Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-02-11

| President
MRS r. LOWRY, MISS BLANCHE
vice freS'S ftTi MRs f. L. LII IISeIE @ E '0D'0N'
Recording Seoretary~....,.MR Mrs. II. Il. MOORE
Cor Secretary MISS ORA SHEFFIELD
The next regular meeting of the
Union will be held at the home Of
Miss Alice G.. Hague on Clinton
street, Feb. 18th, at $50 o'clock p. Ill.
All interested in the temperance
work, either in town or country, are
cordially invited to attend. Come
and help us; help us join heart to
heart and hand to hand to combat
the fearful evil which is destroying
our homes, our state, our country.
What one woman did Mrs. Barker
writes:
'sSome time ago I conducted our
daily prayer meeting in Willard Hall,
and afterward a man came to me and
said, II want you to do me favor.
have friend, brilliant, grand
man who has been reformed and has
been sober for two years. He holds
an important position with TN insur-
ance company. A banquet is to be
given in q couple of weeks at Del
| monico's, New York. They always
serve wine and champagne, and
know if my friend goes (and ne is 60
ing) he will be surrounded by liquor
and by those who are drinking, and
he will surely drink, and if he begins,
down he goes; he will lose his posi-
tion, ruin his family and go to the
dogs. Now I want you to write to
the president and beg of him in the
name of the National W. 9. I. U.
not to allow liquor in any form to be
served. He was in earnest and L
said, Yes, will write, but dare say
the menu is printed and the wine
ordered but it will do no harm for
w. G. 7. U. to protest. So wrote
at once to the president and gave
him the name of this bright man in
his employ, who wanted to be sober
and true, and added, This may be
only one in hundred OF similar
cases, and pleaded with him in be-
half of the mothers, wives, daughters
and friends of these young men that
no intoxicating liquor should be
served to them. Well as Josiah AL
le ms wife says, I was as eloquent as
l could be- fer my heart was stirred
| heard nothing more until yester-
day, when this man came up again
and said, Did you ever hear from
that letter. I said, No, l did not
really expect to- But he replied, L
did, Then he told me that his friend
had been to see him and told him all
about it. He said, When we were
iseated at the banquet, the boys be-
gan to whisper, Where are the wine
glasses? What does this meang'' No
wine was served and at the close the
president announced that hereafter
as long as he was at the head of the
company, no intoxicant would be Of
fered. This announcement was cheer
ed by the men. We learn that the
letter was received and read and
trust that it helped to the good re
suit. Let us trust in the Lord and
do good and the promise is sure. y
Union Signal.
Absolutely Fiendish.
From the Presbyterian Banner OF
December 80, 1896, published In Pitts
. burg, Pa, we clip the following Civ
en- as the words of an officer of the
Liquor League of Ohio at meeting
in which the interests of the saloor
were being discussed:
1T will appear from these facts
gentlemen, that the success Of ou
business is dependent largely upoI
the creation of appetite for drink
Men who drink liquor, like others
will die, and if there is no new appe
tite created, our counters will b'
empty, as will be our Golfers. Ou
children will go hungry, or we mus
change our business to that Of SOM
other more remunerative.
"The open field for the creation o
this appetite is among the boys. Al
ter men have grown and their habit
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