The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-02-07


We mentioned several weeks ago the cast
at Washington Court House, Ohio, where
the women made a successful application o
Tyndal's prayer guagc in the determination
OF the village dram shops. They went in {
body to the grocery or saloon and opened {
prayer meeting, the exercises consisting of 8
brief eXhortation, singing hymns and making
prayers. If one such visit failed to close the
concern, another was made and another, and
if the doors were closed on the women, the
walk outside. Two or three repetitions OF
the dose generally closed the dram shop and
spilled the liquor in the gutter.
The success at Washington Court House
encouraged like efforts in other quarters, and
now the prayer enthusiasm has broken out
all over the state. The Ohio papers are full
of it, and the big dailies curtail their columns
of murders and other horrors to give space to
the anti.whisky excitement in Ohio. We
have room for few cases only, to show how
the thing works
In Greenfield, Highland county, the ladies
have inauguaated evening visits to the
saloons at any hour from 6 to 10 O'Clock
The result is, to empty each saloon by the
rear door very suddenly, as they enter by the
front. The ladies have enlisted for the war,
and, if the few remaining dealers continue
unrepentant, they will organize patrol of
hail uoze;. or so to visit the saloons at any
hour, and dlssuade people from drinking.
They can furnish guard for each day, and
not employ any of them more than once in
two weeks.
A correspondent Of the Chicago Tribune
writes from Cincinnati on Monday
At New Holland, Pickaway county, TWEEN.
ty-ive ladies have volunteered for the cru
SADIE, They visit every shop daily. The
drug store cheeriul'y took the pledge only to
sell on the order of a responsible physician,
under bond of $1,000. The others have all
taken the pledge, except one, Mr.. Berry, who
kept one of the gambling and drinking
saloons At the present writing he is closely
BARRICADED BY THE LADIES,
who are quartered IN daguerrean tent that
has been provided for them at the expense of
the town. 1t is placed within a few inches
of the sidewalk, so that the ladies, as they
sit inside can see both doors of the saloon.
Since the ladies took possession of this taber-
nacle, the saloon has been closed, the pro-
prietor being absent
There was a drilling rain at New Vienna,
Clark county, yesterday, but the ladies were
out in full force, harrassing the liquor-vender
Vanpelt, he being the only one able to hold
out. Promptly at 8 O'Clock this morning the
ladies' assembled in front Of Vanpelt's saloon.
He, being kindly disposed, brought out a
beer keg apiece for seats, and they were ar
ranged in the form Of
\ sEMLCIRCLE AROUND THE DOOR
The order of exercises were, first. prayer
md singing by the ladies' second sermon
by the Rev. NanPelt This programme has
been repeated over and over, until darkness
dispersed the congregation. This is the first
lay that the ladies have stood guard the en-
ire day. They propose now to stand until
he besieged surrenders. Arrangements have
been made to erect a shanty in front of the |
leadfall. On Saturday the ladies could not
stand out in the cold, except at intervals, An
artist was on hand and photographed the
scene Pictures will soon be- placed on
sale OF
TitE wICKEDEsT Man IN OHIO,
representing him standing in the door dc
ivcring one of his sermons, with MS 1emale l..
audience standing around hih,
AT Washington, Fayctte touhty, where the
women initiated the movement, the liquor
raftic has been entirely stopped. Charley
Beck, whose saloon is outside the corporate
limits, has been visited by the ladies every
lay tor nearly two weeks. He is
A JOLLY GERMAN,
md treats the ladies kindly, but refuses to
lccede TO their propositions The entire
county is being secured for signatures to the
.otal abstinence pledge
At Gallipolis, Gallia county, the ladies
brigade of active workers numbers 81. They
work in three divisions, but have made little
headway with the saloon.keepers, some of
whom order them off their premises, and III
hey enter put out the lights,
DR.. bio Lewis, the great temperance apos-
lie, is on the ground, apparently engineering
.hc movement,
What the final result may be is hard to
foretcll, The movement has evidently just
begun and may spread all over the West
The liquor sellers, however, are not dis.
posed to surrender without fight. Most of
hem have licenses and threaten to prosecute
The women's league for damages. They have
sent to Cincinnati for help, and the ruhor
On Saturday was that $4,000 were sent to
IEillsboro alone to fight the league.
The republicans in England, during the
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