Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-08-13
IREC0UNIY MEDAL AWARDED
roapiss Lillian iWmdham- Honorable Men
etion to .Smshsof Canterbury-Large Attend
lance at w. C. .T.Us Contest and Field Day.


The pleasant wearher of Thursday
brought q large crowd to the camp
ground TO attend the trf-county con-
test and field day Of the w. G. 4. u.
The contest this year was q gold
medal contest and the medal was won
by Mrs. Lillian Harris of North Wind
ham with honorable mention awarded
to Mrs. ]. E. Smith of Canterbury.
The meeting was presided over by
the three county presidents, Mrs. ]. l..
Randall of New London county, Mrs.
Eliza Fuller OF Scotland for Windham
county. and Mrs E. ]. Holman for
Tolland county.
The meeting opened with a song,
One More Days Work for Jesus. fol-
lowed by q scripture reading given by
Mrs. Holmes Prayer was then Of
fered by the Rev. A. n. Ball. pastor
Next the audience sang My Faith
Looks Up to Thee. Mrs Kimban and
Mrs. Alice willoughby gave a vocal
duet, Hail to the White Ribbon Bow.
AIRS. J. L. Randall then announced
the gold medal contest.
Contestant No: l. Mrs. E. B. Chute
OF New London, recited The Volunteer
Organist. No. 2. Mrs ]. Addie HYDE
of Stonington. gave selection Building
the Pyramids. The audience then
united in singing the w. c. 7. U. 5u-
bilee song a Saloonless Nation in 1920.
of Canterbury gave A Plea for Rum.
This recitation was very brilliant. as
it was a satire on the liquor traffic.
Her recitation was something new in
the line of gold medal contests. Mrs.
Smith said;
when I tell you that I am to speak
to YOU In the interest of rum. Be-
cause the temperance people have be-
come so uncharitable toward the poor
rumseller, have taken 1t upon my
self to speak q few words in their IA
vor. ] am not SGmssileT myself m tSs
trafflc. but can see how the saloon
benefits society and love Justice and
believe in giving every man hlssones
"A Paying 5usinessa
wen. then. in the first piaceaSV9
a paying business. any saioonkeeper
viii tell You that and OF course they
ought 60 know. When you CANT buy
whiSlley for two cents q glass and
sell lS for ten ocNcourse Il pays In
orderSto have business good and trade
every corner and O half dozen mid
way, for no matter how duh times
are people WIN apendnmoney tor drink.
Factories and Mile Close
We often SEQ. factories and minis
closing. NaytRS and bankers failing.
but never does the saloon shut up,
no indeed. they run their business ell
the year around night and day, sun
days and all Rum helps to build ur
a town. notice the many fine saloons
ana but for drinking many other
places would never have been built
for instance The jails, prisons, poor
houses, tnehraate asylufns, gold cures
| etc.. ana Naf course II these were not
built many woraSnen would have had
A. u haWs RSl
friends before You begin TO run down
the saloon, you must take all these
things into consideration. IL You have
no dram shops where In the worle
win your boys spend their evenings
They might have TO stay ae home and
Il would prove fatal to many TO en-
dure the society OF mothers and sis
ters,
The saloon Is q great help 60 YOU
socially, because IL enables your sons
to become acquainted with many whom
otherwise they would never know
In Politics, Too.
Does Il help you politically WEI
| I guess, You try to be elected nj.
derman and see; the saloon IL II
politics all right and the main par
of politics are in the saloon. Whfskey
helps man drown trouble. 1t en-
] ables him to forget all his hard work
| by its aid L have known plenty Of
men to forget their work completely
for more than week at a time. We
are warned against the sin Of pride
and whislSey is the best thing to des'
troy pride that ever heard OF. Wher
man is sober he likes to have clear
food, respectable clothing and com.
Portable bed, but when he is drunl
he isn't a bit stuck up, IL matters lit.
tie to him If his clothes are ragged
or dirty, whether his home boasts o.
one pane of glass or Eve, and wher
it comes to sleeping he had just a:
soon lie down in the gutter as any
other place and thinks a curbston'
quite as good as a pillow. Imagine
if you please, the total prohibition Of
the liquor traffic. in that case whai
are our poor rumsellers to do. MANI
of them have every cent they possess
| invested in this business and If vol
take it away how are they to exist
To be sure they are all good, mora
men, their bonds signed by some o.
our most influential men declare then
to be so, but as this is not a remark
| ably moral age they could hardly claim
pension on those grounds; some havt
considered the advisability of com