Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08

some fifteen years ago. Mrs. Oldroyd Is
a past department president and served on
the national staff before leaving Illinois,
where she was charter member of Ste
phenson Relief Corps, named after the
founder of the Grand Army Of the Re-
public. Mrs. Oldroyd Is a member Of the
national committee on the silver jubilee
of the Woman's Relief Corps.
A Second Mount Vernon.
Mrs. Christine Walton Dunlap, chairman
of the department executive board, is sec
rotary of the Appomattox Surrender House
Association. and will have her headquarters
with the Department of the. Potomac. Mrs.
Dunlap hopes to make appreciate Roadway
with the project to save the Appomattox
house and make of 1t a second Mount
Vernon. DR.. Libbie Porter, the celebrated
army nurse, is the special guest Of the de-
pa-tment.
Mrs. Ball will have as her special guests
her department counselor, Mrs, Oldroyd.
and her department secretary Mrs. Emma
c. Littlejohn, at department headquarters
in the United States Hotel. Other men,
bers Of the department staff who accom-
pany the department president are Mrs.
Annie E. Cromwell, department treasurer;
Mrs. Jennie r. Cusick, department chap
lain; Mrs. Cora L. Smith, instituting and
installing officer and will be met in Sara
toga by Mrs. Mamie G. Davis. department
inspector; Miss Emma Patterson, the dele
gate; Mrs. George G. Balm, past department
president, and Mrs. Siebold, all Of whom
are In New York now. Several past de-
partment presidents of the department will
be in Saratoga, but do not accompany the
department commanders party. The De
partment Of Potomac Woman's Relief
Corps Is entitled to twenty-one votes in
the national convention. Other members
of the department who are in the party are
Mrs. Marion B. Parker. Mrs. Sarah Bun
yea and Mrs Sarah Beach.
ACCOMMODATING the party Is Mrs. Agnes
Keller. wife Of Col. E. A. Keller, past
commander of Thomas Post. who is dele
gate to the encampment. Mrs. Keller has
just returned from a long visit with her
daughter and son in Panama, and this Is
her first outing with the department for
several years. Mrs. Keller Is the choice
ment president the coming year, and has
many warm supporters throughout the de-
partment.
Busy Time Ahead.
The two Departments Of the Potomac ex-
pect to be very busy during the week. The
jubilee meeting, to celebrate the twenty
fifth anniversary of the Woman's Relief
Corps and to present the silver offering
to the Grand Army Of the Republic, Will
be held Tuesday evening, and in this the
Department of the Potomac is particularly
interested 1t is stated that for its member
ship the Department of the Potomac will pre-
sent the largest sum In the whole organiza-
ton, 10 cents for each of its 600 members.
Invitations have been received for the de-
partment receptions from Indiana, Massa-
chusetts, Missouri, Rhode Island, Kansas,
Connecticut, Minnesota Pennsylvania, New
York, Iowa, Illinois, Maine, Vermont and
Ohio, and all these have been accepted
The two Departments of the Potomac intend
to join forces and attend these receptions
together. Wednesday evening occurs the
reception of the national president to the
Grand Army Of the Republic. and at this
reception. as well as at many of the state
receptions, the department president, Mrs
Ball, has been invited to assist. At 8
O'Clock of the same evening the Woman's
Relief Corps of this department, assisted by
Department Commander Ferree, will give
a reception to the Grand Army of the Re
public and the members of the patriotic
organizations at the headquarters Of Po-
tomac w. r. c., in cottage 4, United States
1900 guests.