The National tribune., 1897-12-09
THE RELIEF CORPS
News and Gossip of the Great
Auxiliary.

The portraits of three more Department
! Presidents of the w. II. c. are presented
this week, to be followed by others.
Department President Ada G. Mohr is a
| native of Rome, \. Y, where she was born
| June Is, 1913. Removing to New York City
she was first graduate and then a teach
err in the public schools. She is active in
the work of the Calvary Baptist Church.
and for the past ID years has been mem
Der of the Baptist Home for the Aged in
Brooklyn. President Mohr entered the Re
lief Corps as a charter member IL years
ago, and when W. S. Hancock Corps was
instituted she Joined by transfer, serving
several terms as Corps President She has
had large experience IN Department work,
serving as a member of the Executive
Board and Department and Junior Vice
President, has been Department Aid and
National Aid, and was Delegate at Large to
the National Convention both at Detroit
and Louisville. She is the wife of AlOnzO
ID. MOhr, of the 18th H. Cav.
Lettie Foster Withers, Department Presi-
dent of Wisconsin, was born in Westville,
n. Y, April q, 1916, but since 1858 has
been a resident of the State she now has
the honor to represent. She has been
prominent in Relief Corps work for the past
IL years, and is a charter member OF Eagle
Corps, 20, of Eau Claire, the. present head
was elected Department Junior Vice-Presi-
dent, and has filled the offices of Depart
ment Inspector, Member of the Councils,
Department Press Reporter, and National
Aid. Her husband is Geo. Nj. Withers,
veteran in Co. d, 104th Ohio. She is Of
patriotic parentage and a type OF loyal
woman. AS an executive officer she is
always planning for the good of the Order,
and it is said of her that whatever she
undertakes turns out financial success
President Nancy j. Colby, of Maine, has
brought to her work high order of execu-
tive ability coupled with thorough business
principles and an unbounded interest in
the Grand Army of the Republic. She is
the wife of Henry M. Colby, a gallant sol
dier of the I'd Me-, who is also son OF
veteran. His father, Joseph T.. Colby, in
whose honor the Post at Rumford is nam
ed, died at City Point, Va, while serving
his country. President Colby has held
numerous positions in tie WOman's Re
lief Corps since she became pioneer in
it's work in Oxford County. She served
two years as President and one year as
Treasurer of Colby Corps, and in 1895 was
elected Junior Vice-President; in 1896,
Senior VicePresident, and in 1897 Presi-
dent of the Department of Maine, being
the unanimous choice of the Convention.
NEBRASKA NOTES.
Smith Gavot Post and Corps, Kearney,
hall by Joint Campfire, the Corps sur
prising the Post with refreshments. The
Winter season has opened with marked
increase in fraternal interest Visits have
been exchanged between the Corps OF
Lyons and Tekamah, growing out OF the
Fall inspections, the Presidents exchang-
ing places as Corps Inspectors. At Teka-
NAH the Corps served their visitors with
both dinner and supper, and the occa-
sion is described by Lyons visitors as the
most delightful in which they ever partici-
pated.
James Laird Relief Corps, BARLEY, are
varying their ritualstic meetings by pro-
grams for good OF the Order. Past Depart
ment President Mary II. Morgan added to
the enthusiasm at recent meeting by
giving stirring patriotic address.
Ben. Thompson Relief Corps, Brown
vile, has sewing circle which is truly
working band. A farewell supper was
given to the Secretary, Lulu Roberts,
and Chaplain Ruth Martin, both of whom
have gone to Missouri, Mrs. Martin to
spend the Winter with her son at Rock
port, and Mrs. Roberts to join her husband
at Fairfax, where he is now in business.
Past Department President Gertrude
Cornell inspected Geary Corps, Juniata,
and cOmplimented the officers and mem
bers upon their work. Department Presi-
dent Bovine, Department Senior-VIce PresI-
ident Rupiper, Department Treasurer
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three members of the Executive Board,
Mesdames Dilworth, Barber and Brown,
were in attendance. Geary Corps is
working band and is the only Corps to
maintain a circulating library, free to Post
and Corps.
Department Inspector L. E. Spade is
greatly encouraged with inspection re-
turns so far as received. She tells of one
little Corps, with only IL members, meeting
in a sod house, which has just turned
over S112.11 to the Post for the purpose of
building new hall. This is the kind of
patriotism which should be emblazoned
in letters of gold on every Relief Corps
shield.
Farragut Corps, TO- Lincoln, Neb, is the
banner Corps of the State, having so mem
bers. It's relief work is large, and to main
tain the fund dinners, suppers and numer-
Gus entertainments are frequent. This
Corps held memorial service in memory
of Commander f. w. FOxworthy.
The Relief Corps OF Glbbon, Mary c.
Robb President, is holding a December
fair to replenish their relief fund. The
fifth anniversary of the Corps was festal
occasion, on which occasion the first Presi-
dent Mrs. Mahoney, was presented a
testimonial badge, the individual gift of
members, and the Secretary for the first
five years was presented silk quilt with
the names of the donors in the blocks.
Van Meter Relief Corps, Alma, reports
IS members, with more coming. They are
making many improvements in and around
their hail. and are doing their part to
keep up the sociabilities between Post |
and Corps
The death of Mary E. Kingfsher, Yer |
don, is reported by the Corps at Schubert, |
of which she was a member. She was an |
Army Nurse at Benton'S Barracks, st. |
Louis, for two years and a half, beginning |
with the Spring of 1864, and has a place in |
"Woman's Work in the Civil War" She |
leaves two sons to mourn her loss.
f. Florence Barker Memorial Services |
have been generally held in Nebraska,
Corps of Brownville, Lincoln, Tobias and |
Arapahoe reporting exercises OF exception
al interest The latter Corps also OBJ
served the death of a member, Miss Anna |
Harrington, who died last Summer at Fitz-
gerald, Iowa.
ILLINOIS CONVENTION.
The Seventh District Convention of Illi-
nois W.R.C. was the largest ever held
under the auspices of that organization.
The Corps of Athens, Atlanta, Lincoln,
Chestnut, Mt. Pulaski, Decatur, Taylor
Vile and the two Corps of Springfield were
well represented, besides Pope Corps, Pana,
where the meeting was held, and which
had made pytenSiya for