From the Portland Daily Commercial October 6, 1899, p1 c1-2

It's First Reunion, The Comrades of Company B. enjoy Themseleves at Salamonia-- Fine Dinner served-- The Campfire on Thursday Night

    The first reunion of Company B. of the Thirty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry was held at Salamonia on Thursday, and the fopllowing surviving comrades were in attendance:  W.S. Iliff, B.F. Harter, Stepehn Straley, P.L. Burke, G.H. Stowell, John M. Thomas, N. Hadington, Abner Hyde, Ed Burke and J.E. McGriff.

    The visiting comrades on the occasion embraced the following person", Andrew jackson, company Co of the 39th Indiana, Downs, Kansas;  Ben Arthur, Company K of the 194th Ohio: James a Hutchinson, company B of the 11th Indiana Cavalry; Asa Kantner, Company H of the 151st Pennsylvania; W.P Wehrley, Company I of the 130th Indiana, J.V. Darst, of the 2nd Ohio Artillery, W. LeMasters, company C of the 39th Indiana, Isaac Cunningham, company I of the 23rd Indiana, Edward Bell Woten, company E. of the 53rd Indiana, B.R. Whicher, company D of the 33rd Indiana. R.B. Whittacker, company H of the 110th Ohio; A.Hannawalt, Company C of the 4th Ohio, O.B. Snyder, Company K of the 40th Ohio, John Slite, company A. of the 8th Indiana, Jasper E. Franklin, company K of the 40th Ohio, William Bushong, Company G. of the 133rd Ohio, J.B. Harter, Company I of the 147th, Ohio, J.P Haruff, company K of the 74th Ohio.

    At the hour of three o'clock, a sumptuous dinner prepared by the loyal ladies of Salamonia and vicinity was served in the Grand Army of the Republic Hall and every soldier present sat down to tables which fairly creaked under the weight of good things for the inner man.  Every one did ample justice to the feast and all were loud in their praises of the ladies on whom the credit for the dinner falls for their loyalty.  Their culinary skill, also certainly cannot be excelled.

    The camp fire in the evening was held at the church, which was crowded to the doors.  Prayer was offered by Wesley Iliff, and an address of welcome delivered by REv. S.A. Armstrong with a responses by Co. N. Headington.

    The choirs of the Christian and Methodist churches were present to discourse sweet music.

    Addresses were made during the evening by comrades, Iliff, Braley, Jackson, Burke, LeMaster, Darst, Whittaker, and McGriff.

    Declamations were delivered by Misses Cartwright, White and others all of whom acquitted themselves very nicely

    A vonte of thanks was tendered to B.F. Harter, president of the organization, the loyal ladies of Salamonia and vicinity, the two choirs and Rev. S.A. Armstrong.

    "Marching Through Georgia" was then sung, the benediction pronounced by Rev. S.A. Armstrong and the hand shaking then began and was kept up until every soldier present felt proud that he had been an American soldier and had been privileged to attend a reunion and camp-fire at Salamonia.