Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-25
interesting Exercises Carried Out
In Local Posts Satur-
day Night.
THE PART THE WOMEN PLAYED
Col D. VI. Stcrritt Delivers stirring
Addrcs--ITctty Testimonial to Mrs.
Emma Ramsey Morris.

/ ION OF oiNCclS or the salt Lake Grand
J Army posts Saturday evening Be
. sides the usual furmulities accompany
1 ing the installation. there were fea-
l lures OF the program that would have
/ bcon imparcticahle but for the coming
/ encampmeut Col. T. NJ Sterfett de-
| livered an entertaining address on the
! part that women played in the Civil
] war. solid gold flag was presented
| 10 Mrs Emma Ramsey Morris. daugh-
/ ter of a civil war veteran. who has
| often sung the Flag without a stain"
/ at Grand Army meetings
] bltcCrs were installed by LuCian III
/ Smyth as follows Commander. j. H.
Wolcott. Junior vice commander John
Clark, chaplain, w. ID. Gaby: surgeon.
a. r.. Lawrence. This over, the officers
| of the WOmcn's Relief corps were i'm
stalled, as follows, by Mrs Ellen
| short. President Mrs Augusta Dean:
senior vice commander. Martha Camp
/ bell; Junior vice commander. Christine
jenkins. secretary, Mary Dodge; treas
urer, Alkaline Patterson chaplain. Mary
Lacey. patriotic instructor. Lillian Dun
can; press correspondent, Margaret
Meskill; guard Alfredo Lane. assist
ant guard, Mrs Bird, conductor.
/ Mary Laurence. assistant conductor.
| Mrs Zimmerman; color bearers. Lizzie
Smeltzer. Christine Cook Mrs. Stuart
and Mrs. Farrell.
MhS. NORRIS HONoRED
Following the Installation Mrs.
Morris sang THE Flag Without
Stain" after which Comrade Thomas
Loughney stepped forward and pre-
scented her with the gold flag on the
back Of which was engraved. "A Flag
Without a stain. A token of esteem,
presented TO Mrs Emma Ramsey Nor
ris by the c. A. r. department Of
Utah"
80 t...,..,- NJ l..-.-.. a..
the part OF the women's organization
in the Civil war said.
ION the walls and the corridors OF
time are hung the pictures of the great
women of history They have achieved
renown ana have held exalted rank In
every department of lifc's activities
some OF them have arisen TO high milf
tary distinction. They have led
mighty armies, and az the forefront IN
the white heat of battle have inspired
men TO lofty deeds OF heroism.
The history Of toll and priVation. Of
Indian wars and depreciation. deeds Of
daring in the chase and I'm defense OF
pioneer homes hewn from the primeval
forests. performed by the women Of
the Puritan and the Cavalier, incident
20 the growth Of the thirteen original
colonies, was well calculated 10 pro-
duce 100000 people deeply imbued
with the holy fire of liberty.
"A woman, Harriet Beecher stowe
In one volume did more to bring about
the great war between the states than
an the pulpit and rostrum orators in
the Union.
Pushing from the Atlantic border
into the forests OF the interior, the Pu-
ritan moved westward north of the
fortieth degree parallel. and the Cava-
lier moved westward south of that pa
ralel until the civilization of Plymouth
rock and the civilization Of jamestown
met in armed and bloody conflict on
the plains OF Kansas. This was the
forerunncr of the most stupendous war
OF modern times.
THE ARMY NURSE.
In that war the army nurse and the
woman's sanitary commission per-
formed deeds as important and Oft
times as heroic as those on the battle
field which have been enshrined In inn
mortal song and story; and true 10 her
mission since the war, she has been the
auxiliary and ally Of the Grand Army
of the Republic, the greatest semi
military body every organized and
maintained on the earth.
THE women of salt Lake CITY win
not DE found wanting when their part
of the work connected with the forty-
third national encampment OF the
Grand Army of the Republic is taken
up ln all the past national encamp-
meuts she has performed an ipmortant
and conspicuous part
In September of 1907. saw IL 900
Union VETERANS OF the civil war
march down Broadway iu Saratoga
Springs. in a tOrrential doWnpOur of
rain, ana the matrons and maidcns Of
that city, not 20 be outdone by these
aged men. with barred heads and SUM
mer gowns from which the rain fell IN
streams for hours steadily stood along
the line of march and choered the men
of il-6i TO the echo.
CARING FOR SOLDIERS.
During the year of 1908. the noble
matrous ana fair daughters OF the city
of Toledo. o., prepared ccntcrs of hos
pitalitN comfort and refreshment for
The vanishing army, and carried them
uut ut the forty-second national enc
camnment in "a manner $50 perfect as
io stamp that Wuman's work msm-
passed iu the history OF this country
II was under their management that I
every available piece OF public ground /
ana private residence was planted AID /
empowered in roses and flowers. which /
when gathered. Zen upon the heads OF /
$4,000 men who averaged 81 years of /
age as They marched over the streets /
amid the waving of "a most profuso dis |
play az national c0loIs. and To- tho !
hIHra OF trumpets. the sound uf martial /
music ana the wind instruments.
40 was largely through Womaus /
work that $1,000 school children were /
taught and sang the prominent patT- /
utiD songs Of tine nation. and largely I
through Mumuu'H work that $500 \
school children formed ana executed
the most perfect living flag over pro-
duCtd ou tuIs continent lt- red. white. \
and blue fluctuations were as REGULAR /
us the pillows uf the sea. lt win nee
u milton. .|