The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-12-04
RELIEF CORPS NEWS.
Gleanings from National Headquar-
terS--NoteS from the Departments.
HEADQUARTERS WoMANs RELIEF CORPS,
TOLEDO, O.
KATE Il. SHERWOOD, National President.
EMMA ID. SHELLEY, National Secretary.

HEADQUARTERS WoMAN's RELIEF CORPS,
TOLEDO, o.
FATE %. SHERWOOD. National President.
EMMA ID. SHELLEY, National Secretary.
| TOLEDO O., Nov. % 1884
A most important part of the work of the
Past week has been the issuing of a call for
convention to form a permanent Department
| of Missouri, with six Corps entitled to full
quota of delegates, and three more that will
doubtless organize in time for representation.
The convention will be held at the same time
| and place OF the Department Encampment of
the Grand Army, and will be presided over by
Mrs. Lizzie Anderson, National Junior Vice
| President, of Topeka, Kan. Of the present
condition of these Corps and their prospective
field of usefulness, let the following report
from Mrs. Anderson speak:
MISSOURI INSPECTIONS.
| have inspected the Corps at St Joseph and for
| warded report to National Inspector. l found
everything in excellent condition, the ladies enthu-
| sas,ic and entirely harmonious. The members of
the Post are in full sympathy with them iii Corps
| duty. My reception cordial in the extreme
| and most urgent invitation was extended to visit
| the ladies again, which l shall endeavor to do in
the near future This Corps is strongly in favor of
the membership of all loyal women. I have just
returned from st. Louis, where l inspected the
| Corps there Found much to commend, and had
no trouble TO prove TO them the best for the Corps
was the admitting of all loyal women. l trust E,y
visit Will lead to healthy increase in membership
rms finishes the inspection of Missouri Corps,
cepting Stanton, No 9, of Carthage, which 1 will
either visit in person delegate a most competent
and earnest worker in the ca,lse-Mrs. Shockley
wife of the Assistant Aduant- General of this De-
partment: Will, with great pleasure, do ali our
National President advises iae to do in helping the
Corps OF Missouri to form Department.
! GOOD WORDS FROM DEPARTMENT COMMANDER.
Then, in response to inquiries from National
Headquarters, comes the following hearty sane
| ton from the Department Commander of Mis-
| souri,, Col. w. F. Chamberlain, which needs no
| further comment He says
am made happy in the receipt of yours of the 18th
inst, just to hand, which hasten to acknowledge,
realizing as do that your work is hardly second
to ourown. Had the eloquence of Webster
Sumner, would call the choicest words of the
language and make tribute TO the loyal women
OF America, who, with their Moe Pitchers down
to the Kate Shelleys, have displayed such heroism
and the finer qualities of head and heart. In
swer to your queries will say that our Depart
ment Encanpment is called to meet i'll Kansas
City (by resolution of last Encampment. The
time is not fixed, but will write you later and do
all can to contribute to your meeting and make
it success.
APPLICATIONS FOR CHARTER
Applications for charter issued during the
week are, to Comrades Jno n. Fowler, Com
mander SimonsOn Post, Isl, Cherubusco, Ind,
and Rev. Robert McCune, of It. II. Harrison
Post, kokomo, Ind; also, to Mrs. Maggie Boyer,
Clinton, Mo. Application has been returned
and applies issued for Relief Corps at Grant
City, Mo-, to be instituted by Mrs. A. r. Ohm
sted, Department Guard of Illinois, who is
spending some time with friends there, and
through whose exertions the interest in the
work has been awakened.
IN IMMINENT PERIL.
Mrs. Frances S. Russell, National Correspond
ing Secretary, GAINESVILLE, o., whose frequent
happy communications always meet with such
warm welcome at Headquarters, in recounting
the particulars of a recent inspecting tour
through this Department, relates a most re-
markable escape from frightful railroad acct
dent. The engine was almost a total wreck,
and how it kept the track was marvel to all.
A moment later and the train would have been
on a high trestle, where no earthly power
could have saved it from total destruction.
MISSION OF THE RELIEF CORPS.
OF the important mission of our Order other
than the disseminating of its work of blessed
charities a Jealous young member in one of
our Western Departments says that she truly
hopes the W.R.C. will impart such lessons Of
true loyalty to the young that the rising gen.
Grafton will produce fewer dudes " than are
now posing in our country, and that it will
make such a thing as an old soldier being cared
for in poorhouse an utter impossibility. And
it is just such teaching as the clear head and
willing hands of our talented correspondent
can give that will help make men out Of the
class OF nonentties she cites.
GUESTS FROM NEBRASKA.
Among the visitors at Headquarters were Gen.
and Mrs. Bowen, of Hastings, Neb.-the General
an Abide Camp on the staff of the Com
mander-in-C Chief and Mrs. Bowen our very eff
Client National Corresponding Secretary in that
Department 1t was indeed most gratifying to
hear verbal report of the splendid progress of
the Grand Army and its auxiliary from away
on the prairies." Their friends here are hop |
ing for another call ON their return trip.
INEz ROCHELLE.
The Relief Corps at st. Joseph, Mo-, has re-
Gently received great acquisition to its men, |
bership in the initiation of Mrs. NJ. X Sher- |
wood, beautiful and accomplished woman, who |
has won laurels on the stage as Inez Rochelle" |
She is graduate of Oberln (Ohio) College, an
able writer, and being devoted to the cause will |
greatly contribute to its success.
HELP FOR ARMY WORKERS.
The Grand Army and the Relief Corps are |
Joining hands nobly in the glorious work of |
giving aid and comfort to Miss Carroll, Mother |
Bickerdyke, and other noble women who gave |
of their time strength and means to our Union |
defenders in the old war days. Contributions |
the past week direct to the National President |
are as follows: Past Department Commander |
c. V, r. Pond, Quincy, Mich, 50; Phil Kearny |
Relief Corps, Muskcgon, Mich, So; Mrs. VIM. |
Wallace, Bangor, Me-, 10 cents. Mrs. Gannett, |
chairman Committee on Relief, reports as fol-
lows:
THE WORK FOR MISS CARROLL AND OTHERS.
asked for further information to Miss Carroll's |
services, extracts will from time to time be given
from the official record of those services
On the LIST of May, 1872 Col Scott, Assistant Sec
rotary of War in 1852, addressed the following to
the Military Committee of the United States Sem
ate:
MY DEAR SIR: take pleasure in stating that
the plan presented by Miss Carroll in November, |
1861, for campaign upon the Tennessee River, |
and thence South, was submitted to the Secretary
of War and President; and, after Secretary STAN
tons appointment, / directed to go to the
Western armies and arrange to increase their
effective force rapidly possible. A part of the
duties assigned me was the organization and
soidaton into regiments of all the troops then be-
ing recruited in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Michi-
gan, for the purpose of carrying through this
paign then nauGurated.
This work vigorously prosecuted by the
army; and the valuable suggestions of Miss
Carroll, made TO the Department months
before were substantially carried ont through the
campaigns in that section great successes followed
and the country largely benefited in the saving
of time and expenditure. / hope Congress will
reward Miss Carroll literally for her patriotic eff
forts and services. Very truly, yours,
THOMAS A. SCOTT.
Hon. HENRY WILSON,
Chairman Military Committee U. 8. Senate
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR RELIEF.
The following Posts and Corps have been heard
f.,, Gin fInln oil, |