Evening star., 1907-09-01
PROGRESS OF RELIEF CORPS
ENCOURAGING REPORTS BEFORE
NATIONAL ENcAMPMENT.
Department Of the Potomac Has $50
Contribution for Organization
Proposed Fund.

At a meeting OF the council of the De-
partment of Potomac. Woman's Relief
Corps, last week az the home of the de-
partment president, Mrs. Isabel Worrell
Ball. the books of the department treasurer,
Mrs. Annie E. Cromwell were audited and
matters of business concerning the ma
tional convention transacted
The members of the council present were
the department president. Mrs. Ball; Sc
nior vice president, Mrs. Annie E. Hoag-
land secretary. Mrs. Emma C. Littejohn
treasurer. Mrs. Annie E. Cromwell; coun-
selor. Mrs. Ida A. Oldroyd; patriotic in
structor. Mrs. Ida ]. Hart: I. and l.
officer Mrs. Cora L. Smith; chairman OF
the executive board, Mrs. Christine Walton
Dunlap; Mrs. Marian NJ. Lewis and Mrs.
Emma Harlow, members of the executive
board
1T is said that there is more money in
the treasury at this time than when the
department changed hands six months ago,
although expenses are reported to nave
been heavy.
Mrs. Ida A. Oldroyd, department coun-
selor and resident chairman of the jubilee
anniversary committee OF the national Or
ganiZation of the Womans Relief Corps.
which this year celebrates its twenty-fifth
anniversary in Saratoga, was informed by
the department treasurer, Mrs. Cromwell,
that the corps of the department had raised
for the jubilee fund nearly $40, which
would be turned over to her to carry to the
national treasurer as the voluntary contri-
button of the members of the Department
of Potomac, Womans Relief Corps. The
department council then voted to make the
fund exactly $50
Hope for $4,000 Fund.
1t was said that Phil Sheridan Corps had
several other contributions to turn over to
the treasurer, and it is thought that the
sum may be increased to nearly $50. The
department president says that this sum is
most gratifying to her. and that in propor
ton to the membership OF her small de-
partment it will be several times larger
than that which will be reported by any
other department., being about 10 cents for
each member in good standing. 1t is said
that this jubilee offering Is to be turned
over to the Grand Army of the Republic at
a grand campfire in Saratoga, and that 1t
is hoped that about $4,000 will be realized.
The department president announced that
every corps in her department was adding
to it's membership, that the finances of all
are satisfactory, and that there seems to be
a decidedly healthy condition everywhere.
The department president with her staff
will take the headquarters train for Sara
toga over the Baltimore and Ohio next
Sunday morning, accompanying Commander
Ferree and staff and the veterans of the
department. 1t was announced that the
department chaplain, Mrs. Jennie CHsick,
was at the seaside with her son, who is
quite ill., but that she would join the staff
for the trip to Saratoga. The party will
be met in Saratoga by Mrs. Mamie G.,
Davis department inspector who is the
guest of her son at West Point; Miss Emma
Patterson delegate, and Mrs. Georgia G.
Balm, past department president, and at
Baltimore will be joined by Mrs. Lizzie
owen Buchta, past department president
a
Department of the Potomac.
Jubilee After Return.
The department president announces that
inspections of corps will begin early in Oc
tober. On the return from Saratoga the
department will hold a jubilee anniversary
meeting in honor of the Woman's Relief
Corps, when it is expected that an excellent
patriotic program will be presented, in
Guiding speakers of national reputation.
The department president also hopes to
return to the old school of instruction
which proved to be of great benefit a few
years ago in instructing members and Of
icers concerning the laws of the Womans
Relief Corps and the duties of officers. If
voted to t9is before department inspections
begin.
The department president had as her
guest a few days ago Capt Wallace Fos-
Ter OF Indianapolis, nauonal sponsor oil
the patriotic work of the Womans Relief
Corps. Capt. Foster was made deaf by
the bursting of bomb and he devotes his
life to the spreading of patriotic principles,
being the author of the patriotic literature
of the w. r. c., also of the flag salute.
He has availed himself of a great many of
the sketches written by Mrs Ball in COM
piing his Patriotic Primer, and ex-
pressed himself as delighted with the evi-
dences of the work that she had done along
all patriotic lines in Washington. He said
that Mrs. Ball was the first to take up the
patriotic work in this department after
it was adopted by the Womans Relief Corps,
and praised her labors which We're con-
Quoted, he said, against many discourage
mentS.