Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-10-05
IMPORTANT WORK At
W.C.T.u. Meeting

Election for the eighteenth time
Mrs. Elizabeth Preston Anderson OF
Valley City as president of the North
Dakota w. G. T. u, adopting resolu-
tons, naming life and memorial
members, electing other officers and
delegates to the national convention
the last business session of the
.twenty-first annual convention was
brought to close.
Mrs. Anderson, however, was
granted another years leave of re.
sponsibility and Mrs. Necia e. Buck
of Starkweather, who was reelected
vice president was also re.chosen act
ing president.
Mrs. Barbara H. Wylie of Drayton
was not only reelected correspond
ing secretary but honored as state
delegate to the national convention
at Baltimore which convenes No.
vember IL with all expenses paid
conferred as reward for the splen-
did work Mrs. Wylie has done, not
only in her state office but along 9th.
er temperance lines.
Mrs. C. w. Conner of Minot was re-
elected recording secretary and the
delegates to the national convention
are as follows:
At large-Mrs. Ida Sparks Clarke,
Fargo.
First division, Grand Forks, Mel.
son, Pembina and Walsh counties
Mrs. Maize Stevens, Grand Forks,
alternate, Mrs. Lille B. Smith
Thompson.
Second division, Barnes, Griggs,
Stutsman, Ransom, LaMoure and
Richland counties-Mrs. Elizabeth
Taylor, Paramount; alternate, Mrs.
F. M. Wanner, Jamestown.
Third division, Cass, Trail, Sar-
gent, Steel and Dickey Counties
Mrs. Minnie A. Tibbits, Glendale; al
ternate, Mrs. H. H. Aaker, Fargo.
Fourth division, second to ninth
districts NJ. A. Garry, Leeds;
alternate, Mrs. George Burton, Car
rington and Mrs. Delameter, Knor.
important Actions.
The convention took several very
important actions, among them be-
ing the making of Good Roads Mrs.
ing the making of Mrs. A. l.. Woods
and Mrs. Fred Darlington and Mrs.
Robert Reed of Armenia, life men,
bers.
Mrs. Margaret Boyd of Valley City
and l.. M. Wylie of Drayton were
made memorial members and the
three honor guests, Mrs. Emor L.
Calkins of Battle Creek, Mich, Mrs.
r. Chisholm, Winnipeg and Mrs. T..
B. Andrews of Bardon were made
members.
assembled, we, the representatives of
the North Dakota Woman's Christian
Temperance union, record our CRATE
full and reverent appreciation of the
divine guidance Of the years past,
and our faith in the complete tri-
umph of right We re-affirm our al
legiance to our declaration of prin-
ciples; we pledge ourselves to main
tain and Increase the efficiency of
81 our department work, and to rise
our best efforts to carry out the spirit
If the following resolutions:
We believe that total abstinence
rom alcoholic beverages is the only
sane and safe rule and we plead that
and earnest efforts be made
o secure pledged total abstainers.
We believe that more emphasis
should be placed upon the christian
eature of our work, as the founda-
ion of all character building and
light living.
I'VE affirm with increased emphas.
our belief in a single standard of
elves on our state and national leg
morals, and resolve to inform our
Dung people in the specific cases
hat come under our notice and use
very possible means to bring the I
utility party to justice.
That the ballot may be an incen.
i've to good citizenship, we believe
hat qualifications for suffrage should
e based upon intelligence, not upon
ex.
I'VE desire to express our apprecia-
on OF the work, done by our legis-
'tors in making and sustaining laws
nat are in advance of public opinion
n all moral questions, and that they
ave taken no backward step in the
the cause of prohibition.
I'VE ask that the legislature estab-
sh juvenile courts in every judicial
istrict.
I'VE urge the passage of an anti
garette law, prohibiting the manu-
lcture and sa1o If oiooro++o, ,,,,4h,.