Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-02-18
TEMPERANCE.

Miss G.. >. Burnett formerly OF ONO
but more recently a mission teacher q
Utah, has been appointed by the genera
officers Of the National W. {. i. |.
president of the organization in that ter
rito1y.
Miss Ellice Hopkins. whose name is 81
closely identified with the White Cros
movement, is now in Italy for the Lcneii
Of her health.
The controversy az Cornell college il
the class for 80, as to whether liquors
should be provided for the banquet, was
recently renewed and decided in the neg
alive.
At the annual meeting Of the trustees
of the New England Conservatory OF
Music, Miss Francis f. Willard was
elected u member Of the board of visitors
for the current year.
A public meeting under the auspices OF
the Society for the Suppression of the
Opium Trade will be held in London in
February. Canon Wherefore will de
liver an address on the opium question
A temperance revival at Ottawa, ILL.,.
has resulted in 1000 signatures TO the
pledge aud the reorganization Of the w.
&. Il. u. with forty five members.
Sam Small will soon start "A prohibition
paper in Washington, ID. c., where he
makes his home. Mr.. Small was formerly
a journalist connected with the Atlanta
Constitution.
The Fanatic, Published at Emporia,
Kansas, gives each week "a list of the
names of those who purchase liquors at
the drug stores Of that city, with the all
ments for which they claim TO use them.
The archbishop of Canterbury has is
sued invitations to a Pan-Anglican con
ference in London next summer to all
bishops of the Anglican communion
throughout the world-about 30 in num-
Der. Among the subjects discussed will
he The Church's Practical Work in Re
lation TO lntemperance.'
Foochow (China) NJ. l.. conference has
a Committee on Anti Poison which re-
ported ut the late session Of that body
against opium, wine and tobacco.
The senate has passed a resolution call
ing upon the secretary of the treasury for
y report Of the amount of cvenu col
lected from each kind of liquor each year
since the passage of the internal revenue
law, and from the special tax Oh distillcra
and brewers.
The New York City union is arranging
for "A charcoal art talk to be given by the
artist J Wells Champney at the home of
Mrs. Colgate of February 3, for the bene-
tit of the boys reading room. This read
ing room is in connection with the Loyal
Legion Temperance society which has
headquarters at 8 West Fourteenth street.
The society cndeavors to maintain an at
t~ractiye resort for working boys where
they may spend "A pleasant and profitable
evening away from evil associations,
5000 names are enrolled on its member
ship book and over 900 attend regular
ly. During the past zine months 1913
books nave been taken home and read,
and |, t2i taken out for the evening only.
Leading papers and magazines are upon
the tables; there is a room for games, in
struction is given in the common branch
80 of study and many instructive and in
tercsting lectures have been delivered.
The last and the present congresses are
said to be the most sober houses that have
ever blessed our nation.
The first w. G. Il. L. OF Queensland,
Australia, was organized by Mrs. Leavitt
i'm September, 1885. The province now
has seven unions with an aggregate mem
bership of 300 regular and seventy hon
orary members; I 1896 names have been
added to the world petition.
The White Ribbon is the name of a
new monthly paper published by the
siste w. G. Il. L. of Pennsylvania. Mrs.
! rouces l., Swift is editor.
The Good Tempiars have instituted
systematic course of reading for members
of the order. The books selected for the
first years reading-othcrs than those re-
ating directly to the work of the society
are alcohol and History by Rev.
DIR. Richard Eddy; The People vs.. the
Liquor Traffic by John b. Finch, and
Bread and Beer by Mary Dwinel
Clullis.
Since the decision of the United States
supreme court relative To tho constitutions
atty Of the prohibitory laws of Kansas
and Iowa. the following decisions Of state
supreme courts have been rendered:
l.. one in Missouri sustaining the va
lidity OF the local option law.
2. One from Maine declaring the va
lidity Of the law forbidding the manufac-
liquor for expectation.
4. Another from Maine sustaining the
law that maker n federal tax permit
prima facie evidence against the holder
of state law.
Mr.. :. A. Names. founder OF the Com
-mcrcial Travellers Temperance League,
Iccturcd in Detroit, Michigan. January
%. under the auspices of the Women's
Christian Temperance union.
a Tight Grip.