The National tribune., 1889-06-20
RELIEF CORPS NEWS.
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{ MEMORIAL DAY.

The country over. from the Atlantic to the
Pacific. despite the storms so widespread and Sc
we're, Memorial Day kept by the patriotic sons
and daughters of the Union. The Memorial OF the
Flowers, given by many Corps, added new
significance to the sacred day, inasmueh as 1t
coupled reverence for the dead with thoughtful
love for the living.
And the children representing the States OF the
united Union, how beautiful and bright and heav-
emily they were, dressed in red. white and blue
bearing their crosses and garlands, and placing
them on the broken column in memory OF the
unknown dead.
The first Corps to report the proceeds of the
Memorial of the Flowers was Phil H. Sheridan
Corps McConnellsville, o., instituted after National
Convention by Charity Rusk Craig, National
President Alice Cary, President, forwarded $40
Memorial Day to the Chairman National Pen
sion and Relief Committee, saying the entertain
ment was beautiful and so greatly enjoyed by
those giving Then A. H. Frost Corps, No. 2,
Winthrop, Me-, reported $25, and Jacob Banker
Corps, No. IT, Middleton, o., $40. And so the re-
turns come, and it begins to look as though the
friendless widows and mothers and Army Nurses
of soldiers would indeed be given real home by
the loyal and patriotic Womans Relief Corps.
THE DAY EVERYWHERE.
Memorial Day reports come pouring in, showing
how the busy hands of the Relief Corps twined the
Significance to the day.
On the platform of Music Hall, Cleveland, two
floral designs placed there by Memorial Corps, No.
A, were conspicuous for their beauty. One was
inscribed To the Unknown Dead,' the other " In
Memory of Those Who Were Killed in Battles or
Died in Prison." At Woodawn Cemetery, in the
center of the soldiers plat secured through the
| instrumentality of Louise NJ Roland, Department
! Senior Vice-President, and Memorial Corps, for
the burial of soldiers who may die in the city with
| out other place of iuterment flagstaff, trimmed
| with flowers, hoated q handsome new flag, and
every grave was marked with small flag.
| Russell Corps, No. rs, Hubbardston, Mich. not
! withstanding the mingling of rain and snow, OBJ
! served Memorial Day with true patriotic feeling.
| Union Hall was decorated with National cOlors,
| flowers and plants, and the Memorial of the Flow
| ers' was given under the direction OF Mrs. Q. K.
Bennett. Following address by William D.
| Webster, of Ionia the occasion was made more
/ impressive by calling the roll of departed heroes
and decorating a monument inscribed Our Sol
diers." f. G: Reed, Commander, Russell Post;
| Lucy B. Reed, President Russell Corps, and the
citizens OF Hubbardston are commented Tor zeal
GUS work.
/ The Wadsworth (o.) Banner pays the following
! compliment to Sarah M. e. Battels, Past Depart
ment President, the orator of the day " Mrs. Bat
| tells present and delivered of the finest
addresses we have ever heard. 1t was pithy, peril
| nent and enthusiastic AS orator she is mag
niticent The old style of public defamation and
| its tedious patitudes don't win any more. Audi
| ences of to-day demand something new and origi-
nal in oratory. Because of this and her genius
Mrs. Battels was eminently successful in her work
1 here.n
| AZ AkEOHs Oi buckley OOrpS Eenu0TSu bhS uSud
! efficient service to the Post Sunday they joined
| the Post in Memorial service at Grace Reformed
| Church. together with the S. of V. and ID. of ".
and on Monday assisted in the decoration of graves
! giving the beautiful ceremonial of the Memorial
| of the Flowers in memory of the Unknown
Dead" The storm putting an end to the parade
ali assembled at the hall, where Hon. s. p. Wolcot
delivered an address and Capt, L. Fraunfelter, Su
perntendent Public Schools read poem.
Lewis Post and Corps, Xehia, o., celebrated
| Memorial Day notwithstanding the adverse ele
ments. The :" Memorial of the Flowers, given by
40 children from the Ohio Soldiers aud Sailors Or
phans' Home, Melted the Relief Corps Home thu
handsome sum of 500.
Miss Hannah U. Maxon of Gallipolis o., writes
that Memorial exercises were particularly pleas
| ing, especially in songs and reeitations from " Me
mortal of the Flowers"
About 80 members of Sheridan Corps, McCon
nelsyille, accompanied by 43 children and usi
cal committee, went into the country with thei
Post and decorated graves that were missed Memo
rial Day.
Edna NJ. Yost, Corresponding Secretary of Buck
ley Corps, in reporting the work of the day, says
Since Memorial Day twoadeaths have occurred il
Buckley Post, OF the comrades having assistet
in decorating the graves. Only think of It'll IL
less than three days two old soldiers have die
in this city; and thus they are going from US, on
by one, until soon there viii be more Grant
Army. o, hope every woman who reads thes
lines, If she is not already worker in the W.R.C
will join our ranks, and help to make the FEY
years that left TO the old soldiers comfortabl
as we possibly can. Our is surely worth
one. 1t is to these soldiers that the country owe
her prosperity, and every loyal woman of on
land should feel that it is her duty TO assist tn
men who did much that we might have FIRE
and united country