Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-09
WOMANS RELIEF CORPS
GENERAL ORDERS ISSUED FOR
DEPARTMENT CONVENTION.
List of Committees Appointed-Aids
on National Presidents StaH.
Other Matters.

that the nine teenth annual convention OF
the Department of the Potomac Woman
Relief Corps. auxiliary to the Grand Army
of the Republic. will open in Grand Army
Hall, 1412Pennsylvania avenue northwest
Thursday, February 90 1908, and continue
until all necessary business is transacted
The convention will be called to order
promptlySat 7:3O o'clock pm All dele
gates are requested to present their Gre
dertials before and be in their seats ready
fo- business at that hour.
Convention Committees.
The following convention appointments
are announced: Assistant secretary, Julla
Mason Layton; stenosrapher. MaryeHap-
DIV, conductor. Mary +. Hall: as
sistant conductor, Florence Hoagland
guards. Laura Seymour and Sarah van
Doren; assistant guards. Mary Ford ano
Anna Lukei; color bearers. Marie Cleli-
daniel Gussie Palmer. Ida Bitz and Laura
Mcintosh. pianistS. Katherine W. III"
lips and Mary V. Fauth.
Committee on cOurtesieS. Ida j. Hart
Ida A. Oldroyd and Agnes Keller
Credentials. Emma G. Little john, Maria
L. Jordan and Sallie P. Ferran.
Presidents address, Annie w. Johnson
Rosamond B. Meacham. Georgia u. BAN
Margaret r. Tew. Indiana Cowling. LlzZle
O. Buchta and Julia West Hamilton.
Senior vice presidents report. IDA '.
Hendricks. Anna A. Peek Matliud IT, ~.
Snrague. Vina NJ Calhoun and Cornella
Junior vice president s report. Anna 3.
Frost Mary f. Mcintosh. Sallle Miller
DR.. Carrie Thomas and Olive A: RAYMOND.
Sscretary's report. Mamie +. DorS S
ma l.. Newton and J. Emma Evans;
Treasurer's report Emma E. E1llls,
Sarah F.. Beach. Anna V. TomPkins. ter
tr,ide Morgan and George u. van rlee!'
Chaplains report.kathaTlne Mc ct,eat
gal, Corfnne Strickland. Jeanne street,
Fannie Ross. Tillie Durham.
Inspector-Belle NJ Allen. Eliza p wal
SON Emma c. Kibbey. Gertrude Strlck-
land. Mary E. Crawford.
Counselor-Julia Collier, Katharine Phil
lips. Mary Mangan. Lottie Johnson Hatue
NJ Robb.
Instituling and installing officer-Jennie
Hamilton. lisa bella Bontz Augusta NJ
Starkey. Harriet A. Saunders. Hester A.
Wyman.
Patriotic instructor-Hannah j. Devoe.
Eliza Naylor. Emma V. Nepster' Ahce
Burgess. Mary l.. Kicker.
press espondent-Helen +. stone.
Jessie Drummer. Carrie T. BrooKnelo'
Christiana E. Butcher. Anna s. Hamilton.
Executive board-Julia Roberts, Nora d.
Edgar Josephine Siebold. Grace D. Low
ry. Frances Frelipghuysen-
Pellet committee-Marion B. Parker.
Sarah Bunyea. Addie w. Foster. Jennie 8.
,Raub. Lula Goldsberry.
EMPLOYMENT committee-Clara f. kals-
from Susie r. Jacobs, Frances L. Holiness
Julia A. Doney Nora B. Atkinson.
Hospitals-Mary Bushby, Jane Mclean,
Mary w. s. Thatcher, Mary A. Dow, Ida
l.. Chase.
Marshall. Margaret J. Gallaher' mary A
Hanen Jennie Wheeler
Legislation.Jane n. Bridaham. Mar
earet Bradt. Mary Leonard. Jennie T.
Thompson. Emma Emo.
Chief of staff-Emily Frisbie. Mary p.
Simpson. Sarah D. Kaufman. Lola B.
Hauptman Addie II. Feathers.
Delegate at large-Lida A. Oldroyd, Nan
niNG. Davis, Mary NJ. Hutchins.. Edith
Emerson. Mary ". Noerr:
Delegate Christine Walton Dunlap,
Cora L. Smith; May r. Eldridge. Annie E.
Cromwell. Anna M. Dykes.
Resolutions-Annie E. Hoagland. Lucie
B. Graham, Sarah E. Newlands, Clara j.
Magee, Helen J. Durfee, Lizzie Bradley,
Ellen d. Mclaughlin.
To the newly elected corps officers Mrs.
Ball extends cordial greetings.
National Appointments.
The department president also extends
fraternal greetings to the newly-elected
officers of the posts of Potomac Depart
ment and then announces the following:
The national president has made the
following additional appointments from
this department upon the national staff:
National aids-Christine Walton Dunlap,
Mamie G. Davis and Annie f. Cromwell.
Also promulgates decision fifty-three or
the twenty-fifth national convention as
Follows: The decision of national presi-
dent on the appeal from Lincoln Corps,
Department of Potomac. was sustained
natlOndI
convention"
Attention is called to the Appomattox
Surrender House Association, of which
Christine Walton Dunlap is secretary. ad-
dress 1885 Q street northwest, Washing
ton, D. c. Patriotic people everywhere
are earnestly urged to assist In preserv-
ing this house, with its tremendous his
toric associations.
OF Andersonville Prison Park and the
local Woman's monument Mrs, Ball says:
1.-THE browning infamy at Andersonville
is about to be consummated by the cree
ton at the very gate of our beautiful
prison park of a statue to WirZ, the
keeper of Andersonville prison. who is
thus hOnOred by the Georgia daughters OF
the Confederacy.
Robert f. Lees statue will soon be
placed alongside those of Grant and Lin
coin in the National Capitol.
my friends. it is time for the Woman S
Relief Corps to get busy ana erect a
monument in Chattanooga Park to the
loyal women of the war that shall over
top towering Lookout mountain. Let us
show by our very thought and act that
we honor and uphold the flag let us
firmly resolve to keep green the mem
cries of the men and women who sacri-
feed their all upon the altar of country,
and let us give practical expression to
this by contributing literally to the loyal
woman's monument fund.
Flag Dissertation.
Mrs. Ball says, as chairman of the COM
mittee on prevention of the dissertation
of the flag:
BILLS of stringent character. exactly
States Senate by Senator William War
and in the House by Representative
Washington Gardner of Michigan. There
Is work for every one In getting Congress
to act on these bills
The president general of the Daughters
of the American Revolution, Mrs. Donald
Mclean, has appointed the following
committee from that organization to CO.
operate with the committee Of the Wom-
ans Relief Corps: Mrs. Frances s. Kemp
ster. chairman of the national committee
on patriotic teaching of the d. A. R.;
Mrs Ellen Spencer Mussey. vice president
general of the National Society: Mrs. j
Eakin Gadsby. national historian. and
! Mrss Howard l.. 'Hodgkins, state regent
| of the District of Columbia, d. A. r..
The president of the District w. c. T.
L.. Mrs Clinton Smith. has appointed as
a committee from that body Mrs. Jennie
r. Cusick and Mrs. Lucius +. Randolph
Mrs. Ball announces that the national
president of the Woman's Relief Corps
Kate r. Jones of lion. n. Y. will be the