud an elegant sword to each of the officers. The Department of California, W. R C., for the third quarter ending Sept. 39 reported as spent in relief, 81,384 85; turned over to posts, $l5B 15; on hand In relief funds, $1,214 41; total membership, 2,521; total gain, 212.