The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-01-21
TEMPERANCE WORK.

To THE EDITOR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST:
Since writing you from Rock Hill, in
Linn county, l have been laboring for
the order in that and Lane counties,
and have in that time organized three
lodges and visited quite a number of
others, which, with one exception, I
found to be in good working condition,
and exerting proper influence in the
community.
On the 81 inst. organized lodge at
Sand Ridge, three miles from Rock
Hill, with sixteen Rock Hill applicants
and sixteen others, making a splendid
charter list. On the 7th organized on
Camp Creek, with twenty-five men,
bers, and on the 10th on the Mohawk,
with twenty-four members.
The lodges near here are doing well,
and 1 shall be in this county for some
days yet, visiting and instructing them
in the unwritten work, and then make
my way into Benton.
On the 18th inst. received a kind in
vitation from Mrs. F. F. Victor Core
spending Secretary of the Oregon State
Woman Suffrage Association, to be
present and address the Association at
its next regular session, to be held in
Salem, commencing on the Sth of next
month. regret that engagements in
the field will prevent my being present
and participating in the work of the
Association.
That every good work may be abund-
antly prospered in this Centennial year
is the wish of Yours fraternally,
| w. R. DUNBAR.
Creswell, Oregon, January Is, 1875.
| To FHE EDITOR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST:
AS the organ of the temperance peo-
pie of Oregon has departed this life, we
would be pleased to have the advocate
of twin sister principle publish few
items of interest to the temperance
community.
The sweet repose of Camp Creek was
stirred few days ago to a deep interest
in temperance by the arrival there of
Brother Dunbar, who, ever ready and
willing to do battle for this good cause,
had braved all the discomforts of a
Webfoot winter in its service. He de-
livered telling lecture, after which he
organized a lodge of Good Templars,
which bids fair to do good work in
that isolated but prosperous and happy
community. Proceeding to the classic
precincts of the Mohawk" he organ
ized another lodge.
Hon. E. L. Applegate honOred this
occasion with his presence for time,
but before the organization the sage Of
| the "MohaWk" had business which
called him away. We hope, however,
at some time not far distant, to have
the assistance and counsel of our
worthy aud talented friend.
| Having done what he could for this
locality, Brother Dunbar came on to
Springfield, to find Springfield lodge in
a languishing condition. He went val
| iently to work, and after two nights
lecturing left us, strengthened by his
noble exhortations and pathetic ap-
peals, and in the future we hope to show
our temperance friends better record
of work done in Springfield. We are
encouraged to hope thus from the fact
that our people seem to be waking from
their slumbers in regard to suffrage
without regard to sex, and this princi-
pie and temperance go hand in hand.
Reformations have had their opponents
in all ages, and the present is no exeep-
tion, as is witnessed in the case where
the piOuS minister closed the church
door against the editor of the New
NORTHWEST here on one occasion, and
also endeavored to close the same door
against the temperance people, but as
the consistent part Of the church men,
bers had chance to vote on the ques-
tion in the last case, they did as they
would have done in the first-silenced
Satan's representative even while he
lifted up his pious hand in "holy hor-
ror." More anon. g.
Springfield, Oregon, January 16, 1876.