Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-06-17
Annual Meeting of Orleans County
w. C. II. u.

always bring storm would seem to
have been verified Thursday morning,
9th inst, when the ladies from the
various unions in the county gathered
in the Methodist church at Derby for
the ninth annual meeting of the Or
leans County Womans Christian
Temperance Union. Notwithstand-
ing the depressing weather a goodly
number gathered for the morning ses-
sion, which was opened by devotional
meeting led by Mrs. I. S. Cummings.
Mrs. A. B. Hopkinson gave us cor
dial welcome to the hospitable homes
Of Derby, to which the convention
responded by singing the convention
hvmn, 'sFor God and Home and Ma
tive Land" Mrs. Ware gave a very
interesting review of the work in Or
leans County and the general purpos-
es of the organization. This brought
us to the appointment of committees,
which being satisfactorily disposed
of, Mrs. Tibbetts led us in the noon
tide prayer, after which we adjourned
to the vestry where a welcome repast
awaited all the delegates and visitors.
Having satisfied the wants of the in
ner man, we again assembled in the
audience room to listen to the service
in memory of those who had gone
home during the year. Mrs. Hop
kinson conducted, using the beautiful
memorial service prepared by Mrs. S.
NJ. l. Henry. The sketches of the
! life and works of the various men,
bers whose loss we commemOrated
| gave evidence of the high esteem and
bond of sisterhood which character
ICES us as an organization.
At 2.15 Mrs. A. B. Owen of Bar
ton presented an essay on "Christian
Responsibility" This is to be print
| ed, so comment is unnecessary. In
the absence of Mrs. Young, superin-
tendent of ). I. l., her report was
read by the secretary, after which the
hour was filled by an interesting pa
per from Miss Graves, the State su-
perintendent, and discussion of the
present law, its effectiveness, ETC., by
Mrs. Housh, Mr.. Wheeler and 9TH
ers. One of the best of the many
good things which we had, was an
essay by Mrs. Lunt of Derby Line on
"Women Pre-eminent in Moral Re-
! form" The hour for work in the
health department was taken up by
an essay on ''Ventilation" by Mrs.
Abbie Nye of Charleston, showing
the too great prevalence of ignorance
in regard to the most common laws
of ventilation. Some clippings from
the press of noted authorities on this
subject, read by Mrs. DIR. Bowker
showed us the necessity of more care
full study of this important subject.
Mrs. Tibbetts recited beautiful
poem, illustrative of the necessity Of
more faithful Sabbath School work,
followed by remarks from Mrs.
Housh and others on this subject.
After music and the benedictiOn we
were adjourned until evening.
The evening session opened with a
brief praise service led by Mrs. Shaw
of Barton. After scripture reading
and prayer by Rev. Mr.. Wilder, the
Derby Union Quartette, to whose eff
forts we owe much of enjoyment dur
ing the convention, gave us some fine
music. Although Mrs. Purple was
not able to be with us, we were at no
loss to fill the evening with the mater
ial at hand. Mrs. Jenne gave a most
thorough analysis of "Public Senti-
ment and the Temperance Reform, .
which needed to be heard to be appre-
ciated. After the recitation, Crock
of Ages" by Mrs. Carpenter of Der
by Line, Mrs. Blodgett presented the
subject of legislation work as she has
done so many times. While there
were many discouraging things about
this line of work, there was one en-
couraging feature this year, from
which we hope to see some good re
suits ere long. The choir rendered
Crock of Ages and the programme
of the evening closed with the "Y'
hour for the young ladies. Miss
Mary A. Scott read an essay on the
subject, ssWhat Part Shall the Youns
Women Take in the Temperance Re
form?" Mrs. E. 7. Housh then ad
dressed the young ladies on the sub
ject of their influence in this work
showing something of the work Of th'
thirty thousand young ladies wht
have donned the white-ribbon anC
given themselves to this noble, Chris
tian work.
Friday morn dawned bright anC
beautiful and we were all inspiriteC
,, by the bright sunshine as we gather
ed in executive session to talk owe
: plans for the work of the comm;
year. A few changes were suggeste'
which were afterwards carried out b.
the convention. At 9 O'Clock tn
programme called for the mother
meeting, conducted by Mrs. Richard
son in the absence of Mrs. DR.. Hunt
: ington. Truly, no half hour durin
) the convention was so full of interes
: as this talk of the mothers in who's
! hands lie the destinies OF the futur
/ generations. The work of the vari
: Gus unions was reported by the CORE
= spending secretary of each, shown
: two new unions formed during th