Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1888 — GRAND ARMY BOYS. [ARTICLE]

GRAND ARMY BOYS.

There are seventy-six G. A. R., I in' Kentucky. I The National Home at Leav » I Kan., cost 1250,000. I Quantrelle, the guerrilla le, I born at Canal Dover, Ohio. A" fl The American soldier is 1 clothed of any soldier in the vi fl The soldiers’ Home for n I Washington had, Bept. 30, 99 , -fl Gilbert Head, of Danforth, ,1 sioned veteran of the war of J be 100 vears old Feb. 9, 1888. : I The Dspartment of Massach I A. R , reports the sum of $5 fl expended in charity last year., fl The life and services of Maj I George H. Thomas are being ■ book form by Colonel Don Piej I Senator Palmer, of Michigai I sist the posts in Detroit in bui I A. R. hall to the amount of $1 I General W. T. Sherman, it it I not talk politics, usually smop I chunky cigar, and wears a sh The Post of Concordia, K| | the rifle used by Boston Corb> fl he gave John Wilkes Booth t, I dose of lead. I Thirty eight thousand and twt I seven dollars and seventy cents was exj pended by the Grand Army in Pennsylvania last year. The Senate Committee on Pension! consists of Senators Davis, Blair, Sawyer Paddock, Quay, Wilson of Maryland Turpie and Blodgett. The fair recently given by John M Bell Post and Corps at Washington Court House, Ohio, resulted in an addi tion of $428 t 3 the relief fund. The State Soldiers’ Home at Erie,Pa, is full, and arrangements are being made to increase the capacity so as tc admit double the present number of in mates.