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Off For Denver

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
August
Year
1892
Copyright
Public Domain
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Tomorrow the members of Ann Arbor Commandery, No. 13, K. T. , and their friends leave on an excursión to attend the silver triennial conclave of the Grand Encampment of the United States at Denver, Col. The arrangements are complete in every detail and nothing has been eft undone that is possible for the comfort and pleasure of those who are so fortúnate as to be able to take the trip. The commandery has en;aged two elegant Pullman cars and he fine car of the Saginaw Hunting association, the latter being occu)ied by the Ypsilanti contingent of he commandery and their families. The special train will be a solid vesibuled train of parlor cars, and will )e occupied by the commanderies rom this city, Jackson, Kalamazoo and Charlotte. The cars for Ann Arbor commandery will be on the tracks at the Michigan Central depot, Saturday morning, when they will be decoraed with streamers and emblems to et the people in the country through vhich the train passes know that Ann Arbor is still alive. At noon he ladies of the commandery will e escorted to the train, after which he Sir Knights will return to the asylum and at 1 :3o o'clock, local me, the lines will be formed and he pilgrims be escorted to the depot y the "home guard." At 1:30 o'clock, Standard time, the train will pull out for Jackson, where it vill be joined by the commanderies 'rom Jackson and Charlotte, and at Calamazoo by Kalamazoo commandery, arriving at Chicago 9:00 p.m., where two hours'will be spent. The )arty will reach Kansas City, Sunday afternoon, and after a stop of our hours proceed to Denver, ariving there at 10:00 a. m. Monday morning. In that city the commandery has ampie accommodations in one of the finest parts of that beautiful place, having rented for headquarters the magnificent residence at No. 1404 S. Thirteenth street, where quarters have been provided for 54 persons and large doublé parlors for entertainment purposes. The members will spend as long in Denver and vicinity as they desire, as they do not return in a body. Some will be gone a monthormore, while others will arrive home within ten days. The trip going will be over the Michigan Central to Chicago, the Chicago & Alton to Kansas City, and the Union Pacific to Denver. Returning, the tourists will take the Northern route of the Union Pacific to Omaha, (where the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine will have a big meeting), the Chicago & Northwestern to Chicago, and the Michigan Central home. The party will include about eighty persons, those now registered with the committee being as follows: L. C. Goodrich and wife, O. M. Martin and wife, A. Howlett and wife, W. F. Stimson and wife, Dr. J. W. Morton and wife, W. B. Smith and wife, N. J. Kyer and wife, A. P. Ferguson and wife, N. Sutton and wife, W. D. Adams and wife, A. J. Sawyer, wife and son, J. W. Robison and wife, A. L. Noble and wife, John Burg ahd wife, Seth C. Randall and wife, Chas. E. Hiscock, Theodore J. DeForest, S.W. Clarkson, Geo. H. Blum, A. H. Fillmore, H. T. Morton, Thos. Taylor, Otis C. Johnson, Mrs. Laura Cheever, Joseüh Burton, Elmer E. Beal, Mrs. j". S. Nowland, Miss Lohr, of Ann Arbor; P. W. Carpenter and wife, H. R. Scoville and wife, M. M. Reed and wife, C. L. Stevens and wife, W. H. Guerin and wife, W. H. Sweet and wife, Geo. W. Alban and wife, D. E. Wilber and wife, Chas. Smith, of Ypsilanti; H. S. Holmes and wife, W. J. Knapp and wife, of Chelsea; J. A. Goodyear and wife, A. F. Freeman and wife, Mrs. M. Wallace, of Manchester; O. A. Kelley and wife, Charles Wilson and wife, Milán; M. S. Cook and wife, Miss Clara J. Phelps, of Dexter; Peter Cook and wife, of Urania.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News