The Grange advance., 1874-09-09

ws ssvss" sosoacssdsd II making reduction
Of 80 or 40 of the saloons Of our city. Po-
liceman watch the saloons on Sunday, and
see that no saloons are kept open. Last
Fall the temperance vote was only $50;
last spring it had increased to 2l4o.
ST.. CLOUD, Rev: MIR. Lewton.-We are
making some progress in this cause, princi-
pally in moulding public sentiment to the
point 1t which the overthrow of intemper-
ance will be comparatively IN easy task.
We have an organization called the
" Youths Cold Water Army" which meets
every month. No political action has been
taken. We have strong liquor Mayor,
and hope to have another.
ST.. PAUL, Robert Smith.-Mr. Smith
presented rather gloomy picture Of St.
Paul, as regards any progress in the tenn
perance cause. He made an encouraging
report Of the Seaman's Friend Society.
ZuMBRorA, Mr.. Barteau.-We have no
saloons. Liquor is sometimes smuggled
through the drug stores. We hold Union
monthly temperance meeting on the last
Sunday of each month.
ROCHESTER,, Mr.. Martin.-We have
quarterly temperance meetings. In the
spring we held meetings nightly. We held
convention and nominated officers for
election, but were defeated for want of 81
votes. We appointed Temperance Exec
utive Committee Of twelve prominent men,
had detectives employed on salary, and
we had meeting each week. We have
had more prosecutions and more fines i'm
posed in the last three months than in the
last ten years. The women's organization
is in dourishing condition.
PLA1Nv1Ew, Rev. H. Williard.-We have
voted against license for three years with
little or no success, will continue to vote
each election. We have Union Temper
ance meetings. A Woman's Temperance
Organization has been established within
! the last two months.
Roscoe, E. L. Druse.-We organized q
monthly meeting last winter, and it is now
in fourishing condition. We have tenn
perance pledge numbering so members.
HUTCHINSON, Asa Hutchinson.-We have
held meetings during the past months, and
have succeeded in obtaining 130 signatures
TO our temperance pledge. We have visit
ed the saloons and met with much success.
The last movement has been to put town
pump in front of the saloons. We propose
to vote no license.
BYRON, J. N. Liscomb.-Have no sa-
looms. We have Temperance Union in
good condition. Last fall nearly one half
Of the votes cast in our town were straight
temperance.
RED WING, Mrs. Julia B. Nelson
When returned last F all there was no
temperance organization. Bro. satterlee
held mass temperance meeting in the city
last winter, and started temperance or
ganization in fourishing condition. We
had meetings day and night in the Spring.
A committee was appointed to canvass the
city with total abstinence pledge; they
obtained over 1000 signatures. We after
wards circulated petition to have the sa-
looms closed at 10 o'clock, instead of II
O'clock, and obtained 400 signers. The Pc
tition was presented to the City Council and
granted, but has not. as yet, been enforced.
New saloons are constantly being started.
Here the President of the Convention arose
and said that he had been informed that the
City Marshal had lately signed the pledge.
LAKE CRY, Mr.. Wray.-We have made
decided progress in this cause. We had
several interesting temperance meetings
last Winter. We nominated city officers
last Fall, and we headed our ticket " Tenn
perance Ticket" We elected the ticket by
a majority Of 100. When the question Of
license came up the officers holding over
beat US one vote We have succeeded in
having the liquor license increased to $500.
We think we can carry Wabasha county on
the Temperance Ticket.
HASTINGS, Mr.. Morris.-We have not
been doing very much in this cause for
some time. The Temperance Union have
done some good work in appointing COM
mittees and prosecuting cases Of intem-
perance. The order Of Good Templars are
on the increase as we'll as public sentiment.
We were defeated at last springs election,
but will try it again.
PINE ISLAND, Rev. Rork.-Our town is