The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-09-28
TEMPER ANCE
WORKERS
HERE
WELL ATTENDED STATE CON.
VENTlON OF w. c. T. U.
Many Prominent Women Are Present
to Take Part In tho Discussion
OF Important Questions,

The nineteenth annual state conven~
tlon of the Woman's Christian Tenn
perancc Union promises 10 be the most
interesting in the history OF the or
gani2ation The convention opened at
the Presbyterian church this after
noon at / 80 O'Clock under auSpicious
circumstances While not nearly all
the delegates had arrived in the city.
yet there were fully fifty present TO
participate in the opening exercises
Many of the delegates Will not arrive
until this evening
About twenty unions OF the state
will be represented in the convention
before IL closes and many questions
of interest TO the Union and TO the
people generally will be discussed and
acted upon during the deliberations OF
the three days session.
New organizations have recently
been perfected in WaSatch and Uin-
tah counties. President Mrs. Lulu L.
Shepard having returned from an Or
ganizing tour
Visiting delegations, together with
the delegates from the organization
who attended the first meeting were
as follows:
Miss Louisa Frost Ephraim, Mrs
Charles Cody. Helper; Mrs, Margaret
Shelton. delegate; Miss Mary Jensen
alternate, Mendon; Harriet E. Laney
Mt Pleasant; Mrs. William Craig,
Mrs. WIS Fleweling. Mrs Ed Good
ale, Mrs. G, w Muller, Mrs. F. S.
Gordon, Mrs. v. Way, Mrs B. I.
Hurst. Mrs. NJ. May. Mrs. Anna Pet
NIrC
gates; Mrs. NJ Morrison. alternate,
ogden; Vina Holloway. Mrs. Elizabeth
Bonham, Josephine Kellogg. Provo;
Mrs. John Haffen, Springyille; Mrs.
F. E Cook and Mrs. Hazel Kart, Tre.
monton.
President Mrs. Lulu Il, Shepard call
ed the meeting to order at 1870 and
after briefly welcoming the delegates
TO the city and 10 the convention, pro-
ceeded with the regular order of busi-
ness.
Devotional exercises were conduct
ed by Mrs. Martha May of Ogden and
the audience joined in singing a num-
ber Of selections. Then followed the
reading of the minutes of the executive
board. after which the president an
nounced the personnel of the follow
Ing committees;
Credentials. courtesies. press. aud
itlng. resolutions. timekeeper.
These committees. except the COM
mittee on credentials, which made its
report this afternoon, will report at tho
first session of the convention tomor-
row morning.
Interesting reports were made by
the officers of the state organization,
the recording secretary. Mrs. Mary B.
Summer: corresponding secretary,
Miss Leota S. Kennedy; treasurer,
Mrs. F. w. Core
Brief reports from superintendents
were made and the following subjects
discussed;
Literature, Frieda Dressell; Sabbath
Observance. Miss Louisa Frost
Flower Missions. Mrs. w. A. Wright
Press Miss Leota Kennedy.
Temperance Instruction. Miss Jen-
ME Simons
Purity. Mrs. L. L. Shepard. After
which the president delivered her an
nual address.
The closing number of the afternoon
meeting was an address on Sunday
School Work by Mrs Mary Foster
Bryner.
The following program will be Civ
en- this evening in the auditorium of
the church:
S:00-Song. w. c. T U. Chorus
Jesus. Savior. Pilot Me"
Invocation, Rev. ]. f. Carver.
Solo, Mr.. J. w. Ramey
S:15-Address, Mr.. Joseph Chez
S:S5-Song. Chorus, "Out for Pro-
hibition"
S:40-Address. DO Saloons Build
Up a TOWN." Joseph s. Peery,
900-Chorus, white Ribbon Rally
Song"
9.O5-Addrcss, 1.-The Great Issue"
Mrs. f. E. Shepard.
Song, Victory" Miss Lulu Mitch
ell
Benedlction, Rev. II. D. Zimmerman.