Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-09-07
COUNTY W. c. t. U. CONVENTION

The annual county convention of
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union was held at Oak Shade, Friday
August oath. Most of the unions of
the county were represented and the
attendance was good, and was very
| beneficial convention to all who were
present. The State worker, Mrs.
! VanKirk, editor of the Ohio Messen-
ger was present and addressed the
convention in the afternoon and even
| ing. Her presence was indeed a
| blessed help to the bands of women
over the county, some small, some
larger, whose hearts beat as one for
the good of humanity and against in
temperance, cigarette habit and all
other evils that beset mankind.
She said that sometimes some of
these women have become discouraged
feeling that their work has not
brought about the results that it
should and the question is. sometimes
voiced by the men and even some
ministers of the gosepf "What are you
doing? ?" What are we doing? dear
friends, don't you see that if it were
not for the little: organizations which
are scattered all over the STAGE of Ohio
the U. S. and the world, with their
mites, prayers and influence the
great organization of the W. G. 7.
U. as it is today could not be pos
sible. The attitude toward the Ii
quor cause at the present time is
largely due to the patience and per-
sistence of the women in hammering
away at the evil and in their bring
ing about the teaching of the evils
of intemperance in the public schools,
thereby doing through education what
could not be accomplished in any
other way.
Then the work this organization is
doing for the boys in uniform is equal
to that of the Red Cross. The Red
Cross is looking after the bodily COM.
forts while the W. c. T.aU. is looking
to the spiritual welfare, throwing
about them moral influences and
shielding them from the snares of the
tempter. Some months ago some one
conceived the plan TO put into the
comfort bags. for the boys, cigarretts
and tobacco, which was being car
, ried out without taking into consider
alton the results of weakened will
power, and wrecked manhood, when
Miss Anna Gorden, president of the
national w. c. T. u with some others
raised a protest and made a request
that the Red Cross as an organization
should not do this, and the request
was granted, altho some individuals
, are supplying these things with out
kpowing whether the ones to whom
they are being sent are already users
of them or whether they are the means
of helping to form the habit. We
: hope all will soon see the evil and
folly of so doing.
The convention. was favored with
f several selections by the Oak Shade
= quartette, and readings by Mrs. J. J.
= Fauver, of Tedrcw; "Our Nations
: Shame" Miss Ruth Lee, Oak Shade;
"a Soldiers Sister, Mrs. A. B. Thomp-
a Down in the Valley" The latter pre-
= sented the attitude of the voters of
+ Ohio in our last campaign for pro-
hibition or licensed, saloons by not
fencing the precfpice as protection
: against accident but putting an am
: !, bulance down in the valley.
: The officers elected for the ensu-
ing year are: Pres, Mrs: Edith
Doren, Swanton; Vice Pres, Mrs
Lulu Pletner, Tedrow; Rec. Secy.
- Mrs B. C. EIdTedge, Swanton; Cor
Secy, Mrs. Hattie Cameron, Delta;
:. Treas, Mrs. Stella Stevens, Tedrow.
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