The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-06-11

BELLE ]. PALMER, DEPARTMENT PRESIDENT
! OF MAINE.
| also been active in Sunday school work and
| temperance, particularly in connection With
| the youth of her town.
| Soon after the war she was married to Fred
l.. Palmer, OF the 4th Me-, who was shot in the
| side at the battle of Charlottesville, and has
ever since suffered from the wound. Upon
the organization of the Corps at Monroe Mrs.
| Palmer was elected President, serving two years
| in that office, and AS Treasurer seven years.
Last year she was Department Senior Vice
| President, and was tho unanimous choice OF
! Department Convention for President. She is
interested in numerous, musical, literary and
charitable associations.
DEATHS AT THE NATIONAL HOME.
Mrs. Jane Henion, soldiers mother. inmate
of the National Relief Corps Home, died March
! 81. of paralysis. Funeral services were con-
Quoted at the Home by the Episcopalian
clergyman, and the remains laid to rest In
the Home lot in the cemetery near by.
Mrs. Henion came to the Home May, 1893,
from Seneca Falls, N. Y. and would have been
80 years old had she lived until Easter Sunday.
Mrs. Ann Rodgers. wife of John A. Rodgers.
an inmate of the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors
Home, Sandusky, died in the hospital of the
National Relief Corps Home, Madison, o..
March 1S, 1896 aged II years. After brief
Columbus. o.. her former home, for burial.
Mrs. Rodgers entered the Home November,
1892, aud for the past year failed rapidly in
health. She was Irish by birth, possessed OF
much native wit. and her genial ways made her
favorte of the Home family and visitors. In
faith she was devout Catholic.
ROSES WITHOUT THoRNs
An editorial error in condensing Eleanor
Gibson's report of the Iowa Con vention in Re-
lief Corps columns May IA can best be corrected
by giving the words of Department President
Helen X. Griffith in full. showing the beauti-
full frsternal relations existing in that Depart
ment between the presiding officer and her
thousands of associates in w re. work. In her
address she said (:
Il wish to return my heartfelt thanks to
every member of the Department of Iowa,
W.R.C., for the inform kindness aud courtesy
/ have received at their hands / have been
sustained and assisted by 5000 loyal
women, who have literally carried out my first
request as Department President. that we
have but one object in view, the advancement
Of our beloved work in Iowa Roses have
been strewn upon my pathway this year;
have not found the thorns."
ALL ALONG THE LINE.
The unanimous reelection of Department.
President Annie p. Cleary, Of New York, is
tribute to the enthusiasm and fidelity with
which she has discharged the duties of this and
numerous other offices to which size has been
called in the progress Of W.R.C. work in the
Empire State.
Gail Hamilton, the beautiful and gifted
daughter of Comrade and Mrs. James Hamil-
ton, prominent members respectively of the
Post aud Corps, Orville. o.. has just graduated
with honor at the Orville High School, True
to the family instinct, both parents being
editors, the subject of her excellent essay was
Journalism"
Mrs. j. Aida Heinrich. Principal of the
Dueber Schools, Canton, o., has acquired
reputation equalled by few patriotic
teacher, aud the annual exercises of the Dueber
School Divisions of the Ohio Readin Circle, of
which she is President embraced songs and
exercises which carried out her ideas with
great success.
Sunday Memorial services of the combined
Posts of the fine Soldiers Home, Hampton, Va,
were held in Ward Memorial Hail, the sur.
rounding Posts. U. V. u, and Woman's Relief
Corps present guests.
With all her onerous and manifold duties
connected with her office and her home, Ma
tional Treasurer Isabelle T. Bsgley still holds
her position as Secretary of the Hospital Asso-
citation, GAINESVILLE o. The sixth annual re-
port is of increased interest over those of
former years.
The Relief Corps of Orville. o.. have received
the thanks of Forsyth Post, Toledo and the
Toledo Typographical Union. for flowers and
flags furnished for the burial of Alexander c.
Harper, 63d Ohio, member of those Orders,
accidentally killed on the railroad near Orville,
aad the remains cared for by the Post of that
place until passed to the Toledo escort for
burial in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Sherman Post and Corps, Hannibal, arranged
a series of Campfres, concerts, and other pleas
ures for Encampment and Convention Just held.
Corps 45 has efficient President and has a
good record of relief work under her direction.
Twelve hundred women registered at the
Iowa Convention, which was the largest w re |
gathering ever held in that State.
Past National President Mary Sears McHenry |
has entered upon her second term as Depart |
ment Counselor of Iowa.
Department President Griffith, of Iowa in |
her beautiful Memorial Day order says of the |
lessons Of the day: One great lesson taught |
is that of sel-sacrifce; the sacrifice was COM
plete, and the lesson should be impressed upon |
every child Therefore see that the children |
and youth of our schools are invited to assist |
i'll this beautiful service, thereby teachng them |
love and reverence for the flag and loyalty to |
our country"
The silver and china used on the table of
Past Department President Rothrock of Iowa.
in dining the officers, past and present, were
largely souvenirs from the Grand Army and
Relief Corps.
Department President Helen R. Griffith, of
Iowa, has appointed as Committee on Patriotic
Teaching Jennie Whedon, Winterset; Lenna
L. Coleman Sanborn, and Lizzie Hutchinson,
Lake City. May II. Frederick, Corning. succeeds
Eleanor Gibson as Press Correspondent.
The Relief Corps of Blue Ridge Kan. asserts
that Memorial Day has degenerated into an
81 awful period Of shrieking brass bands, beer.
iamborees, prize fights, excursions, noise, ex.
posions, drunkenness, and debauchery." and
would like to see May 80 turned over to the
elements that enjoy this sort of thing while the
g. Il. and W.R.C. observe May go Not So
If public sentiment has run wild let the WRC.
educate the other way. As we'll talk of giving
mp Sunday and keeping Saturday as the Chris
liam Sabbath as of changing Memorial Day OBJ
,ervance to May 30.
Stevens Post. /, Seattle, which enjoyed a |
Bean Bake fortnightly throughout the Winter,
had a genuine surprise one night when the
Corps appeared and escorted the comrades to a
umptuous banquet and then returning pre-.
ented them fine flag to wave over the SOL
iiers' plat at the cemetery on Memorial Day.
Dick Yates Corps, 133, Eureka Kan report
ID by Mary EASTWOOD, realized handsomely for
elef from Novelty Social. This Corps is q
land of energetic. loyal women; Mary Buck,
President u