The National tribune., 1895-05-16

| OF California and Nevada, G.A.R., Dy their AUX
| iIiary April %, 1895" Presentation speech was
made by Department President Gibson, AID rs-
sponded to in a very feeling manner by Depart
ment Commander Walling.
The following officers were elected and ap-
pointed for the ensuing year: Pres, Alta Com
stock, Santa Cruz; S. V-P., Matte A. Mannon,
Ukah; J. V.-P, Sarah A. Gent, Sacramento;
Sec, Susie Harris, Santa Cruz; Treas, Lsttio
Forbes. Oakland; Chap, Lettie Winans, Peta-
luna; Counselor, Elizabeth Darcy Kline, San
| Francisco; Interpreter, Laura J. Robinson, San
| Francisco Executive Board, Sarah A. Martjs,
| Los Angeles; Margie franklin San Jose; Han
nah Felker. Santa Cruz; Mary Secard, San Jose;
Minnie Sitter, Redwood City.
1t was expected that Charity Rusk Craig,
| Past National President would be present at
| the Convention, as she was visiting in Califor-
| MA but she did not leave the South until after
Convention adjourned.
Twelfth aunval Convention will be held in
| Santa Cruz, 1896.
| DEPARTMENT GENERAL ORDERS.
Department President Emily F. Fish, Of
Rhode Island, reports increasing interest all
along the line in patriotic teaching. A Com
| mittee on Patriotic Teaching. Of which Past
| Department President Emily L. Siblsy IN Chair
| man, has been appointed to introduce the flag
| salute into tho schools Of Rhode Island.
Department President Millett of Maine. calls
upon Corps Presidents to appoint committees
| to INTRODUCES the flag salute iRso the puslie
| schools Corps committees will confer with
Department Committee on Patriotic Teaching
Ella Jordan Mason, President.
Maine will join other Departments in send
ing contributions to the Southern Memorial
Day fund through Grand Army channels.
Maine Convention voted to continue School
OF Instruction at Camp Benson; to push the
work for a Relief Corps Home, and to heartily
reafirm the action of National Convention.
W.R.C., in joining the National Council of
Women, pledging individual contributions to
the volunteer fund.
ALL ALONG THE LINE.
The roster of the Department of Massa- |
chusetts W.R.C. is very neat numbering 166 |
Corps A roster of Department ofisers GAR. |
appears the last page.
Tho roster Department of New Hampshire |
W.R.C. numbers 81 Corps.
Comrade Rsdington's Flag and Memorial
Souvenir for 1895 abou nds in the best sentiment
in song prose and poetry, growing ont of the |
war. Send to Syracuse, N. Y, for a copy.
A neat roster of 60 Corps, with page to De- |
partment officers GAR. comes from the De- |
partment of Maine WR.C. Maine inspections |
will take place in April, May, and june.
Michigan will establish roll Of honor which /
will include all Corps sending in correct re-
ports or before the 18th of April, July, Octo-
Der and January.
Legislative Committee is one of the stand /
This Committee embraces Past Department
Presidents Sara L. Brown. AlIsssbs N. Bliss aud
Sarah A. c. Plummer. Past Department Prssi4
dent Abbie r. Flagg is Chairman of the Depart
ment Relief Committee.
A neat roster OF IA Corps comes from North
Dakota.
John F. Reynolds Corps. I, Fargo, N. d.. has
received beautiful silk flag, duly inscribed,
from Reynolds Corps, and has Acknowledged
the same in telling resolutions.
j. b. Sloan Relief Corps, 102, Pen Yam. N.
Y, is reported by comrade as . good working
Corps of 81 members. They contribute to a
Home for soldiers widows at Pulteney, on or
near Lake Keuka.
Anna L. Shakespeare, last year Department |
Secretary Of Michigan, has been serving as |
Department Secretary pro tenn. pending the |
selection of successor.
Farragut Relief Corps. 90, Chicago H., |
mourns the loss of Past President Weston. tho |
wife of q veteran, and an earnest, untiring |
worker in the cause she loved SO well. She was |
one of the rare women who knew how to unite |
all the elements in harmonious aud coacerted /
action, and her death is personal loss to all /
who know her.
Past Department President Sarah NJ E. Bat
tels of Ohio. is recovering from a severe ILL /
ness Among the floral gifts from Buckley
Corps workers sent her was bouquet of ii |
superb roses, one for each year Of W.R.C. work.
Abbie Lynch. whe had been nominated by
her friends as candidate for National Treas
ursr, has withdrawn her name, and although
one of the best workers in the Order and
tirely competent for the office. leaves the field
clear for Others There being three other can
didates in the lists, Sarah Z. Phillips. New
York; Isabelle 7. Baglsy, Ohio, and Ida Wilson
Moore, Kansas
Corps IS, Putnsy, VT, N. Ella Sawyer, Secre-
tary, is making extensive preparations Cor
Memorial Day.
Corps So, Escondido, CAL. served dinner New
Years Day and in the evening. and again on
Washing on's Birthday catered for the !. o. D.
F.; proceeds for relief. The Post is Identifying
their cemetery lot by setting out trees and
shrubs.
Emma E. Bower, Alternate-a at Large from
Michigan to National Convention, is editor,
physician and keeper of the Great Record of the
Ladies of the Msccabees, and she it was who so
we'll represented that Order in National Council
at Washington. Should there he vacancy in
the Michigan delegation, she will ell it ably.
Department Commander Z. E. Mutt, of Ohio,
paid handsome tribute to the Woman's Relief
Corps in his address before the Army and Navy
Campfire at Cleveland. rendered him by all the
GAR. Posts Of that city.
The woman's edition of the Gettysburg Dak.)
Courier was managed and edited by the W.RC.,
Margaret Platt, Editor-in- Chief, Mary M.
Beuster, Business Manager. Pioneer sketches
and "reminiscences made novel variety.
Past Department President Isabelle t. Bag
ley continues the Secretary of the Hospital
Association. GAINESVILLE, and her excellent re-
port of the fifth annual meeting shows the
widening magnitude of the good work in hand
Lully Corps Is, Blue Earth City, Mimi, is
making extensive preparations for Memorial :
Day.
The work of Department. President Ella
Jordan Mason, of Asine in stirring up ssnti-
ment and raising funds on behalf of W.R-C-
Home was cordially Endorsed by the Maine
aho thort adj fn
her work this year as Chairman of the Home 1
Committee.
Headquarters, Department of New Hamp- 9
SHIRE GA and W.R.C., will be at the Louis j
Vile House. National Encampmsnt week.
General Orders 1, of Departments President
Adele Goss Briggs announce Headquarters as
Joplin; Elizabeth E. Hewitt. Departments Sec q
rotary.
Dedication of Odd Fellows Temple, Phila-
delphia, May 81.
For the above occasion the B. & O. r. r. Co. ;
will sell excursion tickets to Philadelphia and
-,tur,, for all traina Nav and valid for