The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-06-10
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE: WASHINGTON c. THURSDAY JUNE 1897

Massachusetts Relief Corps had great assist
ance in their patriotic teaching from Chaplain.
in Chief Mark B. Taylor, now installed -
pastor Of the Park Congregational Church,
Brooklyn, N. Y. They predict that he will
carry his inspiration with him into his newer
and broader field of labof.
DEPARTMENT President Waterman attended
numerous Memorial services. At Adams she
was q speaker at tho Memorial services of the
Post and Camp, and the following day made
tho address at the dedication Of the monument
to the unknown dead. %
New Hampshire has arranged for nine dis.
trict meetings, and before each the flag salute
will be given, together With instruction in the
' :sk Of patriotic teaching.
ALL ALONG THE LINE.
~ps rtmsnt Of Kansas. W.R.C will estab-
nsA Headquarters 1T the Chautauqua Assembly,
Ottawa. June IA TO 25 inclusive. All members
are invited to call.
The death Of Past Department Chaplain Ran
ney. of Kansas, is reported. She was member
OF Corps %, and her death is great loss to the
Department.
National President Agnes Hit, National
1nstitutng and Installing Officer Sarah d.
Wiuans, National Secretary Ida 8. Mcbride,
and Past Department President Melissa Cay
lor, Of Indiana. we're in attendance this week
on sixth annual Convention, Department OF
Tennessee. held ct Nashville. They particle
pated in the exercises Of Grand Army Day 1t
the Tennessee Centennial, held under diroc-
ton OF Department Commander II. b. Case.
Past National President E. Florence Barker
is receiving congratulations upon the marriage
Of her elder daughter Florence Marion. and
William Otis Came. both Of Maiden. Mass.
Came was tho assistant Of her father, Col. Thos.
+. Barker, who was Treasurer Of tho Massa.
chusetts Soldiers' Home. and is beloved by tho
Grand Army and Relief Corps folk of Massa-
chusetts.
The relations between Nevius Corps. l, Rock
ford, ILL.,, and tho Ladies' Aid Society may be
said TO be that Of mother and daughter, as 1t
should DO. The LAS. gave great assistance to
the Corps in . series Of monthly suppers which
they have been successfully giving.
summary of the reports of the Department
Of New Hampshire, W. &c, for tho first quarter
Of 1897 show the number of Corps to be 72;
membership 1867; expended in relief. cash.
$27567; supplies, 1896; turned over to Posts,
$1325S. Contributions are reported to tho
funds for Memorial Day in tho South, improve.
n,ent Of Andersonville Prison property, tho
National Council Of Women, and tho National
Veterans Association.
All tho Relief Corps of Michigan were draped
in mourning in memory Of Past Department
President Ann N. Barney. She WAS charter
member of circuit Corps kalamazoo. and had
past 10 years.
Mrs. Georgia Mcclellan. Of Dennison, Iowa,
prominently mentioned in connection with tho
Department Presidency of that State, was living
on Csmetery Hill, Gettysburg. At the time of
that great battle. She was = young mother,
her husband in the army, and WAS confined to
her bed with . six-dsys.old child beside her.
and saw her sister shot dead by . rebel bullet,
~ she stood near her making bread for the
Union soldiers.