Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26
CORPS RESUMES WORK
WoMAN's AUXILIARY TO GRAND
ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC.
Addresses by Members Of Committee
on Courtesies and Others
Election Concluded.

The convention of the Department of Po-
tomac W. r. c., met in Grand Army Hall
last evening and again took up the election
of officers commenced on Friday evening,
but not completed. The department presi-
dent, Mrs. Vina NJ. Calhoun, presided
throughout the evening.
Upon the platform with Mrs. Calhoun
were many past department presidents, in
Guiding Mrs. Rosamond b. Meacham Mrs.
Ida ]. Hart. Mrs. Ida A. Oldroyd, Mrs
Annie w. Johnson. Mrs Georgia G. Balm,
Mrs Ida NJ. Peck, Mrs. Matte E. Mcclure
and others.
Mrs. Julia Mason Layton, who is past
senior vice president of the department is
the acting secretary of the convention, and
performed her duties so acceptably that she
was given a rising vote of thanks and was
greeted with applause last evening after the
reading of the minutes of the convention of
Friday evening.
A great many of the members and past
officers of the department were reported to
be iii and letters of sympathy were ordered
to be sent them. Among those so remem-
bered were Mrs Ida V. Hendricks, past de-
partment president, and the first woman in
the Department of Potomac, w. r. c., to
win the red brassard of the national or
ganiZation as national senior vice president;
Mrs Indiana Cowling, past department
president: Mrs. Emma Cromwell depart
ment treasurer; Mrs. Emma s. Ellis, past
department treasurer, and Mrs. Bessie
Boone Cheshire.
The appontees of the convention are:
Mrs. Nora B. Atkinson, conductor; Mrs.
Nancy ]. Ayers and Mrs. Sarah Van Doren.
guards Mrs. Mary W. S. Thatcher Emma
Kibbey. Miss Augusta Raub and Mrs lsa-
bella BOntZ, colorbearers; Mrs Ida Good
hart, pianist. The committee on courtesies
is comprised of Mrs Ida V. Hendricks,
Mrs. Alice Burgess. Miss Tillie Durham
and Mrs. Eliza F. Naylor. Neither Mrs
Hendricks nor Mrs. Naylor could be pres
ent.
Committee Extends Courtesies.
The business of the evening was the
election of officers, and the convention con-
fined itself to that, excepting for one inter-
mission when the committee on courtesies
Of the department encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic and detach-
ment of the officers elect came up to pay
their respects. The chairman of the COM
mittee courtesies, Col Arthur Hen
bricks. said he had been chiefly known to
the Woman's Relief Corps the husband
of Mrs. Hendricks, so long at the head OF
affairs in the Department of the Potomac,
but now debarred by ill health from active
participation. He was glad to be known
to them even through that channel he de-
clared and spoke briefly of the love that
Mrs. Hendricks had for the organization,
and how she had worked for its advance
ment.
He was followed by Col Henry Foster,
commander Of Lafayette Post, who spoke
in high praise of the Woman's Relief Corps
and the growing need for 1t to assist the
Grand Army. Past Department Command
er Bingham was the third member of the
committee who came. he said, to tender his
annual greetings and to express his strong
attachment for the organization.
All were presented with badges by the
department president and retired to give
way to Department Commander-elect New
ton FerTee, Senior Vice Commander elect
George Walker and Junior Vice Command
er-elect Holbrook. Col Ferree spoke of his
desire for harmony between all the patri-
otto organizations. and particularly for the
advancement of the teaching of patriotism,
which he felt was one of the crying needs
of the department. He asked the Woman's
Relief Corps to help the Grand Army of
the Republic in this work, and pledged the
organization his untiring support during the
year. sentiments which were echoed by
Col Walker and Col. Holbrook.
Address of President-Elect.
The department president, on the request
of Mrs. Annie W. johnson, called upon Mrs.
Isabel Worrell Ball, department president
elect, to respond to the patriotic utterances
of the veterans. Mrs Ball was escorted to
the platform, where the two officers who are
TO head the two departments of the Potomac
for the coming year met for the first time
and clasped hands amid rounds of applause.
Mrs. Ball declared that political differ
ences were but matters of the moment, and
that when a contest was ended she accepted
staff of women who had been elected to
support her she pledged them undivided de-
votion, all their energies, all their strength,
all their loyalty to the Grand Army of the
Republic.
Il can say from my heart" she declared
that the heat of conflict no longer pulses
and l can say with truth that the women
of this department who have regard for the
motto of the Women's Relief Corps, as we'll
as the Grand Army of the Republic, Fra
ternity, Charity and Loyalty" will stand to-
gether, united for peace, harmony and prog
ress.''
Her sentiments were received with enthu-
siasm."
The election of officers resulted as fol-
lows: Mrs. Jennie Cusick, Thomas Corps,
chaplain; Mrs. Christine Dunlap Burn
side Corps, chairman of the executive
board. Mrs. Emma Harlow, Lafayette
Corps; Mrs. Kate Harris, Thomas Corps;
Mrs. Marian Lewis, Lincoln Corps, and
Mrs. Jacobson, Burnside Corps, were
elected members of the executive board.
Miss Tillie Durham, Thomas Corps was
elected delegate-at-large, and Miss EN-
ma Patterson, Morton Corps, delegate,
defeating Mrs. Helen Durfee of Burnside
Corps.
The convention then adjourned to meet
this evening at Grand Army Hall at 7:3O
to hear the reports and conclude the
election of officers.
Mrs. Isabel Worrell Ball will this even
ing read her report as delegate large
which office she has filled for five sue
cessive years.
EInpEn WITH pRTEST