The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-07-29
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE: WASHINGTON c. THURSDAY JULY 49, 1897

flag with embroidered stars and gold lettering,
borne to the hall by "a young girls dressed in
red, white and blue This from the Baby Post
aud Corps of Michigan is decidedly good. The
Post expects to 60 to the Buffalo Encampment
so strong. 17
The Army Nurse from oMontisauo. who sent
interesting notes and asks for information,
neglected to give her postpfiice address,
Department Senior Vice President Susie ID.
Carver. Binghamton, N.rY, mites in urging
the claim of Past Department President Ellen
NJ. Putnam for National, Senior Vice-President,
and says: with her knowledge of the needs
of onr Order. her great expe rience and executive
ability, her loyalty to the veterans and years
of hard work on their behalf. Convention would
make no mistake in placing her next to the
head of the W.R.C."
Past Department. Senior Vice. President Mary
s. Johnston, Youngstown, O.. requests informa-
ton concerning the Drummer Boy" to be
used In an entertainment under the auspices
of Todd Post and Corps, which she has in
charge.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN WORKERS.
Two hundred delegates attended 18th an
nual Convention. Department of Colorado and
Wyoming W.R.C, held in Colorado Springs,
that picturesque town in the heart of the
Rockies. The women participating were wide
awake and energetic, and successful business
sessions were varied by delightful outings.
The official reports showed that $685. had
been raised and expended for relief the past
year. and that. Notwithstanding the stress Of
the times, there has been no decrease in the
number of Corps, as two were instituted to take
place of two disbanded.
The citizens of Colorado Springs were lavish
in their Inequalities A Campfire by the Post
on the opening evening was followed the next
by reception, under direction Of the Corps, at
Dh thA k,-s Ioo hast of -
School for the Mute and Blind was a feature.
A carriage drive to Cheyenne Canyon. ono Of
the many natural beauties with which Colo
RADIO Springs is surrounded, will long be re-
membered by those partici patiDg There was
joint installation of the Grand Army and
Relief Corps. when the following were installed
by Mary l.. Carr, acting for the W.R.C.: Pres,
Seeds. Cripple Creek; J. V.-P., Ella B. Acker-
man. Grand Junction; Sec, Edna E. Hamil-
ton, Denver; Treas. Clara Rapp. Denver;
Chap. Adelia Macauley, Denver; ms. Hester
w. Hartsell, Denver; Instituting and INSTALL
ing Officer, Mary A. Eldridge, Golden. Colo
RADIO will have three delegates in National
Convention. Cripple Creek was chosen as the
next place of holding the Colorado Encamp-
ment and invention in 1885,
ALL ALONG THE LINE.
Prescott Corps 10, Salem, o., one of the
oldest and most efficient Corps in the Buckeye
State, has erected a monument in that old
Quaker town. thus completing a commendable
project for which 1t has for some years been
working. The monument is of Quincy granite,
surmounted by life-size figure of private
soldier with musket at rest and is carved from
a single block of Barre granite. Upon tho face
of the mon ument are inscribed: In memory of
our soldiers of Salem. 1S61-65," and in scroll
the words. wv. re. No. TO-" A part of the I'M
vailing services was the singing of As little
girls, dressed in white, to represent the States.
tered in the cemeteries Of Salem and vicinity,
including two soldiers of l776 and several who
were in the war of 1912 and the Mexican war.
Margaret Gary Wright. of Corps 49, Colorado.
writes touching account OF Memorial Day
exercises in midocean on the Kensington, a
steamer Of the Belgium line. She was one of
four Relief Corps women gathered from the
East and West who participated, the others
being Florence Richards, Leipsic. o.; F. Crown,
Louis Belle Corps New Hampshire; Mrs. NJ.
Duffy, Franklin, N. H.; Mrs. E. Romney,
Gettysburg Corps, Massachusetts, and Mar
garet g. Wright, Stanton Corps, Los Angeles.
Cal. There were eight members of the Grand
Army also, including Gen. Payne. Fostoria, o.;
Col. B. L. Carter, Milwaukee, Wis; Capt. J. +.
Cleghan. Clinton, Wis; NJ. Duffy. franklin,
N. H.; L. Fwot Cornhili, Mass; E. Romney,
Boston, Mass; julie Vert, Poughkeepsie. n Y.
and last, but not least, Col. George Rownnett,
Minister to Belgium. Nearly all were repre-
sentatives to the International Convention of
Good Templars. held in Switzerland.