The morning times., 1896-06-15
". c. 7. U. NOTES.

The third quarterly meeting OF the Dis
trict w. c. T. U. will be held on Friday.
June 26, beginning at $50 u. M. in the
Metropolitan Baptist Church. corner of
Sixth and A streets northeast. Ladies' Will
carry u basket of luncheon and tea and
coffee will be provided by the Capitol Hill
Union, which will be the hostess of the
District Union upon that occasion.
The membership OF the District Union is
made up as follows: The five general Of
ficers OF the District the District superip-
teDdents of departments, the trustees, and
the auditor; the secretary of the ~" branch
and the District reporter to the Union Signal,
the president, recording secretary, cor
responding secretary and treasurer of each
local union. In addition to these each local
union is entitled to one delegate at large and
an additional delegate for every ten men,
bers. Representation is based upon the num-
Der of members whose dues are paid up to
the end of the current quarter; thus every
delegate to the quarterly meeting rep
reseDts ten active paid up members.
1t is often the case that the full strength
of local union is not represented in a
quarterly meeting because OF the failure of
number of members to have their dues paid
up to date. The union is thus deprived of
the credit which 1t should have, and its
numerical strength is underrated because
some are careless concerning the vital mat
ter OF finance. Let every member see that
she has u clear record with her treasurer,
SO that her own union may receive full
credit for every member. II this were done
it is the opinion of some tina tthe membership
would be increased by one-fOurth at least.
There is likely to be n friendly rivalry be-
tween some of the local unions as to which
will be the first to raise 81 90 for the build
ing fund. Mrs. NJ A. W. Smith, OF North
Capitol Union, is the first of her union to
place a dollar for the new building In the
hands of the treasurer. One of the local
presidents has secured q bank in which
she deposits one dime daily for the new
building. Where there's will there's a
way" The walls about Jerusalem were
built because 1.-THE people had a mind to
work" White ribbOners, what will you
do this summer for your building fund?
A good object lesson for the aims and
methods of the w. c. T. q. will be found
in the little pamphlet, "A Model Meet
ing OF the w. c. T. U. of Loyalville.- by
Mrs. Katharine Lente Stevenson. cores
ponding secretary OF tile National w. C.
7. U. Miss Willard says in farewell
letter before she left for England: IF
l could feel that before I return every
local union would give as a public enter
tainment our dear Mrs. StevensOn's Model
Meeting of tile w. c. T..U. OF Loyalville'
should know that such a panorama OF our
work as this ingenious and delightful
composition presents would do an incai-
culable service In softening the asperities
of this campaign year and putting our
local unions in the right light before the
public. Let me beg EACH local president
to send for a copy of this latest publica-
tion of he w. T. p. A. and set it going
in her own cOmmunity."
Pueblo. Col. has just been enjoying the
labors of Major Hilton and large ac
cession to the membership of the W. c..
T. U. has been the result. That organiza-
ton has no brother helper who strikes
stronger blows for the W. C. T. U. than
docs the ma jor. Four hundred names have
been added through his recent work in
Colorado alone.