The National tribune., 1894-08-16

Corps, Waliingford, Conn, the Pest and Corps,
Meriden, together with Dutton Post, were pres
emit as guests.
The New York Commission for the erection
of the new Relief Corps Home have several
plans under consideration. A piece of ground
has been offered for a consideration near the
Soldiers Home, Bath. The commission say
they will pay ont nothing for land.
| Two weeks after the Washington and Alaska
! Convention, W.R.C, the Secretary, Lizzie Z.
| Herrick, Past Department President, had the
| minutes in the hands of the printer, and is now
| with her family at their country ranch near
Port Angeles, to stay until the latter part of
August.
Col. Carl N. Bancroft and wife, Mary E. Ban
croft, National Inspector, are spending the
| Summer in Montpelier VT, having visited Ma
tional President Sarah c. Mink, Syracuse, N.
| Y, en- route.
We believe as Flo Jamison Miller, Past Ma
| tional Inspector, believes when she says: I" We
| believe voice the sentiment of the majority
| of our Order when we say let US go into the
| coming Convention resolved to legislate for all,
| and not take up our valuable time 'thrashing
old straw; cases that have been settled for
| ever should remain buried, and all thinking
delegates should labor for the future and not
bring back tho past"
| President Laura s. Dodge, upon retiring from
her office at Colorado Convention, was presented
| gold watch and chain. Colorado has % Corps
which contributed S57 to the National Relief
| Corps Home, besides contributing literally to
| the Colorado Soldiers Home and other funds,
National and Department.
| Mrs. Senator Harlan has been selected by
the Iowa Commission to represent the soldier
| mother teaching her children the history of
the war, group which will occupy the front
face of the great soldiers monument to be
erected on the site of the old State House. adj
| joining the new Capitol. Her grandson, son of
Robert Lincoln and grandson of Abraham
Lincoln, the little lad who died in London, has
been chosen as the model for the boy.
| Seven hundred children, under the super
| vision of the Relief Corps took part in the
memorial Day observances at Galesburg, ILL.,,
| and gave the Memorial of the Flowers" in
| an impressive manner around a flag capped,
| flower wreathed monument.
| Illinois gained 5l3 members last Department
year. Expenditures in lines of relief as fol-
lows: Cash. Sc, 17647; other than money, S.
14646; turned over to Posts, $1,S44O2; Ma
tional fund, S25; Stephenson fund, $301.75; for
National Home, $I0250; making grand total
| of Sl3, 5000.
The teaching of patriotism, advocated by the
W.RC, has taken firm hold upon the hearts of
the veterans and the absence of the Stars
and Stripes is quickly noted and commented
upon by the men who saved the flag. In the
Alliance (Ohio) Standard Reuiew. veteran from
Damascus, o., comments upon the appearance
of the Garfield and Damascus Academies at
commeneement.-Nation Picket
Headquarters Department of New Hamp-
shire will be at the st. Charles Hotel, Pittsburg
Addie S. Hughes, Department President, Emma
3. Hull, Secretary.
New Hampshire closed the quarter ending
June 30 with 3,815 members. Since last re-
ports six Corps have contributed to the Ma
tional Veterans Building, Wiers and one TO the
Department Relief fund. Department Re-
lief Committee is announced, with Nancy w.
Moore, President.
At the Sons of Veterans Eucampment, held
in Knoxville, Tenn, Aida Rule on behalf of
the Relief Corps at that place, presented Past
President Ramage with handsome medal of
| floral design, the petals tipped with diamonds.
Do not forget the patriotic efforts of Puma
l.. Cowles, Geneva, o., Secretary National
Relief Corps Home, to secure funds to erect
monument for Mrs. Carter, the Army Nurse in
Ohio County, KY. Every mickle makes
muckle," as the caDny ScOtsmen say
Mary d. Stephenson, daughter of the founder
of the GAR, has performed real service to the
Grand Army, as well as showing flial honors
to her beloved father, in publishing his biog-
raphy. portrait of DR.. Stephenson accom-
panies the interesting volume. Send her 81 to
Petersburg, ILL.,, and secure copy and thus
assist her in caring for her invalid mother
The public schools of ST. Louis for the first
time observed Memorial Day May 80 last. The
flags were placed at half mast, and teachers
told their children why the day was kept sa-
cred. This result was brought about through
a committee of which Hollen E. Day was Chair
man, acting by authority of the GAR. and
W.R.C May 80, 1893, half holiday was Sc
cured through the same agency.
writer in the Blue and GRAY. writing of
the Reunion April and z, 1894 of Union and
ex Con federate soldiers on the battlefield of
Shiloh, 80 years after that decisive battle of the
West was fought, and of the formation of an in
corporated company of participants on both
sides, to purchase and beautify the field for
National Park, says: 1t means much, for the
dead that sleep so well beside the Tennessee
are tho outer guard that watch the coming of
the Republics greatness, and in their names,
and by the sacredness of their memory, there
shall go into every house, North or South.
power that will strike to the earth any man
or set of men who seek TO set aside the decree
of the God of Battle, written by the hand of
war on that and other fields of the rebellion"
Past Department President Mary A. McQuis-
tom Lyon received as a wedding gift from
Lewis Post and Corps, Xenia, O., a handsome
antique oak ~writing-desk, which Capt. Lyon
has draped with silk flag She is happy, but
finds herself unable to express her deep ap-
probation of this beautiful gift from friends
tried and true.
A wel-known press correspondent, connected
with Eastern newspapers, is looking up data
for an article on the business ability and in
tellectual brilliancy of women of the Relief
Corps, for articles in connection with 18th
National Convention, and says: 81 have a
great opinion of its members in these direc-
TONS and do not think there is another such a
body of women, all things considered, in the
world"