Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-09-05
SAYRROOK.

of the current year of the W. c. T. 0. Of
Ashtabula County was held at New Lyme,
Aug. %. The morning session was open
ed by devotional exercises for the first half
hour, when the regular service was taken
up. The president, Mrs. G. W. Phinney,
stated that the secretary, Miss NJ. J. Sulh-
van, was not present, and Mrs. F. E. Bon
ney was chosen secretary pro TEN. The
minutes of the last meeting of the Union
was called for and read by the secretary.
Mrs. Streeter objected to the word ''elo-
quent"-it being placed by the secretary be-
fore address of Mrs. Woodbridge-ss un-
parliamentary, and moved that it be struck
from the record. A spicy debate was the
result, and the motion to strike out the
word was lost-yeas I, nays z. The report
was then adopted. Reports from the
townships represented we're then called for,
and in the eight towns reported but four
Of them had local unions with stated meet
ingS, and feeling of apathy on thc subject
of temperance seemed to pei .le almost
the. entire county. The reports consumed
the morning hour, and the convention ad-
juurned 70 , p. m. The delegates were
prnmpir provided with places to get DIN
arr, 80 convenient distances. The p n.
session vs> opened with prayer and sing
Ing. The corresponding secretary, Ms. F.
E. Bonney gave a sketch of the plan adopt
ed by her, to get temperance lessons in all
the Sunday schools in the county on re-
view Sunday. 1t is to appoint secretary
in every town to confer with the Superin-
tendents of all the schools, and induce
them to use these temperance lessons every
three months at least. Had CORE sponded
with six towns, but had satisfactory returns
from two. This subject being an impor-
tant one claimed the time of the conven-
tion for large portion of the P. IN. ses-
sion. We have not space to tell the many
good things said on this subject, but we
gathered from the spirit of the meeting
that the Union expects to see the plan in
successful operation before the next meet
ing. But two members of press committee
were present, and they reported they had
not received that aid from the members of
the Union in preparing matter for the
press that they had reason to expect. The
papers that publish temperance column
when matter is furnished by the commit
tee, as we remember, are the Telegraph,
Ne1Us and Standard. The Times, Sentinel,
Gazette, and Reporter members pledged to
furnish the committee with original articles,
more freely in the future, so the outlook in
that direction is more cheerful. The i'm
portance of sound temperance literature in
our Sunday schools and local unions was
dwelt upon by the president, and members
were urged to take at least one copy of eth
er the Our Union, The Morning, The
Commonwealth, or the Youths Temperance
Advocate, for the Sunday schools. Moved
and carried that the chair appoint COM
mittee to memorabilia the National Union
to change the hour of concert prayer from
10 meridian to a more convenient hour,
and the chair appointed Mrs. Streeter.
Mrs. Parker's experience in sustaining
Sunday school in Dutch settlementunder
great difficulties and discouragements, was
refreshing for the faith exhibited, childlike
in its simplicity yet grand in its results.
We have given the main things that were
said and done, but not all. Adjourned to
7:3O p. m.
The New Lyme band gave us some mu-
sic before the meeting-which was largely
attended-at night, and the choir sang
some stirring temperance pieces, and short
addresses were given by Mrs. Bonney, Mrs.
Morrison, Mrs. PhInney and Mrs. Streeter
and vote of thanks was extended to the
choir, the people of New Lyme for their
hospitality to the delegates, and then ad-
journed TO meet at Rock Greek in Novem-
Der. We shall always remember with
pleasure the generous hospitality of New
Lyme who did all that lay in their power
to make us feel at home in their midst, and
they succeeded perfectly.
The seven Sunday. schools of this town
held their annual pincie at Red Brook last
Friday, and had an enjoyable time. We
met "Hank" and had a pleasant chat with
him about Red Brook and its surroundings.
Rev. Mr.. Beach, of COnneaut, preached
in the Congregational Church in the morn
ing and at the NJ. E. Church in the even
ing as there were union services. Just be-
fore the sermon there was a wedding in the
church-the announcement will be found
under the proper head.
Some sickness in town Just now-no fatal
cases near US.
A large acreage of wheat is being sown
this fall.