Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-07-01
LADIES OF THE G. A. r.
Explanation of Aim of Organize
ton, Which Has $4,000
M G m bers.
CFrom the Barre Times.)

Editor, Barre Daily Times Please
find enclosed an article which l hope
you will feel you can give space in your
paper. The L. of the G.. A. r. are stead
lily growing in number and favor, and l
have been asked many times to explain
its objects and aims The work is car
ried on so quietly and without boasting
of its works of charity, for we are all
one family, that we are long in being rec
ognized.
The department of Vermont, Ladies of
the Grand Army of the Republic, will
hold their third annual convention at
Montpelier, Thursday and Friday, June
16 and II, in the Methodist Episcopal
church. This organization, numbering
1000 membeas, is but little known in
Vermont and its objects misunderstood.
The Ladies of the Grand Army of the
Republic are the only organization of
women in the world to-day that repres-
ents in its entirety the union soldiers and
sailors of the Civil war and the only or
der of women that can, in the full sense
VI thO "OAN ONCi PCApCOudbC WIG 0AohO
Army of the Republic.
1.-THE object of the society is to trans
NIT the honor that belongs to the union
veterans of the Civil war to their fam
lilies, they being the rightful partakers
: of it, and to preserve with sacred fidelity
e the memory of the noble deeds and sac
y rifice of those who fought for the pres
ervation of the nation in the great war
: of 1868, and to keep this inheritance a
sacred ne. To unite with loyalty love
. for each other To practice the precepts
of true fraternity towards all sisters of
our orders, thus emulating the spirit
which unites our fathers, husbands +,
sons and brothers. To honor the mem
DRY of those fallen and to perpetuate and
e keep forever sacred Memorial day.
ITO assist the Grand Army of the Re-
n public in its high and holy mission, aid
encourage and sympathize with them in
G their noble work of charity. To extend
n needful aid to members in sickness and
distress. To aid sick soldiers, sailors and
marines. To do all in our power to al
: leviate suffering. To look after our
soldiers orphans homes. To see that the
Is children obtain proper situations when
they leave the homes. To watch the
If schools and see to it that the children are
II properly educated in the history of our
country, and instructed in patriotism.
, To look after soldiers homes. Also to
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wives and widows of permanently dis
. abled soldiers, to perpetuate and trans
- NIT to our defendants a true and correct
record of the names of the women who
>, are related by ties of blood and marriage
to the men who freely offered their lives
upon the altar of their country that this
III union might be saved.
III 1.-The Ladies of the Grand Army re-
y stricts its membership to those womer
&c who belong to the families of the unior
y veterans of the Civil war, and thereby
Sc differs materially from the w. R. G.
which admits to its membership all loya
err women, without reference to any rela
ed ton to those that served in that war.
th Those eligible to membership in tn,
Ladies of the Grand Army are the moth
ers, wives, daughters, sisters, grand
MS daughters and blood-kin nieces of honor
E. ably discharged soldiers and sailors of
!, the Civil war. Army nurses are admit
10 ted as honorary members.
members of the Grand Army of the
no Republic and other honorably discharged
- veterans may be admitted to member
lg shis as honorary members. Sons of Vet
thus making the family circle compile
l., Comrades who join as honorary mem
ID bers are not required to pay initiation
yn fees or dues, they have no vote, but may
IN take part in the exercises in the circles
-" thus making G.. A. r. home for them
when posts are no longer able to keep up
ri an organization.
"This organization will be perpetual
IL ed by lneal defendants. 1t is founded
IN upon similar lines as the Daughters of
the American Revolution and will be
perpetuated and hold in the future as
~ high and honorary place as the ID. A.
r. does to-day and is destined to hold In
u the future. Historically considered, the
~ Ladies of the Grand Army of the Repu b
:, lie is most important and valuable as an
th order of records.
1.-The Ladies of the Grand Army of tn
Republic is a distinct and independent
10 organization, its constitution strictly for
q bidding it to become auxiliary to any
y other society or organization. 1t is hav-
ing very rapid growth in membership
and has department in nearly every
~ state in the union, and extends large
sums every year in relief OF veterans and
their widows and orphans. II has estab'
IS lshed and maintains homes for widows
re and orphans in several states"
r. Its works of charity, like the Grand
Army, are given under the cloak of Sc
crecy, which let's not the left hand know
o. what the right hand doeth." Therefore,
>, the veterans or the public are never cal
led upon at camptires or reunions to lis
ten to recital Of what they have done
for relief to sick or needy ones.
ds MsR. Ii. K. BATCHELDER.