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Show Old Soldier Meet. Freeport, 111., Aug. 30. Every old soldier in Freeport and Stephenson counties who is able to bear the journey is in this city today to attend the annual reunion which is being held at Taylor's park. The annual address was delivered by General John C. Black. A grand camp-fire will be held this evening at the opera house and short speeches will be made by General Black, Captain Edwin A Harland, J. A. Burst, Horace S. Clark and Postmaster James A. Sexton ot Chicago. The reunion is the largest ever held in northern Illinois. . |