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Women's Section Special Features SECTION FIVE Pages lto8 VOL. XXXVII. . PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MOKNING, AUGUST 11, 1918. NO. n OREGON VETERANS OF CIVIL WAR LAY PLANS TO RECEIVE THOUSANDS OF THEIR COMRADES August 19 to 23 Will Be Week of Momentous Memories and of Momentous Meetings to Survivors of Great! American Conflict. POWERS THIRD AND YAMHILL POWERS USE YOUR CREDIT POWERS A Timely Warning Buy Your Heating Stove Early This Year Now! $1 a Week Installs Any Heater in Our Stock in Your Home Never before in the history of the heating stove business has the output of stove factories been cur tailed to the extent that it is now. The past year has seen unusual conditions brought about as the result of the war. The stove industry has been seriously affected, the demands of war having drawn heavily upon experienced labor, and stove material as well. 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The young man. now a sergeant, has been handling a tank for six weeks, but at the Isst word from him had not gone up to the front line of battle yet. Kenneth Bliom was a corporal in city, in which be had served some time. a-d went with this company when war was declared. Silver Lake Women Active. CATTLE ROCK, Wash., Aug. 8. Spe cial.) Miss Lucia Jenkins, chairman of the Woman's Council of Defense Work, organised the woman's work at Silver Lake recently. Mrs. Jack Hogan was appointed counsellor; Mrs. Joe, Peabody. Mrs. Colvlnan d Mrs. Demarest. ward captains, and Mrs. Tlppery and Mrs. J. Clouting, minute women. Aberdeen Woman Proves Sugar Not Necessary In Getting Results. ABERDEEN. Wash.. Aug. 7. (Spe cial.) An Aberdeen woman has proved that jellies and jams need not be tak en off the food list, notwithstanding ths ultimatum of the Food Administra tion in regard to sugar for such pur poses. Mrs. J. D. Hoffman, demonstrat ing the fact that "necessity is the mother of invention," proceeded to , prove that jellies and jams can be made by the use of corn syrup, as well aaTV sugar, substituting either the light or darn variety. For two boxes of loganberries a two pound can of corn syrup was used. The srup was poured over the berries and cooked until the juice began to jell. The fruit was then strained through a wire sieve, the juice poured into jelly glasses and ths berries cooked down for jam. Samples of the jelly and jam have been placed on exhibit in the Food Administrator's window in the lied Cross building. ii:&3 tiiiiiiii fif s . T-OR the year of grace 1918 Port H land s the most favored city in - America. The climax of this pre ferment, toward which the preceding months have looked with eagerness, will be attained in the midriff of Au gust, a week of momentous memories and of momentous meetings when th Grand Army of the Republic assembles for its 52d encampment from August 19th to the 23d. Men will meet again who were com rades In the bitter and glorious days of the Civil War, and who have not shaken hands since the day their old regiment furled its riddled and ragged colors becoming . merely a record in the files of the' War Department and the memorandum of memory. There'll be a great deal of persiflage that has the brand of an earlier era jests and gibes that were current in the camps of Sherman and Grant. "By cracky! of course he was at Getysburg. Wasn't he always where the bullets was thickest under the ammunition wagon T Leastwise, when he wasn't in the guardhouse!" Many Veteran in Oregon. Oregon, which had no regiment in the Civil War, but which has 64 Grand Army posts, holds many a veteran who never has attended a National encamp ment. These without doubt will find comrades (St their old regiment among the many thousands who will pour into Portland from every state in the Union For the rosters of Oregon posts read like a roll call of the Northern states, each of which gave liberally of its sons to the Union cause. The aggregate membership of the Grand Army in Oregon is 1750. In Port land are nine poBts, with a member ship of approximately 600, representing every suburb of the city. Throughout the state fully as many veterans are non-members, commonly for the reason that they live too far from established posts. It is anticipated the attendance of these will be heavy when the oppor tunity Is presented to meet and mingle with comrades of their compaigns. 3lgh School Boy In Fierce Fighting:. T. H. Stevens, of Portland, command er of the Department of Oregon, was commander of Sumner Post several terms. Mr. Stevens fought with the 124th Indiana Infantry, of the Army of the. Ohio, and served under both Gen eral Thomas and Sherman. He was 17 years of age when he enlisted, and left high school to Join the colors. He par ticipated in the fierce fighting that led to the destruction of the Confederate army under Hood at the close of the war. and was mustered out at Greens boro. N. C. C. A. Williams, Adjutant-General and Quarter-Master-General for the Depart- j went of Oregon, also of Portland, 24th Army Corps. He was In the cam paign before Richmond and Petersburg, and marched Into the former city on the morning of the rebel evacuation, April 3, 1865 which he laughingly al ludes to as "'the greatest moment of his life." Mr. Williams is now serving his 12th term as Adjutant. During the Civil War two regiments were raised In Oregon, the First Ore gon Cavalry and the First Oregon In fantry, but these were held in the state to ward against possible Indian upris lngs and seditious activities. So it chanced that the records of the Grand Army nqver bears the name of an Ore gon regiment. 1 Northern Leaders Well Known. But the Oregon of that day knew well some of the leaders of the North, and at least one very gallant gentleman of tue South for many regular Army of ficers had been stationed at Vancouver Barracks and elsewhere in the North west prior to the war. There were Grant, Sherman and Sheridan, all of whom had served at Vancouver. The Confederate officer was none other than General Pickett, who led the famous forlorn hope at Gettysburg. At the close of the war thousands of veterans turned toward the western country, seeking new homes. Many of these came to Oregon, and it was in April. 1869, in the city of Portland, that the first Grand Army post of Ore gon was established. This was Baker Post No. 1, with 58 comrades, which consolidated with Canby Post, then but a few months old, in 1873. The records show that the last meeting of these pioneer posts was held November 15, 1876. George Wright Eldest Post. Eldest of existing posts in Oregon Is George Wright Post No. 1, which has a present membership of 130. It was organized In 1878, and named in honor of General George Wright, military commandant of the Pacific Coast dur- ag the Civil War. General Wright ost his life in the sinking of the Brother Jonathan off the California coast in the early days. So far as is known there is but one charter mem ber of the post now living Van B, De Lashmutt, a former Mayor of Port- and now a resident of Spokane. C. A. Lamar Is now commander of the post ith A. C. Sloan as Adjutant. Mr. Sloan was a First lieutenant wun tne Jstn Pennsylvania Infantry at the close of the war. Sumner Post Is one of the most im portant of Portland posts, as well as econd in age. it was organized 36 ears ago and has a present member ship of 130. It was named for General V. Sumner, of tne Army ot the Po tomac. John W. Ogilbee, Adjutant, served with the 45th Iowa Infantry, while Dr. J. J. Leavitt, commander, was with the eighth Wisconsin. "Old Abe" Wisconsin's Pride. Now, the Eighth Wisconsin, as all en know, was the fighting regiment that went into battle with a living, I 1 Tillman H. Stevens, Commander of the Department of Oregon. 2C. A. Williams, Adjutant-General of the De. - partment of Oregon. 8 A. C. Sloan. Adjutant of Geornre Wright Post. Portland. 4 J. W. OKllbee, Adjutant of ' Sumner Post, Portland. 5 . J. J. Leavitt, Commander of Sumner Post, Portland, tff. G. Chambers, Past Depart ment Commander of Oregon. 7 C. A. Lamar, Commander of George Wright Pont, Portland. ('!'. F. I). McUevitt, Past Department Commander of Oregon, ft M. Evans, Commander of Llncoln-Garflrld Post, Portland. I served with Company I, of the 9th I screaming eagle beside Its standard, ths I Vermont Infantry, and the 18th and I celebrated "Old Abe" who dodged mors ..k.l U . . 1 , n . .. . , ........ A i lul, uuuclo mail c v i w 1 1 c djjcu m.. m general. And Leavitt was one of the lads who followed that strangest and most ominous of oriflammes. "Ever see him?" exclaims Dr. Leavitt, with fine scorn. "I should say I have, I followed Old Abe into battle many and many the time. The fellow thai carried his perch had a special bell with a socket. The big baldheaded eagle was chained to his perch, with plenty of tether to spare. When tht bugle sounded he flew to ths cross piece and screamed his desire to go for ward. And that's the way Old Abe. went Into battle, shrieking and flap ping his wings at Nashville, at Cor inth, at Vicksburg, at a dozen other en. gagements. The rebels must have fired at him thousands of times. Call it chance, or luck, or what you will, ha never was struck. It was the tough old confederate. General Price, whs said hs would rather capture that bird than a whole brigade. Lincoln-Garfield Post No. S was or ganlsed in 1881 as Reynolds Post, and after various consolidations emerged December 31, 1890, with its present title. It has a membership of 65. Cap-' tain J. P. Shaw is adjutant and F. IX McDevitt, past department commander. is commander of the post. Gordon-Granger Post, of Woodlawn, has 60 members. It is commanded by E. E. Covey, whose regiment was ths Ninth New York Artillery, with H. C. Dutton. of the 114th Ohio Infantry, a adjutant. Other Pouts Mentioned. Other posts of Portland, all organized lthln comparatively recent years. which are to be hosts at the Grand Army encampment, are as follows: Benjamin F. Butler Post, Commander W. J. Perry, 10th Illinois Cavalry, Ad jutant H. S. Lillagar, 59th Delaware Cavalry. Reuben Wilson Post, Commander John Walrod, Seventh Wisconsin In- fantry; Adjutant Emory Hamlin. Un like many other posts, which bear ths names of officers and generals, this post is christened for Reuben Wilson, a sergeant who fell In the Civil War. General Compson Post. Commander S. M. Horton, First Bucktails, Pennsyl vania Infantry. A. J. Smith Post, Commander F. H. Beach, 28th New York Infantry: Ad jutant W. R. Owens, 12th Kansas In fantry. William McKinley Post, Commander J. I. Taylor, Fourth Tennessee Cavalry) Adjutant O. J. Conner, 13th United States Infantry. Such is a brief review of the local Grand Army posts which are to greet the representatives from thousands of posts at the encampment, and upon whom the duties of host devolve. Had it been a year or two earlier the com mittee might have boasted superior nu merical strength. But now "There are more of the boys undef the sod than there are on top," advises Commandant Stevens. "In Portland cemeteries alone there are 900 sleeners of the Grand Army." f C3 1 02.2