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Show TClASl 1U WU.iLDS LAST ViiAS' Bottle of Ancient Wine to Be Passea On, to Bs Drunk When Strife Ends. When the world fights its Inst war, some veteran of an Ame-nn war may drink a bottle of wise prisen-cd for years for the coming of such an event. The wine recently occupied the place of honor on the banquet table of the Last Man club, formed from the sur vlvors of Company B First Minnesota Minne-sota Volunteers, a Civil war organization. organiza-tion. The club was formed thirty years ago, with 34 members. There was an understanding that a reunion should be held each year. The wine was presented to the club on its organization, or-ganization, and It was agreed that the last survivor should attend the banquet, ban-quet, and drink the rare old vintu to the vacant chairs of his departed comrades. This year only three were present at the meeting, which was held in Stillwater, Minn., on the anniversary of the battle of Bull Run. Peter Hall, president of the club, declared during the meeting that the requirements of the constitution would make the last occasion too sorrowful, and suggested ! another way to mark the passing of the organization. He offered a plan that the last two survivors should drink a toast, seal the remainder of the wine in the bottle, and pass it on to the American Legion in Stillwater, with similar stipulation as to its retention, re-tention, or until all nations join to make war impossible. Tims, the Stillwater Still-water Legion men are expected to become be-come possessors of the wine, perhaps to be passed on to some other veterans" vet-erans" organization founded from another an-other American war. Peter Hall, Atwater, Minn. ; John Goff, a guest at the Minneapolis Soldiers' Sol-diers' home; and Charles Lockwood, Chamberlain, S. D., were the guests at this year's meeting. One other survivor, sur-vivor, Emil Graff, of St. Cloud, Fla., was kept from the meeting because of physical infirmities. .The unique event attracted national attention, and the proposal to pass on the rare wine to the American Legion, not to be touched until war has become be-come impossible, has resulted in considerable con-siderable speculation as to whether the World war veterans would drink the final toast. |