Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-05-27

County convention at Winthrop Ger
ter May 2Sth.
The South China Union received seven
visit of Mrs. Helen L. Bullock.
The lecture which Mrs. Bullock will de
liver at the convention is thus mentioned
Sunday evening" the Baptist church was
crowded to overlooking by those who had
come to hear Mrs. Helen l.. Bullock ad-
vocate the cause of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union. Her address was
. From Darkness to Dawn" and was ele-
gantly written and forcibly delivered
Her remarks were listened to with the
closest attention by the vast corcOurse
Ninety six members were secured. -Semi-
Weekly Telegraph, Norwich, N. Y, Feb
ruary l, 1883.
All wonderland men interested in tenn
perance reform, of whatever sect, or par
ty, are cordially invited to attend this con-
vention, and listen to this talented wom-
an. For this convention, like all others
OF the kennebec County W. c. T. u, is
non-sectarian and non-partisan.
Remember the place: Friends church,
Winthrop Centre, but eight miles away
So much enthusiasm is manifested by
the white ribboners along the river, that
separate conveyances from Augusta, Hal
lowell and Gardiner, will all be well laden
with delegates and friends.
Great interest centers around the grand
meetings to be held in London in June.
The American and British women unite
their programmes all the way through.
On Sunday, juno 10th, 200 pulpits and
platforms are to be occupied by women
preachers and reformers. On one day,
there will be great meeting in Queen S
hall, when music will be furnished by a
choir of 400 women in white ribbon uni
forms. The uniform consists of pale blue
jackets, broad white ribbons, and black
skirts The great demonstration of the
week will take place on Thursday, in AL
bert Hall, which will seat from eight to
ten thousand people. The monster Poly
glot petition will be massed and banked in
the hall, and will be presented to repre-
sentatives of the British government.
I'm addition TO the great feature of the
presentation of the Polyglot petition at
this meeting there will be number of
representatives of each country in which
our society exists, in the costume of their
own nation, and they will march on to the
platform rs the national anthem of their
own country is being played, and a verse
of it will be thrown by a magic lantern
on to screen. AS tho British contin-
gent enters the ball. they will be preceded
by large Union Jack, and each woman
will carry small Union Jack, and "God
Save the Queen" will be played. When
the American section enters they will be
preceded by the Stars and Stripes, and
each will carry their own national flag,
whilea verse of the Star Spansled Ban
ner" will DO thrown on the screen and
the tune will be played. The French
women will enter to the tune of the
Marseillaise, and so on with tho other
nations. We shall probably have as beau
tifuI singing as has ever boon heard at n
public meeting In addition to the choir
Of four hundred women, | have just re-
forrcd to, there will be another choir of
five hundred children, making n choir of
nine hundred in ali, which will be con-
Quoted by Mr.. Cowley, director of music
for the school board of London.
"We shall then have thrown on the
screen, pictures Of the principal persons
and speakers connected with the worn-
ans temperance movement and few re-
markable statements, such as the state
mcnt that every state with three excep-
lions only, has scientific temperance edu-
cation for the young. We shall also des-
cribe on the screen the marvellous organi-
cation of the Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union, with its forty departments,
and its strength in all these fifty states,
and an officer at the head of each depart
ment.'
The other important feature in the pro-
gramme will be that on the next day
Lady Henry Somerset hopes to have the
pleasure of welcoming to the Priory, Rel
gate, all the delegates of this immense
gathering.
A number of the foremost workers in
Maine will attend these meetings. But
the State president Mrs. L. N. N. Stew
ems, on account of her position as nation
al vice president at large, can not go; as 1t
is an understood fact that Mrs. Stevens
shall man the forces in our own country,
where our chieftain is across the sea-