The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-26
W0MAN'S RELIEF CORPS
CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT WILL
 MEET IN MERIDEN TO-DAY.

ing Reception to Delegates at opera
 House.
 Meriden, Feb. 95,-The thirteenth an uual convention of the Woman's Relief corps. department of Connecticut. will be held here on Wednesday and Thurs day in Pacific block.
 On Wednesday morning the delegates from the different corps throughout the state will attend and will go to the as- sembly hall in Pacific hall on State street where the sessions of the con vention are to be held. Here the dele gates will organize, each delegation will be assigned seats and the business meeting will be opened at 10 o'clock with the department president, Mrs Florence L. Hayden, presiding.
 Wednesday will be given up to the reading of reports and transaction oi other business that may come up, and on Thursday the election of officers will take place.
 The afternoon sessions will probably be called to order at o'clock. Dinner will be served in the banquet hall in the same building and will be in charge of the local corps.
 Among the distinguished visitors who will be present are Mrs. Harriette L Reed of Boston, the national secretary; Past National President Mrs. Emma R Wallace of Chicago, and her mother frc | ynt ta n lal aide, also Department Commander Cornish of Waterbury, and his stan and George E. Cox of Hartford, division commander, S. of V. They will be quartered at the Winthrop, while the 250 delegates expected to be in attend ance will be entertained at the homes of the local members.
 Mrs. Wallace is member of the Wo- mans club, of the Press club and of the Woman's Exchange In Chicago, and is the president of the Industrial School for Girls at Evansville. She was a member of the, board of lady managers at the worlds fair.
 On Wednesday evening there will be public reception at the opera house in honor of the visiting officers and del I Florence L. Hayden, of this city, will preside, and the program will be as fol lows:
 Patriotic selections--Opera house or chestra.
 Invocation-Rev Asher Anderson. Address of Welcome--Mayor L. E. Coe Response-Past National Chaplain liar riet J. Bodge.
 Song-"Bugle Call of Gettysburg"- Addie Grabert
 The National W. R. C.-National Secre-
 tary Harriette l.. Reed. Orchestral selections.
 Department of Connecticut. c. A. R. Department Commander Oscar L Cornish.
 Reading--.D Drummer Boy of Mission Ridge"-Miss Florence Wood. Remarks-Past National President Elm.
 ma R. Wallace. Orchestral selections.
 Sons of Veterans-Divisicn Commandel
 George E. Cox.
 Song-Addie Grabert The Soldiers Home-Captain James N Coe, superintendent | Merriam Post No. S-Commander Franl Hancock.
 Hymn America Audience. Thursday will be devoted to the bus | mess of the convention, and the electior of officers. The usual custom of in stalling the ofticers-elect will be follow. ed
 The reports of the officers, especially of the secretary Mrs. Clara Gallagher of this city, it is said, indicate fairl. prosperous and harmonious year. Ther' are no new questions to be brought uI of importance.
 The Merriam relief corps will serv, dinner and supper to the delegates a the hall during the convention.