The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1898-01-06

spection duties. The experience of her
associates has also been pleasant, and
they report not only goud work, but real
fraternity among Ohio Corps.
Bowers Corps, Geneva. had the honor OF
having Mother" Ransom now an inmate
of the National Relief Corps Home, near
Geneva, at their annual inspection and its
attendant festivities. Assistant Inspector
Hattie Wilson, Of Warren, o., officiated, and
a fine reception in her honor was follow ed
by supper.
Cincinnati is preparing to take care of
300, 600 veterans and their friends at the
Encampment of 1893. A grand indus trial
parade will vary the festivities of the week,
and let the soldiers see how the city has
developed since the Sixties.
Old Guard Corps, Dayton, the site OF the
National Soldiers Home, has Endorsed Past
President Vesta j. Shoemaker for Depart
ment President, and will present her name
before the next Convention. She has been
continuously in service in Corps and De
partment Offices since the organization Of
the Department, in 1854, and would make a
thorough and capable chief executive.
At the 31st anniversary of Forsyth Post
Toledo named in memory of George Dun
can Forsyth, a boy soldier of the Tooth Ohio,
shot by guard in Libby Prison in 1864,
and which has numbered in it's member
ship Gen. James b. Steedman, Gen. j. w.
Fuller, and many other distinguished Ohio
soldiers, Comrade VIM. Eckert, delegated
for the purpose, paid handsome tribute
to Forsyth Corps, which did its first work
as an auxiliary in 1873, and has continued
in active service ever since.
OHIO DISTRICT CONVENTION.
Mrs Frances A. Prophet, in pleasant
account of the Third Ohio District Con-
vention, district comprising the Corps OF
Allen, Auglaze, Hancock, Hardin, Put
nam, and Van Vert Counties, writes that
the most interesting feature was dis
cussion Of the George Washington Memo
raj building to be erected at Washington.
The Chic State Chairman, Mrs. G.. S.
Brice, member of Mart Armstrong Corps,
Lima, o., was present and addressed the
Convention. She expressed qualification at
the deep interest among the members, and
her plea for Relief Corps cooperation was
warmly sanctioned by Department Presi-
dent Emma +. CreSsHcer, who was in
attendance, and who is IL member of the
STATE Committee. This work is directly in
line with the work CT patriotic teaching,
pushed forward by the Woman's Relief
Corps, ard the patriotic spirit anmating
the whole pro ect is sure to enlist the patri-
otto women of all societies
Our correspondent writes that a question
was raised as to whether the Woman's Re-
lief Corps had the right to unite with other
societies in furthering the purpose of the
George Washington Memorial Association.
The answer Of Department President Cres-
singer was that there was nothing to pre-
vent members from uniting with other
women in a concerted movement to further
the interests of the George Washington
Assistant l. and T. Officer Almaritta
Clark presided over the meetings of Con-
Mrs. Prophet responded to the
address Of welcome, and among the speak
ers were Lucy b. Hamilton, Department |.
and ]. Officer, who accompanied the De-
partment President to Convention. Finlay
Corps were unbOunded in hOsp italites, and
exempliiied the ritual to the satisfaction of
all Uag
DEPARTMENT oFfTExAs
Department Correspondent Minnie Con-
verse, San Antonio Tex, reports the Corps
of the Lone Star State busily at work
George II. Thomas Corps, 4, Dallas, has
been particularly active. An officers drill
was the opening feature OF recent enter
of songs and rcctations, on which
occasion Thomas Corps presented Thomas
Post, g, with IT portrait of their beloved
leader, Gen. George II. Thomas.
Patriotic Day at the Texas State Fair and
Dallas Exposition was marked by exercises
in Music Hail. under the auspices of tho
Noman's Relief Corps and Daughters of the |
Republic. The first number on the program
was the Star Spangicd Banner" which |
brought TouSing encore. Then followed |
the opening remarks of President Rosalie !
Lacy, after which Mrs. ID. A. Allen delivered |
an able address, in which she review ed the |
progress made ty women in the last quarter |
Of a century, particularly since their Organi- |
zation into the Woman's Relief Corps as |
an auxiliary to the Grand Army
She SAID the Woman's Relief Corps had |
gained record as an organization worthy |
Df the highest type of American woman
hood. Its methods had gore abroad, and
are BENG studied by other nations, and due |
creoit mad Teen given to the organization
IN TINS country the united efforts of the
lirand Army of the Republic and the
Noman's Relief Corps had lighted the fires
d. patriotism from the Atlantic to the Pa. |
cific.