Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-02-14
ABOUT TOWN.
The District Meeting of the
[. o. G.. T.
LAWYER CLARK's TROUBLES.
Miss Seaman Is also Placed Under
Arrest-A Cottage Burned
to the Ground.

The Los Angeles District Lodge, /. 0
G. T., convened in Merrill hall, in w
g. T. q. Temperance Temple, yesterday
morning at 1890. This lodge is com
posed of delegates from all the subordi.
nate Good Templar lodges in this county
of which there are eleven, and repre-.
sentatives of the various Bands of Hope.
Every lodge but one was represented.
The lodge was called to order by District
Templar w. 1. Hull, of Santa Monica.
After the report of the committee on
credentials, number of candidates were
initiated into the district lodge degree.
At IL O'Clock the lodge adjourned for
dinner, to meet again at 80.
A committee was appointed to prepare
report Of the proceedings of the session
for the daily papers.
Under the report of officers, it was
shown that the state of the order in the
county was better than it had been for
years.
The audience sang the Prohibition YER
sion of the "Sweet Bye and Bye," after
which vote of thanks was extended to
II. II. Matlock, to whom the lodge was
indebted for number of copies of said
song.
Fl. Clay Needham and John P. ST.
John, of Newhall, reported that the out
look was very bright for large and in
fuential lodge in their vicinity. Their
lodge was only organized two weeks ago,
and at present numbers thirty-seven
mem bers.
j. L. Tummond, of Vernon lodge, gave
an encouraging report of the new lodge,
and said they hoped to make themselves
felt in that vicinity in the future.
Il. r. Lee, of Santa Monica, Lloyd
Simmons, of Morris. Vineyard lodge; A.
P. shewmsn, Of Good Will lodge; Platte,
of East Los Angeles lodge; Ashton, of
Pomona; Sister McFadden, Rosedale
lodge; Davis, of Pasadena, and
Jesse Yarnell and Walter D. Clark re-
sponded to the roll call of lodges with
short speeches on the work in their
lodges.
A motion was adopted to appoint
committee of three to draft petitions for
signature to be presented to the
Board of Supervisors asking them to
refuse to grant any more licenses to sell
LIQUOR, and inviting all temperance Or
ganizations, churches, Sunday schools,
etc., to assist them in the matter.
1t was ordered that the District Tenn.
plar visit every lodge in the district, and
that his expenses be paid by the district
lodge.
1t was also ordered that the Superin.
tendent of Juvenile Templars visit every
Band of Hope in her jurisdiction.
At 5 80 the district lodge adjourned to
meet in open session in the evening.
1t was throughout the most pleasant
session held for years, and the visitors
were we'll recompensed for travelling to
she meeting. The cordial greeting ex-
tended by the members of the order in
this city, made it an occasion long to be
remembered.
Preparations are now pending for the
organization of several new lodges in
this vicinity. There are now number
of localities in this county where no
liquor is sold, and there are a number of
temperance workers here who were in.
strumental in carrying prohibition in
Kansas and Iowa.
In the evening the following pro-
gramme was rendered:
Song, "Welcome Ode," by the
audience; prayer, Rev. j. III. Collins
address, District Templar Hull recita.
tion, Miss Davis; duet, Mr.. and Mrs.
Peabody; recitation, frankie Davis
recitation, Fannie Hilton; address, Rev
j. FL. Collins; recitation, Jennie
Vananken; instrumental duet, Misses
Marshall and Hester; recitation, Lizzie
Hester song, Miss Jennie Green.