Show MAY PRESENT WIRE WINE TO VETS STILLWATER SUnn Minn July 21 B By By The Associated Press Peter Peler Hall Stillwater 86 85 oldest eldest member of ot the Last kist Man club which held Its annual reunion here today was vas elected president Of ot the organization to succeed Adam Marts Marty organizer and president ot of the club who died last winter Oily three members met of ot the surviving four of ot the famous club which originally was 39 years ago when 3 34 members of ot Corn p Com Coni j pany ny B Minnesota volunteers met meton meton melon I on the anniversary of or battle ot of Bull Run nun A bottle of ot wins wino ob- ob obtained ob obtained tamed at the first meeting it was wasa a agreed reed i Is to be bo drunk by the last member SAl SAD EVENT Mr Mj tr Hall accepted the presidency with Ith a 11 short of ot Ide Our constitution provides ho he said that that when nil all but one ot of olour our members are dead the last lastman lastman lastman man shall attend attend- the annual ban ban- banquet banquet on the time anniversary of ot the battle of ot Bull Run as usual and with thia this bottle of ot wine wino which has hns pAn kept intact since 1886 drink ot of a a toast to his dead comrades With Ills bus rite he will close the th books b ok of the Last Man club But ut It has lias occurred to me as a pel it has bias hils to you that that last laRt banquet would bo be a very sad sado o occasion Each banquet t tor for many man cars cara has bias been saddened by the tho th rapid Inroads of ot death and I want t make mako a suggestion which we wr r c l 1 consider for another year and cide I upon at our neat ne t meeting That 1 i h that we change our con bo so that the tho last two men shall drink the toast and break up the club TO UJ KESH-UJ BOTTLE The Tho question of the disposition et ct the bottle came up and several schemes were suggested One Ono ot of these was that the bottle 36 e sealed 1 In Ill case and presented to the Minnesota State Historical so- so so det but the one ono that seems t to meet with the greatest approval das that titter litter the last toast has hasben sn habe ben in drunk tho the bottle with the th win winn be sealed and pre pre- ted cited to the th Stillwater post of o tha tl American legion l glon which Is la to form B II Last Man club ani thet It is la to be passed on and on until if ever the nations of or the ld old wold combine to make all war WB Impossible |