The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-08-06


this district-was brilliant success. socially and
financially. The grounds were elaboratey deco
rated with lanterns, flags and bunting. spendidly
lighted and ample seating accommodations pro-
vided. The Grand Army Band present the
entire evening, and rendered a fine program of Sc
lections concluding with medley composed of
old army tunes. The entertainment was under the
auspices of Post Is, each table being presided
by comrade of the Post who was assisted by three
ladies of the Corps and other wives and daughters
of comrades, and one member from Jos. s. Harter
Camp, Sons of Veterans
The waffle department was superintendent by
Capt. Ed: kepinger. our efficient Officer of the
Guard. who did himself great credit in the art of
waffle turning. Maj: vignos, although with one
arm upon the field of Gettysburg, proved himself
expert in serving the sparkling, ice-cold lemon
ade to the hundreds who crowded around his stand
to test the Majors capacity lemonade vender.
The ladies' acquitted themselves most royalty in
serving the many hungry guestsas they kept filing
in from the early part OF the evening until after the
who never fail to respond when called upon
Each member of Grand Army Band, one of the
finest organizations in the State and the pride of
our city, consisting of twenty-six members,
presented with handsome buttonhole bouquet by
Mrs. Mckinley, to whose kind assistance the sue
of the occasion is largely due. All express
themselves delighted with the entertainment,
which has resulted in much good in bringing
Post and Corps into closer fellowship and in en-
listing the support and sympathy of our people in
our great work of charty.-W. .. Myers.
DEPARTMENT OF MICHIGAN.
Michigan numbers As Corps at last report,
with five ready for institution.
Mrs Department President Hampton had an
enthusiastic reception from the comrades at the
Wayne County Reunion at Plymouth. Mrs.
Hampton responded to the repeated calls for
some account of Relief Corps work, which she
discussed SO touchingly that tears stood in
many an eye.
Greenville, Mich, expected large attend
ance at the Soldiers Reunion, Aug. 5th. The
Relief Corps ladies were to be represented, by
invitation of the comrades.
DEPARTMENT OF ILLINOIS.
Lookout Mountain ReliefC Corps, No. 2, Henry,
ILL.,, have had several Summer entertainments,
including a pleasant excursion on the Gray
Eagle from Henry to Peoria. They celebrated
their second anniversary July 16, when Look
out Post and their families were invited to en-
joy fine program, in which the boys and girls
took a prominent part followed by cool Sum-
mer collation. and pleasant dance. Mrs.
Young, Corps President, led the program. The
singing was good.
Mrs. s. c. Townsend, Henry, Ill, one of the
oldest ladies in the Order (66 years of agel, was
in daily attendance at Convention at Portland
as delegate from Corps No. 2, Henry, Ill.
Capt. Alex. L. Whitehall, in a Memorial Day
Grafton delivered at Watseka, ILL.,, and pre-
served in neat printed form, spoke as follows:
Loving. tender woman. though often clad in
sable weeds OF mourning for the hearts dearest
IDOL torn from the hearts;rings by the grim Moloch
of war. is not wholly bowed down with helpless
her great loss but performs for the living
comrades of the fallen brave the hottest tasks of
womanly devotion in caring for the sick and
wounded wards of the Nation. Every
soldiers heart burns with sympathy and fills with
gratitude unspeailable towards those noble loyal
women who were the fast friends of the boys in
blue in camp, hospital and home. God bless our
loyal, loving women.
DEPARTMENT OF KANSAS.
Mrs E. B. Alrich and other patriotic ladies
of Cawker City, Kan, prominent in Relief
hovy
engaged in the establishment of public library
in that place. Hon. Noble Prents writes
strong letter of acknowledgement of their efforts,
in which he makes some good points on read
ing in general, from which we quote:
The women of Cawker City, to whom, as UNI
derstand, much of the credit of organizing public
sentiment in favor of library belongs deserve a
place in history with those other brave pioneer
women. who, in other days, surrounded in their
cabins by a Shrieking and demoniacal enemy, load
ed the rifles which their husbands and sons fired at
the beeaguring sayages. For public library, a
collection of good attractive, interesting books,
which all may read. is, in q town in formative
condition like Cawker, fort to protect the COM
munity from its capture by the barbarous influences
of loaersn, idleness, gossip, stupidity, and crime.
In the house which you set apart, will be brought
together in perpetual assembly the best company
which could be invited to Cawker City. Inside its
walls will be gathered philosophers poets, states
men, divines, travellers from every cline; story
telers who have beguiied the nights and lightened
the days of mankind. man is known by the
company he keeps, and you may know the bright
est and best in Cawker City hereafter by the fire.
quency with which they seek the good company,
and the length of time they remain with it.
Outside of the absolutely pernicious, such is for
hidden by law, nearly everything can be admitted,
in proper quantity, to public library. 1t is not
the boy who reads dime novels who necessarily
turns out highwayman; it is the stupid, low
browed boy who does not read anything who grad
yates from the outside of the public library to the
inside of the penitentiary. / would rather boy
of mine should read "Wall-eyed Mike, the Demon
of the Great Spirit Spring" than to read nothing.
1 should hope that with time and more reading he
would rise to something better.
"Something betterl" That is the watchword of
Kansas and the encouragement of all her good
works.
Kansas now numbers SO Relief Corps, with
10 applications pending. The W.R.C. will be
well represented at the fourth annual Reunion
of the soldiers and sailors of Kansas at To-
peka, September % and 80, and October !, by
Invitation of the Grand Army.
Following the death of Gen. Grant the fol-
lowing order was issued to the Corps of Kansas:
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF KANSAS, !
WoMANs RELIEF CORPS,
SABETHA, KAN, July "a, 1885.
General Orders, No. 5.
The announcement that Gen. Ulysses s. Grant,
the Hero of Hundred Battles, has answered to the
roll-call of the Great Commander, is received.
Therefore, all Corps in this Department will hold
an open memorial service in connection with the
GAR, in honor of this great hero, thereby show
ing their respect for his memory.
Corps Presidents will fully report the same to
A letter of sympathy has been rendered the be-
reaved family of our dead hero, in behalf of the De-
partment of Kansas, W.R.C.
By order of MARGARET Il. WICKINs, Department
President.
JULIA A. CHASE, Department Secretary.
DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA.
DEAR TRIBUNE: Lyon Relief Corps. No 6, cele-
brated their first anniversary the evening of July
by musical, literary and social entertainment,
which fraternally, financially, and in every
other way a decided success, and pleasant memo
tI,ntx
audience, as we'll in the grateful hearts of the
ladies thus engaged in dispensing aid in the nobest
of charities. 1t was the largest gathering OF the
season. with brilliant array of artists the pro-
gram. No doubt existed TO the warmth with
which the latter would be received, or the number
stood in advance that the enchanting strains of
piano solo by Prof. Won Adelung was the prelude
to an hour and half's entertainment as genuinely
artistic in character would be possible to find on
this coast or any other for that matter. In the mu
steal line were Miss Watch, whose personal charms
and vocal power vividly recall Patti OF 20 years ago
and Sembrich of to-day, PATHS only acknowledged
rival; Miss GaslSill, second in musical culture, but
not in sweetness of song or disposition, and Fred.
f. Brooks, of whom will only remark that the
prophetic warning of daily paper, that his hearers
would, like Oliver Twist ever be crying for more,
was more than fulfilled. Mr. Roberts had the satisac
ton of knowing that upon his " Called Back" all
greeted him with commissions of laughter and parted
with him in tears. Words are wholly inadequate TO
do Justice the recitations of Victor Galbraith,
by Mrs. Cooley THE Sioux Chiefs Daughter"
Miss Curtis "a The Baron's Last Banquet" Fred.
c. Brooks and the comic selection by W. X. Thomas,
but if to hold an audience spellbound while before
enthusiasm is any satisfaction. il IS theirs. The
"Ou with the dance ushcred in by Grand