Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-25
TWO DAYS EACH WEEK
WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS HEAD
QUARTERS WILL BE OPEN.
Mrs. Meacham, Department President,
Announces Appointments-Arrang-
ing for Memorial Day.

Inc department OF potomac, W. n. S.s
Mrs. Rosamond B. Meacham. president,
has established headquarters at No. 66 r
street northwest, the home of the depart
ment president. Mrs. Meacham has follow
ed the action of her predecessor in estab-
fishing headquarters at her home, so that
the department will be at no expense for
rent. This plan saved the Department OF
Potomac $50 last year. which sum the
ladies were enabled to apply to relief work.
A school Of instruction in the floor and flag
work of the Woman's Relief Corps is to be
held some time in the near future. The
regular headquarters days are Mondays and
Thursdays of each week, when the presf-
dent and secretary will be present to trans
act business and receive all callers. The
treasurer, Mrs. Margaret Walker, will be at
her home, 1924 North Capitol street, Thurs
day Of each week for the transaction Of
business.
Appointments Announced.
The following appointments for the De-
partment of Potomac are announced: Sec
rotary, Matte E. Mcclure; inspector, Julia
Roberts; counselor, Ida A. Oldroyd; 1. and
I. officer, E. P. Watson: patriotic instructor,
Emma 8. Ellis; press correspondent, Isabel
Worrel Ball; senior aid and chief Of staff,
Mamie P. Dorsey. Special aids-O. P. Nor
ton, No. 1, Julia c. Collier; Charles Sum-
ner, No. 3. Frances Frelnghuysen; Burn
side, No. 4, Edith Emmerson, Elizabth c.
Months; Farragut No. 5, Emma Kibbey:
Lincoln, No. e, Jennie Raub, Emma Fer
guson; Logan, No. Z, Eliza P. Watson; La
fayette No. 10, Lola P. Hauptman; Geo. Isl.
Thomas, No. II, Clara Magee Mary w.
Thatcher; Geo. U. Morris, No. II, Josephine
Lee Noble.
Aides-O. P. Morton. No. 1. Carrie H.
Thomas, Rachel A. l.. Brooks, Anna V.
Saunders, c. E. Butcher, Hattie L. Over;
Charles Sumner, No. 3. Julia West Hamil-
ton, Lula Chase, Pauletta Goings, Estelle M.
Thomas. Lottie E. Green; Burnside, No. 4,
Ida ]. Hart. Anna E. Hoagland, Emma L.
Newton. Katherine North, Gertrude Strick-
land; Farragut No. 5. Clara Kalstrom,
ley, Grace Lowery: Lincoln, No. e, Helen
Stone, Lizzie Mason, Mary Bushby, Jennie
Street, Fannie E. Worden; Logan. No. Z,
Mary Simpson, Jane Mclean, Emily Fr1s-
bee, Mary Crawford, Emma Emo; fayette,
No. TO- Kate M. Harris, Luce B. Graham,
Marion Gregory, Kate Perkins Mrs. Carey;
George H Thomas No. IL, Alice Burgess,
Nora B. Atkinson. Gertrude Morgan, Emma
Morris, No. H. Maggie Thompson. Annie
Hutchens, Gussie Raab. Mary Lee, D. M.
Mccormick.
The following committees are announced:
Pension committee-Chairman, Eliza F.
Nayior; Agnes S. Keller, Ida j. Hart.
Hospital committee-Chairman Jane Bird
ahan; Mary Honn, Sarah Van Doren.
Department employment committee
Chairman. Helen ]. Durfee, with presidents
of the different corps. Meetings to be held
at the home Of the chairman, subject to her
call.
Department relief ommittee-Chairman
Maria L. Jordon, with chairman Of the re-
lief committees of the several corps. Meet
ings at headquarters, subject to call OF
chairman.
Official Vicifc RI Hornc
The department president and staff will
officially visit the corps as follows: o. p.
Morton, No. 1, April q; Charles Sumner,
No. 8, April Is; Burnside, No. 4, May IL;
Farragut, No. 5, May II; Lincoln, No 9,
May 81; Logan, No. Z, April %; Lafayette,
No. 10, May 6; George H. Thomas, No. IL,
May %; George U. Morris, No. u, May %.
The department president. announces that
the Department of Potomac, W. R. c., has
been honored with the appointment of one
of Its members, Mrs. Isabel Worrell Ball,
upon the press committee of the National
Council of Women for the Women's Relief
Corps This appointment was made by the
national president Mrs. Lodusky Taylor
The president also announces that the
resolutions adopted by the Departments of
Potomac, w. R. c., and G. A. R., con-
demnfng the proposition to place statue
of Robert E. Lee in the national capital
have been sent to every department COM
mander and department president in the
United States; to all national and past
national officers and to members in Con-
gress of both houses.
Arrangements for Memorial Day.
Active preparations are now being made
for Memorial day. A vast amount of hard
work devolves upon the relief corps of the
Department Of Potomac May 30, incident
to the decorating of the graves Of the SOL
der dead in the cemeteries in and about
Washington. There are only about 600
members of the Women's Relief Corps in
this department, but upon them falls the
labor Of preparing and decorating about
10000 graves. This is exclusive Of those
decorated by other bodies of loyal women
of the District.