The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-09-21
SELECTED AS THE
PLACE FOR NEXT SESSION.
CLOSING Hours Of an Agreeable Session
Members Pledge Themselve7 to Do
Great Work During the Year.
The Proceedings In Detail.

the Women's Christian temperance
Union that convened i1 this city
Wednesday morning, met ior the clos
ing session at the First Presbyterian
church at 2 o'clock Friday C. .ernoon.
Miss Martha Gilmore Of Mus-o-ee con
Quoted the devotional exercises.
The committee on resolutions. con
sisting OF Mesdames Morrow Gross
and Mcmillan, reported. Their reso-
tiuns, which we're adopted by the con
vention, included an appeal 70 the
president and congress requesting
them TO allow the prohibition laws Of
the Indian Territory to stand as they
have stood on the statute books for
the past 100 years Mrs. Zehner Of
Dallas and Mrs. Keith Of Worcester,
Mass. were voted a resolution OF
thanks for their labors during the year
in the Indian Territory; resolutions
deploring the deaths of Mrs. Susan
Burks OF Pauls Valley and Mrs. En-
ma Corbutt of Muskogee were passed;
all travelling on railroads, pleasure
driving and all unnecessary labor on
the Sabbath day was discouraged;
the Presbyterian and Christian church
es for the use of their buildings and
the citizens Of the town for their gen
ial hospitality were remembered in the
resolutions.
Tahlequah was selected as the next
place Of meeting.
The committee on banners awarded
the banner for the superintendent
who had accomplished the greatest
amount of work to Mrs J. p. Adams of
Atoka, superintendent of the jail and
prison work. Mrs. Carr of this city
and Mrs. Richmond of South McAles-
ter were voted the thanks of the con
vention for their earnest labors. Mrs.
Carr is the superintendent of Scien-
tilc Temperance instruction, a depart
ment in which a great amount of in
telligent work has been done, and Mrs.
Richmond Is the superintendent of the
Medal Contest department. The ban
ner was indeed a handsome one and
bore the inscription "By the cross we
shall conquer"
Mrs. j. S. Murrow Is the superin-
tendent of jail work and Rev. Mr..
Murrow, who has been life time mis-
sionary in this Indian Territory, rose
and stated TO the convention that he
ha become greatly interested
in his wife's work but said
that the organization OF I'm
ions among the fullbloods was impos-
sible and asked permission to report
total abstinence pledges from the In
dians at the next convention. The
permission was granted and the ven
cradle man OF God promised to report
l 900 fullblood Indian pledges at the
next convention. When this promise
was uttered, cheer after cheer went
up from the convention.
The convention closed it's labors last
night at the Christian church, where
Mrs. Zehner. the brilliant woman ora
tor, discussed the liquor traffic in the
light OF the goth century. Her com
mand OF language, the excellence of
her voice, her gentleness of gesture
and the profoundness of her thought, !
showing a wonderful amount Of deep
research, will catch and hold any au-
dience for an indefinite time There |
were times during the lecture Friday |
night when the ticking of watch |
could be heard. She related the story
that induced her 20 leave her family |
in the care OF her aged mother and |
battle against the liquor traffic. An
only brother had chosen medicine as a |
profession, graduated from st. Louis. |
graduated from Bellevue, New York,
finished his studies in Germany and |
the practice with a brilliant |
life before him. Whiskey entered the |
scene, drunkenness and death follow |
ed. Standing around the open casket |
holding all that was mortal of a young |
man of thirty-five upon whom had |
been spent a fortune to prepare him
for a life Of usefulness, the mother
pledged her daughter to fight the liq-
lor traffic, and true to her pledge, Mrs. |
zehner works increasingly When she |
had finished, the women sobbed audi.
bly, and there was a dry eye in the
house
The people responded literally with
donations TO the work and the annual
adjourned 10 meet the first
week in September, 1908, in Table.
luah
These women are n noble band of
Christian workers and the town is bet.
ter by their having ~Nme here. We