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Show BEERS HEADS II GRAND ARMY ' 11 Council to Choose Place j BH of the Next En- . ' HH eampment HH . : IH vbbBbYXHVbbbbbv "5-BV bJBJI IibbbbKbbbbB BV bbbI - '"VXHk '-9'BaBrJ Los Angeles. Sept.. 14. With the L' 'H election of Judge Alfred B Beers of 'llaH Bridgeport, Conn., as commandcr-ln- ' JvbbbtJ chief for the ensuing year, and the i wH placing of the selection of the next H'ciBBrial encampment city in the bands of tho rJal administrative council, the forty-sixth I'l'S'BH annual encampment of tho Grand t. SlIbH Army of the Republic officially ended iHJLbbbbI yesterday. The council of admintstra- graarJ tion held a session last night and dis- fp H cussed the matter of the 1913 en- r 1 HH campment city. Dener was eliraiuat- IKIbbI ed at the morning session of the con- Fi'BBbI vention and Dayton, O., seems to ha tftwTBBBl most in favor At a late hour no de- E&'lBBBB sion had been reached., Ha, fH The officers elected vere: ill BBBB Commander-in-Chief Judge Alfred viitBBBl B Beers, Bridgeport, Conn. ifffBBBB Senior Vice Commander-in-Chief Lf lBIbI II, Z. Osborne, Los Angeles. fcf IbbbI Junior vice Cominnnder-inChleC, , 1 juvBTJfJfJ Aniericus. Wheedon, Louisville, iky, bWbbbI Chaplain-in-Chfcf Rev. George E. IJbIbH Lovejoy, Boston, Mass. KbbbbbI Surgeon General Dr. L. L. Whita- HbbbbbI kcr, San Antonio. Tex. BTBbbbbI Qua t minster Genorul C. D. It, KWBBbI Stowlu. Buffalo, N Y. (re-elected.) IbbBBbI After his election as commander- FbbBbI in-chief Judge Beers named Henry J. IBBBb! Sccley of Bridgeport, Conn., as adju- taut general. V Judge Beers was selected on the ( vv first ballot. His only opponent w:u t H William R. Warner, commander of thi bbbb1 department of Ohio. flBBBri In recognition of his services to the v JyBBBbI G. A. R. during his term' of office Re- j IH tiring Commander-in-Chief Trimble Ei jBBBbI was presented with a handsome dla- EyVAH mond studded badge valued at mote EIbbYbI than $1,000. KbIH At yesterday's convention the G. A. wbbbbI R. voted down the proposition of In- L W jH corporation. The per capita tax of ,1 IfH veterans was raised by the convention hTbbbbI from 3 1-2 cents to ." cents per annum. ImbbbbI Because of the absence or its na- 1 ilH tloual president, Mrs. May L. Doug- j, HH las of Concord, N. 11., who was pre- j1 fH vented from attending the convention j1 KjbYH by the illness of hey husband, and so j f' could not review her work, the Nu- j I lional Association of Army Nurses of I'IBBbI the Civil war ietalned Its officers for ' I V another year It was necessary, how- t ' ever, to elect a junior vice president. r f as death had caused a vacancy. Mrs. I MVV Alice Carey Rlslcy of Jefferson City. 1 f afafal Mo , was chosen. The officers who re-) 1'bbbbI lain their old positions are: ' H President, Mrs. May L. Douglas, tjH Concord, X. H.; senior vice president, 'Tbbb1 Mrs. Joanna Melton. Suit Lake City. j (bbbB Utah, secretary, Mrs. Helen B. Cole. j 'H Sheboygan Falls, Wis.; treasurer, Sa- 1 H lome M. Stewart, Gettysburg, Pa.; .' IH chaplain, Mrs. Rebecca L Price, Lau H caster. Pa.; counsellor, Mrs. Clarissa t H F. Dye, Germantown, Pa.; Installing il officer, Mrs. Fanny T Hazon, Cam- IibbbbI bridge, Mass , aide and chief of staff, BH Mrs. Margnrof Hamilton. Wakefield, BAYH Mass.: surgeon, Dr Nancy M. Hill. IbbbbI Chicago; conductor, Mrs. Elizabeth Pl Chapman, East St. Louis. III.; color ' KH bearer, Miss Susannah Kripps, Phila- , ftfaH Idelphla, guard. Mrs. Amanda H. ! H j Smyth, Carrolton, O.: press cone- IbbbbI ispondent, Mrs. Mary O. Stevens, Pea- bbbbb jbod, H |