The National tribune., 1897-08-05

Preparations for Grand Event Moving
Grandly On.
EVERYTHING progresses finely for the eighth
annual Reunion, Inv. time. Tuesday Aug.
"a: place, Womans Union Building, Niagara
Square Buffalo, three blocks from the Iroguois
Hotel where the Headquarters of The Ma
TIoNAL TRIBUNE may be found during the
week.
J. r. VIM, Assistant Secretary LII W.,
Little Bay Ark, writing of the Reunion, says:
"On opening The NATIONAL TRIBUNE of
July 8, | turned at once as / always do, to the
Loyal Home Workers department, where l
found Secretary Seaman's timely sketch OF
former l.. w. Reunions and it made me all
so much more anxious TO meet at Buffalo.
wonder how many of us have ever thought Of
what a grand organization THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE has been the means of bringing
about And only to think that our work for
good has Just begun. The Loyal Home Work
ers is destined to be one Of the grandest or
CARNATIONS in our great country, and the active
members of to-day are the light and life of a
great National movement. Suppose that each
one of the thousands upon our rolls should be-
come an active member, each striving to Guido
the other in tho work of progress and patriot
ism we should take the country by storm and
link State to State with chain of friendship
that could never be broken. We might bind
up the wounds of the Blue and the Gray,
North and South, and set their faces towards
the new union of amity and peace. How can
we sit idly by and wait for others TO honor the
grandest flag that waves Over any country
Let us prove at Buffalo that we are progressive
and patriotic, by making the Reunion the
grandest success in our history. would also
urge all Arkansas members and Loyal Home
Workers everywhere, who expect to attend the
National Centennial, to write to +. L. Morrow,
Tusculum, Tenn, and bel p hi III III the patriotic
work for a Southern Reunion that he has IN
hand"
Lizzie e. Gates, Princeton. Mimi, writes
that she is in receipt of a letter from Miss Mary
Hull, Winston, Va, acknowledging the nag
sent to her school by the North Star Circle,
LHW.. and congratuIating the donors upon
their work Of teaching patriotism and loyalty
to our country and our flag. Referring to the
coming Reunion, she says:
:" hope all who were together at st. Paul in
1896 may meet again at Buffalo IN 1897 and
have just such glorious good time as the Loyal
Home Workers always have when they get TO-
gether But, boys. let us hope that the Myr-
tie" has no counterpart in Buffalo. Every
Loyal Home Worker vino was at Bear Lake last
year will be pleased to know that st. Paul
Camp, l. s. of ", which escorted Us on our ex-
ctHsion. awarded the prize Of 500 offered
the best drilled Cam at the State Encam pm emit.
held ut Princeton, in June. On that OCCASION
had the pleasure Of meeting Harry L.. and vi.
r. Mills, whom nil will remember, and saw one
LH.W. button on a blue coat
The annual Sammer Reunion o. Vermont
LH.W., held at Rutland, was of the most
largely attended and most enjoyable ever held
in the Green Mountain State. With Hattie NJ.
Savery presiding the business session was one
Of unusual activity and friendIiness. The fol-
lowing officers were chosen for 1887, 80: Pres,
r. Benton Kelly. Rutlznd; Sec, F. VI. Slavery,
Proctor; Treas, Clara Doty Gilman, Middle
town.
The entertainment program was fine, Com.
rade Kelly giving superb rendition of the
old song of the sixties, accompanied by Mrs
Hawkins on the piano. The badge was white
satin, lettered in gilt
Flora Gee, OF Troy, sweet girl graduate
charmed all present with piano, either and
voice, and Fred Cole, of Goddard Seminary
(student), gladdened US by his presence There
were readings recitatiGns, and IS part OF the
sightseeing a visit to the State Pententiary,
where all vowed to walk in the paths Of right
eousness. Vermont Circles will hold a Winter
Social. President Kelly will represent Yer
mont at Buffalo, and introduce resolution
asking for more space in THE NATIONAL TRfB-
UNE.-Lenore Rivers.