The National tribune., 1896-01-30

| Watchword.
NEW HAMPSHIRE CONVENTION.
The 10th annual Convention, Department of
! New Hampshire, will be held at Baker Me-
mortal Church. Concord Feb. 13 and Ia.
National President Turner, National Secre-
| tary Harriette l.. Reed, and Past National
| President Wallace are expected TO be present.
! Local committees are making admirable ar
rangements.
General Orders show handsome contribu-
tions from Corps for Soldiers Home furnish
ings. Many articles of furniture supplement-
cash donations.
Department President H. Lizzie Foster will
have presentation of admirable work to place
| before Convention.
DEPARTMENT OF RHODE ISLAND.
1 The Rhode Island Convention, W.R.C.. will
! be held Jan. so, and National President Liza
| beth A. Turner and Past National President
| Sarah L. Fuller are both expected TO be present.
The year has been prosperous and peaceful
under the administration of Department Pres-
dent Emily +. Fish, and charity and patriot
/ ism have been ahundantly exemplified.
Department President Fish installed the
officers OF George ii. Brown Corps. This Corps
! is happy in being able to turn over 1925 to the
Post from the proceeds OF successful fair.
DEPARTMENT OF MASSACHUSETTS.
The 18th annual Convention Department Of
Massachusetts, will be held at Odd Fellows
Building, Lowell, Feb. u and 13 1t is ex-
pected to be one of the most interesting ever
| held, as the administration of Department
| President Eva T. Cook has been abundant in
the good fruits of Fraternity, Charity and
| Loyalty.
The history of the Department of Massachu-
| sets W.R.C. has been completed, and each
Corps by purchase, will have two copies, one
| for the Corps, the other for tho Post.
The local committees are making extensive
! &c in ba IF
ratons and for grand W.R.C. Campfire in AS
| ISOLATION Hall.
Massachusetts has added E. J. Griggs Corps,
Belcherton, and A. c. Monroe Corps, East
| Bridgewater, 10 her roster.
In her closing General Orders Department
President Cook publishes a long list of Corps
| contributions TO Department and National
| funds. The closing paragraph reads: de-
| sire TO express to each and every member the
| gratitude of a heart, loyal and sincere to our
| cause. Without your hearty cooperation this
| administration would have been failure.
! Whatever, then, of good has been accomplished
is due to the loyal women who have supported
me-"
OLD GLORY IN TEXAS.
George B. Mcclellan Post and Corps. Hons.
! ton, Tex, held joint public installation in
Masonic Hall, large audience present. Hous-
! ton Post in extended mention of the meet
! ing. says: There were no decorations to the
room except that large flag of the Union was
unfurled Just to the rear of the Commanders
station. This flag is a handsome one, of silken
fabric, and was present TO the Post from the
| ladies composing the Corps, being the first work
| after they organ lied few months since. The
! old veterans who followed that flag in the
! bloody conflict between the people of Nation
who were then divided in sentiment but who
are now a single and united country, gazed
upon the slken folds OF the banner as they
sung the old, familiar songs which recalled the
days of ga. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys
Are Marching and Marching Through
| Georgia were rendered by all present"
Jennie Rue acted as Installing Officer for the
| Corps. Maggie Rusk, upon assuming the OBJ
! legations of President for second term, de-
! livered a patriotic address. in which she re-
viewed the history of the Womans Relief Corps
and gave summary of its immense labOrs on
behalf of the Union veterans and united
country.
| BOWERS CORPS DoINGs.
Laura Rosamond White has been reappointed
Press Reporter of Bowers Corps, Geneva, o.
| She reports an interesting joint installation :;
Puma L. Cowles, Secretary National Relief
Corps Home, officiating for the Corps Ptesi-
dent, Lillian Tibbitts; Secretary, Ella Gault.
| President Tibbitts has appointed committees
! TO furnish. at each regular meeting the coming
year, incidents in United States history, for
/
be confined to this line of thought, but history
viii be leading patriotic and literary feature.
FORSYTH RELIEF CORPS.
At the installation of officers of Forsyth
| Corps, j, Toledo O., Past President S. Alice
| Richardson officiating, the retiring President,
! Nellie c. Bacon, was presented magnificent
| gold badge Of the Order, suspended from star
set with pearls and diamonds. The bears
! the monogram "W.R.C." set with pearls. An
1 SC . he b.,
Official reports showed that Forsyth Corps
began 1895 with Ss934 in the treasury. and
added to il from all sources 81 395.15; disburse-
meUts, 81, 400 81. Relief other than money,
$32l.s6.
Kate G. Raynor, daughter OF Col Raynor
| and for some years an active worker both in
Relief Corps and Ladies' Aid to the S. Of w.
| has been installed President, and during her
administration Forsyth Corps is certain to
| maintain its splendid record. She is young
/ energetic and surrounded by fine body of
/ officers and committees and must make her
work tell.
FORSYTH Corps closed the year with 1872 mem.
| bers but since then over 80 members have
withdrawn to form Corps auxiliary to Toledo
! Post, of which their husbands, in most cases,
! are members. Forsyth Corps. on motion of the
new President passed resolution wishing
them God speed" in their work, and the
prospect is that Toledo will soon have two fine
Corps instead OF one.
TRIBUTE TO SHERIDAN CORPS
Phil Sheridan Post, Boise City, Idaho, gave .
holiday banquet TO Phil Sheridan Corps. Their
| printed program bore the following tribute to
the Corps: Grand Army Hall was built and
! furnished in the Fall of 1891, and cost includ.
ing ground, $4,000. OF this sum s.. 500 was
! paid at the time. A debt of g 600 remained,
1 and in 1892 $500 and interest was paid, but
through 1893 and 1891 the burden remained
undiminished. At the beginning of 1895 tho
! Post resolved TO direct its energies to reducing
this debt, and considerable was accomplished.
| The WOman's Relief Corps. learning these facts,
| Immediately united their efforts with those of
the Post aud raised $2l9.30, and the year ends
with the debt brought down to $1,000 and all
! interest paid. The entertainment is in recog-
milton of the industry, patriotism and wisdom
of their sisters of the Relief Corps by the veter.
ans of the Grand Army"
DEPARTMENT OF ILLINoIs
DEAR TRIBUNE: Department President Flo
Jamison Miller spent the past week in w re
circles of Chicago, returning with favorable re.
ports.
PesOtum Post and Corps held joint installa-
ton, followed by a supper; all soldiers, Sons of
Veterans and their families invited.
McLane Post attended the public installation
of McI.ane Corps, Bordentown by invitation.
Monroe Corps expended for veterans last
year, in cash, $780, with additional supplies
valued at So. 90.
Franklin Corps, Monticello, initiated three
candidates at their meeting, Jan. T. The