The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-25
NORTH STAR W.C.T.U.
MINNESOTA'S WHITE RIBBONERS
OPEN THEIR TWENTY-FIFTH
ANNUAL CONVENTION M
HAVE A MEMBERSHIP OF $500
Plan Thorough and Systematic Or
ganizaticn of the Rural Dis
tricts-RepOrts Show
Very Busy Year.

The White Ribboners of Minnesota as
sembled for their twenty-fifth annual
state convention yesterday morning in
Plymouth church, Minneapolis. There
were present at the morning session,
when Mrs. Bessie Laythe Scovill called
the meeting to order, forty delegates
from ST. Paul and 100 from Minneapolis,
besides a large number of visitors. Re-
ports presented at the morning meeting
showed that the organization has grown
IN twenty-five years to membership OF
$780, The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of Minnesota is perhaps the most
effective womanS organization in the
state. A marked note of the reports yes
terday was the tendency to use home
workers for organization labors on the
ground that the work can be more effec-
lively done by those familiar with the
situation, and while gaining new ground,
the interest and loyalty of old members
is being held Mrs. Ella Crawford, a
district vice president of Beaver Creek,
outlined yesterday an excellent plan for
thorough and systematic organization of
the rural districts. Among the important
works of the year has been the raising
of a special twentieth century fund to aid
the work of the departments and organ
izatfon. This fund amounts to 5000.
The report of the recording. secretary,
Mrs. Belle NJ. Welch, included the min
uteS of the central committee, which car
ries on the details of the state work in
the interim between conventions and of
the executive committee. The central
committee held ten meetings during the
year, and the record showed that many
letters of appreciation had been sent to
persons doing acts in accord with the
purposes of the union. One was sent to
Gov. Van SAINT, approving his stand on
pugilistic encounters; to Commandant
N a(fin
teen, and to Secretary Randall, of the
state fair board, for the closing of i'm
moral shows. A request was sent to the
Pan-American board for Sunday closing
Five minute reports were given by the
following district vice presidents, who
were seated on the platform: Miss Ella
J. Cook, Second district; Miss Fanny
Norton. Third district; Mrs Ella Craw-
ford, Fifth district; Mrs Lizzie Roberts,
Sixth district; Mrs. Ruth NJ Barnes,
Eighth district; Mrs Agnes P Cady
Ninth district, and Mrs. Ellen w. Soule,
Tenth district Mrs. Cynthia Woodbury.,
editor of the state paper the White Rib
boner, gave her report.
The report of the executive committee
gave the following list of organizers,
evangelists and superintendent: State
organizers, Mrs. B. L. Scovell, Miss L.
b. Hollister, Mrs. ]. Pripceu and Mrs A
G. Bayrell; evangelist, Mrs. Abbie B.
Church; secretary of Young Woman's
branch, Miss Helen Salisbury; secretary
OF Loyal Temperance Legion branch
Miss Louise HOLSTER; assistant secre-
tary L. 7. L., Miss Jessie F. Hale; super
intendents of departments-wor among
Scandinavians. Mrs. Josephine Princell:
work among Germans Mrs Kate Kerch-
er; lecture, Mrs. H. M. Powell; health
and heredlty and non-alcoholic medica-
ton, DR.. Mary S. MILESTONE; art and
science of cookery, Mrs. Mary Hoverstad:
Sunday school work Mrs. Eva Waterman:
anti-narcotics Miss o. Bertand scientific
temperance instruction Mrs. M. P. Kelly.
medal contests Mrs. Mary c. Green; con-
ference with Influential bodies, general
officers literature and Union Signal, Mrs
e. F. Hendrix: press and state reporter
Tor Union Signal, Mrs. M. E. Hoover W.
c. L. .. Institutes, Mrs. B. Laythe
Scovell; physical education, Mrs Isabel
Goodacre; temperance and labor and
school savings banks, Mrs Ida Thomp-
son; evangelistic, Miss Helen Hitchcock;
proportionate and systematic giving
Mrs. A B. Green; work among woods
men, Mrs. Effie Burgan; work among
miners, Mrs. r. M. Briggs; penal and
reformatory, Mrs. A. c. McCurdy; I'M
fermented wine. Mrs. S. E. Morgan;
purity and mothers meetings, Mrs
Margaret DenSmore; rescue work. Mrs
MARIA clark; purity in literature and
art, Mrs. H c. Ashcroft; Sabbath OBJ
servance, Mrs. Charlotte Smith; soldiers
and sailors, Assistant Superintendent
Mrs. G. W. Smith; mercy, Mrs. M c.
Mork; social meetings and red letter
days, Miss M. r. Hendrix; flower mis-
sion and almshouse, Mrs. M. Holiday;
fairs and open air meetings, Mrs H. M
Powell; Christian citizenship and en-
forcement of law, Mrs. Phoebe Fuller;
legislation, Mrs. F. A. Perkins; franchise,
Mrs. A. B. Upham; peace and arbitra-
ton, Mrs Della Stowe.
The speakers for the afternoon were
Mrs. A. T. Anderson, of Minneapolis;
the first president of the state organiza-
tion DR.. Chauncey Hobart, the venerable
husband of Mrs. H. A. Hobart, who
filled the office for more than half of
the period; Mesdames Frances Neal A.
c. Blaisdell, E. S. Wright, M A Dock
stader, E. c. Stacy, H. ]. Moffett c. S.
Winchell E L Condit and Ruth M.
Barnes and Miss Ella j. Cook
Last evening addresses of welcome
We're made by j. H. Kerrick on behalf
of the Commercial club; by Rev. Stanley
Roberts on behalf of the minister's w
G. Calderwood for the Prohibition party;
Mrs. Amanda futile for the Woman's
club; DR.. A. Hutchinson for the Woman's
Medical club; and Mrs. Mary e Hoover