The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1888-10-05
W. G. t. U. AND TIE nPERANcE
Notes and Comrnsnts From All
Parts Of the Country.

Notes and Commsnts From All
Parts Of the Country.
Temperance instruction is given in
every grade Of the public schools of Han.
nibal, Mo.
Two thousand dollars have been do.
mated TO the Indiana Prohibition cam
paign fInd by Mrs. Helen NJ. Cougars
Mrs. S. M. I. Henry will fill engage
ments in New York state until the ma.
tional convention.
Three counties in New Jersey have
gone dry" under the new local option
law.
John Reynolds, of Clinton. To-. has
been committed to jail for keeping his
siloon open after having been ordered to
close it.
A chair of temperance in the Catholic
university at Washington D. c., will be
endowed By the Catholic total abstinence
societies.
Louisville (Ky.l Young Woman Chris
tian Temperance Union is making ar
rangemcnts to open ladies' gymnasium
this winter.
The Church of Ireland Temperance Sc
ciety comprises 100 local association with
over "a 900 members.
In RESPONSE to the request sen. out some
weeks since liberal donations OF books
and other literature have been received
for the temperance reading room lately
opened in Sitka, Alaska.
A valuable series Of temperance Sun
day school lessons for the coming year,
prepared by Albert G. Lawson, d. D.,
will be is ued by the National Temper
ance society.
Tie Wine, Liquor and Beer Dealers
association held in Buffalo, n. Y, Sep
tember 4. endorses the policy of regula-
ton and condemns the policy of prohibi-
bition, general and local"
The directors OF the Santa Barbara,
Cal, county fair refused all bids for lunch
tables and Offered the place to the W. c.
T. L. for nothing.
Judge Ney, of Iowa, decides that a i,ian
cannot lawfully manufacture cider for
use in his own family, and has instructed
the grand jnry to indict if they find such
. thing has been done
The Champion dep'ctes the fact that
the cause CT personal liberty is en@
dangered by the failure of liquor dealers
tr snppnrt their own papers of which it
is o!i5.
Mrs. Annie III. Palmer has held twenty
five meetings at Ellensburg, w. T., all Of
which were we'll attended. Many sigma
turcs were secured to the total abstinence
and social purity pledges.
Minnesota has 100 more delegates than
last year; to2 new w, G. T. unions and
Z. 600 members This is the way in which
temperance has been 'fset back"
The MAORI foot hall players who will
soon visit England, are ijound by writ
ten contract with their conductor not to
take streng drink under any circum-
stances during their visit to that country.
Taking advantage of the recent decis-
lon OF the United States supreme court,
| in the case of Bownan VS.. the Chicago
and Northwestern railroad. liquor dealers
Of different sections are preparing to i'm
| tort their liquors into the states having
| prohi oitbry laws.
The congress of the Association for the
Advancement of Women holds its annual
meeting in Detroit, Mieh, November IA
TO IS. Miss Willard will deliver. an ad-
/ dress on "The White Cross end Fhft.
Shield" and Miss Minnie Phelps, one of
the leading W. G. T. U. workers of Can
ada will be one of four to conduct q
symposium on the subject of '1mmigra'
ton
Not long since Rev. Gecrge f. Fuller
of Einmettsburg, To-, was prosecuting
witness against a saloonkeeper. His righ
to enter complaint was denied by the de
fensc on the ground that being an timer
ant under Episcopal authority h" was no
citizen The state supreme coprt. t
which the case was taken, decides tia
"all ministers under the Episcopal polit.
are citizens" aid therefore proper per
sons to prosecute where they choose t.
do so.
Mrs Sarah Fl. Tudor or Baltimore w
G. T. u, sends each week 10 the Mary
land Prisoners Aid association 400 copic
of Gospel Letter" that are Distributed
in such way that about 200 prisoner
can read them. The chaplain writes
Read and pondered over in the quie
loneliness of the prison cell, they hav
made heart thnrets, have aroused cor
sciences. have stimulated holy resolves.