Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
NEW YEAR RECEPTION
DEPARTMENT OF POTOMAC, W.
R. c., MAKING PLANS.

The Womans Relief Corps of the De-
partment of the Potomac is making ar
rangements for it's New Year reception.
Grand Army Hall has been engaged for
the occasion and will be in the hands OF
the decorators tomorrow. The depart
ment president. Mrs. Isabel Worrell Ball,
will be assisted by the members of her
staff and by the past national officers.
past department presidents, corps presi-
dents. the chief of staff. Mrs. Mary V.
Goundie: the department aids and by
many of the corps members. 1t is the de-
sire of the department president that all
members of the relief corps who can do
m. to o'clock.
A band will discourse patriotic airs
throughout the afternoon, and a program
of quaint old-time melodies has also been
arranged.
The Daughters of Veterans have accept
ed an invitation to assist the department
president New Year day. While every
of honor will be Department Commander
Newton Ferree and staff and all mem
bers of the Grand Army of the Republic,
Loyal Legion. Union Veterans Legion.
Medal of Honor Legion. Union Soldiers
Alliance, Union Veterans Union, Old
Guard. Army and Navy Union. Spanish
War Veterans, Sons of Veterans, Sons of
the American Revolution and other pa
triotfc organizations of men, The Marine
Band. Prof. Santelmann. leader, will be
guests during the afternoon. A Soldiers
welcome and good cheer will await all
corners.
The members of all patriotic organiza-1
tons of women are cordially invited to
come and exchange fraternal greetings.
Recipient of Christmas Mementoes.
Mrs. Ball. the department president, was
the recipient of a number of handsome
Christmas presents from members OF
other departments, as well as her own,
but it remained for the Department of
Kentucky to bring to Mrs. Ball the great
est surprise. Christmas morning she re-
ceived from that department a silver tea
service of dainty pattern in wild rose de-
sign, each piece engraved with her in
itials. The letter which accompanied the
present stated that the sterling worth of
the service but family represented the
sterling esteem in which Mrs. Ball is held
by the corps of Kentucky. 1t is stated
that ii, was her active and earnest defense
of the colored corps of the SOUTH and
particularly those of Kentucky, in the
national convention held in Saratoga last
September, at a time when the Depart
ment OF Kentucky, largely comprised of
colored corps was about to be dissolved,
which kept that department intact. The
silver service was sent by those corps as
a recognition of her friendly assistance.
1t Is stated that from the recent bazaar
and luncheon, held by Phil Sheridan Re-
lief Corps in Masonic Temple, the ladies
of the corps will realize nearly $500 Mrs
Annie w. Johnson, chairman of the ex-
ecutive board of the corps, planned the
whole affair and was assisted throughout
the week by the members Of the corps
1t is also stated that at the recent ban
Quet of the Armies of the Cumberland,
for which were IN the hands of the de-
partment president Mrs. Ball. surplus
of $50 was turned over to Mrs. Ball by the
veterans. which she will add to the funds
Of the Department Of the Potomac, w.
r. G.