The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-10-15

But cheers for our soldiers, rough, wrinkled and
brown,
Unselfish untiring, intrepid and true,
The bulwarks surrounding the red, white and blue,
Our patriot soldiers when treason arose
And freedoms own children assailed her as foes
When anarchy threatened and order withdrew
They rallied to rescue the red, white and blue.
| Unfolding our banner on many field,
| The doom of the traitor they violently sealed.
When worn with the conflict found vigor anew,
| And proudly defended the red, white and blue,
Yet loved ones have fallen. and still where they
A sorrowng Nation shall silently weep,
And Springs brightest flowers with gratitude strew
Ger those who once cherished the red, white and
blue.
Yet glory immortal is theirs even now,
And chaplets unfading shall hide every brow,
When called by the trumpet to times great review,
They stand who defended the red white and blue.
DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA.
Geo. N. Morgan Corps. Minneapolis, is -four
ishing The Corps realized handsome sum by
an Ice Cream Social, and on recent evening
the ladies were present, by invitation of Com
mander w. P. Roberts, at a Post Campfire
Minnesota has new Corps, of which we have
the following pleasant account from the De-
partment Secretary, Mrs. Fox:
ANOTHER STAR IN THE GALAXY.
DEAR TRIBUNE: One more star added to our
banner. On the morning Of Sept. 26 Department
President Nettie NJ. Norton, accompanied by her
Treasurer and Secretary, and Mrs Juline f. Burr,
n ): Reeves, Mary L. Sewers, and Mary
Brearley, of Geo. n. Morgan Corps, took the train
at $50 a. m. for the pleasant little city of Anoka,
arriving there at $50. We were met at the depot by
committee of ladies' who escorted to the Inter-
national Hotel where we We're entertained as the
guests of Cady Post. After a sumptuous dinner,
which was enjoyed by ALL the ladies called to escort
US to the GAR Hall where J. S. Cady Relief
Corps, No. 2. was instituted, with % charter
bers The following officers were elected and in
stalled President, Mrs. Lavinda Smith; s. V.-P,
Sec, Miss Ella Nj. Hayden; Treas, Miss Lula A.
Prebble; G., Mrs. Lydia A. Stout; c., Miss Sarah
lation the ladies of the new Corps spread an eiab-
crate collation. in the hall, to which ample justice
was done. With good Dyes and good wishes we left
for home: arriving here mt p. M, feeling that we
had left the new Corps iii the hands of good, loyal
ladies, and that it will not only be benefit to the
Post, bnt will be found ready and willing to assist
all worthy comrades and their families-Helen NJ
Fox, Department Secretary, Minneapolis, Mimi.
OUT IN UTAH.
Mrs. Ida L. Lincoln, Chief Instituting and
Installing Officer for the Department of Utah.
has removed with her husband, Prof I. w.
Lincoln, to Provo. A Utah daily thus comments
upon the removal:
Prof Lincoln and wife left yesterday for Provo
their new field OF labor The departure of MIR. and
Mrs Lincoln Is source of regret to almost innu-
merabe friends. AS Principal of the Salt Lake
Seminary Prof. Lincoln has labored earnestly and
faithfully in the cause of education and his labors
have been followed by substantial results Mrs.
Lincoln will be greatly missed by the missionary
workers. while the G. A. r. will feel the loss of both
The people of Provo will find Mr. and Mrs Lincoln
to be just such workers every Utah community
needs.
Mrs. Lincoln, who has been a most faithful
worker for the Relief Corps and President of
Jas. B. Mexican Corps, still continues general
direction of affairs in that Department and
writes that the prospect is good of effecting
several new organizations this Fall. Mexican
Corps, under her direction, held Grant Memo
rial services, and circular addressed by her to
the loyal ladies.of Utah and Idaho" asking
them to join the GAR. in expressions of
common sorrow, gives prospect of bearing good
fruit. Mrs. Lincoln has had an added Joy in
possession of a fine boy, born early in August
In the procession on Grant Memorial Day the
ladies of Mexican Corps, in carriages, were
given place next the Post in long line of
march.
DEPARTMENT OF OREGON.
DEAR TRIBUNE: George Wright Relief Corps
No. 2, Department of Oregon, takes pleasure in
announcing, through the happy medium of your
columns, its success and progress in this remote
outpost of the Grand Army of the Republic Our
Corps was organized one year ago, and its circle
has been broken only to admit new members
when 1t reuntes with n stronger bond in F., c. and
L. On our anniversary we rendered a surprise to
our Post. They taken coll pietey by storm and
as we brought goodly supplies in the commissary
line as a peace offering, they proved willing cap
tives- What followed is easily imagined, when
good coffee, etc, Is offered our boys" The even
ing closed with a pleasant Interchange of remarks
and the assurance from our brother workers that
80 no or post Is c9mPlete without Corps "A Member
Oh Geo. wright relief Corps, cortland, Ore.
ALL ALONG THE LINE.
General Orders, No. a, of Mrs NJ Susie Good
ale Department President of Massachusetts,,
relates to the annual inspection of Corps, and
aDpOntS of u 7
the following: Mrs. S. Agnes Parker, Mrs. l..
A. Turner, Miss Mary E. Elliot, Mrs. Mary NJ
Perry, Mrs Helen F. Johnson, Mrs. L. A. Rice.
A pleasant incident at a recent meeting of
Forsyth Relief Corps. Toledo was the presenta-
ton by Mrs. WoOlsOn, wife of Comrade A. NJ,
Woolson, and Past Treasurer of the society, of
historic gavel. made of wood from the battle
fields of Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Lockout
Mountain, and Kenesaw Mountain The wood
Is bound together with bands of silver, bearing
an appropriate inscription, and bullets are seen
Embedded in the wood that constitutes the gavel
proper.
Comrade Charles Smith, Chaplain of Frank
Lloyd Post, Old Bridge n j., writes of the
earnest zeal of Comrade Work in driving q dis |
lance of II miles, to South Amboy in the night |
with the rituals and other property of Frank !
Lloyd Corps, in time for the institution of the |
new Corps at that place. Mrs. Work, President
of Lloyd Corps, had gone there to assist in the
property had failed to reach there from some |
cause, and so the Old Bridge property was sent /
for. COmrade Work came mp smiling, and made |
a neat little speech to the Corps, following /
Commander ShOne, of Old Bridge. 1t is such |
fraternal interest as this upon the part of the |
comrades that encourages the loyal ladies to do |
their best for the good old cause.
Comrale Converse, of the Camp Fire, knows !
how to ask pertinent Question, but wisely |
leaves the comrades without Corps to answer
it. He says:
How did the boys ever get along before the aux
li1ary Relief Corps WAS organized? We look back
TO the tables We used to spread for ourselves and
In contrasting them with those to which we are
now invited the above question is again forced
upon u.s. How did we get along?
COmrade N. Townsend, A. A. G., Department
Of Iowa. favors us with a Department Roster,
GAR, gotten up in esthetic style, containing,
also a roster of the Thirty-n Corps De-
partment of Iowa. WR.C.. and of the Al Camps
Of the Iowa Division, Sons of Veterans, u. S. A.
The name of Aunt Becky Young" the favorite
army nurse of the Iowa boys. appears as Presi-
lent of Hooker Relief Corps. Dies Moines
viii our Iowa and Nebraska friends say how
hey prospecting? A word from New Eng
and and other silent States would give COM
ort to many workers.