The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-03-19

village. in one of the sevcrest snow storms OF
the season. The sleigh was stuck in the snow.
drifts, and the occupants had to get out and
walk, bnt they made merry of their troubles
and had jolly time.
The Campfire was kept mp all night for the
stormstead guests. aud three suppers were
served.
Sleighing parties with less exciting expert
ences have been numerous. Candy Corps,
| Gloversville, had a beautiful moonlight ride to
the home of Mrs. Place. member in the coun-
try Vosburg Corps. 90, Newark, to the num-
Der Of go with their husbands surprised Past
President Nancy ID. Burnham At her pleasant
rural home, presenting her with silver fern
cry and handsome palm. Vosburg Corps has
80 members.
President Jane Perrin and her daughter.
Secretary Florence Perrin. of Upton Corps,
Batavia. havo made exceptional records as OH
GERS. The former, who was President three
years and six months, never missed meeting,
and the lattor, vino was Secretary four years
and six months, never missed but two meet
ings.
Corps still report the festivities OF Joint in
stsllation, with which they began the year
happily.
New York now numbers 229 Corps, includ-
ing one in the Queens Dominion, located at
Hamilton.
Department President Annie Cleary insti-
tuted Kitching Corps, the last on the roster. at
u,
| charter members
In the evening there was public installa-
| ton, delegations from the two Posts and two
Camps Sons of Veterans in attendance. Past
| Department Commander John Shots, member
! OF Kitching Post, was among the comrades 10
extend greetings. Refreshments were served.
Helen ]. Parker, Department Press Core
| spondent, Gouverneur, N. Y.
DEPARTMENT OF MICHIGAN.
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March 81. for which extensive arrangements
are making.
National President Lzabeth A. Turner has
written to Department. President Emma e.
Knapp, of Michigan, that the reports received
at National Headquarters from Department
| Secretary Julia Kasdale and DEPARTMENT.
| Treasurer Kate Collins are the best reports
she has ever seen from any source whatever.
She says: They simply cannot be improved;
and, then, they were so neatly tied together
| that keep them in my desk to show to callers
what paiDstaking women can do"
| As Treasurer of Waddell Corps, Howell, the
Department Treasurer has been presented with
beautiful silver cake plate. She was in con-
| slant service for 10 years.
john A. Dix Corps, Hesperia mourns the
| loss of Bahama Haynor, the first death since
the Corps instituted six years ago. Mary
| A. Phelps. correspondent. reports SUCCESSFUL
celebration of Lincoln's Birthday.
| Past Department President Allaseba Bliss is
active as ever in Corps work and in the ar
engagements for Department. Convention.
! series of Patriotic services have been held
| in the churches under the auspicies of Gordon
| Granger Post, Saginaw. Rev. Ira Bilman. Post
Chaplain. the principal speaker. The pupils OF
tile school were in attendance, and assisted by
songs and recitations, the object being to
| awaken a greater interest in American his
tory and Government.
Rahb IF
Mich, is the happy possessor of gold pin and
silver vase, presented her by her Relief CORPS
associates in appreciation OF her untiring work
for the W.R.C. and on behalf of the soldiers
monument
Department President Knapp, who visited
the Soldiers Home, says she noted great i'm
provement in the hospital since the employ
ment of traired nurses, through The efforts of
the Relief Corps. The WR.C. has been urging
liberal appropriation for the annex.
Ann M. Brigham Dimondae, reports joint
socials of Post and Corps, fortnightly, refresh
ments served at the low price of i've cents.
The Corps has been sewing and piecing quilts
for soldiers family suffering the loss of their
home by FIRE.
Winans Post and Corps, Ovid, Mich. have
frequent joint meetings with pleasant proarams
and refreshments. President Proper has en-
tered upon her second term, and Treasurer
Achin upon her fifth.
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Jennings, OF VIM. ii. Borden Post, Ionia. Mich,
the Relief Corps was in attendance, they having
sent TWO panels of flowers as tribute to his
memory.
Borden Corps mourns the loss of Helen Cory,
whose closing days they made cheerful with
fruit and flowers and friendly attention.
Upon the occasion of the visit of Department
President Knapp to Borden Corps. Iona, the
Post visited the Corps in body and extended
their greetings At the grand Campfire in the
Opera House the W.R.C. had an honored place.
Reported by Mary A. Keller, Department Cor
respondent.
PATRIOTIC POINTERS.
At the Indiana Institution for the Education
of the Deaf, indianapolis, Capt. Wallace Foster
delivered an address on the American Flag on
WashingtOn's Birthday. which was full holt |
day with the pupils. The lecture was Illus
trated with enlarged representations of the
coat-of-arms and crest, watch seals, book, plates
and other insignia of the Washington family
embodied in the flag design.
Prof. J. /. Ward, the patriotic Principal of the
Washington school, Toledo, had beauti-
full bluc-and-white program, tied with red
white and blue ribbons, with the flag on the
cover. giving the order of exercises of the
schools under his supervision. The Guard of
States" ANA Flag Salute were given by the
Grammar School; Miss Hopkins, teacher.
ALL ALONG THE LINE.
Past Department President Louise Barnum
Robbins, OF Michigan, read her fine paper on |
Teaching Patriotism in the Schools" pre-
scented last Winter before the National Council |
of Women at Washington, before the teachers
of Lenawee County, Washngton's Birthday. |
The reading was by invitation of the County |
Commissioner of Schools who arranged the |
program; held in the Adrian Opera House.
Past Department Inspector Hattie A. Bray, |
of Massachusetts,, now of the Executive Board, |
was city editor of the woman's edition of the /
DAILY Erening Item of Lynn, Mass, an excep-
tionally fine number of the kind, con attaining |
honorable mention of the W.R.C, also from |
her pen.
Old Guard Corps, 121 Dayton, o., celebrated
its 10th anniversary March g. The invitation
cards sent out were tiny blue bags run with
red and white draw strings, in which to insert
the birthday offerings.
Department Correspondent Mamie Barnes,
of Monticello, H., writes that the gain in men,
bership and charity in that Department ex-
ceeds anything in former years. The National
tiers for distribution.
The Department Convention of Minnesota
will be held at Minneapolis, March 10, IL, and
~ Minneapolis Corps will serve lunch daily.
The Relief Corps of Duluth and Still
water, Mimi, have surrendered their charters.
RevIlo C. Ford Corps, Mazeppa, have taken
the saltwater number, which is 90.
Emma Powell, wife of Department Com
mander Powell, of Illinois, was unanimously
of