The National tribune., 1884-09-25
RELIEF CORPS g NEWS.
Gleanings from National Headqaar-
ters--News from the Departments.
HEADQUARTERS. NATIONAL WoMANs RELIEF
CORPS, TOLEDO, o.
KATE B. SHEItwooD, National President.
EMMA d. SIBLEy, National Secretary

orouS music OF the fife and drum by night
followed that of the big-voiced omnibus man
by day, the steady incoming and out going OF
weighty correspondence and the various other
forms of business at headquarters has gone on
with but slight interruption. We have often
wondered if some of the old copy-book max
inns such as poor, tired, cramped little
hands scrawled over and over again in our
school days were not especially designed
for Relief Corps workers? If so, then it has
been discovered that not only does Time and
tide wait for no man," but for no woman either,
and that if they must " take time by the fore
lock as firmly as of late the well preserved
old gentleman must needs wear a wig at the
close of the administration. However, we
have caught the remark from the National
officers that when the quarterly reports shall
have been returned, and the newly appointed
officers throughout the Departments are once
thoroughly instructed in their duties, the work
will not SO crowd upon time.
CLEANING FROM THE HARVEST
Of the past week then, we have the following
as contribution to Relief Corps news: Ap-
plications for charter have been issued to Com
rades Luther A. Kellogg, Commander, Col.
S. d. Burrows Post Williamsport, Pa; E. H.
Gregg, Wilmington, Del; Oscar t. Cressy,
Jamesburg, n. j.; E. r. Sherman, Commander,
Bradford Post, Kendall Creek, Pa; and to
Mrs Sue M. Doering, Clifton, Kan, and Mrs.
JAS Swift. Plainville Conn.
Application for charter of John Ball Relief
Corps, of Winona, Mimi, has been returned.
1t bears the names of 53 loyal ladies' ably rep
| resented by the writer of the pleasant letter
accompanying it,
General Orders, No. 3, of Department Presi-
dent Mrs. Sarah G. Nichols, New York, has
| reached Headquarters. Appointments are
made of Mrs. Susan Travers, of Cross Corps,
No. 10; Mrs. Kate f. Jones, of Chismnore
Corps, No. 2, and Mrs. Abbie DEG. johnson, of
| Arthur L. Brooks Corps, No. z, as Assistant
Inspectors. The President and Secretary will
| make official visits throughout the State to
| further the inspection.
Corresponding Secretaries Mrs Maggie Davis,
of Brooklyn, N. Y, and Mrs Frances t. Russell,
of GAINESVILLE, O., assigned the special fields of
| New Jersey and Kentucky, respectively, report
growing interest, and are steadily at work;
and with equal fervor, Mrs. Deborah G. King,
of Lincoln, Neb, is serving in the same ca
pacity, having already sent for additional sup
! plies of blank applications and other papers to
meet immediate demands In Missouri a new
| Corps, o. II. Wood, of Brookfield, will soon be
! instituted by the National Junior Vice-Presi-
dent, Mrs. Lizzie Anderson, of Topeka, Kan,
who will also make tour of inspection of Corps
in that State. The personal presence of one so
thoroughly versed in all the details of the
work of the Order cannot fail to prove very in
structive, and withal q pleasant anticipation
for Missouri Corps. Posts desiring visit from
her should communicate direct.
/ ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES.
To the many inquiries relative to the new
| badge, answer is made that the designs are at
| last perfected and ready for the approval of the
| National President, and will soon be turned
over to the manufacturer. 1t is conceded that
| they will prove in every respect satisfactory, a
/ regalia that is positive adornment as well as
| seal Of membership to the wearer. Corps
! IN afio7 4ha of lv Hav
should order through Departments. The price
| will be so cents apiece Members may own
| their badges.
/ In response to the inquiry as to what con-
stitutes an honorary membership bestowed on
a comrade of the GAR. at Department or
National Convention, or by Corps, the Ma
| tional President says: "A5 it is only designed
as an appropriate acknowledgment of some
special service rendered, and not to initiate
him into the secret workings of our Order. a
suitable notification of his election is served at
| the time, and later an engrossed copy of the
resolution of Convention forwarded, properly
signed and sealed. He will then be entitled to
seat on the platform and to other special
courtesies whenever he may visit the Corps
The same inquirer also seeks information in
| the matter of voting in Corps meetings
whether it is necessary to vote unless one feels
SO disposed. Answer: No; unless such proVis-
| ion is made in Corps Bylaws 1t is conf.
IDENTIFY expected that every member will ex-
press, through this medium her honest convic.
tion with regard TO any question before the
Corps, but there is no compulsion in the mat
ter unless provided for as before stated.
OFFICIAL CONGRATULATIONS.
Thus far there has been included in these
letters some welcome message from the 6. &. r.
and this time it comes in the form of very
gratifying notice in General Order No. 4, re
ceived from the Department Commander o.
Missouri, Col. w. L. Chamberlain, and a letter
from W. s. Lincoln, Adjutant JAS B. McKear
Post, Salt Lake City, Utah. The letter, il
asking for Information in the formation of
Corps, speaks as follows of the broad feld
of missionary work awaiting all loyal an6
earnest women You are aware that thi
Mormonism is the one great reasonable or
ganization that now threatens the peace O
this great West, spreading as it is int,
and controlling three great Territories ant
threatening all other States and Territorie
adjoining. Our own Post numbers about 10t
{ members, and we feel continually that DANCE
| is ahead of u.s." Correspondence was imme
diately entered into with Mrs. Lincoln, wife o
the writer of the letter, who is now in Ohio
with view to fully instructing her in tn
work. She is also a lecturer of some repute
taking for her subject that which is of mos
vital interest to the people of Utah, g Mormon
ism y; and arrangements may be perfected 70
the delivery of the same in this city at an earl,
+, day. Department Commander Ransford Smitl
writes a hearty recommendation of Mrs. Lin
coin, and desires her initiation into the Wo
! ! mans Relief Corps in order that she may star
the work in Utah.
8 Mrs. Carrie Clark, Secretary of Chas s. Eos
) ter Corps Lansing, Mich, writes of the nea
little sum of $4245 recently added to the Corp
! treasury through the efforts of the ladies
!: Next in order is communication from th
. Secretary of Francis ID. Matthews Corps, @
Ellettsville, Ind.
While the majority of these helping bands
like individuals, are happy in the sunlight @
prosperity, it must not be forgotten that other
= are sorrowing under the clouds of adversty
and perhaps one of the saddest of these cases
that of this Indiana Corps The following ex
tracts from the letter referred to will enlis
the sympathy of all lovers of the cause: "Ou
: first and greatest cause for disbursement wa
: the loss of the loved and honored Commando
; of our Post, who was killed in April by an ex
: plosion of dynamite in his own stone works
) While his place in the Post has been filled wit
!, good man, the loss we sustained in the deaf
Of Commander Matthews will never be full
made up to US. Both wealthy and liberal h
gave freely of his time and money for the build
a ing up of his Post and Corps in Elettsville, an
: seemed to love and sympathize with its member
:, the same as with members of his own family
Another member of our Post met his death b
= the side of our Commander, and his helples
. family have had to depend on our Post for sur
: port. The ladies of the Corps have supple
this family with almost all the necessaries {
y life fhQ fcur he nd