The National tribune., 1884-08-21
ALL ALONG THE LINE.
Relief Corps News from the Various Department
of the Order.

Relief Corps News from the Various Departments
of the Order.
GRATIFYING RETURNS FROM EAST AND WEST.
Comrade ]. E. McCracken writes US that Post
ia, Mount Gilead, o., are arranging for aseries
of entertainments for the benefit of the relief
fund, to be given during County Fair week, be-
ginning Oct. Z. Mrs. Elizabeth Mansfield
Irving is expected to be ON the program.
Hazlett Relief Corps, GAINESVILLE, o., which,
although but six months old, stood the third
Corps in the United, States according to the re-
port of the National Secretary Mrs. Fuller, for
amount expended in charity, tWetZel Compton
Corps, Hamilton, o. being first, and Forsyth
Corps, Toledo, o., second has just closed up
grand lawn fete to replenish its Golfers with
handsome net proceeds. All loyal ladies are
cordially invited and of Hazlett Corps in a
complimentary mention, the GAINESVILLE Courier
says: Their real work, however, does not ap-
pear in dollars and cents. 1t is gratifying to
know that this auxiliary to the Grand Army
has become a recognized power for good in the
social as well as charitable ventures of our city,
and the fete is but an earnest of what viii be
accomplished in the future"
Miss Mamie Colwell has been unanimously
elected President of Wilson Colwell Relief
Corps, La Crosse, Wis. to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Mrs. Clara B. Sloane, De-
partment President. Miss Coiwell is the only
child of Capt. Wilson Colwell, the hero of the
Iowa Brigade, killed at Bristow's Station in
1862, in whose memory the Post is named. She
recently presented TO the Post life-size crayon
portrait of fer father, who in courage and de-
yotion to his country was truly the typical
American soldier, leaving wealth, influence, q
happy home, young wife, a devoted mother
of an only son, and his little infant daughter,
to volunteer in his country's service. He fell
like a hero on the front line while leading a
gallant charge. Although Mayor of La Crosse
at the time of his death, his remains, out of
Difference to the wishes of his heart broken
mother, were inferred in the family burial
graund at Kittanning, Pa.
Mrs. NJ. Susie Goodale, Department Presi-
dent, says: Massachusetts, gained during the
National year GOO members and expended
So, ,394.s5 in charity. Many of the Massachu-
sets Corps are working for our Soldiers Homes,
six of them making themselves responsible for
all the linen necessary for one room each. It
is grand work"
If the officers of Relief Corps would give the
strict attention to Rules and Regulations which
they obligate themselves to do when taking
their Offices they would save their Depart
ments, as well as the National organization, a
world of trouble and would better serve the
interests Of the Corps.
Helen Hnsdale Rich, Provisional President,
| Department of Missouri, has an extended repu-
| tation as a lecturer and author upon many
questions of interest to the general public. She
has just published, through the Putnam's, 8
volume of poems, entitled "a Dream of the
| Adirondacks."
Clara E. Hawken, E. G. Marshall Relief
Corps Rochester writes that the members find
| their new work very interesting and helpful,
and think if there is anything noble in a
woman it will find chance for development in
such society. The members of the Corps pre-
sented the Post with an elegant silk flag July
1. Mrs. Anna Cleary, Corps President, pre-
sented the eolors in a very appropriate and pa
triotic address, responded to by Comrade ]. ".
Clearly, Post Commander, after which a pleas
ant program of singing and congratulations
was successfully carried out.
| 1t is not often the lines of pleasure and duty
run parallel in the lives of women and men, as
in the case of Comrade John F. Foster, In
| speetor, Department of Maine, GAR, and his
wife, Mrs. Isabella c. Foster Inspector, De-
partment of Maine, W.R.C. Mrs. Foster is one
| in Maine, and, as she has been made National
| Corresponding Secretary by the National Pres-
| dent, she will have ample opportunities for
| spreading the work in the Pine Tree State.
| A Corps President wants to know whether
members who scandalize their fellow workers
can be disciplined. To all such we would say,
| go slow. Corps Presidents would do well to
make rule that they will not listen to COM
plants of a trivial character, or any gossip of
| themselves or their associates. "Less talk and
more work would be very pretty motto with
| which to decorate an altar cloth.
| Comrade Edward Anderson, the gallant colo
mel of an Indiana cavalry regiment in the war,
and now an eloquent recruiting officer in the
Army of the Lord, pastor of a Congregational
Church at Columbus, o., and the Commander
of the new and enthusiastic Joshua NJ Wells
Post, No. 451, Department of Ohio, has made
application for information in organizing Re-
| lief Corps. Columbus, the Capital of the State,