The National tribune., 1886-11-25

corning 10 Ofeneral Ofuers No., OF the Department.
President:
To the Honorable Senator's and Representatives Of
the Ohio legislature: We, the women of Ohio.
socated together in the Woman's Relief Corps
auxiliary 90 the Grand Army of The Republic and
united with the Union Veterans Union and
the loyal men and women of the communities rep
resented by Va, do earnestly petition your honor
able body to make adequate provision for the
orphan children of the Ohio soldiers Of IS6l-65.
. After careful investigation we find that there are
five or six hundred orphan children waiting admis-
sion to the Ohio Soldiers and sailors Orphans
Home at Xenia for whom admission can be
given, owing 20 the crowded condition of that insti-
tuition. We therefore earnestly entreat that you
will take immediate steps looking to the erection
of more cottages and the enlargement Of schools
and industrial departments, necessary for the pro-
lection and training of these helpless wards of the
State, and to this end your petitioners will ever
pray.
HEADQUARTERs WoMAS's RELIEF CORPS
AKRON, o., Nov. Is, ISS6. )
BY instruction of the third annual Convention
WOman's Relief Corps, Department. of Ohio, the
Department President hereby promul gates the fol-
lowing resolutions:
Whereas the Department Of Ohio Grand Army
of the Republic, at the 18th annual Encampment,
held at Akron o., January 1885 did by resolution
petition the Ohio Legislature to appoint a board of
visitors consisting of ladies' to the Ohio Soldiers
and Sailors Orphans Home, located at Xenia o.,
with a view of furthering the interests and improv-
ing the condition of the soldiers and sailors
orphans of Ohio; and,
Whereas the Board of Visitors authorized by the
Legislature under this resolution have in the dis
soldiers and sailors orphans in the aims houses of
the State and 400 others whose applications are on
file, and are now pending; for all of whom no pro-
vision can be made in the Soldiers and Sailors
Orphans Home, owing to its present crowded state
and limited appropriation; and
Whereas the Board of Visitors appointed by the
Board Of Trustees of the Soldiers, and sailors
Orphans Home have formally memoriaized the
Ohio Legislature to provide another additional
number of cottages and enlargement of all depart
ments of the Home sufficient TO meet the wants of
our soldiers and sailors orphans, therefore,
Resoirsd, That the Department of Ohio, Womans
Relief Corps heartily unite in the memorial of the
Board of Visitors of the Soldiers and Sailors
Orphans Home. praying that the Ohio Legislature
will enact speedy measures to carry out the law
providing homes for all the soldiers and sailors'
orphans coming under the provisions of the same
Resoired, That they particularly concur in the
petition asking for the early removal of soldiers
and sailors orphans from the aims houses of the
State that they may be placed in safe and comfort
able homes until such trle as they may be admitted
to the Mother Home.
Resolred That we tender our services TO the
Grand Army Of the Republic To aid in the cireula-
ton of any petitions they may prepare looking to
the earryino, ont If anv recon, datonS ~ the
memorial and that the Department President be
instructed to bring the same before the Corps of
the State.
Following Convention, the Ohio Legislature voted
SIS eco to remove soldiers orphans from the aims
houses Of the State, butnO provision has been made
for their admission to the Ohio Home The De-
partment President has, therefore, prepared the
accompanying petition, which Corps Presidents
are charged to circulate without delay Let the
petitions be headed with the signatures of the off,
GERS of the Corps and of the Post which 1t is aux
Hilary; after that with the membership and loyal
citizens of every community. The work should be
done during the months of November and Deem
Der, and petitions filed at these Headquarters
before Jan. 4, 1887. Let all work together that
the great State of Ohio may deal righteousiy and
mereifully with the helpless orphans of her brave
defenders. Let your petitions be long enough to
girdle the State with links of love and faith.
BY command of SARAH VI, Z. BATTELs, Depart
ment President.
VIRGINIA A. BARTLETT, Department Secretary.
In its mention of recent social meeting of For
syth Corps, No 1, Toledo, o., the Toledo Blade
says: The ladies of the Relief Corps have done
and doing noble work. and the results that
have grown from il are gratifying to all soldiers
J. Il. Steedman Post, No. 800. Cleveland o., make
the following handsome recognition of substantial
gift to their relief treasury by ladies of the Corps
ReSOtUed, That we, the members OF j. Il. Steed-
| man Post, No. 500, Department Of Ohio, GAR,
| do tender 10 the ladies of Wo mans Relief Corps.
/ No. 50, Department of Ohio our heartfelt thanks
/ for their hearty, sincere and substantial aid and
cooperation in assisting and caring for the destitute
/ wards of our Nation, and that to their untiring
efforts in the cause of friendship charity and love
i much credit is DUE and be 10 further
i Resolved. That copy of these resolutions be
/ suitably engrossed. framed and presented to Wom-
ans Relief Corps, No 80, and copy furnished the
| press for publication.
l Thos Jones, :. v. c.; Chas. Griswold, Adjt; G..
/ w. Cowgirl, j. v. c., Committee.