The National tribune., 1897-08-26

One of the candidates for National President
of the Woman's Relief Corps is Mrs. Flora
Jamison Miller Past Department President OF
Illinois. W. re, known as the silver-tongued
orator of Womans Conventions and Grand
Army Campfrcs. She is gifted both as
speaker and writer. and while serving as De
partment President was instrumental in secur-
ing the passage of law founding the Woman's
Relief Corps Home of that State, of which she
has since been trustee. Mrs NJ Her is serving
as Chairman of the National Committee on
Patriotic Teaching. She is the daughter of
Col w. Ii. JamsoD, who succeeded Gen. Grant
as commander of the 2lst III. Her home is
Monticello Ill.
Past Department President Sarah j. Martin,
Brook field Mo-. is Missouri's choice for the
office of National President, and will have
strong following from several Departments.
Mrs. Martin has been particularly active In
the work of the Order in her own State. being
one of the early organizers and one whose in
terest in the work of the W.RC., State aud Ma
tional never flags She is woman of marked
executive ability and good address. She is the
wife of Past Department Commander Martin,
of Missouri.
ALL ALONG THE LINE
pennison, Iowa, has given two Presi-
dents to the Department. Mary Sears Nc
Henry, the frst, having served as National
President and filled other Offices of import
ance, Department and National; and now
comes President Georgia Mcclellan, whose eiec-
ton to Office the citizens uniting with the
Grand Army and Relief Corps and Sons of
Veterans. have celebrated with enthusiasm.
President Lettie F. Withers, of Wisconsin,
requests in General Orders that each Corps in
the Department will send one bound book to
the Soldiers Home at Waupaca. If friends
everywhere could only know how the veterans
pine for reading matter they would be sure to
keep ell-fled Libraries III every Home. The
Department has standing committee known
Committee on Personal. War, Civil and
Family History of Union Soldiers, of which
Belle w. Chaplin is Chairman. Such commit
tee in each Department could do much towards
collecting and preserving very important
history connected with the civil war which is
fast disappearing with the passing of the vet
Grams.
A. II. Frost Corps Winthrop, Me-, is increas-
ing its membership, the latest to unite being a
delegation OF patriotic women from Hallowel.
Corps 10 Oldtown, though the baby Corps in
the Order Of institution, has become one of the
strongest aud most active in the Department..
Others which are fast making a record for good
work are the Corps of Oromo and Oakland the
latter having the largest relief fund of any
Corps in the Department.
Good reports continue to come from Oregon
Corps, from Portland to Little Yoncala. A.
w. Elicit Corps, at the latter place, which is
the Soldiers Home at Roseburg, is par
ticularly active in the patriotic work Of the
Order
Department Correspondent Josephine A.
Cheeseman, Greeley, Colo, writing of the dedi-
cation OF the three gfiis presented by the War
Department to the Conn ssioners Of Greeley
City Park, says: THE largest is a 13-inch sea-
coast mortar; the second, an 11-inch Column
bad, first carried by the t5anandagua in 1861
and afterwards transferred to the Tennessee in
1865 and the smallest, Parrott riled cannon,
used at Fort Wagner. Mobile CornJh, and
other battlefields of that famous campaign.
A notable historic feature of Department
Encampment, GA. r., and Department Con-
vention, W.R.C., of Vermept, held at Benning-
ton, was the presentation Of three granite mOnu-
ments, marking historical locations, to the
Battle Monument and Historical Association
of that place. Mention Of these was made in Is
recent issue The Esca,hpment and Conven-
ton were attended by many social pleasures
and exchanges of patriotic greetings.
Florence II. Gates, Morr.svllle, was the
unanimous choice for Department President
her immediate assistants being Clara NJ. Miles,
Secretary, and Ida L. Town. Treasurer The
retiring President A. Louise Putnam, was pre-
sented an onyx clock and silver water set. in
ack gment of a very successful ad minis
tration. The privilege of visiting the Vermont
Soldiers Home where the Encampn,ent was
brought to close by an open-air Campfire,
appreciated by all. Zena Is. r. Pierce was ap-
pointed Press Corresponds -
George Ii. Thomas Cory .sntono. Tex
held q memorial meeting, ANA passed resulu-
tions on the death of National Senior Vice
President Marie Hasenwnkie, showing that
though remote from the center of Corps activi-
ties this Corps is fully alive to all the inter