The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-12-16
Local News.
TEMPERANCE CONVENTION.
ICON u uu Icated


On Friday morning the convention of
the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
again met in their hall. Tbeprayer service
was conducted by Mrs. Bristol, of Cairo,
after which the reports OF the county and
district officers we're heard, followed by
animated talks upon temperance, literature,
finance, etc. The committee on plans of
work submitted the following:
I'VE, your committee on plans of work,
recommend that the work taken up by our
district be classified as follows: list,
Juvenile Work; 2ud, Young Woman's
Work; Bird, Work Among Foreigners; 4tb,
Work Among Colored People; 5th, Tenn
perarce Literature; 9th, Legislative Work /;
7tb, Finance. We recommend the appoint
ment of district organizer. We recon-
mend the appointment of standing commit
tees to interest employers to require total
abstinence am ny employer; on reform
work; on prisons and i,ils, and on temper
ance meetings to be held in homes, school.
houses aud rural districts. We also rec
on1mend q committee, whose duty it shall
be 70 secure the nomination in our district
OF candidates for the state legis a,uIe, who
will vote for the submission OF a consttu.
tional amendment giving the full ballot to
the women of Illinois. We also recon-
mend that all unions in our district appoint
local superintendent Of "Union Signal"
work, whose duty it shall be to secure sub
scribers, to our national organ.
Mrs. DR.. Wsrdner, of Anna, was elected
district organizer, and the following other
officers elected for the goth district Pres
ident of Massac county, Mrs. Hout; presi-
dent of Perry county, Mrs Humphreys;
president of Union county, Miss Isabel
Bell president Of Alexander county, Mrs.
g. N. Alden; president of jackson county,
Mrs. Carter; president Of Pulaski county,
Mrs. z. j. Ayers; district secretary, Mrs.
Abbie sloo; district treasurer, Mrs. P. W.
Barclay. r...
Votes of thanks to the president Of the
convention, to Miss Helen Hood, of Chicago,
and to other workers, were adopted, for their
kindly counsel cheering words and stirring
addresses. The convention also rendered
thanks to Mrs. Thompson, Of Anna, tor her
encouraging letter, her hopeful prophecies,
she being the Oldest member of the Union
In this district. To the pastor and mem
bers Of the Methodist church, who 80 cheer
fully rendered their church for the conven,
ton and lectures, they feeling that in SC
doing they were helping to build up the
grand cause OF temperance, and thereby
aiding and strengthening christianity. May
God bless and prosper this church for
throwing open their doors to the Union
It was resolved, also, to adopt the plan OF
finance already passed in elk districts fol-
uore efficient work In that line.
Friday afternoon Miss Helen Hood sd
dressed the convention In the church. She
wildly portrayed the evils Of intemperance
among women especially, and described
scenes that occurred, under her personal OBJ
servstion. This lady in her eloquence, car
ries her hearers with her, as she tells of the
grand and noble work the women of oul
state are doing among the men, women and
Iichildren who 90 need helping hand and
kind heart. Mrs. Walker, of the "Signal,"
followed, with an appeal to the people Of
our land to see to it, that pure Literature
was placed in the hands of the children
She said "msn are known by the company
they keep, whether it be persons or books,
Her talk was full of beautiful sentiments
and furnished foo to the thinking ones.
In the evening Mrs. Shelton, of Chicago
addressed the citizens on "The Evils of In
temperance" from q scientific standpoint
She exhibited several charts and plates o
the human stomach, showing that organ ir
it's different stages from the moderate drink
er up to the man who died with liberation
or in dslirium tremens. This lecture clos
ed the convention in which harmony ant
pleasant feeling prevailed throughout.