Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-15
CONVENTION
NATIONAL W. r. G. TO MEET IN
DENVER, COL.

In accordance with prior announcements,
the twenty-third national convention Of the
Women's Relief Corps, auxiliary to the
Grand Army of the Republic. will be held In
Denver, Col, September and 8, 1905. The
convention will be called to order In Trinity
Methodist Episcopal Church, corner 18th
avenue and Broadway, Thursday, Septem-
Der z, at am. That the session may COM
mence promptly all officers and delegates
are urged to be in their places before the
appointed hour.
National headquarters will be established
at the Brown Palace Hotel.
The following headquarters reception
committee has been appointed to welcome
visitors: Catherine C. Kennedy, Colorado;
America Anderson, Colorado: Fannie D. w.
Hardin, Colorado; Lucy M. Campbell. Colo
RADIO; Emily H. Jones. Colorado; Olive
Hogle, Colorado: Lizzie Belle Cross. Califor-
mia; Ida w. Moore, Kansas: Anna NJ. Tor
rance, Minnesota; Florence M. Babbitt,
Michigan; Belle C. Kimball. Missouri; May
l.. Douglas, New Hampshire; Clara j.
Hughes. Nebraska; Florence M. Westcott,
New York: Alfaretta NJ. De Vine, Pennsyl-
vania; Anna s. Hamilton, Washington, D.
c.
The national secretary or other members
of the credential committee will be at head
quarters paror on and after Monday after
noon. September 4. Credentials must be
presented and badges received in person.
The credentials committee consists of
Helen NJ. Ayers national secretary, Harri-
cite L. Reed, Massa chusetts; Celestia l..
Edwards, Wisconsin, Ellen w. Applebaugh,
Ohio; Katherine f. Wallace, Illinois.
1t is announced that the auditing COM
mittee will meet at national headquarters.
room No. II, Brown Palace Hotel, at
am, Tuesday, September 3; that the Ander-
sonvile prison board will meet at national
headquarters at pm, Tuesday, September
= md ha wi m
at-national headquarters at p. m, Tuesday,
September ).
A reception will be rendered the COM
mander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the
Republic and his official staff Tuesday
evening, September 8, from to 10 o'clock,
in the parlors of the Brown Palace Hotel.
Mrs. Blackmar's Acknowledgment.
Realizing the mpossbility of personally
the many messages and to-
kens of sympathy rendered Mrs Wilmon
w. Blackmar in her great sorrow, the fol-
lowing letter Is published by the national
president with her consent:
My Dear Mrs. Mnot-I write to thank
national headquarters Woman'f Relief
Corps for the magnificent floral design sent
for my dear husbands funeral.
My heart goes out in loving thought 10
the thousands of women of our noble or
ganization, and l deeply appreciate their
loyalty to my husband and their tender
sympathy for me which has proved such
help and comfort.
General Blackmar held the Woman's
Relief Corps in high esteem and felt CRATE
full for the labor of love they are perform
ing for his beloved comrades.
Il send my warmest thanks and my ear
nest wish for every success and the pros
perity of the Woman's Relief Corps.
(Signed) HELEN r. BLACKMAR.'
The letter is dated at Higham, Mass,
June 80.
In issuing her last general orders Mrs
Fanny b. MinOt, national president of the
Woman's Relief Corps, thanks the mem
bers of the corps for their expressions of
interest In the work of the year and ex-
presses kind wishes for its success. She
also thanks departments and individuals
for many favors received. ITO the Grand
Army of the Republic she says Il wish
to express my grateful appreciation of their
loyalty ready assistance and cordial sup
port; nor can 1 refrain at this time from
bearing testimony to the consideration and
courtesy of our late commander-in-chief.
Wllmon w. Blackmar, and his often ex-
pressed approval of the work of the Wo-
man relief Corps. The remembrance of
his devotion to the cause of his comrades
should incite US to greater Efforts
The Local Arrangements.
Mrs. Ida ]. Hart, president of the De-
partment of Potomac, Woman's Relief
Corps, has issued general order No. 4. with
information for those who wish to take the
trip to Denver. She announces that a
special train of Pullman sleepers will
leave the Pennsylvania station. 9Th and p
streets northwest. Friday September ]. at
lilo pm, arriving al Denver Monday, Sep
TENDER 4, at 80 pm
The thanks of the department president
are EXTENDED 10 all the corps who so gen.
erously responded to the Memorial day
fund and for the donation to the flag fund
for the Union dead resting in southern bat
tie fields.
According to the order the department
unites with thousands of the Grand Army
comrades and members of the Woman's
Relief Corps in extending to the family of
National Commander-in-ChiefG Gen. WiImon
w. Biackmar sincere sympathy in their
hour of bereavement