The National tribune., 1895-04-11

Carrie westenburg Is the President of Corps
26. Hartford, Wis. The Post protest that they
are not located at Stratford, whore q typo
| graphic error placed them.
| At the installation of officers of Post and
Corps. Ontario. Wis, Corps IS presented the
Post with supper and SO.
| Department President Florence l.. Hayden,
| Meriden. Conn, announces Ella +. Lewis Meri-
den, Press Correspondent. Let us hear from
her often.
oLD-FAsHIoNEp AID SOCIETY.
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Farnsworth. Hicksville. o., re-
Gently planned The Oid-fashioned Aid So
cicty" as part of q Corps Entertainment at
that place. The women dressed in the cos
tunes OF ls61-6o, hoops and all. and success
sion Of scenes represented them at work scrap
ing lint, sewing. packing boxes, and on.
Six original poems of her own composition
were rendered: Picking Lint" Boys Com
ing Home" "Our Flag" "The Little Boys of
'61, )" Our Wounded" and 1.-THE Evening Con-
cert of q Coming Battle"
portrait of Mary A. Livermore, the Army
Nurse and temperance speaker, was presented
to the Post.
MASSACHUSETTS DECISIONS.
Among the important decisions of the De-
partment Convention of Massachusetts, WERE
to recommend to next National Convention
the adoption of a salute to the flag as part Of
the exercises of Corps under Good of the Order;
to pay tho extra per capita tax required for the
National Relief Corps Home from the Depart-
ment Treasury; to send $50 to Department
Commander Church Howe for Nebraska suffer-
ers; and to ask the Department Commander,
GAR, to appoint Department Relief Com
mittee TO confer with like committee from
the W.R.C.
Department President Cook has appointed
Past National Chaplain Mary E. Knowles,
SOmerville, Chairman OF Committee on Pa
triotic Instruction. and Maggie E. b. Hutchins,
Boston, Chairman of Department. Relief Com.
mittee.
A woMAN's CHALLENGE.
Department President Emma b. Alrich, of
Kansas, makes this unique challenge in the last
issue Of the Cawker City Record, of which she
is joint editor Who will meet it?
This office is not given to Boosting but we
want to mention the fact the Department Pres-
dent of the W.R.C. set mp her own General Or
der which was issued recently. We challenge
other Departments or Administrations to name
a like case"
CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA.
DEAR TRIBUNE: The 11sh annual Conven-
ton, Department of California and Nevada,
will be held in the Senate Chamber Of the Capt.
tol. Sacramento. April %.
Two Corps we're added to the roster last
quarter, and 40 placed on the honor-roll.
Twenty-three report no suspended members
Eight deaths reported. In the quarter Depart
ment gained $50 members.
Lincoln Corps expended S197.S0 cash in
lief; Wallace ReynoldSCorps, Sis. Stanton
and Cornman follow in the order named.
Lincoln Corps held an enthusiastic March
social and supper. Arrangements for a grand
Christmas bazaar have begun, and the men,
bers are vying with each other in making
beautiful aud ssleable articles Lincoln Corps
spent oyer $500 for relief the past year.
Riverside Corps. 81 surprised the Post at
their last meeting and presented them beau
tiful silk altar flag. Presentation by Mrs NJ.
M. Davis and response by Commander Gayl0r
Rouse were both appropriate and to the point.
Refreshments and Campfire talks followed.
A New England supper and apron sale is the
latest enterprise of Corps a.
Stanton Post and Corps have held their first
monthly social in their new quarters. Capt.
Dill, of San Diego. President of the Southern
California Veteran Association, and Comrade
Campbell, favorite orator of the GAR, were
among the speakers. Over 800 guests sat down
to supper. Music and dancing followed.
Lyon Corps 6, Oakland, entertained Rawlins
Corps. Stockton, and James A. Garfield Corps,
San Francisco, following q regular meeting. at
which they were visitors. A fine lunch was
served and excellent program carried out.
John A. Dix Post and Corps San Francisco
pass-around lunch was served and the inform
atty was delightful.
The Book Social of Gordon Granger Corps
was unique. Those representing books were
drawn up in line for the guessers to declare the
titles. The four whom nobody guessed drew
for prizes. Mrs. Randall won a rose pillow and
A. III. Clark cake. They represented "The |
Vine aud Olive" and "The Silent Friend"
Eliza j. Shepard, Department. Correspond |
emit.
THE BOYS OF MANY SCARS.
Anna E. Askwith, Delegste-at Large from |
Nebraska to National Convention at Pittsburg, |
in her report to the late Nebraska Convention, |
refers touchingly to the Grand Army parade in |
the following land how soon, alas, there will |
be no more of them):
"On Tuesday we witnessed the grand parade.
wish you all could have seen the boys, for
boys they tried to feel that day, though many
poor cripple was seen in the ranks. We saw
and counted 80 men with right arms off, and
there were probably more we did not see.
They were singing aud bands were playing
THE Girl / Left Behind Me- Marching
Through Georgia. and all those tunes which
inspired the boys in the COS.
Though how tired they were at nightfall |
The veterans scarcely stand a march now. |
do not wish to take up your time with a de-
scription of the parade, but it was inspiring
and memorable. To the members of the GAR.
j
year with those with whom they marched dur
ing the war"
CUMMINGS & CUMMINGS.
The martial firm of Cummings & Cummings, of
Pennsylvania, are marching on under the old |
flag to the highest honor5 of American citizen |
ship. 1t is now Department Commander Cum |
ings, GAR, and Past Department President |
Cummings Recording Secretary Of the Pennsyl- |
vania Memorial Home.
No better work has been done for the Grand |
Army and Relief Corps than by this energetic, |
patriotic firm of Cummings & Cummings, and may |
they keep right on and up until they shall |
wear the highest honors in the gift of the |
GAR. and W.R.C.
Rheumatism is disease of the blood and is cured |
by Hoods Sarsaparills. Take only Hoods.
Massachusetts Daughters of Veterans.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: At the fifth |
annual Convention of the Massachusetts De-
partment, Daughters of Veterans, held in Boston
March % and 49, Mrs. Alice G.. Knowlton was
elected President.