The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-07-16
THE RELIEF CORPS.
Gleanings from National Headquar-
terS---NOteS from Departments.
NATIONAL CONVENTION.

Committees Actively at Work-A Specia
Detail of Relief Corps Women to Act will
| the Ladies' Citizens COMMUNICATIONS
| for National President-Indiana Makes
Happy "Hitt"-Fourth Annual Reunion
| Department of Observation-Disclosures Bull
the First Monument to the Unknown
| Dead?
INDIANA's HAPPY HIT"
So far as we have been able to Learn there !:
| but one name mentioned. and that the name oil
| Agnes Hit, of Indianapolis tast Department
| President of Indiana.
| Mrs. Hit is known not only in her own De.
partment, but to the National body as we'll is
| Past National Inspector. and has served on
| many important committees. She IS well
qualified for the position, and competent IN
every respect; is we'll versed in parliamentary
| usage and the rules OF our Order, and We feel
confident that to Indiana will be conceded the
honor of having the next National President.
Eliza ]. Crisler, Department Press Core,
spondent. Greensburg, Ind.
DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA.
Department Correspondent Bertha E. Allen
writes to correct the address of Department
President Marie Hazenwinkle. 1t is $50 Osce-
ola avenue, St. Paul. President Hazenwink le
has appointed committee 10 be known as the
National Convention Committee; Chairman,
Nellie NJ Norton, 1927 Hennepin avenue,
Minneapolis; V.-P. Lodusky J. Taylor, Solar,
La; Sec, Emma Brigham, st. Paul. All Corps
Presidents of 1896 have been constituted MEM
bers of the committee, with additional mem
bers from st. Paul, Minneapolis, and adjacent
places.
The duties of this committee are to look
after the entertainment and general comfort
of W.R. c. visitors TO 18th National Convention.
and to prepare State badge for all delegates,
whether in attendance or not; to communicate
a l.. 1F,n -
own; to arrange subcommittee to have charge
of the different days OF Convention work; to
assist the regular Encampment committees,
composed OF st. Paul ladies, in their work OF
decorating. and so on.
The Central Presby terrain Church, in which
the sessions of 14th National Convention,
G., are to be held, is the largest and best
church in ST. Paul. and one excelently adapted
to the purposes named. National Headquar-
tiers, W.R.C., at the Ryan Hotel, and Minnesota
Headquarters W.R.C., in the State Capitol
building, will be ittiDgly decorated for the
occasion. and our correspondent says: Every
member of the Woman's Relief Corps in Mime
sofa is as ready and willing to assist in the pre-
paratory work as tSough the expected guests
were all near relatives"
MASSACHUSETTS REUNION.
The fourth annual Reunion of the Depart
ment of Massachusetts, W.RC., was the largest
and most successful yet held, there being about
100 Corps represented from nearly every Sec
ton Of the State. The National and Depart
ment officers, past and present, were out in
force. The general direction of affairs Was
under the management Of Past National Presi-
deut Sarah L. Fuller, who also presided over
the exercises
In response to an appropriate address of
welcome by the Chairman, Department Presi-
dent Helen A. Brigham responded for the
W.R.C. and Department Commander Darby
for the GAR. In his address the Department
Commander commended the Relief Corps not
only upon material aid rendered the veteran
and his dependent ones, but for their successful
efforts in the line OF patriotic teaching.
National President Lizabeth A. Turner spoke
in her usual bright aud happy vein upon the
work Of the Woman's Relief Corps, referring
to what the Virginia women were doing for tue
extension of Fraternity. Charity and Loyalty.
1t is estimated that an audience of moro than
1000 crowded the arena when the exercises
were in progress Before the final song,
America" the entire audience rose, while
Mr.. Griggs sang a memorial selection as q
tribute TO the memory of Gen. Fairchild, Past
Commander-in-ChiefG GAR
WHO BUILT TIE FIRsT7
The orator of The day at the nnvailing of a
monument 10 the unknown dead, erected by
the Relief Corps women of Cambridge. Mass,
on the eve OF Memorial Day is reported as say
ing: Cambridge sent the first volunteer com
pany to the war of the rebellion, aud now Cam
bridge women have tho honor and glory Of
erecting the first memorial to the unknown
soldier dead"
Commenting upon the above Mary Proctor
Howe, Correspondent Of Corps SO, Wilton, n.
H., writes as follows:
The orator on this occasion was evidently
not posted in past events, from the fact that
the Woman's Relief Corps Of Wilton, n. H.,
were among the first, if not the first, TO erect a
memorial to the memory OF the unknown SOL
der dead. Should anyone know OF any mOnu-
ment being erected at an earlier date for this
purpose in this country We trust they will
make it known.
1.-THE Wilton monument was formally dedi-
Gated, with appropriate ceremonies, May 30.
1891, FIVE years ago. Ii is a beautiful block Of
Quincy granite standing in the cemetery
the hill, in the village of Wilton N H., when
each year since. on Memorial Day. the W.R.C.
have held a memorial service TO the memory OF
the unknown soldier dead. The inscription
reads:
Dedicated May 30 1891,
By the Woman's Relief Corps of Wilton
10 the memory oil those soldiers
who fell during the war of
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