News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-06-24
LAM0ILLE COUNTY W. C. 7. U.
Third Annual Convention Held at Wa
tervilIe Last Week.

Monday at two o'clock in the at
ternoon the convention was called
to order with the County President
Mrs. ]. D, Farrell, in the chair After
singing, prayer was offered by Rev
Mr.. Howard and the crusade Psalm
was read. Greetings were given foi
the church by Rev. Mr.. Howard o.
Jacksonville, for the local union by
Mrs. B. F. Beard and for the county
by the President. The responses
were made by Mrs. Luke Potter and
Mrs. Ida Read. The minutes OF the
last convention were read and com
mittees and press reporters appoint,
ed. An enthusiastic paper on Evan
gelistic Temperance was read by
Mrs. Emily Shattuck of Waterville,
showing the need of the Holy Spirit
to help in the temperance work.
AS Mrs. Hattie Putnam of Cam
bridge was absent, the mothers
meeting was omitted. A short dis
cussion of the value of the pledge for
children was participated in by sew
eral of the members present. The
children came in and were addressed
by Mrs. Gilmore of Jacksonville,
who gave them good instruction in
how to form themselves into Tend
erfoot" society to crush cigarette
stubs in the street or anywhere else
and told them of the work of the l..
T. L. Mrs. Foster of Johnson, told
them a story and gave them a little
talk.
Mrs. Richards of Leipsic, Ohio, was
introduced and was enthusiastically
received. She gave very interest
ing talk, and some extracts from
liquor papers, told of scenes in con-
gressional halls, in regard to can
teens and how the w. c. T. U. have
worked against it, and how Mrs.
Stevens, the National President,
caused the chairman to ask her to
call her women in, as there would be
no legislation this winter, and it
took ten men to answer letters and
kilograms. Mrs. Read spoke of the
beautiful floral decorations, and the
motto "For God and Home and
Every Land" Glad it had broaden
ed out to every land. Meeting adj
iourned and the visitors partook of
a bountiful supper spread in the old
hotel.
At $50 .. m. an executive meeting
was held, followed by a praise ser
vice of song and solo by George
Beard of Waterville; scripture read
ing and prayer Rev. Mr.. Mohr of
Cambridge; solo by Mrs. F. N.
Stearns of Waterville; recitation by
Miss Ruby Mann, Waterville. Mrs.
Richards of Ohio gave an address
which was earnest, enthusiastic, stir
ring and helpful. She told of her ex-
periencesin different states and of her
own boy. laid away, and how often
the thought of him was an incentive
in her work. She used as sort of
text Eek. 1928, MAKE a chain: for
the land is full of bloody crimes, and
the city is full of violence. She told
how in our own fair city of Burling-
ton there were in May, 1902, seven
arrests for drunkenness and in May,
1903, sixty-fve arrests. She spoke
of another city in our state where a
man who under prohibition was
drunk once in six or eight months,
now is drunk all the time, while the
wife has to take in washings to get
along, and gave many instances to
illustrate that the land is full of
bloody crimes and the cities full of
violence. A collection was taken
and $3.50 received.
Tuesday morning a devotional ser
vice was led by Miss Mabel Dustin
of Eden. The minutes wereread and
the report Of Credential Committee
read. A paper was read by Mrs. 6.
H. Gilmore on Systematic Giving,
WHICH showed the many advantages
of knowing just how much to spare
for benevolent purposes. A poem
by Mrs. r. T. Foster was read, en-
titled Cast Down but not For
saken," followed by Secretary's and
Treasurer's report, The poem will
be given in this paper next week.
Election of officers came next and
the following were chosen to serve
another year: President-Mrs. ].
D. Farrell, Johnson; list Vice Presi-
dent-Mrs. Frank Beard, Waterville;
2nd Vice President-Mrs. Lucy Wheel
ock of Cambridge; Treasurer-Mrs.
Nettie Blake, Eden; Reporting Sec
Mrs. Frank Miller, Waterville; Cor
responding Sec'y.-Mrs. Hattie Put
nam, Cambridge. Mrs. Nettie Blake
read an interesting paper on " How
shall we keep the saloon from our
town" Mrs. M. P. Kelley told
something of the work among the
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