Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-07
NOW HAS RE[|EFCORPS
Auxiliary to Phil Sheridan Post,
G. A. R., Formed.
iMCThI kTInM fE0EA0MlEC
INSTALLATION CEREMONIES
First Organization of Its Kind Since
the Year 1901.
WITH MILITARY PRECISION
Names of Those Who Qualified as
Charter Members-Program
of the Exercises.

| Grand Army Hall was crowded last Fri
| day evening, the occasion being ceremonies
| of instituting and installing a new corps of
| the Department of the Potomac, Womans
Relief Corps, for the first time, it is stated,
| since 1901 The corps is auxiliary to Phil
| Sheridan Post, and takes the name of the
post. 1t will be No II on the roster of
| the Department of the Potomac Womans
Relief Corps.
Members of Phil Sheridan Post in uni
form We're on hand in force, and by
quest of the new auxiliary filled the chairs.
| The hall was handsomely decorated with
flags and bunting, and the music, all of
patriotic character, was contributed by Mrs
Kathryn Phillips, assisted by Mrs. Mary
| Van Ness Fauth
The installing officer, Mrs Agnes L.
| Keller was escorted by the officer of the
day of the post and amid cheers was pre-
| scented at the platform to Commander Hull
| of Phil Sheridan Post who turned the
gavel over to her. Mrs. Keeler appointed
| as installing officers, Mrs. Mary E. Hall,
| conductor; Mrs. Fannie Worden, Mrs Mary
! '. Goundie, Mrs Sara Bunyea and Mrs.
| Sara e. Kaufman. color bearers; Mrs EN-
| ma c. Littlejohn. depa rtment secretary was
| appointed secretary for the evening. and
! Mrs. Jennie Cusick. department chaplain,
| was lNStallnS chaplain.
Department President Announced.
The department president, Mrs. Isabel
! Worrell Ball, and her staff, We're announc-
| ed. and presented at the platform escorted
| by the color bearers. Those accompanying
| the department president. and who were
greeted with the military salute presenta-
| ton to the assembly, were the senior vice
! president. Mrs Anne r. HOa gland: Junior
! vice president, Mrs. Jennie Wheeler: treas
! urer, Mrs. Annie E. Cromwell: chaplain,
! Mrs. Jennie +. Cusick: Mrs. Christine Wal
! ton Dunlap. chairman of the executive
! board. and Mrs. Emma Harlow and Mrs.
| Sara jacobson, members of the executive
| board: secretary, Mrs Emma c. Littlejohn;
! counselor, Mrs Ida A. Oldroyd; inspector,
| Mrs. Mamie G. Davis: patriotic instructor,
| Mrs. Ida j. Hart, and l and officer, Mrs.
| Cora l.. Smith, and chief of staff, Mrs.
| Mary V. Goundie. Mrs. Matte E. Nc
! Clure. past department treasurer, was also
| escorted to the platform. Department Com
| mander Ferree accompanied by Senior Vice
| Commander Walker Medical Director DR..
/ y. E Johnson and Chief Mastering Officer
| Henry y. Johnson preseted themselves
| later ad were escorted in with hOnOrS, and
| given seats upon the platform.
| The installation exercises were conducted
with military precision. The officers in
| stalled were: Mrs Sara Elizabeth Beach,
president: Mrs. NJ. ]. Hull. senior vice
president; Mrs. Mary Bushby, Junior vice
president; Mrs. Jane Brideham, chaplain;
Miss Sallie Rice Ferren, treasurer; Mrs.
| Marion Parker, secretary; Mrs. EiiTnd c.
Littlc sim, press correspondent; Mrs Is
| abele BontZ, conductor: Mrs. Cora l..
Smith. guard, and Mrs. Louise Foster. as
| sistant guard Miss Happy Lowe was in
! stalled as first colorbearer. At the close of
| the arduous work of installing officers
| and giving the long charges without the
aid of the service book the newly installed
president. Mrs. Beach, with a few words
of thanks. presented to Mrs. Keller. the
| installing officer, bunch of carnations.
Mrs. Beach thanked the corps for the
| honor it had bestowed upon her, and as
sured the members that there is work be-
| fore all. and she expected each to do her
! duty. She asked the loyal support of all
| the members, and, calling up the post and
corps presented the auxiliary to Phil Sheri-
| dan Post, promising the veterans that their
new aids meant to assist them in every
| way possible, and pledging the loyalty of
! the siXty-eght women who had just taken
| upon them the gift of the post, the honored
name of Phil Sheridan.
Has Done Much Good.
| Commander Hull, replying for the post,
| acknowledged that he didn't know much
| about women's organizations, but that he
| knew that the Womans Relief Corps had
| done great deal of good, and he believed
with the majority of his organization that
no Grand Army post could much longer
survive unaided by relief corps He
| pIOlHlSeu tHe tLdt TIC pOst "oulU
Loyalty support the corps in every way
and that it was the desire of the members
of the post to fraternize with the corps and
assist in all its labors. He was glad, he
said, that the aims of the Womans Relief
| Corps was not to shine socially, but to as
| sst the veterans
There were many little talks throughout
| the evening, the speakers all being Opti-
| mistic concerning the future of the post
and the largest corps ever formed in the
| Department of the Potomac. Among the
speakers, all of whom were enthusiastically
received. were the two department vice
presidents, Mrs. Hoagland and Mrs
| Wheeler, and Mrs. Mamie G. Davis. who
! spoke of having seen Gen. Sheridan in the
| grand review in Washington in 1865.
| Mrs. Annie E. Cromwell, who said she
| could take of the money of the de-
partment better than she could talk about
t. Mrs. Christine Walton Dunlap, Mrs.
Emma C. Littlejohn. Mrs. Ida ]. Hart,
! who spoke of the patriotic work necessary
to be done in Washington and declared that
children are not the only ones who need in
| structon; Mrs. Cora l.. Smith, Mrs. Matte
| could not keep her from attending the
| corps meetings or cause her to lose interest
in the labor of love for the veterans, which
she began during the war; Mrs Ida A.
! OldrOyd who spoke Interestingly of the
great general for whom the post is named;
Mrs. Annie w. Johnson, who declared the
new corps would prosper because 1t had in
it women who did things, and back of 1t a
post that did things and inspired others to
| emulate it's example; Col. Israel P. Stone,
who saw only rosy future for the women
Past Commander Bonney, who wished that
he might have had the pleasure of well
coming during his administration the corps
which he had been the first commander of
Phil Sheridan Post to petition for, and
Past Department Commander Tasker, who
told funny stories.
Views of Commander Ferree.
The department commander and his es-
cort arrived late in the evening. but not
too late to be called upon to speak. Com
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