The National tribune., 1885-06-18

URSDAY, JUNE 1S, 1885.
plication and the Post Commander added his
signature for approval. All those not entitled to
remain retired from the hail. and the Department
President, assisted by the Department Secretary,
proceeded to institute the Corps and install the
officers, as follows: Pres, Mrs. Ellen Robbins
s. V.-P., Mrs. Eliza NJ. Haynes JV.-P, Mrs. Carrie
Fitzgerald Sec, Mrs. Carrie Hendershott; Treas,
Mrs. Fannie Wolf; Chap, Mrs. Mary ]. Woodruff
Con, Mrs. Melissa Desart c.. Mrs Rebeca Mount
Mrs. Emma David was elected Director. We con-
gratulate ourselves upon this afternoons work SO
expidetousiy performed. AS this is the third Corps
added to our roster since the Convention in Jam
uary, we think our record will compare favorably
with Others-Ida M. Babcock, Department Presi-
dent, Salem, Ore
DEPARTMENT OF MISSOURI.
Mrs. Mary NJ Stark, Department Secretary
of Missouri, contributes the following interest
ing report of Memorial Day observances:
have just received from Miss Matte A. Huston,
Secretary of Stumbaugh, No. 13, W.R.C., Depart
ment OF Missouri, very interesting account of
their Memorial Day services. Stumbaugh Post, No.
$50. GAR. arranged their program, and the Corps
assisted them in carrying it out. The place Austn)
or the S VIE and baTe @ but eight Soldiers ID
graves there, but those eight were not forgotten.
The Post and the Corps met in the morning in the
Baptist Church and arranged it in the form of the
Post hail. draping the altar and the tables and dec.
Grating them with white bouquets and wreaths.
Between the altar and Post Commanders stand
were placed the eight vacant chairs heavily draped
and decorated with white bouquets and evergreens.
The church was handsomely decorated and draped
with flags.
At2 p. m the services began with song-"What
Gathering" Then the opening of Stumbaugh
Post No. $50, GAR; then the reading of the
dates of birth, death, enrolling and discharging of
the eight-gone, but not forgotten; then followed
the singing of " The Vacant Chair" an address by
MIR. Myradeth, and the ode America" All then
proceeded to the cemetery, where l6 little girls,
dressed in white, covered the eight graves with
flowers.
vacant chairs, draped and decorated, and one that
would touch a chord in every heart which has a
vacant chair at home; and, alas few homes but have
one. and may have more.
DEPARTMENT OF KANSAS.
DEAR TRIBUNE: The Board of Directors, Depart
ment of Kansas. called by the Department
President, Mrs. M. K. Wickins to meet on June at
Olathe, the home of Past Department President
Mrs L. H. Brown. Several important points We're
to be discussed and decided before the National
Convention, and with these the very pleasant duty
of presenting to Mrs. Brown Il beautiful badge q
testimonial from the last Convention of the G. A. r.
and W.R.C., held at Fort Scott. At the business
session i'll the afternoon, among other pleasant
things, came the announcement by the Department
PRESIDENT OF donation of Si00 made to the w nc.
of Kansas by the GA. r. of same Department. The
Board of Directors, in behalf of the W.RC. of Kan
sas returns most hearty thanks to Past Department
Commander Pond. to Commander Stewart and the
Council! of Administration for this timely gift; and
while this tangible expression of goodwill is most
acceptable, the assurance it is of the appreciation of
this branch of the GA r. for its W.R.C. is still
more gratifying The evening session was in the
form of a reception given by the Post and Corps of
Olathe to the National and Department officers
present The feature of the evening the pre-
sentnS of the badge to Mrs. Brown. Mrs. Lizzie
Anderson, National Junior Vice, made the pre-
sentatOn in her own inimtable, graceful way. Mrs.
Brown was taken completely by surprise, and said
it was now proven that "a a woman can keep
secret" In this case it was a thousand women who
kept the secret, for all over Kansas it was known
what was to occur. The badge, of regulation size
and shape is of solid gold. with setting of 10 dia-
monds, lS in the circle, one in each arm of the
cross, and one in the bar with an inscription on
the reverse TO whom, from whom 1t was procured
from Philadelphia, and is elegant and dainty
throughout as suits the sweet little lady who ac-
cepted it. Short addresses refreshments and social
chat filled up the remainder of delightful evening.
Julia A. Chase, Dept Secretary, Hiawatha, Kan.
SAME NAME AND NUMBER.
DEAR TRIBUNE: made trip to Abilene, Kan,
and organized Relief Corps No 63, auxiliary to Post
63. on the 10Th of May, with 1S charter members.
The following the officers elected and installed:
Pres. Mrs Emaline Childs; 8. V.-P., Mrs. Rachel
McDivitt; J. V.-P., Sara H. Warner; Sec, Mrs. Ida
r. More; Treas, Mrs Northcut; Chap Mrs. T. E.
Sewell; Con-, Mrs. Mary NJ Gordon; g., Mrs. Mar
grett Nelson.
must say for this Corps, I can nothing but
prosperity for them; the energy and interest with
which they begin cannot fail to have its effect.
This is the first time we have been able to give
W.R.C. the same number of Post-AllIe Myers,
Past Department Secretary, Olathe, Kan.
PROVISIONAL DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON TER.
Provisional Department, Woman's Relief Corps,
our faithful Corps President Mrs. Viola G. Ken
yon, Provisional Department President, the ladies
true to their colors and did all in their power
to make Memorial Day memorable in the history
of our Territory.
There was great abundance of flowers and the
exercises were very impressive. At the grove thou
sands of people had assembled, where, facing the
speakers stand, catafaque, bearing a soldiers
forming the inscription " In Memory of the Brave"
First sung the Red White. and Blue rem
dcred by the school children in chorus, who then
marched around the eaafalque aud laid sweet blos-
SONS above it; these singing their lovely Memo
rial Hymn.
Next came an earnest and eloquent prayer by
Rev. Herbert Watson, followed by the impressive
Memorial services by Stevens Post No. l. conclud-
ing with three volleys over the catafalque.
Then followed the most quietly affecting feature
of the day, when the ladies of the Relief Corps in
solemn procession, marched by the catafslque and
laid their garlands of blossoms upon the emblem
attic coffin. An address by Capt. George Hill, an
impressive recitation of one of Mrs. Sherwood's
Memorial poems by Mrs. Clara Wilson; Memo
rial oraiion by Judge Burke. and Memorial poem
by >. Il. Andrews, were among the features of the
day. The embematic grave, buried in its bushels
of wreaths. crosses and bouquets of choice flow
of the ceremonies and carried tosile cemetery and
placed on the Soldiers Lot."-Sun Down Sea,
Seattle, Wash. Ter.
MEMORIAL DAY AT TACOMA.
DEAR TRIBUNE: Beautiful weather and other
choice floral offerings were prepared by the GA. r.
and W. re. i'll observance of the National Memorial
Day. Memorial services in the grove, the
being too remote. The procession, headed
by the GAR, embraced the Tacoma Guards, in
full uniform; the veterans children. bearing
beautiful banner, with the inscription. Our fathers
fought for the Union" and the children of the
Band of Hope. bearing an appropriate banner. The
exercises at the pavilion included the recitation of
' Cover Them Over with Beautiful Flowers" by
Mrs. X. II. Everett; recitation by Miss Rosa Stanus;
address by Rev. Comrade Wells, and all most i'm
pressive.
These days are great and glorious educators. So
is true and tender patriotism that even
the little Indians out the reservation short dis
from the city, observed Memorial Day in very
loyal and patriotic manner Early in the morning,
finding that they could not to the city, they
gathered all the flowers that they could, and after
making the same into beautiful designs they
paired to their buryng ground and decorated every
grave. When it was told to- me the tears filled my
eyes and thought what promise for the future,
when our day was honored by even the untaught
children of the wilds.-Bertha Park, Seattle, W. Il.
DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA.
DEAR TRIBUNE: left home Wednesday morn
ing May q, and after a long ride of 225 miles
reached the beautiful little city of Detroit. In the
evening in tituted n Relief Corps auxiliary to F.
c. Choate Post, with 13 members, and installed the
n zthta IL