The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-06-18

4 ITusty anu ssted and true.
| Never their footsteps fatered
| In paths where duty led;
| Cheers for the soldiers living.
| Tears for the soldiers deaf"
LAFAYETTE RELIEF CORPS.
| Department President Annie w. johnson
and staff visited Lafayette Corps, Is. Washing
ton. ID. c., and tho occasion both fraterna
and enthusiastic. following the greetings o
Department President Isabella Worrell Ball
Chairman of the District Committee on Patri
otto Teaching, and member of the Nationa
Com mittee, she delivered an eloquent address
upon this important educational subject. PAS
| Department President Hendricks followed with
plea for relief work.
Lafayette Corps has started a Mission Flower
Fund. The Post has sent formal communica.
tion of thanks for the relief work done by the
Corps
Refreshments were served upon the occasion
when the Department President and mem ers
of the Post and of several Corps were present
President johnson is commended for faithful
service on behalf of the Order.
DEPARTMENT OF KANSAS
| Department President Julia A. Chase of Kan
sas, announces Louise Brum Hedrick, OF Ola
the, Chairman of the Department. Committee
on Patriotic Teaching; associates, Emma Avery,
| Ell Dorado; Il. f. Conrad, Salina.
Emma B. Alrieh, Cawker City, and Belle C..
Harris Emporia, are appointed Department
Press Correspondents of Kansas.
Kansas Corps are contributing to q fund
started by Burnside Corps. l, Kansas City, to
| build a monument to Mother" Stursis.
The sympathy of the Department of Kansas
is extended, in General Orders Of the Depart
ment President, to Col. Grant Harrington, Di-
vision Commander, s. Of ", in the sudden
death of his wife, Harriet Harrington.
| MEMORIAL DAY IN NEW YORK
Candy Corps. Gloversvile. NY, united with
| the Post in all the observances of Memorial
| Day, including the visit OF the veterans to
| Columbus School, where appropriate exercises
were carried out. at the close Of which Comrade
Pursell presented the school with two beautiful
| silk flags.
| The principal and pupils were heartily
| thanked for their interest in patriotic work
Memorial Day was made more beautiful
through the corporation Of the Corps. Re-
ported by Marietta Taylor
THE DAY IN VERMONT.
Needham Post and Corps and the LOYAL
League united in Memorial Day observances at
East Middlebury, VT. Sunday all enjoyed lis.
tening to the first Memorial Day sermon of
Rev. ID. w. Lyman son of a veteran, and pastor
of the Baptist Church. All pronounced it one
Of the best they ever heard. The choir was
wholly composed of sous and daughters of
veterans.
The Relief Corps marched with the Post to
the cemetery Memorial Day, the distance of
mile, and when all was over served the vet
Grams a hot lunch. Rev. c. L. Leonard of
POutney, delivered an able address, and is
commended to Posts desiring patriotic
speaker.
The children o. the Loyal League gave the
flag salute in fine style. showing how intent
are their teachers in intoxicating lessons of pat
riotism. Post and Corps were never more
prosperous and happy.
MEMORIAL DAY NOTES.
Meacham Post and Corps, Colony, Kan,
united in Memorial service at the cemetery,
the children decorating the soldiers graves
THE Memorial of the Flowers" was given
by the children under the auspices of John A.
Logan Post, Hampton, Va.
Memorial Day morning q stranger entered
the Custodian's office of the Soldiers Monu-
ment, indianapolis carrying large bouquet of
roses. want to present these flowers" he
said, lin the name of genuine Union rebel
soldier" The stranger gave his name as John
Harrison, having fought all through the war in
the 4th Va.
Past Department President Kate f.. Jones
delivered the Memorial Day add ress at New
Haven, N. Y, by invitation of Post and Corps,
the evening following the decoration OF graves.
There were appropriate recitations. A poem
commemorated tho day in patriotic verse;
The school children. led by their teachers.
assisted the GAR. aud W.R.C of Oryille, o.,
in decorating the soldiers graves.
Belle Williams, of U. S. Grant Corps Bay
City, Mich, reports that on Memorial Day the
Relief Corps and Woman's Relief Union united
in serving a noon lunch to the veterans after
their return from the cemetery and before the
exercises in the park.
petition to the Pennsylvania Legislature
asking them TO pass law closing the saloons
on Memorial Day, was signed by all the veter-
ans and nearly every one else present at the |
Memorial exercises of the Post at Slate Lick. |
Pa. There was patriotic music and good speak
ing, and the recitation of We Keep Memorial |
Day" by Bertha Steele. Ida NJ Bonney Cor |
respondent, reports greater interest than ever |
before.
Sumner Post and Corps and Sons of Veterans |
celebrated the Memorial season together, be- |
ginning with services at the Centenary NJ E. |
Church. May 80 the soldiers graves in Lone
Fir Cemetery were decorated; also, a mound |
in memory of the unknown dead.
George Wright Post and Corps, Portland, held |
Memorial services on Sunday preceding Me-
mortal Day. A monument to the unknown dead
stood in the center of the room, and was COW
cred with flowers.
Memorial Day was generally observed in the
churches OF Oregon, and the ministers spoke
on the theme so dear to every patriot.
Ella A. Millspaugh reports that the rain in
terfered with elaborate preparations for Me-
mortal Day made by Sawyer Post and Corps
at Whitesville, Allegheny County, yet over 100
school children assisted the Post at the ceme-
terry in decorating the graves Afterwards
lunch was served all at the public hall, and an
program carried out, including pat
rotic address by Prof. White of the graded
school.
Sawyer Post and Corps meet on the same
night and after each meeting refreshments are
served alternately by the Post and Corps.
There is effective work and true fraternity.
Each year the Town Council votes $25 to help
The Post defray the expenses Of Memorial Day.