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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29
PROGRAM
OF
MEMORIAL DAY SERVICES

MEMORIAL DAY SERVICES
To be held in this city on Sunday
May 20, beginning at l o'clock:
Baxter Post, No. 123. 6. A. r.. La
dies of the G. A. r., Sons of Veter
ans and all surviving soldiers and
sailors of the late war will meet al
the Post hall on Sunday, May 10, al
I o'clock p. M, form in line and
march to Camp Logan.
At Camp Logan.
Music by choir.
Opening prayer by Rev. W
Mooney of Weir City.
Opening service by the Post.
Reading of orders by Post Adju.
tant.
Prayer by the chaplain.
Address of welcome by the COM
mander.
Music by the choir.
Ritualistic services by the Post.
Music by the choir
,Oration by Rev. L. W. Foster.
Music by the choir.
Adjournment-Parade form and
march to cemetery.
At the Cemetery.
Address by commander.
Prayer by the chaplain.
Address by ]. B. Oppernan.
Ritualistic service by Post.
Address by the chaplain.
Decoration of graves by children.
Lincoln's address at Gettysburg,
by Capt. Hugh Erwin.
Salute by the Post.
Benediction.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

= Not only acute lung troubles, that
may, prove fatal in a few days, but
old chronic coughs aud throat
troubles may receive immediate re-
lief and be permanently cured by
One Minute Cough Cure. W.E.Price
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

Unconditional surrender is the
only terms those famous little pills
known as DeWitt's Little Early Ris-
ers will make with constipation,
sick headache and stomach troub-
les. W. +. Price.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

Group and whooping cough are
childhood's terrors; but like pneu.
monia, bronchitis, and other throat
and lung troubles, can be quickly
cured by using One Minute Cough
Cure. W. 4. PRICE.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29
A. O. u, w. ELECTION.

Hall of Baxter Lodge, No. Is, A. o.
L. W.
Friday evening, June 4, 1897, at s
o'clock sharp, business of impor.
tance to attend TO. A full attend-
ance requested.
]. NJ. ENGLISH,
Recorder.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

Mrs. John S. Patton of Kansas
City, who has been visiting friends
and relatives in Baxter and Galena,
is now visiting her parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. NJ. Il. Knapp. in Columbus.
She will return to Kansas City next
week
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

J. c. Naylor and John Osborn
tried to tie tin can TO a dogs tail
Tuesday evening, but they hardly
succeeded. The dog exploded and
NaylOr was compelled to change
his clothes or be quarantined. while
Osborn emptied his stomach and
hasn't been able to enjoy a meal
since. II is said, Nsylor will never
get his fingers into another such
uiess.>
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

The Drs. Jones are wont to still
further beautify aud improve the
springs park and bath house. This
property is a dead expense to them,
yet they are enthusiastic in trying
TO keep it the pride of the town. and
they should be encouraged. They
desire To paint the bath and spring
houses and say il the citizens will
furnish the material they will fur
nish the labor to put the paint on,
aud thus increase our attractive
ness. This is step in the right di.
rection; now prove your patriotism
by helping this effort of public
improvement.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

Township officers will please
remember that the NEWS office
prints township blanks of all kinds
on short notice and on very reason
able terms.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

For pain in the chest . piece OF
flannel dampened with Chamber-
lain's Pain Balm, and bound over
the seat of the pain, and another
ON the back between the ehouiders,
win afford prompt relief. This is
especially valuable in cases where
the pain is caused by a cold apd
there is tendency toward pneu-
monia. For sale by ]. G. Polster.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

Fod Gill and Arthur Fourt fished
on Elm creek this week. They went
out Thursday and returned yester-
day, but we haven't learned what
success they had, IL any.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29
Have You Had the Grip ?

II you have, you probably need a
reliable medicine like Foley's Honey
and Tar TO heal your luugs and
stop that racking cough incidental
70 this disease. w. Is. Price. = I.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

Chouteau avenuereceived repairs
this week. So did East street, but
that miserable hole on River street
hasn't been fixed yet.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

The case of the State of Kansas
vs. chas. Rixson was tried before a
jury in Justice Berry's court on
Wednesday of this week and Hix-
son was promptly acquitted. II
seems that the complaining wit
ness, John Lamar, had some buggy
wheels, different from the wheels in
his head, and that they disappear
ed. Lamar had Hixson arrested.
charging him with stealing them,
but the jury evidently believed, as
Lamar's neighbors do, that he hid
the wheels himself. Its q cold day, :
indeed. when Lamar fails to have .
quarrel with somebody.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

Ed. Fribley will furnish the score
cards for the Galena races.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29
READ THIS, NOW.

Hurrah for Baxter Springs! Kan
sas raises something besides dead
heads and drones. When you talk
about there being better state than
Kansas every potato winks its eye,
every cabbage shakes it's head, ev-
cry beet gets red in the face, every
onion gets strong, every oat field is
shocked, the barley strokes it's
beard, the corn pricks up its ears,
every foot of the ground kicks and
The grass turns green with rage.
Call on WILLARD for your seeds.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

Rev. W. Mooney of Weir City will
preach at the Presbyterian church
Sunday morning and evening. May
30. Everybody invited.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

The managers of the bath house
have made II possible for You TO
take a course of hot baths equally
- beneficial as those at Hot
Springs or anywhere else. Try
then.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

Captain Kidd" chewing
tobacco 15c per plug
at Cooks.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29
| have in a car Of Nc
Cormick Binding Irvine and
will make prices right. See
me before buying.
c. R. GOULD.

II. l.. Rossman. an old Baxter
boy, arrived in the city last Friday
to visit his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Jacob Rossinan. He was accompa-
MED by s. \. Fett of Bluffton, Ohio,
who visited here few days.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

McGhis will make photos every
Monday in Baxter at the Sipple car.
Call and see him. s Sc.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

A catfish weighing loi pounds
was captured under. the Hannibal
bridge in the Missouri riverat Kan
sas City Tuesday.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

We understand that one OF our
Lyon 'towuseip farmers bit at the
old lightning rod scheme the other
day and got caught for something
over 500. but we haven't been able
70 get the full particulars In the
case.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29
See those Green, oxblood and
Chocolate Shoes at leeman's,
CaIena, Kan.

DIR. 1. +. Stryker of Weir City was
in Baxter Wednesday. DIR. Stryker
has sold his drug store in Weir City
and will engage in the practice of
medicine in Galena with DIR. c. Fl.
Shriner.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

TIE. Meads shipped live stock to
Kansas City Monday.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

McGhie, the .photographer. gives
you q written ;guarnntee with each
order that all work win give salts.
faction. "A Sipple ear HOpday'
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

p Carl Carney, foreman of Jim Hun
ter's harness store at this place, is
recovering from hard tussle with
measles.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

Everything in the bread, cake
aud pie line at Mrs. Meyerding's.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29
Shoes at half price at cIary,s.

Work on AL Diveley's new home
is being rushed. Al. is going to
have one of the prettiest homes in
the city.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

Col. Fl. NJ. Bacon and DIR. James +.
Chew transacted business in Col
umbus Monday.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

The population of Cherokee coun.
ty. according to the assessors re.
turns, is now 1854, gain in the
past year of 3.906.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29
Shoes at half price ht Clary's.
ev " Monnev of Y

See c. r. Gould before buying
your binding twine.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

Louis Rossman says he rode in
the airship while he was away.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

Ed. Boiler cut a swell in Kansas
City this week.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

Baxter reunion-September 9th to
1Ifh
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

There will be grand race meet
ing at Galena June l, 2, 3 aud 4.
Several horses from this vicinity
will participate.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

Get prices at Harvey & Sons fur
niture aud carpet hopse.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

Marshal Gill and W. J. Turiey re-
turned Saturday from Muscogee, I.
+. where they attended United
States court for q week.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

Yon never saw as low prices for
shoes as NJ. c. Clary is making.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

Meals and lunch at all hours at
Mrs. +. Meyerdings.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

All the new toes in Green, OK
blood and Chocolate and Black
Shoes at
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

One Minute Cough Cure, cures.
Thsfk vk.f Il ~as asdsiss.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

]. C. and W. J. Nhyior shipped
hogs 20 Kansas City Tuesday.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

Ladies' Green shoesstS2.6o
per pair. Big line at I
Leeman's, calena, Kan.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

New stock of Queensware
at Cooks.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

Remember, we have a large lot OF
chattel mortgage blanks. Also
blank bills of sale.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

Township road tax receipt books
for sale at this Office.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

High Patent Flour, per 100 -. $3.50
Second Grade Flour, per l0O... 2.3O
Third Grade Flour, per 100 ...., 1.50
Corn, per bushel. el................ 10
Corn Chop, per 100. go
Prairie hay, per bale. ........... 10
Tame hay, per bale. 30
Granulated Sugar, 20 pounds =. 100
Light Brown Sugar, y pounds. 100
Lion or Arbuckle Coffee, l5c per
package. or 2 packages for. -
Navy Beans. II pounds for ..... ~
Fine Dried Pears. per pound. 80 .5
Best grade of Prunes, per pound .05
World Beater Soap. II bars, %
Pail Syrup. per pail............. 81
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29
Glass Fruit Jars
At Cooks.

The bridges on Main and East
streets over Spring tun are about
completed. 49,
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

NJ. c. Clary is selling shoes lower
than you ever bought them.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

Best square meal in the city for
the money at Mrs. Neyerding's.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

China Mating ioc per yard
and up at Harvey & Sons.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

. will pay car fare on each bill
of shoes bought of me.
III. T. LEEMAN,
Galena. Kansas.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

Co to Ieeman, calena, Kan.,
for all the new things in shoes
Green, Oxblood nd Chocolate,
aud everything in black.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

photographs at the Sipple car on
Monday, the l7'h.
McGHIE, Photographer.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

DsWltt:s Little Early Rlsers.
n la.l.as llslIs lIIl..
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

See that $l.25 shoe for
ladies at Lynch's.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29
WARRANTY DEEDS

The NEWS job department has on
hand a large supply of warranty
deeds. Remember this.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

Prices on all grades of house
furnishings as low as honest deal
ing can possibly permit.
Harvey & Son.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

LIGHT DRAWING DONE DAY
OR NIGHT, BY MAC GILL
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29

I have for sale new upright
piano which can be tiught for 80,
which 10 less thani factory cost
Prfceaand on molttk paymentss
DO you want a bat1fin
q zs=1 I'D a. H.IlhcDoNALD.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29
Shoes at half price at NJ. c. clary,s.

See Lynch's 50 shoe for
men.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29
Leeman's, calena, Kan,

l am selling shoes cheaper
than anybody in town.
/. N. LYNCH.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29
COMMENCEMENT.

The second annual commence
ment of the Lowell Academy will
be held at Lowell on Thursday,
June 3, at S o'clock p. III. The grad
uates are Misses Evelyn N. Hobson
Bunch and MIR. Free
man l.. Martin. Following is the
program:
Instrumental Solo. e. Mrs w. E. Morgan
Invocation ....... Rev. VIM. L. George
Instrumental Quartettc. -. Lyman Sisters
Oratlon. ........'' ''''''''. ..''''''
.. . "ThcRelation OF Industry to Genius"
Victoria Bunch.
Grafton. DE-. Beyond the Alps Lies Italy"
Freeman L. Martin.
Vocal Solo .......... Mrs. b. F. Gibbons
Grafton .......... From Dark to Dawn"
Evelyn NJ. Hobson.
Presentation of Diplomas. s...............
Prof Chas. L. Cosand
instrumental Trio. ....... Lyman Sisters
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29
GREAT Die REDUCTIONS

in Chamber Suits. Get their price,
HARVEY & SON.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-06

after a fashion, which, in the end, may
simply be putting up with Inconvenience.
But the real camper, you know, is a na-
ture lover He will go far from railroads,
mails and daily papers, back into the
wilderness where the country has never
felt the blighting influence of civilization.
He Will really drop out of the world for
a certain space of time and come back
browner ana healthier than he ever was
in his life.
But it makes little difference how you
camp out in California. In no other part
of the world are the opportunities and
facilities for camping out so great as they
are here, which fact NAV in a measure
account for its being so popular here
You can reach any number of camping
places in two hours travel from this City.
The prime object of camping out is to
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-06

The days of summer, when the sky is
ravishingly b. ue and the flowers are
blooming in all their loveliness; when, in
the cities. the heat beats down intensely
at noon and ascends in sullen clouds at
nightiall-then il is that ones thoughts
turn treacherously from the accOmmo-
dating city to visions of shady trees and
purling brooks, and ones fancy pictures
hammocks and novels and cool breezes,
and no discom orls to speak Of
Indeed, it Will not be long before a large
proportion of CALIFORNIA; population Will
be liv ng under canvas.
OF course there are many different ways
of camping out" Some people may
think they are doing so when they occupy
a ent in the back yard of a summer hotel.
Others will be content to go to some OF
the regular camping places and rough it
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-06

enjoy yourself and improve your health.
In that event he who occupies tent il
the back yard of summer hotel is as wise
as he who puts in 4 couple of days getting
into some almost inaccessible place in the
mountains. But, of course, there is big
d ference in the way lime is employed.
The most frequented resorts for camping
for San Franciscans are in the Santa Cruz
Mountains, Niles Canvon and III different
parts of Marin, Sonoma and Mendocino
counties. Here can be obtained rest and
recreation with very little hardship and
very little expense. As a consequence
these regions are very popular for FAM
lies. The ladies experience little incon-
venience and the children can run wild
without danger of being devoured by
roaming denizens of the forest
Mails come regularly to these camps,
and your table can always be supplied
with the best the market affords. Water
is handy and frewood plentiful. In one
sense of the word, this method of camp
ing out is not camping out at all. 1t is
simply living in a tent. But. perhaps,
this camper gets all the en- Joy ment out of
it that be desires. He certainly gets rest
and quiet. a week spent beneath the red
wood 8 shade, listening to the murmur of
a brook as it tum bles over a ledg4 of rock,
will add year 10 your life. The shifting
of the shadows on the soft carpet of aro-
matte leaves is soothing to the nerves and
Strengthening to the body.
But it is to the real camper that Califor-
MIA holds out the greatest inducements.
The real camper-the camper who in herits
his nom adic longings from the early set
tiers OF the West-has under his nat a
certain fell idea of camping which the
ordinary being who camps simply because
it is summer rarely gives much thought
to. The real camper takes his tented
recreation with a large N mixture of gun in
it. He goes into the woods TO shoot,
whether he performs the orthodox camp
ing role or not. Call 1t what you pleas e,
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-06

Land of the rose and violet blue,
And all the sisterhood of flowers;
OF lakes and springs whose waters
flow
Through sunny glens and shady
bowers;
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-06

Yosemite! thou, too, we claim,
With all that nature thee endowed,
The worlds emblazoned with thy
fame,
We see thee, and our heads are
bowed.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-06

Where could one find such forests
proud
Whose aged monarchs Of the vale,
Sequoias, towering toward the
cloud,
Defy the sternest winters gale?
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-06

Here by the siivery stream which
flows
Ger rocks and sands (such music
sweet
Fed by big Shasta's winter SHOWS,
The Sacramento'S sources meet.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-06

Dear land OF dearest azure skies,
Of brightest sunshine, fruits and
flowers;
No bird with plumed wing that flies,
Meets fairer, lovelier cline than
ours.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-06

Oh, sunny land! Oh, surf-beat
shore
So full of romance of the past,
The mission bells sound here no
more,
The padre thou no longer hast.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-06

Cradle of coming empire, thou,
Rocked by the Great Creators
hand,
Millions unborn to thee shall bow,
The children of this genial land.
EDWARD E. PERLEY.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-06

it IS all the same to
him if game be plen-
tiful and am unitIon
lasts, albeit a sup of
good coffee hree e
times a day, with a
bit of bacon and a
spitted bird done to
a turn over a brush
fire as a side detail
are not 10 be despise6.
To this genus of
camper there is an
indissoluble link be-
tween the woods and
a gun, and msyhap a
fishing rod thrown
into his PACK" as en-
additional necessity
or essential part of
the outfit. A propo-
sitlon to go cam ping
without the first of
these implements, or
perhaps without the
second, would amaze
him uDspeakably.
W hat a time had
those fathers of ours
who camped all the
year round. They lit
orally lived camping.
The pattern of real
outuoor life in Cali
fornia was marked
out by them, and
though they set US
the dire ctions uncon-
sciously and from
stern necessity, their
way was in every re-
spect the ideal way
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-03
INTERNATIONAL w. c. T. u.
strong Resolutions Acknowledgement
Officers Were Reelected.

strong Resolutions Acknowledgement
Omcers Were Reelected.
Toronto, Ont, Oct. 27.-The Woman's
Christian Temperance union conven-
ton was brought to close with
rousing platform meeting Tuesday
night.
A series of resolutions was passed
practically unanimously. A synopsis
follows:
They pledge the organization to the ten
derest sympathy with and active work for
women who have lost the priceless jewel OF
virtue, knowing them often to be more
sinned against than SHINING; also pledging
the organization to constant effort by pen,
by influence, by voice. by prayer. to bring
in that good day when this equal "domin-
ion" shall be recognized in the home, in the
church, in law and at the ballot box: de-
clare its absolute opposition to war or any,
thing that fosters the war spirit, and urg-
ing upon members everywhere the discour-
agement of the military drill in the pub
lie schools or in Sabbath schools; opposing
the use of opium in it's various forms, CO.
caine, choral and any other habit-forming
drugs, and exhorting physicians to exercise
great caution in prescribing narcotics: OPP
posing the use of tobacco in any form, and
especially pledging the Woman's Christian
Temperance union to work against the
manufacture of cigarettes and their sale
to youth, and also protesting against nickel
in-the-slot machines for distributing
cigarettes expressing the conviction that
the British government should cease the
cultivation of the poppy plant in India and
substitute crops Of grain, and protesting
against the raising of revenue from the
sale of opium, except for purely medicinal
purposes; deploring the massacres in Ar
menia, and earnestly hoping the European
der such heartbreaking scenes impossible
OF repetition; declaring that the Womans
Christian Temperance union Is unalterably
opposed to lynching at all times in every
nature; asking every member of the white
ribbon host to use her influence to have
the sale of liquor on ocean-going vessels
and railway cars in every country stopped;
also protesting against the christening of
ships with wine; pledgng the members to
use every effort to suppress gambling, and
calling special attention to the increasing
danger of progressive card parties among
women; favoring the eight-hour law for
wage-workers, and urging Sunday as day
of rest and worship; opposing strikes and
urging wage-workers to unite ard strike
blow at this evil at the ballot box; and,
finally, favoring the organization of women
by themselves for their own advancement.
The following general officers were
reelected unanimously: Miss Willard,
president, United States; Lady Henry
Somerset, vice president, England;
Miss Slack, secretary, England; Miss
Gordon, assistant secretary, United
States; Mrs. Sanderson, treasurer, Can
ada. The executive committee has re-
vived the position of honorary presi-
dent, which was dropped at the conven-
ton in London in 1895, and Mrs. Mary
Clement Leavitt, of Boston, was re-
elected to the position.