Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1859-01-07
The Pioneer Temperance Society


A friend in looking over some old papers,
has brOugh, to ligh, the constitution and
pledge Of county temperance society.
which must have been formed in 1880.
The temperance movement, at that day was
a comparatively new thing, and we append
the document with the names of,hose con-
ccrned in its management, as matter OF
interest at the present day:
CoNsTlrrriOS Of the Union Temperance So
.eic,y Of the County OfoIford.
The undersigned being dssirous Of eSer.
ting their influence in the cause Of Ten.
pcrancc. and recognising and adopting the
principle Of total abstinence from the use Of
arden, spirits, hereby form ourselves into
an association. to be called the UNioS TES.
rERANcE SocrrIr Of the County OF Oxford.
AEr. /. The ofEccr. Of this Society shall
he President. Vice President and SCcre-
tary, to be chosen annually. by the mem
hers, at the June Term OF the Court OF Com.
mon Pleas.
AEr. .. There shall be a meeting Of ,hi.
association on some day during each Term
Of the Cour, Of Common Pleas. a, the Cour,
House, Of which meeting I, shall Sc the du.
~ Of the Secretary to give sca.onahlc notice
and il shall be the duty Of III. President
to request some gentleman to deliver an ad.
dress a: each meeting.
AEr. :. Every person signing hi, Con-
s,i,u,ion shall become member Of this So.
cic,y thereby engaging to adopt a total Ab.
sincncc in reference to the use OF ardent
spirit. a. drink.
Levi Whitman, stephen Emery, RoNer,
Goolenow. WIN. Goodcnow. r. X. Goodc-
now. Isaiah T.. Moody, Timothy j. Carter.
DANIEL Goolenow. Rcucl washburu. Henry
Farewell. James Walker, Samuel r Brown,
Timothy Carter. Peter c. Virgin. Levi
S,owell. Joshua Randall, Virgil d. Paris.
solomon Hall, Thomas CLARK. Jane. Starr.
John Woodbury., Augustine Haynes, John
jameson, Charles Whitman. Albert G.
Thornton. Hannibal Ilamlin. Cyrus Thomp-
son. :. Strickland. Ebcn Poor. VIM. War
rcn. Ir, Bartlett, James V. Poor. Thomas
Cannon. Elisha More. Geo. Turner. Ia.
vii terry, Ephriham Bass. Ensius T. Poor
Stephen Chase. EbencIr Jewe,,, Abra.
ham Andrews, Jr., Daniel Chaplin,
John S Barrows, Josiah Blake, Simeon
Walton.
Jan ~. 1853. Alta meeting ofthe socie.
ty. voted. tina; committe, OF ono or more
Gentlemen in every town in the County b.
appointed TO take copy Of this Cons,itu-
ton and rrocurc .ubscTibers--and the iol.
lovin: gentlemen were appointed or the
service. VIZ -frycburg, Benjamin wymau.
Ehcn,rrr fcs.cnden. Jr. Henry c. Bus.
well Brovnfeli. james Stcco, Samuel
Sickney. George Bhn; Hiram, Pelcg
wai,wor,h. AlPhcus Spring, Denmark,
Samuel GIBSON. Amos Poor; Lowell, Abra-
ham Audr,ws. sweden Chs. Ncycr-. Va.
than bradbury Fryebnrs Addition Samuel
Farr.uston Waterford, Chs. Whitman,
Daniel Brown, Esq, Dr. Leaudsr Gage;
Albany. Aaron Cumming. L,crmorc,
Reusl Washburn, Jay, Jane, Starr. Canton
John IIear.cy Hartford, Cyrus Thompson
Sumner. Samuel Scvall Peru, Levi Lud.
den .-DiI6eld, Henry Farewell Mexico,
J,eph Ea,,i,, Hartford. Elder Hutchinson,
joseph Tobin. Edward Blake Buckfeli,
Seih S,5t.on, 2adoek Long Lucius lo'ins
Paris, Abiah Hall, jr. Simeon Walton A.
saph Ki,,rcdse; Hebron, VIM. Barrows, DR.
Carr, Oxford, J. $. Keith, ;. II. King
Rumf5ri, Henry Martin Andover, sylvia
nus Poor, Jr.; Bethel, Jedediah Burbank;
NeNry, Josiah Black Woodstock, Elder
Whitman.