St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-12
w. c. t. U. CONVENTION.
Opening Today of a Notable
WOmen's Meeting.

Opening Today of a Notable
Women's Meeting.
The seventeenth annual convention
of the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of Minnesota opens this morning
III Unity church, corner Summit avenue
and Wabasha street. Between three
and four hundred delegates are expect
ed to attend the meetings, at all of
which many subjects of vital interest to
advocates of temperance will be dis
cussed. The programme for the day is
as follows:
Morning-10:40, conservation meeting,
led by Mrs. l.. w. Irvine, st. Paul; con-
ventiOn called to order, President Ii. A.
Hobart; selection of seats by delegates !;
IL. noon hour prayer, led by Mis-. G. S
Soule, St. Paul.
Afternoons, convention called to Or
der; reading of Scripture. Mrs. Florence
K. Poole, st. Paul; prayer, Mrs. &. H..
Chase, Minneapolis; reading of minutes,
recording secretary; roll call OF officers
and SuDerlntendents,r response by Script
ure texts; song, Mrs. Fife Brugan,
Princeton; appointment OF committees |;
Introduction of visitors: reports of
superintendent (three minutes each)
showing the relation OF each department
to the progress of prohibition. And why
the best?
Evening-7:3O. music, choir; Scripture
lesson, Rev. Frank DOran: prayer, Rev.
w. >. Vail; music; address of welcome,
Mrs. E. W. Fish; response, Mrs. Mary
E. Hoover; symposium, "Woman's
Sphere" Mrs. NJ. Z. Greene. Mrs. }. A.
Clifford, Mrs. Julia b. Nelson; music,
free will Offering, doxology; benedic-
ton, Rev. w. s. Cechrane.
Among the state officers who will be
present are Mrs. II. n. Hobart. preSi--
dent, Red Wing; Mrs. FANNY l.. AmeS,
vice president, NorthfieId; Mrs E. S.
Wright, corresponding secretary, Red
Wing; Mrs. E. l.. Condit, recording sec
rotary, St. Anthony Park; Miss A. N.
Henderson, treasurer, Minneapolis.
The presidents OF the st. Paul unions
are: Central, Mrs. s. A. FarnsW0rth:
Willard, Mrs. William Nicholas; Lady
thony Park. Mrs. Flagg; HamlIne, Mrs.
Butts; Young Women's, Miss Carrie
HolDrOok; Como, Miss Bartholomew.
The meetings will continue for four
days. and during that time there will be
three sessions daily, morning, afternoon
and eyening-to ali OF which the public
is invited. At the everlng session there
will be symposium ON "Woman's
Sphere" i'll which several ladies' of
prominence will take part, and which
promises to be very interesting. The
address of welcome, which will be given
bylA1rS. e. w. Fish. will be responded to
by Mrs. Mary E.. Hoover. ~,
At the Wednesday evening session
papers will 0e read that will be of par
ticuIar interest TO young women work
er' in the society, and in addition to
this. conferences of the ''Y's" will be
held each morning during the cOnven-
ton. At the evening session Thursday
Miss Jessie Ackerman will give an ad-
dress that will be Of very great interest
to those who are interested in her ORR
entail experiences. She will appear
dressed in an Eastern costume. The
election of officers and delegates to the
national convention will take place Fri
dag morning. and in the afternoon the
time and place for holding the next
state convention will be decided upon.
The convention will close Friday even
ing with prize speaking contest and
presentation of medals and banners to
the leading unions.
Mrs. ii. A. hobart and Mrs. E. S.
Wright. the president and secretary of
the state association, arrived i'll the city
last night from Red Wing. and are be-
ing entertained by Mrs. A. Il. Valentine,
474 Wabasha street.
Wednesday afternoon at o'clock the
members of the st. Paul unions, with
those of Saltwater and Taylor's Falls,
are requested to meet Mrs. Hobart in
the church parlorS for the purpose of
electing district officers.
Mrs. Chase, editor OF the White Rib
boner, of Minneapolis, with seven dis
trict presidents, is spending the four
convention days with Mrs. Valentine.
Delegates to the w. G. Il. u. conven-
ton who find themselves down town at
lunch time, and who do not want to
spend the time in returning to the
church Will find that Mrs. j. McNabb,
of the Home Kitchen in the Grand
Central market, furnishes the most ap-
petizing lunches at very moderate
prices.
The delegates at the convention will
be very much grieved to learn that Miss
Willard is very i'll in London. Lady
Henry Somerset has written saying that
Miss Willard has been obliged to aban-
don all public work, and that she will
have to take a years complete rest by
the doctors orders.