The National tribune., 1907-08-29
DAUGHTERS OF VETERANS.
At United States Hotel for National En-
campment mt Saratoga.

The 18th Annual Convention of the
National Alliance of the Daughters of
| Veterans will be held at Saratoga
Springs, N. Y, at the same time as the
Grand Army Encampment, Sept. 9-14,
1907.
National Headquarters will be at the
United States Hotel, suite 2S, and will
tee. Elizabeth Healy. Lulu Carlin, Nina
A. Littlefield, Mary McEvoy, Elizabeth
Grassle and Eva Kelly, during the en-
tire Encampment, who will be pleased
to meet members Of the Grand Army,
the Womans Relief Corps and all
friends who will call. All are cordially
invited.
Convention will be held Thursday and
Friday in Parish House Auditorium. on
Washington street. one block from Ma
tional Headquarters
Massachusetts Department Headquar-
ters, in charge of Department President
Miss Katharine r. A. Flood, will be at
the Broadway Hotel. 1t is expected that
Massachusetts will send a large delega-
ton to the Convention. They will ac-
company the Grand Army, having a
special car assigned them on the official
Department train. that will arrive in
Saratoga on the afternoon of Sept. 8.
The members of Mary L. Stark
weather Tent, 1, Daughters of Veter-
ans. of Minneapolis, Mimi, have started
line of work that will be of much
assistance to the veterans and their
families. They have organized a class
in the Tent known as the Red Cross
Corps of Mary l.. Starkweather Tent
Daughters of Veterans. The duty of
the Red Cross nurses is caring for the
veterans of the civil war and their fam
lilies who are unable financially to OBJ
tain for themselves the necessary care
when Illness 0yartakeS them The
work is devised to-fill n long-felt want.
The Mary l.. Starkweather Tent is the
first in the organization to undertake
this work, and it is believed that other
Tents Will soon follow its example. To
better prepare for the work the mem
bers of the Corps have taken a course
of study under DR.. p. Bentley. and DR..
Thomas Warham. The. class has 80
members and has been organized for
five months.
Mary L. Starkweather Tent was or
ganized June 6, 1906, and their first
anniversary was celebrated by a gath
ering in Memorial Hall of the Court
House. The hall was profusely deco
rated with flowers. The center of the
table was marked by a large birthday
cake, wound with traceries of smilax
One large cathedral candle was placed
in the center, and the date of the birth
of the Society.
MT. Lew +. lSOnSIellOW. the Depart
ment Commander OF the G. A. r.; Mrs
Ida K. Martin, Department President of
the w. r. c.; also Mrs. Mary L. Stark
weather. were among the especially in
vited guests. An informal reception
followed the program. and Mrs Stark
weather cut the large birthday cake
into over 800 pieces.
The members of Mrs. Ellen Spencer
Mussey Tent, /, of Washington, d. c.,
were most agreeably surprised on the
evening of July 81 by the associate
members of the Tent attending their
regular meeting in a body. During the
evening Capt. John S. Walker, Senior
Vice Commander of the Department of
the Potomac, G.. A. r., in behalf of the
associate members, presented the TentI
with beautiful silk flag This flag
was secured for the Daughters mainly
thru its honorary member Capt. o. II.
Olaroyd. The President of the Tent,
Miss Anna NJ. Roberts. called the mem
bers to rise and receive the flag with
the flag salute of the Order, and then
accepted the flag in the name of the
Tent, expressing the surprise and pleas
ure of the members, and referring to
what the flag represented to each
Daughter of Veteran.
Comrade john A. Hayward, OF Kit
Carson Post, G. a. r.. entertained the
members of Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussev
Tent, l, and Post 2, G. A. r., at his
nome, Aug. ]. The occasion was TO cele-
brate the 72d anniversary of Mr. Hay
ward. Refreshments were served and a
pleasant evening spent