The Portland daily press., 1894-09-26
W. c. I. U.
Goth Annual Convention Held at
Auburn.
MANY WEARERS OF THE WHITE
RIBBON ARE PRESENT.

Interesting Exercises Yesterday-A Sum.
mary of the Report of the Correspond
ing Secretary of the state-It shows
What the Union is Doing and What It
Aims to Do
Auburn, sSeptember 25-The ". G. TT. u.
convention opened with devotional meeting
at $50, conducted by Mrs. Taylor of Rock
land. The business meeting was called to
order at 10 am.
county presidents and state superinten-
dents
The following comm ittee on credentials
was appointed: Mrs. Thompson of Port
land, Mrs. Fogg of Augusta, Mrs. Talbot
of East Machias.
Mrs. J. I. Dinnison of Auburn and Mrs.
s.sB. Hayes of Lewiston, were appointed
committee of courtesy. Mrs. Stevens, the
president, made. a neat little speech ureinp
the members of the convention to carry on
the business of the session. in accordance
with parliamentary usuage.
Mrs. Dennison was introduced as the
president of the hostess union. Misses
Theresa and Bertha Ballard were aslo u,e-
sented as the pages to serve. during the first
day of the session.
Mrs. Hall moved. that the programme as
arrangedsby the general oficers,.be accept
ed with such notifications as may be fol
the interest of the work.
The general officers were all present ex-
cept the corresponding secretary, Mrs.
Sarah Lord Cram, the wife of Judge Cram,
of Biddeford. She was absent for the first
time in ten years. sThe care of n young
son was the cause of this absence. Mrs.
Grams re port was read by Adelaide john
ston of Fort Fairfield.
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY'S RE-
PORT.
Madam President and Comrades:
The work of our Unions is like beauti-
ful mosaic. The Florentine artist wrought
patiently day after day, piecing together
the tiLy.fragments of rainbow glass to fash
ion delicate leaf and flower and Just in
this way the faithful women of our white
ribbon host are working to perfect each lit
tie plan and endeavor to fit each into its
own place. Then all these apparently in
significant efforts being completed and be-
ing brought together make a wonderful
result-the great mosaic of the State ant,
National Wo.nans Christian Temperance
Union.
Each vice president reports gain in her
county and speaks in praise of the work
accomplished by the unions.
Mrs. NO. Odlin writes this of Androscog
gin county: II have eight fO unions to
report, all working with earnestness of
purpose and Increasing interest. The So
clety at Greene is doing we'll in the depart
ments especially along the line of caring
for homeless children and helping the
needy. Turner has given attention to teln-
perance teaching and has been active in
several lines of work with excellent 1e-
suits. South Durham union is in good
working order and numberssin it's member
| ship some earnest. workers. Sabattis union
is small sbut has donesgrand work among
| the children. Auburn is large andsprosper-
Gus. Many departments are taken up,
special attention is given to ssocial .purity
| and caring for homeless children. Through
the earnest and persistent efforts of this
union city police matron was appointed.
| Livermore Falls reports encouragingly,
nine (9) departments aIestaken up and much
| good work done, Lewiston is strong in num-
| bers and carries on as heretofore.th good
work of caring for the homeless little
| ones. Fourteen, Q4 departments have re-
| ceived attention with excellent .results
| Mechanic Falls has experienced an increase
| insinterest and the workers are greatly en-
couraged.''
1 Mrs. L. J. Spaulding thus reports Aroos-
| took county: I'VE have had successful
year; our county missionary, Christian
| talented woman, has worked nine weeks
visiting every union.and some outlying
| stations needing temperance work and en-
| couragement. She delivered forty two
addresses, held twenty-five parlor meet
| ings, has added one hundred and fifteen
members including the honoraries .andsthe
Island Falls union; has distributed 40s5
pages of litera ture and the collections have
nearly paid the bills. Our executive com
mittee think that this is the.way toskeep in
touch with our unions. hope each county
| will try this line of work for know from
our experience that it will make our efforts
much more successful
| CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
| Miss Dow thus briefly sreviews the work
| Northumberland county. 81 am sorry not to
besable to report any new unions this year
but feel sure the work has.prograssed and
| the unions have been strengthened by re-
endorsements and activity. There have
been held during the year. ar,..three.conference
| meetings aside from the'annuals sconnven-
| tion in different ction 81 of the county in
| which the SUI rounding unions to the num-
! Der of five or six have participated These
meetings have awakened interest inssev-
eral communities where nothing was known
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