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was mm'mpicnicSpanish-American War Soldiers Coming to Corning.EXPECT DISTINGUISHED GUESTS■ 4 ' v 'Meetlno-WIII Be Very Informal as No Set Program Has-Been Prepared for Day.* Next Sunday, September i2tb, there 1 is to bo a big picnic of Spanish-American war veterans and their families! in porcine. The Mg time will be held at th trCGtr gr o un d S7 i f -1 h trh«=. -is favorable, and the weather man! has promised that it will be. It is! expected that alt. of the veterans oil that war who re si deTw ithl jj~a~~rjxd rus -j of 50 miles of Coming will be here foriUj*_€o°(l time. ’\ I se^ program has boeTi Arrangedy; [ | everything will bo VBry Informal— Just a good time and a good visit*. It is expected that Major General Tin-\iey, of. Council Bluffs, and Congress*13 man Lloyd Thurst on, of Osceola; hotli . I Spanish war veterans, will be preieB*.• addition to the above -mentioned 'gentlemen we have •■o»7•own‘ ScEaior.; 1 f Turner and Co!. Stanley, distinguished ’ , soldiers In the regiment that went to . the Philippines in the only war that; was ever fought for the cause of hu-| .manity as Its primary motive. jj The members of the'local Spanish! war veterans post have been busy during the week making preparations fori the big time Sunday. On two former! occasions the Adams, county veterans ’ .have planned to entortuiu this picnic! Tn rty—udileh—vIsU-tt-varioua~cu3jnnii.es. in„L.this section - .of the state; hut oni‘ j both occasions the rain Interfered : ■hffJHi automobile traveling to auch .an] extent that it prevented tlie gather-!} 5nss This year the local men are ihopeful that Old Sol wilt smile onj .thorn, and that there shall be an un-.1' ;usually large gathering to make up; ■for the two former failures. ■] Tho:| gentlemen are assisted by the women's - P? Gau-:rSpunfo h-Ara e riean^wh veterans: q fll j A dnm g county; --ThiAV^urnor. j Stanley, J. A. Co a a way, SlT T*.: Gau-j• j tbler, Ford -E wait, W. B. Stephenson,! j Bort Cassel, Joe Kane. George- ©ecTc, j __W. TL Durkee, all of Corning; Ben (DagseU,a' DTlTeere, \Yrrrnmr^THSte7all of iMt- Etna; Cassius Dawson. EI-liner Fresh our, both of Brooks; W. E. ■j TCecver. Hugh Keever. S. ;A. Yeadou. LEsanR. BrandU jiil of Prescott tra Dawson, of Washing ton. T3~Cr.~Ts~TiTr I ways reckoned as one of our boys, j having enlisted In this county, j Ford Evatt Is commander of the j local post, and S. A. Yeadou. of Prcs-icott, is vice commander.
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Adams County Union Republican
Corning, Iowa, US
Wed, Sep 08, 1926
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