The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-17
MISS WILLARD
 WAS IGNORED Impressive Services at Court Street Church. MR. SEED DELIVERED ADDRESS Occasion Marked Close of Member
 ship Week. Llfe of Great wemsa Leader for Tenn perance Was Reviewed sad Her
 Devotien and Achieve
 meats -Laaded.
MR SEED DELIVERED ADDRESS

Frances Willard Memorial. the most important of the fourteen red letter days celebrated by the woman's Chris tian Temperance Union over the United States and the world. was fittingly observed In the auditorium of the Court Street Methodist Church last night at 7:3o o'clock.
 This memorial day really comes to- day. February IF. but on account of the fact that the end of the member ship week observed all over the United of the W. c. T. U. fell upon yes- terday. the memorial services were held last night.
 Mrs. ]. B. Chatfeld, State president elected at the annual convention of the State unions held in Montgomery during last October, presided over the services. She was assisted by Mrs. J. B. Nell president of the local union. Mrs. Chatfeid spoke feeiingly of the woman whose memory was being eel ebrated, and whom she had personally known and under whose able leader ship she had worked.
 Dwelling upon the personality of Miss Willard, Mrs. Chatfeld called upon Major John G. Harris, who had also known Miss Willard, who died in 1898.
 Major Harris told of the great con- vention held in Pittsburg. Pennsylva- mia, eighteen years ago. when Miss Willard had so feelingly urged upon the assembly of which she was pres ident in her advocation of devoting four Sundays of the year to the study of temperance in the Sunday Schools of the country. After telling of the inspiring scene which followed her ad- dress to the convention, he said: Miss Willard was equal,to any man or wo- man who has ever lived in these Uni- ted States for the cause. of right"
 A glowing tribute to the memory of Miss Willard also was made by Mrs. c. P. Beane.
 An elaborate program had been are ranged for the occasion, and was car ried out excellently. The address of the evening was made by Hon. Walter ID. Seed, State Treasurer. A musical program of some length had also been arranged and was excellently rendered by the Methodist choir.
 Hon. Walter D. Seeds address fol- lows:
 Ladies of the Montgomery W. c. T.
 U. and friends:
 We are assembled to commemorate the vortues of one who was devoted to the cause of temperance; one who was devoted to the cause of human ity: to pay our feeble tribute to the memory of one of the foremost wo- men of any land of any age.
 The story of her life is a story of sacrifice and of philanthropy. and will ever prove an inspiration to these noble and consecrated women who would follow her blessed leader shi@.
 Miss Frances B. Willard was a des- cendant of that well-known Willard family of Puritan stock. the first of whom in America. shared in the found noted for the learning of It's men and women as far back as the days of the Revolution and even before.
 On her maternal E1ds she could trace her ancestry In New England to intellectual and moral athletes. noted for their educational and religious work.
 Her parents typifed the honesty. Christianity and intellectually of the haIlowed sceIfeS of their nativity for the then rugged west with it's boundleas possibilities. ''' .,
 New York furnished the birthplace of Miss Willard at ChurchvilI on Sept. 2s, 1889. where infancy's tender years were passed.
 Although three small children TO- QulI0Q uluCH OL me aLtGutlOu VI her ambitious mother. yet that mother found sufficient time to add to her own store of knowledge by attend ing as a student Oberlin College in Ohio. where for five years both pa- rents with their literary tastes enS joyed the intellectual atmosphere with fin the shade of thoe celebrated col lege walls.
 Thirst for Learning.
 h a-a. ing on the altar of desire for their children's welfare, the parents now removed to the farm of Forest Home on the banks of the beautiful Rock River, near Janeville. Wisconsin. where Miss Willard spent the impress ible years of childhood and the ma turer girlhood.
 Here she was surrounded by a land scaDs that was both inspiring and serene.
 The tiny daisies at her feet craving the green and peaceful sward, called to her attention the innocence of na- ture; the happy and uncagsd bird in the swaying tree sang his sweetest lullaby to his mate on her nest and reminded her of the notes of freq dom; the waving fields of rIpened grain ready to be ganered. nodding their russet plumes to the reaper, suggest eu n1tNSol hoHo' tHe sun, clad in his golden raiment. arising from his rest for the wanderings of a day, and mounting proudly from behind the distant hills. tinted gorgeously the clouds in his pathway and pointed her to the resurrection to come: look ing through the uncIouded sky, ovor reached by a dome of gray and blue. from which a friendly and poetic sun shine melted in the Eild flowers Q don their gayest colors, through this long