The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-06-12

behind closed doors, and it is utterly impossible
for an outsider to learn of what that business
consists"
The Massachusetts, Corps are working well.
Corps % initiated twelve new members at
recent meeting; Corps IL, eleven, and Corps
balloted for ten candidates at a recent meeting.
Iowa, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Colorado
are to organize Departments in time for repre-
sentation at the National Convention, July 23.
Elizabeth Mansfield Irving, Junior vice.
president of Forsyth Relief Corps, No. 1, To-
ledo, o., will recite a poem by Kate b. Sher-
wood, on The Grand Army" at the Campfire,
on the evening of July -, to be rendered By
the city of Minneapolis to the National En-
eampment. Mrs. irving has a national reputa-
ton in the Grand Army, and never fails to
arouse the widest enthusiasm. At the grand
Music Hall Champ-fre, given the Department
OF Ohio, at Cincinnati in 1882, the entire audi
ence of 5000 rose to their feet. swinging their
hats and waving their handkerchiefs at the
conclusion of her recitation.
Miss Mary Mitchell has been elected secre-
tary of Nevius Relief Corps, No. 1, Rockford,
Ill, vice Minnie Owens Department Secre-
tary), resigned. Miss Owens did right in re-
hnquishing her Corps office, and it would be
well If all Department officers holding Corps
offices would do the same thing, as an appeal
might be made from the Corps to the Depart
ment at any time, in which case the Depart
ment would be lily prepared to act.
A hasty compromise at Denver (after the
formation of National Department, recogniz-
ing the eligibility to membership of all loyal
women) allowed Departments to decide the
eligibility to membership within their juris-
dlction. This has led to a partial reopening
of the question-to discussion of which place
is given in THE TRIBUNE-that delegates to
MInnaannliz ha 20 4afr
action as will make the work homogeneous
throughout the Union.
Comrade NJ L. Edwards, adiutant, Trescott
Post, No. 10, Salem, Ohio, informs us that
the ladies of Treseott Relief Corps, No. 81
were unanimous in their praises of the Depart
ment President, Lottie L. Myers, who insti-
tuted the Corps. Also, that at their first regu-
lar meeting they passed resolution commend
ing her untiring zeal and devotion, in which
Prescott Corps aims to have share.
Tuesday, May 27, Mrs. Howe Of Toledo, in
| stituted Daniel Miller Corps, No 40 Leipsic
Ohio. 1t is well offieered, with twenty-one
| charter members and Mrs DR.. Zimmerman
wife of the Past Medical Director, Department
| of Ohio president, and bids fair to be valu-
able auxiliary to the Post. A public installa-
| ton was held in the evening, at which ad-
/ dresses were delivered by the Post commander
and the newly-installed president and remarks
made by the installing officer, DIR. Thinner
man, and several comrades, calling up army
scenes and memories. These exercises were
| interspersed with singing and recitations, max
| ing an interesting programme. The following
officers were installed: President Mrs. Mary
Zimmerman; senior yice-president, Mrs. Mary
| Stanley; Junior vice-president, Mrs. Mary VI.
/ Sturgeon secretary, Margaret T. Koons treas
urer, Emma Siler; chaplain, Sarah Updike !;
conductor, Flayia Barton; guard, Minnie
! McClish.
| Mrs. E. Florence Barker, National President,
Relief Corps, writes that the hall at which the
| National Relief Corps convention viii be held,
at Minneapolis, has not yet been selected, but
| that the convention will meet July % in Min
neapolis, and a reception by the national Off
GERS will be held at the Washington Hotel on
Tuesday, July D.
| The National Relief Corps was well repre-
sented on Memorial Day all over the country.
Mrs. President Barker was invited to deliver
| the Grafton at Holyoke, Mass, but her national
duties would not permit her TO accept. Mrs.
/ Secretary Fuller delivered the address at Pitts
| field, Me. The celebration at Mrs. Barker's
home, Maiden, Mass, was very largly attended,
and Commander Benjamin Johnson, Post No.
| 40, has great reason to congratulate himself on
its success.