Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-11-05
The Meeting of the Societies.

NC iucetius Vi SOME Oh Tue DenevOieuI
and moral societies at the Unitarian church
last Sunday evening, proved q most graft
flying success. The choir, with Mrs. Har-
ward Greedy at the organ, gave some very
excellent music, and Miss Maud Stevens,
with great acceptance, favored the audi
ence with the singing Of an appropriate
selection. The devotional exercises were
conducted by the pastor Of the church, the
Rev. Mr.. Garfield, who also prefaced the
addresses or reports of the evening with a
very timely address.
The first speaker was Mrs. A. F. Greedy,
who spoke for the W. C. T. U. She said:
On the Path of December, 1873, fifty wom-
en- in the little town of Hillsboro, o., or
ganized crusade against the saloons for
the protection of their homes. This move
ment grew with great rapidity into what is
now known as the W. c. T. u, the pur-
pose of which is to protect our homes by
driving the traffic in intoxicating liquors
from our country by state and national
prohibition. The organization has its To-
cal, county, state and national unions, all
auxiliary to the national, with forty de-
partments Of work. In Maine there has
been gain of twenty seven new unions
during the past year, and the present MEN,
bership Of the State is $3.50. The national
organization is represented by forty-four
states and two territories with 250, 900
members. Mrs. Greedy showed that the
local union in Ellsworth has been doing a
very excellent work In the best interests of
the city.
The next speaker was Mrs. Maria B.
Perry, who represented the juvenile de-
partment of the W. c. I. Z. large
number of children meet every Sunday
evening at 80 in room number 4. mason
c block. where very interesting meetings
are held There kindness to animals is
made speciality, though temperance and
morality are Insisted upon. There can be
no doubt that the work Mrs. Perry and her
co-laborers are doing is a tremendous lever
for the uplifting of the children of Ellis
worth.
Mrs. Fred L. Mason spoke for the Kings
Daughters. After explaining the mission
and significance of the work of the socie-
ty. she explained with great clearness and
directness the excellent work done by the
Kings Daughters in Ellsworth. We quote
follows: We have assisted sixteen
families in the way of food and clothing,
nearly all within city limits Our main OBJ
Ject in view Is to provide free reading
room We have at present. $500 in the
treasury for that purpose. and hoped to
begin such an institution the coming win
ter. but inasmuch as we have found some
difficulty in finding suitable room We are
afraid it will he somewhat DELAYED Last
winter We helped prepare two little girls
for the Orphans Home in Bangor, sent a
Christmas box To the Indian School in Da-
kota, also scrap books To the children at
the Home in Portland, Me. The COMING
Christmas We propose 10 trim at least tx
Christmas trees and leave them al the |
doors OF families where there are children
that We feel quite sure do not know what |
q Christmas tree looks like; now perhaps |
it would be well 10 add here If there are
any little girls who would like to make |
some little gift for this purpose it wouid |
be gratefully received. and We will guaran-
tee they will be amply paid in the JOY Of
knowing they have made some other little
girl happier for it. We have at present
forty five names enrolled as members of
our society. and eighteen of them have
gone out of town. part to return within |
few months-the rest We trust NAV
sometime-leaying us only twenty seven
working members. A hearty welcome is
extended 10 all who desire to enter this |
-, ri rfi oh
who might form a ten Of their own. and
do great work with very little exertion.
viii add here that very soon we shall have |
little vestry entertainment composed Of |
children mostly. The admission fee will |
be small and we trust it will be literally
patronizrd
J. c. Chilcott spoke for the Good Tenn !
plars The organization originated in New
York state in 1851. and rapidly spread all
over the civilized world. The order has
now about 600 900 members. New York |
state has about 700 lodges and So 900 mem
bers, and Maine has about half as many. |
The Good Templar ritual has been trans |
lated into eleven different languages and is |
being used by thirteen different tongues.
II Is the largest total abstinence society in |
the world. 1t has subordinate lodges in
the towns, county or district lodges in the
counties, a Grand Lodge in each state, |
Kingdom, &c, and Right Worthy Grand /
Lodge for the world. The county of Han +;
cock has twenty one Good Templar lodi es. !
exte nding from Outer Long Island |
Lodge on Outer Long Island, back to
Golden Gate Lodge at Great Pond and |
from Iron Bound Lodge at Winter Harbor |
to Silver Star Lodge at East Bucksport |
These twenty-one lodges, which must have
membership of at least 1900, are doing |
an excellent work. Deer Isle is the banner
Good Templar town in Maine and proba-
bly, in New England. 1t has six flourish |
ing lodges and all are doing a good work. |
Neal Dow Lodge, in this city, was insti-
tuted December ~, 1878, and is now about |
thirteen years old. During the last omar
ter it had more than one hundred MEM
bers. 1t has had signally few black |
sheep" very small percentage of it's |
members from first to last having ever vi |
olated their obligation. 1t has done an ex-
cellent work. In closing, the speaker
asked for the Good Templars and the no.
BILE work in which they are engaged the
kindest sympathy and best aid which the
citizens of Ellsworth have tn uiva