Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-16
ISSUES GENERAL ORDERS
ACTION BY PRESIDENT OF WON
ANS RELIEF CORPS.
Arrangements for Exercises Memorial
Day-Floral and Other Committees.
Reference to the Dead.

the Republic today issued general orders
in reference to the exercises May 80
Department Commander Ferree of the g.
A. R. has appointed Mrs. Ball chairman Of
the floral committee and Of the committee
on the tomb Of the unknown dead, and ex-
tends an invitation to the officers and mem
beers OF this department to participate with
the Grand Army Of the Republic in the
exercises at Arlington and the other "cities
OF silence" within their jurisdiction, where
sleep the dead OF the nation.
The memorial committee will comprise the
following:
Departmental officers - President, Isabel
Worrell-Ball: senior vice president, Anna
-. Hoasland; junior vice president. Jennie
Wheeler; secretary, Emma c. Littlejohn:
treasurer, Annie E. Cromwell; chaplain,
Jennie r. Cusick: inspector. Mamie G..
Davis; counselor. Ida A. Oldroyd; /. and
l. officer. Cora L. Smith: patriotic instruc-
tor, Ida ]. Hart; press correspondent,
Lucie B. Graham.
Executive Board.
Executive board-Christine W. Dunlap,
chairman: second member Emma Harlow;
third member. Katie v. Harris; fourth MEM
Der. Marian M. Lewis; fifth member. Sara
Jacobson.
Past Department Presidents Ida v. Hen
bricks. Indiana Cowling. Anna g. Hamil-
ton. Annie w. johnson, Georgia C. Balm.
Anna A. Peck Matilda r. Sprague Mar
garet B. Tew. Ida A. Oldroyd, Rosamond
B. Meacham. Ida L. Chase. Ida j. Hart.
Vina NJ. Calhoun and the presidents of the
several corps
And of the following committees from the
corps. appointed especially to assist De-
partment Commander Ferree:
Morton-Julia M. Layton. Mary Tucker,
Belle Harris. Mary Griffin. Mildred Eslin.
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son. Josephine Fowler. Jennie Richardson,
Lottie Green.
Burnside-Jennie Hamilton. Lucinda Cru
ben Nettie Lyons, Mary Writner. Josephine
Seibold.
Farragut-Marie Clendaniel, Ida Bitz,
Mary Stoddard. Addie Foster, Mrs. john
son.
Lincoln-Jennie Thomson. Sarah Turnbull
Eliza Naylor. Cecilia Newlands, Mrs New
Logan-Mary Simpson. Anna Peck. Julia
Dony, Ellen D. Mclaughlin, Carrie King.
Lafayette-Emma Poland, Elizabeth VIII
ton Julia Dykes, Cecilia Ford, Julia Floyd.
Thomas-Gertrude Morgan, Nora B. At
knson. Elizabeth Langham, Alice Burgess
Mary Traphagen
Phil Sheridan-Helen E. Stone. Hannah ].
Devoe katherine Phillips, Carrie Curry,
Jane M. Bridaham.
To Serve Luncheon.
The orders further set forth:
1.-THE department aids are requested to
report at G. A. R. Hall Wednesday, May
20, at 8 O'Clock, to assist in preparing
luncheon to be served to veterans Of all
wars and to members assisting In deco
rating. They will also assist In the work
at Arlington and other cemeteries. Your
department president and special assist
ants, Emma c. Littlejohn. department
secretary; Ida A. Oldroyd past national
n.
son, past department president, will be at
the tomb of the unknown dead from .
O'Clock am. to IL m. All presidents will
report there as early as possible for their
be escorted by an orderly.
"AH members of the Woman's Relief
Corps are urged to attend the memorial
services conducted by the posts to which
they are auxiliary. It is the duty Of corps
presidents to insist upon this solemn OBJ
servance. Corps chaplains will prepare
their reports and forward them to depart
ment chaplain not later than June s.
Make these reports full and complete.
Memorial services Of the Department Of
the Potomac, Grand Army Of the Republic,
Church Sunday, May 20, at 7:30 pm. De-
partment Commander Ferree has extended
a cordial invitation to the officers and
members Of the Womans Relief Corps, to
rial services. Your department president
has accepted this invitation and with her
staff will attend. She requests the at
tendance also of the members OF the Wom-
ems Relief Corps and their friends.
contributions to the memorial fund for
the decoration Of many thousands OF
graves of Union dead in southern ceme-
teries should be forwarded at once through
corps treasurers to the department treas
urer.
Corps are requested to make their an
nual donations to Memorial day luncheon
at Arlington through the proper channels.
All veterans of the war OF the rebellion,
Spanish war veterans. and veterans of other
wars are cordially invited to accept the
hospitality of the Womans Relief Corps.
Space for service being limited in the Man
sion House, only veterans can be served
during the early hours. No others will be
admitted until after 1 o'clock.
Assignments to Cemeteries.
Assignments to cemeteries are as fol-
lows: o. P. Morton. Burnside, Lincoln,
Sheridan, Arlington; Farragut, Congress
sional This corps will remember the sailor
dead with appropriate ceremonies. as usual
George H. Thomas. Glenwood, Prospect
Mount Olivet. st. Mary's; Logan, st. Eliza
beth; Lafayette, Soldiers Home, Rock
creek; Sumner, Harmony.
Memorial day badges can be procured Oh
the chairman of the executive board, Chris
tine Walton Dunlap.
Department Commander Newton Ferree
has appointed as the committee on decora-
ton of tomb and the unknown dead: Isabel