The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-01
W. C.7. l. ANNUAL REPORTS
GOOD FINANCIAL BALANCE
Mrs. M. E. Phillips Elected President of the
 Union.

At the annual meeting of the Woman's Christian Temperance union No, held at Trinity parish house the principal address was delivered by Miss Beach of the Mt Carmel home, the topic being Gods Work"
 The president of the union, Mrs. M. D. Phillips of Whitneyville, presided and in place of a set speech supple mented the reports of the other off COTS.
 The corresponding secretary report ed the usual correspondence; the treasurer's books showed a prosperous years work with a substantial bal lance on hand, and the recording sec retary gave account of meetings held. Two deaths of members occurred during the year-Mrs. A, Pardee Ed munds and Mrs, Amelia Stebbins. Mrs. Clark for the visiting commit tee told of visits to sick white rib boners.
 Mrs Hutchinson gave an interesting account of the monthly meetings at the jail and of much personal work in which she has been ably assisted by { other members.
 The hospital meetings and visits were described by Mrs Pierce who is in charge, and assisted by Mrs. c. A. Dorman. Mrs. Dorman has served most acceptably as superintendent of evangelistic work, and her report was of great interest.
 As is usual with their unions, work among the young Is considered of par amount importance and the report of Mrs. Grace Lee, superintendent of juvenile work, was most cordially re- ceived. She said "The Loyal Tenn 1 perance legions, Go. l., senior, and Go, i S. junior, comprise the Elm City Band of Mercy.
 1 Co. L. senior, has met in G class room of tine summerfieid Methodist churchMonday evening with Herman Alofsin as leader. During the year they have been studying the Senior L. T. l.. Manual with lessons on the control of the liquor traffic by the government, internal revenue, etc. The attendance has been good and the legioners are very much in earn est.
 MT. Alofsin has been faithful and painstaking and the L. T. L. is forum ate In having him another year, which is his senior year at Yale university. He received his temperance education In the Norwich L. T. L. and Is the owner of silver, gold. grand gold and diamond medals won In w. c. T. U. oratorical contests. The diamond med al was won at the national convention at Hartford last fall
 The senior legioners are being trained for leaders of junior legions. Bands of Mercy are to be organized this fall at the homes of some of the senior girls with meetings on Saturday afternoons Later these will become regular L. T. LIS.
 The very young children are also
 reached through the Soldiers for In 1 struction' classes. This gives temper.
 ance teaching to those who do not re-
 ceive 1t In the public schools.
 Mrs. Fl. A. Barnes, who is county as
 well as local superintendent for the de.
 partment of medical temperance, tolt
 of the work in this difficult but impor.
 tant branch Four meetings were held
 two of them devoted to the patent med
 icine evil, S,555 pages of literature have
 been distributed, special packages sen to twenty physicians and 100 copies o
 Dr. MacNicoll's pamphlet given away
 Some of the physicians interviewed manifested much interest in this work , A prominent doctor of this city said T read an article in the Journal o
 the American Medical association by . Mrs. M. M. Allen, your national super
 intendent I think she is doing a gooC
 work. When l was a young practi
 tioner over 30 years ago l gave boy who had typhoid fever quart O : brandy each "A hours for a week have since wondered if it did him an. good or if he recovered in spite of it now seldom find 1t necessary to pre-
 scribe brandy for a patient" IA pamph let by Dr. A. T. Osborne of Yale Med , | ical school on patent medicines is o
 great value and should be widely read
 The press work was presented by { Mrs A. B. Fisher and she spoke of tn valued favors and courtesies of tn city papers.
 The nominating committee, Mrs l Grace Lee, Mrs Denton and Mis- Skinner, presented a fist of ca idate and each was elected by ballot, Mrs | J. L. Andrews and Miss Olive Merwii being tellers. The officers are: Mrs. M. E. Phillips president; Mrs. Grace Lee and Mrs
 Kate M. Johnson, e-presidents; Mrs y Grace Lee, corresponding secretary c Miss Eliza Evans, recording secretary ] Mrs. Price. treasurer; Miss H. g 3arnes, assistant treasurer. . The following department superin
 tendents were chosen: Evangelistic
 Mrs. Denton, Mrs. Dorman; press, Mir
 A. B. Fowler; jail, Mrs. Hutchinson
 hospital, Mrs. Pierce, Mrs. Dormar
 'uvenile, Mrs. Grace Lee; scientifi
 cmSerance instruction Mrs. Kedzit
 Miss Rose Burwell; Sunday schoo
 Yrs. smith; literature, Mrs. Carper
 CT; papers, Mrs. F. J. Shaw; mus
 drs. Kedzie, Mrs Loveday and Mir