Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-02-07
W. C. r. II.

President-Mrs. S. Mullendore.
Vice Pres-Mrs s. Straughn
Vice res-Mrs. r. r. Hudson
Rec Sec-Mrs Anna Swan
Treas.-Mrs A. J. Freeman.
Cor. Sec.-Mrs Mary c. Rapp.
In the city of Oakland, the Athens of
California, there are two hundred sa
looms.
We are told the people of the United
States pay 10000, 900 dollars yearly for
for support of public schools, and / ,4s4.
600, 900 dollars for alcoholic drinks.
Mrs. Cora Hoffman and Mrs. Mary La
throp are engaged to speak at the great
temperance meeting to be held in Wash
ington Feb. 16 and L.
Mrs. Maria G. Frost, Supt of the Ohio
franchise department. is preparing his
tory of the Temperance movement during
the first half of this century
In the lumber regions of Michigan are
three missionaries of the W C. T. u.
who need aid. They walk miles through
the woods and over rough roads from one
camp to another, aiming to preach every
night. Aid for them will be gratefully
received by the state superintendent of
work among lumber men, Marion Lun-
ney, at Evart, Mich.
A new way of fighting the liquor traf-
fic has lately been tried with great sue
cess by some of the good Catholic priests
of Brooklyn. New York. Instead of the
total absence pledge. young men and
boys pledge themselves to shun the liquor
saloons and cigar stores, at least for a
certain number of years. 1t is said that
this works well, and hundreds of young
men and boys have already taken this
pledge.
The women at the head of the Wo-
mans Cristian Temperance Union have
always been possessed of large faith, and
perhaps it is because of this that they
have done great things for the world and
the cause 10 which they haye particular
ly applied themselves; and now they are
entering upon new enterprise which
will require just as much faith as does
the prospect of carrying prohibitory
amendment. and which Will doubtless ma
terialiZe much sooner. 1t is nothing less
than the erection of great building as
headquarters for their work, which
will furnish them the accommodations
they so much need. and at the same time
prove source of revenue for carrying on
their work.
An option has been secured on the
ground between Quincy and Van Buren,
streets on Dearborn. It's dimensions be-
ing 166 by 100. This is in the new office
building quarter and is particularly
suited TO the purpose because of the wide
grounds about the government build Op-
pOsite. insuring plenty of light. Plans
have been drawn for the building. the
general scheme being described as fol-
lows:
''Since the purpose of the ". c. T. T.
is essentially christian. tipe of purely
christian architecture was deemed essen
tial for the expression of its purpose IN
this building. but christian architec-
ture OF any one per1Od was not thought
necessary. Indeed it seems best that
christian architecture. in its comprehen-
sive sense. should be used for the ex-
preston of purposes so largely catholic
as those avewed by the Womsn's Christ
ian Temperance Union. 1t is intended
therefore. that the completed building
shall. in its lower stories be of the ear
Hest Romanesque type-a type growing
into favor with the earliest growths of
the christian leligion. Beginning with
these primitive forms, the building, as it
rises higher. will take on later forms: the
early and simple Gothic; types of the
early decorated forms; then middle deco
rated; then types more enriched: and fin
ally, in thh tower. the forms used are
those which belonged to the last period
Of Gothic, or essentially christian devel-
opment in fiamboyant traceries, etc"