The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-09-03

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ter members; Indiana third. IL Corps, 297
charter members; Michigan fourth, II Corps.
| 272 charter members; Illinois fi.h, with ~
Corps, 24S charter members. and Nebraska
| Corps, but 260 charter members.
The younger Departments show good work
| and much enthusiasm. Oklahoma leads with
| II Corps and POI charter members. Our baby
| Idaho has gained three Corps and 81 charter
members. Several Departments organized
Corps with large charter membership.
New Jersey and Kentucky each Corps with
| 81 cha ter members and Washington Corps
| with SO members The largest Corps organized
| was detached Corps in Fitzgerald, Ga.-Coi-
ony Corps, with y members.
Utah has her alpha and omega, five Corps,
| with no more Posts to conquer.
Six detached Corps have been organized, with
a charter membership of 163 making total of
| 222 Corps, with total charter membership of
4.45l gained during the year ended June &c,
1896.
| NATIONAL SENIOR AID.
Sarah E. Milham, National Senior Aid, re-
ports encouraging correspondence with the Ma
| tional Aids in all the Departments upon the
|
| ton of the following notable doings in Depart
ments heard from:
| Illinois reports the furnishing of room at
the Soldiers Home at Wilmington, for the
widows and mothers of veterans to be know as
the Geo. g. Meade room.
Missouri reports 5000 people in attendance,
and receipts over OF 5000. as the result of an
entertainment given under the auspices of the
W.R.C. at the Auditorium, st. Louis; benefit
| of the Relief Corps Home at st. James.
National Aid Charlotte J. Cummings. of Penn
sylvania. reports the presentation by herself of
mounted silk flag to primary room i'll the
Union School. She also raised funds 10 pur-
chase handsome mounted flag to the Sons OF
Veterans, and on behalf of her home Corps at
Tidioute she presented mounted bunting flag
! to the Pennsylvania Memorial Home School,
and introduced the flag salute. How much
the wives of other Department Commanders
might do for the cause OF patriotic teaching
| were they all similarly minded.
National Aid Laura Remage, of Louisiana,
writes that there is but one white Corps in the
Department of Louisiana and mississippi, al
though every colored Post has an auxiliary
OF this Corps she says:
I'VE are doing good work in the public
schools of this district. but have money to
} extend the work. We have a flag over oui
scboolho use. and the children all took part in
) the Memorial Day exercises My husband has
given thousands of flags to the natives; they are
the FIRST many of them have ever seeu. Before
Memorial Day ! had 60 children my lawn
drilling them. Many of them were children
of our ex.Confederate soldiers, whose parents
; allowed them to take part as favor to me
, but hope that they are learning lessons they
l will never forget"
5 National Aid Elizabeth c. Scott of New
Hampshire, reports having attended to eigh
pension cases, all but two having been granted
Those two now pending The last case was
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mothers pension, giving her SIT per month
She is I'D the Home for Aged Women. Manchcs
ter, having good care, but no luxuries and this
. pension will give her much to make her las
days comfortable.
Iowa reports generous contributions on be
half of the Soldiers Home, Marshalltown
The old soldiers tell with tears in their eye!
: how much they appreciate the grand piano ant
the fruit and delicacies which have found the
way TO the Home.
National Aid Anna B. Carroll, of Ohio. report
increased interest in the Ohio Soldiers Home
$ and hospital supplies in abundance. Flag
have been placed over 80 SchOolhouses, at
. cost exceeding 500.
Z Many good reports come from the South, ant
u increased interest marks the Departments gen
orally.
NATIONAL RELIEF CORPS HOME.
, The Chairman and Secretary of the Board o
r Trustees, Superintendent, and Physician max
q comprehensive reports of the National Relic
Corps Home.
= Chairman Annie wittenmyer reports de
n gree of peace and harmony among the inmate
q of the Home seldom found in institution
n where SO many inmates and employees liv
v together in one house.
q Many improvements in the institution hav
IF been made including fire-escapes, large cistern
It repairs in the Ohio Cottage, owing to crackn
y PLASTER and completed drainage. The land j
| vat a1 vi de m ahu mr. Ian an mil
Is of fruit and vegetables. Cows furnish larg
!. part of the milk used by inmates. A henner
= has been built, insuriDg eggs and chickens.
v The Home has never been in debt, and n
X breath of scandal has ever clouded its fai
fame. OF Army Nurse pensions Mrs. Witter
myer, Special Agent of the W. R.C., says:
ut has been very difficult to secure pension
for our Army Nurses. A vast amount of wor
has been done during this last year, but adj
s. quate results have not followed. Since IN
.g last report only 81 Army Nurses have bee
ID added to the pension-list, although I hay
ID pressed the interests with an un6agging gel
IS. at the Pension Office and in the Office of til
al Interior and War Departments. To be sure, "
have for gratitude that even so hav
al succeeded amid such difficulties and that no
10 $50 Army Nurses have pensions under the la
Il, obtained by the Womans Relief Corps, al
al that over $4,000 annually goes out Of III
National Treasury to relieve the wants
e, those worthy, heroic women"
I'd With reference to pensions for regiment
a nurses. she says that had the bill Originatiu
q. last Winter in the House been pressed in tt
al Senate aud passed it would have put 260 nurs
III whose claims have been rejected on the pei
sion.rolls. and provided for 451 more who
. claims are now pending.
z From tho report of Secretary Puma
n. Cowles We learn that 10 more Army Nurs
is outside tho Home have passed away the pa
n year. showing that like the old soldiers, tbs
10 are answering the roll-call very fast. The
at are 40 follows:
it. Mary Lindsay Tullis, Everett Wash. di'