Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-07
THEHERA AID
Temperance Notes.

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Hamilton.
Fond du Lac, also, will organize
'.no-treat" club
"A temperance society has been
organized at Adams.
"A good Templar lodge has been
organized at Stevens Point.
-Plainfeld has refused TO grant
licenses for the sale of liquors.
Union meetings are being held
at Platteville and Boscobei.
"A temperance union has been
formed by the ladies of Grand Rapids.
One division OF the Sons of Tenn
perance at Racine has 200 members.
A "no license ticket" will be put
in the field for the Waukesha charter
election.
Fond du Lac will establish a free
reading-room with coffee-room at
tachment.
Black River Falls is the only
town in Jackson county where liq-
uor is sold.
The ladies of Geneva are making
thorough canvass of tie place with
tho pledge.
-Twonty-fve of the best men in
Prairie du CHEN are reported as hav-
ing signed the pledge.
A vigilance committee has been
appointed at Baraboo to note all VIC
lations of the liquor law.
Ladies will be stationed at the
doors of the Berlin saloons so plead
with every one who enters.
The town boards of Markesan
and Manchester, Green Lake county,
have refused to issue liquor license.
The Racine temperance people
are giving q series of free entertain>
ments to keep young men out of sa-
looms.
The Black Earth Advertiser says
the town board has limited the num-
Der If saloon licenses, in that place,
to four
1.-THE largest gathering of the
campaign" was seen at Darlington
last week. Father Fitzgibbon was
the lecturer.
"A petition signed by nearly
every woman in Oconomowoc, has
been presented to the City Council,
asking that the maximum price for
license be demanded.
The women of Monroe have viz
tied all the saloons in the place. The
doors were closed against them in
every instance, and services were
held on the sidewalk.
"A petition, signed by $50 women,
was presented to the new board of
Black River Falls against the grant
ing Of licenses to sell liquor, but with
out effect. Seven licenses were grant
ed Monday, at $3.50 each.
In Racine and RiDon the temper
ance ladies wore denied their request
that license to sell liquor should be
denied bnt in each case the license
was raised, in the former city to $50
and in the latter to Sl00 The ladies
don't propose to give it up so.
Ten out Of the eleven towns of
Trempealeau county have temper
ance boards, and in the eleventh-
Arcadia-it is said that the license is
to DO raised to $3.50 for each liquor
dealer. In this way they intend to
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port the town poor.
Tho temperance movement is
still in progress in Prairie du CHEN.
Last Sunday evening, both Methodist
and Congregational churches, were
crowded to hear sermons on the sub
lect. In the latter church some twen-
" new names were added to the list
OF those who solemnly pledge they
will drink no more. Among the
number were several prominent per-
sons.
The women of Waukesha have
prepared two pledges, one for boys
over 10 years old 10 which they prom
iso not to visit saloons at all, and not
to drink liquor except on written
prescription of physician, and the
other as follows: eve, the young
women of Waukesha, do pledge our
selves to exclude from our society
and not to accept any attentions
from any men who will not Sign the
total abstinence pledge circulated by
the Women's Temperance Association
az Wauke sha."