Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-10
wlNoHAM COUNTY w. cru.
Twenty Eighth Annual Convention
 Held at Wauregan.

The 18th annual convention O. Windham County Woman's Christian Temperance union was held in the Congregational church. Wauregan, on June 8. The convention was opened by the president, Mrs. Lisa K Full Ter, with devotional exercises, the keynote of which was service. Con- secrated individual service is the eff fectuaI power which accomplished things.
 Sixty members represented the union of Windham county. Mrs. J. $. Gore extended & hearty welcome to all, to the hospitality of one of the prettiest villages and churches in the county. Added to this was a cor dial invitation from the Atwood Broth CTS to visit the mills. Mrs. Nellie A. Gager of Willimantic responded graci- ously to this welcome. The reports of the unions and superintendents of departments of work were eaCourag- ing and helpful and showed that the women of Windham county were alive to the acute needs of aggressive thought upon the problems that are sharpening the wits of our thinking men and women of this rushing age. Their work along the lines of scien- titic and medical temperance had been aggressive and progressive not forgetting the foreign speaking people.
 The audience of the afternoon ses- sion was deeply stirred by an elo- quent and Illuminating appeal from H. H. Spooner upon the need of a reformatory for women and girls. He said there were two young women at that moment, who needed the healing influence soul and body which such an institution could give. To send these to our common perils was to plunge them into deeper degradation. Almost unthinkable were the cases he reclted of the temptations and de- gradations forced upon many an in- nocent girl, which plunged her into the slimy pool Such might be rescued and restored to a normal life if Con- necticut had a reformatory. such as other states provide. Connecticut with all her churches is trailing clear behind other states in her preventive and rescue work. He pleaded with the women present to work in season and out of season on behalf of a reform atory.
 New York state not only has a lage reformatory, but has recently been experimenting with the farm cot tases are for the women, on the home basis and they are taught agriculture. May the Christian men and women of Connecticut awaken to their duty to- ward this unfortunate class.
 The evening session had another stirring address by MT. Spooner, along the lines of reformatory and preventf-
  tribute to Dr. Katherine B. Davis, commissioner of correction in her tender and uplifting care of the fallen who come under care in the Tombs. Her administrative ability is shown in her organized efficient dictatIve force both in the Tombs and / the Workheuse, through which she has ended the intramural drug traf- fic. fhe viliaineus drug store trade that makes dope fiends of school girls is being checked by vigorous work of these detectives. Dr. Davis has proven what can be accomplished when capable woman is placed in positions where girls and women are concerned. This is the most en- conraging step that has yet been talk en in our medern reform system.
 Tine officers were reelected Mrs. Rienzi Robinson was appointed as a delegate to the National W. c. T. U. meeting to be held in Atlanta in No Vember next