Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-18
For Wisdom, Culture, Refinement
and a Better Civilization.

The readers" under this head are contri
Euted by the Ladies' Of the ". e.. T. T.. under
the immediate supervision Of Mrs. Frank
Gibson a. Edttor.l
The &C. T. L. will meet with Mrs.
Goodwin on thu afternoon of Jan. "A.
Tth Anti-SaIoon League distributed
last year in this state, over a million
pages of temperance literature.
The boy is the name of a new journ-
al published by the anti-cigaret league
in the interests of the boys of America.
1t has a staff Of boy editors.
The Bible study for that meeting in
cludes the stories of Ruth and Vashti.
Two topics for discussion are physical
Culture" and SUNDAY School Work"
The Polk county Iowa citizens com
mittee for tn" suppression of intemper-
ance, has challenged the validity of 5000
names n of $40 attached to the brew
ers' petition asking privilege to manu-
factur- intoxicating liquors in the city of
| Dps Moines.
The National W. C. T. L. is shortly to
organize its work in Mexico. Agitation
has been quietly in progress since 1896,
when Mrs. Helen Stoddard of Texas,
visited the field, lectured and obtained
hundreds of signatures to the temperance
pledge,
The following vas written by Rhena E.
MOsher, one of our National Y. Organi-
zers. The WI mentioned Berea, Ken
lucky Berea College is located there.
| have beer visiting a union in a little
town of about eight hundred population,
a town where there arr nc saloons. This
little band of women is doing such excel
lent work tina ! want you all TO know
about II.
They kept I'D what they call an" In
duStrial." There are many poor people In
the town., som. of them having come from
the mountain regions to put their child
IN into sch. .ol, 20 Ihe w. CT U. have
reuted II hall, and one day in the week
six mon his Of the Year this l. open fol
" TX. Kiud friend in various >ections
Of the country send to- them boxes aBf
b, rrel- If Goth :. Women froW he
UNION 30 to IN hall in the morniu mud
ge. the work ready, cutting, planning
etc . ans n he a teruOo women, aoou
ffty ftheut, T. NE in aud work on Eaest
garm nts. hey are taught 20 sew auE
match Ehey tri ~ hats, make baby h,Ott
Iriere beds uilts aId work on atl sorts o
garments. Thss ave aliowe'
five Gems a. hoar for their work an'
thy take 81. j. pay n some D. the gaT
ments. here ..Te always IN re appl,
Giants than J'r. can accommodate 50 mt
union takes Atty women Ih-ee III nth
and then takes On another set OF wome
Will Tn, women sew SOM" une talk
to them on :. II opic IF nteresr ?
= mothers and housekee oers-temperanc
purity, hygi.uic cooking. They all et
ioy the afternoon so much, and wit
some IL Is all the -Ocial or religious III
they com. in contact with.
We know that in many HON =, Their
is much good literature which is destroy
I'd, and we know al-o that po OF rr home
there are BOYS and girls as well ~ adul
who are eager for something to read b'
who have not the means to obtain J
hence our plan: Permission has bee
granted us to place a table in the pos
office wherein We will endeayor to kee
a supply of good reading matter, wh'c
shall be free to those who care TO ava
themselves of the privilege. This on
Il not limited to residents OF Webste
: hut is cordially extended to all tho
}! living In the surrounding district
All persons who have magazines
other periodicals. which they will devo
:. to this purpose are requested to 'nfof
" Mrs. Mnttescn who has the matter
charge, or any memeer OF our ios
unioE-