The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-03-05
RELIEF CORPS NEWS,
GleaniDgs from National Headquar-
terS--NoteS from the Departments.
HEADQUARTERS W0MAN's RELIEF CORPS,
TOLEDO, o.
KATE B. SHERWOOD National President.
EMMA ID. SHELLEY, National Secretary.

TOLEDO. O., Feb. "a, 1885.
ITO have ideas is to gather flowers to think
| is to weave them into gar.ands." But to write
! Is often to find our choicest roses hut vulgar
weeds, and our lilies robbed of their purity and
grace. Bat laying aside the ideal, let Us look
at the beauty of work. The earnestness of our
advocates i'll far-away New Mexico is evidenced
by the final organization OF two Corps aud the
promise of a rapid extension of our work
throughout the Department, Col. Fitzgerrell
being most instrumental in forming the Las
Vegas Corps, and Col Smith, Past Com
| mander of g. K. Warren POST the Corps of
Albuquerque. In reporting the installation of
the officers of tho last-named Corps. Col. Smith
concludes with the following compliment to
the President and charter members: &" Mrs.
CodingtOp is one of the best qualified ladies
ever met to organize any body for any purpose,
| and with your assistance | am positive this
will he fine Corps and large one. The field
is now ripe for good work"
The Department of Missouri. SO soon to be
organized, bids fair to outrank some of the
older sister Departments in the near future. and
| nothing gives greater promise of q successful
| and pleasant Convention than the warm hos
pitaiity displayed by the ladies of Kansas City,
at which place the Convention is to be held.
Soon after the call for Convention was issued
application for charter was made and Corps
organized. the ladies interested being particu-
larly stimulated by desire to assist in the en-
tertainment of delegates To the Department
Encampment and W.R.C. Convention This is
Mcpherson Corps, No 10, and now comes an
application for Corps No. H. of the same city,
with the request that the officers of Headquar-
tiers BIO as expeditions as possible, that the
Corps may be July formed and in readiness TO
meet the delegates and sister members.
VIM. Nelson Corps. of Newport Ky, just Or
ganized, has begun it's good work by placing
its financial affairs beyond rcproach. A hop
and supper was given on the 10th INST, the
proceeds from which will make payment in full
for the bill of supplies and leave u nice little
sum as " nest egg" 1t is an example which,
if needed by new Corps, will prove one of the
best encouragements. for burden of debt is
quite as discouraging to an organized society as
TO an individual.
Applications for charter seat out during the
week are 10 omrades a. b. Logan, Warrens-
burg No.; J. B. NJ. Bishop, Adi't s. S. Dllmau
Post, Toledo, lama Co.. Ia. Joseph Barker, of
Halliday Post, Wheeling, West Va. Also to
Mrs. J. A. Davis Maysvile, KY, and Mrs. ].
B. Shater, Hiisdale. Mich.
The new officers returned for Custer Corps,
Tacoma Wash Ter, are: President, Mrs. l..
Z. Sampson; 8. V.-P., Mrs. Nellie Smith: J.
V.-P, Mrs. Nellie Hewitt; Sec, Mrs. L. NJ.
Saline; Treas, Mrs. A. Blackwell; Chap, Mrs.
Bertha Parks; CON- Mrs. Lizzie Everett Guard,
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith.
Application has been received and charter
granted to Shaw Relief Corps. No. 3, Of Norfolk,
Va. The following are the officers elected at
the preliminary nee ting and To be installed by
Mrs. Mary 5. Smith, President % Corps No. l. of
that place: Pres, Sarah BrickhOuse; SV-.P.,
hiaiissa Ferbee; J.V.-P., Cornela Brooks;
Treas, Matilda Turner; Chap, Mary Minkey;
c., Patience Leverson; G., Lear Walker. Dorcas
King was appointed Secretary. 1t will be in
teresting to know that the members Of both of
these NorfoTk Corps are the wives, mothers
daughters and sisters of colored soldiers of the
two Posts They are loyal, earnest women, and
will do good work in the peculiar field of
charity sSgncd them.
THE l0-CENT FUND.
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Briggs an army nurse and a
member of the Woman's Relief Corps, is not
the only one who has waited long years hop
ing Congress would pass some measure for the
relief OF army workers" Congress has not
passed such measure, and seems nearer
passing it than half score years ago. Only
the other day we read how Harriet L. Dame,
the hospital nurse so dearly beloved by the New
Hampshire boys, and who has been supporting
herself as an employee in the Treasury Depart
ment at Washington, had fallen and sprained
her wrist and injured her spine. And Harriet
L. Dame on the 9Th of January celebrated her
10th birthday. Aud so week after week do We
learn of these noble women. overtaken by old
age and often by sore poverty, going down to
their graves without so much as q vote of
thanks from the country for which they sacri-
feed much. Is it any wonder that the
Woman's Relief Corps comes to the rescue of
women like these, and Is in many cases ad-
ministering to them care and comfort? Is it
any wonder that to reach the cases of those who
do not come under the jurisdiction of any Post
or Corps the call for fund 10 be distributed by
National Headquarters has been made2 Re-
member comrades and loyal women OF America.
that you have your choice in sending in your
donations. The cali is not for Anna Ella Car
roll and Mother Bckerdyke alone. 1t is for
"other worthy eases; and their name Is legion.
Mrs. Briggs in her letter reminds us of fact
which certainly had escaped our notice, that in
1861 no nurses were accepted under so years of
age. and that therefore whatever is done must
be done quickly, in the way of pensions or
other aid extended. Mrs. Briggs writes us that
two excellent war nurses have died in the
charity hospitals of Chicago within three years,
and that more must soon follow unless Congress
grants at least small amount. She particu-
larly calls attention to suffering army nurse
who was sent to Pittsburg Landing by the
Sanitary Commission, who worked in the hos
pitfalls throughout the war, and who was her
associate for two years, and asks, Can any
thing be done for herr"
We pause for q repl y.
Tho National President acknowledges the
receipt of $l.6O for the army workers fund,
Pardee Wis.
THE FOUNDER OF THE GAR.
Mrs. Josephine P. Cleveland, Springfield, ILL.,,
who is disposing of the portraits of Maj. b. F.
Stephenson for the benefit of his family Mai.
Stephenson having been the founder of the
GAR, proposes that for every portrait or
dered by Relief Corps, as a present to the
Post to which il is auxiliary, she will donate
% cents TO the army workers fund. to be dis.
tributed as follows: To Miss Carroll 10 cents;
to Mrs Bicllerdykc, 10 cents; TO general fund,
cents. Miss Cleveland is we'll known as a
lady of devoted loyalty and personal friend
OF Maj. Stephenson's family, and will promptly
fill orders. The portrait sells for $3.
CHEERING WORDS.
Mrs Mary l.. Bradley, Frankfort, Sphinx Co,
Oak, writing for instructions in forming Re-
lief Corps auxiliary to Sol Meredith Post. No
81, concludes letter TO the National President
land her words are full of cheer) as follows:
MY husband was soldier and member of the
GAR. was nurse III the war. and in my sit
ting-room hangs n certificate. framed, given me by
Miss Dorothy Dix, Superintendent of Woman
Nurses, and which is properly Endorsed by several
eminent Surgeons. Ii is precious relic of those
perilous days. | would like To have n gathering of
army nurses: how interesting II would be
view past experience should like the address of
the few living. All honor to tho Relief Corps and
Its officers. Many will rise up and call them
blessed
MAUMEE.
Department Cieanlngs.