The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-08-31
TBE RELIEF CORPS,
Gleanings from National Headquar-
terS---NOtes from the Departments
ELEVENTH NATIONAL CONVENTION.

ELEVENTH NATIONAL CONVENTION.
The Ladies' Citizens Committee Complete
Arrangements for Receptions, Drives and
Lunches.
At the grand W.RC. reception Of Conven-
tion week the guests will be served from tables,
and each member of the committee will be as
sisted by four young ladies, who will dispense
the inequalities of the occasion. Five thou
sand invitations have been issued, and many
distinguished people will be present as guests.
Among the distinguished persons who are
down for remarks arc ex-President Harrison,
Margaret Ray Wilkins, National President of
the W.R.C.; Carrie V. Sheriff, National Presi-
dent of the Ladies of the GAR; ex-Secre-
taries Noble and Rusk, Gen. Lew Wallace, Com
mander- in Chief Weissert, and the Department
Commander and the Department President of
Indiana.
Monday afternoon, from 2 to o'clock, car
riages will be placed at the disposal of National
officers, W.RC, and the officers of other Orders,
for drive around the city. The Reformatory
for Women and Girls, the first institution of
the kind governed entirely by women, and the
Harrison will be places of interest pointed out.
Several receptions will be given Wednesday
evening for the visitors. Col. and Mrs Eli Lilly
will entertain the members of Col. Lilly's regi-
ment. The indianapolis Relief Corps will
unite in reception at the Propyleum, and the
Department of Indiana, W.R.C, will receive at
the Statehouse; all at 8 o'clock.
The Ladies Citizens Committee will serve
luncheon on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
at the several churches and at the Y. NJ. c. A.
Building, whore Conventions will be held.
There will be reception of Capt. Phil
Kearny's cavalry company, Mexican war, Cd
Ind. Cav. and the First Brigade, Fifth Diyis-
ion 9th Ind, 10Th Mo-, 10th Tenn, Sd III.
cavalry regiments), commanded by Col. Robert
Reed Stewart, Sept 6, z to 10 p. m, at the resi-
dence of Mr.. and Mrs. Emil Wulschner, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex. MEG. Stewart, 40 North
Meridian street.
THE w.R.C. AT THE WORLDS FAIR.
The Department of Maryland. W.R.C., and
Department of Connecticut, W.R.C.. will find
in the Loyal Home Workers Department. de-
scrptions of their interesting exhibits at the
Worlds Fair. Not only the W.RC, but the
c. c. will be interested in the painting of the
"Star-Spangled Banner" and the W.R.C. badge
made from piece of the " Charter Oak"
Godfrey Wietzel Corps SIZE. E. Brent Presi.
dent-wll be at home in the northwest corner
of the Woman's Building, Worlds Fair
Grounds, on GAR. Day, Sept 9, to receive Ma
tional and Department Presidents and Aids
National and Department Commanders and
Aids, and all members and friends of the
W.R.C. and GAR. from 10 a. 10. until p. II.
Entrance Sixtieth street.
FROM GOD TO GOD"
DEAR TRIBUNE: To her friends and associ-
ates, in and out of Michigan, the sad tidings of
the death of our well-beloved Hattie r. Muir
ray will awaken universal sorrow. Sabbath
morning, Aug 5, her spirit passed from the
casket which had enshrined it during its
earthly pilgrimage, on to its eternal abode.
In the rich Summertime of the year, and in
the rich Summertime of her life, she has gone
to solve the problem of the future. Her life
was eager, noble. womaD1y, and honorable. 1t
lasted half a century, ending in the full fruit
age of mature life; yet, through our tears, We
say: "She should have died hereafter" Our
comfort is that
Death is but the door
That opens to larger life"
Her mortal journeyings her joys and sor-
rows and good deeds are ended forever. She
has passed to the Silent Land.
make room, o. silent landl make room, for one
Cometh 10 thee for rest-make room for her
woman honored loved. lamented sore,
One who was gifted with far-reaching thought,
And true to her conceptions OF right.
Genial and pitiful, yet brave and strong
To meet the inevitable ills of life
Counting no sacrifice of self too great
That should enhance the sum of human good,
Bind up a wounded heart, shield the oppressed,
Or feed the hungry Lazarus at her gate"
Hattie Roberts Murray was born Jan. %,
1843, in Cleveland, o., where her father died
when she was five years old, and then her
widowed mother removed to Toledo, o., where
nine years later her daughter was lett an
orphan.
She was educated at st. Mary's Convent, To-
ledO. and at the age of II became a member of
the First Congregational Church of that city.
In that church she was married July 49, 1866,
to Capt. Chester ]. Murray, member of the
9Th Mich. Cav. From that time her houe was
in Homer, Mich.
Two children are left to mourn loved
mother and to be the solace of their heart
broken father. One, beautiful young woman,
q graduate of Albion College, and now First
Instructor in Music in the Conservatory of
Music in the Central Normal School at Mt.
Pleasant, Mich. The other, noble son, is the
editor of the Homer IHder. Both show the
impress of their mothers cultured mind and
the results of her gentle, wise guidance.
Capt. Murray is highly respected man, well
known in the fraternal, business and political
circles of the State, and an enthusiastic COM
rade of the GAR All members Of the family
have long been members of the Presby terian
Church of Homer.
Well educated in her girlhood and with a
gifted mind, Mrs. Murray was naturally a
student She was n member of the first Chau-
tauqua class. graduating with 1t and receiv-
ing diploma; and has since, for additional
studies, received six seals, one of them the
white seal, so much priced by students of
Chautauqua.
She was an active and earnest member of the
W. c. T. o.. in which she held many positions
of trust. OF patriotic and generous impulses,
she united at the first opportunity with the
WRC, and was ever devoted and faithful
worker in its ranks. She was the first Presi-
dent of Gregg Corps Homer, and served three
terms.
In Department circles various and many
were the important duties entrusted to her
Many times she represented Michigan as dele
gate in National Conventions, and once as
delegate-at-large.
She was Departm ent Junior Vice-President
during President Plummers successful year,
and the Senior Vice-President during President
Robbinss year which followed. She will be
remembered in the st. Louis Convention as
capable and strong in urging the election of
Emma S. Hampton for National President.
President Hampton's election and her splendid
record prove that she was far-seeing and wise
| in discerning worth and ability.
In the Columbus Convention. as Department
Senior Vice-Presldent, she led the Michigan
delegation in the absence of Department Presi-
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