Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-05
FLAG DAY EXERCISES
THE WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS
PREPARING PROGRAM.
Anniversary to Be Observed in Public
Schools of the District
Other Ceremonies.

The Department of Potomac, Woman's
Relief Corps, Mrs. Rosamond B. Meacham,
president, is engaged in preparation Tor
Flag day and the patriotic ceremonies that
were instituted incident to the day by the
national organization of the Woman's Re-
lief Corps nine years ago. The patriotic IN
structor of the department, Mrs. Emma S.
Ellis, has been in consultation with the
board of directors of the Washington pub
lie schools, and has been assured that
patriotic exercises will be held in every
school in the District commemorative Of
Flag day, as has been the custom ever
since first inaugurated in the District IN
situations of learning by the Womans Re-
lief Corps in 1896
Mrs. Ellis has also issued instructions to
the nine relief corps of the Department o.
Potomac to hold commemorative exercises.
She has been informed that George U. Nor
ris Corps of Georgetown will hold big
public meeting Monday evening, June 10,
for which music and good speakers have
been secured. John A. Logan Corps of
Ana Anacosti "a will ,,t throw open its beautiful
the same evening. George H. Thomas
Corps, located in the northeast, will have
public exercises in some church in that
section, as has been their custom for years.
Mrs. Meacham. department president, who
was the first president of Thomas Corps,
said last evening that they had never been
able to get an edif1ce large enough to hold
the crowds of people who had ALWAYS at
tended their Flag day exercises, but that
they hoped to accommodate them this year.
Lincoln and Burnside Corps will hold flag
exercises in their corps rooms, and it is
probable that Lafayette Summer, o, P.
Morton and Farragut corps will do the
same. as these organizations all meet in
the downtown districts. All the corps will
have prominent speakers.
Invited to Assist
AS a department, the Woman's Relief
Corps has been invited by the Spanish War
Veterans to assist in the Flag day exer-
cises proposed to be held by them on Sher-
man square. 14th and Florida avenue. A
meeting of the department council was held
last evening, and the invitation extended
by Major Hodgson, commander of the Dis
trict Corps was accepted. The department
president. Mrs. Meacham, Department
Counselor Mrs. Ida A Oldroyd. Depart
ment Patriotic Instructor Mrs. Emma S.
Ellis and her assistant, Mrs. Isabel Worrell
Ball. were designated to assist in preparing
the program.
The Department of the Potomac had par
TALLY arranged for a public meeting and
program of its own. is it's annual GUS
tom. but in the interest Of big patriotic
outdoor gathering, which might be at
tended by the whole city, decided that it
would be the furthering of the interests of
their patriotic work to accept the invitation
of the Spanish War Veterans for joint
ercises. The ceremonies will occur in the
afternoon and not interfere with the public
meetings of the various corps.
Mrs. Emma S. Ellis. patriotic instructor,
has requested that the business houses of
the city decorate with flags on June 10, and
desires to request through the papers that
every patriotic minded man, woman and
child wear small flag that day.
The newspapers of Washington made this
request for the Woman's Relief Corps for
the first time, in June, 1895. it was recalled
by members of the council last evening, and
the records show that the response was
quite general, considering the uniqueness
of the custom. Since then most of the large
business firms have needed no request to
remind them of the day, and great many
thing.