Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-17
WORLDS CONVENTION.
w. c. T. U. Seventh TriennaI to Be
Held Oct. II in Boston.

to many Maine women is the seventh
triennial convention of the Worlds W.
c. T. L.. body of distinguished wo-
men which will convene in Boston.
Oct. Il.
The enforced absence Of the worlds
president. the Lady Henry Somerset,
will be deeply deplored by Boston and
the larger American public TO which
this gifted daughter of England has
endeared herself during three previous
visits 10 New England-in 1891, 1898.
and again in 1902.
In 1903 the Lady Henry Somerset, to-
gether with Frances Willard, for more
| than 20 years the leader of the Ameri-
can forces, took up a residence in one
of Boston's Back Back hostelries for
the entire winter while Lady Henry's
son pursued studies at Harvard Uni
verSty.
1t will be indeed cosmopolitan body
that gathers in fremont Temple in late
October for daily deliberations on
questions of great moment, great sig
niticance. within and without temper
ance circles.
over this vast body will preside. in
Lady Henry's abenscnce, Mrs. Lillian
NJ. n. stevens of Portland. Mrs. Stew
ems being the vice president of the
Worlds w. G. T. L.
Another office held by Mrs Stevens
| today-that Of national president of
| the Womans Christian Temperance
Union. national president of the Amer
lean fOrceS-WaS assumed under con-
ditions that would have baffied one Of
! weaker calbre, but the brave woman
responded to the call of her mighty or
ganizatiOn in its crucial hour-whe.
Frances Willard passed on-meeting
and solving we'll the many grave prob
| lens confronting her, leading with I'M
| 1tinching courage and untlinrhiS step
| the 300 600 women who in this hour had
| called her to be their honOred leader.
| The comprehensive program of the
| approaching convention will tell story
| Of good work done and doing.
| New countries are penetrated from
year 10 year; into new soil tent-regs
are driven from time to time. and to-
| day some 60 countries of the world are
! enlisted in the work of the Wonan-s
| Christian Temperance Union. To the
October convention Japan will send her
honored president, Mrs. Kali YAKIMA OF
| Toxic, a woman Of noble years a.
years) nobly lived; far-aWay Africa
| will send her president, Mrs Mary T.
Fermie of Natal; from Germany will
come Baroness Won Hansen, a recOg-
| nized force in educational circles as
| well as in the social life of her home
| CITY. Dresden; and from Austria will
| come Fraulein Julie kassoWitZ, the dis
tinguished daughter of distinguished
l c,n
| identified with that of the great Wen
ma University.
Great Britain will send her full quo
Ia, among whom will be Miss Agnes
Slack Zone of the two honorable secre-
taries of the Worlds w. c. T. u
whose brother, John Bamford SLACK,
has Just been knighted by King Eo-
ward in recognition of distinguished
Irolitical service, and in Miss Swankie-
Cameron England viii have another
| representative whose name is proml-
ncnt in parliamentary circles through
her fathers affiliations with that great
| bodv-:i member for "A number OF years
of its House of Commons.
| Delegates from Sweden will also be
| welcomed and from Greece. and from
numerous points on both sides OF the
Atlantic.
| Another New England name which,
like that of Mrs. Lillian Stevens, is
prominent in the worlds body, is that
of Miss Anna Adams Gordon, one OF IN"
honorable secretaries of the World 5
w & r. L., and holding, as well, the
| vice presidency of the American forces.
In her work for the children of her
own and other countries Miss Gordon
has made an enviable place for herself
in the hearts and home of the little
ones of many lands; and Miss Gordon ;
| musical compositions cher LOyal-Tem-
| Derance-Legion marching songs, Ill
narticular) have been a powerful factor
in lining up the youth of the world
in n religious warfare against the liquor
traffic and it's attendant evils.
Mrs. Katherine Lente Stevenson, an
adopted daughter of Massachusetts
, will. as president of the Massachusetts
w G. IT. t., be hostess of the approach
: ing convention.
Mrs. stevenson is pre-eminently 4
woman of letters, graduate of B"3-
ton University and late of its Schooi OF
Theology, is a woman, too. OIL Wlat
| travels and a large experience IN pup
lie life, is one who will ably discharge
: the onerous duties devolving upon hci
at this time.
Previous to assuming the presidency
Of the Massachusetts w. G. r. u, Ms
. Stevenson was corresponding secretar!
Of the National W. c. I. Z.
Preceding the business sessions 81
the great visiting body. there will b
an all-day service of prayer III ire yes
trv Of Park street church on oct IL
ON the evening of october Il at Trc
mont Temple a banquet will he tender
ed the distinguished guests from af1r
with Ex-Secretary of the Navy JOIN
= n Long as toas.master of the even
ing.
l fremont temple will be the scene I"
three sessions daily, the remaindc1
| of the time.