The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1913-03-21
LOCAL v. c. 7. j.
DOING GOOD WORK
Next Meeting to be Held March
26th, Interesting Pro-
= gram Arranged.
THE DISTRICT CONVENTION

Our next meeting will be held at
the home of Mr.. j Jones, Wed.
March 26th Our district conyen-
ton will be held in Royal Oak, April
End and 3rd, entertainment will be
provided for two delegates from each
Union (if they will go) for lodging
and breakfast. A small charge
will be made for dinner and supper
probably at the church. This is the
home town Of our Dist. President,
Mrs. Jennie E. Carley who will have
charge of the convention. Our Union
has held many mothers meetings in
the past and our president Mrs. f.
Gillette has been fit in her wisdom
to plan a fathers meeting to be held
at her home at no very distant day,
and an interesting programe is being
prepared for the occasion. White
ribboners the world over are rejoic-
ing over the striking social changes
now taking place under the new ad-
mifistration at the White House.
Since it has become known that not
only the President and Mrs. Wilson
and their daughters are opposed 10
wine drinking, and also the same can
be said of Vice President and Mrs.
Marshall Our National w. G. T. L.
President Mrs l.. M. N. Stevens on
behalf of our great organization sent
a message Of congratulation from
National headquarters to Mrs Wilson,
expressive of heartfelt thanks from
half million whiteribbon women, in
common with other millions interes-
ed in the welfare of humanity.
The people of Emmett County are
having a time of great rejoicing over
their increased prosperity which has
come to them during the four great
years it has been dry. State offic-
ials and city fathers could sleep more
and enjoy it better il they were not
obliged to ponder over the way to
make the one dollar revenue cover
the forty dollars need Of courts, hos
pitals, asylums, penitentiaries, jails
and reformatories made by the reg
ulated saloon. All men engaged in
an honest legitimate business know
that business is better without sa-
looms, and men who spend money for
drink cannot buy the much needed
clothing and food for their families,
nor build homes or pay debts and
rapidly the field for employment of
the near future all doors will be
closed to the laborer. Mr.. CLANCY
Depew's success both in gaingjng
wealth and orritorcal fame is attri-
buted to his strict temperance habits.
He says, Il have made it a study to
mark boys who started on every
grade of life with myself to sfe
what has become of them, and one
day recently l began to count them
over. Some of them became clerks,
merchants, manufacturers lawyers
and doctors, and strange to say, every
one of them who drank are dead, not
one of them of my age are living,
have prospered. We cannot be
thankful enough for the passage of
the Kenyon-Shepard and Webb Bill
over the Presidents veto, which tenn
perance people have been working
and fighting for these thirty years,
and our nations flag was flung to the
breeze at our National Headquarter's
building at Evanston, 1t shows that
the good people are waking up. A
minister offering prayer one day last
week was heard to put this petition,
which furnishes food for thought, O
Lord hasten the day when we shall
cease to use the law to make drunk
ards, murderers and thieves. There
is no excuse for sowing wild OATS"
and it is certain that every crop of
wild oats sown by boys must be har-
vested, and what will the harvest be?
If parents could be prevailed upon
to exercise the right training of their
boys and girls, many heartaches
would be avoided at the harvest time.
Mrs. A. B. Pathway, Prin. Supt.