The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-05-09
SAVED FROM SATiE.,
Which is the Manner in Which the
Temperance People Put it.
Five Hundred Additional signers Ad-
ded TO the Long Roii Last
Night.
Which Makes About Five Thousand
Blue Ribbori.es in the City.

Lat night. ai the conclusion OF the temper.
.ar,,,,. demonstration at the q ptist church, il
[ Uasannounc..i that d We hundred and twenty
seven additional signers Dad been obtained 10
| the pIeigs-the largest number yet obtsins d
I in any one day since the meetings began.
This announcement was greeted with
STORM OF APPLAUSE,
which was difficult to quell, and which con-
timed some minutes. 1t being Mr.. Wisner's
last saint in the city, the church was crowd
e; to OVERLOOKING, the destinations Of the
strawberry festival in the lecture room below
being inadequate to wean. aTay the temper
auce desotees from kneel!ng at the shrine Of
their beloved cause.
Mr.. wisser spoke with some feeling in re-
gard to his departure from Leavenwcrth, and
assured the people present that while it was
greatly against his wish and inclination to
leave, yet duty called him 10 another point,
and he was Obliged to go. He said that il ii
were possible, he would
RETURN AT SOME FUTURE TINE,
but in the meantime he hoped the good
work would continue as Zealously and rs
successfully as during the past month, and
that the advocates of the cause would not let
their enthusiasm die out, or their ardor de-
part from them. He finished the relation Of
hisexperience, and exorted the young men,
especially, to take warning and shun the IN
tpxicafing cup. He hoped t,at every one,
regardless of age or sex, would place them
selves upon the right road and travel 1t
through life, never swervlng from
TIEPATH OF RECrITCDE.
During the couse of his remarks. Mr.. Wisrer
smoke of the tact that short time ago the
New York papers had made mention OF the
fact thai eight hundred signers had been OBJ
tain.dain one day to the pledge in the great
METROPOLIS ofthe nation. and that it WAS con.
sider,d a good days work. Leavenworth,
aoweyer. had done much better than that,
for in a city but one.fOur hundredth the
size Of New York. five hundred and twenty
seven signers had bel obtained in one day,
which was a record TO lie proud OF. Short
speeches were then made by several other
gentlemen present, a;ter which the meeting
adjourned. Before closing, the Rev. Mr..
Ha-dvvicle stated that although all If
THE DISTINGUIsHED &GIrArol:S
"! q had favored the city with their presence
h - gOrc away, The meetings would still be
cSatinurG, aud the good work pressed on
ward; that i WAS not the intention, by any
means. ~ L.; :hc work DR. , just rs It was z L
ling in good sI-.pe. II" did not announce
any part icular / hit Tor me. ting, an there
Will, theriore, b, Zone thiS everirs.
WHAT HAS BEEN DOW.
II will not be denied iHu the temperance
folks have done a great deal Of work in the
past six weeks, and that they have succeeded
far beyond their own expectations OF those OF
anyone else. 70 have said, SIX weeks ago,
that five thousand people in the city OF Leay-
~ worth could b. induced To s.gn the pledge,
would have made the one advancing the a.
sci tipn simply "A angling stD,k, and certain
y ii was hardly within the bounds OF reason |
To- exp,~' It. For nearly three weeks tn" work !
dragged YEARLY aipug aud ia" number Of
'-ueTS WAS hard y worth mentioning, nut II /
II once blue rIurBH Quotations took an up /
ward movement a'sG have ne,n advancing /
ever sine, Al tine rate OF from one hundred 1
% five hundred : gt.ers per day. he tenn
Dnancc folks haze been ga. Ia, and have |
not me- lect, Il any Bo.'y, and ii II probable
hat there i not "a man, woman 81 child in
ne city-wIth SOME except ions of cOurSr,
mere al exceptions Ia every Tul,-wnO Lass
Iot been approached by a blue rihbonIJe.
Even The saloons were visited, but If There
nave be, IA any converts among the saloon
keepers, they have not YET IN de AN appeal
lncc even the Cs,ugt mouse was att exc Il, with
barren Tesu l. w are sorry to Say : every
street, d. way and alley was tackled, and |
,oEveitS brought from every quart 7.
the Impression made Vi | be last
az, and whether those vino have signed tue
pledge Will ii. k Ia l., remains To he seen.