The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-06-11
RELIEF 0ORPS NEWS,
Gleanings from National Headquar-
ters--Notes from tile Departments.

HEADQUARTERS WoMAN's RELIEF CORPS,
TOLEDO, o.
KATE b. SHERWOOD. National President.
EMMA ID. SIBLEY. National Secretary.
TOLEDO. O.. June 9, 1885.
"Happy in this, sheis not yet too old
But she may learn and happier than this
She Is not bred SO dull but she cum learn.
To the average officer of the Woman's Relief
Corps upon whose willing shoulders the burden
of responsibilities yet weigh heavily, and who so
often doubts her capacity for knowledge OF
parliamentary rules, military usage, and the
laws that govern cases which she cannot even
classify, this apology is peculiarly applicable,
and would, daresay, if fully comprehended,
serve as a great comforter in many hours OF
puzzle and perpexity.
ALPS well so long as we do not yield to dis
| couragement. for in time, as surely as we main
tain our patience, we shall, by an interchange of
ideas suggested by study and experience. estab-
lsh for ourselves a code of law and discipline
SO simple and concise that by the reading and
following our judgment can never go astray.
Throughout this admi nistratiOn 1T has been
one of the great objects of our National Presi-
dent to further the accomplishment OF this pur-
pose-t0 furnish US with rules that will stand rs
practical for their own worth and not for their
exceptions AS one of the results of these
efforts a circular of general instructions in the
government of Corps was prepared, and de-
signed to be placed in the hands of every De-
partment and Corps President in the Order,
requsitiOn for the same being made on the Ma.
tional Treasurer. 1t is perhaps needless to say
that the information is received with great
favor, and not only called for by the heads of
Departments and Corps, but individuals are
generally DESTROYS of supplying themselves for
their own personal benefit.
MARYLAND IN LINE.
An achievement of the past week worthy of
mention Is the organization of our first Mary
land Corps, viz, Sumner, No. l, of Ches.ertown.
Officers were installed by Post Commander j.
W. Anderson, On the evening of May 90. Capt.
Anderson reports a most enjoyable meeting,
and predicts a future for the new Corps of
which we may all be proud. The officers are
Pres, Mrs. Ellen Berry; sv-P., Mrs Henrietta
Landen; j. V.-P, Catherine Dumpson; Sec,
Miss \. 4. Harris; Treas, Miss NJ. +. jenkins !;
Chap, Mrs. Susan Hutchins; Con-, Mrs. Eliza
beth Chansy; c., Mrs. Annie NJ. Bradley.
RELIEF OF ARMY WORKERS.
The following additional contributions are
reported by Abbie NJ Gannett for the relief of
army workers: WadhamS Relief Corps, Water
bury, Conn, $G.40; Adams Mass Relief Corps,
50 Fairbanks Relief Corps Detroit, Mich, So {;
"A Friend" New York City, $50; Fa1ragut
Post, Lincoln, Neb, $S.O3; Farragut Corps,
Lincoln, Neb., So; Prescott Corps. Ashland, n
H., (for nurses) s.; Forsyth Relief Corps, No.
l, Toledo o., $S.01.
MEMORIAL DAY OBSERVANCEs.
1t is surely DO reflection on the loyalty of our
people in past years to say that never before has
Memorial Day been SO universally Observed
never SO many loyal, loving hands to strew
Spring flowers over the sacred mounds in our
cemeteries; never such prayer, eulogy and song
as on this last, most sweetly sad of the Nations
holidays. Every year tells its story of more
brave hearts stiiled in death,-now graves to
decorate,-and like the days when the news of
thinning ranks was only signal for more vol
unteers, fresh young lives fill up the gap that
Time has made, and willing hands carry on the
work laid down by, their, patriot fathers and
sainted mothers. At everyplage where a Grand
Army Post and WOmau's Relief Corps is located
has this been particularly noticeable, and the
reports that reach US are such as TO inspire a
truer conception Of the grandeur Of the work
our Order is destined to accomplish Side by
side the Grand Army stand the Woman's Re-
lief Corps and the Sohs of Veterans, in this the
observance of the day of days consecrated to
the memory Of our heroic dead, MAUMEE.