The Republican journal., 1886-11-18
Good Templars.

a WEEKLY RECORD OF TIE WORK AND PROG
RESS OF THE q. I. LODGES.
Grand Chief Templar Dow is on a tour in
Oxford county. He instituted lodge at No.
Fryeburgh Friday, and expects to add several
to the list this week.
Belfast LODGE is still growing. and its Exec
utive Committee is blocking out some work for
the good Of the order and the cause Of temper
ance. Several more new members were added
at the last session.
Progressive Lodge at Sandy Point is one of
the flourishing small Lodges in the county
They return - members this quarter. Alfred
q. Black is Deputy; w. A. Young, Chief Tenn
par; May f. Richardson, Sec: l.. G. Black,
Treas. Meets Thursday evenings.
Our Thorndike correspondent writes: On
account Of stormy weather for the last three
saturday evenings Sayward Lodge has not had
a meeting for election of officers for the pres
ent quarter. Let us have a good full meeting
next Saturday evening and make up for lost
time.
All members of the order, especially those in
the eastern part of Waldo county, should re-
member the special session Of District Lodge
with Penobscot Lodge at Stockton next Satur-
day, the Goth inst. All are invited. whether
elected delegates or not, and the Stocktonites
promise beans, CLANS and coffee in unlimited
quantities. Let's all 90 and have pleasant
and profitable session.
Several amendments to the liquor laws will
probably be asked for of the coming egisla-
ture. One of the most important is in regard
to the sale of cider, which in our country
towns is a great stumbling block in the way of
total abstinence and an injury to our order.
Our q. l.. Committee to consider amendments
to present to the Legislature will meet at Au-
gusta next week, and look over the ground for
preliminary work.
We understand the rumsellers i'll town and
some of their sympathzers threaten personal
violence and boycotting to those who are aid
ing in enforcing the law. What an honorable,
courageous class of citizens they are to be
sure, and how frightened our officers and
clergy ought to be. They can bark wonderful
ly loud, but their bite is usually only felt
through some miserable wretch whom they fill
with whiskey and incite to perform dirty work
and deeds they are too cowardly to perform
themselves
Undine Lodge, No. $40, of Prospect, returns
103 members, a gain of II the last quarter
The principal officers are f. X. Lane, Deputy :;
l.. j. Calderwood, Chief Tempar; Ora Libby,
Vice T.; Alice Haley, Sec; l.. Calderwood,
Treas. Meets Thursday evenings. Undine
and the other Lodges in the eastern section Of
the county have inaugurated series of frater-
nal visits which result in not only much pleas
ure to the members but greatly to the benefit
of the Lodges and the order. Let more of us
go and do likewise.
Among the methods to be carried into opera
ton for Lodge entertainment the coming Win
ter we suggest: Spelldowns; monthly papers; ;
question box; temperance sentiment by every
member present; cooperative or visiting en-
tertainments, that is, members of a Lodge to
visit its neighbors and give them a short enter
tainment, to be repaid in kind; medleys; re-
ports of the temperance news and condition,
&C., of temperance in the town, the State, and
the country, to be given by reporters appointed
by the Lodge, &C., &c. These with the stand
ards of readings, recitations, dialogues, &C.,
with other matters which suggest themselves,
will give sufficient variety to make pleasant
as well as profitable Lodge winter.