The National tribune., 1900-03-08
CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA.
Interesting Letter From the Department
Press Correspondent

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Lin
coin Post and Corps, San Francisco,
held Il joint installation Jan. 4. r'ast Ma
tional President Elizabeth Darcy Kinne
Past Department Commander &. Mason
Kline for the Post. Very tasteful and
appropriate programs Were issued.
Jan. ) Stanton Post and Corps, Los
Angeles, held joint installation with Past
Commander Guim and Past Department
President Abbie ID. Sylvester as Installing
Officers. The hall was crowded with
visitors, and very pleasant evening spent.
The retiring President of Corps 10, Alice A.
Fitch, was presented with handsome flag
by the members of the Corps. Addie f..
} Johnson, who succeeds herself as Treasurer
for the second time, was presented with a
lovely souvenir spoon rs a token of appreci-
alton OF her work during the past two Years.
Jan. your correspondent mad the honor
of acting as pianist for the installation
ceremonies Of Long Beach Corps, 50. Past
National Aid Ardalissa Baugham acted as
Installing Officer, and to her painstaking
care and thorough knowledge Of her duties
is due the success of the exercises. This is
small Corps, comparatively, but full of
zeal and interest, and the entire ceremony
was conducted without 1t flaw. Many
visitors We're present, Past and present
Department officers and others, and the un-
animouS verdict was, "the most beautiful
installation | ever saw"
On Jan. 10 Mrs. Baugham olficia!ed in
the same capacity at Pasadena with the
same pianist. Again the work WAS be
yond criticism. Both Mrs. Baugham and
the pianist are past Presidents of this
Corps, and when they work for John f.
Godfrey their hearts are in il, even though
each works now in n different field.
Past Department Inspector Lettic NJ.
Winans. as Press Correspondent for An
tlet2m Corps, PetGluma, reports Il very
pleasant and successful Joint installation of
Post and Corps. with herself as Installing
Officer for the latter. Mrs. Winans has
been kept from active work for nearly Il
year through serious illness, and We hail
her return to comparative health and consc-
qucnt taking up of her beloved labor among
us. Most gladly she reports her Corps us
active and busy, finding plenty Of relief
work to do, and willing hands to do it.
Riverside Corps, "a, held jcii,t nstalla-
ton with Post. Past President Rose Dexter
as Installing Officer for the former. Ii was
a very successful evenings work, most
Ghlv performed.
Wallace Reynolds CorDs, Santa Cruz re-
ports Joint public installation OF Post and
Corps, Mrs. Bowman acting for the latter.
complete, and elected much praise. Ar
elaborate banquet was served 10 the MEM
bers Of each Order and visiting friends after
the exercises We're over.
w. &. Counman, San Bcrnardino, reports
Joint installation with Post. Past Presi-
dent Mary f. Hattcry acted rs Installing
Officer.
Harriet Taylor, Press Correspondent of
Bartlett Logan Corps, Los Angeles, gives
an Interesting resume Of the past year s
work. The Corps has added many most
desirable members 10 the roster; has been
called 10 part with others who have crossed
to the other side; has done a large amount
of relief work gladly and willingly, and
especially has been much Interested in
patriotic lines of work, having established
the Bartlett Logan Memorial Fund" in the
| interests of Il proposed memorial hall 10 he
| erected in this city.
Reports from different portions of this
large Department show an increased in
terest in our work. The year 1900 starts
| out with good prospects for the success and
welfare of the various Corps. Our work
comes constantly, and there is no room for
drones, and as our ranks are made up of
earnest, large hearted jealous laborcrs,
embracing not only the wives, mothers and
| daughters of our veterans, but all loyal
women who desire 10 work for the help of
those who made ii possible for us to say
"One Country, one flag" We find our
selves always ready for any demand, and
| are justly proud of being worthy the name
| of AUXILIARY to the Grand Army of the Re
public. B. CLAPP, Depart
ment Press Correspondent, Aihambra, Cal.