Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-12
C0MPLE PROGRAM FOR
W.C.T.U. SEPT.17-10 AT HOULTON

JOiloN luS Is tfiS pioSIdlit tol tHC
annual session of the Maine State w.
c. T. U. at Houlton, Sept. 16, IT
and IS.
Wednesday morning, Sept To- $50,
service of praise and prayer, led by
Miss Harriet j. Loring, East Otis
field; convention called to order by the
Acting President, Mrs. Althea G..
Quimby; memorial resolution, present
ed by Mrs. Jennie e. Seamans, presi-
dent Aroostook county w. C. T, u;
music, Mrs. Georgia Sheperd Vail,
convection musical director; roll call by
the Recording Secretary, Miss Clara
M. Farweli; report of executive COM
mittee; appointment of committees on
credentials and eourtesies; brief adj
dress, Acting President Mrs. Althea G.
Quimby; music; report Of State Cor
responding Secretary Miss Isabel H
Stickney; report of State Treasurer
Mrs. Emma r. Watts; report of au-
ditor; financial report of State W.
C. T. u, headquarters, Portland;
Mrs. Emma e. Watts, Portland;
music; reports of superintendent; So
cial: flower mission and charities, Mrs.
Annie M. Frost Belfast; fairs and
open air meetings, Mrs. Edith N.
Cakes. Foxcroft social meetings and
red letter days. Mrs. Josie r. Irish,
Bowdoinham; discussion. preventive,
Hyienic Reform and Heredlty, Mrs.
Abbie C. Peaslee, Auburn; Medical
Temperance, Mrs. Juliette II. Cakes,
Livermore Falls; Anti Narcotics. Mrs.
Florence Nickerson, Portland; noontide
prayer, Mrs. Elizabeth c. Knight,
Westbrook.
Wednesday Afternoon-2, conven-
ton called to order; prayer, Mrs. f.
A. G.. Stickney, East Brownfieid; re-
port of editor of Star in the East,
Mrs. Gertrude Stevens Leavitt. Port
land; report of business manager, Star
in the East and consideration of
National official papers-Theunlo Sig
nal and The Young Crusader, Miss
Margaret l.. Sargent Portland; re-
ports of superintendent. Education
al-Scientific Temperance instruction,
with demonstration with charts, Mrs.
Beulah S. Oxton, Rockland; Sunday
School Work, Mrs. Mary V. Pierce,
Dexter; Temperance Literature, Miss
Margaret l.. Sargent, Portland; The
Press, Mrs. Mary L. French, Auburn;
w. C. It. u. Medal Contests, Mrs. Jen-
ME Price White, Machias; Parlia-
mentary Law; Junvenile Courts, In
dustral Education and Anti-Child
Labor, Mrs, Florence w. Bray, Au-
burn. Discussion. Symposium-The
Local Union; The Program in My
Union, Mrs. Eff1e NJ. Lawrence, North
Lubee; The Activities in My Union,
Mrs. Susan M. Grant, South Windham;
The Finances in My Union, Mrs N. H
Tibhetts Bangor.
Wednesday Evening" Scrip
ture reading and prayer, Mrs. Cora
Knight Clifford. Winthrop; addresses
of welcome; For the w. c. T. T., Mrs
Frances E. Mcleod, Houlton; For the
Churches, Rev. F. w. Davis, pastor of
Methodist Episcopal church. Houlton;
For the Town, Hon. Ira E. Hersey
Houlton; For the Schools. Mr.. L. w.
Robbins; supervisor of schools. Houl-
ton; music; response. Mrs. Gertrude
Stevens Leavitt. Portland; address,
Miss Anna Gordon; acting presi-
dent National w. C. T. u, Evanston,
Illinois.
Thursday Morning.-9.15, service of
prayer and praise. led by Mrs. T. r.
Catlands convention called to order
report of recording secretary; report
of COMMITTEES on resolution Mrs
Jennie Price White, Mrs. Augusta NJ.
Hunt, Mrs. Gertrude Stevens Leavitt,
Mrs. Lila 3. Hewes, Mrs. Annie
Barnes; reports of superintendent:
Bible Reading and EWangelistic work,
Miss Harriet j. Loring, Otisfield; aims
house branch Mrs. Charles Goss, so
Wood street, Lewiston: Systematic Civ
ing. Mrs. Susan NJ. Grant, South Wind
ham: prison and Jail work, Mrs Mary
w. Stone, Machias; Securing Homes
for Homeless Children, Mrs. Vena
Leighton Johnson, Westbrook: Work
Among Employees Mrs. Helen
a. Thomas Greene; Work Among Sol
diers and Sailors, Mrs. Lizzie H. Towle
Augusta; Work Among Lumbermen
and Quarrymen, Mrs. Alice Bigney,
Work Among Light Sta
tons, Rev. Hannah ]. Powell, Bar
Harbor; Sabbath Observance, Mrs.
Phoebe A. Pinkham, Winthrop;
Mothers Meetings and White Ribbon
Recruits. Mrs. Myra d. McKetchnie,
Dexter; Purity in Literature and Art,
Mrs. Nj. X. p. Varney, South Wind
ham; Purity, Miss Mabel Irish, Buck
field; Mercy, Mrs L. Fl. Wight, Park
man: School Savings Banks. Mrs. Ella
Barton Smith, Thorndike; discussion;
noontide prayer, Mrs. Jennie Seamans
Cary
Thursday Afternoon-2.00, convention
called to order; prayer, Mrs. Adelaide
S. Johnston. Fort Fairfield singing,
Mrs. Vail. Mrs. McDuffee, Rochester,
n. H.; memorial service, conducted by