Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-05-14
CAMP GROUND TOPICS.
THI PROGRAMMES FOR fHl SEASON AL
ARRANGED
For Both The II. L. and Prohibition 6afhsrings-A
List Of the Workers Secured for
Both Events

A reporter met James W.. Bodley,
formerfey Of Wheeling, now OF Staun'
ton. Va, Tuesday, and learned from
him that the Moundsvills camp meet
ing would open August 18th. closing
August 21st. Mr.. Bodley said the Com
mittee had secured the services of Prof.
E. o. Excel to lead the singing. Rev.
George Stuart. 3 %colaborer with Rev.
Sam Jones, q preacher OF remarka-
BILE earnestness to open the camp meet
ing, and the Rev. Jones to have
charge later In the services. There
will be a number Of other camp meet
ing workers to aid these earnest a
eelists, and the attendance promises to
be unusually large. Mr.. B. had just come
up from the camp and reports the
grounds In finer condition than he had
aver seen them.
"How about the Prohibition meet
ing?" he was asked.
The programme Is all ARRANGED o
is the best we have ever had. The
assembly will open Friday, July 14th.
The famous Silver Lake Quartetts will
have charge Of the singing. aided
by Mrs. Graham, Of New York. Rev.
DIR. A. B. Leonard, missionary secre-
tary of the Al. Z. church, will preach
and lecture for US. also Rev. /. VilIars,
of Ills, Rev. Geo. II. Vibbert, Rev.
Ward B. Packard. Rev. DR.. Davidson,
sterepticon, Col. Geo. W. Balm, Miss
DIR. Anna Shaw, Miss Varnum. Mrs.
Lathrop, Mrs. Hoffman, Rolla, Kirk
Bryan, Chalk Falker, Miss Newcomb.
teacher in physical culture.
1.-THE w. G. T. U. have a fine pro-
gramme, Of which Mrs. Sisson, their
president, has charge. There are
other national speakers on the pro-
gramme. DIR. Mead. our secretary,
will furnish Us with the full programme
very soon.
"a committee wasappointed last year
which Is arranging with the railroads
for am ple train service. About $1,000
was subscribed by one hundred and hive
persons towards the expense OF the hne
programme, costing about W cents for
each entertainment on the 81 season
tickets. Several gentlemen have sub
scribed SOS each to have the assemb bly,
retained at Moundsville, saying that IL
benefited their families more than ten
times that sum. These assemblies are
being started In scores Of places, called
sometimes Chatauquas, sometimes uni
yersity extensions or schools Of method"
''How is the prohibition cause coming
onP We don't do not hear much about
it lately"
None are so blind as those who will
not see. Read the prohibition papers
and you will learn that the old guard Is
standing firm. and many who were once
party blind are rallying around the stan
dard OF home and native land. l
believe that Ia five years from
now there will not be o saloon In the
State of Mississippi. Irredesent ingalls,
writes that ~sectionalism in politics is a
thing OF the past and that economic aud
moral questions are to be commended for
In the future. Twenty-Five hundred
persons in Memphis, Tenn, and 2, 400 in
Bowling Green, KY, protesting CONVEX
sion; forty-one saloons In the latter
| place closed up; q decision from the Su-
| preme Court looked for daily declaring
the saloon a nuisance, and the Republic
| can party trying TO get the suf-
frage plank out OF the Prohibition plat
form. If these straws do not show
which way the wind is blowing am no
Judge Of zephyrs. Here, my train goes
in twenty minutes; see you again."