The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-03-07
Advocates of SalOonless City
Will Hold Meetings Every
Night Until Day of Local
Option Election.
LANDS TO BE HERE
WEEK FROM SUNDAY
Women's Dry Organization
Appoints Various Commit.
tees to Assist i'm WGrh-tc
Hold Prayer Meetings.

Sunday afternoon 2:30 O'Clock,
Tabernacle. Mass meeting. Rev.
Tilman Hobson, of California,
speaker.
Monday evening. 7:30 O'Clock.
North A Street Friends church
Mass meeting Oliver w. Stewart
Chicago, speaker.
Tuesday evening, 7:30 O'Clock.
Mems mass meeting. Local speak 81
ers.
Wednesday evening, o'clock.
North Fourteenth street Mission.
Mass meeting. John S. Rutledge,
Cleveland, O., speaker.
Wednesday evening, $50. Third
NJ Z. church. Mass meeting.
John S. Rutledge, Cleveland, o.,
speaker.
Wednesday evening, 7:3o. Mt.
Moriah Baptist church. South
Ninth and 3 streets. Colored
mass meeting. The Rev. c. W.
McColl, indianapolis, speaker.
Thursday evening. Z O'Clock.
Second Lutheran church. Mass
meeting. John S. Rutledge, Cleve-
land O.. speaker.
Friday evening, 7:30 O'Clock.
Tabernacle. Mass meeting. John
S. Rutledge, Cleveland, Ohio,
speaker.
With meetings some place in the
city each evening next week, starting
Sunday, the drys are preparing the
first stages of their whirlwind cam
paign, which will only close with the
local option election, March "A.
Speakers of national and local repu-
tation will be on the programs for
talks and lectures.
Two of the top notchers in the cam
paign are Fred Landis. of Logansport
and Daniel A. Polling. of Boston, Mass.
Both speakers are widely known
throughout the central states and the
east. Landis was the Progressive
Il candidate for lieutenant governor and
at one time was Eleventh District con-
gresham. He speaks at an afternoon
mass meeting Sunday, March Is.
Daniel Polling is a we'll known tenn
perance orator. For Il number OF
years ne was engaged in anti-saloon
work in Columbus. O.. but recently
moved to Boston, where he has head
quarters.
Women Are Active.
With the appointment of commit
tees by the womens dry organization
comes the announcement that they
will be actively engaged in the fight
to make Richmond dry.
To head the committee which will
have charge of the canvassing among
the different homes Mrs. Roscoe Kirk
man was chosen. Size will have six
assistants, who will plan the work of
visiting every home and talk with the
housewife and distribute literature.
AS a second means of furthering the
campaign Mrs. John Johnson. was Sc
lected chairman of the committee of
five to conduct mothers meetings in
the various schools. 1t is the present
plan to hold meetings in the school
buildings in the afternoons at which
speakers will address the women of
the neighborhood.
The work among the children will
be headed by Mrs. Clara Graves. 1t
is understood that she and her two
assistants will visit the children and
give talks on the results of the use OF
alcohol.
Appoints Committees.
The committees selected are as fol-
lows: Canvassing, Mrs. Roscoe Kirk
man, chairman, Mrs. Adam Bartel.
Mrs. Mather. Mrs. Joseph Beck. Mrs.
Cecilia Rollman, Mrs. Watt ONeil and
Mrs. McCurdy.
Mothers meeting. Mrs John John
son. chairman. Mrs. G. A. Steely.
Mrs. D. d. Ramsey, Mrs. J. T. Giles
and Mrs. McCurdy.
Children's Meetings, Mrs Clara
Graves, chairman. Mrs. n. c. Heironi-
mus and Miss Jean Dunlop.
The first move to be made anon 2
the colored people is that of holding a
special mass meeting for them at the
Mt Moriah Baptist church, Wednes-
day evening at 7:30 O'Clock. The Rev
c. W. McColl, of indianapolis will ad-
dress the colored people.
For a series of four meetings We'd
nesday, Thursday and Friday even
ings John S. Rutledge, a Cleveland, O.
temperance worker has been secured.
Various women workers of the cam
paign have arranged number ot
prayer meetings to be held Monday
afternoon. The list is as follows:
Mrs. Mary Compton, 548 Randolph
street
Mrs Earl Parker, 90 South Four
teenth street.
Mrs. Ross Robinson, 361a South
Eleventh street.
Mrs. Charles Tebbetts, 214 College
avenue.
Mrs. Henry zuttermeister, 400
South Twelfth street.
Wednesday Afternoon.
Mrs. Frank Feregge, 906 North
Eighth street.