The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-05-09

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special proteges; their interests are hers, their
cares and perplexities are her heart burdens.
No home is too lowly for her to enter, no hand
too ignoble for her to grasp
" In hospital life. too, she learned from those
brave men, to whose SORROWS she ministered
and whose wounds she stanched, to stand for
principle and DO firm and true in the line of
duty, even as they stood by right and honor in
defense of home md country"
LENA sPRISGsTEEN.
The claims and qualifications of the candi-
date OF Memorial Corps A, Cleveland, are
tersely set forth in o circular letter addressed
to the officers and members Of the Woman's Re
lief Corps, Department of Ohio, signed by
Alice w. Fuller. Sarah F. Bates, and Hannah
Shepherd, committee. Following is the text:
DEAR SISTERS: Memorial Corps, a, takes
great pleasure in announcing that Lena Spring
steen, one OF our Past Presidents, at the ear
nest solicitation of many friends throughout
the State, has consented to become q candidate
for the position OF Department President for
the ensuing year, and her name will be pre-
sented for that office at the Department Con-
vention to be held in Sandusky in June.
Lena Springsteen is a woman OF great ex-
ecutive ability and rare tact-dianifed in her
bearing, but of kindly and amiable nature,
winning all hearts wherever she goes. She is
the wife of soldier whs gave three years Of
steen has been member of A for 10 years
and has served the Corps as Junior Vice and
Conductor. and for the past three years has
been its honored President. She loves the
work, and under her able guidance and man
agement, the Corps has been wonderfully pros
pered. No appeal for aid from any source has
been left unhesded, and she is never so happy
as when away on some mission of mercy. In
the Department she has held the offices of Aid.
tint linz sopd Tpr oil and
is ut present Senior Vice President and Assist
ant Inspector, and has filled these positions
with credit to herself and the Order.
She has been Endorsed Unanimously by
her Corps, ~, and Post al. and other Corps in
the State, also by the 18th District, and is in
every way qualified to fill the place we ask for
her, so situated as to DO able TO give all her
time and attention to the work. The north
eastern part Of the State has never had De-
partment President, and We feel it is due
that Headquarters be established this year
upon the Western Reserve, which has been the
home Of so many noble patriots, where rests
our sainted Garfield, and in which is located
our beautiful W.R.C Home.
I'VE kindly ask your delegates to support
Lena Springsteeb, and place her at the head Of
the Department, resting assured her best efforts
will be put forth to further the great work in
which we are engaged"
FIRST MEMORIAL DAY.
The woman's edition of the Wooster (O.)
Republican, Jennie Lerch editor, was the en-
terprise of Given Corps, its motto being:
For what they were and what they dared
Remember them to day"
Among the readable articles are one on
School Days" by Lucis s. Hamilton, Depart
ment Junior Vice President and Lena Spring
steen, Department Senior Vice President
Another writer mentions that Memorial Day
irt, nfn1 Dn.t
society over which Mrs. Amanda Purcell pre-
sided for nearly 30 years. she dying recently
at the advanced age Of SO years. This writer
says:
'At the outbreak of the rebellion Portsmouth
had an independent company which responded
to the call for 5000 men. These boys were
among the first in the fray, and several of them
fell i'll battle within a month and three silent
forms were returned to their homes. Immedi-
ately after the departure of the boys the ladies
of Portsmouth organized what was undoubtedly
the first Soldiers Aid Society of the war, plac-
ing Mrs. Purcell at its head. In 1888 the
Society had not disbanded, nor had Mrs Pur-
cell ceased to be its President. After the war
they directed their efforts to the care of the
soldiers orphans and widows.
" 1t was on May 80, 1861 this band of patri-
otto women and weeping mothers, bibles and
hymn-books in hand, went to the city ceme-
sodded mounds of the boys who had given their
lives in their country's cause, and this simple
service they have not failed to hold annually
since, notwithstanding the more formal exer-
cises founded upon it by the Grand Army after
its institution, for it is claimed it was from
this our National Memorial services sprang."
WAR SONG CONCERT.
The Young Woman's Department of the
W. G. A. gave concert of war songs and
choruses at the Grand Opera House, Dayton,
o., which Past Department President Mary
McQuiston Lyons pronounces splendid. There
was reveille by buglers. followed by "Glory
We Are Coming, Father Abra-
ham," THE Vacant Chair" When Johnny
Comes Marching Home" Battle Cry of Free
dom" The Star Spangled Banner" "Tenting
on the Old Camp Ground" "Old Shady"
: Tramp. Tramp. Tramp" and Marching
Through Georgia." tho whole concluding with
. My Country, IT'S of Thee" Recitations and
the display of stereopticon portraits OF Lincoln
Ind famous Generals varied the program.
WOMAN VETERAN.
Sarah SinfeId. who died recently at Dun.
Kirk, N. Y, aged "a, was one of the real veter-
ms of the war. She enlisted in 1861 with her
husband in Co. E. Sd Excelsior, afterward 72d
Y. Y, and served until the close.
She washed. mended, cared for the sick and |
wounded for the first two years. and in 1868 at
Gettysburg entered the hospital to take care of |
Ter wounded husband, and after that served as |
Army Nurse She drew pension.
Each Memorial Day she marched with her |
husband, VIM. Sinfeld, and the old battle-hag |
n tue ranks of Dunkirk Post.
OHIO GAR. AND W.R.C
The 18th Ohio District Convention, under
he direction of Asst Insttuting and Installing
officer Anna Z. Pittengsr. was an event in the |
LAR. and W.R.C. circles of UIrichsville.
Velch Post gave grand Campfire at the Opera
House in honor of their auxiliar guests, among
whom were Department President Wnans. De- |
'artment Instituting and Installing Officer
Williams and other notables in the W.R.C.
WEIGH Corps covered itself with honors and |
10Th Post and Corps were warmly thanked for
heir whole-hearted welcome to their hearts
nd homes. Bellaire will have the Convention
( 1896.
IRsr WHITE CORPS IN THE DEPARTMENT.
Jennings Corps, 10, auxiliary to Jennings
'ost, 9. was organized at Jennings, La. March
8, 1895, with "a charter members. This is the
rst white Corps in the Department of Louis
ana and Mississippi, but so many Northern