Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-16
TEMPERANCE TOPICS.

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TEMPERANCE TOPICS.
Mrs. Barker lectured at SanboiA
Wednesday evening.
hev. Bell preached his farewell sermon
at White Lake last Sunday.
The north Dakota annual conference
met at Grand Forks Dot. 18th.
The Warren. CLARK county, Sunday
school has forty-three members.
Rev. Sill. of Hurley, has sold all OF his
property In that town for $4,000.
The new M. E. church at De smet is
rapidly approaching completion.
Rev. A. F. Thompson, of Howard, at
tended the conference at WATERFOWL.
-Four persons were received into the
Methodist church at Mandan last Sun
day.
Mrs. Barker's lecture at Mandan vas
well attended and much enjoyed.
The new temperance reading room at
Rapid City will be opened at an early
day.
The Good Templars of Highmore
have takon steps toward the establish
ment OF a reading room in that town.
The W. O. T. unions of Grand
Veiw, Huston and Armour united in
giving an entertainment at Armour Oct.
18th.
The prohibitionists of Trail county
are actively organized and have a fund
OF Sl,5O0. They are mostly Scandlna-
vians.
Over fifty voters in Portage township,
Brown county, have signed q petition
against the establishment of O saloon in
Hecla.
A temperance wave seems to have
struck Eldrldge, q small town in Stuts.
man county. Every body wears o red
ribbon.
The Baptist church ut Parker was
filled last Sunday evening on the oc-
casion of the regular monthly meeting
of the W. @. T. U.
a union gospel temperance meeting
will be held IN the Casselton Presby-
terrain church on Sunday, the 18th inst,
which will be addressed by Mrs. 81. NJ.
Barker.
DR.. j. a.. Reynolds the organizer of
the red ribbon movement and a great
temperance refor mer, is also the founder
OF the town Of Reynolds, in Grand Forks
county.
Mrs, ID. w. Myers, superintendent of
scientific temperance instruction for Da-
kota, delivered a lecture before the
teachers institute at Hurley on her
favorite subject.
Mr.. Axtel Gustavson, the blue ribbon
lite, accompanied by his wife, sailed from
Liverpool, May 9th and will spend some
months in America. Mr.. G~ustavson
comes as a special correspondent Of the
Pail Mall Gazette.
The headquarters of the Wilmington
(Del) Woman's Christian Temperance
union were opened recently, and are as
fine, it not the finest, in this country.
The work of this union is very extensive
including nearly every Line of work OF
the national organization.
The election of officers of the Altoona
i. D. occurred last week with the
following result: Mrs. W. s. Searles
president; Mrs. 81. s. Mouser, vice.presi-
dent; Mrs. P. @. Tryner. treasurer; Mrs.
U. 3. Fassett, recording secretary; Mrs.
Liddell, corresponding secretary.
A petition signed by one-third the
adult population of Sweden has been
presented to King Oscar, asking for the
total prohibition of the liquor traffic.
Ihe king and his ministry have all
signed the total abstinence pledge. 1t
Is hoped that he may set an example for
nations to follow, and free his peo-
pie from the slavery of incompetence.
1t is stated that, as the immediate and
result of the unions established
N New Zealand by Mrs. Leavitt, the
round the world missionary of the
W. @. L. o., that country ie deciding to
abolish bar maids, and petitions have
been circulated asking parliament to
prevent liquor sales to children and to
give women an equal ballot with men
On the liquor question.
A clergyman says a few weeks ago he
sitting at o Boston hotel table and
lady next to him wore the white
ribbon. A gentleman entered, took q
opposite them AMI ordered his DIM
aer, including beer. just as the order
was given he CHANGED to see the white