Evening star., 1901-10-24
Commencement of Their Twenty :
Seventh Annual Convention.
TWENTY-FIVE BODIES REPRESENTED
Reports Show Satisfactory Pro-
gress in All Directions.
NEW BUILDING FUN

+ Members of the weaker sex who have
been made strong by their zeal in behalf
of temperance and all the benefits and
blessings that follow in the wake of it's
practice assembled this morning in the
Church of Our Father, 18th and L streets
northwest, in attendance upon the OPEN
| ing session of the twenty-seventh annual
| convention of the Womans Christian Tenn
| perance Union of the District of Column
| bia, which will continue until tomorrow
evening
Devotional exercises were conducted by
! MISS Jennie Smith, national evangelist, and
| after the roll had been called, showing del
| egates present from twenty unions and
nVe vs. the president, Mrs. Clinton
Smith, announced committees as 1ollows:
Resolutfons-Mrs. Belle s. Luckett. chair
man; Mrs. J. Mickey Grandfeld. Mrs. Ma
r1a na u Merrick. Mrs. Sarah Grant, Mrs. D. j.
| Weaver and Mrs. Robert White
! Credentials-Mrs. 7. \. Williams, chair
| man: Mrs. Nevius.
Teiegrams-Mrs. Emma Ripley. chair
| man; Mrs. Grace Spencer.
! Courtesies-Mrs. Walter Brown, chair
man; Mrs Sarah Denham, Mrs G. D. War;
| der.
The pages appointed were Misses Rosalie
walker, Ola Wood and Rosalie Bartlett.
Over $50 Members.
secretary, read her report which was a re-
view of the work of the year and showed
the record to be most gratifying There
were 6s4 paid-up members, 113 of whom
were ''Ys." Instances were cited of results
attained by unions and individuals in re-
claiming drink victims. An address of well
come was delivered by Rev John Van
Schaick. jr., who urged his hearers to per-
severe in their efforts to purify the home
and thereby make the national life health
Ter and more vigorous. Mrs. NJ. E. Cohen
responded for the union in graceful re-
marks
Mrs. Smith read her annual address as
president and laid stress upon the necessi-
ty for cooperative endeavor in all lines of
temperance effort. She also urged activity
in securing funds for the new. building in
order that it might sooner become the ab-
soute property of the body.
Financial Conditions.
The report of Mrs. Emma Sanford Shell
ton financial secretary to the board of
trustees, Showed the total amount received
since April, 1901 to be devoted to the pay
ment for the w. c. T. U. building. 90 9th
street northwest, to be $4.G57.67. Mrs.
ClintonTSmith, district president gave 500
of this amount; West End Union, S4O3 55
ChapiIls nfoIl. $2S4: Northwest Union. s2ti4:
LIE Drott Union. 1927, and the .'Ys," $167.15.
Four thousand two hundred dollars had
been paid op the building in reducing the
debt and paying interest There was a
balance of s341.8 .88 on hand.
Mrs. Jennie II. Robinson, president of the
trustees, announced that it would be easy
to raise $1,000 by December 1 and antici-
pate payment of one Of the notes Que at d
later date, and thus save interest, if every
body would help. There We're immediate
responses, and in few minutes S46J was
subscribed toward the purpose.
5Aftera q hymn. Hear Ye o Israeli by
Miss Grace De Biemer and Bible reading
by Mrs. Merrill +. Gates, recess was taken
until 1:30.s During the interval luncheon
was served in the adjoining rooms by ladies
of the church,
This Afternoons Meeting.
Mrs NJ. E. Hartsock presided at the after
noon session. which opened with prayer by
Mrs Grace Chaplin. A report on young
women's work, prepared by Mrs Jennie
Bales, was read by Miss Mabel Callahan
It showed increasing interest on the part
of the young in the cause Of temperance
The remainder of the program calls for re-
ports of the Young Wage Farmers Club by
Mrs. Nellie H.. Bradley and of superintend-
ents as follows:
Scientific Temperance Instruction" Mrs
L. B. Fouts; Work Among Foreigners"
Mrs. Hannah Crosby; Work Among Col
ored People, Mrs. r. Douglass Sprague;
"Purity-Mothers' Meetings." Mrs NJ L.
Welles; Sabbath Observance Mrs. NJ E.
Catlin; Soldiers, Sailors and Marines"
Mrs. Lucius F. Randolph Temperance
Literature" Mrs. Ruth NJ G. Pealer; Anti
Narcotics" Mrs. Ella Drew; Press and
State Reporter Mrs. Emily Sherwood
Ragan; Loyal Temperance Legion Mrs.
May Price; Purity in Literature and Art
| Mrs. Isaac Clark.