The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-05-09
Department Gleanings.
OHIO DEPARTMENT. CONVENTION.

The Ohio Convention will long be memorable for
its pleasant and profitable business sessions and
Its wise and generous plannngs for the grand sol
der cause In which 1t IS heartily enlisted.
Among the important orders of Convention were
first to continue the contributions of hospital sup
plies aud cottage adornmeus to the Ohio Soldiers
and Sailors Home, Sandusky, and to provide
Christmas boxes for both the Orphans Home
Xena, and the Soldiers Home. It voted to pro-
vide for Department Pension and Relief Commit
tee whose duties are to be similar to those of the
National Pension and Relief Committee with which
it will also cooperate in Ohio affairs in seeking out
and verifying the cases of soldiers widows, army
nurses, and
Convention voted to unite with the Grand Army
in pressing upon the Legislature the importance of
establishing cottages at the Soldiers Home for the
admission OF the wives of destitute and disabled
soldiers and for the building of additional cottages
at the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home A
resolution was adopted calling upon National Con
vention to take such steps might be necessary to
place army nurses and soldiers widows as nurses
in the hospitals of the National Soldiers Homes
throughout the Union. An appropriation of $3.50
was converted from the general fund TO the Sol
diers Home fund to purchase present wants, such
as wheel chairs, rubber cushions ankle supporters
etc, for the use Of invalid soldiers. The Soldiers
Home Committee were instructed to issue further
call for short gowns head and back rests, cushions
jellies, and SO on The report of what the commit
tee last year accomplished will be given at another
time. Twenty-Five dollars voted, as last year,
to decorate the graves at Richmond IN addition 10
contributions Corps may make. The per capita
was reduced to cents quarter, and it was ordered
that per cent of all the receipts of the general fund
should pass into the Department relief fund quar-
tery \ wheel chair voted to crippled COM
rade in the Soldiers Home vino has not walked
for Il years.
BY invitation of Encampment delegates repaired
to the Opera House for joint installation. Belle T.
Basley, Past Department President and Senior
National Aid Installing Officer. At the conclusion
she was herself installed rs Counselor by Cora av
Young Past National Senior Vice President OH
GERS installed: Department President Elizabeth
Sutherland Heron, Cincinnati; = N.-P., Louise
NJ. Roland, Cleveland; j. N.-P., Mary l. Arnold.
Fnday; sec, Maggie Brooks CINCINNATI; Treas.
Mary NJ. Guingon Cincinnati; Chap, Gertrude b.
Williams, Norwalk; Counselor Belle T. Bagey,
Evansville; ms Elizabeth NJ. Bowersox. THIN;
institutng and Installing Officer, Jennie F. Bright
Troy. Executive BOaTd-Emma h MeCanu mon,
Carthage; Elizabeth Mansfield Irving, Toledo ;
Harriet Robinson, Daytonj Jennie h. Craemer,
Upper Sandusky.
Joseph W. OiNealI, retiring Department Com
mander, delivered handsome eulOgy ON the work
of the retiring President Mrs. Bancroft, and the
Ohio W.R.C Addresses were made by Gen. :. ".
| Hurst, installed Department Commander; also by
Mrs Sherwood and Mrs. Bagley aud Mrs Irving
gave of her fine reeitations.
BY vote of Convention the Soldiers and Sailors
Home Committee was continued, but Sarah NJ.
E. Battels, Secretary could not be prevailed upon
to serve another year owing TO the invalidisn of
her soldier brother and her husband and as Mrs
Bagley, Mrs. Heron and Mrs. Roland were all
chosen to All Department offices the Department
President announced the committee as follows ::
Kate Il. Sherwood, Chairman, Toledo; &nnis W.
Euochs Secretary. Ironton; Kate E. Putnam,
| Springfeld Ada F. Clark, CantOni Rinnie c. Hol-
! lday, Steubenville.
The Department Pension and Relief Committee
| headed by the retiring Department President who
rendered the National Pension and Relief Commit
tee such important service last year. is as follows
| Mary Z. Bancroft, Columbus: Hannah o. MaxOn,
| GallipOlis Adde 0utcalt, Cincinnati Miss Maxon
will be remembered by the soldiers who had any
knowledge of the Gaiitpolis Hospital where she
| was first to last the presiding genius.
| Delegates andalteTnates elected to National Con-
vention; Delegate at-LaTge, Ella c. Burr; Alter
| nate at Large, Ada b. DeWof Columbus; Dele
| gates, Lizzie BowerSox, Tifin; Carrie b. Hedges,
| Columbus; Elizabeth Daugherty, Dayton; Mary
Tsff,S ArRFtss
Elizabeth NJ. Irving, Toledo; Florence Hanawalt,
| Mt Sterling; Charlotte ID. Davidson, Xenia Fran
| ees Munger Cleveland; Celia A. Baldwin, Akron;
Ada +. Clark, Canton; Jennie Lindsey, Steuben-
VILE AteTnates, Mary J. kelsy, Toledo; Ger
trude B. Williams, NorwalS Sadie Parsons, Ra-
VIENNA; Lucinda Wilson, Malvern; Nancy Fitch,
Youngstown; Mary Clark, Middletown Celia
Thomas Wellington; ). Agnes Bargus, Collins;
Clara s Landor WeSteryille; Ella 2. Thomson
Marysville; Clara 5. Rose, Hamilton; Margaret
Delo, Springfield
LETTER TO DEPARTMENT PRESIDENTS.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF WISCONSIN
AuxflIARY TO THE GAR No IOI NINE
TENTH ST., MILWAUKEE april "a, 1889.
DEAR MADAM: l have the honor to inform you
in the High school Building, corner Of Cass and
Knapp streets. The committee of the W.R. G. viii
have headquarters with the National Headquarters,
and Department of Wisconsin headquarters Will be
announced later.
Please ascertain as soon as possible how many
IF your DeDartmeIlk will attend the Eneampment
i'm Milwaukee. For board and lodging you will
confer with II. G. Spencer Chairman of Committee
on Hotels Boarding and Halls Milwaukee, Wis.
The Woman's Club has secured the Atheuseum
on Biddle street, a place of resort during the
Convention Ladies will be in attendance 10 re-
eeive our guests of the W,R,C.
would suggest that each Department send ban
ners flags anything to decorate their headQuur
ters to A. l.. Worden, Chairman of the W.EC.
Committee, the first week in August, 1889 as then
they will be placed III the different headquarters
before the rush, and Aidsde-Camp viii be in
readiness 10 assist in opening boxes and arranging
articles of decoration. Having had some expe-
riencc in digging things out at express offices,
know whereof speak.
A lunch viii be served to delegates only each
day at noon, so as TO enable them to be in their
seats time.
The National Convention will be held in Imman-
uel Church, on Astor street, in one of the most
beautiful parts of the city, just block from all
the headquarters
Any aid which the Department President or the
Department Secretary render viii be gladly
given. In T.. g. and L..
CAROLINE II. BELL, Department President.
MARFfIA II RAYNOR. DeDartment SecretarV