W A C President Recaps 1910 Convention and Loyalties
Jennie Lothrop Whedon, Iowa Department President, thanks Grand Army of the Republic and Woman's Relief Corps members. She notes national convention in Atlantic City, 1910, and praises officers, staff, and host corps. Recommends binding journals, designates June 14 as Memorial Day, and honors deceased sisters and past commanders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
Iowa
Jennie Iowa Berry
Dyer
Army
Mary Criss
Olive Lamb
Eliza Rowley
Grand Army of the Republic
Department of Iowa Woman's Relief Corps
Thee Woman's Relief Corps
Department of Iowa
Women’s Relief Corps
George A. Newman
Phil Schaller
National Woman's Relief Corps Formed in Denver Encampment
The passage details the 1883 Denver Encampment where about fifty women gathered to form a National organization for the Woman's Relief Corps. E Florence Barker was elected chairman and Kate B Sherwood secretary, with a Massachusetts based framework adopted and a motion to admit all women of good character regardless of soldier relation approved.
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Union Board
Woman's Relief Corps Department of Massachusetts
Children's Day Program Set for North Prairie
North Prairie notes a Sunday night program on June 18 with no afternoon preaching. Sunday school at 10 a.m. Mrs. Jennie Pollock of Muscatine visited relatives, and William Campbell joined by Mrs. P. B. Lake and son Clarence plan trips to Northern Iowa and Minnesota to visit the Garvin and Miller families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Prairie
Jennie Pollock
Muscatine
Wm. Campbell
P. B. Lake
Clarence
Iowa
John Garvin
Minnesota
Will Miller
Mrs. Bettie M. Greer Emerges as Lead Figure in Corps Convention
Mrs. Bettie M. Greer, department secretary of the W. R. C., stands as a leading figure at the Corps convention. Formerly secretary of the Winterset Corps in Iowa for fifteen years, she has shown the same efficiency and interest in her department role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bettie M. Greer
Social notes from Lone Tree and neighboring towns
List of Sunday visits and gatherings around Lone Tree Iowa including Cronoweths and Kirchners, McCollister family, Miss Julia Curtis from Iowa City, Sigourney postmaster L H Hinkley, Miss Bessie Higley, Y Book Club hostess Mrs A H De Lane, and Mary Maben leaving for New York. Various travel to Davenport and Muscatine for events and graduations noted. Odd Fellows Memorial service at Methodist church conducted by Rev D Phillips.
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Lone Tree
John Cronoweth
Harry
Constant
Ella
Kirchner
Gildra Kirchner
John McCollister
Julia Curtis
Iowa City
Chas. Williams
L. H. Hinkley
Sigourney
Henry Hinkley
Bessie Higley
Grandview
Mary Maben
A. H. de Lane
Y. Book Club
Miss Maben
New York
Prof
Hessenius
Muscatine
W. S. Griffith
Waterloo
Hess
Mabel Hague
Stockton
Ross Lee
Davenport
Ima
Methodist Church
Rev. D. Phillips
Edna Potter
Mt. Pleasant
H. A. Baker
Jesse Baker
John Rife
Roy Huffman
Gertrude Skibley
S. H. Hamilton
Also Mentioned on This Page
G. M. Titus
Raymond Titus
J. P. Schomberg
Iowa Avenue
Grand Army Advocate
Advocate
May E. Jones
Sons of Veterans
Jessie McKay
Jennie Lothrop Whedon
Watson & Crozer
Rettie M. Greer
White
Cedar and
3Rd Streets
Www
S. Whit C. Doseutane
The
Home Sanitarium
Bell Phone
Michigan Lands
Dakota Lands
Florida
Linn Hoopes
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