West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-08-15
KANAMHA ASSOCIATION.
Temperance Report and Discus
sion.
Association Notes and Other Notes


Returning from our Kanawha
Valley trip before going to press
last week, we found ourself loaded
with notes" good, bad, or indiffer-
ent, entirely too voluminous for
one issue of the FREEMAN, and so
had to throw much into the waste
basket and give our readers the
balance in broken doses,
In last issue we parted with our
readers by shipping ourself "in ap-
parent good ORDER" as the bills OF
Iading read, at Huntington, on the
C. & O., for Charleston, where, with
numerous delegates, and preachers
not few, we arrived at
2P. M. AND NO DINNER.
Here we were, at the depot OPP
posite the city, hungry, and two
miles of mountains between US and
Pine Grove, where the Association
was in session. But the small
boys and colored benefactors were
at the depot with their lunch
baskets of sandwiches and fried
chicken, and the sudden and ex-
haustive raid then and there made
on these chicken commissaries,
was at once astounding to bystand-
ers and gratifying to the lunch
dealers. Rev. w. P. Walker val
liantly led the charge and was the
last to withdraw bearing in either
hand the last, lone little gizzard
and drum-stick. Thus strengthen
ed, the party set out over the
mountains, and in due time found
THE KANAwHA ASSOCIATION,
in the midst of business, away
down in the depths of a rugged
ravine where a beautiful grove on
sloping point between two hol-
lows, afforded a delightful meeting
house without limit as to capacity
and ventilation.
We soon found the Association
was we'll attended by
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS.
The first I'D. D." we confronted
as we entered the seated assembly
on the left flank was the noted
lightning pencil wielder of the
Religious Herald, DR.. Dickinson.
And his magic pencil was flying
with its wonted double-demi-
semi-quaver CULVER, throwing off
those unequalled Herald "news
notes" at about the rate of ten solid
agate lines per second. Thus were
we enlightened as to how the
HeraIds "News Notes" column is
constructed.
During the two days session we
were glad to meet and greet as they
zealously represented their respec-
tive interests:
Rev. Thos. Allen, of Ohio, repre-
senting Foreign Missions.
Rev. w. E. Powell, Home Mis-
sions and the Journal and Messen-
ger. ~.
Rev. l.. W. Holden, State Mis-
sions.
DR.. A. E. Dickinson, of the Her.
aid, and our faithful Sunday School
apostle, D. T. G. Farrow, represent
ing the A. B. P. Society.
Among visiting brethren we
noted Revs. w. L. Van Horn, w.
P. Walker, Prof. P. B. Reynolds,
R. R. Saddler, Father NJ. Ellison,
and others of our own State; and
Rev. Jas. Ellison, of Indiana, Rev.
S. F. Taylor, Of Columbus, Miss,
M. B. McMuIlen, of Missouri, a
Bro. Veilie, of Long Island, and
others from abroad.
Every religious body in these
latter and wiser days, that compre-
bends the full scope Of its obliga-
tions and opportunities, has its
committee on Temperance; so had
this, and on Thursday afternoon
was submitted as follows, the
REPORT ON TEMPERANCE.
Your committee is glad to report
that the Temperance cause is rap
idly gaining ground in the State.
We are glad to note that the
commissioners of Kanawha county
have heard the petitions Of the
people whom they serve and have
refused to grant liquor license in
many localities where liquor has