The National tribune., 1905-11-30
THE WOMAN'S
RELIEF CORPS.
The National President Issues Her
First General Order-Imp0r.
tant Appointments, Changes in
Regulations and Decisions.


Mrs Abbie "A. Adams. National Pres
3dent of the WOman's Relief Corps, has
promulgated the following:
Headquarters Womans Relief Corps
Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Re
public. Superior, Neb.. Nov. 10. 1885,
The 22d National Convention. Woman's
Relief Corps, held III Denver, Colo. Sept
and 8, elected the following officers:
National President. Abbie A. Adams
Superior, Neb.
National Senior President, Julia
G. Sine, Chicago, H.
National Junior Nice-PreSident, Eunice
M. Munger. Oklahoma City, Okla.
National Treasurer. Charlotte E
Wright, New Haven, Conn.
National Chaplain, Catherine c. Ken
nedy. Denver. Colo.
Executive Board.orpha D.; Bruce
Rockville, Ind; Florence S. Rabbit
Ypsilanti, Mich; Mara E. Dean, Chatta-
nooga, Tenn; Alice w. Fuller, Cleve-
Andersonville Prison Board-Lizabeth
a; Turner Chairman New Britain Conn;
sashR Taya 9t Lee su aKr0n mn 1h'9 FIJI
unexpired term of Sarah d. Winans)
Sarah D. Winans, Toledo. Ohio; Allaseba
M Bliss, Saginaw, Mich.
The following appointments are here
by announced National Secretary, Mary
r. Morgan, Alma, Neb, National Inspec-
ticnal Counselor, Agnes Hit, Indianapo-
lis, Ind; National Instituting and INSTALL
ing Officer, Alice Breitenstein, Dayton,
KY; National Patriotic Instructor, Eliza
J. Crisler. Greensburg, Ind; National
Press Correspondent, Elizabeth Robbins
Berry, Boston, Mass; National Senior Aid
and Chief of Staff, Eliza Brown Daggett.
AttlebOro. Mass; Delegate to Council
of Women, Emma Stark Hampton, De-
troit, Mich.
These officers must be obeyed and re-
spected accordingly.
Department Presidents are requested
to see that all checks or money orders
for per capita tax are made payable to
the order of the National Treasurer,
ID Charlotte e. Wright, and not to the order
of National Secretary. These checks or
Wright, must be inclosed with reports
sent the National Secretary, and by her
= forwarded to the National Treasurer.
This request is made necessary because
these remittances are often made pay
able to National Secretary. thus causing
much needless delay and expense.
Department Presidents are also re-
quested to forward at once to the Ma
tional Secretary the names of those
pointment as National Aids. Care should
be taken to select active, willing workers
for this position, and that all names and
post -office addresses are plainly and cor
rectly spelled. Special Aids will be APP
pointed from time to time, as necessary,
when their names come properly recon-
mended.
Department Inspectors, Patriotic In
structors and Press Correspondents are
requested to Immediately report to their
respective superior officers, in order to
facilitate the labor of these officers, save
unnecessary expense and secure the best
results.
Officers reports remaining after close
of Convention at Denver are in the hands
of the National Secretary, and any one
desiring copy can procure 1t by send
Ing five cents to pay postage.
Department Presidents should person
ally examine all reports and returns be-
n har nv hai CT fflr
since the responsibility of correct re-
ports and returns is laid by the laws of
:. All communications requesting opin-
ions or decisions must be sent to these
Headquarters through official channels,
that they may receive proper considera-
tion.
The following appointments are here
Correspondent. Isabel Worrell Ball,
Press Correspondents, Inzetta A. Small,
Lewiston, Me-; Myra ]. Olney. Pawtuck-
ct, r. l.; Helen 1. Parker, Gouverneur,
N: Y; Amelia F. Colgan, Hampton, Va;
Elorsnee g Msc,eland Chicago III; H Ada
Williamsburg, Iowa; Mayme Hedrich
Cleayer. Neigh, Neb.; Mary E. Hartwell,
Los Angeles. Cal.
These officers will report for duty to
(. National Press Correspondent Elizabeth
Robbins Berry, 657 Washington ST., Bos-
Gen. Ivan N. Walker, Past Commander
in-Chief, Grand Army of the Republic
died at Indianapolis, Ind. Sept. %, 1905
He has responded to the last roll call OF
his earthly life and passed over to the
fairer camping grounds in the great be-
yond. The deepest sympathy of the Wo-
mans Relief Corps is rendered to his
stricken family and his comrades of the
Grand Army.
BY the time these General Orders shall
have reached their destination Thanks
giving Day will be approaching. and ii
is in direct line with other patriotic work
that this day of joy be appropriately OBJ
Our beloved country leads in all that
makes Nation great and good. No evil
threatens US, our fair Southland has re-
covered from it's recent trial with a dis
astrous fever, and peace. happiness and
prosperity are ours. Let our thankful
in an anthem OF praise to the Great Com
mander who SO blesses our fair land.
BY command of Abbie A. Adams, Ma,
tional Secretary, Alma, Neb.
Mrs Adams also promulgates the
following Decisions of National Con
vention. which are given in part:
That this Convention indorse the &C.
tion of the 22d National Convention in
appropriating not less than $1,000 an
neiay TO es5 "a ih d dana TOT ehe per
property. and that the appropriation this
year be increased to $4,000 and added te
That the balance remaining in the
Council of Women Fund be transferred
TO the General Fund.
That the National President appoint {
committee Of three members OF this Con
vention 10 consider conditions in the De
partments OF Louisiana and Mississippi
and report to this Convention, IL posi-
BILE; IL not, to the incoming Council, VIII.
shall take action the circumstance
require.
That special effort be made by eacl
Corps to contribute amount equal I,
five cents per member for the erection o
the proposed monument 30 loyal womel
at Chickamauga Park. Tenn, and for
ward the same through regular channel
to the National Treasurer not later thar
July 20. 1906. the manner of carrying gu
this plan to be left to the discretion o
the incoming National President.
That this Convention express it's dis
approval of any efforts on the part o
Subordinate Corps TO adopt new method
or make changes in the work as lait
down in the ritual
That giving out new password be frs
business under New Business and tina
the manner conform nearly as prac
ticable 10 the diagram used for ballot
ing.
That Section L. Article VIII, Chaptc