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Show 11LE 1AKES FOMENTS ROCHESTER, N. Y., Aug. 25. Tho forty-fifth annual encampment of tho Grnnd Army of tho Republic came to an end tonight with the Installation of Judge Harvey M. Trimble as commander-in-chief and of the other national na-tional officers .elected early In the day Judge Trimble announced those ap- nnlntmant.s: Adjutant general, Chas. R. E. Koch. Chicago, quartermaster general, Colonel Col-onel D P. Stowita, Buffalo, reappointed, reappoint-ed, judge advocate general, W. A. Ketcham, Indianapolis; assistant quartermaster general, J. Henry Hol-comb, Hol-comb, Philadelphia. Los Angeles was selected by an almost al-most unanimous vote for the encampment encamp-ment of 1912. A resolution to erect a monument to Robert E. Lee In the Vlckaburg, Mlss national park was voted down. The encampment voted to make tho Sons of Veterans tho official eBcort to veterans of the civil war on all occasions. occa-sions. Officials elected by the ladies of the G. A. R. nre: National president, Mrs. Katherine Ross, Denver; senior vice president, Mrs. Jennie Trexler. Allentown, Pa ; junior vice president, Mrs. Robe Houghton, Seattle, Wash.: treasurer, Mrs Catherine Roach, Scranton, Pa.; chaplain, Mrs. Camilla Elliott, Omahn, Neb , secretary, Mrs. India Yard, Colorado. Colo-rado. -oo |