Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-06-06
Hold Successful Meeting at Irasburg.

The following report OF the 3lTh
annual meeting of the Orleans Coun-
ty w. G. T. u. convention held at
Irasburg Thursday and Friday, is
furnished by the press reporter Of the
occasion.
lowing to bad weather and bad
roads, making it impossible for Mrs.
NJ. L. Pearson, our state and county
president, TO reach Irasburg till near
ly noon on Thursday, there was no
forenoon session. With Mrs. Pear
son came the speaker of the day, Mrs.
Luce, state superintendent of schools
in Massachusetts on temperance work
and instruction The afternoon ses-
sion took In the necessary business of
the forenoon. We received with deep
regret the word that ourvaluable Sec
rotary, Mrs. H R. Cutler, could not
be with US. Mrs. H. B. Corliss of
Derby Line was installed in the Sec
retary's chair. Minutes of the last
meeting at North Troy were read and
accepted and various committees and
reporters for the newspapers chosen.
Greetings followed, from the church
es by Rev. Upper, from the schools
by Miss Skinner, from the union by
Mrs. Wiley, all of Irasburg. Mrs.
Luce of Boston responded gracefully,
and then followed a vocal duet by
Mrs. Field and Mrs. Upper of Iras-
burg, after which Rev. L. A. Ed
wards of Newport addressed the
meeting.
ellis subject was, The Social Cues
tion.' We wish all he said could be
reported. 1t is not enough for min
lister, as in the old days, to wear a
path from his study to his pulpit and
sending the Bible and missionaries to
the ends of the earth. We must
come nearer home to our very doors
and get at the social purity of the
people, Get the heart right, feed the
heart and mind with good things. Look
after the movies. He told how he took
some visiting friends to picture
show one evening and saw things de-
picted that were not fit for the place
which Billy Sunday depicts. Boycott
such pictures and make the saying
come true that the worst enemy of
evil is good. He made great plea
for the pure life of the young people.
A bird with a broken wing can never
soar so high again. In closing, he
made an earnest appeal to the women
to do their best work along these
lines, so that he would not have to
take long trips to some sanitarium
with the wreckages of humanity as
he so often did.
"Then came the mothers confer
ence, when questions were. given out
to be answered by the mothers pres
ent, and by Mrs. Luce. Rev. Kelley
spoke well on the work needed to be
done by good women, pleaded for the
morals of the soldiers in camp and at
the front and for young men who
were being ruined by whiskey and
other terrible temptations.
cat the sacred memorial hour led
by Mrs. Page of North Troy, many
names were given of noble women
who had died. Mrs. Fisher of Derby
Line spoke of Mrs. H. B. Cowles, a
charter member of the international
union, who served so faithfully for
long years. A solo followed by Mrs.
Topper.
Thursday evening opened with a
good attendance in spite of the rain.
Rev. Kelley of Irasburg led in scrip
ture reading and prayer and there
was a duet by Mrs. Upper and Mrs.
Kelley The speaker of the evening,
Mrs. Luce, addressed the audience,
her topic being, Beer or Bread?' It
was strong plea to stop turning our
food stuffs into beer and a plea for
prohibition to safeguard our soldier
boys. Mrs. Luce has a great charm
for the children when she tells them
wonderful stories. The closing num-
Der was a duet by Misses Ruth and
Leonie Wheeler of Irasburg.
''Friday morning the executive
meeting and superintendent confer
ence was held.
among the reports came one from
Mrs. Spaulding on prison and Jail
work, that they kept up the regular
services in the jail until there was no
one there This was a great testi-
mony to what the temperance work
had done.
reports were given by the secre-
tary and treasurer. There was a
roll call and election of officers result
ing in the reelection by reclamation
of Mrs. M. L. Pearson of Orleans as
president; Mrs. Keys of Orleans,
treasurer, and Mrs. H. B. Corliss of
Derby Line, secretary.
''The afternoon session opened with
prayer by Mrs. III. B. Smith of Or
leans. One of the special features
of this session was the excellent Red
Cross talk given by Mrs w. w. Reir-
den OF Barton and Mrs. u. b. ROWeII
of Orleans. These ladies have visit
ed the Red Cross headquarters in
Burlington and were prepared to dis
cusS the work IN most practical
way. Samples of work needed to be
done for hospitals were shown and
the need of central places for regular
work for local chapters was empha-
sized. The franchise hour was in
charge of Mrs. NJ. NJ Taplin of Or
leans. Few people could have work
ed up this subject so well and under
standingly as did Mrs Taplin Ar
ticles on the many reasons why the
ballot was needed for women were
given by Mesdames Pearson, Guild,
Fletcher, Hamilton, Spafford and
Fisher, also Miss Eaton and Miss
Seaver.
The special feature of Friday eve