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SOUTH HAVEN. (MICHIGAN)' DAILY TRIBUNEamongI in th« Afeboma Senatoriti rare, former ihown with counsel who will aid him in ul opponent. Heflin charge* that Sena* •ampalgn expenditures and pointed out for unseating hi* rival on that account, ampton, Thomas Helflin and Horace C. la. Photo was made at conference inKington, U. C.Number Seven1 I1Continued from Pagei!II j bers were:III -William Shull. M T Dyer. J. M’a-msIs-■tomaintain them organhration.Anniversaries usually are wry joyous occasions, he said. and golden armiwrsaries are dooWy so. hut the real value of an anniversarydepends upon that which it com-asemoiates. This occasion, he said, celebrated the completion offifty s'ears of constructive achieve- * ment in peace-time citizenship, j The Grand Army of the Republic, said Rev. Mr. Large, had a three- , fold purpose, viz., ;To promote and continue the spirit of fellowship arising from comm an service in n great causeTo tare for the needy' their comrades, andTo teach the highest principlesof patriotism.Rev. Mr Large in elaboratingUpon these purposes and the manner in which they had been fulfiJi-td. spoke with deeper appreciationand sympathy because His fatherhad been a soldier m the Civil War and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He had. accordingly. been familiar with the work of the latter. o well as with thehistory of the war. from his boyhooddaysThe anniversary was math' the more notable, the Speaker added, because it was held in the Pant’s own quarter* in a beautiful public building, made possible, largely by the generosity of die Post in j donating the land upon which the» Library building stood. The shrinkage in the number of members since that gift was made and the home provided was, he said, a striking commentary upon the brevity of life.Wlrnd been told since coming to the dinner that Henry Spaulding, who diedTuesday evening at his home inHartford, at the age of 89. was the mustering officer that enrolled Zach Chandler Post into the Dc-re;Mitchell, D. F Feegles, J R Lynn,Jerome H*!e, A. W Earle, C. H.Hastings, Sylvester Hosner, Thomas Lewis, J E Wilcox, Charles Delnmere, W G Triece, E D BeebeNone of these is living. Othern.m»s h»« b(—n «ld«l to our (tb. p^, who hnrf ^ ^roll from tiRio tt* t„„, until now ,h„ hndI we have had W2S names 'partmcnt of Michlrmn. 0. A R., just fifty years lie fort*The names of sonic members ofinteof whom have passed on, with * exception of nine, who apt* good standing, but only five are r5 able to attend plt;*st meetingsed ^ one comrade by deaththis last year, Comrade WilliamWick: of Covert remainingJones, W. W. Buys, Elisha Gregg and Nelson R Wood. ol Covert: Al-suggested to him, said the speaker Among them were the first Commander, Herrick Hodges, Capt W S, Bradley and Capt. J. S. Hfcks, the two members of highest rank attuned in war service: Dr. W GbernanasTriece, a charter member and longThe names of the f „ ,__. . . _„ fa practicing physician here Jamescomrades are: 1, F.Ilt; bert Nealley and R. T. Pierce, South alt;! [Haven: A E Van Pelt andUncleiJohnasLacotnnrv C. DowMartin, the song leader;James Holds worth. the Post _comedian; Alherl W. Earle, mice poNtmasier: Georg* W Brown andRobert Payne, who served thecapacitiesK,— ■»—i. mmm* :**Go«nr*de*, as I look back over this P081 room, today, and note thevacant chairs that were formerly ( , r \k”‘ tliw\ w ~ L *or . , i . * ol the $190,000 Patteracm*Moreheadm f occupied by my eefnradft*, m-of 1Chime* Heard Ilf MillChapel Hill, S. C. (UP).— Chimesbti-p-thought corn***, to me, that time is fleeting and that our raCe is nearlyrun.Comander Jom-s recalled that r when the reports of the Posts in| Michigan were compiled on June n I, 1931, preparatory to the annual I- | state encampment, there were 97 Posts in good standing, with 656 members Thirteen of these- Postswere being maintained with the help of the Women* Relief Corps, and on-* by the Spanish War Veter-n [arts, all the others being carried on st , by the Civil War veterans themselves.The commander voiced the appreciation of himself and comrades for the unflagging support afforded by the Women’s Relief Corps, andby the sons and the daughters of the veterans, and other patriotic g .citizens, in the other affiliated or-tlower, dedicated at the Uni-»i% of North Carolina Thanks-ng Day, are audibJ* m Durham, rules awav, according to resident* hut citvIStei-vB,•Saoganizations.In conclusion, he said:' Yes, friends, our comrades have i nearly ail passed over, but Zach Chandler Post still lives and will continue to live as long as there is one Grand Army Comrade to fill the chair.”WHY NOT INVESTWITH $10.00YOUR PAYMENTS rRev. Gordon C Speer, after con -gratuhiting the members of the Pont and commenting upon the unupvc-f ness of the event being celebrated, 111 turned to the large picture hanging Ht back of the Commander's chair of 120 members of the Post in 1896 and said that picture in itself told a ftory at once solemn and stirringINTERESTDO YOU KNOViiitB(*»He continued with a talk uponqualities of fellowship, fortitude w fixedness of purpose, and huth, a*DO YOU KNOV- *rfmanifested by thetheirwar service and in the year* ofpeace since they had accomplishedis their task of saving the Union frum disunion. iDO YOU KNOV»'*} Mayor Alfred D Dubuissoo, who**» *was called away by pressing civirtfduties, spoke by proxy and added bis felicitation* upon the completion of fifty years of the Pott . ?*I j He spoke in appreciation of the * {service* during the Civil War of Senator Zat bariah Chandler whlt;y*e name the Grand Army Post and itsaffiliated orders bear, and who was!on* erf the central figures in the poli- ‘ tical struggleg of the Civil W ir ! 1 ’ and reconstruction periods He re-DO YOU KNOW, called that a recent distinguishedof Abraham Lincolnli biographer athad expresM-d the opinion that theservices of Zachanah Chandler to the Union cause had been undervalued and under-appreciated i Mrs Albert Nealley gave, with deep feeling, a most appropriate reading, ’The Grand Army Post.R*v Samuel W Large, after recalling some of the statistics of P*Bt membership given by Commander Jones, said he doubted if such an event could be duplicated in any city m the country the size of South Haven. In thi* connection, he recalled the work done by (hof Women's Relief Corps, not akqne in their special field of *#r-
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South Haven Daily Tribune
South Haven, Michigan, US
Mon, Dec 14, 1931
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