The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-10-25
Dennrtment GlennInrs.

DEPARTMENT OF NEBRASKA.
DEAR TRIBUNE: Our Department President EN-
ma Manchester returned from Columbus, o., and
New York Sept. %. Size reports q grand time at
Columbus. She served on Committees of Crcden-
tials and Presidents and Treasurers address.
Lyde NJ. Bohnc served on National Inspectors adj
dress. ALI our delegates came home feeling that
it was good TO have been there, and with every
energy awakened to do more earnest work for our
beloved Order Through the fundamentally of
Mrs. Manchester the bane that has kept the De-
partment OF Nebraska back for so long-her long
standing debts at last cancelled and to-day
stand free and square with National Headquarters.
In addition to her other duties she resolved to
liquidate this debt by the time the National Con
veDtion met at Columbus. She had only a short
time in which to do it, but with the earnestness
that characterizes all her movements she COM
meneed her iabors. She appealed personally to
every Corps she visited, aud wrote to those she
could not visit. Our Corps are never backward in
well doing, and over half of them generously
sponded and sentin Sl3205 The Department gave
S73. Our boys in blue at the Norfolk Reunion
gave S76i so she had the great pleasure Of going
TO Columbus with the knowledge that she had
| lifted Nebraska out of the nire and put her q
| firm financial foundation, which she never had
| been. Too much cannot be said of those Corps
which so willingly gave all they could; for the
tender, warm hearted sympathy characteristic
! of every true woman OF the Relief Corps, extended
| their dear President The name OF Emma Man
chester will never be forgotten but viii always be
| reverently remembered by every member of this
| Department.
| No sooner had Mrs Manchester liouidated the
| Department debt than her busy brain commenced
planning to raise Department relief fund Some
/
| decided upon but we ali know by past experience
| that when President takes hold of anything it
| is success from the word " go.n
/ Another enterprise which has greatly interested
! our President and to which she has devoted q
great deal Of time, is helping furnish the Soldiers
| Home at Grand Island which was dedicated last
June Through circular letters and visits she pre-
sented the matter 10 the Corps, and soon all were
| at work sending boxes TO the Home. The State
furnishes the necessaries, but all that goes to make
home pleasant and cheerful would be left out if it
were not for the generous donations from the
Corps. Many and many box has been packed
with loving, generous hands aud sent on its GRAND
OF mercy to comfort the boys who so nobly fought
for the Stars and Stripes, and who now, when old
age is creeping on don6y feel the harships Of 1861
Mrs Manchester went TO Grand Island the first
week ia October to meet with the State Board for
the Soldiers Home She visited Captain and
| Mrs. Hammond while there. They have charge
OF tile Home and, in truth, under their efficient
manngementit is indeed home. Nothing is left nn-
done, and all who have come to stay with the Com
naudaDt and his wife write III praise of their many
| l1indnesses to them Mrs. ManchesteT inspected
Zach Chandler, No. 36, at Aurora, Oct 3. White
| head No. a, Orleans. are doing Unusually well
this Winter. Have sold their rag carpet and made
Sl5 on it. Their relief fund has reached $40 All
| are unanimous in praising our devoted President
| for the good she has done our Department.-lda
| Smith Department Corresponding Secretary, Lin
coin, Neb.
ALL ALONG THE LINE.
Mauston (Wis.) paper has this handsome COM
pment for our National President, Charity Rusll
Craig: This promotion is great honor TO Wis
cousin; first, because she is an accomplished lady,
! a talented, pleasant womanly woman. She leads
and controls without the least effort and in
q manner that gives them not the least conception
OF being controlled Second, she is the daughter OF
our honored Governor, j. NJ. Rusk. Third, be-
cause the delegates from all over the Nation APP
preciate the work Of the Wisconsin Department oil
the W.RC., and reward them by promoting theiI
Department President the highest place in their
gift. This lady will be remembered by the people
of Mansion as having addressed them at the NJ. f.
Church last Winter, aud although she not pre-,
pared for speech, she delivered one that quite
ton of everyone"
A letter from the National President Mrs Craig
gives this insight into the business dispatch of Ma
tional Headquarters: . We are quite busy at Head
quarters these times, getting business well in hand
ana keeping as nearly even with the mails as pos
sbe."
We have pleasant glimpse of Viroqua from the
! graceful pen OF our Past National Secretary, Mrs
Cheney, who has been handsomely entertained by
the National President and her friends.
At a reception rendered Gen. Mct'ook at the To
peka Reunion, Mrs. Rebeeea Steeiman McCann
SO frequently heard at Columbus, gave a thrilling
rendition of The Charge of MIXERS Brigade a
| Stone River" an unpublished poem written 10y
Kate b. Sherwood for the last Reunion of the lis
+ Ohio.
At the institution of Sherman Corps, No. 24s, De
partment of Ohio, by Celia a Baldwin, of Buck
ley Corps, Akron, feature Of the public installa
ton in the evening was the selling of cake con
tanning ring, which won by Laura X Fraun
felter, Mrs. Baldwins Assistant and Past L. and
Officer of Department of Ohio.
The editor of the WR.O.scallea on Mrs. Ban
croft Department President Of Ohio, while attend
ing the organization OF the Oj2io Woman's Couuci
at Columbus Oct H. and found her still painfully
i'll. Her able assstants-Miss Burr, Department
Secretary, and Mrs. Hedges, Department Treas
urer-had all their work in apple pie order.
Canton Corps, No. 4, Canton, o., Ada +. Clarke
President, presented the elegant banner carried by
Canton Post in the grand Iaradey National En-
campment II Is a beauty and cost $780,
The W,R.C. Committee, Grand Council, Column
bus, learn with deep regret chat the Department
Presidents of Oregon, Kentucky and Vernon
failed TO secure the elegant souvenir banners pre-
sented to Departments at Columbus. 1t is possible
that friends have them in charge and will yet com
municate with the proper parties. Col. Bancroft
Chairman WR.C. Committee, informs us that The
committee were so DESTROYS that all should bj
served alike that they had q second one made
where Mississippi" embroidered on ont
instead of " Missouri"
Inspection Orders of Mrs Louise A. Robbins De
partment President of Michigan, -Susette r. vii
cox, Secretary,-announce the institution of tn,
following Corps since Department Convention
magnificent records A. b. StuTgis, No I42, Marcel
20 Sturgs; Morgan Wallace, No. 14S, May IL. lie
onidas; M. H. Whitney, No l4I May II, Sane
Lake; o. p. Morton, No. AS, May Is, Manton
Mark Thompson, No. 146, june z, Plainwell; Nc
Cook No. l47, June 2, Mcbride; Wheeler No las
June Ia, Otisyle; Joel Wolcott No. l49 June IA
Frecport; Joseph r.. Smith, No. $50. June %, Mon
zoe. MoPhersou. July IL TraVerse City