The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-03-27

NtillObS lnC uudlg
orial meetings that are worthy of
special mention, are several in which
other great names were linked with
that OF Miss willard. w. G. T. U.
No. / OF New Haven, Conn, held a
Lincoln Willard service. one OF the
speakers was John Wetzel, professor
of elocution in Yale University, who
gave an address on 'Ilncoln's Tenn
perace Views" adding mis- personal
"reminiscences OF Miss willard. He
appealed TO the young people to en-
Ter the medal contest work, saying
that his own interes in public speak
ing dated from medal contests in
which he took part as a boy. In
Independence, Mo, the pastor OF
the Liberty street Presbyterian church
Rev. loyal Madden, held Washing
ton-willard "Patriotic Service" on
the evening OF February 21. The con-
junction OF names-,Independence,
Liberty, Loyal, Washington and Will
lard-seems to have been inspiring,
for the meeting was most successful.
In the California legislature. Chaplain
Marsh of the house, in his prayer
on February II, invoked Gods bless
ing upon the work Of the organiza-
tion that Frances Willard led DR..
Marsh wears the badge of the w. G..
r. u. and is proud to be called '|the
white ribbon chaplain. THE Union
Signal Of March IS. 1909.
"The framed New Arithmetic has
been hung in every school in town;
copy of the eigaret law placed in
every store in town; The Great
American Fraud given to every Sun
day school in town; 2,O25 bouquets
sent to the Boston Flower Mission;
flowers and delicacies sent to the sick
and shut-ins; three barrels, clothing
and ohildrens toys ana papers to
the Frances T.. Willard Settlement;
four barrels magazines and two COM
fort bags to the Sailors Bethel;
two barrels clothing TO the Chelsea
sufferers; sent Christmas presents to
the inmates OF the aims house; con-
tributed to the Frances willard Mem
orial Fund, the Worlds Missionary
Fund, and the work of the Boston
Flower Mission at Easter. FIX
tract from the annual report Of the
Easton 0Slass) w. G. T. U.
On the evening of March 10, Mrs.
l.. NJ. N. Stevens was the speaker
at the g1Court Temperance Meet
ing'' in Paris, Maine. The Court
House in which the meeting was held
was filed with deeply Interested
audience which listened to Mrs.
Stevens address on "The Two Oars
of the Temperance Reform Boat
Total Abstinence and Prohibition" F"
Each year when the supreme ju-
dicial court is in session a temper
ance meeting is held, usually presid-
ed over by a judge and with lawyers
for speakers. The invitation ex-
tended Mrs. Stevens Is the first de-
parhre from the long time custom,
as she is the first woman speaker to
address one OF these meetings.
Mrs Stevens had TO leave Paris
before daylight on the following day
in order 10 reach the capital city or
Augusta in time for important leg
lslative hearings to take place in the
afternoon The carriage ordered to
take her to the station about a mile
distant-falled 10 appear but a milk
mans Epung' minus even n seat,
was hailed, and she caught the train
and appeared at the hearings, where
she made strong pleas ON behalf OF
the retention and the enforcement
and strengthening of the prohibition
statutes of Main. The Union Signal
OF March.
On February 21, 1908, Mrs. sena
Hartzell Wallace organized a union
of four members in the town of Tai
mage, Kan, place OF about 200
inhabitants. One year later, the
union numbered twenty.slx. During
the year, FIVE boxes and barrels OF
clothing and two barrels of apples
have been sent to charitable insti-
tutlons, three medal contests have
been held, a bell has been presented
TO the one ollrch OF the town, and
two aM-day meetings, with the county
president in attendance, have been
held. Through the influence of these
white ribboners. a drayman has
been persuaded to cease from brutal
treatment of his horses, and a joint
keeper in a nearby town has been
arrested and the joint closed. Any
union disposed to bewail its small
and weak" condition is recommended
to read this account at least twice!
1.-THE Union Signal.
A Tennessee Judge, during the
hearing Of the Cai-nlack case. ruled
that man is drunk when he is
so much under the influence OF liquor
that he becomes a nuisance to he