River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-03-16
Temperance.
CospucrEp By THE w. G. T. U.
SECRETARIES REPORT.
Read at the w. c. T. U. Quarterly Meeting,
March It'll, and 8th.

Our Union was organized one year
ago the fourth of this month by our
District President, Mrs. Darling, of
Hudson, with fifty members.
We have now thirty members in
good standing, with an average attend
ance of twenty.
During the first three months of its
existence we met regularly on the APP
pointed days, with no work that we
could do, except to pray. and talk
over ways and means to accomplish
something in the good cause. AT last
some one proposed a Reading Room,
and after several discussions on the
the subject we went to work.
1t seemed a wild scheme to some, for
at that time we only had about fifteen
dollars in our treasury, but Mr.. Put
nam gave us the use of the room we
now have, for two months.
We gave several ice cream socials,
solicited books from all our neigh
bors, and in short time had quite a
well furnished room for the money
invested.
Since that time we have received
aside from our own earnings about for
ty dollars of unsolicited funds.
The ladies' of our Union have given
their time to the care of the Room,
and up to the present time but six
dollars have been paid for caring for
the room.
1t soon became apparent that Cir
culating Library was one of the nee
essary things, and few of the ladies
thought best to solicit funds for that
purpose.
We raised some fifty dollars in this
way, added forty more from our treas
ury and purchased one bundled dol
| lars worth of books. Not large Lii
brary, certainly, but a beginning,
with the expectation of large one in
| the future.
We have met with encouragement
and Encouragement, some of the lat
ter reminds me of the old lady who
when questioned in regard to her re-
| ligious feelings said, that sometimes
she was all discouraged up and then
she was all discouraged down again. .
We have received considerable of this
dorm discourag cement.
We have always received money
when we have asked for it, with one
exception, and that being when we
asked so little that the refusal was not
worth minding, for since then we
have learned to ask largely. But
there are other ways to help besides
putting ones hand in his pocket. We
have met with great deal like this:
ooh I haven't much faith in your
work." from others You can't keep
that room open three months longer;
and still others have asked What
good is your room doing ! you don t
seem to draw the saloon or billiard
room frequenters in there" Encour-
aging wasnt 1t?
Now would like to add this to our
report:
We are nearly through the winter
and our rooms are in fiourishing
condition; good supply of the daily
and weekly papers, four or five of the
best monthlies, besides the new books
that can be read at the Reading Room,
| free of charge. Not dollar in debt,
and we commence the New Year with
twenty-five dollars in the treasury.
To those who have no faith IN our
work, and to those who think that we
do not call in the class we ought we
would say, it is not necessary for you
to have faith as long as the Union
has, and if by keeping open our Read
ing Room we keep somebody's boy, if
only for one evening, from being led
| into the billiard room, in sight of the
| bar. if no further, or if somebody S
boy, stranger comes into the town
and instead of going to such places,
| finds his way into our Room and spends
his evenings there, then hasn't our
Room been a success
We are band of Christian Temper
ance Women, and with firm trust in
Him whom we believe has blest our ev.
cry effort in the past, we are going to
do all ne can to help on the cause of
temperance. We have not done much
besides this, but we hope to do more
in the future, and we expect the
hearty cooperation of all who believe
that intemperance is an evil.
Mrs. j.. w. RHODES, Secretary.
A NASAL INJECTOR free with
each bottle of Shiloh's Catarrh Rene
edy. Price so cents. For sale by G.
E. Davis.
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