The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-09-28

| the Post q surprise party, with program Of
| song and recitation and feast of good things
| innumerable.
Department Chaplain Hattie A. Ralph, oil
Summerville, is recuperating her health in New
| Hampshire.
Corps SO. Whitinsville; Corps 1885, Whitman,
with Post 70 as guests, and Corps 70, Braintree,
| with their Post, are among the Corps reporting
enjoyable picnics.
Corps 90, of Lynn, entertained Corps 65, OF
Stoneham, and Corps SO, of Wakefield, with
! representatives from Charlestown, Salem, and
Lowell, in royal style.
Joseph E. Simmons Corps, III, of Pembroke,
| entertained Department President Clark and
| staff with music, speaking and baby show.
Corps n, Gloucester, by invitation of Col. J.
| ii. French, enjoyed an outing at his beautiful
home, Bay View. Several Post comrades were
| of the party.
Past President Knapp, of Corps 1914, Plym-
| outh, has resumed her supervision of the
Home School for boys, after pleasant Summer
outing.
Corps So of Atho entertained the Winchen-
| den Post, Corps, and Sons of Veterans Camp
at Garden Hall in charming manner.
Twenty-Five members of Corps 5, Medford,
surprised the widow of B. n Adams, who COM
piled the history of Encampment week in
Boston, and presented her 14-months-old boy,
Charles Carleton Coffin Adams, with complete
wardrobe
Gen. Lander Corps, of Lynn, membership
$40, continues the largest in the Department.
Corps IS, Woburn, gained 16 members last
quarter.
The Committee on Massachusetts Relief
Corps history is making excellent progress,
through the active cooperation of the Corps,
one and ALL
Past Department President Mary J. Deane
was guest of the Bristol County Association
of the GAR
Paul Revere Relief Corps, 1O3, of Quincy,
gave handsome lawn-party at Quincy Point
fost ana camp present as guests. Boston
orchestra furnished music for dancing and
male quartet gave pleasing numbers. Refresh
ment tables literally patronized. This Corps
by invitation Of Post IS, enjoyed clam bake
at North Weymouth on Labor Day.
Benjamin Stone Corps, 6S, having pledged
So00 to Post IS to assist in enlarging and fur
nishing Grand Army Hall, gave series of sue
cessiul Summer garden parties for this pur-
pose. AT the last of these was the presen tation
to Past Department Treasurer Hariette i.
Reed of n testimonial, voted her by the
National Council W.R.C., in recognition of
her services on behalf of the Army Nurse mem
sion BILL The
TESTIMONIAL PRESENTED
Harriette /. Reed-who, while serving rs Sec.
rotary of the National Pension Committee,
made several prolonged visits to Washington,
and to whose efforts the passage of the bill was
largely due-is in the form of n bar-pin with
pendant The pin has in the center the gold
recognition pin of the W.R.C., with the in
scription Cav" on one side and 100" on the
other, In reference to the fact that her hus-
band, Capt. j. Sewall Reed, served in the Cali
lorna cavalry contingent. The pendant is
Sheridan's cavalry badge; the blue oval has on
1t two crossed swords, surrounded by rays of
silver and studded with diamonds The SOL
1lerS of tho California cd
to Mrs. Reed, who accompanied her husband
on the long journey from California to the
'front.' remaining with them in camp until
Capt. Reed was killed.
In presenting the testimonial Lizabeth A.
Turner, Past National Senior Vice President,
very feelingly referred to the young bride who
lett her home in Massachusetts for the other
almost foreign land of California with the
brightest hopes for her future. Then the call
10 arms, the patriotic response of Massachusetts
sons III that far-away State the long and tedi-
Gus journey, the camp life and then the sorrow
OF that last home. coming with the lifeless body
OF that patriot and hero, her devotion to the
Invalid child left to her trust, and at last, when
that was taken from her, her consecrated serv-
ices on behalf of the suffering and needy vet
eran, his family, and the women who cared for
the boys at the front The speech was full of
interest, as we'll as appropriate to the occasion,
and In accepting the gift Mrs. Reed feelingly
responded.
Sarah j. Williamson, Department Core
spending Secretary, Wollaston Mass.
ALL ALONG THE LINE.
At the celebration of the 25th anniversary of
Col. j. w. Patterson Post, Isl, Pittsburg, they
were presented with pair of handsome swords
by Patterson Relief Corps.
The Proceedings of Ninth Annual COnven-
tiOn, Department Of Maine. W.RC, appear in
condensed form, with frontispiece of Depart
ment President Mary E. Inman The Journal
records much excellent work performed by the
earnest women of the Pine Tree State.
Although they are little late for publica-
ton, best thanks are extended for excellent
communications indorsing the position of The
NATIONAL TRIBUNE on the vital question of
economy in general expenditures and more
money for relief. Eleventh National Conven.
ton. WR.C., fully Endorses The NATIONAL
TRIBUNE views and "Cal a Halt" is now a
halt called, in far as National Legislation
can control affairs. Now for "a long pull, a
strong pull and pull all together" that this year
may be the best year the Woman's Relief Corps
has ever known, National, Department and
Corps.