Show CORPORAL TANNER SENDS LETTER SHOWING INTEREST IN ENCAMPMENT In a letter to Colonel F M lI Sterrett ex cx executive director of the G A R es Tanner former of or th the organization sas says great interest is being taken in the national encampment to be he beheld beheld held here next summer He lIe says saS that the people in the east are feeling pretty good Rood over oyer the prospect of or coming to Salt Lake next summer and a big attendance is assured Following Is ar an extract from the letter to Colonel Clonel Sterrett We feel teel pretty good here over the pros prospect prospect prospect of ot the encampment at Salt Lake Nevius was over here after his return from Utah and stopped with us and told us all about It He was WIlB simply delighted I MrS Gilman writes the girls most glow glowingly Nevius has written us fully about his interview with the passenger association ion tion at Chicago the other day and the fix fixing fixIng fixIng ing of or the rate I 1 insist that we are going to have hwe a attendance Here they th I Iare are forming clubs dubs putting in so much a week and getting the names of those thoe who will go Some time ago letters were sent to United States Senator nato Reed Red Smoot and Congressman Joseph Howell asking them to use their Influence toward securing r from the department of or agriculture flower seeds which will mature between August Augurt 1 I and 15 Letters were received from botn both the national representatives stating that the teed seeds were available and a supply will be forwarded The Thc letters to Colonel Ster Sterrett Sterrett Sterrett rett are as follows F M Sterrett Executive Director G A AR AR Aft R ft Salt Lake City Utah I am just In receipt of your letter of or January S 9 U 1001 t and 1 I take great pleasure In stating that I shall be glad tc to assist you In securing flower seeds for the pur purposes purposes purposes poses specified in your letter lotter As soon as asI asI asI I get definite advice from the department of agriculture regarding this tills matter I Ishall Ishall Ishall shall communicate further with you ou Do uDo not hesitate to call on me at any anytime anytime time if It I can cooperate with you in mak making makIng making ing the G A R H encampment a grand success Very truly yours REED SMOOT S F M I Sterrett Executive Director Salt Lake City Utah l tah Dear Sir Referring to your favor of or orthe the th ultimo in which you request that flower seeds which will mature between the 1st let and of August next be sent to you for decorative purposes during the tle week of oC the national encampment of the th Grand Army 01 OK the Republic I take pleas pleasure ure in informing you ou that I have this day taken the matter up with the agricultural department with a view to obtaining a lib JIb liberal liberal eral supply of flower seeds which will bloom in August in order to be available for adorning your jour our encampment and for such tAch decorative purposes as this worthy worth I historic occasion may ma Inspire Yours Tours very ery truly JOSEPH HOWELL |