The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-08-30
..C.T.U. Workers
Meet at OWatOnna
In Big Convention
Interesting, Instructive Talks
Given by Temperance Work.
ers Throughout State
MISS HENDRIX PRESIDES

MISS HENDRIX PRESIDES
Local Union Well Represented
And Given Good Standing
Among Associations
The fortieth annual convention
of the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union which convened at
Owatonna the past week was one
of unusual interest. Between
two and three hundred delegates
and many prominent citizens
were seated at the long banquet
tables in the new Firemen's Hall
Tuesday evening preceding the
opening of the Convention.
Miss Rozette Hendrix, State
President of the w. C. T. U. act
ed as toastmistress. Mayor M.
Diment opened the banquet pro-
gram, welcoming the delegates
most heartily to the city and ex-
tending to them an invitation to
enjoy an auto ride through the
city and vicinity. This was car
ried out Thursday afternoon
when every delegate was given
an opportunity of seeing the
beautiful state school buildings,
the Covely homes, the mineral
springs and many other points
Of interest. E. K. Whiting, edi-
tor of the al-Chronicle, re-
sponded to a toast in behalf of
the Press. He told of the great
advancement Of the press how
it paid to run a clean paper and
that it could be done successful
ly without the aid of liquor ad-
vertisements.
: Lawyer S. R. Nelson welcomed
the delegates in behalf of the
professional men. DR.. M. B.
Price of Pillsbury academy spoke
for the schools and Mrs. Blanche
Roberts gave the welcome for
!, the local union. Great enthusi-
asm prevailed everywhere thru
out the convention which was
heightened by the splendid adj
dress given by the State Presi-
,, dent at the opening session We'd
nesday as she told of the great
' onward march of prohibition and
the bright prospects before us.
, Two-thirds of our own state is
now dry territory and more than
80 per cent of the area Of the
United States is under nolicense
and sc per cent of the popula-
ton lives in no-license territory
,, Posters and banners which greet
cd the eye on every side empha-
E sized temperance sentiments.
remnants representing the fiji
ty-seven counties of Minnesota
! now in the dry column banked
). the Presidents chair with a map
,, of Minnesota, showing the dis
! tricts in which the w. C. 7. U.
:. is organized. Eight thousand
: women are now united in an or
: ganized effort to swing Mime
), sofa into the dry line.
4 That the people of Owatonna
!, might better understand the
!, scope of the work Of the w. c.
T. u. a splendid demonstration
1 took place on Wednesday even
ing at which time a grand re-
\. view of the forty-two different
Y departments of the work passed
before their eyes. Costumes
banners and short speeches by
4 leaders representing the lines OF
work impressed the onlookers
| that much is being done. One
minute speeches by ten Prohibi.
ticn Governors were given by as
many boys who gave the rea
! speeches of real governors which
left no doubt in the minds of the
bearers that the governors OF
e those states believed in "a long
e time between drinks"
e Mrs. Edith Smith Davis
: Worlds and National Superin
: tendent of Scientific Temperance
instruction, who was sent as 3
= representative of the United
!, States to the Alcohol Congress
! bv President Wilson, was pres
: ent Thursday evening and gave
= her audience the scientific truths
:, concerning alcohol and narcotics
u with such force and lightning
5 rapidity as to make a very deer
q impression on her hearers. Mrs
q Davis gets her information first
I hand from Prof. G.. Simms Wood
: head and other noted scientists
I &C that we have the latest ane
: best to be had along his line.
I Mrs. M. j. Kelley of St. Paul
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