Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-11-06
TEMPERANCE TOPICS.

TOPICS.
A Y. w. @. T. U. was lately organized
in Parker.
The Olivet w. @. T. U. has fifty-two
members.
The Bismarck temperance union asso-
citation has been organized.
A Good Templars lodge has been
organized at central.
By order of President Robert Harris,
the sale of liquor is prohibited on land
belonging to the Northern Pacific rail-
roud. the newspapers give Mrs. Harris
wife of the president, credit for thus
order.
The valuation of property in Pierce
county, Georgia, has increased over
sixty per cent, under six years of prohi-
bition. Taxes have fallen from fifty,
two cents on the hundred dollars to
.hirty-fve cents, and the county is free
from debt.
The W. Q. t. o., band of hope
voters league and Good Templars, of
Olympus, W. Il, al united in the grand
effort for prohibition.
The W.. @. I. u. and temperance
league OF Rapid City opened ths;r read
ing room Wednesday evening by giving
q literary and musical entertainment.
The annual meeting of the Huron w.
@. T. o. was held last week. This union
has held twenty-eight regular meetings
and five public ones. The officers for
the ensuing year are: President. Mrs.
DIS. MnCaslin; secretary. Mrs. F. s.
Osgood; treasurer, Mrs. q. @. Walton.
| Four vice presidents were elected, one
from each church in the city.
The W. G. 7. o., of Fargo, held a
meeting the morning of Nov. End, to
pray for the success of the candidates
who favored temperance and morality.
Miss Carrie White, president of the
Western Washington w. @. 7. o.. is a
member of the republican central com
tmittee, the first lady ever occupying
such o position.
Phi W W. g. e.. OF WWateTtowu has u
membership of forty. There are vice
presidents of the union from every
church IN the city.
The Mapleton lodge Of Good Tenn
plars was lately organized with thirty
five members, at Mapleton.
Iroquois Herald: Collections were
taken here and at Esmond, last Sunday,
for the aid of the temperance hospital
at Chicago, where no alcoholic medicines
are used.
SCOTT Hayes, Of Chamberlain, will
address o w. O. I. q. meeting in that
town tomorrow, Sunday. evening.
There is no question before the
American people to-day that begins to
match in Importance the temperance
Question. The question of American
slavery never was anything but o baby
by the side Of this; and We prophesy
that within ten years, if not within five,
the whole country will be awake to ii
and divide upon i'll. G. HOLLAND.
The Fairv,ew w. O. T. U, Faux
county, held q meeting temperance day.
The people of this section are alive to
the temperance issues and are doing
excellent work.
Mellette Tribune: At a meeting Of
the temperance county central commit.
tee OF Ashton all of the candidates nomi.
mated OF she Athol convention, presen'
tented their Withdrawals. After o little
discussion the committee endorsed the
Ashton republican ticket. AS q result
of this action, many strong prohibi-
t~ionists will vote the democratic ticket
this fall.
A joint meeting Of the w. Q. T. q
and the temperance league at Rapid
was held few evenings ago.
Mrs. Barker, president OF the terri
torial W. OF. q, has gone to New Yorh
on q l~ecturing tour.
A temperance school was opened al
Huron, July 4th, under the auspices of
the w. G. II. q. with seventeen pupils
and n teacher. The school has now ar
enrolment OF 100 and eight teachers.
{ The Bismarck temperance association
holds weekly meetings. At the last one
a constitution was adopted and the fol-
loving permanent officers elected
President, VIM. Gleason; vice president
Major Woods; secretary, Aug. Fonda
treasurer. Dennis Hannifin.
The president of the Tennessee w. O
T. q. feels chat she has no greater cause
+ for pride in her state work than in thu
successful organization OF TENNESSEE
. colored state w. @. T. U. it is .
! noteworthy fact that the four stat,
officers OF this new state anion are al
/ graduates OF Fisk university at Nash
vile.
Mrs. J. Ellen Foster says she il
opposed 10 the third party because i
defeats temperance measures by defeat
t ing temperance men.
The temperance ladies of Brul,
Z county met together at Fnkwana, Oct
21st for the purpose OF making plane fo
canvassing the county with a petition
asking. the county commissioners
mot to grant license. The county wal
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