The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-04-09
MOMAN'S CHRISTIAN
TEMPERANCE UNION
Institute Meeting Here-Fine At
tendance and Enthusiasm.

Institute of the w. C. T. u, which
were opened in the First Christian
Church in the city Tuesday night
and continued thru Wednesday, were
probably the most interesting and
undoubtedly the most important of
the county institute work ever held
in the county.
The opening Tuesday night was
largely attended, with liberal per-
centage of visitors from nearby
points. Mrs. Silena Holman, the
State President, from Fayetteville,
was present, and seated on the stage
with the county president, Mrs. Seid
Waddell, and Mrs. J. M. Edwards,
and the secretary, Mrs. Hovis.
In the main the program was fol-
lowed with organ voluntary by Mrs.
Vivian Reynolds, scripture reading
by the minister, Rev. R. L. Clark,
and prayer by Rev. H. A. Butts,
then a song by A. L. Garth and Sc
lection by the quartette-Dr. Carl
ton, S. D. Woosley, Corliss Harrison
and w. w. Lovelace.
At this iuncture Mrs. Holman was
introduced to the audience by Mrs.
Waddell, and the lady made last
ing impression in an address on the
Dawn of a New Era Mrs. Hol
man is a woman of charming person
atty. She is gifted with speech and
intellect and a realization of the re-
sponsibilities that attend her work
and station. She is commanding and
resourceful and exceptionally pleas
ant and delightful in manner; lead
er in thought and a generous, noble
Southern woman. Her address was
a review of the temperance work
and it's progress slowly at first, but
surely and steadfastly, leading on
and on until the States began to
adopt Statewide Prohibition of the
manufacture and sale of liquor, and
then opening vistas of brighter
dawn.
Mrs. Holman spoke of the progress
of Prohibition from a small begin
ming until it now covers eighteen
States, of the sweeping edict of the
Car of Russia forbidding the sale
of vodka That was simply the work
of single ukase, whereas we have
been struggling from year to year
creating a sentiment and increasing
our Prohibition territory by small
degrees. Vodka was banished from
Russia in an inkling, while we can
ship from one State to another, and
will continue to do so until all the
States Prohibit the traffic, and not
altogether then until we have ma
tional Prohibition. England-the
greatest surprise of all-England,
which country has been one of the
last to cut loose from her intoxi-
cants, is considering sweeping or
der for Prohibition, sentiment Gre
ated by the conditions of the army.
Mrs. Holman told of the victory
won in Congress, Of the majority
vote recently recorded in that body
for Prohibition. A two-thirds vote
was necessary to carry the issue, but
Mrs Holman and her army of work
ers at the Capitol rejoiced over one
of the great victories achieved in
the Endorsement of Prohibition by a
majority of the members of Con-
gress, and while the newspapers
were proclaiming to the world that
the issue was lost,th women and the
friends of the w. G. T. U. were cele-
brating the victorious record of a
majority vote as long step in the
progress of the work.
Mrs. Holman spoke probably an
hour or more marshaling facts and
logic Prohibition needs no defense
she stated, but an able defender OF
a great work is the good women.
Following Mrs. Holman was g
song, 80 Where is my Wandering
Boy" by Mrs. Boyle, of Kenton and
the benediction.
The program was continued at the
Wednesday morning session with IN
vocation by Rev. Clark, song ant
the reading of the crusade Psalm b!
Mrs T. j. Bonner, of Rives, prayer
by Rev. ]. B. Cunningham ant
hymn, "All Around the World"
At this point the new president
Mrs Knox Harper, was presented b.
Mrs. T. j. Bonner, with an address!
by Mrs. Harper, who also introduced
Mrs. Holman. Mrs. Harper here an
nounced her committees as follows
Courtesies-Mrs. F. ]. Smith, Mrs
c. w. Miles, Mrs. Geo. Stone, Mrs
A. L. Brevard.
Membership-Mrs T. P. Palmer
r. Mrs. Geo. Nash, Mrs. r. F. Tisdale
Mrs n NJ Wa1lyar