Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-09-27
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. careful study of the curfew ordinances
caring for all dependent children without
sending them to the aimshousti employ
ment of woman to superintend- women
prisoners; to Danish impure ilterature,t ID
distribute temperance literature; 10 try
10 make our meetings more interesting.
hold union Gospel temperance meetings,
have medal and membership contests; 70
establish w C. r. l.. libraries; to always
wear the white ribbon
Reports of super'intendents followed
Mrs. Stevens address. each one being
allowed 10 minutes for report and dis
cussion. These reports proved TO De
very interesting and instructive, the
following being the subjects taken up:
Work Among Foreigners Mrs. Ger
trude Stevens Leavitt. Stroudwater
State Organizer and Lecturer. Mrs
Jennie f. Seamans, Carey; L. T. l..
Work" Miss Annie c. Bagley, Harrl-
son. "Hygienic Reform and Hereditary
and Physical Culture, Mrs. Myra Nj.
Patrick. Harrison;, Scientific Temper
ance Instruction Mrs. Anna Sargent
Hunt. Augusta: Sunday School
Vork,, Mrs. E. A. G. Stickney, East
Brownfield.
this afternoon, when the convention
was again called to order.
Then came the report of the morn
ING and executive committee meetings.
Miss Cornelia NJ. Dow, the State
corresponding secretary, read her an
nual report.
SECRETARY BOWS REPORT.
Of I ~
Maine WoInan's Christian Temperance
I'nion there is very little that Is new tt
present ln.the address of our president
You have listened to An exhaustive re
nresent and prospective, and from tht
vice presidents you Will later learn OF thI
details in the several counties. and tror
The efficient superintendents Of our. 80 AN.
more departments you Will learn sons
thing Of efforts put i'rth ana iesu' :
reached. ....,, ,i
nings of % years ago has been stea' 4
ORGANIZATIONS membership, ana az =! r
sive, effective work in departmental 'pC
other lines. until now We have lI6 unions
Should the treasurers report snow =
slight falling OFF from last year, u lhIl
cafes only a slight fkuctuation which W.
expect to more than make up in the year
upon which we are about to enter
Twelve new unions have been orSahlle"
durine the year. and a very hopeful sisn
of this growth is that the young woiitn
are arousing TO their responsibility III tnis
work of protection to the homes ana CHI
dren Of our State. kennebec, PehOpSco'
and York have each one new union, nan
cock. oxford and Washington, two each
while little Waldo has made gain OF wv
Us and one w. OF this county we pre-
dict great things for next year ana are
TODAY. wondering if she is TO carry nom
the coveted prize hammer. Each county
has held a convention during the months
faces. Miss Yates. Miss Leamens am
Miss Littlefield having been the speakel
a several. while Mrs Conklln 81 New
York attended others.
Miss Jessie A. Ackerman, one OF ou'
round the world missionaries, flled man!
engagements II the Sta1s dnrphs sec re-
tary visited the conventions OF kennebec
oxford and York counties.
Owing TO the fact hat corresponding
secretary reports have come in from bu
a portion of the unions, il is imposslb4
to satisfactorily give certain facts an
figures, but we are safe in saying that
large proportion of the lac unions nav
res1onded 10 the call for 81 to the nationa
organizing fund and the home can LOT
Thanksgiving Offering. The treasurer
report will show the figures in TN
matter. , :,
one fact was very clearly defined Il
each report. namely, that the women u
Maine have not lost falth Ill me cauS
they have espoused because 81 discoui
agemcnts and hindrances, but are stfoll
in their conviction of right and deter
mined in their attitude against the SlGf
tic evil 50 long combatted.
In closing, there is one thing your cor
responding secretary desires To urge up >
The local and county corresponding secrt
taries and this is more corresponding.
YOU will look up in your dictionaries IN
definition of the word corresponding
YOU will find that it should not be all .
even mostly on one side.
Miss Dow was followed by Mrs. A. 5
johnson. the State treasurer, who pre-
scented the following annual report;