The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-05
THE ". c. T. U.

New Haven County-Twelfth Annual VI Convention Attended by goo Delegates \ Reports Made-N Ork Among the Needy and Unfortunate-The Tobacco Habit N Tho Election of Ofiicers.
 The twelfth annual convention of the
 omen's Christian Temperance union New Haven county was held In 1 wight Place church yesterday. About l Q delegates were present when Pres s ent Mrs. Alta 1T. Downs of Bethany tlled the convention to order at 10 { clock. The report from the unions Ansonia, Bethany Cheshire, East ! Iaven, Guilford, Meriden, Milford. Mid 5Sebury and New Haven No. 1 and ?. \ ere read by their secretaries. All of : ne reports showed a marked increase { ] membership and told of the good 'hristian work they were doing among he poor, making clothes, saving the runkard and leading him to Christ.
 The new president of New Haven lnion No. 2, Dr. Mary Moody, was in- reduced. The entire convention rose tnd waved handkerchiefs in honor of
 he lady. Her address was very inter- ssting. It told of the work in the jail; now she visited the prisoners and read lo them from religious works; also writing letters for those who could not
 write, and of the vast quantity of re-
 tgious books and pamphlets she had distributed among the prisoners and among the Inmates of the hospital. The poor families, too, were supplied with reading and clothes. A colored Y. M. c. A. had been formed in the city, and now under the wing of the union "a paper was issued, edited by colored man, the only one in the state.
 I Mrs. Pollock of Ohio was introduced and spoke of being an old crusader She told of her work in the gutter, how at her home in the west they had institut- ed a crusade against the saloon and how God smiled on the work. s''We will continue" she said, "and sisters it won't be long before the curse of saloons will be wiped from the face of the land. God is with us, and success is sure"
 Mrs. Mary Nettleton of this city gave quite a talk about narcotics. She was appointed superintendent of narcotics two years ago, and her first work was to go to Principal Hurd of the Win chester school and solicit his co-opera- ltion in having the tobacco habit elin- ;ra+ +od f,o,,, +Ioa schools IJa fold her that the text books on physics were the best published, but the teachers were not obliged to lay special stress on the evils of the habit. If she would have pamphlet written on the subject he would see that every teacher would receive one. Mrs. Nettleton did not feel able to write one which would do justice to so momentous a subject, and saw several ladies and literary gentle men and asked them to contribute their efforts towards getting out proper treatise. They all expressed delight with her idea, but would not attempt amy writing on the subject Finally, af- ter a year of patient effort, she wrote an article herself and read it yesterday morning. It is addressed to the teachers and tells of the ci- garette, what it is made of, and of boys falling from grace through it's influence. Among other bad effects she ascribed to it is color blindness. The paper urges the teachers to train the boys to fear it's evil. It was a well composed pamphlet and will be publish ed by Chicago firm soon.
 Mrs c. A. Holmes gave very inter esting account of the work of the Ma tional convention, which was held at Baltimore in October. The treasurer's report showed the amount received to be $S2.57 and disbursements $63.64. Mrs. M. J. Ellis gave a very interesting ad- dress on the work of the society.
 The following officers were elected for next year: President, Mrs. Alta H. Downs of Bethany; vice presidents, Mrs. c. A. Holmes of Meriden and Mrs. VI. H. Thompson of New Haven; secre-
 tary Mrs. Anna G. Exwark of Meriden; treasurer, Miss Mary Wyllys of North Haven.