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WELCOME, * OLD VETERANS.The Boys In Blue Having AGay Time On the Old Camp Ground.WAR TIME STORIES TOLDPeople From Every Section of the State Mingling With the Soldier Boys of ’61 and ’98.NINETEENTH REUNION.A s we go to press the Nineteenth A; n lal Reunion of the survivors of the Civil and Spanish-American wars is in progress. Peo pie from almost every section of the State are here meeting their friends and comrades, whom thev have not met since last reunion. Several are missing from the ranks, having passed to the beyond during the past year. The crowd is variously estimated to be between 4,000 to 6,000 and each train arriving is crowded to its full capacity. The reunions at Engh^’ have become a fixed affair and are looked to from one year to the next as the time and place of meeting old £rieuds„f otfc far and near, and this year is no exception to the rule. English, as always on thesd occasions, is decorated from center to circumference in honor ofthe heroes of two wars.Red lemonade, orange cider, etc. is everywhere in evidence. The steam swing with its melodious music, and the 10c shows are also here. Mode: Knowland's martial band, of Leavenworth, is here with ‘‘The Girl I Left Behind Me,” e’c., and all in all it is a repetition of former years and a time looked forward to by our citizens s 4 eek of general good time r 'g. All honor to the oldI wore the blue and wegladly dcome them among us.The following program has been rendered:Wednesday.so:oo a. m. March to the grounds, i Music.Welcome Address__________ Comrade Wm. A. Ellis.Dinner.1:00 p. m. Invocation.Address_________Chas, T. Brown.Music.Short talks by various parties. Supper.Thursday.9:00 a. m. Music.Address Capt. John Hammond.Address_____Judge T. B. Buskirk.Address_____Capt. Ed. Hostetter.Dinner.i:oo p. m. Music. *Address. - .Capt. Wm. E. English.Address ..Jerry L. SuddartbMusic.Address...........Wm. E. Cox.Supper.The program for to-day and tomorrow, is as follows:To-Day.9:00 a. m. Music,Address....Capt. W. W. Kendall.Address.......John H. Weathers.Address__________Hon. John Benz.Dinner.1 :oo a. m. Music.Address Hon. Wm. T. Zenor.Address_______Judge C. W. Cook.Music.Supper.To-Morrow.'9:00 a. m. Music.Address...Comrade I. S. Pittman. Address. .Comrade M. R. Tucker. Dinner.1:00 p.m. Miscellaneous Business. Singing and handshaking.Breaking up camp.The addresses were all eloquent and appropriate to the occasion. The saddest hour of the whole week will be the shaking hands and breaking up camp to-morrow afternoon, when the old boys wiT! shake the hand of some comrade for the last time. Taking the gathering all in all it is a grand affair, and we hope to have you all here with us again next August.Ivan Goldman and Miss Mae Smith, of Patoka township, were united in marriage at the court house Tuesday afternoon, Eld. A. J. Goodman officiating.The case of the State against Leslie Bunch, the boy who shot young Satterfield, was called here Monday. The case whs continued to September 4th, and young Bunch released on bond iu the sum of $350. Bunch claims self defense. He is represented by Jerry I, Suddarth. Justice Thomas Brown will hear the case.House and lot for sale on Main street in the town of English. Lot 70 feet front. Crawford Co. Beal Estate Loan Company.
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English News
English, Indiana, US
Fri, Aug 18, 1905
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