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Show MEETINGS AREJECRET DENVER. Sept. 7.-The first meeting of the legislative body of the thirty-ninth ar nual national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic began at 10 o'clock !haiat,lhe Boay theater. With MtXCoe.pV0n l a few minutes, during ?h? niBULS, and clty ot'M- welcomed rennir.ldler" l2 tne clty formally and responding remarks were made by Commander-in-Chief John R. King and ot- f sessions today were secret. It rtiJL ke lon? f07 the encampment delegates to- get dowA to business. r acc?PtlnK th roll which had been prepared and printed In advance formal presentation of a diamond badge 'to Com-mander-in-Chlef King, indicative of his ?, Cr.mma.nder8hlp- was male- At the Bume time it was announced that the aloes to former Commander-in-Chief Wll-mon Wll-mon V. Blackmar. who died before the n?PiaVn ?f ,Ms term of . would a. ,ov,nK CUD to the' widow of Gen. Blackmar. |