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^^jFor  God^  and  Home^  and  Native  Land,'''' 


ROCKLAND.  MAINE. 
Pbihtbd  at  The  Codbibr-Oazettr  Office. 

1800. 


Ot^DEt^  OF  EXEt^CISES. 


Recommended  l)y  Miss  Frances  li.  WilUird,  to  Local  Unions 
for  the  jjfuidance  of  their  Presidents,  at  all  regular  meetin<;s  : 

1.  Hymn. 

2.  Scripture. 
-i.      Prayer. 

4.  Hymn. 

5.  Readinjf  Minutes  ot   last  meeting. 

6.  Report  of  Corresponding  Secretary. 

7.  Report  of  Treasurer. 

S.      Report  of  Superintendent  of  Gospel  Work    and  Hihle 

Readings. 
{.).     Report  of  Librarian  and  v>uperintendent  of  Temperance 

Literature. 

10.  Rej)ort  of  Superintendent  of  Juvenile  Work. 

11.  Report  of  Superintendent    of    Department    of    Unfer- 

mented  Wine  at  Sacrament. 

12.  Report  of  Superintendent  of  S.   S.    Work. 

13.  Report  of  Superintendent  of  Press  Work. 

14.  Report  of  Supeiintendent  of  Legal  Work. 

15.  Report  of  Superintendent  of  Young  Ladies'  Work. 

16.  Report  of  Superintendent  of  Educational  Work. 

17.  Report  of  Superintendent  of  Public  Meetings. 
iS.     Report  of  Agent  of  *'Union  Signal.'' 

19.  Business  laid  over  from  last  meeting. 

20.  New  Business. 


OFFICEl^S   FOl^   1890-91. 


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PRESIDENT: 
MRS.  L.  M.  N.  STEVENS,  Stroud watci-.y— 

Vice  Presidents. /9.^.    ^^^.-^  '  *  '^IS 
Androscoggin— Mrs.  M.  K.  Mnbry,  Turner.  CS^J-v^H-w^-^--   ^ 
Aroostook — Mrs.  L.  J.  Spaulding,  Caribou.  — 
Cumberland — Miss  Cornelia  M.  Dow,  Portlajid.   — 
Franklin — Mrs.  Helen  B.  C.  Beedy,  Farmington.  ..^       ^  ,  . 

Hancock— Itfi^.-ji  G.  CllllLUll,  EllbWUrth.  r$  » /"^     .', '.  *^-<  \y 
Kennebec — ] 

Knox — Mrs.  R.  C.  Hall,  Rockland. 
Lincoln — Mrs.  J-IeLen  M.  Daggett,  Waldoboro'.  t*  ^  /a, 
Oxford-Mrs.  WSWierce,  Hiram.  <  -/^  -"/    ^T  / *^  ^^  '/ ^  ^  i  -  ^ 

Penobscot — ^I-^Si  Annie.y.  Curtis,  Dexter.   / 

fs,  Piscataquis— \rrsfiipi/^Wade,  PlALluft:    ^     v^^"  '•^  ' 
Somerset — Mrs.  Harriet  M.  Philbrick,  St.  Albans.    , — ' 
Sagadahock — Mrs.  Helen  Delano,  Bath.   *'^ 
Waldo — Miss  A.  A.  Hicks,  Belfast.-/. 
Washington — Mrs.  Bernard  Rogers,  Pembroke.  — 
York — Mrs.  S.  P.  Smith,  Cornish. 


Corresponding  Secretary, 
Mrs.  Sarah  L.  Cram,    —  - 

Recording  Secretary. 
Miss  Clara  M.  Far  well,    -^  - 


Biddeford 


Rockland 


Assistant  Recording  Secretary. 
Mrs.  Adelaide  S.  Johnston,  t*    -  -  Fort  Fairfield 

Treasurer. 
Mrs.  E.  M.  Blanchard,    /""**-  -         -         -         Lewiston 

Organizersi  f 


7      -      ' 


Mrs.  M.  D.  Lander. 

Mrs.  L.  a.  Snow,—     Mrs.  H.  M.  Philbrick. 
Mrs.  Abbie  C.  Peaslee. 


State  Headquarters — ^51,  Exchange  St.,  Portland. 


SUPEl^lHTEHDEHTS  OF    DEPRf^TMENtS 

Fop   1890-^91. 


/         Temperance  Literature  and  Agent  for  Union  Signal — Mrs. 
3  i  (P  Alice  Raymond,  jpj^  Brackett  St.,  Portland.    — , 

Sunday  School  Work — Mrs.  E.  A.  G.  Stickney,  East 
Brownfield. 

Juvenile  Work — Mrs.  g.  Mf*4?toBd4er, -SlWttfewis. 

Legislative  Work — Mrs.  L.  M.  N.  Stevens,  Stroudwater.    -  - 

Scientific  Work  in  Schools — Mrs.  Geo.  F.  French,  Portland.  — 

Bible  Reading  and  Evangelistic  Work — Mrs.  Lucy  A.  Snow, 
Windham  Center. 

Social  Purity — Mrs.  F.  A.  Wright,  Caribou.  -"" 

Influencing  the  Press — Miss  Mary  L.  French,  Auburn.  -  - 

Unfcrmented  Wine — Mrs.  Hannah  F.  Crocker,  Peniliroke  ; 
Mrs.  L.  J.  Spaulding,  Caribou.  — 

Young  Women's  Work — Miss  Angie  Brooks,  Portland. 

Prison  and  Jail  Work — Miaa  HBiiiwuiiilj'.Qwbridge,  Waldo- 
bo  ro.  — 

Hygienic  Reform  and  Heredity — Mrs.  M.  F.  Bunker, 
North  Anson. 

Reformatory  Prison — Mrs.  H.  J.  Bailey,  Winthrop ;  Mrs. 
G.  S.  Hunt,  Portland. 

Flower  Mission—  MJu  'B^yn  Smiiwi l.>'Okl>Qtch«Td. 

Suppression  of  Impure  Literature — -^Iiff'J.  Dylliin  Orono. 

Superintendent  of  F'aiis — Mrs.  Susan  French,  Auburn. 

Observance  of  Sabbath — Mrs.  II.  J.  Bailey,  Winthrop 
Center. 

Soldiers  and  Sailons — Mrs.  F.  C.  Johnston,  Portland. 

Work  for  Lumbermen — Mrs.  E.  Merritt,  Houlton. 

To  Secure  Temperance  Instruction  in  High  Schools  and 
Colleges — Mrs.  George  S.  Hunt,  Portland. 

Day  of  Prayer — Mrs.  G.  B.  Page,  Houlton. 

Co-operation  with  other  Societies — Mrs.  Nellie  R.  Spraguc, 
Greene. 

Music — Mrs.  M.  A.  Bent,  Portland. 

Franchise — Mrs.  Ann  F.  Greely,  Ellsworth.  — • 

Narcotics — Mrs.  I.  S.  Wentworth,  Dexter. 

Peace  and  Arbitration — Miss  Alice  M.  Douglas,  Bath.  — *" 

Lecturer  on  Franchise — Miss  E.  U.  Yates,  Round  Pond. 

/ 


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/ 


Dlt^ECTOt^V    OF    MAIHE    UNIONS. 


ANDROSCOGGIN  COUNTY. 


Auburn 
£.  Auburn 
Greene 
Lewiston 
Lisbon 
Lisbon  Falls 
Livermore  Falls 
Mechanic  Falls 
Turner 


Amity 

Ashland 

Blaine 

Bridgewater 

Caribou 

Fort  Fairfield 

Hodgdon 

Houlton 

Limestone 

Linneus 

Littleton 

Mapleton 

Monticello 

New  Limerick 

Presque  Isle 

Sprague's  Mills 

Washburn 


Knightville 
Cumberland   Mills 
No.  Gorham 
Peak^s  Island 
Portland 
Portland  Y. 
Saccarappa 
Saccarappa  Y. 
So.  Bridffton 
So.  Windham 
Stroudwater 
So.  Portland 
Webb*s  Mills 
Windham  Center 
Woodford's 


PRESIDENT. 

Mrs.  A.  J.  Benner 
•'    H.  B.  Marshall 
"    G.  W.  Parker 
E.  M.  Blanchard 
H.  G.  McCurdy 
Jordan  White 
C.  R.  Loring 
S.  I.  Jewett 
M.  K.  Mabry 

AROOSTOOK  COUNTY. 


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COR.    SECRETARY. 

Mrs.  Julia  F.  Young 
••    S.  H.  Stockman 
"    Mary  E.  Stetson 
Miss  Georgia  F.  Howe 
Mrs.  W.  H.  Mills 
••    J.  F.  Purinton 
Fannie  J.  Crosby 
E.  E.  Jordan 
Miss  Mamie  Irish 


II 


II 


Mrs.  E.  H.  Haskell 


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II 


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II 


M.  L.  Bartlett 
A.  Roberson 
J.  C.  Smith 
L.  J.  Spaulding 
Adelaide  Johnston 
L.  Mayo 
G.  B.  Page 
Annie  C.  Lang 
H.  A.  Rogers 
L.  M.  Miller 
O.  J.  Higgins 
F.  W.  Towle 

C.  F.  Bradbury 

D.  DeWitt 
Julia  A.  W.  Estes 
L.  F.  Smith 


Miss  Hattie  Tracy 
Mrs.  Lizzie  Young 
"    Ella  Lavine 
'*    Emma  Fulton 
Miss  Nora  Runnells 

Myrtle  G.  Robbins 
H.  Y.  Mayo 
Mrs.  B.  Minard 
Laura  Traiton 
E.  J.  Boyd 


II 


II 


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ii 


II 


II 


M.  H.  Siprelle 
O.  A.  Stanley 
Miss  Isabel  James 
Mrs.  H.  B.  Forbes 
"    Laura  Gilpatric 


II 


P.  M.  Willey 
CUMBERLAND  COUNTY. 


Mrs.  Poland 
"     E.  S.  Morrill 
"     A.  D.  I.  Moses 
Violet  Wheatley 
G.  S.  Hunt 
G.  S.  Leavitt 
S.  Maybcrry 
H.  Babb 
F.  F.  Johnston 
Martha  Bodge 
Miss  Louise  Titcomb 
Mrs.  L  H.  IIul>bard 
"     M.  E.  Spiller 
**     Addia  L.  Fellows 
"    A.  Blackstone 


II 


II 


II 


II 


II 


II 


II 


Mrs.  A.  A.  Bremen 
Miss  Cora  L.  Abbott 
Mrs.  Ann  Westcott 
Miss  V.  I.  Collins 

"    C.  M.  Dow 
Mrs.  F.  J.  Woods 

"    W.  H.  Naylor 
Miss  Belle  Hall 
Mrs.  G.  D.  Knights 

"    L.  M.  Little 
Miss  A.  F.  Quimby 

Mrs.  Ida  M.  Strout 
Miss  Sadie  E.  Larrabcc 
Mrs.  L.  Seeley 


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FRANKLIN  COUNTY. 


PRESIDENT. 

COR. SECRETARY. 

Farmington 

Mrs. 

O.  M.  Jennings 

Miss  J.  W.  Hoyt 

Kingfield 

t( 

M.  D.  Lander 

Mrs.  Ella  L.  Howard 

Phillips 

i( 

C.  W.  Carr 

"     N.  P.  Noble 

Stratton 

i( 

Lizzie  Standish 

Miss  Lillian  Greene 

Strong 

It 

J.  L.  Nash 

*'    Cora  (iates 

HANCOCK  COUNTY. 

Bar  Harbor 

Mrs 

.  M.  E.  Snow 

Miss  Alice  Suminsby 

BUiehill 

i< 

Nancy  Grindlc 

"*    Nellie  M.  Jones 

KUsworth 

(t 

A.  M.  Woodard 

Mrs.  Ann  F.  Greeley 

Hancock 

it 

J    R.  Bowler 

'*    Carrie  S.  Jellison 

Sullivan 

«i 

Mary  White 

Miss  Lena  Wilson 

Surry 

ti 

Julia  A.  Chatto 

Mrs.  Susan  Freethy 

KENNEBEC  COUNTY. 

Albion 

Mrs. 

A.  H.  Martin 

Augusta 

<( 

E.  S.  Fogg 

Mrs.  Erastus  Haskell 

China 

t( 

H.  T.  Jenkins 

"    Annie  B.  Rice 

Gardiner 

ii 

Helen  A.  Ladd 

"    E.  C.  H.  Smith 

Hallo  well 

t( 

E.  F.  Rowell 

"    B.  F.  Fuller 

Hallowcll  Y. 

Miss 

\  Imogen  Blackman 

Miss  Edith  Clary 

Monmouth 

Mrs. 

G.  W.  Norris 

"    Luella  Shorey 

Oakland 

(( 

J.  H.  Roberts 

*»    Kate  B.  Allen 

Vassalboro 

Miss 

\  Emily  Weeks 

"    Kate  E.  Rollins 

Winthrop  Center 

Mrs. 

H.J.  Bailey 

Mrs.  Emma  B.  Robinson 

Winthrop  Center  Y. 

Miss 

5  Cora  L.  Pullen 

Miss  M.  Alice  Rol)bins 

KNOX  COUNTY 

• 

Camden 

Mrs. 

Alice  Robbins 

Mrs.  D.  F.  Wadsworth 

Rockland 

(( 

R.  C.  Hall 

"    S.  S.  Johnson 

Rockport 

ti 

S.  C.  Brastow 

"    H.  H.  Merriam 

Thomaston 

it 

John  Stetson 

"    A.  F.  Burton 

Union 

(» 

A. J.  Young 

"    A.  M.  Jones 

Warren 

(( 

Josephine  Teague 

"    Martha  Bickford 

Rockland  Y. 

i< 

O.  L.  Bartlett 

Miss  Fannie  Dennis 

LINCOLN  COUNTY. 

Bremen 

Mrs. 

Emma  D.  Morelen 

Miss  Ida  C.  Morelen 

Dresden  Mills 

Miss 

C.  C.  Alley 

Mrs.  Lizzie  Alley 

K.  Jefferson 

Mrs. 

Mary  H.  Dearing 

Miss  Addie  Ames 

Newcastle  &  Uama. 

(< 

Lucinda  Thompson 

Mrs.  Emma  Hall 

Nobleboro 

11 

T.  J.  Lyons 

Round  Pond 

ii 

Jennie  Nichols 

Miss  Eva  Yates 

Waldoboro 

n 

Helen  Daggett 

Mrs.  Sarah  E.  Young 

Wiscasset 

(i 

Sarah  Saunders 

Miss  Bertha  R.  Folsom 

OXFORD  COUNTY. 

Denmark 

Miss 

Jennie  Bean 

Miss  Clara  W.  Davis 

E.  Brownfield 

Mrs. 

E.  A.  G.  Stickney 

"    Delia  Spring 

E.  Hiram 

Ii 

John  Pierce 

Mrs.  Myra  F.  Moore 

Norway 

4( 

M.  E.  Drake 

"    B.  S.  Rideout 

Dover  &  Foxcroft 


PISCATAQUIS  COUNTY. 
Mrs.  £.  D.  Wade,  Dover,     Mrs.  M.  A.  Brown,  Foxcroft, 


PENOBSCOT  COUNTY. 


Bangor 

Bangor  Crusade 

Corinna 

Dexter 

Hampden 

Oldtown 

Orono 

Plymouth 

So.  Brewer 

Upper  Stillwater 

Veazie 

Bath 

Phipsburg 
Popham  Beach 
Bath  Y. 

Hartlaffid 

No.  Anson 

No.  New  Portland 

Pittsfield 

St.  Albans 

West  New  Portland 

No.  Anson  Y. 

Shawmut 

Belfast 

Bumham 

No.  Searsmont 

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Cherryfield 
Chcrryfield  Y. 
Danforth 
?2ast  Machias 
Ka.st  Machias  Y. 
Kastport 
Eastport  Y. 
Harrington 
Machias 
Pembroke 
Red  Beach 

Biddeford 

Cornish 

E.  Parsonsfield 

Kennebunk 

Old  Orchard 

Old  Orchard  Y. 

Saco 

So.  Berwick 

West  Lebanon 


PRESIDENT. 

Mrs.  H.  A.  Whitman 
"    H.  E.  Prentiss 
"    C.  C.  Knowlep 
"    E.  R.  Horton 
E.  M.  Mayo 


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COR. SKCRKTARY. 

Mrs.  Lizzie  P.  Swett 
••    S.  J.  Pickard 


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Warren  Carr 
L.  M.  Reed 
A.  J.  Sampson 
C.  A.  Powers 
H.  E.  Stuart 


Miss  Ida  Kstes 


J.  B.  Hill 

Mrs.  A.  L.  Abl>ott 
Miss  Sarah  Nickerson 
Mrs.  S.  U.  Matthews 
Miss  C.  L.  Davis 

SAGADAHOC  COUNTY 

Mrs.  Helen  Delano  Mrs.  Ellen  R.  Bruce 

"    Eva  H.  Sheaf  Miss  Kate  H.  Percy 

Eva  Stacy  "    Kate  Spinney 

"    Alice  May  Douglass 

SOMERSET  COUNTY. 


It 


Mrs.  C.  H.  Skinner 
M.  F.  Bunker 
Flora  A.  Clark 
F.  A.  Sidelinger 
H.  M.  Philbrick 
K.  H.  Butt 
Miss  Lena  Atkinson 
Mrs,  R.  E.  Lawrence 


Miss  H.  U.  Fuller 
Mrs.  Satira  Atkinson 

;*    B.  F.  Viles 
Miss  Laura  McClure 
Mrs.  N.  H.  Yining 

"  S.  H.  Mitchell 
Miss  Helen  Fletcher 
Mrs.  Rebecca  N.  (ireenc 


WALDO  COUNTY. 

Mrs.  A.  E.  Clark  Miss  E.  C.  Frye 

Miss  Annie  H.  Murray  Mrs.  A.  E.  Merrill 

Mrs.  S.  F.  Clement  Miss  Emily  Miller 

WASHINGTON  COUNTY. 


Mrs.  Effie  L.  Nash 
Miss  Etta  Inman 
Mrs.  D.  H.  Powell 

"    Ruth  A.  Hanscom 
Miss  Cassie  Foster 
Mrs.  E.  A.  Holmes 
Miss  Nellie  Whalen 

**    Sophia  A.  Strout 

"    E.  C.  Drisko 

**    L.  I.  Reynolds 

**    Elvira  Mingo 

YORK  COUNTY. 

Mrs.  I.  W.  Haley 
"    Mrs.  A.  D.  Webb 
"    Lizzie  H.  Cobb 

Miss  Anna  O.  Kimball 

Mrs.  A.  C.  Dawley 

Miss  Emma  Haines 

Mrs.  R.  W.  Churchill 
•*    Ebcn  Flagg 
"    Annie  Graves 


Miss  M.  C.  Hunter 

"    Flora  McDevitt 
Mrs. L. A. Smart,  Logan  !*.(). 
Miss  Fannie  E.  Co.\ 

"    Fannie  Hanscom 
Mrs.  F.  S.  Paine 
Miss  Laura  Holmes 

"    N.  A.  Drisko 

"    M.  W.  Stone 
Mary  L.  Hatch 
Mary  Somers 


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Mrs.  S.  L.  Cram 

"    M.  A.  Snow 
Miss  Melissa  S.  Dearboni 
Mrs.  A.  G.  Yinal 

"    F.  E.  Brown 
Miss  Mamie  Brown 
Mrs.  J.  H.  Watson 
.Miss  Ella  W.  Kicker 

"    Ella  Hurd 


LilST  OF   DELiEGATES 


GENERAL  OFFICERS. 

Mrs.  L.  M.  N.  Stevens 

"     Sarah  L.  Cram 
Miss  Clara  M.  FarweU 
Mrs.  Adelaide  S.  Johnston 

"     E.  M.  Blanchard^ 

VICE  PRESIDENTS. 

Mrs.  M.  K.  Mabry 

•*     L.  J.  Spaulding 
Miss  Cornelia  M.  Dow 
Mrs.  J.  C.  Chilcott 

"     Hannah  T.  Jenkins 

"    R.  C.  Hall 

"     Helen  M.  Daggett 
Miss  C.  E.  Jackson 
Mrs.  Harriet  M.  Philbrick 

"     Helen  Delano 
Miss  A.  A.  Hicks 
Mrs.  Bernard  Rogers 

"     S.  P.  Smith 

STATE  ORGANIZERS. 

Mrs.  M.  D.  Lander 
"    J.  B.  Hill 
"     L.  A.  Snow 
"     H.  M.  Philbrick 

SUPTS.  OF  DEPARTMENTS. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  R.  Denny 
"     E.  A.  G.  Stickney 
"     F.  M.  Chandler 

L.  M.  N.  Stevens 

Geo.  French 

H.  F.  Crocker 

Harriet  Philbrick 

H.  J.  Bailey 
Miss  Evelyn  Siramonds 
Mrs.  J.  B.  Hill 

Susan  French 

E.  Merritt 

M.  T.  W.  Merrill 

Ann  F  Greeley 

I.  S.  Wentworth 
Miss  E.  U.  Yates 


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DELEGATES. 

Auburn— Mrs.  A.  J.  Benner,   Prcs., 

Mrs.    Lamb,   Mrs.    R    A.  Bray, 

Mrs.  Geo.  B.  Attwood,  Mrs.  Geo. 

L.  Peaslee. 
Augusta — Mrs.    E     Haskell,    Mrs. 

Sarah  Hinkley,  Mrs.  O.  William- 
son 
Amity — Mrs.  E.  H.  Haskell. 
Bangor — Mrs.  Elizabeth  Patten,  Mrs. 

Mary  D.  Patten. 
Bangor    Crusade —  Mrs.     H.     F. 

Dowst. 
Bar   Harbor — Mrs.  M.    E.   Snow, 

Pres.,  Miss  Alice  Suminsby,  Mrs. 

H.  B.  Jordan. 
Bath- — Mrs.   Helen    Delano,    Pres., 

Mrs.  A.  W.  Bachers,  Mrs.  H.  F. 

Wood,  Miss  E.  W.  Smiley. 
BsLFAST — Mrs.    £.  Hunnewell,  Mrs. 

H.   Thomdike,  Mrs.  J.  T.  Cot- 

trell. 
Brownfield — Miss  Louise  Elastman. 

Biddeford— Mrs.  Isabel  W.  Haley, 
Pres.,  Mrs.  Sarah  A.  Weymouth, 
Mrs.  Emily  C.  Dudley. 

Bremen — Mrs.  Emma  D.  Morelen. 

Camden — Mrs.  D.  F.  Wadsworth. 

Cape    Elizabeth — Miss     Lena    L. 

Hanaford,  Mrs.  L.  C.  Jewell. 
Caribou — Mrs.  F.  A.  Wnght,  Pres., 

Mrs.  R.  A.  Newbert,  Mrs.  Celes- 

tia  Lufkin,  Miss  L.  F.  Runnals. 
China — Mrs.  S.  A.  Baker,  Annie  S. 

Foster. 
Cornish — Mrs.  Ann  D.  Webb,  Pres., 

MUs  C.  W.  Pugsley. 
Cherryfield— Mrs.   Effie  L.  Nash, 

Pres.,  Mrs.  C.  P.  Nichols,  Mrs. 

Charlotte  A.  Ricker. 
Cumberland  Mills — Mrs.  Geo.  E. 

Morrill,    Pres.,    Mrs.   Annie   £. 

Scribner,  Miss  P.  S.  Graham. 


Danporth  —  llrs.    D.    H.    Powell,  NoRWAY'^-Mrs.  M.  £.  Drake,  Pres., 

Pres.,  L.  A.  Smart.  Mrs.  Mary  Smiley. 

Dexter— Bfrs.  Angle  CUfTord,  Mrs.  New  Portland — Mrs.    W.   Ricker, 

E.  A.  Tibbetts.  Mrs.  £.  H.  Butt. 

Dover  and  Foxcroft — Mrs.  Sarah  North  New  Portland — Mrs.  Flora 

A.  Martin,  Miss  Carrie  £    Jack-  ,     A.  Clark. 

son.  North  Anson — Mrs.  Samuel  Bunker, 

Dresden  Mills — Miss  CarolineAlley,  Mrs.    J.    Atkinson,    Helen    £. 

Pres.,  Mrs.  Laura  Bennett.  Moore. 

Ellsworth — Miss  Lucy  L.  Phelps.  North    GoRHAM—Mrs.    A.    D.  T. 

£astport — Mrs.  Eben  Holmes,  Pres.,  Moses,  Mrs.  N.  M.  Wescott. 

Mrs.  H.  P.  Adams.  Old  Orchard— Mrs.  A.  C.  Dawley, 

East  Machias — Mrs.  Ruth  A.  Han-  Pres.,  Mrs.  M.  A.  Harper. 

scom,  Pres.  Orono  —  Mrs.     L.    Webster,     Mrs. 

East   Parsonsfield— Miss  Melvina  Addie  L.  Harvey. 

L.  Dearborn,  Mrs.  Mary  Smart.  Peak^s     Island — Mrs.     Violet     E. 

Fort  Fairfield — Mrs.  Mary  Collins,  Wheatley,  Pres.,  Miss  Abbie  T. 

Mrs.  Carrie  Jewett,  Miss  Agnes  Libby. 

Richards.  Philups — Miss  Edith  Church. 

Gardiner— Miss   EUinor    Laurence,  Pittsfield— Mrs.  E.  V.  Runnals. 

HAJ;SN^».'?J7oli„e  Mayo.  Pi-VMOUTH-Mrs.  A.  L  Abbott. 

Harrington— Mrs.  AugusU    Rum-  Portland— Mrs.  Mary  J.  Raymond, 

ball.  Mrs.  J.  E.  McDowall,  Miss  C.  M. 

Hiram— Mrs.  Wm.  L.  Davis.  S*Vf "»„*?"*  li'  ^'  ^t?^"»  ^^' 
Houlton— Miss  Eunice   P.   Merritt,  ^;  "•  ^.r^^r,  Mrs.  H.  M.    Hum- 
Mrs.    B.    Minard,    Mrs.    A.    A.  P^^'^y*   ^rs.  N.  S.  Femald.  Mrs. 

Mowry.  ^'    ^'    Johnston,    Mrs.    M.    A. 

Hallowell— Mrs.    E.    F.     Rowell,  „      O'Brien.           ^,        ^          ,     ^ 

Pres..  Mrs.   G.   E.   Murry,  Mrs.  Portland  Y's—  Mrs.   Gertrude   S. 

H.  E.  Foss,  Mrs.  B.  F.  Fuller.  h?*''^*'  ^^5f/»  M>\*  A"S«  Brooks, 

Kennebunk— Mrs.   A.  O.    Kimball,  Miss  Cora  Chase,  Miss  Evangeline 

Pres.,  Susan  Littlefield.  „      Pearson. 

KiNcnELD- Mrs.  Annie  R.   Hodge,  PRKSQUE    Jsle— Mre.    D.     DeWitt, 

Mrs  Jennie  Pullen,  Mrs.  Emma  „      P^«*-»  ^"-  ^'  C.  Whidden. 

Sanford.  Popham     Beach— Miss    Kate     W. 

Lebanon— Miss  Ella  C.  Hurd,  Miss  ^F^^^^^*^J^^*  *?"•  Vesta  Jones 

Emma  DUon,  Mrs.  A.  S.  Fur-  „      **"•  ^'  ^i'  ^^X'    „  «    « 

bush.  Rockland— Mrs.  R.  C.   Hall,  Pres., 

Lewiston— Mrs.   Abbie  M.   Adelle,  Mrs.  Susie  S.  Johnson,  Mrs.  G. 

Mrs.  C.  Y.  Newman,  Mrs.  C.  G.  „     ^'  Bnunerd,  Mrs.  Julia  C.  Lazell. 

Faunce,    Miss    Emma    Randall.  Rockland  Y.-Mrs.  O.  L.   Bartlett, 

Miss  Emma  Silver,  Mrs.  Helen  ^F.^^'^  ^J»»  ^**^'llf  ^\  ^^^^^f 

Wellman.  M"**    ^^^  C-     Blagdon,    Miss 

Limestone— Mrs.  Sarah  Chase,  Mrs.  .„     ^^">«  N™**-  ^  .  .     .    , 

N.  Getchell.  Rockport — Mrs.  Calvin  Andrews. 

Lisbon  Falls— Mrs.  Mary  Bard.  Round  Pond— Mrs.  J.  E.   Nichols. 

Machias — Mrs.  M.  B.  Hill.  Pr«s..  Miss   Ina    Hinkley,   Miss 

Mechanic    Falls  —  Mrs.    C.     A.  Lottie  Yates,  Miss  Eva  Yates. 

Springer,  Mary  E.  Perkins,  Mrs.  Saco — Mrs.  L.  W.  Rice,  Mrs.  Sophia 

L.  T.  Allen,  Mrs.  L.  W.  Qark.  Emmons. 

Monmouth  —  Mrs.     Elvira    Norris,  St.  Albans— Mrs.  F.   M.   Chandler, 

Pres.,  Mrs.  Clifford,  Mrs.  E.  £.  Mrs.  Martha  Osborne. 

Marston.  Shawmut— Mrs.    R.   E.    Lawrence, 

Newcastle— Mrs.  Lucinda  Thomp-  Pres. 

soM,  Pres.,  Mrs.  Emma  Hall.  Searsmont— Emily  F.  Miller. 


to 

So.  BiRWiCK— Mrt.  S.   W.   Ricker,  Turner— Mrs.    A.  M.  Jones,    Mm. 

Mrs.  Chas.  Hubbard.  Kate  Wilder. 

Saccarappa — Mrs.   Emma  W.  Lane,  Union — Mrs.   L.     M.   Lovell,    Mrs. 

Pres.  Maria  Drake,  Mrs.  L  A.  Burton. 

So.  Portland— > Mrs.  L.  H.  Hubbard,  Vassalboro— Emily  S.  Weeks,  Pres., 

Pres.,  Mrs.  L.  F.  Studley.  Kate  E.  Rollins. 

So.  Windham — Mrs.   M.  M.   Bodse,  Waldo boro — Mrs.  H.   M.   Dagsett, 

Miss  Emma  Jackman,  Mrs.  L.  M.  Pres.,  Mrs.  A-  A.  Newbert,  Afiss 

Little.  Emma    Trowbridge,    Mrs.     Ida 

Stillwater — Mrs.  J.  V.  Tucker.  Achom. 

Strati'on — Mrs.    L.    A.     Standish,  Warren— Mrs.  Josephine  A.  Teague. 

Pres.,  Mrs.    E.    B.    Myers,   Mrs.  Pres  ,  Mrs.  Hannah  Stevens,  Mrs. 

E.  M.  Porter.  Marion  Mallett. 

Stroudwater  —  Miss     Louise    Tit-  Washburn — Mrs.  L.  B.  Smith,  Pres. 

comb,  Miss  A   F.  Quimby,   Mrs.  Windham  Center — Adelia   L.    Fcl- 

Olive  Hanson.  lows,      Pres.,    Lucy    A.    Snow, 

Tiiomaston — Miss  Alida  Mehan,  Mrs.  Emma  E.  Moore. 

Maria  Smith,  Mrs.  S.  J.  Wight. 


FIF^ST    DAY. 

Tuesday  Morning,  Oct.  7. 

The  Sixteenth  Annual  Convention  of  the  Maine  W.  C.  T.  U. 
assembled  in  the  Pay  son  Memorial  Church,  Portland,  opening 
with  a  Devotional  Meeting,  led  by  Mrs.  Lucy  A.  Snow. 
At  its  close  Convention  was  called  to  order  by  Mrs.  Stevens, 
State  President. 

Roll  Call  revealed  the  presence  of  all  the  General  Officers, 
four  Organizers,  and  nine  of  the  sixteen  Vice  Presidents  and 
eleven  of  the  twenty-seven  State  Superintendents. 

The  following  committees  were  then  selected,  viz.  : 

On  Credentials — Miss  L.  F.  Runnals,  Mrs.  AbUie  C. 
Peaslee. 

On  Courtesies — Mrs. Whitman  Sawyer,  Mrs.  J.  E.  McDow- 
ell, Mrs.  Nellie  Pierce. 

Address  of  Welcome  was  then  given  by  Miss  C.  M.  Dow, 
followed  by  Response  read  by  Mrs.  Hubbard  of  So.  Berwick 
in  the  absence  of  Mrs.  I.  Luce. 

A  quartette  composed  of  Rev.  B.  C.  Wentworth,  presiding 
elder  of  the  Bangor  district.  Rev.  A.  A.  Lewis  of  Bath, 
Rev.  J.  R.  Clifford,  Dexter,  and  Rev.  H.  E.  Frohock,  of 
Houlton,  then  rendered  a  beautiful  hymn. 

Report  of  Work  Among  Soldiers  and  Sailors  by  Mrs. 
Hannah  T.  Jenkins  followed.  Accepted.  Remarks  made  on 
this  work  by  Mrs.  Stevens  and  others. 

Voted,  That  Miss  Evelyn  Simmonds  be  made  chairman 
of  the  messengers  with  power  to  add  to  the  list. 

Rev.  D.  B.  Randall  was  then  introduced  favoring  the  con- 
vention with  remarks. 

Report  of  Work  Among  Lumbermen,  by  Mrs.  E.  Merritt. 
Accepted. 

Remarks  of  cheer  and  encouragement  then  made  by  Rev. 
Mr.  Wentworth. 

Flower    Mission     Work     reported    by    Miss    Simmonds. 
Accepted. 


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Introduction  of  Rev.  Mr.  Parsons,  and  remarks  by  the  same 
followed. 

Moved  that  telegrams  of  greeting  be  sent  by  our  Cor.  Sec.  to 
the  Kentucky  and  Tennessee  State  Conventions  now  in  session. 
Carried. 

Mrs.  Cram  then  read  a  letter  of  welcome  from  Mrs.  G.  S. 
Hunt,  President  of  Portland  Union. 

Moved  by  Miss  Yates  that  a  vote  of  thanks  be  returned  to 
Mrs.  Hunt  from  this  Convention  expressing  our  sympathy 
with  her  ill-health  and  regret  at  her  absence. 

Report  of  Co-operative  Work  sent  by  Mrs.  Sprague,  read 
by  Cor.  Secretary.     Same  accepted  after  some  discussion. 

Mrs.  Stevens  then  calling  Mrs.  Cram  to  the  chair,  gave  her 
report  on  Legislative  Work.     Adopted. 

The  noon  hour  having  arrived,  was  observed  by  a  moment 
of  silent  prayer,  followed  by  a  short  vocal  prayer  by  Mrs. 
Wright  of  Caribou. 

Announcements  were  made,  the  Crusade  Hymn  sang  and 
morning  session  closed  with  benediction  by  Rev.  D.  B. 
Randall. 

Tuesday  Afternoon. 

Opened  with  devotional  service  conducted  by  Mrs.  H.  F. 
Crocker.     At  its  close  Convention  was  called  to  order. 

Music. 

Morning  minutes  read  and  accepted  as  now  recorded. 

Moved  to  reconsider  the  vote  whereby  the  report  of  Co-oper- 
ative Work  was  accepted.     Carried. 

Voted  to  accept  the  same  after  correction. 

Miss  Lucia  E.  F.  Kimball  and  Mrs.  Hannah  J.  Bailey, 
National  Superintendents,  were  introduced,  each  oHcring  a 
few  words  of  greeting. 

Corresponding  Secretary  reported.     Accepted. 

Music. 

Rev.  Messrs.  Whittaker  and  Hamilton  were  introduced, 
also  Mr.  Taggart,  National  Secretary  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A., 
Mrs.  Thorp  and  Mrs.  Shapleigh  of  Cambridge  Union. 
Remarks  oflered  by  each. 


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Juvenile  Work  reported  by  Mrs.  Frances  M.  Chandler. 
Adopted. 

Department  of  Suppression  of  Impure  Literature  reported 
by  Mrs.  Hill.     Adopted. 

Rev.  Mr.  Collins  and  Mr.  McDonald,  Secretary  Portland 
Y.  M.  C.  A.,  were  introduced  and  remarks  were  offered  by 
each. 

Voted,  That  Mrs.  Barstow  of  Bangor  Crusade  who  is  to 
attend  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Good  Templars  at  Rockland, 
Oct.  8th,  be  instructed  to  bear  fraternal  greetings  to  that  body 
from  this  convention. 

Mrs.  Barstow  was  then  introduced  and  reported  briefly  the 
work  of  the  Bangor  Crusade. 

Evangelistic  Work  reported  by  Mrs.  Snow.     Adopted. 

Music. 

Sabbath  Observance  reported  by  Mrs.  Bailey.     Adopted. 

Selection  of  Committee  on  Resolutions  reported  :  Mrs.  B. 
Minard,  Mrs.  V.  Wheatley,  Mrs.  M.  D.  Lander,  Mrs.  A.  F. 
Greeley,  Mrs.  J.  F.  Wood,  Mrs.  S.  S.  Johnson,  Mrs.  Helen 
Daggett,  Mrs.  Wm.  Davis,  Mrs.  J.  B.  Hill,  Mrs.  Kate  Spin- 
ney, Mrs.  M.  F.  Bunker,  Miss  Emily  Miller,  Mrs.  Bernard 
Rogers,  Mrs.  A.  O.  Kimball,  Mrs.  A.  C.  Peaslee. 

Voted  to  send  telegram  of  love  and  sympathy  to  Mrs.  Helen 
B.  C.  Beedy  by  Corresponding  Secretary. 

Miss  E.  U.  Yates  of  Round  Pond  was  introduced  ;  Mrs. 
Martin,  Mrs.  McDowell  and  Miss  Patten,  members  of  Payson 
Memorial  Church,  were  also  introduced. 

Telegrams  reported  as  sent  by  Mrs.  Cram  : 

To  Mrs.  N.  A.  Munnell, 

Richmond,  Ky., 

Maine  W.  C.  T.  U.  in  convention  send  greeting.     Fs.  20,  7. 

L.   M.  N.  STEVENS. 

To  Mrs.  Louise  S.  Rounds, 

Rockford,  111., 

Greetings  from  Maine  W.  C.  T.  U.  in  convention.     Ps.  126,  3. 

L.   M.  N.  STEVENS. 

Introduction  of  Mrs.  Gertrude  S.  Leavitt  by  request. 
Announcements. 


Adjouriicti    with    .>tiigiiig«    ami    hcncdictiMn     by    Rev.    Mr. 
Frohi>ck. 

TrtsHAY  Evening. 

Eveiiinjij  meeting  opcneil  by  swinging. 

Scripture  reading  by  Mrs.  Shapleigh. 

Praver  bv  Mrs.  Crocker. 

Song  by  quartette. 

Rev.  Dr.  Merrill,  pastor  Payson  Memorial  Chuich,  gave  an 
address  of  welcome. 

Music. 

President's  annual  address  given. 

Music. 

Miss  E.  L'.  Vates  gave  such  cti'ective  remarks  that  the  results 
were  nearly  $60. 

Music  by  the  quartette. 

Address  by  Mrs.  Frances  VV.  Har|>er. 

The   congregation   sang   "All    Hail    the    Power   of   Jesus' 
Name,"  led  by  the  quartette. 

Benediction. 


SEeO^ID  p/^Y. 

Wednesday  Mornint.,  Oct.  S. 

Services  o|)ened  by  devotional  meeting  led  by  Miss  Abbic 
C  Leavitt. 

Notice  was  given  that  Mrs.  Cram  would  take  orders  for  en- 
gagements for  Mrs.  Harper. 

Department  of  Social  Purity  leportedby  its  Superintendent. 
Mrs.  Margaret  T.  W.  Merrill.     Adopted. 

Messrs.  Sidelinjjer  and  Perrv  were  introduced. 

Miss  '^'atcs  of  New  Jersey  was  introduced,  who  brought 
greetings  from  Miss  Charlotte  M.  Gray  of  Norway. 

Memorial  Service,  opened  by  rendering  of  hymn.  '^I  Can 
Not  Alwavs  Trace  the  Wav,'*  bv  quartette.  Followed  bv  a 
tender  tribute  from  Mrs.  Stevens  in  memory  of  Mrs.  Pauline 
Osgood.  Newcastle;  Miss  ICatc  Scales.  Portland:  Mrs.  Davis, 
Ellswortli ;  Mrs.  McDonald,  Stroud  water ;  Mrs.  Merrill, 
Bluehill ;    Mrs.    Ann  Covel,   Bath ;    Miss  C.  E.   Brown,   E. 


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M-achias ;  Mrs.  Marcia  Dyer,  Strong;  Mrs.  Sophia  Reed, 
Hampden  ;  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Hamor,  Bar  Harbor ;  Mrs.  C.  Pat- 
terson, Belfast;  Mrs.  McKenney,  Belfast;  Mrs.  Chapman, 
Damariscotta  ;  Mrs.  Carrie  E.  Libby,  Rockport.  Closing  with 
prayer  by  Mrs.  E.  A.  G.  Stickney,  and  singing  by  quartette, 
••Good  Night,  Beloved,  Good  Night.'' 

Sunday  School  Work  reported  by  Mrs.  E.  A.  G.  Stickney. 
Adopted. 

Miss  Kimball  by  a  rising  assent  was  made  a  member  of  this 
Convention. 

Miss  Kimball  made  a  cheering  report  of  the  National  prog- 
ress of  the  Sunday  School  Department. 

Treasurer's  and  Auditor's  report  oftered  and  accepted. 

Observance  of  our  noon  hour  bv  silent  praver,  vocalized  bv 
Mrs.  Ricker. 

Introduction  of  Mrs.  Johnston,  Secretary  of  Entertainment 
Committee. 

Mrs.  Harper  introduced  her  little  book  for  sale. 

Adjourned  with  Doxology. 

Wednesday  Afterxoon. 

Opened  with  devotional  meeting  led  by  Mrs.  F.  M.  Wright. 

Convention  called  to  order. 

Music. 

Morning  minutes  read,  corrected  and  accepted. 

Report  of  Credential  Committee  read  and  returned  for  cor- 
rections and  additions. 

Press  Work  reported  by  Miss  Mary  L.  French.     Accepted. 

Voted  that  the  special  work  of  to-morrow's  program  at 
10.30  be  to  consider  the  needs  of  Star  in  the  East. 

Voted  to  suspend  the  By-Law  stipulating  that  Election  of 
Officers  be  the  work  of  the  morning  of  the  last  day  and  the 
order  of  the  program  be  carried  out. 

Miss  Dow  called  to  the  chair  during  election. 

Four  tellers  were  appointed,  viz. :  Mrs.  French,  of  Port- 
land ;  Mrs.  Johnston,  of  Portland  ;  Mrs.  Bunker,  of  North 
Anson  ;   Mrs.  Martin,  of  Foxcroft. 

The  result  of  the  election  was  the  unanimous  choice  of  Mrs. 


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L.  M.  N.  Stevens  for  President.  Mrs.  Stevens  was  escorted 
to  her  place  by  Mrs.  Humphrey  of  Portland  and  Mrs.  Delano 
of  Bath.  A  few  words  ©f  presentation  by  Mrs.  Humplirey 
were  responded  to  by  the  entire  Convention  rising  and  the 
white  wave  of  the  Chautauqua  salute.  Mrs.  Stevens  responded 
to  this  greeting  in  a  few  earnest  and  well  chosen  words, 
followed  by  prayer  from  Mrs.  Merrill  and  song  by  ihe  quartette. 

The  other  officers  chosen  were  ;  Mrs.  Sarah  L.  Cram,  Cor. 
Sec. ;  Miss  Clara  M.  Farwell,  Rec.  Sec.  ;  Mrs.  E.  M.  Blanch- 
ard.  Treasurer. 

By  nomination  from  Miss  Farwell,  Mrs.  A.  S.  Johnston  was 
chosen  Asst.  Rec.  Sec. 

Rev.  Mr.  Bayley,  of  State  St.  church.  Rev.  Mr.  Frost  of  the 
Congress  St.  church,  and  Rev.  T.  F.  Jones  of  South  Portland 
were  introduced  and  made  brief  remarks. 

By  vote  the  election  of  Delegates  to  National  Convention 
was  made  the  special  order  of  business  for  1 1  o'clock  Thurs- 
day morning. 

A  message  was  received  from  the  Lewlston  District  Ministe- 
rial Association  of  the  Maine  Conference  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church  in  session  at  Gorham,  N.  H. 

Mrs.  H.  J.  Bailey  appointed  to  frame  a  suitable  response. 

Fraternal  greetings  received  from  Grand  Lodge  of  Good 
Templars  assembled  at  Rockland. 

Introduction  of  Mrs.  Sara  C.  Bull,  widow  of  Ole  Bull,  who 
responded  by  playing  a  Norwegian  National  air. 

Introduction  of  Mr.  Baker  of  Portland. 

Address  of  Mrs.  Thorp,  President  of  Cambridge  W.  C.  T. 
U.,  who  expressed  exactly  the  opinion  of  the  Maine  W.  C.  T. 
I.T.,  judging  by  the  frequent  applause  and  rapt  attention  of 
her  audience. 

Mrs.  H.  F.  Crocker  reported  on  Department  of  Unfermented 
Wine.     Accepted. 

Introduction  of  and  remarks  by  Rev.  H.  E.  Frohock  of  the 
ministerial  quartette. 

Scientific  Temperance  Instruction  reported  by  Mrs.  George 
F.  French.     Accepted. 


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Wednesday  Evening. 
Opened  with  music. 
Scripture  reading  by  Mrs.  H.  J.  Bailey. 
Prayer  by  Mrs.  Abbie  C.  Peaslee. 
Music. 

Address  by  Miss  E.  U.  Yates. 
Piano  Solo  by  Mrs.  Sara  C.  Bull. 

Recitation  and  remarks  by  Mrs.  Harper  to  the  value  of  $46. 
Address  by  Miss  Lillian  Phelps  of  St.  Catharines,  Ontario. 
Music— '«Are  You  That  Man." 
Benediction  by  Rev.  Dr.  Blanchard. 


THII^D     DAY. 

Thursday  Morning,  Oct.  9. 

Opened  by  devotional  meeting  led  by  Mrs.  M.  F.  Bunker. 

Convention  called  to  order. 

A  beautiful  basket  of  flowers  sent  from  George  S.  Hunt,  Esq., 
of  Portland,  with  his  greetings,  was  received  by  the  president 
with  a  few  graceful  remarks  and  the  convention  gave  a  rising 
vote  of  thanks. 

Reading  and  acceptance  of  minutes  of  Wednesday  afternoon 
and  evening  session. 

Mrs.  Merrill,  Superintendent  of  Social  Purity,  tendered  her 
resignation,  which  was  accepted  with  great  reluctance. 

Moved  that  Mrs.  Merrill  be  made  a  life  long  member  of  the 
W.  C.  T.  U.  with  authority  to  do  whatever  work  she  chooses. 
Carried. 

Requested  Hymn  rendered  by  quartette. 

Decided  to  place  Mrs.  W.  C.  Spaulding  as  Associate  Super- 
intendent with  Mrs.  Crocker  on  Department  of  Unfermented 
Wine. 

Minutes  of  Wednesday  evening  Executive  Meeting  read  and 
adopted. 

Pledges  from  County  Presidents  of  subscriptions  to  Star  in 
the  East  taken,  giving  a  total  of  I9430. 

Mrs.  Denny,  Supt.   of  Literature  and  Union  Signal  asked 


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to  be  excused  from  reading  her  report  as  it  would  be  fully 
printed  in  our  minutes.     Granted. 

Rev.  Messrs.  Wilson,  Hayden  and  Patterson  introduced, 
also  Mr.  E.  H.  Walsh. 

Mrs.  Raymond  introduced. 

Mrs.  H.  J.  Bailey  gave  notice  that  she  or  some  one  in  her 
place  would  next  year  move  an  amendment  to  Art.  3  of  the 
Constitution — whereby  the  Constitution  should  include  in  its 
membership  the  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  each  County  Or- 
ganization. 

National  Delegates  then  chosen  viz.  :  Mrs.  B.  Minard, 
Houlton  ;  Mrs.  H.  F.  Crocker,  Pembroke;  MissAlida  Mehan, 
Thomaston  ;  Mrs.  M.  F.  Bunker,  No.  Anson  ;  Mrs.  Abbie 
J.  Benner,  Auburn  ;  Mrs.  S.  D.  Moulton,  Old  Orchard  ;  Miss 
C.  M.  Dow  Portland.  Alternates,  Mrs.  L.  J.  Spauldiiig,  Car- 
ibou ;  Mrs.  Ann  F.  Greeley,  Ellsworth;  Miss  A.  A.  Hicks, 
Belfast;  Mrs.  Florence  Wood,  Winthrop  ;  Mrs.  Ruth  A.  Bray, 
Auburn;  Mrs.  Snow,  Cornish;  Miss  A.  F.  Qiiimby,  Stroud- 
water. 

Mrs.  B.  Minard,    Secretary  of   the  Resolution  Committee, 

reported.     Resolutions  were  first  read  collectively,  afterward 

read  and  adopted  seriatim: 

RESOLUTIONS. 

lietfolved,  That  we  do  rely  more  fully  on  the  aid  of  our  heavenly  Father 
for  success  in  our  work  and  we  take  courage  because  of  the  favorable  reports 
of  our  corresponding  secretary  and  superintendents  of  departments  and  in 
the  fact  that  forty  new  unions  have  been  organized  and  our  membership  in- 
creased by  more  than  600  during  the  year: 

Whereas^  We  learned  with  regret  that  base  ball  playing,  excursions, 
visiting,  etc.,  on  the  Sabbath  are  practiced  to  a  great  extent  in  certain  localities 
in  our  State;  therefore 

Resolvf'dy  That  all  members  of  the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union 
co-operate  with  the  superintendents  of  the  department  bf  Sabbath  Observance 
in  discouraging  these  practices  and  insist  on  the  enforcement  of  our  Sabbath 
laws. 

Jiesolvf'd^  That  we  have  reason  to  rejoice  in  the  peace  treaty  of  Central 
and  South  America  and  the  United  States,  and  the  adoption  of  the  Sherman 
Arbitration  resolution  by  our  government;  with  the  Universal  Peace  Congress 
held  in  London;  with  the  friendly  visit  made  by  the  Emperor  of  Germany  to 
the  courts  of  Europe;  with  the  efforts  of  our  Minister  of  Peace,  Conrad 
Stollmanger,  in  Europe,  and  with  the  pacific  labors  of  the  Secretary  of  State 
of  the  United  States;  that  peace  work  is  a  part  of  the  temperance  cause  and 
intemperance  and  war  are  twin  relics  of  an  unenlightened  age,  and  that  we 
urge  all  interested  in  juvenile  work  to  introduce  principles  of  peace,  and 
organize  Peace  Bands  wherever  advisable. 


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WhereaSt  The  work  of  the  White  Cross  and  Shield  is  one  of  the  most 
vital  importance,  and  knowing  that  God  requires  of  us  purity  in  thought, 
word  and  deed; 

Kf.solved,  That  we  will  work  more  earnestly  and  prayerfully  along  the  line 
of  Social  Purity. 

Whereas^  It  is  the  duty  of  each  White  Ribboner  to  fit  herself  for  the  best 
possible  work  along  the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union  lines;  there- 
fore, 

RpHftJred,  That  we  use  our  utmost  endeavors  to  increase  the  circulation  of 
the  Union  Signal,  Star  in  the  East,  and  all  W^omen's  Temperance  Peace 
Association  publications,  and  that  we  extend  a  vote  of  thanks  to  the  Portland 
Herald  and  all  other  State  papers  that  grant  us  space  in  their  columns. 

Resolved,  That  we  are  heartily  and  forever  opposed  to  the  use  of  tobacco 
in  all  its  forms,  and  that  as  white  ribbon  women  we  will,  by  every  means  in 
our  power,  discourage  and  discountenance  its  use;  also  that  we  will  diligently 
and  faithfully  warn  the  young  of  the  baneful  effects  of  all  narcotics. 

Resolved^  That  we  commend  the  enterprise  of  the  Temperance  Temple  to 
local  unions  and  other  organizations  interested  in  temperance  work,  and  we 
heartily  thank  the  ladies  of  Payson  Memorial  church  for  their  proposed  gift 
of  one  hundred  dollars  toward  its  erection. 

Resolved,  Thar  in  view  of  the  grand  results  accruing  from  the  observation 
of  Sept  28,  Miss  Frances  E.  Willard's  birthday,  as  our  membership  crusade 
day,  we  would  recommend  that  each  year  we  spend  this  day  in  prayer  and 
efforts  to  increase  our  membership,  as  an  expression  of  our  love  and  regard  to 
our  national  president. 

Resolved,  That  we  heartily  rejoice  in  the  gain  that  has  come  in  the  line  of 
temperance  lessons  as  the  result  of  the  memorial  to  the  International  Sun- 
day-school Convention,  and  that  we  will  work  more  earnestly  to  secure  in 
every  Sunday-school  of  our  state  the  thorough  education  of  our  children  and 
•young  people  upon  this  important  subject. 

Resolved,  That  the  liquor  traffic  should  no  longer  be  trifled  with,  but 
should  be  absolutely  suppressed  It  should  be  eliminated  from  our  foreign 
commerce,  prohibited  in  our  inter-state  trade,  and  no  longer  tolerated  in  our 
home  enterprise.  Then  would  be  removed  the  dcef)est,  direst,  most  wide- 
spread and  most  persistent  curse  in  the  world. 

Resolved,  That  we  recognize  in  the  thorough  enforcement  of  our  Scientific 
Temperance  law  an  agency  that  will  train  for  intelligent  total  abstinence  the 
children  of  today,  who  will  soon  constitute  the  citizens  of  this  state,  and  we 
pledge  ourselves  to  make  the  thorough  enforcement  «f  this  law  our  leading 
line  of  work,  until  every  child  in  all  our  public  schools  is  being  faithfully 
taught  the  truth  against  alcoholic  drinks,  tobacco  and  other  narcotics  as  the 
law  demands. 

Resolved^  That  we  recognize  with  sincere  gratitude  the  practical  sympathy 
with  the  best  enforcements  and  aims  of  this  law,  as  shown  by  the  leading 
educators  of  the  state,  Hon.  N.  A.  Luce  and  others. 

Resolved,  That  all  forms  of  license,  high  or  low,  are  vicious  in  principle, 
pernicious  in  practice  and  valueless  as  an  expedient,  and  consequently  all 
revenue  derived  from  such  a  source  is  the  price  of  blood  and  of  sin,  making 
those  who  sustain  the  license  system  or  vote  with  license  parties,  helpers  and 
abettors  of  iniquity,  and  morally  accountable  before  God  and  man  for  all  the 
evil  and  crime  resulting  therefrom. 

Resolved,  That  we  reiterate  our  intention  to  be  as  we  have  always  been, 
neither  a  partisan  nor  a  sectarian  organization,  but  this  shall  not  prevent  us 
from  the  frank  declaration  that  we  will  lend  our  influence,  express  our  grati- 
tude and  good  will,  and  offer  our  prayers  for  any  society,  association  or  move- 
ment, in  cnurch  or  state,  that  has  for  its  watchword,  *'The  saloon  must  go." 


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Besolved,  That  we  realize  more  than  ever  before,  the  growing  need  of  a 
reformatory  prison  for  women  in  our  state,  and  we  request  our  women  of  the 
white  ribl)on  throughout  the  state  to  exert  an  influence  over  voters  and  espec- 
ially members  of  the  legislature  representing  the  district  in  which  they 
reside,  in  favor  of  this  humane  measure  asked  for  by  our  committee. 

Believing  that  the  ballot  in  the  hand  of  women  is  the  most  efficient  weapon 
we  can  use  against  the  rum  power,  therefore 

Resolved,  That  we  pledge  our  support  to  the  Maine  Suffrage  Association 
in  its  efforts  for  the  enfranchisement  of  women. 

Resolved,  That  we  recommend  every  member  of  the  Woman's  Christian 
Temperance  Union  to  wear  the  recognized  badge  of  our  organization  on  all 
occasions. 

Whereas,  The  United  States  mail  and  Post  Offices  are  in  many  instances 
used  to  spread  impure  literature  and  obscene  pictures,  therefore 

Resolved,  That  we  will  use  all  our  powers  by  petition  and  other  proper 
measures  to  have  this  great  evil  abolished. 

Resolved,  That  we  extend  our  thanks  to  the  Payson  Memorial  Society  for 
the  use  of  their  church,  to  the  pastor  for  his  kind  expressions  of  confidence  in 
the  success  of  our  cause,  and  to  the  Portland  Unions,  and  to  the  citizens 
for  their  bountiful  hospitality,  to  the  Portland  Y.  W.  C.  T.  U.  for  courtesies 
received — to  the  East  Maine  Quartette  for  their  inspiring  songs.  To  the 
Railroad  Companies,  to  the  Press  and  all  others  who  have  contributed  to  make 
uur  Convention  a  success. 

Miss  Phelps  made  a  member  of  this  convention  with  all  its 
rights  and  privileges. 

Noontide  hour  observed  by  silent  prayer  ;  also  vocal  prayer 
by  Miss  Yates. 

Song  by  quartette. 

Announcements. 

Voted  to  open  devotional  meeting  of  afternoon  at  2  o'clock. 

Adjourned  with  song  and  benediction. 

Thursday  Afternoon. 

Exercises  opened  with  a  Bible  Reading  given  by  Mrs.  Barney. 

Convention  called  to  order. 

Music. 

Morning  minutes  read  and  accepted. 

Mrs.  Hanson  moved  a  message  of  love  and  recognition  be 
sent  to  Miss  Margaret  B.  Davis  at  Berlin.     Carried. 

Report  of  Mrs.  Susan  French  Superintendent  of  Fairs. 
Adopted, 

Report  of  Mrs.  I.  S.  Wentworth  Superintendent  of  Nar- 
cotics.    Adopted. 

Master  Burt  Kimball  aged  3  1-2  years,  adopted  son  of  Miss 
Lucia  E.  F.  Kimball  introduced. 


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Miss  Clara  Kimball  was  introduced  as  among  the  first  cru- 
saders, who  gave  interesting  reminiscences  of  that  time. 

Mrs.  A.  F.  Greeley,  Superintendent  of  Franchise  reported. 
Accepted. 

Rev.  Mr.  Clymer  introduced  Mrs.  H.  J.  Bailey,  Superintend- 
ent of  Department  to  Secure  Reformatory  Prison  for  Women, 
reported .     Accepted . 

Gen.  Neal  Dow,  the  father  of  prohibition,  was  then  intro- 
duced and  made  a  short  address,  giving  a  brief  account  of  the 
origin  and  some  of  the  workings  of  the  United  Kingdom 
Alliance,  which,  with  the  exception  of  possibly  the  W.  C.  T.  U., 
is  the  largest  and  most  influential  temperance  organization  in 
the  world.  He  told  of  some  districts  in  Great  Britain  where 
prohibition  meant  prohibition,  for  in  Great  Britain  the  laws, 
whether  right  or  wrong,  are  faithfully  administered. 

Song  by  quartette,  '^Over  for  Prohibition." 

Introduction  of  Rev.  Dr.  Small  of  Portland. 

Report  of  Y.  W.  C.  T.  U.  by  Mrs.  Gertrude  S.  Leavitt. 
Adopted. 

Miss  Angie  Brooks  recommended  as  Superintendent  of  Y. 
work,  confirmed. 

Report  of  Prison  and  Jail  Work  by  Mrs.  Harriet  M.  Phil- 
brick.    Adopted. 

Presentation  of  and  remarks  by  Mrs.  J.  K.  Barney,  National 
Superintendent  of  Prison  and  Jail  Work. 

Introduction  of  Rev.  Mr.  Billings  of  Portland. 

Morning  minutes  read  and  accepted. 

Minutes  of  Executive  Meeting  read.  The  part  referring  to 
financial  management  of  Star  in  the  East  referred  to  Executive 
Committee  for  amendment.  Minutes  then  accepted.  Re- 
maining reports  referred  to  Executive  Committee. 

The  following  places  extended  invitations  for  next  State 
Convention,  viz. :  Auburn,  Lewiston,  Houlton,  some  place 
in  Washington  County,  either  Eastport  or  Cherryficld,  Augusta, 
Rockland. 

Above  referred  to  Executive  Committee. 


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Reading  of  resolutions  referred  to  committee  for  re-construc- 
tion.    Accepted. 

Crusade  Hymn  by  quartette. 

All  unfinished  business  referred  to  Executive  Committee. 

Adjourned,  with  benediction. 

Thursday  Evening. 

The  meeting  began  with  singing  by  the  congregation  lead 
by  the  quartette,  of  the  hymn,  '*Rock  of  Ages.*' 

Mrs.  Thorp,  President  of  Cambridge  VV.  C.  T.  U..  intro- 
duced as  presiding  officer  of  the  evening. 

Scripture  reading  by  Mrs.  Shapleigh. 

Prayer  by  Mrs.  H.  J.  Bailey. 

Collection  speech  by  Miss  Phelps. 

Piano  solo  by  Mrs.  Sara  C.  Bull. 

Song  by  quartette. 

Address  by  Mrs.  J.  K.  Barney. 

On  motion  of  Miss  Cornelia  M.  Dow  it  was  voted  that  this 
1 6th  annual  convention  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  he  adjourned. 

Parting  Hymn,  ^'God  be  With  You  Till  We  Meet  Again/' 
sung. 

Benediction  by  Mrs.  J.  K.  Barney. 


EXEeUTIVE  eOJVIMITTEE. 

Monday  Evening,  Oct.  6. 

Prayer  was  offered  by  Mrs.  Philbrick. 

Arrangements  were  made  for  seating  the  delegates. 

Moved  that  the  Executive  Committee  recommend  to  the 
State  Superintendent  of  Literature  to  make  arrangements,  if 
possible,  to  have  our  literature  for  sale  on  railroad  trains. 
Carried. 

The  Committee  rose. 

Wednesday  Evening,  Oct.  S. 

Opened  by  prayer. 

A  list  of  State  Superintendents  was  made  out  and  reccim- 
mended  to  the  convention. 

Voted  to  continue  our  state  paper.  Star  in  the  East. 


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Voted,  That  Mrs.  Cram,  Miss  Dow  and  Mrs.  Johnston  be  a 
committee  to  make  arrangements  for  the  management  of  the 
paper. 

Voted  to  resume  Free  Will  Ofterings  this  year  under  direc- 
tion of  the  Treasurer. 

In  view  of  the  fact  that  Piscataquis  County  has  held  no  con- 
vention and  Miss  Jackson  the  president,  now  present  in  state 
convention,  requests  her  name  to  be  replaced  by  that  of  Mrs. 
E.  D.  Wade,  it  was  so  recommended. 

The  Committee  rose. 

Thursday  Afternoon,  Oct.  9. 

Opened  with  prayer. 

Recommended  that  names  of  suitable  persons  for  Superin- 
tendency  of  Prison  and  Jail  Work  be  written  and  handed  to 
the  platform  for  the  Executive  Committee  to  make  a  selection 
from. 

Recommended  to  approve  such  selection  for  the  Superin- 
tendency  of  Y  work  as  shall  be  chosen  at  the  Y  meeting  of 
this  afternoon. 

Recommended  to  have  our  state  paper.  Star  in  the  East, 
issued  from  state  headcjuarters  under  the  editorial  charge  of 
Miss  Mary  L.  French,  the  subject  matter  to  be  under  the 
approval  of  one  or  more  of  the  general  officers,  $60  being 
allowed  her  to  procure  needed  assistance.  Mrs.  Blanchard  to 
remain  financial  manager,  and  to  secure  advertisements,  the 
Executive  Committee  pledging  to  aid  in  the  same. 

The  Executive  Committee  also  recommend  that  Mrs. 
Blanchard  in  procuring  a  place  of  printing  consult  the  con- 
venience of  Miss  French,  no  additional  expense  being  incurred 
thereby. 

The  Committee  rose  to  meet  at  state  headquarters  Friday 
morning  at  1 1  o'clock. 

Friday  Morning,  Oct.  10. 

Opened  with  prayer  by  Mrs.  Mabry. 

Mrs.  F.  a.  Wright  appointed  as  principal  of  Department  of 
Social  Purity  in  place  of  Mrs.  M.  T.  W.  Merrill,  resigned. 


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Moved,  Miss  Emma  Trowbridge  be  made  Superintendent 
of  the  Department  of  Prison  and  Jail  Work.     Carried. 

Moved  that  the  reports  of  Superintendents  not  read  in 
convention  be  accepted  and  appear  in  printed  minutes. 

Minutes  of  Thursday  afternoon  session  given  verbally  and 
accepted. 

Mrs.  Blanchard  offered  the  following  amendment  to  the 
report  concerning  the  financial  management  of  the  Star  in  the 
East,  referred  to  Executive  Committe  for  revision,  viz. : 

That  Miss  French  have  charge  of  the  advertising,  to  be 
assisted  by  the  members  of  the  Executive  Committee.  The 
Treasurer  is  authorized  to  turn  over  to  her  the  outstanding  bills 
for  advertisements  for  collection,  the  money  to  be  turned  over 
to  the  Treasurer.  Miss  French  is  authorized  to  arrange  for 
the  printing  of  the  paper  to  suit  her  convenience.  Accepted 
with  the  following  proviso  by  Executive  Committee,  viz. : 
That  no  exchange  in  printing  place  shall  be  made  to  incur 
additional  expense. 

Mrs.  E.  M.  Blanchard,  Mrs.  Hannah  J.  Bailey,  Miss  Cor- 
nelia M.  Dow,  Mrs.  L.  J.  Spaulding,  Mrs.  A.  S.  Johnston, 
appointed  a  committee  to  formulate  plans  and  devise  ways 
and  means  whereby  a  beginning  may  be  made  toward  con- 
trolling a  building  that  shall  be  state  headquarters  and  con- 
tain rentals  to  increase  our  funds. 

Voted  that  all  unfinished  business  be  left  in  the  hands  of  the 
General  Officers. 

The  Committee  rose. 

CLARA  M.  FARWELL, 

Recording  Secretary. 


President's  Annual  Address. 


Beloved  Comrades: 

I  am  glad  to  meet  you  here  tonight.  I  have  been  cheered 
and  strengthened  today  as  I  have  looked  into  your  earnest 
faces,  and  read  there  the  purpose  of  your  hearts.  Some  of  the 
faces  are  old  familiar  ones ;  others  there  are  who  lately  have 
come  into  the  ranks — and  yet  I  see  in  all  the  same  holy  desire 
— saying  as  it  were,  ''The  Lord  has  not  given  me  the  spirit 
of  fear  but  of  power  and  of  love  and  of  a  sound  mind." 

During  the  last  few  days  my  thoughts  have  been  much  with 
you.  I  have  thought  of  you  as  you  have  been  adjusting  the 
household  affairs  for  the  comfort  of  the  home  in  your  absence. 
Some  of  you  have  had  to  plan  for  months  in  order  to  be  here. 
Some  have  made  sacrifices  that  they  might  come.  Does  any 
ask  why  after  all  have  you  come?  It  is  because  with  eyes 
trained  to  see  we  have  looked  out  upon  humanity's  suffering — 
and  with  ears  trained  to  hear  we  can  detect  the  tramp  of  one 
million  hopeless,  helpless  drunkards  in  this  country,  while 
other  millions  of  tipplers  and  moderate  drinkers  are  hurrying 
on  to  join  their  procession.  We  realize  the  poverty,  misery, 
degradation,  shame,  and  woe,  growing  out  of  the  liquor  traffic, 
and  we  are  here  as  a  part  of  a  great  organized  force  to  review 
what  we  have  done  and  to  plan  for  what  we  hope  to  do  toward 
blotting  it  and  its  attendant  evils  out  of  existence. 

Let  us  therefore  now  take  a  back  look  and  an  outlook,  but 
first  of  all  let  us  take  an  up  look  to  God,  thanking  Him  for  the 
prosperity  of  our  society  during  the  year  just  closed — by  far 
the  best  in  its  history,  spiritually,  numerically  and  financially. 
* 'Through  wars  and  clouds  and  storms  He's  gently  cleared  the 
way,"  and  let  us  to-night  re-consecrate  ourselves  anew  to  work 
for  Him,  for  home  and  for  humanity. 


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Looking  back  over  the  sixteen  years  of  our  work  we  cannot 
estimate  what  our  Unions  have  done  in  developing  moral  and 
spiritual  truths — those  things  will  never  be  known 

"Until  the  sun  is  cold,  and  the  stars  are  old, 
And  the  leaves  of  the  judgment  book  unfold," 

but  I  will  refer  to  some  of  the  things  which  may  be  seen  as 
the  outcome  of  the  work  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  in  Maine.  In 
regard  to  influencing  legislation  I  will  first  speak  of  those 
things  which  make  directly  for  the  benefit  of  the  young,  for 
after  all  that  is  the  central  point  of  our  interest.  In  response 
to  our  petition,  Feb.  1885,  a  law  was  enacted  requiring 
temperance  instruction  in  all  schools  supported  by  public 
money,  and  because  of  our  petitions  and  pleadings  the  age 
of  protection  for  girls  has  been  raised  from  ten  to  fourteen 
^ears.  It  is  not  yet  what  it  should  be  and  there  is  need 
of  reconstruction  of  ill  the  laws  bearing  upon  the  question 
of  social  purity,  and  the  movement  now  making  for  a  commis- 
sion to  be  appointed  by  the  National  Congress  to  investigate 
this  question  is  sure  lo  result  in  good. 

I  would  like  just  h.cre  to  tell  you  something  of  the  work  of 
the  State  Superinteiulont  of  this  department,  in  this  city  and 
other  cities  and  towns  of  our  state,  but  for  her  sake  1  forbear. 
Her  works  show  blessed  results  growing  out  of  that  "^charity 
which  sufiereth  long  and  is  kind.*' 

It  was  through  our  efibrts  that  the  law  was  enacted  last 
winter  prohibiting  the  sale  of  cigarettes  to  minors  under 
sixteen.  It  is  not  all  we  asked  for,  but  it  is  a  step  in  the  right 
direction,  and  the  agitation  of  the  question  caused  an  arrest 
of  thought  which  has  resulted  in  often  inviting  through  our 
State  Supt.,  Mrs.  Gleason  to  our  state  to  speak  upon  the 
question  which  is  her  specialty. 

For  several  years  we  have  been  considering  the  subject  of  a 
Reformatorv  Prison  for  Women.  We  do  not  so  much  wonder 
that  our  legislators  '"make  haste  slowly"  in  regard  to  it.  It 
involves  quite  an  outlay  of  money,  it  involves  a  change  in  the 
prison  and  jail  methods  now  in  operation,  and  the  average 
legislator,  however  kind  hearted  he  may  be,  is  not  supposed 


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to  be  a  specialist  on  prison  reform.  We  have  not  yet  been 
asking  as  long  as  Massachusetts  did  before  securing  the 
woman's  prison  at  Sherburn  which  is  an  acknowledged  great 
success.  Our  last  legislature  was  naturally  more  favorable 
than  any  preceding  one.  The  Judiciary  Committee  were 
evenly  divided  for  and  against,  and  we  have  every  reason  to 
^o  on  in  our  endeavors  counting  upon  the  aid  of  such  influen- 
tial men  as  those  who  voted  for  it  last  year,  among  them 
Joseph  Manly,  Herbert  Heath,  Lewis  Stearns  and  Judge 
Wiswell. 

What  has  been  done  along  legislative  lines  is  small  indeed 
compared  with  our  other  work — at  the  Headquarters,  at  the 
Temperance  Homes,  the  Homes  and  Nurseries  forChildren,  in 
various  missionary  lines,  and  by  individual  eflort  of  hundreds, 
yes,  thousands  who  try  to  be  true  to  the  meaning  of  the  white 
ribbon  they  wear. 

A  few  weeks  ago  I  clipped  from  one  of  our  leading  state 
journals  the  following : 

Baby  Jones  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  Home  and  Nursery  was  the  center  of  at- 
traction at  the  Union  Station,  Portland,  Thursday  afternoon,  as  the  President 
of  the  Lewiston  W.  C.  T.  U.  turned  him  over  to  his  new  found  parents.  In 
spite  of  the  efforts  of  the  father  to  remain  incog,  Portland  society  had  some- 
how learned  his  official  position  and  title,  and  several  persons  were  present 
who  had  heard  the  story  of  his  search  for  a  baby  boy.  The  little  fellow  re- 
ceived a  loving  welcome  from  the  older  children  and  servants,  while  the 
mother's  tears  fell  fast  as  she  clasped  him  to  her  bosom.  Then  there  was  the 
signing  of  necessary  papers,  a  blessing  on  W.  C.  T,  U.  work  and  the  Lewiston 
Nursery  in  particular,  and  the  little  one  was  borne  away  in  the  arms  of  the 
glad  father  to  catch  the  outgoing  train  for  their  distant  English  home. 

I  desire  to  emphasize  the  desirability  of  removing  from  in- 
stitutional life  as  early  as  possible,  the  little  children  who  have 
become  inmates  therein.  In  order  to  do  this  we  must  have  the 
co-operation  of  friends  who  are  willing  or  desirous  of  taking 
the  little  ones  into  their  own  hearts  and  homes.  In  the  case 
just  alluded  to  our  English  sister  (for  sister  indeed  she  was,  a 
member  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.)  and  her  husband,  a  nobleman 
by  birth  and  disposition,  sought  a  little  one  to  put  in  the  place 
made  vacant  by  death.  And  it  is  a  pleasant  and  interesting 
fact  that  the  baby  they  found  in  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  Nursery 
wore  that  day  a  frock  of  the  same  color  and  texture  as  theirs 


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wore  the  last  day  he  played,  and  the  day  they  took  the  little 
waif  for  their  own  he  was  to  a  day  exactly  as  old  as  their  own 
child  was  on  the  day  when  God  took  him  away.  So  often  in 
our  work  are  we  reminded  that  "Truth  is  indeed  stranger  than 
fiction." 

Will  you  bear  with  me  while  I  give  another  instance  show- 
ing the  pathetic  side  of  our  works.  One  day  there  came  into 
our  headquarters  a  gentle,  sweet  faced  woman.  She  asked  if 
we  could  assist  her  in  finding  a  place  for  a  young  woman  in 
consumption  who  might  live  for  months,  and  for  whom  she 
wished  to  provide  every  kindly  care  and  comfort.  It  is  quite  a 
long  story  she  said.  A  few  years  ago  she  was  the  wife  of 
my  son,  although  what  people  called  below  him  in  the  social 
scale.  She  was  pretty  and  lovable.  A  child  came  to  unite 
and  make  happy  their  lives,  but  soon  we  found  she  had  the 
appetite  for  drink,  and  after  the  child  died  it  seemed  to  grow 
upon  her,  and  she  would  desert  her  home  for  days,  and  weeks 
even.  A  separation  between  her  and  my  son  followed ;  no 
one  could  blame  him,  but  /never  could  forsake  her.  I  have 
followed  her  in  her  wanderings,  I  have  provided  for  her  as 
best  I  could  in  her  intervals  of  sober  life,  and  she  then  always 
turns  to  me.  This  summer  she  came  to  me  unexpectedly  at 
the  summer  resort  where  I  was.  She  has  been  with  me  there 
for  weeks  now,  but  the  time  draws  near  when  I  must  return  to 
my  home  in  a  western  city.  I  can  not  take  her,  I  can  not  leave 
her  unprovided  for. 

We  made  conditional  plans  for  her  future  care,  but  what  I 
will  now  read  from  a  letter  received  from  this  noble  mother 
ten  days  after  our  interview  tells  the  rest  of  the  sad  story. 
This  is  what  she  wrote : 

''I  am  very  grateful  to  you  for  the  home  you  found  for  poor 
Hattie,  but  she  will  need  no  earthly  home,  since  the  heavenly 
has  taken  her  in.  She  passed  away  suddenly  last  Thurs- 
day morning.  She  was  conscious  and  willing  to  die.  She 
was  beautiful  in  death  with  a  look  of  peace  and  rest  upon  her 
face,  and  no  suggestion  of  anything  but  innocence  and  purity. 
I  made  her  casket  beautiful  with  the  flowers  she  loved  the  best, 


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and  the  hymn  she  used  often  to  sing  and  asked  us  to  sing  to  her 
just  l>efore  she  died  was  sung  at  her  funeral.  Tlie  dear  Lord 
is  very  merciful  and  I  believe  she  is  forgiven  and  saved.  No 
more  temptations  for  her,  no  more  sorrow  and  pain  and 
shame.  But  oh,  how  much  longer  will  this  terrible  curse  of 
strong  drink  blight  and  blast  before  God's  fierce  breath  will 
come  down.  As  I  looked  at  that  poor  broken  lily  and  thought 
of  the  indifference  of  christian  men  and  women  I  cried  aloud 
'How  long,  oh  Lord,  how  long?*  I  thank  God  for  our  noble 
Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union  and  for  the  little  I  am 
enabled  to  do  as  I  strive  to  be  true  to  its  high  and  heavenly 
meaning.'* 

This,  dear  friends,  is  but  one  of  the  many,  many  stories 
which  come  into  our  lives,  showing  the  heart  side  of  the  ques- 
tion. 

To-night  I  purpose  to  speak  only  of  a  few  departments  of 
our  work  because  they  are  all  to  be  presented  by  their  superin- 
tendents, and  opportunity  for  discussion  afforded.  The 
National  W.  C.  T.  U.  has  thirty  departments  but  no  state  is 
obliged  to  take  up  all  of  them,  and  neither  is  any  local  union 
obliged  to  take  up  aU  the  departments  of  the  state  union. 
Maine  takes  up  twenty-seven,  among  them  one  in  which  some 
of  the  local  unions  and  some  of  the  individuals  in  local  unions 
take  no  active  part.  I  refer  to  the  Department  of  Franchise. 
*'With  the  women  of  Wyoming  casting  a  full  ballot,  the 
women  of  Kansas  making  their  influence  felt  in  every  munici- 
pality for  law  and  order ;  women  in  more  than  a  dozen  states 
exercising  partial  suffrage,  women  appointed  on  the  boards  of 
hospitals,  and  all  sorts  of  beneficent  institutions,  stepping  out 
from  all  our  colleges  with  the  very  highest  diplomas  of  scholar- 
ship, efficient  in  every  conceivable  avenue  of  industry,  prac- 
tising medicine  in  nearly  every  town,  ei  :ring  the  courts  of  all 
states  and  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  ^  nited  States,  women 
pushing  the  conquests  of  the  gospel  to  i  .e  darkest  parts  of  the 
earth,  with  all  this  done^  and  'still  mo.c  to  follow,"*  it  is  not 
strange  that  we  in  Maine  take  some  interest  in  the  question  of 
equal  suffrage.     The  cause  is  making  rapid  strides  in  these 


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late  (lays.  In  Au<(iist  last  the  l^nite<l  States  Senate  Coniniittce 
on  Woman's  SuHVajijc  sent  in  a  majority  report  in  favor  of  a 
constitutional  amendme.it  j^ranting  the  liallot  to  women.  And 
tlie  House  Juiliciary  Committee  known  as  one  of  the  most 
conservative  committees  of  Conjj^ress  vScnt  in  a  report  favoring 
a  national  amendment  for  the  same  purpose.  This  is  a  great 
advance  step. 

This  year  we  are  invited  to  co-operate  with  the  Maine 
Woman's  SuftVage  Association  in  trying  to  secure  in  Maine 
the  municipal  ballot  for  woman  with  an  educational  test.  I 
hope  the  invitation  will  be  accepted  by  this  convention. 
Should  it  be,  it  will  bind  no  woman  who  dissents,  neither  will 
it  make  h.-r  a  disloyal  memi>er,  for  the  only  test  of  loyal  mem- 
bership is — as  it  has  ever  been — signing  the  total  abstinence 
pledge  and  paying  a  small  membership  fee.  Our  society  is 
to-day  in  its  fundamental  law  (its  constitution)  the  same  as  it 
was  at  its  birth,  neither  sectarian  nor  partisan.  There  is 
but  one  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union  in  the  world, 
and  that  is  the  society,  a  part  of  which  we  rejoice  in  being, 
under  the  leadership  of  Frances  W'illard.  President  of  the 
World's  and  National  W.  C.  T.  U.,  **and  we  believe  the 
truest  hearts  of  the  nation  beat  in  harmony  with  the  W.  C.  T.  U. 
when  we  declare  in  the  name  of  Christ  and  His  gospel  for  no 
sectarianism  in  religion,  no  sectionalism  in  politics,  no  sex  in 
citizenship,  but  total  prohibition  of  the  liquor  traffic  by  state 
and  national  law." 

Beloved,  there  are  misrepresentations  and  misunderstandings 

of  us  which  I  will  not  take  the  time  to   talk   about.     We  have 

no  time  to    waste.     Our   work   and   principles   are  becoming 

better  and  better  understood  and  as  a  rule  pulpit  and  press  are 

friends  of  the  Union. 

Witness  the  earnest  brotherlv  words  of  the  pastor  of  this 

great  and  prosperous  church,  and  the  following  editorial  words 

clipped    from    a    leading    Republican   journal   in   the   state    of 

recent  date  : 

The  progress  of  this  age  will  be  largely  due  lo  ihe  self-sacrilicing,  far- 
reaching  labors  of  the  W.  (.'.  'i\  U.  They  are  doing  much  to  usher  in  that 
ideal  condition  in  human  affairs  toward  which  the  world  is  slowly  but  surely 
advancing. 


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And  yet  there  often  comes  to  us  a  time  when  it  may  be  well 
for  us  to  repeat  in  our  hearts  the  resolution    written   by  Miss 

Willard  at  the  birth  ot  our  society  i6  years  ago. 

Resolved,  That,  recognizing  that  our  cause  is,  and  will  I>e,  combated  by 
mighty,  determined  and  relentless  forces,  we  will,  trusting  in  Him,  who  is  the 
F*rince  of  Peace,  meet  argument  with  argument,  misjudgment  with  patience, 
denunciation  with  kindness,  and  all  our  dangers  and  difficulties  with  prayer. 

Amid  our  rejoicings  to-night  there   comes  a  feeling  of  siid- 

ness  as  we  remember  that  what  we  call  death  has  visited  our 

ranks  since  last  we   met   in   annual   convention.     Our  beloved 

sister,  Mrs.   Pauline   Osgood,    President  of  Lincoln   Co.,   has 

been    '^called    up    higher."     Mrs.    Davis,    of  Ellsworth,   that 

gentle  devoted  woman  ;   and   another  whose  life  was  one  l<Mig 

hymn  of  consecration  to  God,  Miss  Kate  Scales   of   Portland. 

Their   names  among  others  will  be  spoken  to-morrow  in  the 

precious  memorial  sen'ice  and  some  of  us  will  wonder  if  they 

are  not  rejoicing  with    us  over  the  encouraging  aspect  of  our 

work  ;  for  after  all 

"There  is  no  death!      An  angel  form 
Walks  o'er  the  earth  with  silent  tread. 

He  bears  our  best  loved  things  away. 
And  then  we  call  them  dead. 

And  ever  near  us,  though  unseen. 
The  dear  immortal  spirits  tread; 
For  all  the  boundless  universe 
Is  life — There  is  no  dead  " 
I  would   mention   also   our   friend  and  l)rotlier  Gen.  Clinton 
B.  Fisk.     Every   one   knows   that   when    he  was  called  from 
earth  the   cause  of  temperance  lost  a  noble  leader,  humanity  a 
generous   friend,  the  church  a  devout    and    faithful   adherent, 
the  nation  an  able  and  upright  citizen.     I  may   say    nothing 
more  appropriate  of  him   than    to  cjuote   the   lines  some  of  us 
have  heard  him  quote  on  the  platform,      ul  which    he    recited 
on  the  last  evening  of  his  noble  life. 

"High  hopes  that  burned  like  sta  s  sublime 

Go  down  the  heights  of  Freedom, 
And  true  hearts  perish  in  the  time 

We  bitterliest  need  'em. 
Hut  never  sit  we  down  and  say 
There's  nothing  left  but  sorrow; 

We  walk  the  wilderness  to-day, 
The  promised  land  to-morrow." 


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Again,  beloved,  let  us  at  the  beginning  of  this  new  year  of 
our  blessed  work  dedicate  ourselves  anew  body,  soul  and 
spirit  to  Christ,  and  may  we  go  on  with  less  of  self  and  more 
of  His  spirit  than  ever  before.  And  if  sometimes  up  out  of  the 
darkness  which  exists  because  of  the  great  evils  around  as, 
there  comes  the  cry  "Watchman,  what  of  the  night,"  may  we 
because  of  the  feith  within  us,  even  that  faith  that  inspired  the 
first  crusaders  to  answer  clear  and  strong  "The  Morning 
Cometh."  Do  any  of  you  feel  that  "Justice  is  long  delayed," 
that  God  is  long  in  granting  your  prayers,  that  the  nation  be 
delivered  from  the  bondage  of  the  drink  curse  and  humanity 

turned  Heavenward? 

"Unanswered  yet?  nay  do  not  say  ungranted; 

Perhaps  your  part  is  not  yet  wholly  done; 
The  work  began  when  first  your  pnyer  was  uttered, 

And  God  will  finish  what  he  has  begun. 
If  you  will  keep  the  incense  burning  there, 
His  glory  you  will  see  sometime,  somewhere. 

Unanswered  yet  ?     faith  cannot  be  unanswered, 

Her  feet  were  firmly  planted  on  the  rock; 
Amid  the  wildest  storms  she  stands  undaunted. 

Nor  quails  before  the  loudest  thunder  shock. 
She  knows  Omnipotence  has  heard  her  prayer. 
And  cries.   It  shall  be  done  sometime,  somewhere." 


Corresponding  Secretary's  Report. 


Again  it  is  my  privilege  to  review  with  you  the  work  of  our 
unions  for  the  past  year.  The  first  thing  that  impressed  me  as 
I  looked  over  the  reports  was  our  condition  of  prosperity. 
We  have  organized  40  unions  since  last  October  and  in  all  the 
eight  years  that  I  have  had  the  honor  to  serve  you  as  secretary 
I  have  never  known  a  time  when  the  unions  generally  have 
done  so  much  work  or  have  manifested  so  much  interest. 

There  is  such  an  abundance  of  material  to  be  presented  that 
it  seems  best  to  adopt  the  plan  of  secretaries  in  other  states 
and  give  you  only  the  main  and  most  important  facts  of  the 
past  year's  record.  All  the  rest  will  be  presented  in  tabulated 
form  and  you  will  hear  again  from  the  unions  through  the 
reports  of  the  State  Superintendents  as  each  one  brings  to  you 
the  gathered  harvest  from  her  own  especial  field.  The  Young 
Woman's  Unions  will  be  reported  by  their  superintendent. 

Androscoggin  County  has  ten  unions,  the  largest  being  the 
society  at  Lewiston  which  numbers  125  and  has  done  a  re- 
markably successful  work.  Last  November  the  plan  of  a  Day 
Nursery  was  proposed,  a  suitable  place  and  a  matron  was  se- 
cured, but  the  work  grew  rapidly  and  the  first  quarters  became 
too  limited.  A  larger  house  was  obtained  and  the  interest 
continues  to  grow.  Lewiston  has  raised  more  money  even 
than  Portland.  During  the  winter  very  interesting  meetings 
were  held  for  the  purpose  of  studying  American  History. 

Auburn  stands  next  to  Lewiston  in  membership.  Their 
method  of  doing  Social  Purity  work  is  good.  They  estab- 
lished a  Young  Woman's  Christian  Home  and  the  superin- 
tendent of  the  Social  Purity  Department  is  matron.  She  con- 
tinues her  work  in  that  line  in  a  faithfid  and  zealous  manner. 
The  Lewiston  and  Auburn  unions  had  restaurants  for  the  sale 


of  refresh  men  t«>  jnd  distribution  of  litcr-jiure  at  the  \V 
Maine  Fair.  Mechanic  FalU  comes  within  xven  of  Auburn's 
memberUijp.  numbering  71 .  The  union  at  East  Auburn  oflcred 
four  prize«  in  the  Khools  for  the  be<>t  e&<ay«  on  **Tofaacco  and 

Alcohol." 

Turner  union  ha^  free u mi  separate  rcce&se>  for  boys  and 
gir]*>  in  a]l  the  schools  and  has  aideci  the  Day  Nursery  at  Lew- 
iUon  hy  sending;  article>  of  clothing,  etc.  There  are  also 
auxiliaricrs  at  Greene.  Lisbon.  Lislx>n  Falls.  Livermore  Falls 
and  a  "V.**  at  Auburn,  ail  making  their  influence  felt  aloi^ 
our  linefc  of  work.  Twenty-one  public  lectures  have  been 
given  in  this  count\  and  44  copies  of  the  L'nion  Signal  are 
taken. 

Aro<^/stook.  as  usual,  stands  foremost  among  the  counties  in 
the  numl^er  and  enterprise  of  its  auxiliaries.  Its  roll  call  em* 
bracers  nineteen  (19)  unions,  and  this  year  it  has  given  us 
Amity  to  head  the  list.  I  think  it  is  a  happy  omen.  We  will 
make  Amitv  first,  not  onlv  on  the  list  of  Aroostook  unions  but 
first  in  the  slate. 

Caribou  and  Fort  Fairfield  almost  tie  as  to  membership,  the 
former  having  64.  In  the  department  of  Narcotics  this  union 
rcp^irts  that  one  firm  in  the  village  has  given  up  the  tobacco 
trade,  partly  influenced  thereto  by  an  address  on  that  subject. 
The  lyjysil  Temperance  Legion  in  the  town  numbers  no  and 
there  are  two  in  outlying  districts  ot'  al)out  40  members  each. 
Fort  Fairfield  considers  that  il>  mr)>t  successful  work  has  been 
ill  the  Juvenile  Department.  There  is  a  tine  degree  of  interest. 
Tem|)erance  instruction  in  the  public  schools  has  been  an 
cs|>ecial  work  with  this  union.  Fort  Fairfield  has  sent  a  pledge 
for  $100  to  the  Temperance  Temple;  $50  has  already  been 
pairl.  Houlton  conies  near  the  two  unions  just  mentioned  in 
membership.  Since  their  county  convention  they  have  been 
doing  missionary  work  visiting  unions  in  the  outlying  sections. 
In  the  spring  the  town  was  districted  and  two  ladies  assigned 
to  each  district,  making  a  hr)usc  to  house  visit,  distributing 
literature  and  securing  members  to  the  union  and  the  L.  T.  L. 
The  Prevjue   Isle  union  is  doing   well.     Twelve  gospel  tciD* 


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perance  meetings  have  been  held ;  a  visit  viras  made  to  Easton 
in  August  and  a  meeting  and  lawn  party  held. 

Amity  has  had  ten  public  meetings,  very  interesting. 
Hodgdon,  Linneus,  Littleton,  Mapleton,  Monticello,  New 
Limerick,  Sprague's  Mills  and  Washburn  are  all  helping  in 
various  lines  of  work.  Limestone  was  so  faithful  on  Crusade 
Membership  Day,  that  there  was  a  result  of  twelve  working 
members  and  three  honorary.  Still  other  unions  recentlv 
organized  are  Ashland,  Blaine,  Bridgewater,  and  there  are 
twelve  Loyal  Legions  in  this  county.  The  largest  and  best 
convention  ever  held  met  at  Houlton  in  June.  Forty -seven 
public  addresses  have  been  given  in  this  county  and  170  copies 
of  the  Union  Signal  are  taken. 

In  Cumberland  Countv,  Portland  takes  the  lead  as  it  does  in 
the  state.  The  work  to  which  the  attention  of  the  public  has 
been  chiefly  called  is  the  Day  Nursery  opened  in  April.  A 
house  centrally  located,  bright  and  sunny  and  in  every  way 
suitable  was  given  them  for  their  use  by  a  gentleman  in  the 
city.  Here  they  have  room  not  only  for  the  nursery  but  can 
lodge  strangers  as  well.  The  public  generously  donated  money 
and  household  goods  to  furnish  the  home.  The  report  from 
the  department  of  Soldiers  and  Sailors  is  very  encouraging. 
Over  50,000  pages  of  literature  have  been  distributed  to  sailors 
going  out  of  port ;  tracts,  books  and  papers  have  been  given 
to  children  about  the  wharves.  The  library  of  this  depart- 
ment, numbering  29  volumes,  is  loaned  to  vessels  going  out  on 
voyages.  Work  has  been  done  during  the  year  among  the  sick 
at  the  Marine  Hospital.  Calls  are  daily  made  at  headquarters 
for  help  in  various  lines.  All  must  be  investigated,  and  if 
worthy,  relief  in  some  way  given.  In  comparatively  few  of 
these  cases  is  the  call  for  charitable  aid,  but  all  demand  time, 
travel  and  advice.  Four  girls  have  been  sent  to  the  Industrial 
School  and  three  to  the  Temporary  Home. 

The  Saccarappa  union  is  doing  well.  It  has  made  a  specialty 
of  public  meetings.  The  '*Y.*'  at  Saccarappa  has  a  large 
membership.  Monthly  socials  or  entertainments  have  been  held 
throughout  the  year  to  which  the   public   have  been   invited. 


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At  most  of  these  gatherings  the  pledge  has  been  circulated  and 
temperance  literature  distributed.  The  money  receipts  were 
used  toward  establishing  a  reading  room  in  the  village.  A 
flourishing  Loyal  Legion  is  under  the  charge  of  this  society. 

«  Windham  Centre  union  has  succeeded  in  getting  a  woman 

appointed  on  the  school  board.  Cumberland  Mills  is  working 
very  efficiently  in  several  departments.  At  So.  Bridgton  the 
work  is  principally  looking  afler  the  needy.  Several  mission- 
ary boxes  have  been  sent  out. 

The  auxiliaries  at  Peak's  Island  and  So.  VV'indham  are  both 
in  excellent  condition,  and  we  have  besides  these,  Knightville, 
No.  Gorham,  So.  Portland,  Stroudwater,  Webb's  Mills, 
Woodford's  and  Portland  Y.  Eighty-seven  copies  of  the 
Union  Signal  are  taken  and  thirty-seven  public  addresses  have 
l>een  given. 

Franklin  County  has  five  unions.  Stratton  organized  last 
June,  leads  as  to  membership,  numbering  53.  Farmington 
held  four  very  fine  public  meetings  during  the  winter;  the 
pledge  was  circulated  at  each.  Kingfield  is  a  strong  union ; 
it  has  made  a  specialty  of  Gospel  Temperance  meetings. 
Phillips  has  done  practical  and  lasting  work  in  raising  money 
to  establish  and  carry  on  a  Library  and  Reading  Room.  The 
annual  convention  of  this  county  met  at  Strong  and  was  by  far 
the  most  successful  ever  held.  The  county  president  says ; 
'*The  outlook  for  work  is  very  encouraging.  The  W.  C.  T.  U. 
is  recognized  as  a  power  and  is  accorded  an  increasing  defer- 
ence and  respect." 

In  Hancock  Countv  are  six  unions.  From  Bluehill  the 
secretary  writes  that  they  have  Scientific  Temperance  Instruc- 
tion in  all  the  schools.  Ellsworth  is  the  largest  in  membership  ; 
since  June  this  union  has  devoted  the  first  and  second  Monday 
evening  of  each  montli  exclusively  to  franchise  talk  and  read- 
ing. The  secretary  writes:  **The  result  is  good,  an  interest 
in  the  reform  has  been  awakened,  and  manv  have  come  to 
believe  not  only  that  woman  shotdld  have  the  ballot  but  that 
woman  must  have  the  ballot  before  we  have  National  Prohi- 
bition.'*^   The  women  of  this  union  have,  through  sunshine  and 


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Storm  visited  the  prisoners  in  the  jail  every  Sunday  for  many 
years  and  held  services  there.  The  prisoners  as  a  rule  seem 
glad  to  take  part  in  the  exercises  and  there  have  been  many 
touching  incidents  in  connection  with  this  work.  There  are 
unions  also  in  Bar  Harbor,  So.  Hancock,  Sullivan  and  Surry. 
Kennebec  County  is  well  organized.  It  has  now  eleven 
unions.  Of  these  Winthrop  Centre  is  the  largest  and  most 
influential  and  with  the  Y  and  Loyal  Legion,  a  great  deal 
of  admirable  work  has  been  done.  This  union  is  fortunate  in 
many  respects  :  Several  fine  addresses  have  been  given  under 
its  auspices.  A  public  meeting  was  held  on  Peace  Sabbath 
and  one  on  the  anniversary  of  the  Crusade.  Hallowell  is 
making  its  good  influence  felt  in  the  line  of  gospel  temperance 
meeetings ;  they  have  been  held  weekly.  The  number  of 
subscribers  to  the  Union  Signal  is  large.  The  Y  in  Hallowell 
is  doing  well.  The  union  at  China  is  stronger  and  its  mem- 
bership larger  than  last  year.  The  county  convention  was 
held  here  and  was  eminently  successful.  Monmouth  is  a  new 
society,  only  organized  a  few  months,  but  gospel  temperance 
meetings  have  been  held  once  a  month  and  a  Loyal  Legion 
has  been  formed.  The  new  union  at  Gardiner  numbers  forty 
and  the  outlook  is  very  hopeful.  The  auxiliary  at  Augusta  is 
prospering,  it  has  a  good  membership  and  the  interest  seems 
to  be  increasing.  Albion,  Oakland  and  Vassalboro  are  also 
carrying  on  W.  C.  T.  U.  work  in  various  lines.  There  have 
been  twenty-one  public  addresses  given  in  this  county. 

Knox  County  has  eight  unions.  Rockland  and  Union  each 
have  60  members.  The  former  is  a  generous  subscriber  to  the 
Union  Signal  and  carries  on  a  number  of  lines  of  work  in  a 
thorough  manner.  Rockland  Y  is  a  helper  in  every  sense  ;  its 
membership  is  50.  Union  has,  as  usual,  a  good  report  to 
make ;  fif^y  gospel  temperance  meetings  have  been  held.  The 
secretary  says:  '*We  have  done  more  work  this  year  than 
any  other ;  we  have  raised  more  money  and  we  sent  $50  to  the 
Temperance  Temple."  Thomaston  makes  prison  visitation 
its  especial  care.  The  good  that  has  been  done  by  the  women 
of  this  union  along  this  line  cannot  be  estimated.     Camden, 


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Rockport,  Thomaston  Y,  and  the  new  union  at  Warren 
have  each  made  a  good  record  according  to  their  respective 
opportunities. 

Lincoln  County  has  eight  unions.  Round  Pond,  organized 
in  July,  leads  in  membership,  numbering  51.  Waldoboro 
stands  next  and  has  under  its  care  a  flourishing  Loyal  Legion.  A 
notable  convention  was  held  here  in  the  summer.  The  union  at 
Bremen  was  organized  in  May  last,  but  already  the  public 
schools  have  felt  its  influence  and  the  proper  text  books  have 
been  adopted  throughout  the  town.  There  are  also  auxiliaries 
at  Dresden  Mills,  Newcastle,  Wiscasset,  Jeflerson  and 
Nobleboro. 

There  are  four  unions  in  Oxford  County.  The  union  at 
Kezar  Falls  has  disbanded,  but  the  ladies  still  carry  on  the 
Loyal  Legion.  The  society  at  East  Hiram,  though  small 
numerically,  has  done  some  excellent  work  and  still  maintains 
its  children's  society.  Brownfield  and  Denmark  each  keep  on 
the  even  tenor  of  their  way,  aiding  and  promoting  the  cause *of 
the  W.  C.  T.  U.  as  far  as  they  are  able.  The  new  society  at 
Norway  is  very  promising ;  there  is  earnestness  and  enthu- 
siasm there.  So  far  they  have  made  work  among  the  children 
a  specialty.  A  convention  successful  in  every  respect  was 
held  here. 

Penobscot  County  records  its  very  best  year.  Bangor  union 
sends  in  the  largest  membership  but  reports  little  done.  The 
Crusade  has  conducted  work  at  the  jail  with  more  than  usual 
success.  Their  children's  Christmas  tree  is  always  a  source  of 
great  pleasure  and  enjoyment.  The  work  of  Gospel  Temper-  \ 
ance  and  Social  Purity  has  been  carried  on  with  good  results. 
Dexter  is  making  its  influence  felt  in  many  ways.  Prizes  for 
the  best  essays  on  Narcotics  were  oflered  in  the  schools  and  a 
large  number  of  scholars  competed.  Orono,  in  connection 
with  other  good  work,  keeps  two  wall-pockets  at  the  station 
filled  with  temperance  reading  matter  and  has  sent  some  to 
lumber  camps  and  on  Crusade  Membership  Day  17  new  mem- 
bers were  added  to  the  union. 

The  new  union  at  Plymouth  has  a   Loyal   Legion  under  its 


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care  and  in  the  line  of  its  work  sent  an  unfortunate  girl  to  the 
Temporary  Home^  Shawmut  is  a  new  union  doing  splendid 
work.  Hampden  and  Upper  Stillwater  send  excellent  reports 
and  the  unions  at  Brewer,  Corinna,  Oldtown  and  Veazie  are 
also  doing  well.  Ninet;;en  public  addresses  were  given  in  this 
county. 

Piscataquis  County  is  not  organized,  the  union  at  Fox- 
croft  being  the  only  one.  There  is  need  of  work  here  and  we 
hope  to  report  a  better  condition  tiext  year. 

In  Sagadahoc  are  four  auxiliaries.  Bath  has  50  members 
and  there  is  a  Loyal  Legion  of  200  or  more.  This  union  has 
done  some  exceptionally  good  work  the  past  year  in  the  line  of 
Press,  Scientific  Temperance  and  Flower  Mission  work.  Bath  Y 
has  been  active  in  Juvenile  work.  Public  meetings  for  children 
are  held  once  or  twice  a  month.  Reading  matter  has  been 
distributed  to  the  sick,  poor  and  needy.  Phipsburg  and  Pop- 
ham  Beach  are  unions  very  recently  organized.  They  are  full 
of  promise.  The  county  convention  was  held  with  the  former 
and  was  conceded  to  be  successful  in  every  particular. 

Somerset  County  has  seven  auxiliaries.  Four  of  them,  No. 
Anson,  No.  Anson  Y,  No.  New  Portland  and  St.  Albans 
make  a  specialty  of  work  among  the  children.  St.  Albans  has 
a  Loyal  Legion  numbering  115  and  takes  nine  copies  of  the 
Union  Signal.  The  county  convention  held  here  was  most 
interesting  and  gave  fresh  impetus  to  the  work.  At  the  East- 
ern Educational  Association  a  member  of  St  Albans*  union 
presented  a  paper  on  *'The  Best  Method  of  Temperance 
Instruction  in  the  Public  Schools."  West  New  Portland  sends 
a  good  account  of  work  done.  Pittsfield  and  Hartland  do  not 
report. 

The  unions  in  Waldo  County  number  four.  Burnham, 
recently  organized,  has  already  a  Loyal  Legion  and  some 
charitable  work  has  been  done.  Searsmont  Union  has  very 
few  members  yet  but  sends  a  report  which  shows  that  the  few 
have  not  been  idle.  Belfast  has  done  a  good  deal  of  work,  well 
worth  mention.  A  number  of  interesting  public  meetings  have 
been  held  and  several  fine  addresses  given.  Not  the  least  of  the 


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union's  efiort  has  been  in  the  department  of  charity.  At 
Christmas  the  poor  were  remembered  with  suitable  gifts, 
326  articles  of  clothing  were  distributed,  and  in  various  ways 
the  union  has  exerted  a  beneficial  influence  in  the  community. 

Washington  County  has  now  eleven  auxiliaries,  nearly  all 
very  prosperous,  some  exceedingly  so.  Cherryfield  has  under 
its  care  a  L.  T.  L.  of  96  members.  Their  special  work  for  the 
summer  has  been  to  build  a  pretty  and  substantial  cottage  on 
the  Fair  Grounds,  in  which  to  sell  refreshments  and  give  away 
ice-water  and  temperance  literature.  The  Y  is  still  in  advance 
as  to  number,  having  80  members.  A  fine  county  convention 
was  held  in  Cherryfield  in  June.  There  are  seven  Loyal 
Legions  in  this  county  each  having  a  large  membership.  East- 
port  has  charge  of  one  which  numbers  98  and  it  is  regarded  as 
the  most  successful  work  of  the  union.  A  number  of  public 
addresses  have  been  given  and  where  the  mass  of  the  people 
could  not  be  reached  at  the  hall  or  church,  open-air  meetings 
have  been  held.  Machias  has  a  small  membership  but  has  ac- 
complished a  fair  share  of  work.  The  ladies  have  made  jail 
visiting  an  especial  duty.  East  Machias  has  been  exceedingly 
active.  Public  meetings,  juvenile  eoncerts  and  medal  contests 
have  been  held.  A  Y  composed  of  earnest  workers  was  or- 
ganized in  June.  Pembroke  union  has  sent  literature  to  the 
lumbering  camps  and  has  made  a  special  effort  to  have  the 
Temperance  Educational  Law  enforced. 

There  has  been  work  done  in  Washington  County  in  the  line 
of  co-operation  with  other  societies.  There  were  resolutions 
passed  at  the  Cong.  Conference  held  in  Cherryfield  in  June,  at 
the  Ministerial  Association  held  in  Machias  in  August  and  at 
the  Baptist  Association  in  Cherryfield  in  September.  I  think 
the  County  Supt.  has  failed  in  this  instance  to  call  for  report 
from  the  local  unions. 

There  are  also  auxiliaries  at  Danforth,  Red  Beach  and  Har- 
rington recently  organized  which  promise  well  for  the  future. 
Fourteen  public  addresses  were  given  in  this  county  during  the 
year. 

York  County  has  nine  unions.     Of  these  Saco  organized  in 


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June  is  the  largest.  It  has  a  membership  of  52  and  a  L.  T.  L. 
of  60— the  only  one  in  the  county.  This  new  union  is  extend- 
Ing  its  influence  grandly ;  several  interesting  public  meetings 
haye  been  held.  Biddeford  has  perhaps  made  a  little  advance 
since  last  year.  The  most  impoitant  work  was  the  recent  cir- 
culation of  a  petition  for  Police  Matron  which  was  presented 
to  the  City  Goyernment  and  referred  to  the  ComirJttee  on 
Police.  Some  Sunday  School  and  Press  work  has  been  done, 
and  a  sewing  class  carried  on  during  the  winter.  Cornish 
union  has  been  engaged  in  several  departments  of  work  with 
good  results.  Press  work  has  received  especial  attention,  as 
have  also  Sunday  School  work  and  the  enforcement  of  the 
Temperance  Educational  Law.  Kennebunk  has  faithfully 
attended  to  Press  work  and  has  carried  on  a  large  sewing  school 
with  marked  success.  Old  Orchard,  with  exemplary  enter- 
prise, has  erected  Willard  Hall,  a  fine  building  which  repre- 
sents a  great  deal  of  work  and  self-denial  on  the  part  of  the 
members.  The  hall  is  excellently  planned  and  will  not  only 
be  home  and  headquarters  for  the  union  but  a  source  of  revenue 
as  well.  There  is  a  Y.  at  Old  Orchard  which  has  assisted  the 
union  in  all  its  work. 

The  society  at  So.  Berwick  is  in  fine  condition.  The  secre- 
tary writes :  **We  depend  largely  on  public  meetings  to  awaken 
and  sustain  an  interest  in  the  cause.  They  are  held  bi-monthly 
and  are  well  attended.  The  Union  Signal  is  placed  in  the 
barber's  shop,  in  the  Academy  Reading  Room  and  in  the 
station.  One  of  our  members  canvasses  for  the  W.  T.  P.  A. 
publications  from  house  to  house.  We  carried  Christmas 
presents  to  the  inmates  of  the  almshouse.  Have  circulated 
French  leaflets  among  the  Canadians  and  have  had  prize  medal 
contests  in  the  schools." 

East  Parsonsfield  and  West  Lebanon  are  new  unions  from 
which  we  expect  excellent  reports  next  year. 

In  all,  the  unions  report  639  copies  of  the  Union  Signal 
taken  and  but  88  subscribers  to  the  Young  Crusader.  Mrs. 
Smith's  Bible  Readings  or  the  Monthly  Readings  are  used  in 
42  unions,  54  make  the  circulation  of  literature  a  part  of  their 


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Again,  beloved,  let  us  at  the  beginning  of  this  new  year  of 
our  blessed  work  dedicate  ourselves  anew  body,  soul  and 
spirit  to  Christ,  and  may  we  go  on  with  less  of  self  and  more 
of  His  spirit  than  ever  before.  And  if  sometimes  up  out  of  the 
darkness  which  exists  because  of  the  great  evils  around  as, 
there  comes  the  cry  "Watchman,  what  of  the  night,"  may  we 
because  of  the  faith  within  us,  even  that  faith  that  inspired  the 
first  crusaders  to  answer  clear  and  strong  "The  Morning 
Cometh."  Do  any  of  you  feel  that  "Justice  is  long  delayed," 
that  God  is  long  in  granting  your  prayers,  that  the  nation  be 
delivered  from  the  bondage  of  the  drink  curse  and  humanity 

turned  Heavenward.^ 

"Unanswered  yet?  nay  do  not  say  ungranted; 

Perhaps  your  part  is  not  yet  wholly  done; 
The  work  began  when  first  your  prayer  was  uttered, 

And  God  will  finish  what  he  has  begun. 
If  you  will  keep  the  incense  burning  there, 
His  glory  you  will  see  sometime,  somewhere. 

Unanswered  yet  ?    faith  cannot  be  unanswered, 

Her  feet  were  firmly  planted  on  the  rock; 
Amid  the  wildest  storms  she  stands  undaunted. 

Nor  quails  before  the  loudest  thunder  shock, 
She  knows  Omnipotence  has  heard  her  prayer. 
And  cries.   It  shall  be  done  sometime,  somewhere." 


Corresponding  Secretary's  Report. 


Again  it  is  my  privilege  to  review  with  you  the  work  of  our 
unions  for  the  past  year.  The  first  thing  that  impressed  me  as 
I  looked  over  the  reports  was  our  condition  of  prosperity. 
We  have  organized  40  unions  since  last  October  and  in  all  the 
eight  years  that  I  have  had  the  honor  to  serve  you  as  secretary 
I  have  never  known  a  time  when  the  unions  generally  have 
done  so  much  work  or  have  manifested  so  much  interest. 

There  is  such  an  abundance  of  material  to  be  presented  that 
it  seems  best  to  adopt  the  plan  of  secretaries  in  other  states 
and  give  you  only  the  main  and  most  important  facts  of  the 
past  year's  record.  All  the  rest  will  be  presented  in  tabulated 
form  and  you  will  hear  again  from  the  unions  through  the 
reports  of  the  State  Superintendents  as  each  one  brings  to  you 
the  gathered  har\'est  from  her  own  especial  field.  The  Young 
Woman's  Unions  will  be  reported  by  their  superintendent. 

Androscoggin  County  has  ten  unions,  the  largest  being  the 
society  at  Lewiston  which  numbers  125  and  has  done  a  re- 
markably successful  work.  Last  November  the  plan  of  a  Day 
Nursery  was  proposed,  a  suitable  place  and  a  matron  was  se- 
cured, but  the  work  grew  rapidly  and  the  first  quarters  became 
too  limited.  A  larger  house  was  obtained  and  the  interest 
continues  to  grow.  Lewiston  has  raised  more  money  even 
than  Portland.  During  the  winter  very  interesting  meetings 
were  held  for  the  purpose  of  studying  American  History. 

Auburn  stands  next  to  Lewiston  in  membership.  Their 
method  of  doing  Social  Purity  work  is  good.  They  estab- 
lished a  Young  Woman's  Christian  Home  and  the  superin- 
tendent of  the  Social  Purity  Department  is  matron.  She  con- 
tinues her  work  in  that  line  in  a  faithful  and  zealous  manner. 
The  Lewiston  and  Auburn  unions  had  restaurants  for  the  sale 


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Again,  beloved,  let  us  at  the  beginning  of  this  new  year  of 
our  blessed  work  dedicate  ourselves  anew  body,  soul  and 
spirit  to  Christ,  and  may  we  go  on  with  less  of  self  and  more 
of  His  spirit  than  ever  before.  And  if  sometimes  up  out  of  the 
darkness  which  exists  because  of  the  great  evils  around  Qs, 
there  couies  the  cry  "Watchman,  what  of  the  night,"  may  we 
because  of  the  faith  within  us,  even  that  faith  that  inspired  the 
first  crusaders  to  answer  clear  and  strong  "The  Morning 
Cometh."  Do  any  of  you  feel  that  "Justice  is  long  delayed," 
that  God  is  long  in  granting  your  prayers,  that  the  nation  be 
delivered  from  the  bondage  of  the  drink  curse  and  humanity 
turned  Heavenward? 

"Unanswered  yet?  nay  do  not  say  ungranted; 
Perhaps  your  part  is  not  yet  wholly  done; 

The  work  began  when  first  your  prayer  was  uttered, 
And  God  will  finish  what  he  has  begun. 

If  you  will  keep  the  incense  burning  there, 

His  glory  you  will  see  sometime,  somewhere. 

Unanswered  yet  ?    faith  cannot  be  unanswered, 

Her  feet  were  firmly  planted  on  the  rock; 
Amid  the  wildest  storms  she  stands  undaunted. 

Nor  quails  before  the  loudest  thunder  shock, 
She  knows  Omnipotence  has  heard  her  prayer. 
And  cries,   It  shall  be  done  sometime,  somewhere." 


Corresponding  Secretary's  Report. 


Again  it  is  my  privilege  to  review  with  you  the  work  of  our 
unions  for  the  past  year.  The  first  thing  that  impressed  me  as 
I  looked  over  the  reports  was  our  condition  of  prosperity. 
We  have  organized  40  unions  since  last  October  and  in  all  the 
eight  years  that  I  have  had  the  honor  to  serve  you  as  secretary 
I  have  never  known  a  time  when  the  unions  generally  have 
done  so  much  work  or  have  manifested  so  much  interest. 

There  is  such  an  abundance  of  material  to  be  presented  that 
it  seems  best  to  adopt  the  plan  of  secretaries  in  other  states 
and  give  you  only  the  main  and  most  important  facts  of  the 
past  year's  record.  All  the  rest  will  be  presented  in  tabulated 
form  and  you  will  hear  again  from  the  unions  through  the 
reports  of  the  State  Superintendents  as  each  one  brings  to  you 
the  gathered  harvest  from  her  own  especial  field.  The  Young 
Woman's  Unions  will  be  reported  by  their  superintendent. 

Androscoggin  County  has  ten  unions^  the  largest  being  the 
society  at  Lewiston  which  numbers  125  and  has  done  a  re- 
markably successful  work.  Last  November  the  plan  of  a  Day 
Nursery  was  proposed,  a  suitable  place  and  a  matron  was  se- 
cured, but  the  work  grew  rapidly  and  the  first  quarters  became 
too  limited.  A  larger  house  was  obtained  and  the  interest 
continues  to  grow.  Lewiston  has  raised  more  money  even 
than  Portland.  During  the  winter  very  interesting  meetings 
were  held  for  the  purpose  of  studying  American  History. 

Auburn  stands  next  to  Lewiston  in  membership.  Their 
method  of  doing  Social  Purity  work  is  good.  They  estab- 
lished a  Young  Woman's  Christian  Home  and  the  superin- 
tendent of  the  Social  Purity  Department  is  matron.  She  con- 
tinues her  work  in  that  line  in  a  faithful  and  zealous  manner. 
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40 

union's  ei)ort  has  been  in  the  department  of  charity.  At 
Christmas  the  poor  were  remembered  with  suitable  gifts, 
326  articles  of  clothing  were  distributed,  and  in  various  ways 
the  union  has  exerted  a  beneficial  influence  in  the  community. 

Washington  County  has  now  eleven  auxiliaries,  nearly  all 
very  prosperous,  some  exceedingly  so.  Cherryfield  has  under 
its  care  a  L.  T.  L.  of  96  members.  Their  special  work  for  the 
summer  has  been  to  build  a  pretty  and  substantial  cottage  on 
the  Fair  Grounds,  in  which  to  sell  refreshments  and  give  away 
ice-water  and  temperance  literature.  The  Y  is  still  in  advance 
as  to  number,  having  80  members.  A  fine  county  convention 
was  held  in  Cherryfield  in  June.  There  are  seven  Loyal 
Legions  in  this  county  each  having  a  large  membership.  East- 
port  has  charge  of  one  which  numbers  98  and  it  is  regarded  as 
the  most  successful  work  of  the  union.  A  number  of  public 
addresses  have  been  given  and  where  the  mass  of  the  people 
could  not  be  reached  at  the  hall  or  church,  op>en-air  meetings 
have  been  held.  Machias  has  a  small  membership  but  has  ac- 
complished a  fair  share  of  work.  The  ladies  have  made  jail 
visiting  an  especial  duty.  East  Machias  has  been  exceedingly 
active.  Public  meetings,  juvenile  eoncerts  and  medal  contests 
have  been  held.  A  Y  composed  of  earnest  workers  was  or- 
g^anized  in  June.  Pembroke  union  has  sent  literature  to  the 
lumbering  camps  and  has  made  a  special  efibrt  to  have  the 
Temperance  Educational  Law  enforced. 

There  has  been  work  done  in  Washington  County  in  the  line 
of  co-operation  with  other  societies.  There  were  resolutions 
passed  at  the  Cong.  Conference  held  in  Cherryfield  in  June,  at 
the  Ministerial  Association  held  in  Machias  in  August  and  at 
the  Baptist  Association  in  Cherryfield  in  September.  I  think 
the  County  Supt.  has  failed  in  this  instance  to  call  for  report 
from  the  local  unions. 

There  are  also  auxiliaries  at  Danforth,  Red  Beach  and  Har- 
rington recently  organized  which  promise  well  for  the  future. 
Fourteen  public  addresses  were  given  in  this  county  during  the 
year. 

York  County  has  nine  unions.     Of  these  Saco  organized  in 


41 

June  is  the  largest.  It  has  a  membership  of  52  and  a  L.  T.  L. 
of  60— the  onlv  one  in  the  county.  This  new  union  is  extend- 
Ing  its  influence  grandly  :  several  interesting  public  meetings 
have  been  held.  Biddeford  has  perhaps  made  a  little  advance 
since  last  year.  The  most  impoitant  work  was  the  recent  cir- 
culation of  a  petition  for  Police  Matron  which  was  presented 
to  the  City  Government  and  referred  to  the  Comniittee  on 
Police.  Some  Sunday  School  and  Press  work  has  been  done, 
and  a  sewing  class  carried  on  during  the  winter.  Cornish 
union  has  been  engaged  in  several  departments  of  work  with 
good  results.  Press  work  has  received  especial  attention,  as 
have  also  Sunday  School  work  and  the  enforcement  of  the 
Temperance  Educational  Law.  Kennebunk  has  faithfully 
attended  to  Press  work  and  has  carried  on  a  large  sewing  school 
with  marked  success.  Old  Orchard,  with  exemplary  enter- 
prise, has  erected  Willard  Hall,  a  fine  building  which  repre- 
sents a  great  deal  of  work  and  self-denial  on  the  part  of  the 
members.  The  hall  is  excellently  planned  and  will  not  only 
be  home  and  headquarters  for  the  union  but  a  source  ot  revenue 
as  well.  There  is  a  Y.  at  Old  Orchard  which  has  assisted  the 
union  in  all  its  work. 

The  society  at  So.  Berwick  is  in  fine  condition.  The  secre- 
tary writes :  *'We  depend  largely  on  public  meetings  to  awaken 
and  sustain  an  interest  in  the  cause.  They  are  held  bi-monthly 
and  are  well  attended.  The  Union  Signal  is  placed  in  the 
barber's  shop,  in  the  Academy  Reading  Room  and  in  the 
station.  One  of  our  members  canvasses  for  the  W.  T.  P.  A. 
publications  from  house  to  house.  We  carried  Christmas 
presents  to  the  inmates  of  the  almshouse.  Have  circulated 
French  leaflets  among  the  Canadians  and  have  had  prize  medal 
contests  in  the  schools." 

East  Parsonsfield  and  West  Lebanon  arc  new  unions  from 
which  we  expect  excellent  reports  next  year. 

In  all,  the  unions  report  639  copies  of  the  Union  Signal 
taken  and  but  88  subscribers  to  the  Young  Crusader.  Mrs. 
Smith's  Bible  Readings  or  the  Monthly  Readings  are  used  in 
42  unions,  54  make  the  circulation  of  literature  a  part  of  their 


Report  of  Supt  of  Tenopsrancs  Literature. 


Again  I  am  obliged  to  apologize  for  the  meagerness  of  the 
report  I  have  to  offer. 

Only  one  county  and  four  unions  have  sent  me  any  report, 
but  I  have  gleaned  some  information  from  conversation  with 
members  during  convention  and  incorporated  it  with  the  few 
facts  in  my  possession.  I  am  confident  much  more  work  has 
been  done  than  ever  before,  but  for  want  of  accurate  informa- 
tion, am  unable  to  report  it.  About  5o,cxx)  pages  of  literature 
have  been  sent  out  from  State  Headquarters,  bearing  on  all  the 
phases  of  temperance  work. 

The  very  excellent  report  from  Androscoggin  County  is  en- 
couraging. The  superintendent  writes  :  "Since  last  Decem- 
ber, nine  barber  shops  have  been  supplied  with  literature.  We 
have  distributed  eight  hundred  Beer  Series  and  two  hundred 
Thrift  Series  leaffets  besides  several  copies  of  the  Union  Signal 
and  Star  in  the  East.  We  placed  a  wall  pocket  in  the  Maine 
Central  and  Grand  Trunk  depots  and  kept  them  filled  with 
temperance  papers  and  leaflets.  Our  state  paper  has  been 
sent  monthly  to  the  jail,  the  Union  Signal  sent  weekly  and 
Star  in  the  East  monthly  to  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Reading  Room, 
besides  five  hundred  temperance  leaflets.  Secretary  Wilson 
said  they  were  eagerly  read  every  week.  We  were  always 
kindly  received  and  if  the  work  has  been  done  in  the  spirit  of 
the  Master,  we  trust  good  results  will  attend  our  eflbrts.*'  In 
addition  to  the  nbove  there  were  distributed  at  the  fair  ground 
by  Lewiston  and  Auburn  W.  C.  T.U.  six  hundred  state  papers. 
Star  in  the  East,  one  hundred  Youth's  Temperance  Banners, 
besides  thousands  of  leaflets.  Three  hundred  copies  state 
paper  and  two  hundred  leaflets  were  distributed  by  the  Liver- 
more  Falls  union. 

Aroostook  has  done  more  than  ever  before.  A  small  fund 
was  voted  for  the  use  of  the  County  President  and  from  thib 


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fund  literature  has  been  purchased  and  sent  to  all  the  smaller 
unions.  Many  thousands  of  pages  were  distributed  of  which 
no  accurate  account  has  been  kept. 

Fort  Fairfield  union  sends  copies  of  Union  Signal  to  unions 
where  none  are  taken.  A  copy  is  also  sent  to  each  clergyman 
in  the  town. 

Presque  Isle  reports  five  thousand  pages  literature  and  three 
hundred  leaflets  distributed  the  past  year.  Eighteen  copies 
Star  in  the  East  taken. 

Cumberland  County  has  no  superintendent  and  consequently 
no  report  has  been  received. 

Miss  Hicks  reported  for  Waldo  County  :  ''We  spent  $6.50 
for  White  Cross  literature,  $6.75  for  general  literature,  and  for 
Mothers*  Meetings,  Sabbath  Observance,  Narcotics,  etc.,  $7. 
I  have  not  remembered  all  of  course." 

Bath  union  reports  no  literature  distributed. 

Belfast  union  has  done  very  little  in  this  line. 

Cherryfield  union  has  distributed  one  hundred  copies  Union 
Signal,  one  hundred  sixty  copies  children's  papers,  icxx)  pages 
general  literature,  ten  copies  Star  in  the  East,  five  copies  Water 
Lily,  fifty  Temperance  Banners,  three  hundred  Timely  Talks 
and  about  sixty  Loyal  Leaflets. 

East  Machias  distributed  two  hundred  fifty  pages  temperance 
literature  besides  forty  copies  Star  in  the  East. 

East  Jefterson  union  reports  as  follows  :  ''Our  union  is  small 
and  its  members  twelve  in  number  are  widely  scattered.  We 
have  attempted  some  work  in  the  lines  of  Suppression  of  Im- 
pure Literature  and  Social  Purity  and  hope  for  better  results 
the  coming  year." 

Hiram  has  a  wall  pocket  at  the  depot  kept  filled  with  litera- 
ture. Have  distributed  literature  among  the  children  at  Sun- 
day School.  They  have  a  Loyal  Legion  of  twenty  members 
and  use  the  Temperance  Lesson  Manual. 

N.  Searsmont  has  expended  $3  for  literature.  One  copy 
Star  in  the  East  taken. 

Norway  union  has  sent  out  three  hundred  copies  Star  in  the 
East  and  two  hundred  leaflets. 


54 

West  Cherryfield  distributed  looo  copies  Union  Signal. 

Mrs  'Emmons  sends  a  most  cheering  account  of  work  done 
by  the  Saco  union  :  88  pages  Timely  Talks,  76  pages  to  boys 
and  girls,  41  Signal  Lights,  14  pages  Gospel  Lights,  40 
National  leaflets,  18  Temperance  Pledge  cards,  40  Mrs. 
Boardman's  leaflets,  12  Social  Purity  leaflets,  24  tracts  on 
Temperance,  besides  a  goodly  number  of  temp>erance  papers 
and  other  literature. 

Winthrop,  12  copies  Star  in  the  East ;  has  distributed  a  large 
amount  of  literature,  20,000  pages. 

In  counties  where  no  superintendent  has  reported  to  me, 
there  may  be  unions  which  expected  to  hear  directly  from  me. 
To  such  I  will  say  that  I  endeavored  to  reach  them  through 
their  vice  president.  If  any  county  remains  unorganized  I 
would  suggest  that  the  vice  president  at  once  appoint  a  superin- 
tendent in  my  department  that  the  work  may  begin  with  the 
year. 

I  would  strongly  urge  upon  new  unions  to  use  Bible  Read- 
ings or  Monthly  Readings  at  their  meetings,  and  would  recom- 
mend all  our  unions  to  take  up  the  readings  on  beer,  cider  and 
wine.  The  fact  is,  ''Knowledge  is  power,"  and  just  so  far  as 
we  understand  the  natural  effects  of  alcohol,  the  ways  in  which 
it  is  manufactured,  and  the  signs  by  which  to  detect  its  presence, 
the  better  prepared  we  shall  be  to  answer  all  the  arguments  in 
favor  of  even  its  moderate  use,  in  the  shape  of  wine,  beer  and 
cider.  We  can  easily  see  what  a  difference  liking  the  drink 
makes  with  any  executive  officer  called  to  enforce  the  law,  and 
so  we  all  can  fight  the  evil  more  effectively  if  we  hate  it  intelli- 
gently. These  readings  cost  but  a  trifle  and  are  thus  within 
reach  of  all.  Their  distribution  at  public  meetings  helps  on 
the  work. 

I  trust  my  successor  will  accomplish  a  greater  work  for  good 
than  I  have  been  able  to  do  with  my  limited  opportunities. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

ELIZABETH  R.  DENNY. 


Report  of  Sunday  School  Ulori. 


The  year  now  closing  has  been  an  inriportant  one  in  this 
department  of  our  work,  and  of  its  results,  we  can  not  now 
determine  but  are  sure  they  are  far-reaching,  and  the  patient, 
prayerful  work  of  our  National  Superintendent  in  the  cause  of 
Gospel  Temperance  will  reap  a  rich  harvest. 

The  resolution  referred  to  in  the  last  annual  report,  asking 
for  the  temperance  lesson  on  some  other  than  the  Review 
Sunday,  was  presented  to  the  International  S.  S.  Convention 
which  met  at  Pittsburg  in  June,  and  while  all  asked  was  not 
granted  there  was  a  great  gain  in  that  the  Review  was  placed 
upon  the  12th  Sunday,  thus  avoiding  the  complication  of  the 
temperance  lesson  with  the  regular  work  of  the  Sunday  School. 

For  1892  we  have  two  Sundays  wholly  given  to  temperance, 
and  two  optional — temperance  or  missions.  We  are  assured 
that  the  same  course  shall  be  pursued  hereafter. 

Publishers  of  lesson  helps  are  asked  to  treat  as  fully  the 
temperance  lesson  as  any  other,  and  in  addition  to  the  four 
lessons  recommend  that  the  subject  be  taught  when  it  can  be 
found  in  any  lesson. 

Considering  the  strong  opposition  of  some  of  the  leading 
Sunday  School  men  and  the  apathy  of  others,  there  is  great 
cause  for  thankfulness  for  this  result  and  it  places  us  all  under 
gjreater  obligation  to  faithfulness  in  improving  the  larger, 
grander  opportunities  for  teaching  Gospel  Temperance. 

There  were  sent  out  in  our  state  by  your  superintendent  500 
postal  cards  with  the  resolution  and  a  request  for  voting  printed 
on  them  ;  these  were  sent  to  pastors  and  S.  S.  Superintendents. 
The  per  cent  of  those  returned  was  95  with  some  very 
emphatic  affirmatives  and  hearty  endorsements.  The  calling 
of  the  attention  of  Sunday  School  workers  to  this  matter  has 
served  to  arouse  an  interest. 

The  National  Superintendent  was  invited  to  speak  at  the 
State  Sunday  School  convention  held  in  Augusta  very  soon 


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after  our  last  convention.  She  has  also  spoken  in  other  places 
in  the  state,  and  while  here  will  be  glad  to  assist  in  the  work 
wherever  it  is  desired. 

I  wish  to  call  attention  to  the  lesson  sheets  now  prepared 
which  are  suitable  for  the  Quarterly  Sunday  at  any  time,  or 
for  a  concert  exercise ;  charts,  pictures  in  outline,  accompany 
the  manual  and  they  are  the  most  helpful  of  anything  yet 
prepared.  Several  calls  have  been  received  for  them  and  the 
coming  year  I  hope  many  will  be  used. 

The  county  superintendents  have  reported  local  superintend- 
ents so  far,  that  I  am  sure  many  more  have  been  appointed 
than  before,  and  the  many  letters  give  g^eat  encouragement, 
especially  in  Somerset  Count}^  but  the  statistics  were  meager. 

I  will  again  urge  the  county  superintendents  to  perseverance 
in  the  matter  of  using  the  blanks  and  of  keeping  a  supply  to 
distribute  to  the  various  Sunday  Schools. 

In  Androscoggin  County  the  report  closes  earlier  than  usual 
and  yet  the  blanks  are  better  filled  than  ever  before. 

The  better  way  will  be  in  the  future  to  end  the  year  in  June, 
then  the  state  report  will  be  ready  for  the  national.  Let  the 
use  of  the  temperance  lesson  be  faithfully  urged  and  the 
pledging  of  the  children  also,  remembering  we  are  working 
for  the  future.  Temperance  papers  and  books  should  be 
carefully  selected  and  libraries  replenished  often,  getting  the 
best. 

It  is  hoped  each  county  superintendent  will  keep  a  ftill  list 
of  local  superintendents  so  that  she  can  .communicate  with 
them  often  if  need  be.  The  state  superintendent  is  always 
pleased  to  hear  from  any  local  superintendent  and  g^ve  any 
help  in  her  power. 

Let  us  all  be  much  in  prayer  for  our  work,  "Sowing  beside 
all  waters."  Let  love  for  the  cause  and  faith  in  God  inspire  us 
to  greater  earnestness,  that  each  year  may  find  us  as  it  surely 
will,  if  faithftil,  near  the  glorious  time  when  the  "Whole  earth 
shall  be  filled  with  His  glory." 

Statistics  as  follows :  Quarterly  lessons,  694 ;  concerts,  117; 
meetings,  600;  children  pledged,  4,038  ;   leaflets,  papers,  etc., 


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35»343  5    books,    3,584 ;     entire    number     members,     5,684 ; 

interested,  84. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

E.  A.  G.  STICKNEY, 

State  Supt,  of  S.  S,   Work, 


Report  of  Juvenile  ^Oork. 


Our  present  juvenile  force  comprises  55  companies.  Of  this 
number  a  few  are  inactive  for  want  of  a  suitable  leader,  but 
the  great  majority  are  very  much  alive  and  doing  effective 
work.  Twenty-three  have  been  organized  during  the  year. 
Many  of  the  new  unions  have  not  been  organized  long  enough 
yet  to  get  to  work  in  this  department.  A  few  of  the  older 
unions  have  so  far  as  I  know  never  tasted  the  joy  and  reaped 
the  benefit  of  mothering  a  wide  awake  company  of  boys  and 
girls. 

Aroostook  County  reports  14  companies ;  7  have  been  or- 
ganized during  the  year  with  a  membership  of  740.  The 
Caribou  union  have  organized  juvenile  work  in  two  school  dis- 
tricts ;  the  superintendent  writes  the  children  are  very  much 
interested  and  are  entirely  self  supporting.  The  children  in 
the  various  companies  do  very  many  helpful  things.  In  Amity 
help  in  the  receptions  held  by  the  union  ;  one  Legion  help  in 
gospel  temperance  work.  Limestone  provided  an  evening's 
entertainment  for  the  Good  Templars.  Picnics  and  concerts 
have  been  held  to  the  great  pleasure  of  the  children  and  their 
friends.  The  children  with  their  banners  were  represented  at 
the  County  Convention.  The  Young  Crusader,  Youth's  Tem- 
perance Banner  and  Water  Lily  are  the  papers  taken ;  Lesson 
Manuals  are  very  generally  used. 

The  juvenile  work  in  Androscoggin  County  is  done  mostly 
by   the   Good    Templars   and   very  good   work    is    reported. 


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Mechanic  Falls  has  a  juvenile  society  auxiliary  to  the  union ; 
reports  70  members. 

Knox  County  reports  3  companies ;  2  have  been  organized 
during  the  year;  they  number  153.  The  Rockland  Legion 
among  the  many  good  things  they  are  doing  are  collecting 
pieces  for  a  quilt  to  send  to  the  hospital.  In  Thomaston  they 
are  collecting  school  books  for  the  prisoners.  The  Thomaston 
Legion  united  with  the  Juvenile  Temple  in  a  convention  and 
held  a  very  interesting  meeting. 

Sagadahock  County  :  Bath  has  300  members  ;  have  Bands 
of  Mercy  and  Little  Girls*  Social  Purity  Club ;  use  mite  boxes 
for  the  Temple.     The  Acorn  is  read  quite  generally. 

Penobscot  County  is  doing  good  work  in  its  two  companies, 
one  at  Brewer  and  at  Plymouth ;  using  the  Manuals  for 
instruction ;  take  several  copies  of  the  Water  Lily.  The 
Good  Templars  are  doing  good  work  in  this  county,  and  the 
members  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  do  not  think  it  wise  to  organize, 
auxiliary  children's  societies. 

The  five  unions  in  Washington  County  report  five  juvenile 
vsocieties  with  a  membership  of  375.  Medal  contests  have 
been  successfully  held  at  East  Machias.  The  superintendent 
reports  excellent  success  in  holding  the  older  boys  and  girls  by 
giving  them  responsibility  ;  much  interest  is  taken  in  readings 
and  recitations.  The  superintendent  at  Pembroke  has  secured 
the  names  of  200  children  in  the  difterent  Sunday  Schools. 

Somerset  County  shows  its  appreciation  of  the  children's 
work  by  three  new  organizations ;  total  ?{\^  in  the  county. 
Special  mention  should  be  made  of  the  Legion  at  North 
Anson,  which  is  conducted  by  the  Y*s.  Quarterly  entertain- 
ments are  given  when  the  j)arents  are  specially  invited  and 
much  good  is  being  accomplished.  Grand  work  is  being  done 
at  Moose  River  by  the  efficient  superintendent,  Miss  Holden  ; 
a  company  of  40  is  sending  out  its  light  that  is  being  felt  in 
the  town.  The  Legion  at  St.  Albans  is  taking  up  Band 
of  Mercy  work  with  general  temperance  teaching ;  it  is  giving 
fresh  interest  to  the  members.     Legion  numbers  115. 

The  new  company  at  Pittsfield  report  good  work.     At  their 


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last  meeting  the  superintendent  was  absent  on  account  of  ill- 
ness; the  lady  who  went  in  to  assist  knew  nothing  of  the 
work  and  called  upon  their  president,  a  little  girl  of  twelve 
years,  who  presided  and  conducted  the  opening  exercises,  and 
then  separated  into  classes.  The  lady  says  she  was  delighted 
and  did  not  know  before  what  a  grand  work  the  childien's 
work  was.  North  New  Portland  has  a  flourishing  Legion 
of  25  members  recently  organized.  On  Crusade  Day  a 
successful  public  meeting  was  held. 

Peak's  Island,  in  Cumberland  County  is  a  new  company 
of  36  members ;  reports  good  interest  manifested. 

Kennebec  County  has  added  two  new  societies.  Good  work 
is  reported  from  all  the  Legions;  four  active  companies. 

Franklin  County  has  two  societies.  On  account  of  the 
illness  ot  the  superintendent  I  have  no  special  report. 

A  marked  feature  in  the  work  in  Waldoboro  in  Lincoln 
County  is  the  presence  of  one  of  the  pastors  at  each  meeting. 
He  impresses  the  lesson  of  the  day  upon  the  members. 

Hiram,  in  Oxford  County,  has  a  Legion  of  20  members,  use 
the  Manuals,  have  a  Band  of  Mercy.  By  way  of  variety  the 
superintendent  is  teaching  the  members  music,  and  they  have 
given  a  successful  concert.  The  Temperance  Banner  is  taken. 
A  foundation  is  laid  for  a  loan  library.  Norway  has  a  com- 
pany. The  superintendent  writes  the  children  are  full  of 
enthusiasm  ;  the  work  is  so  new   no  special  mention  is  made 

of  methods. 

Waldo  County  reports  one  society  at  Burnham  of  40  mem- 
bers ;    using  the   Lesson  Manuals  and  take  the  Water  Lily. 

Saco,  in  York  County,  has  recently  organized  a  Legion 
of  18  ;  after  holding  four  meetings,  increased  to  78.  Have  held 
one  public  meeting ;  great  interest  was  manifested.  The 
children  are  very  eager  for  work.  The  superintendent  writes : 
''Very  bright  outlook." 

As  nearly  as  I  have  been  able  to  estimate,  the  total  member- 
ship is  3,000  in  the  state. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

F.  M.  CHANDLER, 

State  Sufi,   yuvenile  Work. 


Report  of  Legislative  (Uork. 


As  we  had  no  session  of  the  Legislature  last  winter  I  have 
nothing  to  report  of  work  done  there,  but  it  will  be  profitable 
and  interesting  to  review  the  national  work. 

Early  in  the  year  the  National  Superintendent  of  this  depart- 
ment, Mrs.  Ada  M.  Bittenbender,  a  lawver  who  has  been 
admitted  to  practice  before  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  U.  S., 
sent  out  her  plan  of  work  and  an  amendment  guide  to  every 
local  union  in  Maine.  I  hope  that  all  have  become  ac- 
quainted with    her  plan  and  are  ready  to  help  forward  it. 

June  14,  1890,  at  Washington,  D.  C,  there  was  a  joint 
hearing  of  the  two  committees  of  the  House  and  Senate,  who 
had  jurisdiction  of  the  bills  on  the  liquor  Iraffic,  and  the 
following  resolution  was  considered  : 

Resolved  by  the   Senate  and  Ilotise  of  Rfpresentatives  of  the  United 

States  of  America  in  Congress  assembled  (tiro-thinls  of  each  House  con- 

curriny  (heretn)t  That  the  following  amendment  to  the  Constitution  ot  the 

United  States  be,  and  hereby  is,  proposed  to  the  States,  to  become  valid  when 

ratified  by  the  Legislatures  of  three-fourths  of  the  several  States  as  provided 

in  the  Constitution : 

Article  — . 

Section  i.  The  manufacture,  importation,  exportation,  transportation  and 
sale  of  all  alcoholic  liquors  as  a  beverage  shall  be,  and  hereby  is,  forever 
prohibited  in  the  United  States  and  in  every  place  subject  to  their  jurisdiction. 

Section  2.     Congress  shall  enforce  this  article  by  all  needful  legislation. 

Senator  Blair  was  chairman  of  the  committee  and  called 
on  Mrs.  Bittenbender  to  take  charge  of  the  presentation  and 
introduction  of  the  speakers,  herself  to  first  address  the  com- 
mittee, which  she  did  in  a  manner  to  reflect  great  credit  upon 
the  W.  C.  T.  U.,  whose  legal  adviser  and  National  Super- 
intendent she  is.  There  were  several  eminent  speakers  for 
the  resolution,  and  Louis  Schade,  representing  the  liquor 
interest,    appeared   against   it.     The    report   of    this   hearing 


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covers  52  pages  in  the  printed  reports  of  the  last  Congress, 
and  is  full  of  encouragement.  In  the  course  of  the  discussion 
Representative  Pickler  said,  '*  The  Republican  party  in  South 
Dakota  adopted  prohibition  in  its  platform,  State  and  National? 
and  the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union  joined  in  very 
heartily  in  carrying  it  through,  and  I  l>elieve  that  they  had 
more  to  do  with  carrying  the  amendment  than  all  the  political 
parties  together.'*  Such  expressions  as  these  should  be  an 
incentive  to  us  to  go  on  in  this  line  of  work. 

Sept.  12,  1890,  by  request  of  the  Woman's  Christian  Tern-  1 
perance  Union  was  introduced  a  bill  to  prohibit  the  importa-  . 
tion,  exportation  and  interstate  transportation  of  alcoholic  I 
beverages.  It  was  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Education  ■■ 
and  Labor. 

Mrs.  McClees,  National  Superintendent  of  Work  for  Soldiers 
and  Sailors,  has  also  spent  some  time  in  Washington  in  the 
interest  of  her  department  with  good  results.  The  usual 
amount  o^  local  petitioning  has  been  done  this  year.  I  recom- 
mend this  mode  of  action.  I  hope  that  the  different  State 
Superintendents  will  have  your  hearty  co-operation  whenever 
their  plan  involves  the  circulation  of  petitions.  It  is  a  good 
method  of  education  and  enlightenment — hence  if  nothing  else 
comes  of  it — it  will  pay. 

L.  M.  N.  STEVENS. 


ScientifiG  Teipperance  Instruction  in  Schools. 


Madam   President^   Delegates  and   Friends  of    the    Con- 
vention : 

In  bringing  this,  my  first  annual  report  to  your  attention,  I 
shall  ask  you  to  note  briefly  the  report  of  work  in  each  county. 
Every  county,  except  Piscataquis  has  a  county  superintendent 
and  several  local  superintendents.  We  number  one  hundred 
and  twenty-eight  superintendents  in  this  department  of  work. 

In  Androscoggin  County,  Mrs.  Ella  T.  Mabry  reports  ten 
local  superintendents  and  good  oral  work  being  done  in  nearly  all 
schools.  In  Lewiston  and  Auburn  they  have  examinations  in 
this  study  and  diplomas  are  giv^en  for  essays  on  *' Harmful 
Effects  of  Alcohol,*'  etc. 

Aroostook  County  :  Miss  J.  B.  Ward  reports  thirteen  superin- 
tendents many  of  whom  she  has  visited,  and  explained  the 
work.  Good  oral  instruction  is  quite  generally  given,  and  as 
a  result  teachers  and  scholars  are  joining  temperance  societies 
and  becoming  interested  in  temperance  movements. 

Mrs.  H.  L.  Berry  reports  nineteen  superintendents  in  Cum- 
berland County.  In  many  of  the  schools  good  oral  instruction 
is  given,  while  in  many  others  the  subject  is  only  mentioned 
occasionally.  At  Cumberland  Mills  the  school-officers  are  in 
sympathy  with  temperance  work.  The  text  books  are  in  the 
hands  of  the  pupils,  and  good  results  are  obtained.  Less 
smoking  among  school  boys  is  noticed. 

Franklin  Co.  :  Mrs.  L.  M.  Ames  reports  six  local  superinten- 
dents. In  many  towns  the  subject  is  made  a  feature  of  teach- 
ers' examinations  and  good  oral  instruction  is  given.  At 
Kingfield,  Mrs.  H.  P.  Lander,  the  local  superintendent,  is  also 
supervisor  of  public  schools,  and  this  year  she  has  put  the 
indorsed  books  into  the  hands  of  all  children  old   enough   to 


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read ;  and  also  put  Julia  McNair  Wight's   temperance  arith- 
metic into  the  intermediate  and  primary  grades. 

For  Hancock  County,  Mrs.  E.  L.  Peckham  reports  (\\c 
superintendents  and  a  little  work  done,  but  hopes  to  accomplish 
more  another  year. 

Mrs.  E.  S.  Fogg  reports  for  Kennebec  County  nine  local 
superintendents.  Good  oral  work  in  some  schools,  and  in 
others  very  little  attention  is  given  to  temperance  instruction. 
Parents  are  becoming  interested  and  may  insist  that  the  law 
be  enforced. 

Knox  County  has  six  superintendents.  In  many  of  the 
schools  the  subject  is  taught  orally.  Mr.  Levi  Turner,  Jr., 
supervisor  of  Rockland  schools  has  a  1  )pteJ  the  course  of  study 
arranged  by  the  National  VV.  C.  T.  U.  and  prints  it  with  the 
course  of  study.  The  Supenisor  of  the  Thomaston  schools. 
Miss  Alida  M.  Mehan,  is  in  hearty  sympathy  with  the  work. 

Miss  Addie  C.  Ames  reports  five  superintendents  in  Lincoln 
County.  Several  towns  have  the  endorsed  text  books,  and 
good  results  are  obtained.  She  says:  '"All  will  take  up  the 
work  soon.  Good  impressions  have  been  made,  especially  in 
regard  to  tobacco." 

For  Oxford  County  Miss  Addie  L.  Allard  reports  four 
superintendents  and  thinks  the  subject  is  generally  ignored,  or 
only  occasional  lessons  given  except  in  towns  where  there  is  a 
W.  C.  T.  U. 

Mrs.  A.  B.  Crockett  reports  eight  superintendents  in  Penob- 
scot County.  Good  work  is  being  done  in  the  schools,  and 
good  results  have  followed  the  teaching. 

There  is  no  county  superintendent  in  Piscataquis  County 
but  Foxcroft  has  a  good  local  superintendent,  an  earnest  tem- 
perance woman,  who  will  do  all  she  can. 

Miss  Lucy  Rogers  reports  for  Sagadahoc.  Subject  taught 
orally  about  15  minutes  a  day.  A  strong  impression  has  been 
made  against  stimulants  and  narcotics. 

Mrs.  N.  H.  Vining  reports  six  local  superintendents  in 
Somerset  Co.  Teachers  doing  good  oral  work.  Supervisors  say 
they  cannot  change  the  books  as  they  were  put  in  for  live  years. 


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Waldo  County,  Miss  A.  A.  Hicks,  county  superintendent. 
No  report  received. 

Mrs.  Emily  Harris  reports  ^ve  superintendents  in  Washing- 
ton County.  Teachers  interested  and  good  oral  instruction 
given. 

For  York  County  Mrs.  S.  W.  Ricker  reports  twenty-one 
superintendents.  In  nearly  all  schools  thorough  oral  instruc- 
tion is  given  from  the  endorsed  text  books.  Pupils  acquire  a 
good  knowledge  and  are  growing  up  to  be  total  abstainers. 

In  addition  to  these  reports  I  wish  to  emphasize  the  import- 
ance of  this  work  among  the  children,  and  urge  you  to  greater 
diligence  and  more  united  eftbrt.  If  the  Maine  Woman's 
Christian  Temperance  Union  will  make  this  department  the 
leading  line  of  work  for  the  coming  year  great  good  can  be 
accomplished.  The  late  Dr.  C.  R.  Agnew  said,  '*  If  the 
children  can  be  taught  what  alcohol  is,  the  next  generation 
will  see  a  load  lifted  from  our  race  the  weight  of  which  exceeds 
the  power  of  the  imagination.''  We  live  in  a  country  where 
the  majority  rules,  and  where  public  opinion  lays  the  founda- 
tion of  law,  and  to  educate  the  mind  and  awaken  the 
conscience  upon  any  subject  is  equivalent  to  enacting  laws 
upon  that  subject.  Our  aim  is  total  abstinence  for  the  person 
and  prohibition  for  the  state  and  nation,  and  no  method  of 
obtaining  this  result  commends  itself  to  the  practical  worker 
like  an  appeal  to  reason  through  the  education  of  all  pupils  in 
our  schools.  Nothing  can  prevail  against  a  righteous  cause 
upon  which  the  people  are  educated. 

Dear  sisters,  I  trust  vou  have  alreadv  determined  to  have 
the  scientific  reasons  for  total  abstinence  and  other  laws  of 
health  more  thoroughly  taught  in  your  county.  Each  union 
must  appoint  a  superintendent,  and  in  a  town  where  there 
is  no  union  the  county  superintendent  should  appoint  a 
christian  woman  in  sympathy  with  our  work.  Such  a  worker 
to  be  auxiliary  to  the  county  superintendent,  and  to  hold  office 
only  until  a  union  is  organized  in  her  town.  We  must  have 
more  workers  and  more  work.  The  results  obtained  are  in 
direct  proportion   to  the  personal  effort  made.     We   have   i\ 


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definite  object  in  view  and  the  work  well  planned.  Mrs. 
Mary  H.  Hunt,  the  National  Superintendent,  has  anticipated 
every  need  of  the  local  worker  in  her  Plan  of  Work  and  other 
literature,  and  she  is  glad  to  answer  your  questions  and  give 
you  aid.  If  you  wish  to  obtain  copies  of  the  revised  text 
books  notify  her  what  books,  if  any,  you  have  in  your  schools, 
aad  which  series  of  books  you  prefer,  and  she  will  send  you 
sample  copies  free. 

During  the  year  I  have  sent  literature  to  the  county  and 
local  superintendents,  school  officers  and  teachers ;  having  dis- 
tributed 7,360  pages  of  literature.  I  have  written  147  letters 
and  310  postal  cards ;  also  read  a  paper  at  Bangor  before  the 
Maine  Pedagogical  Society,  and  have  been  present  and  spoken 
in  five  conventions  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

MRS.  G.  F.  FRENCH, 

State  Supt.  S.  71  /. 


Report  of  Supt  of  Evangelistic  Work. 


Circulars  from  our  National  Superintendent  of  Evangelistic 
work  have  been  sent  to  each  local  union,  and  the  following 
returns  have  been  received  : 

Androscoggin  County  sends  full  and  excellent  reports  from 
nearly  all  her  local  unions.  In  one,  Bible  readings  every  alter- 
nate Wednesday  through  the  winter ;  one  reports  the  first  half 
hour  of  each  local  meeting  devoted  to  prayer  and  praise ;  one 
has  Bible  readings  the  first  Wednesday  in  each  month,  using 
Hannah  W.  Smith's  Bible  leaflets ;  sick  and  dying  visited  and 
gospel  meetings  held  in  the  diftercnt  churches  and  participated 
in- by  pastors,  much  prayerful  efibrt  made  to  abolish  the  cider 
habit.  The  whole  report  from  this  county  is  delightful  read- 
ing and  rings  like  a  clarion  call  for  the  reign  of  truth  and 
righteousness. 

Aroostook  County  shows  increased  interest  in  the  work, 
especially  in  two  of  its  unions.  Gospel  meetings  are  held 
monthly,  alternating  in  the  difierent  churches.  One  union  re- 
ports ten  gospel  temperance  meetings  held  through  the  winter, 
also  lectures  by  five  difl^erent  clergymen. 

Cumberland  County  reports  lectures  by  Rev.  Leroy  Bean, 
Mrs.  Chant,  Mrs.  Woodbridge,  Sam  Small  and  others.  Rend- 
ing meetings  held  in  difierent  homes  cordially  opened  to  the 
unions.  Prison,  jail  and  almshouse  work  receiving  some  atten- 
tion and  more  than  a  thousand  pages  of  evangelistic  literature 
distributed  among  unions  heard  from. 

Franklin  County  reports  from  one  union  where  mucii  per- 
sonal work  is  done,  meetings  held  at  the  house  of  one  drinking 
man  and  several  members  of  this  class  brought  to  Clirist.  ()  ! 
Stars  to  shine  forever  in  some  humble  worker's  crown  ;  surely 
she  **that  winneth  souls  is  wise.**  There  are  also  devotional 
meetings  held  by  this  union  every  two  weeks. 


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Hancock  County  reports  some  interest  in  gospel  temperance 
work.  Pastors  in  one  locality  pray  often  for  temperance  and 
seem  interested  for  the  cause.  On  Crusade  Day  an  effective 
serm6n  was  preached  by  one  of  them.  This  union  alternates 
its  meetings  with  the  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E. 

Kennebec  County  reports  good  work  done.  Gospel  peace 
meeting  by  Mrs.  Woodbridge ;  gospel  politics  by  Mrs. 
Lathrap.  Meetings  held  in  halls  and  churches.  Peace  day 
and  Crusade  Day  observed.  In  one  union  work  done  in  jail, 
evangelistic  literature  distributed  and  unusual  signs  of  life  and 
activitv  manifested. 

Knox  County  sends  reports  from  but  two  unions.  One  has 
held  fifty  meetings  in  the  past  year,  observed  Crusade  Day, 
greatly  blessed  therein,  visited  jails,  prisons,  and  from  house  to 
house,  also  holds  weekly  meetings  for  conference  and  prayer. 
The  other  holds  a  Bible  Reading  every  alternate  meeting  of 
the  union. 

Lincoln  County  reports  renewed  interest  in  Bible  study  and 
renewed  consecration  for  work.  One  union  holds  meetings 
every  two  weeks  for  conference,  prayer  and  temi>erance  en- 
thusiasm. H.  W.  Smith's  Bible  Readings  used,  five  hundred 
or  more  pages  literature  distributed.  We  unite  with  its  earnest 
superintendent  in  believing  that  the  harvest  must  mean  grain. 
One  union  reports  in  a  minor  strain.  Let  us  pray  for  these 
weak  unions  that  God  will  inspire  them  with  more  faith. 

Oxford  County  reports  very  little  work  done.  One  member 
is  taking  the  Evangelistic  Course  under  Dean  Wright. 

Penobscot  County  has  several  new  unions  who  have  superin- 
tendents for  this  department  who  will  doubtless  be  heard  from 
another  year. 

Piscataquis  County  manifests  some  interest  and  hopes  to  do 
more  another  year. 

Sagadahoc  County  sends  report  from  one  devoted  worker 
who  visits  the  sick,  distributes  literature  and  otherwise  does 
what  she  can.  **  Fields  white"  and  '*  Laborers  few.** 
O  blessed  Holy  Ghost!    Constrain  the  laborers  to  thy  work. 

Somerset  County  :     In  sojpe  parts  of  this        '"ty  excellent 


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work  is  being  done.  Two  Gospel  Temperance  Sabbath 
Schools  in  out-of-the-way  places,  and  literature  distributed ; 
while  in  others  there  are  those  who  have  put  their  hand  to  the 
plow  and  are  looking  backward. 

Waldo  County  reports  from  one  union  where  work  has  been 
done  to  make  angels  glad.  Open  air  meetings  every  Sabbath 
through  hot  weather,  and  now  overflowing  meetings  in  churches. 
Old  and  hardened  sinners  brought  to  Christ,  who  has  power  to 
destroy  the  appetite  for  strong  drink. 

Washington  County  reports  some  prison  and  jail  work  done 
but  feels  the  paralyzing  effect  of  discouragement  in  some  of 
its  unions.  If  we  could  only  realize  *'the  battle  is  not  ours 
but  God's,"  how  strong  and  restful  we  could  be  even  in  apparent 
defeat. 

York  County  sends  most  cheering  reports  from  all  along  the 
line.  In  its  large  places  gospel  meetings  every  week,  homes 
opened  for  social  meetings,  deep  religious  interest  manifested, 
families  visited,  in  several  places  Crusade  Day  observed,  city 
missionary  helped  with  books,  papers,  etc. 

This  closes  the  list. 

I  would  now  call  attention  to  the  Evangelistic  Course  of 
Instruction  under  Dean  Wright  recommended  by  our  National 
Superintendent.  I  think  we  can  hardl}^ estimate  the  importance 
of  this  help  thus  brought  within  our  reach.  It  is  also  to  be 
hoped  that  each  union  will  use  Hannah  W.  Smith's  Bible 
Readings.  Never  was  anything  at  the  same  time  so  helpful  at 
so  little  cost. 

Dear  sisters,  the  doors  are  opening  of  their  own  accord  to 
consecrated  women  everywhere.  The  sacred  desk  itself  is  hers 
if  she  have  ears  to  hear  the  call  to  the  ministry  of  the  Word 
and  so  hasten  the  day  foretold  when  the  ''women  who  publish 
good  tidings"  shall  be  a  **great  host." 

Respectfully  submitted, 

LUCY  A.  SNOW, 
State  Supt,  Evangelistic  Work, 


Report  of  Supt.  of  White  Shield  Work. 

From  the  details  furnished  your  superintendent,  it  is  a  satis- 
faction to  report  that  this  department  has  shared  in  some 
degree  the  unprecedented  growth  of  the  general  work  of  the 
State  Union,  during  the  year.  But  these  details  cannot  be 
reported  here.  From  the  beginning  of  our  organization,  we 
have  been  instructed  that  its  work  must  be  conducted  in  a 
more  interior  way  than  that  which  can  be  adopted  in  the  work 
of  the  other  departments.  Therefore  the  outlines  given  below 
will  very  imperfectly  demonstrate  the  amount  of  prayerful 
thought  and  earnest  effort  bestowed  upon  the  work  for  the 
promotion  of  social  purity. 

Under  some  one  of  its  three  divisions,  Preventive,  Reforma- 
atory  and  Legal,  special  work  has  been  taken  up  by  nearly 
one  hundred  of  our  unions,  reformatory  being  often  nearest  at 
hand,  while  preventive  systematic  work  is  already  begun. 

The  work  of  organization  goes  slowly  but  surely  forward. 

County  superintendents  have  increased  from  seven  to  eleven, 

local  from  twenty-fou»  to  thirty-eight,  over  the  preceding  year. 

Nine  of  the  eleven  have  reported,  leaving  the  rest  of  the  work 

to  be  reported  by  local  superintendents  or  the  presidents  of  the 

unions. 

The  call  for  department  literature  has  increased  and  been 

greatly  enriched   by  two  recent   publications,   both    by  Miss 

Willard,  the  Manual   of  Social  Purity  and  the  *^White  Life 

for  Two."     Another  is  to  be  ready  in  a  few  weeks,  condensed 

from   Miss   Willard's   address   at    St.    Paul,    ''The   Sanctity 

of  the  Home."    The  three  series  of  G.  P.  Leaflets  have  been 

repeatedly  called  for,  some  demands  for  the  White  Cross,  and 

the  Philanthropist  series   widely  circulated.      This   series   is 

justly  becoming  a  favorite   with   the   superintendents.      The 

work  of  your  superintendent  has  been  mainly  conducted    by 

correspondence  and  the  circulation  of  literature. 


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Your  state  president  has  been  the  real  superintendent  of  this 
department  work,  everywhere  throughout  her  organizing  trips 
leaving  the  gospel  messages  of  temperance,  purity  and  peace. 
One  of  old  England's  gifted  women  gave  several  public  ad- 
dresses and  parlor  lectures  in  the  interest  of  this  work,  reviving 
the  impressions  made  by  the  National  Evangelist  of  this  depart- 
ment, the  preceding  year,  and  arousing  the  interest  of  hundreds 
who  had  hitherto  been  indifferent  to,  or  unaware  of,  the  need 
of  such  work.  It  cannot  be  that  all  the  thought  and  feeling 
awakened  by  these  leaders  shall  remain  disembodied.  God 
helping,  they  shall  be  clothed  upon  with  well-directed  effort 
the  year  to  come. 

Here  your  superintendent  must  remind  you  that  the  organ- 
ization of  this  department  has  often  been  impeded  by  illness  on 
the  part  of  superintendents,  by  bereavements,  by  removals  to 
other  localities,  by  resignations,  and  the  difficulty  of  obtaining 
those  fitted  for  the  work  who  are  willing  to  assume  its 
responsibilities. 

It  is  only  by  perfecting  this  department  organization,  in 
harmony  with  the  general  state  work,  that  individual  effort  can 
be  made  efficient.  The  following  is  an  example  of  the  orderly 
work  reported  by  one  of  the  county  superintendents. 

Mothers'  meetings  held  monthly.  Parlor  meetings  conduct- 
ed for  those  who  cannot  attend  regular  meetings.  Mothers 
sought  out  by  house  to  house  visitation,  and  addresses  pre- 
pared on  the  different  divisions.  Legislation,  Prevention  and 
Reformation. 

The  work  and  its  need  presented  at  the  Gospel  Temperance 
meetings  in  district  schoolhouses.  Serious  consideration  given 
to  the  condition  of  our  schools,  and  great  interest  awakened 
for  the  welfare  of  the  youth  of  both  sexes. 

Department  literature  to  the  number  of  eighteen  hundred 
and  fifty-six  pages  distributed  among  the  county  unions,  twelve 
of  which  have  superintendents. 

What  then  is  the  purpose  of  our  organization  ?  None  other 
than  to  bring  heaven  down  to  earth.  Let  us  help  each  other 
to  be  faithful  to  this  supreme  endeavor.     If  we  ourselves  prac- 


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tice  and  help  others  to  practice  that  religion  of  the  body  which 

alone  prepares  it  to  be  a  fit  dwelling  place  for  the  Spirit,  we 

shall  be  granted  forjegleams  of  that  condition  of  society,  seen 

in    vision  and  portrayed  with  prophetic    pen,  when  the  Lord 

shall    descend  and  dwell  with  us,  and  we  shall  indeed  be  his 

people. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

MARGARET  T.  W.  MERRILL, 

State  Supt.  of  White  Shield  Work  for 

Promotion  of  Social  Purity. 


Departriient  of  Press    lUork. 


Madame  President  and  Sisters  of  the    Convention : 

When  Martin  Luther,  while  secreted  in  the  gloomy  German 
castle,  fancied  that  he  saw  the  powers  of  darkness  assume  a 
tangible  form,  he  seized  his  ink  bottle  and  hurled  it  with  such 
violence  at  the  unwelcome  apparition  that  the  stain  of  the  ink 
upon  the  castle  wall  is  still  pointed  out  to  tourists.  And  to-day, 
we  of  the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union,  who  must 
encounter  the  demons  of  ignorance  and  prejudice  which  beset 
the  path  of  the  temperance  movement,  can  find  no  mightier 
weapon  than  printer's  ink,  and  this  weapon  it  is  the  special 
function  of  the  press  department  to  wield. 

We  are  pre-eminently  a  newspaper  reading  people.  In  our 
own  state  no  less  than  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  paf>ers  and 
periodicals  of  various  kinds  are  published,  and  there  are  very 
few  homes  into  which  none  ot  these  find  entrance.  Hence  the 
great  importance  of  securing  the  publication  of  temperance  in 
as  many  of  them  as  possible.  To  this  end  there  should  be  a 
bright,  capabk  press  superintendent  in  every  local  union,  who 


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shall  study  the  needs  and  interests  of   her  community    and 
provide  what  is  best  adapted  to  them. 

Forty-one  of  the  local  superintendents  have  reported  to  me 
this  season,  nineteen  of  them  having  been  appointed  during 
the  present  year.  They  have  furnished  W.  C.  T.  U.  and 
general  temperance  news  for  about  eighty-five  papers,  and  note 
an  increasing  readiness  on  the  part  of  editors  to  publish  it. 
Thirteen  papers  are  reported  as  having  a  W.  C.  T.  U.  column. 
Nearly  two  hundred  special  articles,  most  of  them  bearing  on 
the  different  departments  of  our  work  have  been  printed,  and 
about  three  hundred  columns  of  selected  matter,  beside  many 
notices  and  short  items  which  can  not  be  classified. 

One  rather  curious  fact  in  connection  with  the  work  in  this 
state  is  noted.  As  a  rule,  editors  of  religious  papers  are  less 
inclined  to  publish  matter  directly  bearing  upon  the  temperance 
question  than  those  of  secular  ones. 

It  is  the  duty  of  county  superintendents  to  secure  the  appoint- 
ment of  local  workers  in  every  union  within  their  jurisdiction, 
and  most  of  them  have,  I  think,  tried  to  do  their  best  in  this 
direction.  The  best  organized  county  is  York,  where  Mrs. 
S.  P.  Smith,  my  predecessor  in  state  work,  has  secured  such 
an  appointment  in  every  union. 

Next  in  thoroughness  of  organization  ranks  Aroostook, 
Kennebec  and  Androscoggin.  In  some  counties  very  few 
papers  are  published,  while  in  others  the  unions  and  papers 
are  not  located  in  the  same  places.  Several  superintendents 
have  done  excellent  work  by  soliciting  space  in  papers  in 
towns  where  no  unions  yet  exist,  and  regularly  supplying  them 
with  suitable  material.  Among  these  are  Mrs.  Minard  of 
Houlton  and  Miss  Jenkins  of  East  Vassalboro. 

It  would  be  pleasant  to  mention  more  of  these  faithful  ones, 
but  lack  of  time  forbids.  One,  however,  I  can  not  forbear  to 
name.  Miss  Cora  Loring  of  Rockland  ;  though  for  the  last  three 
years  one  of  the  shut-ins,  she  has  this  year  sent  to  the  three 
Rockland  papers  eight  hundred  and  seventy  items,  a  large 
number  of  which  have  been  printed. 

Just  now  the  most  urgent  need  of  this  department  is  com- 


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petent  superintendents  in  all  the  cities,  and  I  appeal  to  each 
local  president  to  place  this  work  in  charge  of  some  woman 
who  is  both  prompt  and  accurate.  While  the  town  and  county 
unions  continue  in  their  well  doing,  the  city  papers  with  their 
wide  circulation  should  not  be  neglected.  By  supplying  in- 
teresting temperance  news  we  cultivate  the  public  demand 
for  it. 

The  personal  work  of  your  state  superintendent  has,  as  you 
know,  been  largely  done  on  your  state  paper,  Star  in  the  East, 
ten  numbers  of  which  have  already  appeared.  The  need  of  a 
state  organ  had  long  been  felt,  both  as  a  medium  of  communi- 
cation between  the  unions  and  as  a  means  of  correcting  such 
misapprehensions  of  us  and  of  our  work  as  occasionally  appear, 
and  of  giving  our  own  members— especially  the  new  ones — a 
clearer  conception  of  our  aims  and  methods.  But,  as  such  a 
paper  is  seldom  the  first  year  entirely  self-supporting,  the  finan- 
cial condition  of  the  state  union  did  not  warrant  the  venture  at 
an  earlier  date. 

When  your  superintendent  was  notified  of  her  appointment 
at  the  Bar  Harbor  Convention,  she  supposed  she  was  simply  to 
direct  the  work  of  securing  the  publication  of  temperance 
matter  in  the  various  papers  of  the  state  and  was  not  aware  that 
she  was  destined  also  to  serve  in  the  capacity  of  editor,  the 
plans  for  a  paper  of  our  own  not  then  having  materialized. 
She  therefore  trusts  that  the  sisters  will  overlook  all  imperfec- 
tions in  the  work  thus  unexpectedly  placed  in  her  hands,  for 
the  burden,  though  sometimes  a  little  heavy,  has  at  least  been 
cheerfully  borne. 

The  kind  words  which  have  come  from  all  parts  of  the  state 
have  been  a  great  encouragement.  Those  just  received  from  a 
good  Houlton  sister  contain  the  same  sentiment  which  many 
others  have  expressed  :  "When  you  first  wrote  me  that  a  state 
paper  was  to  be  started,  I  felt  sad.  I  was  so  jealous  for  the 
wider  circulation  of  the  Union  Signal  that  I  feared  a  state  paper 
would  divide  the  interest  and  that  less  good  would  be  done. 
But  when  the  first  copy  came  into  my  home,  all  jealousy  van- 
ished and  I  felt  it  was  exactly  what  we  needed  to  tell  us  what 


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is  being  done  along  the  different  W.  C.  T.  U.  lines  all  over  our 
state.  It  seems  like  a  letter  from  our  dear  sisters  every  month." 
The  fear  of  decreasing  the  circulation  of  our  noble  national 
organ  has,  I  think,  proved  entirely  groundless,  the  brief  ex- 
tracts from  it  given  ni  the  Star  ser\'ing  rather  as  an  advertise- 
ment. Thus  our  Auburn  union  which  subscribed  for  eight}' 
copies  of  the  Star,  has  during  the  year  nearly  doubled  its  sub- 
scription list  to  the  Signal. 

We  have  since  May  mailed  the  paper  to  most  of  the  clergy- 
men of  the  state  ;  unions  and  individuals  have  paid  for  copies 
to  be  sent  into  many  homes  not  presided  over  by  W.  C.  T.  U. 
women,  while  some  who  are  not  members  of  the  union  have 
subscribed  for  it. 

Much  credit  is  due  to  those  who  have  contributed  articles 
and  reports  of  local  work,  without  which  such  a  paper  would 
be  of  comparatively  little  value.  It  is  evident  that  there  is  a 
veritable  gold  mine  of  talent  in  our  state  union,  amply  sufHcient 
to  supply  a  paper  much  larger  than  our  little  Star. 

No  work  is  more  laborious  than  ours,  neither  is  any  more 
delightful,  and  the  fact  that  Miss  Henry,  our  National  Superin- 
tendent, has  just  become  assistant  editor  of  the  Chautauquan, 
indicates  that  it  is  sometimes  in  the  line  of  promotion. 

Let  us  remember  that  through  the  press  we  have  our  great 
opportunity  to  interest  those  who  are  not  of  us  and  to  over- 
come that  opposition  to  our  work  which  usually  arises  from 
ignorance  of  it ;  and  above  all  else  let  us  not  forget  that  it  is 
our  high  calling  to  be  co-workers  with  Him  who  shall  bring 
forth  ''His  righteousness  as  the  light  and  His  judgment  as  the 

noonday." 

Respectfully  submitted, 

MARY  L.  FRENCH. 


{Report  of  Supt.  on  Unfermented  IHine. 


Madam  President  and  Sisters  of  the  IV,  C,  T,  U, : 

There  has  been  no  year  of  my  work  in  this  department  that 
I  have  felt  more  the  need  of  Divine  direction  than  during  the 
year  just  closed. 

In  seeking  to  present  the  subject  of  unfennented  wine  at  the 
sacrament  to  a  church  whose  leaders  affirm,  and  no  doubt 
conscientiously,  thai  ''''fermented  wine  is  the  only  and  right 
kind  to  use,"  it  has  been  a  question  how  best  to  do  it  so  that 
new  light  and  conviction  might  be  the  result,  and  not  wounds 
and  offense.  No  better  plan  seemed  to  present  itself  than  the 
sending  of  our  literature  on  the  subject  to  every  church  and 
parish  in  the  state. 

Accordingly  I  sent  a  postal  to  each  union  where  there  is  an 
Episcopal  membership  asking  the  name  of  some  lady  who 
would  receive  and  circulate  these  leaflets  among  the  members 
of  that  church.  One-half  of  the  unions  responded  and  the 
leaflets  were  sent  at  once.  But  the  failure  of  the  other  unions 
to  reply  did  not  deter  me  from  sending  to  each  corresponding 
secretary  a  package  with  a  request  to  circulate  it.  Several 
have  acknowledged  the  receipt  of  them  and  expressed  a  readi- 
ness to  perform  the  duty  ;  so  that  every  church  and  parish 
except  two  have  been  reached  through  this  avenue. 

I  also  sent  Miss  West's  and  Dr.  Wells*  tracts  on  communion 
wine  to  every  rector  in  the  state  except  two.  One  lady  sent  for 
a  second  package  of  leaflets  and  one  asked  me  to  send  some 
reading  on  the  subject  to  a  rector  who  was  an  interested 
inquirer. 

I  learn  that  the  Episcopal  church  in  Houlton  has  used  unfer- 
mented  wine  the  past  year  and  that  the  change  was  the  result 
of  the  conviction  produced  on  the  mind  of  the  rector  through 
the    reading    of   the    Union    Signal    and    other    temperance 


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literature  furnished  him  by  the  union  of  Houlton.  The 
Episcopal  church  in  Rockland  also  uses  unfermented  wine. 

I  regret  to  have  to  report  again  that  the  High  St.  church  in 
Portland  still  uses  fermented  wine.  It  stands  alone  among  all 
the  Congregational  churches  in  the  state  and  in  fact  the  only  one 
of  any  denomination  except  the  Episcopal.  In  reviewing  the 
nine  years  of  my  work  I  can  but  thank  God  for  so  much  of 
progress  in  this  reform  which  removes  temptation  from  our 
weak  brother  for  whom  Christ  died  :  For  we  have  known  in 
past  years  repeated  instances  where. reformed  men  have  relapsed 
into  their  old  habits  from  tasting  of  that  which  can  intoxicate 
at  the  Lord's  table,  and  thus  the  cup  which  should  have  been  a 
blessing  has  been  a  curse.  And  to-day  we  know  of  a  church 
where  such  reformed  persons  are  not  permitted  to  receive  this 
emblem  of  Christ's  shed  blood  because  of  the  poison  therein  and 
the  danger  to  the  communicant.  But  we  are  looking  forward 
with  faith  and  hope  to  a  better  day.  The  little  leaven  is  at 
work  which  will  leaven  the  whole. 

In  reviewing  the  nine  years  of  my  work  I  can  but  thank  God 
for  so  much  of  progress  in  this  reform,  not  that  it  is  so  much  the 
result  of  my  labors,  as  it  has  been  the  blessing  of  God  on  the 
efforts  of  the  several  unions  in  localities  where  fermented  wine 
was  formerly  used.  1  would  that  I  could  report  the  number 
of  churches  that  have  made  this  change  during  these  years,  but 
I  am  sure  it  has  been  large. 

I  close  by  giving  thanks  to  God,  who  while  He  has  helped 

us  to  sow  the  seed,  has  alone  caused  it  to  grow  and  yield  as  a 

rich  harvest. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

HANNAH  F.  CROCKER, 

Superintendent . 


fleport  of  Y.  111.  (5.  T.  U.  mork. 


Almost  without  our  realizing  it,  another  year  has  gone,  and 
again  it  is  time  to  render  an  account  of  our  year's  work.  It  is 
with  a  feeling  almost  akin  to  sadness,  that  in  our  grand  old  Pro- 
hibition State  of  Maine  with  its  thousands  of  young  men  and 
women,  so  little  has  been  accomplished,  but  still  the  prospect 
is  far  from  discouraging.  New  Y  unions  have  been  organ- 
ized and  not  one  discontinued  as  far  as  can  be  learned. 
County  superintendents  for  the  young  people's  work  have  been 
appointed  and  without  one  exception  seem  thoroughly  awake 
and  interested,  so  much  so  that  they  wished  to  be  informed  in 
any  way  and  by  all  ways  that  would  promote  their  work. 

The  local  unions  have  generally  throughout  the  state  held 
monthly  business  meetings.  In  some  instances  they  have 
alternated  business  and  parlor  meetings  as  would  best  suit  their 
members. 

Flower  Mission  Day  was  observed  right  royally,  the  bright 
faces  of  our  Y  sisters  with  their  dainty  bouquets  of  flowers 
and  text  cards  carrying  sunshine  to  many  lonely  hearts.  Press 
work  is  somewhat  engaged  in,  but.  not  as  extensively  as  we 
would  like.  Good  work  has  been  accomplished  at  fairs  in  the 
distribution  of  literature,  and  individual  work.  The  Loyal 
Temperance  Legions  under  the  supervision  of  the  Y*s  are  in  a 
flourishing  condition.  Lectures,  lawn  parties,  concerts,  etc., 
have  been  held  and  done  much  good  socially.  Mrs.  Leavitt, 
the  former  superintendent  of  this  department  writes  the,  Port- 
land Y's  have  been  greatly  blessed  by  some  of  their  members 
entertaining  those  less  fortunate  than  themselves,  with  choice 
reading  for  a  certain  time  each  week.  Mrs.  Leavitt  also  spoke 
at  the  Reform  School  assuring  the  inmates  of  the  interest  and 
friendship  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U's  and  Y's.  As  was  urged  last 
year  by  our  superintendent,  I  would  repeat  again,  let  all  our 


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younjjf  people  (lc>  their  part  to  help  swell  the  suhscription  list 
of  the  Oak  aiui  Ivy  Leaf,  and  in  so  doinjj  not  f»>rget  our  own 
.•'Star  in  the  East"  for  the  time  has  already  come  when  man- 
kind  Iwlieves  that  too  much  cannot  l>e  done  to  win  and  assist 
fellow  l)eings  to  right  living  and  right  thinking.  There  can- 
not be  too  manv  thinkers  nor  can  there  be  too  nianv  laborers 
in  the  cause  of  liberty,  temperance,  and  real  progression. 

"Still  with  honest  purpose  toil  we  on; 

And  if  our  steps  be  upward,  straight,  and  true; 
Far  in  the  east  a  golden  day  shall  dawn, 

And  the  bright  smile  of  God  come  bursting  through/' 

CORA  L.  PULLEN, 
State  Supt,   r.   W,  C.  T.  U.   Work. 


Prison,  Jail,  Police  and  Almshouse  Work. 


(Ji;r  Mono — ''Sot   wilUnf/   that   an;/  shipuld  iterish." 

« 

Again  I  come  before  you  to  report  the  work  of  another  year, 
but  feel  that  I  can  hardly  do  justice  to  the  earnest,  faithful 
workers  in  the  space  allowed  for  our  report.  Good  work  has 
been  done  all  along  the  lines. 

Androscoggin  County  :  Mrs.  W'agg  gives  a  good  report  of 
work  done  at  Auburn  jidl.  She  says:  **VVe  work  for  the  sal- 
vation of  the  souls  of  these  lost  ones.  Many  have  given  proof 
of  reformed  lives  for  vvhicli  wc  thank  God  and  take  courage." 

Mrs.  E.  E.  Knowlton  is  doing  grand  work  as  police  matron 
at  Lewiston  caring  for  women  prisoners,  many  of  whom  she 
has  iuHucnced  to  lead  better  lives.  Many  young  girls  who  are 
allowed  to  spend  much  of  their  time  on  the  streets,  have  been 
induced  to  pass  their  idle  time  in  X\k  ''Young  Ladies'  Reading 


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Room."  Flomes  have  been  found  for  young  girls,  and  little 
unfortunate  children  cared  for.  Many  calls  have  been  made 
on  destitute  families  and  their  needs  supplied. 

Aroostook  County  also  reports  good  work  done  there  by 
earnest,  consecrated  workers,  and  much  good  resulting  there- 
from. One  prisoner  in  for  three  years  is  taking  up  the  Home 
Course  of  Sabbath  School  lessons.  The  superintendent  says, 
"'I  do  feel  that  our  work  is  not  without  profit  in  the  Lord.'* 

Cumberland  County  :  Good  work  is  still  being  done  in 
Cumberland  County.  Services  held  in  jail  chapel,  prisoners 
supplied  with  helpful  literature,  Flower  Mission  Day  observed, 
and  much  personal  work  done.  The  Friendly  Inn  is  still 
sending  out  its  uplifting,  life-giving  influence,  as  is  also  the 
Temporary  Home  for  unfortunate  women  and  children.  The 
State  Reform  School  is  still  reaching  out  a  ^'helping  hand**  to 
the  boys  of  our  state,  ''seeking  to  save.'*  Miss  Leavitt  says  of 
jail  work:  **VV'e  have  had  a  large  number  of  women  prison- 
ers all  the  year  who  have  been  cared  for  by  our  faithful  matron. 
We  have  also  had  the  hearty  co-operation  of  the  sheriff'  and 
officers.  Do  a  large  amount  of  visiting  the  families  of  prison- 
ers, ministering  to  their  necessities. 

No  report  from  Franklin  County. 

Mrs.  L.  L.  Phelps  gives  a  very  interesting  report  of  work 
done  at  Ellsworth  jail  in  Hancock  County.  Services  held  every 
Sabbath.  A  short  practical  explanation  of  Bible-lesson,  sing- 
ing, in  which  the  prisoners  take  part.  Out  of  eighteen  men. 
seven  have  signed  the  pledge  and  been  given  pledge  cards  as 
reminders  of  their  promise.  Cliristmas  and  Easter  happily 
observed  with  cards  and  flowers.  The  superintendent  assisted 
by  children  from  the  *'Pansy  Band.**  A  permanent  library  for 
the  jail  is  an  advance  step.  Correspondence  is  kept  up  with 
the  men  going  from  here  to  Thomaston. 

Kennebec  County  :  Mrs.  C.  T.  Allen  writes  that  at  the 
time  she  visited  the  jail  at  Augusta  there  were  thiity-Hve  in- 
mates all  in  for  drunkenness  or  selling  liquor.  There  was  no 
religious  service  held  from  Dec.  to   May.  the  sheritt*  for  some 


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reason  thinking  it  best  to  dispense  with  visitors  for   a   season. 
Good  literature  was  sent  to  the  prisoners. 

Knox  County  :  Mrs.  A.  C.  Crosby  reports  good  work  done 
at  our  State  Prison  by  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  ladies  who  go  by  two's 
as  did  the  early  disciples  of  our  Lord.  Each  Sabbath  finds 
them  at  their  post  with  the  women  in  prison,  breaking  to  them 
the  * 'bread  of  life"  and  with  good  results.  One  professes  to 
have  entered  the  ^'better  way."  Religious  and  temperance 
literature  is  eagerly  sought  after  and  supplied  as  far  as  possible. 
More  literature  could  be  profitably  used  if  it  could  be  obtained. 
Is  there  not  much  *'and  to  spare**  in  many  Christian  homes 
in  our  state  that  might  be  sent  to  our  sisters  to  be  used  in  their 
work?     The  inmates  of  almshouse  well  cared  for. 

Lincoln  County  :  Mrs.  Hilton  writes  of  efforts  being  made 
to  carry  the  gospel  message  to  ''those  in  bonds."  She  reports 
but  one  woman  arrested  in  the  last  ten  years  and  this  case  was 
for  drunkenness.     Prisoners  supplied  with  suitable  reading. 

Oxford  County:  The  jail  is  visited  by  W.  C.  T.  U.  ladies. 
Flower  Mission  Day  observed  and  prisoners  supplied  with 
literature.  Mrs.  Stickney  says:  ''I  write  to  one  of  the  pris- 
oners occasionally  and  send  literature  to  all.  It  is  but  little, 
but  *what  wc  can.*" 

Penobscot  County  :  Mrs.  Pickard  gives  an  excellent  report 
of  work  done  in  Bangor  jail.  Religious  ser\Mces  held  each 
Sabbath  ;  a  large  amount  of  literature  supplied  and  gladly  re- 
ceived by  the  prisoners ;  homes  made  wretched  by  the  drink 
curse  transformed  into  homes  of  comfort,  and  the  inmates 
rescued  and  saved.  Flower  Sabbath  was  observed  with  hap- 
piest results. 

Somerset  County :  I  have  heard  that  the  inmates  of  the 
county  jail  have  been  cared  for  by  ladies  interested  in  the  wel- 
fare  of  those  who  have  gone  astray  through  the  influence  of 
strong  drink.  Almshouses  in  this  county  have  been  looked 
af^er  as  much  as  possible. 

Waldo  County  :  Miss  Hicks  reports  the  usual  amount  of 
reformatory  work  done  in  her  county.     But  few  inmates  in  jail. 

I  am  aware  that  I  have  not  done  all   that  should  have  been 


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done  in  this  most  important  department.  The  state  superin- 
tendent should  be  one  who  can  visit  our  institutions  and  come 
in  contact  with  the  unfortunate  ones  for  whom  we  work  and 
pray.  I  have  done  what  I  could  under  existing  circumstances. 
As  the  years  50  by  and  eternity  draws  near,  it  is  to  me  an 
increasingly  important  and  serious  thought,  what  part  of  my 
life-work  will  stand  that  day  when  "every  one's  work  shall  be 
tried  of  what  sort  it  is."  To  each  worker  in  the  Master's 
vineyard  this  is  a  momentous  question.  What  is  the  work  or 
service  that  will  stand  down  through  the  eternities  as  a  mem- 
orial of  life  work  }  In  our  department,  dear  superintendents, 
there  is  much  to  do  to  carry  out  the  Spirit  of  our  Motto,  "Not 
willing  that  any  should  perish." 

Respectfully  submitted, 

MRS.   H.  M.  PHILBRICK, 
State  Supt.  Prison^  yail^  Police  and  Almshouse  Work. 


Report  of  Hygienic  Reform  and  Heredity. 

Madam  President  and  Ladies  of  the  Convention : 

Your  superintendent  could  wish  that  this  department  had 
been  in  abler  and  more  efficient  hands  during  the  past  year 
since  it  is  of  so  great  importance.  There  has  been  but  very 
little  done  the  past  year,  there  being  but  seven  superintendents 
in  the  state.  I  have  written  to  every  county  in  the  state  and 
urged  them  to  appoint  superintendents  of  this  department ;  but 
seven  have  responded,  viz. :  Androscoggin,  Aroostook,  Han- 
cock, Kennebec,  Oxford,  Sagadahoc  and  Waldo. 

Androscoggin  County:  Aurelia  Springer,  M.  D.,  Lewiston, 
superintendent,  reports  no  other  Jin^  of  work  has  done  so  much 


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towards  building  up  and  sustaining  the  interest  in  the  meet- 
ings. Dr.  Eh'zabeth  Horr  and  dittcrent  members  with  herself 
have  read  papers  and  discussed  ways  and  means  of  reaching 
the  people.  She  has  also  visited  Turner,  Greene  and  Lisbon 
and  spoken  in  behalf  of  the  department.  Local  superin- 
tendents have  been  appointed  in  all  of  the  above  unions,  and 
our  ladies  seem  fully  awakened  to  the  importance  of  the 
subject. 

Aroostook  County :  Mrs.  M.  E.  Luce,  Caribou,  superin- 
tendent, reports  all  the  unions  in  the  county  have  been  written 
to ;  but  four  responded.  Ashland  and  Caribou  promised  to 
appoint  superintendents.  Three  new  superintendents  have 
been  gained  this  year.  Some  literature  has  been  distributed 
by  Presque  Isle  union,  also  the  two  last  meetings  have  been 
devoted  to  hygiene,  with  quite  a  discussion.  Mrs.  Luce  is 
going  to  prepare  herself  to  give  short  talks  to  the  unions  on 
this  department  of  work  as  soon  as  possible. 

Hancock  County  :  Mrs.  A.  F.  Greely,  Ellsworth,  superin- 
tendent, reports  we  have  not  organized  for  any  special  work 
in  these  reforms,  but  at  all  our  regular  meetings  the  subjects 
have  been  introduced  with  excellent  cflect.  At  the  countv 
convention  held  in  Surry,  May  29th,  papers  on  these  subjects 
were  prepared  antl  read  by  the  superintendent,  which  were 
well  received  and  brought  up  quite  a  discussion.  At  the 
Washington  county  convention  she  had  quite  an  opportunity 
to  talk  on  the  subject. 

Kennebec  County  :  Superintendent  only. 

Oxford  County  :  Superintendent  only. 

Sagadahoc  County  :  No  report. 

Waldo  County :  Has  had  no  superintendent  until  last  June  ; 
consequently  no  work  done. 

In  conclusion  let  me  say,  when  I  was  appointed  to  this 
department  of  our  state  work,  knowing  mv  inability,  I  very 
much  regretted  the  appointment,  but  as  I  have  become  more 
acquainted  with  the  work,  and  more  interested  in  it,  I  have 
come  to  see  and  believe  in  its  importance.  And  while  I  do 
not  think  our  unions  will  rapidly  take  up  this  department,  yet 


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throughout  the  season  on  every  Saturday ;  the  hospitals, 
Temporary  Home  and  private  individuals  being  remembered. 

Franklin  County :  Mrs.  Beedy  is  having  a  practical  illustra- 
tion of  the  work  in  her  sick  room  at  Farmington  now.  She 
reports,  Christmas  the  Band  of  Hope  of  Farmington  prepared 
and  carried  wreaths  to  the  sick  and  *'  shut-ins."  The  union 
observed  Miss  Casseday's  birthday  by  going  to  the  jail  with 
bouquets.  The  flowers  were  thankfully  received.  Devotional 
exercises  were  held.  At  the  county  convention  good  work 
was  reported  from  the  unions  at  Phillips,  Strong  and  Kingfield, 
but  I  have  no  further  report  from  them. 

Hancock  County :  Miss  Suminsby  sent  out  letters  to  all 
local  unions  but  received  no  reports. 

Kennebec  County :  Flower  Mission  Day  was  generally 
observed  in  the  county.  Over  two  hundred  (200)  calls  have 
been  made  by  the  W*s  and  Y's  at  Winthrop  Centre.  Flowers 
and  literature  distributed.  The  almshouse  has  been  the 
especial  care  of  the  Y*s. 

Knox  County :  The  unions  of  this  county  furnished  flowers 
for  the  observance  of  Prison  Day  at  Thomaston  ;  text  cards 
were  used.  Mrs.  Lathrap  spoke  in  a  most  acceptable  manner. 
The  members  of  the  union  at  Thomaston  handed  each  man  a 
bouquet  as  he  passed  out.  The  Y's  have  taken  charge  of  this 
department  in  Rockland.  Number  of  bouquets  distributed 
forty-three  (43),  with  text  cards  attached,  to  private  individ- 
uals and  the  Marine  Hospital.  The  children  of  the  Loyal 
Legion  have  helped  very  faithfully. 

Lincoln  County :  The  union  at  Jcfterson  has  done  some 
work.  Waldoboro  union  observed  August  4th  as  Floral  Day, 
distributing  fifty  (50)  bouquets  among  the  sick,  aged  and 
*'8hut-ins,"  and  remembering  their  editor  who  is  an  advocate 
of  our  beloved  cause  and  ready  to  aid  the  union  in  every 
possibl<f  way.  They  also  \siy  a  floral  piece  on  the  casket  of  a 
dead  citizen  tied  with  the  white  ribbon,  and  the  initials  W. 
C.  T.  U.  stamped  thereon. 

Oxford  County :  Mrs.  Dow  reports,  June  i8th  delegates 
from  the  Brownfield  union  visited  the  jail,  carrying   flowers 


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and  papers.  They  also  send  flowers  to  the  sick  and  visit  the 
almshouse.  The  children  of  the  L.  T.  L.  at  Hiram  furnished 
bouquets  for  the  churches  and  Sabbath  Schools,  afterwards 
taking  them  to  the  sick. 

Penobscot  County :  Mrs.  Pickard  says,  June  8th  was 
observed  ;  bouquets  were  distributed  to  forty  (40)  prisoners, 
text  cards  were  attached.  Each  prisoner  selects  his  bouquet 
from  the  baskets.  The  flowers  were  beautiful  and  plentiful. 
Religious  exercises  were  held. 

Piscataquis  County  :     No  prison  in  this  county. 

Somerset  County  :  Mrs.  Philbrick  reports,  no  union  near 
the  county  jail,  but  there  are  friends  who  look  after  the  inmates 
of  jail  and  almshouse,  supplying  them  with  flowers,  liter- 
ature, scripture  cards,  etc. 

Sagadahoc  County  :  Mrs.  Bruce  reports,  in  June  members 
of  the  Bath  union  visited  the  almshouse.  The  Y*s  have  done 
good  work  in  making  calls  with  bouquets,  text  cards  and 
cheering  words.  The  members  of  the  L.  T.  L.  have  also 
done  good  work  carrying  flowers  and  cards  to  the  poor  and 
sick.     Some  have  signed  the  pledge. 

Waldo  County :  Work  reported  fully  by  Miss  A.  A.  Hicks 
of  the  Belfast  union.  Bouquets  were  carried,  with  the  text 
cards  attached  by  white  ribbon,  to  the  county  jail,  almshouse, 
^'shut-ins'*  and  to  the  sick.  Religious  services  were  held. 
Searsmont  and  Burnham  unions  have  done  a  little. 

Washington  County  :  No  report. 

York  County  :  Miss  Kimball  reports  the  county  not  very 
well  organized.  She  has  carried  flowers  and  sometimes  fruit 
to  the  sick  and  "shut-ins"  in  Kenncbunk.  Cornish  union  has 
done  a  little. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

EVELYN  T.  SIMMONDS, 

State  Supt.  Flower  Mission. 


Report  of  Dept.  of  Impure  Literature. 


On  looking  over  the  material  at  hand,  from  which  I  have  to 
make  my  report,  this  thought  came  to  me  :  Do  the  results  pay 
for  the  labor  expended?  But  when  we  realize  the  importance 
of  the  work,  we  thank  God  and  take  courage,  for  **greater  is 
He  that  is  for  us  than  He  that  is  against  us.'* 

We  commenced  our  work  this  year  with  the  determination 
that  we  would  have  a  county  sui>erintendent  in  every  county. 
We  have  not  been  able  to  fully  carry  out  this  desire,  but  we 
have  doubled  our  number  of  county  superintendents.  These 
have  looked  after  the  local  superintendents  so  that  the  number 
of  such  is  greatly  increased.  Some  of  the  unions  are  small 
and  have  not  the  same  opportunities  to  work  as  in  larger  towns, 
but  all  have  done  something  toward  lessening  this  great  evil 
which  floods  our  land.  We  have  used  the  press  exposing  the 
terrible  dangers  menacing  our  young  people  from  the  immoral 
books  sent  through  the  mails.  During  the  past  year  we  have 
stopped  the  sale  of  Police  News  in  Bangor  and  other  towns, 
and  here  we  would  say  to  the  superintendents,  whenever  you 
see  the  Police  News  in  a  store  window,  lose  no  time  in  calling 
the  attention  of  the  proprietor  to  the  evils  arising  from  the  cir- 
culation of  this  paper.  Give  him  a  copy  of  our  State  Law,  and 
tell  him  of  the  dislike  the  respectable  public  have  to  this  vile 
paper  with  its  obscene  pictures. 

Bangor  Crusade  has  not  been  idle  in  this  work.  One  mem- 
ber of  the  Crusade  has  found  in  visiting  the  jails  that  many 
of  the  youthful  prisoners  trace  their  downward  career  from  the 
time  they  began  to  read  dime  novels  or  such  papers  as  Police 
News. 

Kingfield  superintendent  posted  State  Laws  in  postoffice  and 
other  public  places,  talked  with  teachers  bidding  them  warn 


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their  scholars  of  the  impure  literature  sent  through  the  mails. 

Bath  has  done  some  work. 

East  Machias  found  no  impure  literature  or  obscene  pictures 
there. 

Machias  uses  the  press  on  this  subject.  St.  Albans  has 
posted  copies  of  State  Law,  held  Mother's  meetings,  talked 
with  the  parents  in  regard  to  the  demoralizing  influences  that  are 
desecrating  so  many  homes  and  leading  our  sons  and  daughters 
astray.     Dexter  has  also  done  some  work  in  this  direction. 

Orono  has  had  papers  on  impure  literature  read  at  Sunday 
evening  public  temperance  meeting.  Spoken  to  scholars  in 
Sunday  School.  Spoken  to  mothers  and  teachers  on  this  sub- 
ject, used  the  press  and  in  other  ways  sought  to  warn  the  young 
against  the  unwholesome  reading  of  the  day. 

When  we  contemplate  the  difficulties  in  our  department  of 
work  we  do  not  wonder  that  superintendents  ask  us,  what  can 
we  do  in  this  matter?  We  say  in  reply,  see  what  has  been 
done  within  the  last  ten  years  by  persistent  individual  eflbrt. 
We  cannot,  perhaps,  do  great  things,  such  as  Anthony  Com- 
stock,  who  seizes  immoral  books  by  the  thousands,  who  destroys 
indecent  pictures  and  photographs  in  the  same  ratio,  but  in 
the  smallest  towns  and  villages  we  can  speak  to  the  mothers, 
asking  them  to  superintend  the  literature  that  their  children 
read.  We  can  tell  the  teachers  of  village  schools  to  look  after 
their  scholars  lest  anytliing  impure  be  sent  through  the  mails 
to  them.  And  if  the  Police  News  or  other  papers  made  of 
criminal  news  be  sold  or  received  into  the  homes  of  any,  a 
judicious  and  kindly  word  mny  stop  it.  Do  not  let  us  rest  here. 
The  work  is  difl^icult,  but  by  "pegging  away"  we  will  succeed. 
And  never  forget  that  we  are  working  for  the  best  good  of 
humanity  and  the  glory  of  our  God. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

MRS.  J.  B.  HILL, 

Orono. 


Report  of  Temperance  Work  at  Pairs. 


Madam  President  and  Dear  Sisters: 

Mrs.  Josephine  Nichols,  our  able  National  Superintendent 
of  Tennperance  Work  at  Fairs,  in  reporting  the  World's  W.  C. 
T.  U.  Exhibit  at  the  Paris  Exposition,  says:  ''There  were  so 
many  obstacles  to  be  overcome,  that  it  needed  all  the  faith  and 
courage  which  even  a  W.  C.  T.  U.  woman  could  command,  to 
push  the  work  forward." 

It  would  seem  that  in  our  prohibitory  state  there  should  be 
nothing  to  prevent  us  from  accomplishing  temperance  work  at 
every  fair  and  other  holiday  gathering,  and  since  our  last  report 
we  gladly  note  an  increasing  interest  in  many  districts  and 
counties.  The  state  is  now  well  organized,  and  many  unions, 
this  season  for  the  first  time,  have  entered  heartily  into  the  work 
which,  we  trust,  will  result  in  building  up  the  cause  of  temper- 
ance and  imparting  knowledge  concerning  our  organization. 

The  Lewiston  and  Auburn  unions  enlarged  their  restaurant 
at  the  State  Fair  ground  and  tastefully  decorated  it ;  they  also 
rented  the  adjoining  restaurant,  thus  securing  seating  capacity 
for  one  hundred  and  sixty-two.  Mr.  Ricker,  proprietor  of 
Poland  Spring  house,  gratuitously  furnished  the  Spring  water 
for  the  four  days  of  the  fair;  and  the  good  people  of  the  two 
cities  generously  responded  to  our  solicitations  for  food.  The 
Agricultural  Board  gave  us  forty-seven  free  passes  to  the 
ground,  also  a  pass  to  your  superintendent  for  the  purpose  of 
distributing  temperance  literature,  the  unions  appropriating 
five  dollars  for  the  purchase  of  the  same.  About  six  hundred 
copies  of  the  Star  in  the  East  and  one  hundred  Youth's  Tem- 
perance Banners,  with  a  large  number  of  leaflets  folded  inside 
the  papers,  were  freely  distributed.  Several  ladies  promised  to 
join  the  unions  in  the  localities  from  which  they  came.  W^e 
^rved  three  hot  meals  each  day,  and,  considering  the  inclemency 


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of  tlie  weather,  were  well  patronized.  Our  net  proceeds 
amounted  to  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars,  which  are  to  go 
toward  the  ''Lewiston  Nursery**  and  the  '*Young  Woman's 
Home**  at  Auburn.     One  young  man  signed  the  pledge. 

Fifty  Union  Signals  (Fair  number),  one  hundred  ''Timely 
Talks,**  fifty  ''Signal  Lights,*'  forty  *'Oak  and  Ivy  Leaf,*' 
seventy-five  "National  Leaflets**  and  sixty  ''Loyal  Leaflets'* 
were  distributed  at  the  Androscoggin  County  Fair  at  Liver- 
more  Falls,  by  the  union  in  that  place. 

Kennebec  County  superintendent  (Miss  Brainerd)  has  mani- 
fested much  interest  in  her  department,  and  has  secured  the 
appointment  of  a  superintendent  from  every  union  in  localities 
where  fairs  are  held,  also  giving  plans  for  the  work. 

Three  hundred  copies  of  Star  in  the  East  and  some  two 
hundred  and  fifty  leaflets  were  distributed  at  the  Oxford 
County  Fair,  by  the  new  union  at  Norway. 

Mrs.  Knowles  of  Corinna,  Penobscot  County,  although 
prevented  by  illness  from  attending  their  fair,  did  good  work 
by  sending  copies  of  the  Star  to  ladies  through  the  town,  en- 
closing leaflets  and  written  invitations  to  each  lady  to  subscribe 
for  the  paper,  and  to  become  a  member  of  the  union. 

Mrs.  Philbrick  and  Mrs.  Chandler  had  arranged  to  be 
present  at  the  Somerset  County  Fair;  but  on  account  of  rainy 
weather  it  was  postponed  until  this  week.  Like  many  other 
fairs  it  occurs  too  late  to  be  reported  this  season. 

Mrs.  Hanscom,  president  of  East  Machias  union,  says  she 
and  her  secretary  had  a  tent  on  the  Fair  ground  at  Machias, 
distributed  leaflets  and  several  copies  of  the  Star,  and  sold 
refreshments. 

Mrs.  E.  C.  Small,  of  Cherryfield,  in  reporting  the  West 
Washington  County  Fair,  writes:  **For  ten  years  we  have 
pitched  our  tent,  and  done  what  we  could  in  the  temperance 
line ;  but  this  year,  with  the  help  of  the  citizens,  we  have 
finished  a  beautiful  building  on  the  Fair  ground  at  Cherryfield, 
and  made  it  as  attractive  as  possible  with  mottoes,  flags, 
placards,  etc.  Sold  lunches  and  hot  coftee,  and  gave  away 
ice  water.     We  distributed  fifly  copias  of  the  Fair  number  of 


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the  Union  Signal,  fifty  copies  of  other  Union  Signals,  fifty 
Young  Crusaders  and  about  the  same  number  of  Water  Lilies 
and  Temperance  Banners,  and  also  three  hundred  'Timely 
Talks'  and  the  'Work  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U/  We  added 
several  names  to  our  subscription  list  for  all  the  different  pub- 
lications, beside  several  new  names  as  members  of  our  union.*' 
It  will  be  seen,  even  in  this  meagre  report,  that  more  than 
a  thousand  copies  of  Star  in  the  East  and  other  publications, 
beside  thousands  of  temperance  leaflets,  have  gone  into  families 
which  would  not  otherwise  have  been  reached,  thus  giving 
information  concerning  our  work  and  creating  a  temperance 
sentiment.  We  are  more  and  more  convinced  that  we  can 
reach  the  masses  in  this  line  of  work,  as  we  can  in  no  other. 
There  are  forty-six  District  and  County  Fairs  in  our  state ; 
superintendents  ha\e  been  appointed  from  thirteen  counties  and 
from  manv  local  unions ;  and  1  trust  that  next  year  we  shall 
increase  our  efibrts  and  improve  the  golden  opportunity  for 
temperance  work  at  every  fair,  promptly  reporting  to  the  state 
superintendent.  How  little  the  exertion  required  compared 
with  the  grand  results  which  are  sure  to  follow. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

MRS.  SUSAN  FRENCH. 


Report  of  Supt.  of  Sabbath  Observance. 

Dear  Sisters  and  Co-workers : 

Let  each  of  us  insist  that  the  wholesome  Sabbath  laws  of  our 
state  be  enforced  in  the  locality  where  we  have  a  home. 

We  find,  by  reports  received  from  local  unions,  that  there  is 
a  tendency  in  some  places,  especially  in  cities  and  in  country 
towns  where  there  are  public  resorts  opened  only  in  the  summer 
time  to  excursionists,  to  pay  no  attention  to  Sabbath  laws  nor 
christian  practices  in  i*egard  to  them  ;  but  to  desecrate  the  day 
by  congfregating  people  together  to  *'have  a  good  time,'*  as 


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they  say,  it  is  doubtful  if  sucli  good  times  are  ever  experi- 
enced without  leaving  a  sting  which  more  than  counteracts  the, 
so  called,  good  in  it. 

The  desire  to  avail  themselves  of  the  opportunity  to  travel 
cheaply  is  an  inducement  held  out  by  railroads  and  steamboat 
companies,  and  multitudes  are  caught  thereby. 

It  is  estimated  that  about  200,000  employes  in  these  christian 
United  States  are  reduced  to  a  state  of  slavery,  having  to  work 
nearly  or  quite  all  of  every  Sabbath  day  in  the  year,  because  so 
many  choose  to  run  after  miscalled  pleasure  on  that  sacred  day. 
Then  let  me  ask,   ''Where  are  we  drifting?" 

I  hope  the  National  Superintendent  of  this  department  will 
soon  put  us  in  a  way  to  get  out  a  giant  petition  to  send  to  those 
who  shall  have  the  management  of  the  World's  Exposition  to 
be  held  in  Chicago,  (that  Sabbath  breaking  city)  in  1892,  re- 
questing that  the  Exposition  buildings  and  grounds  be  closed  to 
all  visitors  on  Sabbath  days. 

By  the  report  froniMrs.  Snow,  superintendent  of  Cumberland 
County  union,  we  find  that  in  Portland,  literature  has  been 
distributed  and  pastors  requested  to  preach,  each,  a  sermon  on 
the  Sabbath  question,  to  which  they  responded  generally.  In 
Brunswick  literature  has  been  distributed.  South  Bridgton 
reported  one  sermon,  literature  circulated  and  a  public  meeting 
held  in  the  interests  of  the  department,  under  the  auspices  of 
the  W.  C.  T.  U. 

Cumberland  Mills  is  looking  after  its  Sabbath  interests  but  is 
troubled  by  the  newspaper  man  from  outside  and  some  care- 
lessness in  other  directions.  One  able  sermon  preached  on  the 
fourth  commandment. 

Peak's  Island  :  One  sermon  preached,  one  public  meeting 
held    and    literature   distributed.      100  signatures  to  petitions. 

Cape  Elizabeth  :  A  sermon  preached,  literature  circulated 
and  some  other  influences  exerted. 

Saccarappa  has  taken  a  fine  stand  against  Sabbath  entertain- 
ments and  gratefully  acknowledges  aid  and  sympathy  from  some 
of  her  pastors. 

Stroud  water  has  done  some  good  work  in  Sabbath  Schools. 


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Is  troubled  by  the  foreign  population  of  adjoining  towns  who 
go  to  the  Beach  Saturday  nights  and  return  Sunday  nights,  thus 
breaking  the  day  at  both  ends  by  their  songs  and  other  demon- 
strations. 

South  Windham  :  One  sermon,  literature  distributed,  some 
citizens  induced  to  abandon  the  practice  of  going  to  Old  Orchard 
Beach  on  Sundays. 

Windham  Centre  reports  two  sermons,  six  hundred  pages  of 
literature  circulated. 

The  superintendent  for  Knox  County,  Miss  Crie,  reports  that 
in  Rockland  all  the  paslors  were  asked  to  preach  from  the 
fourth  commandment  on  the  Sunday  in  April  appointed  by 
our  National  Superintendent.  She  thinks  they  all  complied 
with  the  request.  Miss  Crie  has  requested  the  churches  to 
take  action  upon  the  Sabbath  question  as  it  relates  to  the 
W^orld's  Fair  in  1892.  The  county  superintendent  has  been 
prevented  by  protracted  sickness  from  doing  as  much  as  she 
wished  to.  She  savs  there  is  a  crvinjjf  need  of  reform  all  about 
her  and  she  earnestly  desires  that  God's  name  and  dav  may  be 
honored  in  this  fair  land  of  ours. 

Mrs.  Pierce,  yice  president,  reports  for  Oxford  County. 
Sabbath  observance  sermons  were  preached,  April  13th,  in 
Hiram  and  Brownfield ;  also  literature  distributed  and  the 
Sabbath  subject  given  for  a  prayer  meeting  topic  in  the 
evening.     No  work  reported  from  other  places  in  the  county. 

In  Aroostook  County,  Mrs.  Knight  is  the  efficient  superin- 
tendent, and  reports  that  in  Caribou  two  sermons  were 
preached  and  two  public  meetings  held  in  the  interests  of  the 
cause,  also  one  parlor  meeting. 

In  Presque  Isle,  Monticello  and  Limestone,  one  sermon 
preached  and  in  each  place  literature  given  out. 

New  Limerick  reports  one  sermon  ;  literature  distributed  ; 
and  says,  '*There  is,  by  this  influence,  a  great  change  in 
popular  sentiment  in  regard  to  a  right  observance  of  the 
Sabbath." 

In  Fort  Fairfield  fourteen  earnest  helpful  sermons  preached  ; 
three  public  meetings  held  ;  3,000  pages  of  literature  distributed. 


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Two  churches  devoted  the  entire  day,  April  13th,  to  the  sub- 
ject ;  morning  sermon.  Sabbath  School  and  prayer  meeting, 
taking  up  the  topic.  Boxes  in  the  railroad  station  are  kept 
supplied  with  leaflets  on  the  subject.  Copies  of  our  State 
Sunday  laws  are  kept  posted  in  public  places.  Three  week 
day  evening  prayer  meetings  have  taken  up  the  topic  by 
request  of  the  local  superintendent.  Press  used  to  some 
extent.     Public  sentiment  much  improved  of  late. 

In  Bangor  the  Crusade  is  holding  gospel  meetings  every 
Sabbath  evening,  as  in  past  years,  and  are  wide  awake  on  the 
subject  of  Sabbath  observance,  teaching  it  by  example  and 
precept.     The  topic  is  frequently  introduced  in  their  jail  work. 

Waldoboro  reports  eight  sermons  preached  ;  three  prayer 
meetings  accepted  the  topic  ;  six  hundred  leaflets  distributed. 

East  Machias  has  posted  copies  of  Sabbath  laws  in  stores  and 
mills.  Three  sermons  preached.  Nearly  two  hundred  signa- 
tures secured  to  the  petition  to  congress.  Has  used  the  local 
press  to  influence  the  public,  and  endeavored  to  enforce  Sab- 
bath laws. 

Belfast :  Three  hundred  pages  literature  ;  four  sermons. 

North  Anson  :  Three  sermons,  some  literature ;  about  four 
hundred  signatures  to  petition.     Public  sentiment  good. 

Kennebunk  :  One  hundred  pages  literature  ;  eight  sermons ; 
children  induced  to  attend  the  Sabbath  School ;  moral  senti- 
ment good. 

Winthrop  :  There  is  a  healthy  sentiment  in  favor  of  Sabbath 
observance.  Some  desecration  of  the  day  by  foreigners.  2,000 
pages  of  literature  distributed.  Pulpit  teaching  aids  in  the 
work. 

China :  Twelve  hundred  pages  literature  distributed  ;  two 
sermons  ;  two  prayer  meetings  used  the  topic. 

Surry  reports  two  sermons  and  public  sentiment  generally 
good. 

Dexter:  300  pages  literature.  Local  press  used  t3  some 
extent.  Public  sentiment  far  behind  the  standard.  Base  ball 
playing  and  pleasure  seeking  excursionists  desecrate  the 
Sabbath. 


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Farmington  :  Three  sermons;  one  prayer  meeting  and  one 
public  meeting  held  in  the  interests  of  the  work.  The  press  is 
utih'zed.     Pubh'c  sentiment  fair. 

Orono :  Three  sermons;  150  pages  literature;  12  copies  of 
Sabbath  Laws  posted.  Nearly  every  one  signed  the  petition 
and  several  signed  the  Sabbath  Observance  pledge.  Public 
sentiment  not  as  good  as  desired. 

Camden  :     Three  sermons,  two  public  meetings. 

Corinna:  Union  recently  organized.  200  pages  of  litera- 
ture distributed. 

East  Jefterson  :  One  sermon  preached  with  good  results ; 
150  leaflets  circulated. 

Shawmut  union  reports  some  literature  sent  out  and  one 
Sabbath  School  used  one  of  Mrs.  Bateham's  Concert  Exercises. 

Union :  450  pages  literature  distributed.  One  sermon 
preached  ;  two  Concert  Exercises  used  in  juvenile  work  ;  two 
prayer  meetings  in  April.  Much  gospel  work  done  Sundays. 
Public  moral  sentiment  good. 

Turner :  Sent  literature  and  copies  of  Sabbath  Laws  to  all 
heads  of  families  in  the  neighborhood.  Some  other  work  done 
and  sustained  bv  the  community. 

Since  coming  to  the  state  convention  we  have  been  informed 
by  an  honored  delegate  from  Mechanic  Falls,  that  much  good 
work  had  been  done  in  that  place.  Several  sermons  preached 
on  fourth  commandment,  literature  circulated,  etc. 

Some  of  our  new  unions  have  not  yet  taken  up  the  work  of 
this  department  and  others  have  not  reported.  We  hope  all 
will  have  something  to  report  next  year.  There  is  certainly 
need  of  it  in  many  places,  and  where  healthy  sentiment  pre- 
vails it  should  be  encouraged  and  sustained,  which  can  only  be 
done  by  eflbrt.  '* Remember  the  Sabbath  Day  to  keep  it  holy" 
is  just  as  obligatory  throughout  all  Christendom  now,  in  the 
nineteenth  century  of  the  Christian  era,  as  it  was  upon  the  early 
Jewish  church  when  it  came,  through  Moses,  fresh  from  the 
hand  of  God,  and  engraved  on  a  tablet  of  stone. 

The  liquor  power  is  an  anti-Sabbath  power  in  the  body- 
politic.     They  clamor  for  "personal  liberty'*  and  threaten  all 


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parties  that  will  not  comply  with  their  demands,  which  are 
among  the  tokens  of  evil  that  confront  our  nation.  But  the 
Sabbath  sign,  like  the  rainbow,  will  not  be  destroyed  though  a 
deluge  of  wickedness  and  judgments  should  burst  upon  our 
earth. 

Among  the  lessons  which  every  bible  teacher  should  en- 
deavor, at  each  suitable  opportunity,  to  impress  upon  the 
minds  and  consciences  of  his  pupils,  and  which  the  times,  as 
never  before,  it  seems  to  us,  demand,  is  that  of  Sabbath  ob- 
servance. 

By  the  tests  of  both  science  and  experience  the  Sabbath 
carries  throughout  its  history  proofs  of  the  Infinite  wisdom  that 
instituted  it,  and  of  man's  absolute  need  of  its  temporal  as  well 
as  its  spiritual  blessings. 

Let  us  each  resolve  that  we  will  not  patronize  excursions, 
papers,  postoffice  or  railroad  on  the  Sabbath. 

Christians  have  need  to  watch  lest  the  secular  reading,  the 
social  call,  the  afternoon  drive,  the  worldly  spirit,  the  demands 
of  anti-christian  thought,  steal  from  us,  before  we  are  aware, 
the  sanctity  of  that  day  which  gives  it  peculiar  significance. 
May  the  '*Lord  of  the  Sabbath"  strengthen  every  effort  to 
redeem  it.  Let  every  man  take  his  oar  (his  vote)  and  stem 
the  current,  and  if  woman,  his  helpmate,  can  get  hold  of  an 
oar  also,  they,  pulling  together,  will  bring  the  old  ship  of  State 
safely  to  harbor,  where  no  storms  shall  molest  her  nor  sever 
her  from  the  sure  anchor  which  '* Holds  within  the  vale." 

Respectfully  submitted, 

HANNAH   T.  BAILEY, 

Supt, 


^Report  of  Wiork  ^iiiong  Lurnbern^en. 


In  reviewing  the  work  of  this  department  for  the  past  year  I 
find  there  has  been  more  literature  distributed  than  in  any  pre- 
vious year. 

There  seems  to  be  more  lumbering  done  in  Aroostook  and 
Somerset  Counties  than  in  any  of  the  others,  or  at  least  we  are 
so  situated  that  we  can,  and  do  furnish  more  camps  with  litera- 
ture in  these  two  counties. 

Somerset  County  has  supplied  53  camps  with  4,353  pages, 
3,410  papers  and  1 1  peace  calendars. 

I  do  not  know  how  many  camps  were  supplied  in  Aroos- 
took County,  but  there  was  a  large  amount  of  literature  sent. 
Houlton  union  sent  nearly  700  papers  and  magazines. 

Franklin  County  reports  all  camps  supplied,  but  there  were 
not  as  many  as  usual. 

Hancock  County  reports  1000  pages  sent  to  the  camps  and 
500  to  mill  men. 

Dover  and  Foxcroft  union  sent  4,200  pages.  Dexter  union 
sent  several  packages  of  papers. 

A  number  of  local  unions  reported  that  besides  furnishing 
the  camps,  they  had  sent  literature  to  families  living  in  back 
settlements,  where  it  was  highly  appreciated. 

Unions  in  Cumberland,  York  and  Kennebec  counties  have 
kindly  contributed  literature  to  unions  where  it  was  most  needed 
for  this  work.  Kennebunk  union  furnished  a  barrel  of  valuable 
papers  and  magazines  and  Oakland  union  6,365  pages. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

MRS.  E.  S.  MERRITT. 

Houlton,  Oct.  I,  1890. 


Report  on  6o-operatioD  with  Other  Societies. 


The  brevity  of  my  report  on  Co-operative  Work  may  well 
compare  with  the  smallness  of  results  attained.  Unforeseen 
obstacles  interposed  to  prevent  giving  that  personal  attention  to 
the  cause  which  might  have  given  larger  returns  in  an  increased 
knowledge  of,  and  a  deeper  sympathy  in  our  work.  The  im- 
portance of  the  work  and  the  necessity  for  a  superintendent 
thereof  was  urged  upon  each  of  the  county  organizations  and 
instructions  were  given  where  required.  Five,  only,  reported 
the  appointment  of  such  officer,  namely,  Aroostook,  Kennebec, 
Somerset,  Waldo  and  Washington — the  last,  however,  failing 
to  submit  any  report  of  work  done.  Others  were  designated 
for  the  position,  but  their  declining  the  office  left  vacancies 
which  it  was  found  impracticable  to  fill.  Lack  of  knowledge  of 
the  nature  and  needs  of  this  work  and  want  of  time  to  devote 
to  it,  operate  against  its  successful  prosecution.  Most  of  us 
have  household  cares  that  will  not  ''down  at  our  bidding,"  and 
what  labor  is  assumed  in  these  efforts  must  be  additional. 
One  sister  declined  a  superintendency  because  she  already  held 
"an  office  in  four  societies  and  had  a  family  of  six  to  plan  and 
provide  for."  God  honors  those  who  are  faithful  to  their  trusts, 
but  He  does  not  call  idlers  to  work  in  His  vineyard,  and  the 
busiest  people  are  oftentimes  found  most  useftil  in  any  reforma- 
tory enterprise.  The  work  undertaken  the  past  year  has  been 
largely  in  the  line  of  temperance.  Mrs.  Frances  A.  Park,  of 
Presque  Isle,  who  was  our  successful  superintendent  last  year, 
has  been  active  again  this  year  in  presenting  the  claims  and 
aims  of  our  order  to  various  religious  bodies,  '*who  have  ex- 
pressed themselves  in  full  accord  with  the  advancing  temperance 
sentiment  of  the  present  time  and  in  sympathy  with  our  work.** 

A  gospel  temperance  meeting  was  held  at  Hodgdon  by  the 
W.  C.  T.  U.     Mrs.  Angeline  McPherson,  of  Winthrop  Center, 


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also  reports  work  done  in  the  same  line  by  herself  and  local 
superintendents  and  had  been  cordially  received. 

Miss  A.  A.  Hicks,  of  Belfast,  presented  our  cause  to  the 
Teachers'  Institute.  To  have  the  sympathy  and  help  of  the 
educators  of  our  youth,   is  a  long  step  in  the  right  direction. 

Mrs.  M.  F.  Bunker,  of  North  Anson,  found  all  societies 
"ready  to  co-operate  in  our  general  work." 

Thus  is  presented  the  work  done  in  the  year  now  closed. 
It  is  less  than  we  hoped.  The  fruitage  may  be  more  than 
we  expect.  It  is  essentially  a  seed  sowing  department.  Is 
there  cause  for  discouragement  ?  Education  is  a  slow 
process.  Now,  as  ever,  it  is  "Line  upon  line — precept  upon 
precept — here  a  little  and  there  a  little."  The  mighty 
enginery  of  the  law  that  can  make  the  liquor  traffic  un- 
profitable  is  not  in  our  hands,  but  to  make  it  unpopular 
is  both  our  duty  and  our  privilege.  We  have  entered  the 
fight  against  this  enemy  of  our  homes,  to  win.  Shall  we 
bemoan  our  weakness  }  Remember  that  the  "Race  is  not  to 
the  swift  nor  the  battle  to  the  strong."  Relying  upon  the  Lord 
of  Sabbaoth  victory  must  be  ours. 

''For  right  is  right,  since  God  is  God, 

And  right  the  day  must  win. 
To  doubt  would  be  disloyalty, 

To  falter  would  be  sin." 

Respectfully  submitted, 

MRS.  NELLIE  R.  SPRAGUE. 


Report  of  Supt.  of  Brancfeise. 


Mrs,   President  and  Members  of  the   Convention : 

It  aftbrds  me  much  pleasure  at  the  close  of  my  first  year  as 
your  Superintendent  of  Franchise  to  report,  the  seed  sown  by 
my  predecessor,  Dr.  Aurelia  Springer,  is  bringing  forth  an 
abundant  harvest ;  but  though  the  fields  are  white  for  the  harvest, 
the  laborers  are  few.  In  my  experience  of  more  th:.n  thirty 
years'  labor  in  the  cause  of  Equal  Rights,  I  have  never  known 
the  reform  to  make  the  progress  in  ten  years  that  it  has  in  the 
past  twelve  months,  I  wish  your  superintendent  could  claim 
a  fair  share  of  the  credit  for  the  progress  that  has  been  made 
in  her  department,  but  she  has  been  singularly  unfortunate  in 
her  eftbrts  to  interest  the  unions  in  our  state  in  the  enfranchise- 
ment of  women.  I  have  written  more  than  twenty  letters  and 
distributed  over  two  thousand  pages  of  literature  to  the  unions, 
and  have  received  responses  but  from  six.  Mrs.  DeWitt  of 
Presque  Isle,  superintendent  for  Aroostook  County,  and  Miss 
Titcomb  of  Stroudwater,  superintendent  for  Cumberland 
County,  have  sent  very  encouraging  and  interesting  reports ; 
others  have  merely  acknowledged  the  receipt  of  my  letters  and 
leaflets  but  made  no  report  of  their  work,  and  some  have  taken 
no  notice  of  my  letters  nor  the  leaflets.  This  lack  of  interest 
on  the  part  of  the  unions  would  have  been  very  disheartening 
had  I  not  realized  the  cause  was  gaining  in  every  direction  with- 
out my  aid,  and  that  the  hand  of  our  Heavenly  Father  was 
leading  us  out  of  the  wilderness  of  ignorance  and  prejudice, 
into  the  promised  land. 

June  19,  at  the  Washington  County  Convention  held  in 
Cherr}r field,  I  spoke  to  a  good  audience,  the  first  words  in  the 
cause  of  Equal  Rights  ever  presented  to  the  people  of  that 
town,  and  I  was  much  pleased  with  the  reception  they  received. 


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May  29,  at  the  Hancock  County  Convention  held  in  Surry,  I 
spoke  again  on  the  Enfranchisement  of  Women,  and  although 
it  was  the  first  public  address  on  the  subject  ever  given  in  that 
place,  it  was  well  received.  Circumstances  have  compelled 
me  to  decline  speaking  in  East  Bluehilland  in  Hancock,  where 
I  have  been  invited.  Five  years  ago  it  would  have  been  im- 
possible to  have  secured  a  hearing  on  the  subject  of  the  Enfran- 
chisement of  Women  in  either  of  these  towns. 

So  marked  has  been  the  change  in  the  sentiment  of  the 
Ellsworth  union  within  the  past  year  in  regard  to  the  cause  of 
Equal  Rights,  and  so  successful  the  efforts  that  have  been 
made  to  accomplish  the  change,  I  will  record  it,  with  the 
hope  that  the  unions  that  have  neglected  the  Franchise  depart- 
ment of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.,  will  profit  by  the  experience  of  the 
Ellsworth  union  and  do  likewise.  Three  years  ago  your  super- 
intendent was  the  only  pronounced  suffragist  in  our  local  union  ; 
so  averse  were  the  members  to  listening  to  that  subject,  1  have 
been  told  many  times  if  I  persisted  in  talking  on  that  reform  I 
should  break  up  the  union  ;  but  Prohibition  and  Equal  Rights 
were  so  interwoven  in  my  mind,  I  could  not  disconnect  them, 
and  in  every  meeting  where  I  had  a  chance  to  speak  I  endeav- 
ored to  prove  to  our  people  that  all  efforts  in  the  cause  of  Pro- 
hibition were  abortive  without  the  ballot  and  that  the  Enfran- 
chisement of  Women  is  the  right  arm  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  At 
last  their  ears  becoming  accustomed  to  the  sound  of  my  plead- 
ing for  Equal  Rights,  light  dawned  upon  them,  and  we  are 
now  a  unit  on  the  subject,  and  last  June  our  union  voted 
unanimously  to  devote  the  first  and  fourth  evening  of  every 
month  to  the  cause  of  Equal  Rights,  and  as  we  have  not  the 
means  to  hire  lecturers,  we  read  selections  from  the  Woman's 
Journal  and  Woman's  Column,  edited  byMiss  Alice  Blackwell, 
and  close  the  evening's  exercises  by  discussions  suggested  by 
the  reading.  This,  we  find  has  led  to  a  study  of  the  Dec- 
laration of  Independence,  the  basis  upon  which  our  Govern- 
ment was  established.  An  invitation  has  been  given  to  all 
women  who  wish  to  inform  themselves  on  the  subject,  to  at- 
tend the  meetings,  and  our  efforts  have  been   so  successful  in 


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disarming  prejudice  and  opening  the  eyes  of  the  blind,  *we 
trust  we  are  helping  hasten  the  day  when  our  Government  in 
its  administrations  will  recognize  no  sex^  and  our  country  will  be 
in  truth  as  in  name  the  ^'Land  of  the  free/'  and  mankind  will 
learn  to  practice  as  well  as  preach:  "Whatsoever  ye  would 
men  should  do  to  you,  do  ye  even  so  to  them." 

ANN  F.  GREELY, 

State  Supt,  of  Franchise. 


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Departnjeiit  of  IJarcoticg. 


Madam  President^  and  Sisters  of  the  Convention : 

Another  year  with  its  opportunities  either  neglected  or  im- 
proved has  rolled  into  eternity,  and  again  we  come  together 
for  our  annual  review  of  work  performed,  and  fruit  gathered, 
and  while  we  never  expect  in  any  depaitment  of  work  results 
fully  equal  to  our  desires,  yet,  in  view  of  the  fact  that  the 
Department  of  Narcotics  is  but  three  years  old  in  our  state,  we 
feel  that  our  advance  has  been  quite  commendable,  and  that 
**  Our  labor  is  not  in  vain  in  the  Lord."  So  far  as  reported, 
we  have  thirteen  county,  and  thirty-four  local  superintendents. 
Aroostook  County  has  a  deeply  interested  superintendent, 
and  while  deterred  by  other  cares  from  doing  all  that  her  heart 
prompts  her  to  do  in  this  department,  yet  she  has  been  faithful 
in  doing  what  she  could. 

In  the  summer  your  superintendent  was  through  some  parts 
of  the  county,  and  wherever  possible  visited  the  unions  and 
sought  to  awaken  more  interest  in  the  work  of  this  department; 
wherever  the  unions  could  not  be  visited  and  individual  mem- 
bers  could   be  found,  I  have  tried  to  faithfully  present  my 


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department  to  them.  At  a  public  meeting  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U. 
held  on  Hodgdon  camp-ground  a  paper  on  Narcot  ics  was  read 
and  as  a  result  two  new  superintendents  were  appointed,  one 
at  Cary  and  one  at  New  Limerick. 

Houlton  has  a  superintendent  who  has  distributed  thousands 
•f  pages  of  literature  and  done  a  great  deal  of  personal  work. 
Later  on  this  union  intends  to  offer  prizes  in  the  schools  for  the 
best  essays  on  the  Effects  of  Narcotics  on  the  System.  Rev.  Mr. 
Frohock  has  done  us  good  service  here  by  his  vigorous  denun- 
ciation of  **That  which  is  neither  food,  drink  nor  clothing." 
After  his  lecture  at  the  Opera  House  upon  this  subject,  one 
christian  man  went  home  but  got  no  sleep  until  he  settled  the 
matter  by  giving  up  the  habit.  He  said  he  could  stand  it  to  be 
told  that  tobacco  using  was  a  filthy  habit  and  an  expensive 
habit,  but  when  it  was  presented  to  him  as  a  sinful  habit,  he 
felt  that  he  must  give  it  up. 

Monticello  though  a  small  union  has  a  superintendent  and 
has  done  good  work  by  distributing  literature.  They  also 
bought  *'The  Tobacco  Problem"  and  loaned  it  to  tobacco  users 
with  the  result  that  four  inveterate  users  of  the  weed  have 
given  it  up.  We  wish  that  all  the  unions  would  try  '*The 
Tobacco  Problem"  as  an  antidote  to  the  tobacco  habit. 

Presque  Isle  has  a  superintendent  lately  appointed.  Fort 
Fairfield  also  has  a  superintendent. 

At  the  County  Convention  held  at  Caribou,  Rev.  Mr.  Fro- 
hock delivered  the  aforementioned  lecture  on  tobacco,  which  we 
know  caused  one  man  to  give  up  its  use  and  one  firm  to  give  up 
its  sale. 

The  superintendent  for  Androscoggin  County  writes :  ''The 
superintendent  at  Mechanic  Falls  is  a  faithful  worker,  has  dis- 
tributed literature  and  done  much  personal  work  in  Sunday 
School  and  elsewhere."  In  Auburn  the  superintendent  has  not 
been  idle ;  has  been  constant  in  season  and  out  of  season  and 
much  good  seed  has  been  sown.  Papers  have  been  read  and 
discussed  at  the  meetings  of  the  union  which  have  had  a  help- 
ful influence  and  have  served  to  arouse  some  slumbering 
mothers.     Some  of    the  pastors  have  helped  the  work  by  pro- 


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claiming  from  the  pulpit  the  disastrous  effects  of  the  Narcotic 
habit  upon  soul  and  body.  Much  literature  has  been  distributed 
and  talks  to  the  prisoners  in  the  jail  have  been  given.  At  an 
association  of  one  of  the  religious  bodies  in  the  county  the 
county  superintendent  of  Narcotics  read  a  paper  on  Sunday 
School  work  in  which  this  subject  among  others  was  mentioned. 
It  created  a  lively  discussion  among  the  ministers,  occupying 
nearly  the  whole  afternoon,  and  awakened  a  great  deal  of 
interest.  One  young  man  who  has  been  a  member  of  legisla- 
ture, a  dealer  in  tobacco,  went  home  and  went  out  of  the 
business.  Another  prominent  man  took  the  trouble  to  make 
an  estimate  of  the  money  spent  in  the  city  of  Auburn  for 
tobacco,  and,  before  he  had  got  through  the  city,  found  that 
much  more  was  expended  for  tobacco  than  for  all  its  churches, 
its  schools,  and  all  its  benevolent  objects. 

Cumberland  County  superintendent  writes  that  five  unions 
in  the  county  have  superintendents — Cumberland  Mills, 
Saccarappa,  South  Windham,  North  Gorham  and  Portland, 
each  of  these  are  doing  what  they  can  by  way  of  distributing 
literature,  and  doing  personal  work.  Portland  was  favored 
with  one  of  Mrs.  Gleason's  strong  and  convincing  lectures. 

The  superintendent  of  Franklin  County  is  also  local  superin- 
tendent of  Farmington  union.  She  is  said  to  have  delivered  a 
very  able  lecture  upon  Narcotics  at  the  county  convention  in 
June,  which  by  request  she  repeated  at  a  public  meeting  held 
by  the  Farmington  union  in  July.  At  Kingfield,  leaflets  on 
Narcotics  have  been  read  in  the  public  schools,  much  personal 
work  has  been  done  among  the  children,  tracts  distributed,  and 
triple  pledge  circulated  in  Sunday  Schools.  In  the  union  ex- 
tracts relating  to  the  subject  have  been  read. 

Hancock  County  sends  no  report. 

Kennebec  County  has  a  superintendent,  but  she  thinks  not 
much  has  been  done  in  that  department.  Augusta  had  a 
lecture  from  Mrs.  Gleason. 

Knox  County  has  a  superintendent  who  has  distributed  a 
large  packet  of  literature. 

Lincoln  County  superintendent   reports  good  work  done   in 


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Loyal  Legion.  Boothbay  union  is  interested.  Round  Pond 
has  a  new  union  and  has  appointed  a  superintendent  of  Nar- 
cotics.    Newcastle  has  distributed  literature  on  the  subject. 

Oxford  County  superintendent  has  distributed  300  pages  of 
anti-Narcotic  literature.  East  Brownfield  union  has  but  eight 
members,  but  they  are  doing  what  they  can.  Denmark  union 
reports  some  work  done.  One  woman  has  induced  her  hus- 
band to  quit  smoking,  and  her  son  to  sign  the  triple  pledge ; 
but  the  union  has  met  but  twice  during  the  year.  Hiram 
union  reports  work  done  among  the  children. 

Penobscot  County  has  a  superintendent  appointed  at  the  last 
county  convention.  Corinna  union  has  distributed  literature, 
and  put  it  in  wall  pocket  at  depot.  Hampden  union  is  doing 
some  work  in  this  direction. 

Dexter  has  done  grandly  in  this  department.  Some  of  the 
ministers  have  been  faithful  in  proclaiming  the  sin  of  indul- 
gence in  these  habits.  Last  winter  the  union  offered  prizes  in 
the  High  and  Grammar  schools  for  the  best  essays  on  "The 
Effects  of  Tobacco  upon  the  System."  This  called  forth 
twenty-seven  essays  upon  the  subject,  many  of  them  very 
meritorious.  The  four  prize  essays  were  printed  in  one  of  the 
local  papers. 

In  March  Mrs.  Gleason  gave  us  a  very  able  and  interesting 
lecture  upon  Narcotics.  One  young  man  was  heard  to  say  as 
he  went  home  that  he  would  never  smoke  again.  Mrs.  Glea- 
son is  thoroughly  posted  in  regard  to  this  subject,  is  a  student, 
and  fully  up  with  the  times.  She  is  also  very  pleasing  as  a 
speaker.  In  all  the  schools  here  the  evils  of  Narcotics  are  quite 
fieiithfully  taught  we  think,  and  the  supervisor  and  teachers  seem 
very  glad  to  render  us  any  aid  possible. 

Somerset  County  superintendent  has  gone  out  from  us  and 
her  place  is  not  yet  filled,  but  the  faithful  county  president  is 
doing  her  best  to  fill  vacancies  and  we  trust  will  soon  find  the 
right  woman  for  this  place.  The  St.  Albans  union  has  had 
papers  upon  this  subject  read  and  discussed,  beside  this  I  think 
the  work  is  mostly  done  through  the  L.  T.  L. 

Sagadahoc  County  has  no  superintendent.     Bath  has  one, 


no 

lately  appointed,  who  gives  promise  of  being  faithful  in  the 
work.  In  March  the  union  there  invited  Mrs.  Gleason  to  lec- 
ture and  address  the  children.  She  spoke  in  the  afternoon  to 
the  children  in  City  Hall  which  was  well  filled,  and  in  the  even- 
ing gave  an  address  to  those  of  ''larger  growth."  She  was 
well  received  and  is  earnestly  desired  for  a  second  lecture. 

Waldo  County  superintendent  is  also  local  superintendent  at 
Belfast.  She  has  distributed  considerable  literature  and  done 
much  personal  work.  Has  bought  '*The  Tobacco  Problem" 
and  is  lending  it  among  tobacco  users  with  good  results  and 
intends  to  present  it  to  the  public  library.  She  has  had  the 
cigarette  law  printed  in  the  local  paper  and  has  sent  literature 
into  the  schools.  At  the  county  convention  she  read  a  paper 
upon  the  subject. 

Washington  County  has  a  superintendent  but  lately  appr>inted 
who  we  feel  assured  will  do  good  work.  At  the  last  county 
convention  an  excellent  paper  on  this  theme  was  read  by  one  of 
the  local  superintendents. 

York  County  sends  no  report. 

This  department  was  presented  to  several  Sabbath  School 
conventions  and  ministerial  associations,  and  they  passed  reso- 
lutions condemning  the  use  of  tobacco  and  pledging  their  influ- 
ence against  it. 

So  much  for  work  done  as  reported  to  your  superintendent, 
or  as  observed  by  her,  but  we  feel  confident  that  much  is  done 
which  is  only  kept  account  of  by  the  recording  angel,  by  whom 
all  our  work  will  be  reported  before  a  higher  tribunal  than  this, 
and  then  shall  we  all  receive  our  *'own  reward  according  to 
ourown  labor."  In  the  Sunday  Schools,  in  the  public  schools, 
and  in  the  L.  T.  L's  the  effects  of  Narcotics  upon  the  system 
are  being  taught,  and  this  work  among  the  young  must  inevi- 
tablyhr'xxxg  about  a  different  order  of  things ;  we  cannot  fail  to 
have  a  purer  generation  in  the  future,  for  the  prospect  of  which 
we  devoutly  thank  God.  Mrs.  Gleason  rendered  us  good  ser- 
vice by  her  convincing  lectures,  not  only  in  the  places  named, 
but  at  our  summer  meetings  at  Sebago  Lake,  Richmond  and 
Old   Orchard.     Our   ministers   in    many   places  are  grandly 


Ill 

helping  us  by  ringing  out  from  their  pulpits  God's  protest 
against  all  uncleanness,  and  christians  are  understanding,  as  some 
of  them  have  not  in  the  past,  that  clean  hearts  can  not  well 
abide  in  unclean  bodies,  and  that  if  our  motto  is  to  be  ^'Holi- 
ness unto  the  Lord,"  we  must  be  freed  from  all  slavish  appetites. 
I  wish  to  urge  upon  all  unions  represented  here  to  take 
up  the  work  in  this  department  at  once.  This  is  a  work  which 
can  be  done  everywhere,  for  no  spot  in  our  land  is  so  favored 
as  to  be  free  from  this  foul  thing — tobacco.  We  greatly  desire 
a  superintendent  in  every  union.  In  conclusion  I  would  say 
"Be  not  weary  in  well  doing,"  for  in  due  season  we  "shall  reap 
if  we  faint  not."  "Behold  the  husbandman  hath  long  patience 
as  he  waiteth  for  the  precious  fruits  of  the  earth."     Let  us  also 

"Toil  on,  faint  not,  keep  watch  and  pray, 

Be  wise,  the  enring  soul  to  win, 
Go  forth  into  the  world's  highway, 

Compel  the  wanderer  to  come  in." 

And  niay  the  Lord  of  the  harvest  send  forth  more  laborers 

into  His  vineyard. 

L  S.  WENTWORTH. 


DspartmsQt  of  Psacs  and  Arbitration. 

Dear  Sisters', 

I  regret  not  being  able  to  give  a  report  of  vigorous  work  and 
long  steps  forward  in  the  department  of  W.  C.  T.  U.  under  my 
care.  What  I  have  done  has  been  amid  much  care  and  many 
pressing  duties.  I  have  sent  out  bundles  of  Peace  literature, 
tracts,  leaflets,  copies  of  Pacific  Banner  and  Acorn  to  many 
local  unions.  Observance  of  the  first  Sabbath  in  June  as 
General  Peace  Day  was  urged  upon  local  unions,  some  of  whom 
responded. 

Fourteen  public  meetings  in  the  interests  of  this  department 
have  been  held,  and  twelve  lectures  given.  The  cause  of  Peace 
is  steadily  gaining  ground,  but  not  claiming  as  much  attention 


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in  our  state  as  we  wish  it  did.  Mothers  and  sisters  need  to  be 
aroused  to  a  sense  of  the  dangers  that  would  come  to  them  and 
their  loved  ones  if  war,  which  is  the  twin  evil  of  alcohol,  should 
again  prevail  in  our  country. 

During  the  month  of  September  I  received  reports  from 
nine  unions  in  answer  to  fifty  asked  to  report 

Windham  Centre  reports  one  sermon  bearing  on  Peace 
preached  during  the  year. 

Bath  reports  five  hundred  pages  of  Peace  literature  distrib- 
uted ;  one  copy  of  Banner  taken,  and  ten  copies  of  the  Acorn. 
It  also  reports  three  Juvenile  Peace  Bands,  one  at  the  Soldiers' 
and  Orphans*  Home.  The  subject  of  Peace  has  held  a  prom- 
inent place  in  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  meetings  at  two  different  times. 

Winthrop  Centre  reports  five  thousand  pages  of  literature 
distributed ;  twenty  copies  of  Pacific  Banner  taken,  also 
twenty-five  copies  of  Acorn.  Peace  principles  are  instilled  in 
Sabbath  School  and  Band  of  Hope.  General  Peace  Day  was 
observed.  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Woodbridge  gave  a  lecture  on 
Peace.  In  five  or  six  meetings  of  W.  C.  T.  U.  Peace  has  held 
a  prominent  place. 

One  union  rep>orts  three  sermons  bearing  on  Peace  preached 
during  the  year,  with  a  good  degree  of  attention  paid  to  this 
subject  in  the  regular  W.  C.  T.  U.  meetings. 

Vassalboro  reports  observance  of  General  Peace  Day  and 
distribution  of  six  hundred  pages  of  literature. 

Although  the  work  done  may  seem  small,  let  us  take 
courage  when  we  read  of  so  many  of  our  great  and  wise 
brothers  and  sisters  who  have  met  so  latelv  in  London  to 
consider  this  great  question,  and  who  feel  that  the  work  is 
steadily  striding  forward.  Let  us  join  with  them  in  a  hand 
to  hand  effort  to  hasten  the  dav 

*'When  the  war  drum  throbs  no  longer 

And  the  battle  flags  are  furled 
In  the  Parliament  of  man, 

The  Federation  of  the  world." 

Respectfully  submitted, 

SARAH  H.  C.  JONES, 

Supt. 


COHSTITUTIOH 

OF 

maine  Womaii's  Gmistlan  TeniperaiiGB  UdIod 


PREAMBLE. 

We,  Christian  women  of  this  State,  alarmed  at  the  danger  and  tendencies  of 
intemperance  and  kindred  evils,  believe  it  to  be  our  duty,  under  the  providence 
of  God,  to  unite  our  efforts  for  their  extinction.  That  we  may  the  more  suc- 
cessfully prosecute  this  work,  we  adopt  the  following  pledge  and  constitution. 

PLEDGE. 

I  hereby  solemnly  promise,  God  helping  me,  to  abstain  from  all  distilled, 
fermented,  and  malt  liquors,  including  wine  and  cider,  and  to  employ  all  proper 
means  to  discourage  the  use  of  and  traffic  in  the  same. 


CONSTITUTION. 

ARTICLE  L— Name. 

The  organization  shall  be  known  as  the  Maine  Woman's  Christian  Temper- 
ance Union,  auxiliary  to  the  National  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union. 
Its  object  shall  be  to  enlist  the  women  of  this  state  in  the  promotion  of  the 
cause  of  temperance,  and  of  the  various  branches  of  work  recommended  by  the 
National  Union;  to  make  permanent  the  work  already  accomplished  and  to 
secure  the  organization  of  a  local  Union  in  every  place  in  the  state  where  it  is 

practicable. 

ARTICLE  II.— Officers. 

The  officers  of  this  Union  shall  be  a  President,  one  Vice-President  from  each 
county  (the  President  of  each  being  ex-offlcio  Vice  President  of  the  State 
Union),  a  Correspending  Secretary,  a  Recording  Secretary,  an  Assistant 
Recording  Secretary  and  a  Treasurer,  who  together  shall  constitute  an  Execu- 
tive Committee,  of  whom  seven  shall  be  a  quorum.  , 

ARTICLE  III.— Membership.       /.    X    "   .     '    ' 

The  annual  meeting  shall  be  composed  of  the  Executive  Committee,  State 
Superintendents  of  Departments,  State  Organizers^e  President  and  one  dele- 
gate-at-large,  and  one  delegate  for  every  twenty-nve  paying  members  of  each 
auzfliaryJUnion. 


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ARTICLE  IV.— Auxiliaries. 

Any  society  of  women,  regularly  organized  under  the  supervision  or  approval 
of  the  State  officers,  and  adopting  the  Constitution  of  this  organization,  in- 
cluding a  total  abstinence  pledge,  and  a  paying  fee  of  thirty  cents  per  member 
annually  to  State  Treasurer  (ten  cents  of  which  shall  be  paid  by  her  to  the 
National  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union)  is  auxiliary  to  the  Maine 
Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union. 

ARTICLE   v.— Mektings. 

The  annual  meeting  shall  be  held  at  some  time  within  September  or  October, 
in  such  place  as  may  be  decided  by  a  vote  of  the  Executive  Committee. 

ARTICLE  VI.— Amendments. 

The  constitution  may  be  altered  or  amended  by  vote  of  two-thirds  of  the 
delegates  present  at  the  annual  meeting,  provided  notice  has  been  given  at  the 
previous  annual  meeting. 

BV-IiAUIS. 

ARTICLE  I.— Duties  of  Officers. 
President. 

Sec.  I.  In  case  of  the  illness  or  death  of  the  President,  the  duties  of  her 
office  shall  devolve  upon  the  General  Officers  in  the  order  of  their  election. 

Sec.  2.  The  President  may,  through  the  Recording  Secretary',  call  special 
meetings  of  the  Executive  Committee,  when  she  may  deem  it  necessar>',  or  in 
response  to  the  written  request  of  any  seven  members  of  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee, in  which  case  the  topics  to  be  considered  at  the  meeting  shall  be  stated, 
and  she  shall  perform  all  other  duties  usual  to  such  office. 

Vice-Preaident. 
Sec.  3.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  each  Vice-President  to  aid  and  foster  the 
work  of  the  Union  in  her  County,  and  to  arrange  for  and  preside  at  conventions 
in  her  County,  co-operating  with  the  general  officers  of  the  State  in  carrying  out 
their  plans  for  the  prosecution  of  the  work,  making  a  report  semi-annually  to 
the  Corresponding  Secretary  of  the  State  Union. 

Correspondiruj    Secretary. 

Sec.  4.     It  shall  be  the  dut>'  of  the  Corresponding  Secretary  to  conduct  the 

correspondence   of  the  organization  and  to  perform  all  duties  usual  to  such 

office.     She  shall  also  send  to  the  Secretar}'  of  each  local  Union  at  least  twice 

a  year  a  blank  similar  to  those  used  by  Nat.  W.  C.  T.  U.  Cor.  Sec,  to  be  filled 

as  a  semi-annual  report.     From  these  reports  she  shall  collate  her  own  report 

for  the  annual  meeting. 

Htcordinij    Secretary. 

Sec.  5.     The  Recording  Secretary  shall  attend  all  meetings  of  the  Union, 

the  Executive  Committee  and  the  General  Officers,  and  shall  keep  correct 

record  of  their  proceedings.     She  shall  send  to  each  member  of  the  Executive 


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Committee  a  notice  of   such    meetings.     She    shall    apprise    members    o 
committees  of  their  appointment.     At  the  first  meeting  of -each  annual  session 
she  shall  read  in  their  order,  for  action  by  said  meeting,  the  minutes  of 
all  meetings  of  the  Executive  Committee  since  the  last  annual  meeting,  and 
shall  perform  all  other  duties  usually  pertaining  to  such  office. 

Treasurer. 

Sec.  6.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Treasurer  to  keep  accurate  account  of 
all  receipts  and  disbursements  of  money,  and  to  present  a  detailed  report  there- 
of at  each  annual  meeting.  She  shall  pay  no  bills  except  on  an  order  signed 
by  the  President.  The  fiscal  year  shall  terminate  one  week  previous  to  the 
annual  meeting,  and  the  books  shall  then  be  closed.  At  the  annual  meeting 
she  shall  give  to  the  Corresponding  Secretary  the  whole  number  of  delegates  to 
which  each  local  Union  is  entitled  according  to  the  amount  of  dues  paid,  and 
shall  perform  all  other  duties  usually  pertaining  to  the  office. 

Superintendents. 

Sec.  7.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Superintendents  to  originate,  to  advise, 
and  to  direct  plans  of  work  relating  to  their  several  departments;  to  correspond 
and  to  co-operate  with  County  Superintendents,  and  to  report  t«  the  annual 
meeting  work  proposed  and  work  accomplished.  They  shall  be  required  to 
give  an  itemized  account  of  their  receipts  and  expenditures  in  department  work. 

ARTICLE  II.— Election. 

Sec.  I.  The  officers,  with  the  exception  of  the  Vice-Presidents,  and  Assist- 
ant Recording  Secretary  (the  latter  shall  be  nominated  by  the  Recording 
Secretary  and  elected  by  acclamation,  unless  otherwise  ordered)  shall  be 
elected  by  ballot  on  the  morning  of  the  last  day  of  the  annual  meeting. 

Vacancies  in  Delegations. 

Sec.  2.  Each  delegation  may  fill  its  quota  by  visiting  members  from  its  own 
auxiliary;  if  any  Vice-President  is  absent,  said  county  may  be  represented  on 
the  Executive  Committee  by  a  member  of  its  delegation. 

Voting. 

Sec.  3.  General  Officers,  Superintendents  of  Departments,  State  Organizers 
and  ez-offldo  members  shall  vote  in  person. 

Tellers. 

Sec.  4.  Tellers  having  been  appointed  by  the  meeting,  an  informal  ballot 
shall  be  cast  for  each  officer  separately,  and  the  members  of  the  convention 
shall  then  proceed  to  vote  by  ballot  for  the  persons  thus  nominated. 

Superintendents. 
Sec.  5.     Superintendents  shall  be  nominated  by  the  Executive  Committee 
and  elected  by  the  annual  meeting.    Their  election  shall  be  by  acclamation, 
unlets  otherwise  ordered. 


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VaGandes, 

Sec.  6.  The  Executive  Committee  may  fill  any  vacancies  occurring  in  the 
interim  of  annual  meetings. 

ARTICLE  III.— COICMITTEBS. 

Sec.  I.  The  following  committees  shall  be  chosen  on  the  first  day  of  the 
annual  meeting:  On  Credentials,  on  Business,  on  Resolutions.  The  last  shall 
consist  of  one  delegate  from  each  county,  chosen  by  the  delegation  of  her 
county. 

Sec.  2.  An  Auditing  Committee  shall  be  appointed  by  the  General  Officers 
in  the  interim  of  the  annual  meetings. 

ARTICLE  IV. — iNDmDUAL  Members. 

Sec.  I.  Any  pledged  woman  in  a  community  where  there  is  no  local  Union 
may  become  a  member-at-large  of  the  State  Union  by  the  payment  of  an  annual 
fee  of  fifty  cents,  ten  eents  of  which  shall  be  paid  to  the  National  Woman's 
Christian  Temperance  Union. 

Sec.  2.  Any  woman  may  become  a  life  member  by  signing  the  pledge,  and 
paying  ten  dollars  at  one  time  to  the  State  Treasury;  and  any  man  may 
become  an  Honorary  Member  by  signing  the  pledge  and  by  the  payment  of 
one  dollar  annually. 

ARTICLE  V. — Department  of  Organization. 

The  Department  of  Organization  shall  be  in  charge  of  the  general  officers, 

and  organizers  appointed  by  them  shall  be  reported  to  the  convention  and  en- 

titled  to  a  seat. 

ARTICLE  VI. 

These  by-laws  may  be  amended  by  a  two- thirds  vote  of  the  members  present 
at  any  annual  meeting. 


COUflTV    COHSTITUTIOH 


AUXILIARY  TO  THE   MAINE  W.  C.  T.  U. 


ARTICLE  I.— Name. 

^  This  OTganization  shall  be  known  as  the Co.  Woman's  Christian 

Temperance  Union  auxiliary  to  the  Maine  W.  C.  T.  U. 

ARTICLE   II.— Object. 

It  shall  be  the  object  of  this  Union  to  unite  the  local  Unions  of  the  county 

for  the  purpose  of  strengthening  the  temperance  sentiment,  advancing  the 

objects  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  and  for  the  more  thorough  organization  of  the 

county. 

ARTICLE  III.— Officers. 

The  oflScers  of  this  Union  shall  be  a  President,  a  Secretary,  a  Treasurer,  to 

be  chosen  at  annual  meeting  by  ballot  unless  otherwise  ordered  and  the 

^  Presidents  of  each  auxiliary  local  Union  (who  are  ex-officio  Vice  Presidents  of 

the  county  Union.) 

ARTICLE  IV.— Meetings. 

The  Union  shall  hold  an  annual  convention  which  shall  be  composed  of  the 
General  Officers,  State  Presidents,  Superintendents  of  Departments,  Presidents, 
Corresponding  and  Recording  Secretaries  and  Treasurers  of  local  Unions  and 
three  delegates  from  each  auxiliary.  Other  meetings  may  be  called  at  the  dis- 
cretion of  the  President. 

ARTICLE  v.— Duties. 

The  duties  of  the  President  shall  be  (under  the  general  supervision  of  the 
State  President)  to  advance  the  interests  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  in  her  county; 
I  to  keep  the  State  President  informed  of  the  condition  of  the  work,  and  to 

maintain  close  communication  with  her  local  Unions,  to  work  up  and  preside 
at  her  county  W.  C.  T.  U.  conventions,  which  shall  be  held  at  the  time 
suggested  by  the  best  interests  of  the  work. 

The  duties  of  the  Vice  Presidents  shall  be  to  prosecute  the  work  in  their 
several  towns. 

The  duties  of  the  Secretary  and  Treasurer  shall  be  those  usual  to  these 
offices. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Superintendents  of  Departments,  who  shall 
be  chosen  at  the  annual  meeting,  to  see  that  local  Superintendents  of  Depart- 
ments are  appointed,  collect  reports  from  the  same,  report  a  digest  of  these  to 
the  county  convention  and   to  the   State  Superintendents  as  required  by 

the  State  Conttitution. 

ARTICLE  VI.— Finance. 

County  ofganiffaitiont  shall  provide  for  their  own  expenses  as  they  see  fit. 


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LiOCRIi     COHSTITUTIOfl. 

ARTICLE  I.— Name. 

This  organization  shall  be  known  as  the Woman's  Christian  Tem- 
perance Union,  auxiliary  to  the  Maine  W.  C.  T.  U. 

PLEDGE. 

I  hereby  solemnly  promise,  God  helping  me,  to  abstain  from  all  distilled, 
fermented  and  malt  liquors,  including  Wine,  Beer  and  Cider,  and  to  employ  all 
proper  means  t(f  discourage  the  use  of  and  traffic  in  the  same. 

ARTICLE  II.— Object. 

The  object  of  this  Union  shall  be  to  educate  public  sentiment  up  to 
the  standard  of  total  abstinence,  train  the  young,  save  the  inebriate,  and  aim  to 
secure  the  complete  banishment  of  the  liquor  traffic. 

ARTICLE  III.— Memhebship. 

Any  woman  may  become  a  member  of  this  organization  by  signing  the 

constitution    (including  the   pledge)   and  by  the  payment  of per  year 

into  the  Treasury,  30  cents  of  which  shall  be  paid  the  State  Union.  Ten  cents 
of  that  amount  the  State  Treasurer  sends  to  the  National  W.  C.  T.  U. 

Where  it  is  deemed  necessary  the  following  article  may  be  substituted: 

Any  woman  may  become  a  member  of  this  organization  by  a  two-thirds  vote 
at  any  legal  meeting  and  by  signing  the  constitution  and  pledge  and  paying  the 
regular  dues  and  continuing  to  do  so  annually. 

Gentlemen  may  become  Honorary  members  by  signing  the  pledge  and 
the  payment  of  one  dollar  a  vear,  all  of  which  shall  be  retained  for  home  work. 

ARTICLE  IV.— Officers. 

The  officers  of  this  organization  shall  be  a  President,  V'ice- Presidents, 
one  from  each  church,  when  practicable;  a  Corresponding  Secretary,  Record- 
ing Secretary  and  Treasurer  who  shall  constitute  an  Executive  Committee. 

ARTICLE  V. — Duties  of  Officers. 

Sec.   I .     President  to  call  to  order  and  open  the  meetings. 

To  announce  the  business  before  the  meeting  in  the  order  in  which  it  is  to 
be  acted  upon. 

To  put  to  vote  all  questions  which  have  been  regularly  moved  and  seconded, 
and  to  announce  the  result. 

To  preserve  order,  and  to  decide,  when  referred  to,  all  questions  of  order  or 
practise  which  may  arise. 

To  append  her  signature  when  necessary  to  all  orders  and  proceedings  of  the 
Union. 

To  have  a  general  oversight  of  the  Union,  and,  in  conjunction  with 
the  Executive  Committee,  to  plan  for  its  best  interests  and  the  good  of 
the  cause. 

To  call  special  meetings  when  deemed  advisable  by  herself  and  any  three 
members  of  the  Union,  due  notioe  being  given  to  all  the  members. 


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Sec.  2.  Corresponding  Secretary  to  conduct  the  correspondence  of  the 
Union. 

To  report  to  the  Corresponding  Secretary  of  the  State  Union  as  required  by 
the  State  Constitution  (having  first  submitted  her  report  to  the  Union)  giving 
such  facts  and  items  of  general  interest  as  will  enable  the  State  Secretary 
to  judge  correctly  of  the  condition  of  the  Union  and  the  progress  of  the  work. 

Sec.  3.  Recording  Secretary  to  keep  a  record  of  the  proceedings  of 
the  meetings  of  the  Union;  to  notify  the  public  of  its  meetings* 

To  read  all  papers,  etc.,  which  may  be  required. 

To  notify  Committees  of  their  appointments,  and  of  business  referred  to 
them. 

To  take  charge  of  all  papers  and  documents  of  the  Union. 

To  make  reports  at  each  meeting  of  the  preceding  meeting. 

Sec.  4.  Treasurer  to  collect  the  membership  dues,  and  to  devise  ways  and 
means  to  increase  the  funds  of  the  Union.  To  forward  to  State  Treasurer  the 
dues  for  each  member  as  required  by  the  State  Constitution  (namely  30  cents 
per  member)  two  weeks  previous  to  State  Convention.  Old  Unions  and  those 
organized  early  in  the  year  shall  make  part  payment  of  dues  previous  to  March 
first,  the  remainder  two  weeks  before  State  Convention.  To  hold  all  money 
collected  for  the  use  of  the  Union,  paying  bills  on  order  of  the  President  and 
Secretary,  keeping  an  exact  book  account  and  making  a  report  of  the  same  at 
each  regular  business  meeting. 

Sec.  5.  Vice-Presidents  to  preside,  in  their  order,  at  meetings  in  the 
absence  of  the  President,  and  to  perform  all  duties  of  the  President  in  case  of 
absence  on  any  account  from  her  office.  To  interest  the  women  of  their  re- 
spective churches  in  the  work  of  the  Union,  and  to  canvass  for  members.  To 
assist  the  President  in  arranging  and  carrying  out  plans  for  the  benefit  of  the 
Union.  To  endeavor  to  secure  special  recognition  of  the  temperance  cause  in 
the  church  prayer-meeting  quarterly,  and  also  by  a  sermon  from  the  pastor  at 

least  once  a  year. 

ARTICLE    VI.— Meetings. 

The  regular  meetings  of  the   Union   shall   be  held at  which  time 

Superintendent  shall  report. 

Public  Prayer  and  Conference  meetings  shall  be  held  as  often  as  the  interest 
of  the  work  demands,  and  if  possible,  mass  meetings  quarterly. 

The  Executive  and  other  Committees  shall  meet  as  often  as  may  be  deemed 

advisable. 

ARTICLE   VII. — Annual   Meetings. 

The  Annual  Meeting  shall  be  held  on  the day  of month,  at 

which  time  the  officers  shall  be  elected  for  the  ensuing  year. 

ARTICLE    VIIL— Amendments. 
This  Constitution  may   be  altered  or  amended  at  any  regular  meeting  of 
the  Union,  by  a  two-thirds  vote  of  the  members,  notice  having  been  given  at 
the  previous  meeting. 


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fiV-IiAWS. 

Sec.  I.  Departments  of  Work.  Superintendents  shall  be  appointed  for 
such  of  the  following  departmements,  as  local  needs  seem  to  call  for:  i .  Hered' 
ity.  2.  Hygiene.  3.  Scientific  Instruction.  4.  Sunday  School  Work. 
$.  Juvenile  Work.  6.  Temperance  Literature.  7.  Influencing  the  Press. 
8.  Evangelistic  Work.  9.  Prisons  and  Police  Stations.  10.  Railroad 
Work.  II.  Soldiers  and  Sailors.  12.  Unfermented  Wine.  13.  Young 
Women's  Work.  14.  Parlor  Meetings.  1$.  Flower  Missions.  16.  State 
and  County  Fairs.  17.  legislations  and  Petitions.  18.  Work  among 
Foreigners.  19.  Work  among  Colored  People.  20.  Impure  Literature 
21.     White  Shield. 

Sec.  2.  All  meetings  of  the  Union  shall  be  opened  by  reading  of  Scripture 
and  prayer. 

Sec.  3.  A  majority  of  the  Executive  Committee  shall  constitute  a  quorum 
at  any  regular  meeting,  and  the  same  rule  may  apply  to  all  other  Committees. 

Sec.  4.     Officers  shall  remain  such  till  their  successors  are  elected. 

Sec.  5.     All  members  of  the  Union  shall  be  entitled  to  vote. 

Sec.  6.     Order  of  Business. — 

1.  Devotional  Exercises. 

2.  Report  of  Recording  Secretary. 

3.  Report  of  Corresponding  Secretary. 

4.  Report  of  Treasurer. 

5.  Report  of  Chairman  of  Executive  Committee. 

6.  Reports  of  Superintendents. 

7.  Reports  of  Special  Committees. 

8.  Unfinished  Business. 

9.  New    Business. 

10.  Course  of  Reading. 

11.  Discussion. 

Sec.  7.  These  By-Laws  may  be  altered  or  amended  at  any  regular  meeting 
of  the  Union,  by  a  vote  of  two-thirds  of  the  members  of  the  Union. 


Suggestions  to  Local  umons. 


It  is  very  desirable  that  our  Union  should  immediately  inform  the 
State  Corresponding  Secretary  whenever  any  changes  in  their  list  of  officers 
are  made  ;  als'»  that  the  officers  of  new  Unions  be  reported  promptly. 

Each  Superintendent  of  the  various  departments  of  work  has  the  privilege  of 
selecting  her  committee,  the  number  of  the  latter  being  limited  to  five. 

Unions  are  requested  to  duplicate  the  State  Committees  as  far  as  possible. 

Since  our  next  State  annual  meeting  is  to  occur  the  last  week  in  September, 
the  reports  of  the  Corresponding  Secretary  and  Superintendents  will  be  much 
more  complete  if  the   Local   Unions  will  change   the  time  of  their  annual 
meeting  to  the  first  week  in  September. 

For  all  desired  information  about  the  Uiiinn  Sif^nnl,  address  the  Superin- 
tendents of  this  Department,  or  the  Union  Si(/nal,  i6i  La  Salle  Street, 
Chicago. 

Temperance  Text  Books  and  Temperance  Literature  can  be  obtained 
of  the  Superintendent  of  Temperance  Literature,  or  at  headquarters,  51  1-2 
Exchange  Street,  Portland. 

Copies  of  the  Minutes  containing  the  Constitution  will  be  furnished 
from  Headquarters  to  Vice-Presidents,  or  ladies  wishing  to  form  a  Union. 

The  Superintendents  of  the  various  branches  of  work  will  always  be  ready 

to  assist  those  who  desire  information. 

SARAH  L    CRAM, 

AStfttf'  Corrpspnndiny   Secretary. 


ANN^AIi     MEETINGS. 


1875, Old  Orchard 

1876,  Old  Orchard 

1877, Richmond 

1878, Old  Orchard 

1879, Bangor 

1880,  Belfast 

1881, -        -  Lkwiston 

1882,  Rockland 

1883, Kennebunk 

1884,  Gardiner 

1885, Portland 

1886,  Bangor 

1887, Auburn 

1888,  Bath 

1889, Bar  Harbor 

1890,  Portland 


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IiOCAIi     COflSTITUTIOfl. 

ARTICLE  I.— Name. 

This  organization  shall  be  known  as  the Woman's  Christian  Tem- 
perance Union,  auxiliary  to  the  Maine  W.  C.  T.  U. 

PLEDGE. 

I  hereby  solemnly  promise,  God  helping  me,  to  abstain  from  all  distilled, 
fermented  and  malt  liquors,  including  Wine,  Beer  and  Cider,  and  to  employ  all 
proper  means  t(f  discourage  the  use  of  and  traffic  in  the  same. 

ARTICLE  II.— Object. 

The  object  of  this  Union  shall  be  to  educate  public  sentiment  up  to 
the  standard  of  total  abstinence,  train  the  young,  save  the  inebriate,  and  aim  to 
secure  the  complete  banishment  of  the  liquor  traffic. 

ARTICLE  III.— Membebship. 

Any  woman  may  become  a  member  of  this  organization  by  signing  the 

constitution   (including  the  pledge)   and  by  the  payment  of per  year 

into  the  Treasury,  30  cents  of  which  shall  be  paid  the  State  Union.  Ten  cents 
of  that  amount  the  State  Treasurer  sends  to  the  National  W.  C.  T.  U. 

Where  it  is  deemed  necessary  the  following  article  may  be  substituted: 

Any  woman  may  become  a  member  of  this  organization  by  a  two-thirds  vote 
at  any  legal  meeting  and  by  signing  the  constitution  and  pledge  and  paying  the 
regular  dues  and  continuing  to  do  so  annually. 

Gentlemen  may  become  Honorary  members  by  signing  the  pledge  and 
the  payment  of  one  dollar  a  year,  all  of  which  shall  be  retained  for  home  work. 

ARTICLE  IV.— Officers. 

The  officers  of  this  organization  shall  be  a  President,  Vice-Presidents, 
one  from  each  church,  when  practicable;  a  Corresponding  Secretary,  Record- 
ing Secretary  and  Treasurer  who  shall  constitute  an  Executive  Committee. 

ARTICLE  v.— Duties  of  Officers. 

Sec.   I .     President  to  call  to  order  and  open  the  meetings. 

To  announce  the  business  before  the  meeting  in  the  order  in  which  it  is  to 
be  acted  upon. 

To  put  to  vote  all  questions  which  have  been  regularly  moved  and  seconded, 
and  to  announce  the  result. 

To  preserve  order,  and  to  decide,  when  referred  to,  all  questions  of  order  or 
practise  which  may  arise. 

To  append  her  signature  when  necessary  to  all  orders  and  proceedings  of  the 
Union. 

To  have  a  general  oversight  of  the  Union,  and,  in  conjunction  with 
the  Executive  Committee,  to  plan  for  its  best  interests  and  the  good  of 
the  cause. 

To  call  special  meetings  when  deemed  advisable  by  herself  and  any  three 
members  of  the  Union,  due  notice  being  given  to  all  the  members. 


Sec.  2.  Corresponding  Secretary  to  conduct  the  correspondence  of  the 
Union. 

To  report  to  the  Corresponding  Secretary  of  the  State  Union  as  required  by 
the  State  Constitution  (having  first  submitted  her  report  to  the  Union)  giving 
such  facts  and  items  of  general  interest  as  will  enable  the  State  Secretary 
to  judge  correctly  of  the  condition  of  the  Union  and  the  progress  of  the  work. 

Sec.  3.  Recording  Secretary  to  keep  a  record  of  the  proceedings  of 
the  meetings  of  the  Union;  to  notify  the  public  of  its  meetings. 

To  read  all  papers,  etc. ,  which  may  be  required. 

To  notify  Committees  of  their  appointments,  and  of  business  referred  to 
them. 

To  take  charge  of  all  papers  and  documents  of  the  Union. 

To  make  reports  at  each  meeting  of  the  preceding  meeting. 

Sec.  4.  Treasurer  to  collect  the  membership  dues,  and  to  devise  ways  and 
means  to  increase  the  funds  of  the  Union.  To  forward  to  State  Treasurer  the 
dues  for  each  member  as  required  by  the  State  Constitution  (namely  30  cents 
per  member)  two  weeks  previous  to  State  Convention.  Old  Unions  and  those 
organized  early  in  the  year  shall  make  part  payment  of  dues  previous  to  March 
first,  the  remainder  two  weeks  before  State  Convention.  To  hold  all  money 
collected  for  the  use  of  the  Union,  paying  bills  on  order  of  the  President  and 
Secretary,  keeping  an  exact  book  account  and  making  a  report  of  the  same  at 
each  regular  business  meeting. 

Sec.  5.  Vice-Presidents  to  preside,  in  their  order,  at  meetings  in  the 
absence  of  the  President,  and  to  perform  all  duties  of  the  President  in  case  of 
absence  on  any  account  from  her  office.  To  interest  the  women  of  their  re- 
spective churches  in  the  work  of  the  Union,  and  to  canvass  for  members.  To 
assist  the  President  in  arranging  and  carrying  out  plans  for  the  benefit  of  the 
Union.  To  endeavor  to  secure  special  recognition  of  the  temperance  cause  in 
the  church  prayer- meeting  quarterly,  and  also  by  a  sermon  from  the  pastor  at 

least  once  a  vear. 

ARTICLE    VI.— Meetings. 

The  regular  meetings  of  the   Union   shall   be  held at  which  time 

Superintendent  shall  report. 

Public  Prayer  and  Conference  meetings  shall  be  held  as  often  as  the  interest 
of  the  work  demands,  and  if  possible,  mass  meetings  quarterly. 

The  Executive  and  other  Committees  shall  meet  as  often  as  may  be  deemed 

advisable. 

ARTICLE   VIL—Annual   Meetings. 

The  Annual  Meeting  shall  be  held  on  the day  of month,  at 

which  time  the  officers  shall  be  elected  for  the  ensuing  year. 

ARTICLE    VIIL—Amendments. 
This  Constitution  may   be  altered  or  amended  at  any  regular  meeting  of 
the  Union,  by  a  two-thirds  vote  of  the  members,  notice  having  been  given  At 
the  |irevioi|s  meeting. 


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Sec.  I.  DepartmerUs  of  Work.  Superintendents  shall  be  appointed  for 
such  of  the  following  departmements,  as  local  needs  seem  to  call  for:  i .  Hered- 
ity. 2.  Hygiene.  3.  Scientific  Instruction.  4.  Sunday  School  Work. 
5.  Juvenile  Work.  6.  Temperance  Literature.  7.  Influencing  the  Press. 
8.  Evangelistic  Work.  9.  Prisons  and  Police  Stations.  10.  Railroad 
Work.  II.  Soldiers  and  Sailors.  12.  Unfermented  Wine.  13.  Young 
Women's  Work.  14.  Parlor  Meetings.  15.  Flower  Missions.  16.  State 
and  County  Fairs.  17.  Legislations  and  Petitions.  18.  Work  among 
Foreigners.  19.  Work  among  Colored  People.  20.  Impure  Literature 
21.     White  Shield. 

Sec.  2.  All  meetings  of  the  Union  shall  be  opened  by  reading  of  Scripture 
and  prayer. 

Sec.  3.  A  majority  of  the  Executive  Committee  shall  constitute  a  quorum 
at  any  regular  meeting,  and  the  same  rule  may  apply  to  all  other  Committees. 

Sec.  4.     Officers  shall  remain  such  till  their  successors  are  elected. 

Sec.  5.     All  members  of  the  Union  shall  be  entitled  to  vote. 

Sec.  6.     Order  of  Business. — 

1.  Devotional  Exercises. 

2.  Report  of  Recording  Secretary. 

3.  Report  of  Corresponding  Secretary. 

4.  Report  of  Treasurer. 

5.  Report  of  Chairman  of  Executive  Committee. 

6.  Reports  of  Superintendents. 

7.  Reports  of  Special  Committees. 

8.  Unfinished  Business. 

9.  New   Business. 

10.     Course  of  Reading. 
If.     Discussion. 
Sec.  7.     These  By-Laws  may  be  altered  or  amended  at  any  regular  meeting 
of  the  Union,  by  a  vote  of  two-thirds  of  the  members  of  the  Union, 


Suggestions  to  Local  Unions. 


It  is  very  desirable  that  our  Union  should  immediately  inform  the 
State  Corresponding  Secretary  whenever  any  changes  in  their  list  of  officers 
are  made  ;  als«»  that  the  officers  of  new  Unions  be  reported  promptly. 

Each  Superintendent  of  the  various  departments  of  work  has  the  privilege  of 
selecting  her  committee,  the  number  of  the  latter  being  limited  to  five. 

Unions  are  requested  to  duplicate  the  State  Committees  as  far  as  possible. 

Since  our  next  State  annual  meeting  is  to  occur  the  last  week  in  September, 
the  reports  of  the  Corresponding  Secretary  and  Superintendents  will  be  much 
more  complete  if  the  Local  Unions  will  change  the  time  of  their  annual 
meeting  to  the  first  week  in  September. 

For  all  desired  information  about  the  Vnhni  Siijnal,  address  the  Superin- 
tendents of  this  Department,  or  the  Uninji  Siynal,  i6i  La  Salle  Street, 
Chicago. 

Temperance  Text  Books  and  Temperance  Literature  can  be  obtained 
of  the  Superintendent  of  Temperance  Literature,  or  at  headquarters,  51  1-2 
Exchange  Street,  Portland. 

Copies  of  the  .Minutes  containing  the  Constitution  will  be  furnished 
from  Headquarters  to  Vice-Presidents,  or  ladies  wishing  to  form  a  Union. 

The  Superintendents  of  the  various  branches  of  work  will  always  be  ready 

to  assist  those  who  desire  information. 

SARAH  L    CRAM, 

Staff  Corn'spondiiuj   Secretary. 

ANN^ALt     IVIEETIflCS. 


1875, Old  Orchard 

1876,  Old  Orchard 

1877, Richmond 

1878,  Old  Orchard 

1879, Bangor 

1880,  Bklkast 

1881, Levvlston 

1883,  Rockland 

1883, Kennebunk 

1884,  Gardiner 

1885, Portland 

1886,  Bangor 

1887, Auburn 

1888,  Bath 

1889, Bar  Harbor 

1890,  Portland 


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SUGGESTIONS    TO    LOCAL    UNIONS. 


It  is  vcTv  (U'sirable  that  our  Union  should  inimediatelv  inform  the  State 
Corit* sjKindinf^  Secretarv  whenever  any  ch4nges  in  their  list  of  officers  are 
made :  also  that  the  officers  of  new  Unions  be  reix>rted  promptly, 

PZach  iSu|K'rintendent  of  the  various  departments  of  work  has  the  privi- 
lej^e  of  selectin*^  her  committee,  the  number  of  the  latter  being  limited 
to  five. 

Unions  are  re(juested  to  duplicate  the  State  Committees  as  far  as 
j)ossi])le. 
•  Since  our  next  State  annual  meet  in  |^  is  to  occur  the  last  week  in 
SeptemlKT,  the  re])(»rts  of  the  Corresponding^  Secretary  and  Superinten- 
dents will  be  much  more  complete  if  the  local  Unions  will  change  the 
time  of  tlieir  annual  meeting  to  the  first  week  in  September. 

For  all  desired  information  about  th^  J'ni"n  Sifjnnl  address  the  Super- 
intendents of  this  department,  or  the  Cninn  SlipifiL  101  La  Salle  Street, 
Chicago. 

Temperance  Text  Books  and  Temperance  Literature  can  be  obtained 
of  the  Sujx'rintendent  of  Temperance  Literature,  or  at  Headcpiarters,  150 
Free  Street,  Portland. 

Copies  of  the  Minutes  containing  the  Constitution  will  be  furnished 
from  Headrpiarters  to  \'ice- Presidents,  or  ladies  wishing  to  form  a 
Union. 

The  SuiKjrintendents  of  the  various  branches  of  work  will  always  be 
ready  to  assist  those  who  desire  information. 

SARAH  L.  CRAM, 
State  Corrcspomlinf/  Secretarif. 


PLAN    OF    WORK. 


The  following  plan  of  work  is  recommended  by  the  corresponding  sec- 
retary to  local  unions  for  their  consideration  and  adoption  as  far  as 
practicable : 

1.  Appoint  a  visiting  committee  to  arouse  and  interest  Christian 
women  in  the  temperance  cause,  and  secure  them  as  members  of  the 
Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union. 

2.  Endeavor  to  increase  the  circulation  of  the  Union  Signal  the 
Star  in  the  East,  the  Oak  and  Ivy  Leaf,  and  the  Young  Crusader, 

3.  Secure  space  for  temperance  matter  in  the  local  papeis. 

4.  Procure  temperance  literature  and  have  it  judiciously  distributed. 

5.  Hang  up  temperance  hand-bills  in  churches,  school-houses,  town 
halls,  public  libraries,  railroad  stations,  engine  houses,  factories,  horse 
cars, — in  short,  wherever  permission  to  do  so  can  be  obtained. 

6.  Establish  a  loaln  library;  buy  suitable  temperance  books  and 
place  them  in  the  Sunday  School  libraries.  Furnish  tracts  to  put  into 
Sunday  School  books. 

7.  Hold  gospel  temperance  meetings  and  distribute  tracts  on  some 
topic  suitable  for  each  occasion. 

8.  Circulate  the  pledge  in  the  Sunday  Schools  and  throughout  the 
place. 

9.  Urge  the  use  of  the  **  Temperance  Lesson  '*  once  a  quarter  in  the 
Sunday  Schools ;  also,  advocate  the  introduction  of  temperance  as  a 
feature  into  Sunday  School  concerts. 

10.  Request  the  pastors  to  preach  a  temperance  sermon  to  the  chil- 
dren as  often  as  practicable. 

11.  Secure  the  use  of  unfermented  wine  at  the  communion  service. 

12.  Form  children's  temperance  societies. 

13.  Urge  the  enforcement  of  the  law  providing  for  scientific  temper- 
ance instruction  in  the  public  schools. 

14.  Institute  parlor  meetings  to  be  held  once  a  month,  if  practicable. 

15.  Hold  meetings  at  almshouse,  jail,  and  other  charitable  institu- 
tions, and  distribute  temperance  and  religious  papers. 

"Praying  always  with  all  prayer  and  supplication"  unto  Him  who  **is 
^able  to  do  exceeding  abundantly  above  all  that  we  ask  or  tliink.'' 


NATIONAL  AND    WORLD'S   PRESIDENT 
MISS  FRANCES  E.  WILLARD. 


STATE    OFFICERS    FOR    1892-93. 


PRESIDENT: 
MRS.  L.  M.  N.  STEVENS,  Stroudwater. 

Vice-Presidents. 

Androscoggin — Mrs.  R.  A.  Springer,  Livermore  Falls. 

Aroostook — Mrs.  L.  J.  Spaulding,  Caribou. 

Cumberland — Miss  Cornelia  M.  Dow,  Portland. 

Franklin — Mrs.  Helen  B.  C.  Beedy,  Farmington. 

Hancock — Mrs.  R.  P.  Grindle,  Bluehill. 

Kennebec — Mrs.  M.  N.  Wyman,  Augusta. 

Knox — Mrs.  R.  C.  Hall,  Rockland. 

Lincoln — Mrs.  Helen  M.  Daggett,  Waldoboro. 

Oxford — Mrs.  Ellen  Pierce,  Hiram,  and  Mrs.  Minnie  Robinson,    S.  Paris. 

Penobscot — Mrs.  Annie  V.  Curtis,  Dexter. 

Piscataquis — Mrs.  Mary  R.  Wade,  Dover. 

Somerset — Mrs.  M.  F.  Bunker,  North  Anson. 

Sagadahoc — Mrs.  Helen  M.  Delano,  Bath. 

Waldo — Miss  A.  A.  Hicks,  Belfast. 

Washington — Mrs.  Bernard  Rogers,  Pembroke. 

York — Mrs.  S.  P.  Smith,  Cornish. 

Corresponding  Secreta  ry. 
Mrs.  Sarah  L.  Cram,         .  -  .  -  Biddeford 

Record  in  7  Secreta  nj . 
Miss  Clara  M.  Far  well,        ....  Rockland 

Assistant  Recording  Secretary. 
Mrs.  Adelaide  S.  Johnston,  -  -  .  Fort  Fairfield 

Treasurer. 
Mrs.  E.  M.  Blanchard,         -  -  .  -  Lewiston 

State  Headquarters,  150  Free  St.,  Portland. 


SUPERINTENDENTS    OF    DEPARTMENTS 

FOR     1892-93. 


I.    ORGANIZATION. 

Work  Among  Foreign  Speaking  People — Mrs.  G.  M.  Howe,  Lcwiston. 
Young  Woman's  Work — Miss  Luville  Patrick,  Groveville. 
Juvenile  Work — Miss  Annie  C.  Bagley,  Springvale. 
Kindergartens — Miss  Florence  Scales,  Portland. 

II.     PREVENTIVE. 

Hygienic  Reform  and  Heredity — Mrs.  E.  E.  Pinkham,  Woodford's. 

III.     EDUCATIONAL. 

Scientific  Temperance  Instruction — Mrs.  G.  F.  French,  Portland. 

Sunday  School  Work — Mrs.  E.  A.  G.  Stickney,  Brownfield. 

Temperance  Literature — Mrs.  Alice  L.  Raymond,  Portland,  Mrs.  N.  S.  Fernald, 
Portland. 

School  Savings  Banks — Mrs.  Charlotte  A.  Ricker,  Cherry  field. 

Influencing  the  Press,  and  Reporter  for  Union  Signal — Miss  Mary  L.  French, 
Auburn. 

Narcotics — Mrs.  I.  S.  Wentworth,  Dexter. 

iV.     EVANGELISTIC. 
Bible  Reading  and  Evangelistic  Work — Mrs.  Lucy  A.  Snow,  Windham  Center. 
Unfermented  Wine  at  Sacrament — Mrs.  L.  J.  Spaulding,  Caribou. 
SjTStematic  Giving — Mrs.  Anna  M.  Hussey,  North  Berwick. 
Prison,  Jail  and  Almshouse  Work — Mrs.  B.  Minard,  Houlton. 
Reformatory  Prison  for  Women — Mrs.  H.  J.  Bailey,  Winthrop  Center,   Mrs.   G.   S. 
Hunt,  Portland,  Miss  Clara  M.  Farwell,  Rockland. 

Securing  Homes  for  Homeless  Children — Mrs.  Ida  M.  B.  Wyman,  Lewiston. 

Work  Among  Soldiers  and  Sailors — Mrs.  F.  C.  Johnston,  Portland. 

Work  Among  Lumbermen — Mrs.  A.  L.  Harvey,  Orono. 

Sabbath  Observance — Mrs.  H.  J.  Bailey,  Winthrop  Center. 

Parity — ^To  be  Supplied. 

Purity  in  Literature  and  Art — Mrs.  A.  L.  Page,  Houlton. 

Mercy — Mrs.  Oara  W.  Mumford,  Winthrop  Center. 

V.    SOCIAL. 
Flower  Mission — Miss  Edith  Libby,  Portland. 
State  and  County  Fairs — Mrs.  Susan  French,  Auburn. 

VI.     LEGISLATION    AND    PETITION. 
Legblation  and  Petition — Mrs.  L.  C.  Lamb,  Auburn. 
.  Franduie — Mrs.  A.  F.  Greely,  Ellsworth. 
Peace  and  Arbitration — Miss  Alice  M.  Douglas,  Bath. 


DIRECTORY    OF    MAINE    UNIONS. 


Auburn 

Durham  (So.) 

Greene 

Lewiston 

Lisbon 

Li  verm  ore  Falls 

Mechanic  Falls 

Turner 


Ashland 

Blaine 

Bridgewater 

Caribou  Center 

Crystal 

Fort  Fairfield 

Dyer  Brook 

Hodgdou 

Houlton 

Limestone 

Linneus 

Littleton 

Mapletun 

Havnesville 

Masardis 

Monticcllo 

New  Limerick 

No.  Amity 

Presque  Isle 

Sherman's  Mills 

Sprague's  Mills 

Washburn 


Brunswick 
Cape  Elizabeth 
Cumberland  Mills 
New  Gloucester 
No.  Gorham 
Peak's  Island 
Portland 


ANDROSCOGGIN  COUNTY. 

PRESIDENT. 


COK.  SECRETARY. 


Mrs.  A.  J.  Benner 
Miss  Jennie  P.  Douglass 
Mrs.  K.  S.  Thomas 

**    F.  L.  ( )dlin 

**   J.  Ranks 

"   A.  D.Gilbert 

"   S.  I.  Jewett 

"   Sadie  French 


Mrs.  Carrie  O.  Hayden 
Miss  Lizzie  C.  Varney 
Mrs.  G.  W.  Parker 
"   H.  H.  Scruton 
"   \V.  H.  Miles 
Miss  Myra  R.  Billings 


'*   Mary  Perkins 

Eva  M.  Severy    (Chase's 

Mills) 
AROOSTOOK   COUNTY. 


Mrs.  M.  L.  Bartlett 
"   Sarah  C.  Beals 
J.  C.  Smith 
F.  A.  Wright 
**   Amelia  Wheaton 
J.  B.  Robbins 
Liz/.ie  A.  Libby 
L.  Mayo 
A.  L.  Page 
"   Sarah  Chase 
"    H.  A.  Rogers 
»*  Z.  M.  Miller 
O.  J.  Higgins 
J.  11.  Brown 
Clark 


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Mrs.  C.  D.  11  ewes 
"   Lucia  L.  Mcintosh 
"   Frances  A.  Kimball 
Miss  L.  F.  Runnals 

"   Grace  M.  Walker 
Mrs.  Myrtle  G.  R.  Ames 

*'   Mary  J.  Kelley 
Miss  llattie  T.  Mayo 
Mrs.  P).  Minard 

Annie  C.  Long 
K.  J.  Boyd 
Fannie  J.  Crosby 
M.  II.  Lipprelle 
D.  L.  Cummings 


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"  E.  E.  Morrill 
Miss  Isabel  James 
Mrs.  H.  W.  Tracey 

"   D.  DeWitt 
Miss  Mary  E.  Hanson 
Mrs.  Julia  A.  W.  Estes 


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Miss  Annie  Copperthwaite 
"   Annie  E.  Esterbrook 
**    Ella  L.  Reed 

Mrs.  H.  B.  Forbes 
•*    Lucy  P.  Sleeper 
**    Laura  B.  Gilpatrick 
P.  M.  Willey 


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C.  M.  Simpson 

CUMBERLAND  COUNTY. 

Mrs.  J.  S.  Towne 


Miss  M.  J.  Noyes 
Mrs.  E.  A.  Poland 
"   G.  E.  Morrill 
"   Edwin  White 
«*  A.  D.  P.  Morse 
«  Violet  E.  Wheatlcy 
"  G.  S.  Hunt 


"  A.  A.  Bremen 
"   Augusta  Bragdon 
Miss  Eliza  J.  Jordan 
Mrs.  Jane  Whipple 
Miss  Viola  T.  Collins 
"  Cornelia  M.  Dow 


Portland  Y. 
So.  Bridgton 
So.  Portland 
So.  Windham 
Stroudwater 
Webb's  Mills 
We»tbrook 
Westbrook  Y. 
White  Rock 
Windham  Center 
W^indham,  No. 
Woodfords 


Allen's  Mills 

Farmington 

Kingfield 

Phillips 

No.  Jay 

Stratton 

Strong 

Wilton 

Rangeley 

Bar  Harbor 

BluehUl 

Ellsworth 

Hancock 

Surry,  So. 

Tremont 


Augusta 
China  Y. 
Gardiner 
Hallowell 
Hallowell  Y. 
Monmouth 
No.  Vassalboro 
So.  China 
So.  Gardiner 
Vassalboro 
Winthrop  Center 
Winthrop  Y. 

Camden 
Rockland 
Rockland  Y. 
Rockport 
Spruce  Head 
Inomaston 
Union 
Warren 


PRESIDENT. 

Mrs.  G.  S.  Leavitt 

"    F.  F.  Johnson 

**   Otis  Wildes 

**   M.  M.  Bodge 
Miss  Louise  Titcomb 
Mrs.  Lucy  E.  Winslow 

"   W.  H.  Duran 
Miss  Ellen  A.  Winslow 
Mrs.  M.  T.  Files 

"   Adelia  Fellows 

«   Mary  L.  Witham 

"    Elizabeth  A.  Robbins 


COR.   SECRETARY. 

Mrs.  F.  J.  Wood 
"   G.  D.  Knights 
"   Dr.  Young,  Box  87 
"   M.  A.  Edwards 

Miss  A.  F.  Quinby 

Mrs.  Ida  M.  Strout 
"   M.  E.  Spiller 

Miss  Mary  G.  Bacon 
"   Annie  E.  Files 

Mrs.  Lucy  A.  Snow 
"    Mary  Boody 
**  Julia  A.  Blackstone 


FRANKLIN   COLT^TV'. 


Mrs, 

.  Delia  A.  Goodridge 

Mrs.  Altina  B.  Macomber 

u 

0.  M.  Jennings 
M.  D.  Lander 
A.  M.  Greenwood 

Miss  J.  W.  Hoyt 
Mrs.  Cora  B.  Cummings 
"   N.  P.  Noble 

Carrie  M.  Keyes 
Emma  Porter 

"    Ida  A.  Emery 
"    E.  B.  Myers 

it 

Nancy  Daggett 
Nancy  W.  Fuller 

"   Anna  Edwards 
"   Lonie  Green 

HANCOCK   COUNTY. 

Mrs.  Carrie  J.  Lord  Mrs.  Lula  E.  Grindle 

J.  H.  Cheney  "   Ann  F.  Greely 

Amanda  Howler(So.  IL)        "   Carrie  S.  Jellison 
Julia  A.  Chatto  '*    Etta  S.  Chatto 

Elvira  Ireland  (S,  W.  H.)      "    Evelyn  W.  Neal 


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KENNEBEC   COUNTY. 


Mrs.  E.  S.  Fogg 

"    S.  H.  Baker 

**    Lavinia  (^uint 

"    E.  Rowell 
Missx\.  A.  Hall 
Mrs.  Emma  L.  King 

**   Frances  Hussey 

"   Sarah  Varney 

Miss  Emily  S.  Weeks 
Mrs.  H.  J.  Bailey 

KNOX  COUNTY. 

Mrs.  Sylvester  Arau 
Miss  Clara  M.  Farwell 
Mrs.  M.  P.  Judkins 

S.  C.  Brastow 

C.  S.  Coakley 

A.  T.  Crosby 

E.  L.  Thompson 

Josephine  A.  Teague 


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Mrs.  M.  C.  Haskell 
"   W.  S.  Hunnewell 
"    Blanche  Friend 
"    B.  F.  Fuller 

Miss  Genevieve  Merry 

Mrs.  Itla  M.  Pierce 
"   C.  B.  Getchell 

Miss  Hattie  E.  Hoxie. 

**   Kate  R.  Stilson 
Mrs.  Clara  W.  Mumford 


Mrs.  D.  F.  Wadsworth 

**  S.  S.  Johnson 

"  O.  L.  Bartlett 

**  Ella  T.  Wentworth 

"  Mabel  Wiley 

"  A.  F.  Burton 

*'  A.  M.  Jones 

*•  Marion  H.  Mallett 


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LINCOLN  COUNTY. 


PRESIDENT. 

COR.   SECRETARY. 

Bremen 

Mrs.  Emma  D.  Morelen 

Mrs.  I^ura  Turner 

Dresden  Mills 

Miss  C.  C.  Alley 

"   Lizzie  Alley 

E.  Jefferson 

Mrs.  Ellen  M.  Linscott 

Miss  Addie  C.  Ames 

Nobleboro 

"   L  J.  Lvons 

» 

Round  Pond 

"   M.  E.  Palmer 

**   Emma  Carter 

Waldoboro 

«*   Helen  M.  Daggett 

"   Marion  F.  Dyer          • 

OXFORD  COUNnrV 

• 

Denmark 

E.  Brownfield 

Mrs.  E.  A.  G.  Stickney 

Miss  Delia  Spring 

E.  Hiram 

"    Ellen  L.  Pierce 

'*   Jennie  B.  Kimball 

Norway 

**   Minnie  Robinstm 

Mrs.  Mary  Smiley 

Oxford 

**   Geo.  Hazen 

Miss  Caroline  E.  Carmen 

So.  Paris 

'*   G.  A.  Wilson 

*'    Lizzie  Winslow 

So.  Paris  V. 

Miss  Grace  Thayer 

"   Susie  Rounds 

West  Paris 

Mrs.  Amanda  M.  Andrews 

Mrs.  Emily  L.  Emmons 

PENOBSCOT  COUNTS*. 

Bangor 

Mrs.  H.  A.  Whitman 

Mrs.  Lizzie  P.  Swett 

Bangor  Crusade 

**    H.  E.  Prentiss 

"   S.  S.  Pickard 

Charleston 

"   Chas.  F.  Tibbetts 

"   W.  R.  Rideout 

Corinna 

"   O  J.  Hancock 

"   C.  C  Knowles 

Dexter 

•*    E.  R.  Horton 

"   Warren  Carr 

Dixmont 

"    Alice  A.  Tilton 

"   Mar>' Chase 

E.  Corinth 

Hampden  Corner 

**   C.  Mayo 

*'    L.  M.  Reed 

Kenduskeag 

"   Annie  Benjamin 

*•   Nellie  L.  Nason 

Lincoln 

*'    E.  L.  Averill 

Miss  Jessie  Palmer 

Mattawamkeag 

"   Jennie  Stetson 

Mrs.  Irene  M.  Stratton 

Med  way 

"    Mary  K.  Keniston 

"    Myra  M.  Daisey 

Orono 

"   F.  L.  Harvey 

'*    Ilenrv  Powers 

Patten 

'•    Rives  Mitchell 

**   C.  L.'Banghart 

Plymouth 

"   A.  L.  Abbott 

Miss  Rosetta  Morse 

Springfield 

*•  J.  A.  Reed 

••   A.  M.  Blanchard 

Stillwater 

"   S.  U.  Mathews 

Mrs.  A.  M.  Porter 

Veazie 

Miss  C.  L.  Davis 

Winn 

"   H.  M.  Huston 

"   J.  F.  E.  Stanwood 

PISCATAQUIS   COUNTY. 

Brownville 

Mrs.  Ellen  S.  Smith 

Mrs.  Annie  L.  Ryder 

Dover  and  Foxcroft 

"   Mary  R.  Wade  (Dover) 

'*   Annie  Emerson  (Dover) 

Greenville 

**   W.  L.  Rogers 

Miss  Annie  Yarney 

Guilford 

"  C.  M.  Hussey 

Mrs.  Agnes  M.  Bennett 

Milo 

"   Mary  Kittredge 

"   M.  F.  Hobbs 

Shirley 

**  Emma  Young 

Miss  Lizzie  Clement 

SAGADAHOC  COUNTY. 

Bath 

Mrs.  Helen  M.  Delano 

Miss  E.  W.  Smiley 

Popham  Beach 

Misi  Kate  Spinney 

Mrs.  Eva  Stacey 

SOMERSET  COUNT\'. 

Athens 

Mrs.  E.  P.  Ellingwood 

Clinton 

£.  St.  Albans 

"  Martha  L.  Boynton 

Mrs.  Sarah  B.  Crocker 

PRESIDENT. 

COR.   SECRETARY. 

Fairtield 

Madison 

Mrs.  C.  H.  Evans 

Mrs.  W.  H.  Spear 

No.  Anson 

"    M.  F.  Bunker 

"   Beatrice  Wasson 

No.  New  Portland 

"   Flora  Clark 

"   B.  F.  Viles 

Pittsficld 

"   Eva  Bryant 

Miss  Myrtie  G.  Kinney 

Ripley 

Shawmut 

#  *   Rebecca  E.  Lawrence 

Mrs.  Rebecca  N.  Greene 

St.  Albans 

**   H.  M.  Philbrick 

"   A.  L.  Vining 

New  Portland 

"   E.  H.  Butts 

"   L.J.  Carville 

• 

WALDO   COUNTY 

• 

Belfast 

Mrs.  Sarah  W.  Conant 

Miss  A.  A.  Hicks 

No.  Searsmont 

«*   E.  M.  Jackson 

"   Emily  F.  Miller 

Unity 

"   Abbie  Meservey 

Waldo 

WASHINGTON  COUNTY. 

Addison 

Mrs.  0.  F.  Crowley 

Mrs.  M.  L.  Plummer 

Calais 

"   Dr.  Vose 

"    M.  A.  Perkins 

Cherryfield 

"   C.  M.  Ward 

Miss  M.  C.  Hunter 

Cherryfield  V 

Miss  Etta  Inman 

"   Flora  McDewitt 

Columbia  Falls 

Mrs.  Annie  J.  Chandler 

"   Maud  Bucknam 

Danforth 

"   D.  H.  Powell 

Mrs.  L.  A.  Smart 

E.  Machias 

'*    Ruth  A.  Hanscom 

Miss  Fannie  E.  Cox 

E.  Machias  Y. 

Miss  Cassia  Foster 

"   Fannie  Hanscom 

Eastport 

Mrs.  Wm.  Sears 

Mrs.  H.  P.  Adams 

Harrington 

"    Helen  Robertson 

Miss  Clara  L.  Shackford 

Jonetport 
Lubec 

**    Rose  Cnmmings 

Mrs.  E.  G.  Sawyer 

Miss  Virginia  McFadden 

Machia^ 

"   E.  C.  Drisko 

"   M.  W.  Stone 

Millbridge 

Mrs.  Sawyer 

"   Gay 

Pembroke 

Miss  A.  S.  Smart 

*•   L.  Frost 

Steuben 

**  Jennie  S.  Leighton 

*'   Cora  L.  Overlock 

Vanceboro 

Mrs.  Geneva  B.  Seavey 

Miss  Laura  Kelley 

West  Pembroke 

"   Lizzie  Frost 

YORK   COUNTY. 

Mrs.  Margarette  A.  Gardne  r 

Biddeford 

Mrs.  W.  S.  Mclntire 

Mrs.  S.  L.  Cram 

Cornish 

»*   A.  D.  Webb 

"    M.  A.  Snow 

E.  ParsonsBeld 

"  Julia  A.  Kimball 

Miss  Melissa  S.  Dearborn 

Groveville 

Miss  Luville  Patrick 

"    Ida  M.  Burbank 

Kennebunk 

"   Anna  O.  Kimball 

Mrs.  R.  W.  Lord 

Old  Orchard 

"   A.  C.  Dawley 

*•    F.  E.  Brown 

Saco 

**   J.  H.  Watson 

Springvale 

Mrs.  G.  S.  Chase 

"   Lydia  F.  Frost 

So.  Berwick  Branch 

Miss  E.  W.  Ricker 

Miss  Grace  Atkinson 

So.  Berwick 

Mrs.  S.  W.  Ricker 

"   Ella  W.  Ricker 

Sanford 

"   Allen 

"West  Lebanon 

«    E.  J.  Cowell 

*'   Ella  C.  Hurd 

LIST    OF    DELEGATES. 


ANDROSCC  >G(;iN  COUNTY. 

AuBiRN — Mrs.  R.  A.  Pratt,  Mrs.  A.  J. 
Kenner,  Mrs.  Lewis  O'Brien,  Mrs. 
George  B.  Attwood,  Mrs.  H.  CJ. 
Garcelon,  Mrs.  Raymond  Tooth- 
aker. 

LiVERMoRE  Falls — Mrs.  Phosia  Loring, 
Mrs.  Mary  Allan,  Mrs.  Dora  Alden, 
Mrs.  R.  A.  Springer. 

Mechanic  Falls — Miss  Mary  E.  Per- 
kins, Mrs.  C  M.  llutchins,  Mrs.  L. 
W.Clark,  Mrs.  O.  W.  Clark. 

Greenk — Mrs.  Emily  Shaw,  Mrs.  Nettie 
Hodgkins. 

South  Dirham — Miss  Jennie  P.  Doug- 
lass, Mrs.  Emma  M.  Newell,  Miss 
Mary  II.  Robinson. 

Turner — Mrs.  II.  N.  Jones,  Mrs.  II.  M. 
Wilder. 

Lisbon — Mrs.  V.  J.  White. 

Sabbatis — Mrs.  M.  T.  Newton. 

New  Gloucester — Miss  E.  J.  Jordan. 

AROOSTOOK  COUN  IT. 

Caribou — Miss  L.  F.  Runnels. 

Fort  Fairfield — Mrs.  L.  S.  Robbins. 

HOULTON — Mrs.  E.  Merritt,  Mrs.  Wil- 
liam Kinney,  Mrs.  Charles  Merritt. 

HoDCDoN — Miss  IlatticT.  Mayo. 

New  Limerick — Miss  Isabella  James, 
Miss  Annie  E.  Estabrook. 

CUMBERLAND  COUNIT. 

Brunswick — Miss  Ellen  Wyman,   Mrs. 

Ellen  J.    S.  1-atimore,   Miss  M.  J. 

Noycs.     (Pres.) 
Cumberland  Mills — Mrs.  L.  M.  Steres, 

Mrs.    D.    N.    Abbott,    Mrs.   L.   E. 

Graham,  Mrs.  W.  H.  Duran. 
Deerinc;    (Woodford's) — Mrs.   Julia   A. 

Blackstone,  Mrs.    Lizzie   M.   Black - 

stone,  Mrs.  F.  E.  C.  Robbins. 
North  Gorham — Mrs.  Cora  E.  Aikins, 

Mrs.    A.   D.   P.   Moses,   Mrs.   Ann 

M.  Wescott. 


Portlani^ — Mrs.  N.  S.   Fernald,  Mrs.  A. 

B.  Cole,  Mrs.  J.  E.   McI>owell,  Mrs. 

Emily  Stevens,  Mrs.  C.   H.   McCUn- 

tock,  Mrs.  E.  E.  Thompson,  Mrs.  S. 

M.  Field,   Mrs.  N.  C.  Roberto,  Mrs. 

H.    M.   Humphrey,   Mrs.   I.   Luce, 

Mrs.  George  S.  Hunt. 
Pi-L\K's  Island— Mrs.  E.  E.  York,   Miss 

Myrtie  York.  Miss  Nellie  Lane. 
Str«)li>\vatkr — Mrs.  Olive  S.  Hanson^ 

Mrs.  Walter  Fickett. 
Westbrook — Mrs.  W.  H.   Duran,   Mrs. 

S.  II.  May  berry,  Mrs.  A.  E.  Wright. 
Windham  Center — Mrs.  Lucy  A.  Snow, 

Mrs.  Katie  S.  Hawkes,   Mrs.  Nettie 

F.  Lowell. 
South  Windham — Mrs.  M.   M.  Bodge, 

Mrs.  M.  A.   Edwards,   Mrs.    L.  M. 

Little,  Mrs.  S.  W.  J.  McClellan. 
North    Windham — Mrs.    Mary   Smith, 

Mrs.  Harriet  E.  Lamb. 
Whiie  RtH  k — Mrs.    Lizzie  A.  Plummer, 

Mrs.    E.     ( )tis    W^ildes,    Mrs.     Dr. 
Young. 

FRANKLIN  COUNTY. 

Fakmin(;d»n — Mrs.  Ilattie  P.  Keyes, 
Mrs.  Abel  Russell,  Mrs.  Dr.  Rey- 
nolds. 

Kinc.fi eld — Mrs.  T.  L.  Howes,  Mrs.  L. 
F.  Brown,  Mrs.  Arvilla  Norton. 

North  Jay — Mrs.  C.  M.  Keyes,  Mrs. 
Martha  D.  Look. 

Straton  Unh)N — Mrs.  Emma  Porter. 

Rancely — Mrs.  L.  J.  Hempton. 

Wilton— Mrs.  N.  W.  Fuller,  Mrs.  E. 
P.  Packard. 

HANCOCK  COUNTY. 

South  Hancock — Mrs.  A.  Bowler. 

Southwest  Harbor — Mrs.  Evelyn  Neal, 
Mrs.  Elvira  Ireland,  Mrs.  Philena 
Clark,  Miss  Kathic  Freeman. 

Bluehill — Mrs.  R.  P.  Grindall. 


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Ellsworth — Mrs.    M.    B.  Perry,   Mrs. 

R.  W.  Hale. 
Surry — Miss  S.  \V.  Treworgy. 

KENNEBEC  COUNTY. 

Augusta — Mrs.      James      Fuller,    Mrs* 

Daniel  Allen,  Mrs.   Oscar   Holway» 

Mrs.  E.  S.  Fogg. 
China — Mrs.  S.  A.   Baker,   Mrs.   E.   E. 

Hunne well, Miss  Estelle  M.  Brainerd. 
Gardiner — Mrs.    Fannie    Taylor,   Mrs. 

Lavinia  Quint. 
Monmouth — Mrs.    L.    O.     King,    Mrs. 

Otis  Fabyan. 
WiNTHROP — Mrs.     Ellen      M.      Bailey, 

Mrs.  Clara  A.   Baker,   Mrs.   Eugene 

French. 
Vassalboro— Mrs.     Emily     S.    Weeks, 

Miss  Eunice  C.  Rollins. 
Fairfield — Mrs.  Holton,  Mrs.  Chase. 

KNOX  COUNTY. 

Rockland — Mrs.    Hattie    L.     Robbins» 

Miss  Annie  V.  Flint. 
Spruce    Head — Mrs.    C.    S.    Coakley, 

Mrs.  Agnes  Meservey. 
Rockport— Mrs.  S.  C.  Brastow,  Mrs.  E. 

M.   T.  Wentworth.    . 
Union— Mrs.  A.   S.   Hills,  Mrs.  A.   R. 

Joy,  Mrs.  A.  J.  Young. 
Warren — Miss  Mary  M.  Lockie,  Marion 

H.  Mallett. 
Thomaston — Miss  Mary  A.  Morse,  Mrs. 
Sarah  Wight,  Mrs.  A.  T.  Crosby. 

LINCOLN  COUNTV'. 

Waldoboro— Mrs.  M.  F.  Dyer,  Mrs. 
Susie  Winslow,  Mrs.  Sarah  A.  Trow- 
bridge. 

East  Jefferson — Mrs.  Mary  W.  Deer- 
ing. 

Round  Pond — Mrs.  Mary  Carter,  Mrs. 
Emma  Erskine,  Mrs.  M.  E.  Palmer. 

Dresden  Mills — Miss  Caroline  C.  Al- 
ley, Mrs.  Annie  M.  Trott. 

Bremen— Mrs.  E.  Morelen. 

OXFORD  COUFTY. 

Norway— Mrs.  E.  F.  Bicknell. 
Oxford — Mrs.  Mary  H.  Hawes. 

PENOBSCOT  COUNTS'. 

Mattawamkfj^g— Mrs.  T.  L.  Stetson. 
Stillwater— Mrs.  S.  U.  Mathews,  Mrs. 

J.  V.  Tucker. 
Bangor— Mrs.  Elizabeth  Patten,  Mrs.  M. 

D.  Patten. 


Med  WAY — Mrs.  M.  J.  Bagley. 

Orono  —  Mrs.   Addie   L.   Harvey,   Mrs. 

Charles  Buffum,  Mrs.  D.  Merrill. 
Plymouth — Mrs.  Helen  Rowe,  Mrs.  A. 

L.  Abbott,  Mrs.  Alberta  Thome. 
Patten — Mrs.  C.  L.  Banghart,  Mrs.  Rives 

Mitchell. 

PISCATAQUIS  COUNT\'. 

Dover  and  Foxcroft  —  Mrs.   Ella  M. 

Getchell,   Mrs.   E.  N.   Oakes,    Mrs. 

Sarah  A.  :   artin. 
Shirley — Mrs.  Emma  Young. 
Dexter — Mrs.  Anna  E.  McCrillis,  Mrs. 

J.  S.  Wentworth.  Mrs.  E.  K.  Horton, 

Mrs.  Nellie  Wagg. 
WiNTHROP — Mrs.  Clara  W.  Mumford. 

SAGADAHOC  COUNTY. 

Bath — Miss  E.  W.  Smiley,  Mrs.  H.  B. 

Jordan,  Mrs.  A.  M.  Robinson. 
Popham  Beach — Mrs.  Vesta  Jones,  Mrs. 

C.  I.  Spinney. 

SOMERSET  COUNTY. 

East  St.  Albans — Mrs.  M.  L.  Boynton, 

Mrs.  S.  B.  Crocker. 
North  New   Portland  —  Mrs.    Laura 

Clark,  Mrs.  Betsey  F.  Viles. 
Pittsfield — Mrs.  Eva  Bryant,  Mrs.  E. 

M.  DoUoff,  Mrs.  B.  L.  Fitzgerald. 
St.  Albans — Mrs.  N.  H.  Vining,  Mrs.  Z. 

J.  Foss. 
Madison  —  Mrs.    Wm.    Morrow,    Mrs. 

Charles  Healey. 
Fairfield — Mrs.  May  Houghton,   Mrs. 

Hattie  Alley,  Mrs.  E.  F.  Chase. 
North  Anson — Miss  Ida  M.  Bolster. 

WALDO  COUNT\'. 

Searsmont — Mrs.   Anna  A.   Bridgham, 

Miss  Emily  Miller. 
Belfast — Mrs.  Hattie  Cook,  Mrs.  F.  E. 

Frost,  Mrs.  H.  Walker. 

WASHINGTON  COUNTY. 

Calais — Mrs.  Dr.  Vose. 

East  Machias — Mrs.  Ruth  A.  Hanscom. 

MiLLBRiDGE — Mrs.  Frances  I.  Sawyer. 

YORK  COUNT\'. 

Biddeford — Mrs.  W.  S.  Mclntire,  Mrs. 

Charles  Haines. 
Center  Lebanon — Mrs.  Mary  A.  Shap- 

leigh. 
Springvale — Miss  Annie  Bagley,  Mrs.  J. 

D.  WaKlron. 


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West  Lebanon — Mrs.  E.  J.  Co  well,  Mrs, 

C.  C.  Foster. 
Portland  Y's — Mrs.  Gertrude  S.  I^avitt. 
Augusta — Miss  Carrie  E.  Allen. 
Groveville — Miss  Luville  Patrick. 
Westbrook  —  Miss   Ellen   A.   Winslow, 

Miss  May  Farley. 


COMMITTEE  0\  CREDENTIALS. 

Mrs.  H.  C.  Bcedy 
Miss  Annie  C.  Uagley 
Mrs.  A.  B.  Cole 

Delegates,  206. 


MINUTES. 


Executive  Committee,  Sept.  26,  p.  m. 

Executive  meeting  on  Monday  evening  opened  with  prayer  by  Mrs. 
Beedy,  of  Farmington.  Mrs.  Spaulding,  of  Caribou,  recommended  that 
the  Department  of  Unfermented  Wine  at  Sacrament  be  discontinued. 

The  question  was  asked  as  to  the  advisability  of  County  Treasurers 
collecting  State  dues  in  their  Counties,  and  forwarding  them  in  bulk  to 
State  Treasurer. 

After  some  little  discussion  the  following  motion  was  carried,  viz  : 
Moved,  that  it  is  the  sense  of  this  Committee  that  whenever  the  Execu- 
tive Committee  of  any  County  snail  consider  their  County  organiza- 
tion so  perfected  as  to  be  able  to  collect  its  State  dues,  that  said  County 
Executive  Committee  shall  instruct  County  Treasurer  to  so  do,  and  re- 
mit said  dues  to  State  Treasurer  at  such  time  as  she  may  direct.  Any 
County  deciding  to  take  this  step  shall  immediately  inform  State  Treas- 
urer of  the  same. 

Decided  that  the  State  Executive  Committee  recommend  that  each 
member  of  the  Convention  shall  do  all  in  her  power  to  impress  upon 
every  W.  C.  T.  U.  woman  the  importance  of  wearing  the  white  ribbon 
at  all  times. 

Voted,  that  Mrs.  Spaulding  and  Miss  Dow  attend  to  seating  of  delegates. 

Voted,  that  Executive  Committee  hold  next  meeting  at  1 .30,  p.  m., 
Tuesday. 

The  Committee  rose. 


Convention,  Sept.  27,  a.  m. 

The  Eighteenth  Convention  of  the  Maine  Woman's  Christ  an  Temperance 
Unioa  opened  at  the  Pine  Street  Congregational  Church, Lewiston,  Tuesday, 
September  27,  1892.     The  church  presented   a   very   attractive  appear- 


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ance.  The  pulpit  was  covered  with  the  stars  and  stripes,  while  the 
banners  of  the  various  Counties,  and  the  banner  of  the  State  organization 
were  upon  the  platform.  The  prize  banner,  offered  by  Miss  Willard  to 
the  New  p]ngland  State  making  the  greatest  proportionate  gain  in  mem- 
bership, was  at  the  right  of  the  platform.  It  has  been  twice  gained  by 
Maine,  first  at  Atlanta  in  1890,  and  in  1801  at  Boston. 

A  fine  portrait  of  Miss  Willard  rested  upon  a  handsome  easel.  A 
card  was  attached  to  it  bearing  Whittier's  beautiful  lines  written  for  the 
Willard  bust  for  the  Temperance  Temple : 

"  She  felt  the  power  of  banded  ill. 
IJut  knew  that  love  was  stronger  still, 
And  organized  for  doing  good, 
The  world's  united  womanhood." 

Great  interest  was  felt  in  these  lines  as  they  were  among  the  last  utter- 
ances from  the  pen  of  the  venerable  poet. 

A  quartet  consisting  of  Rev.  A.  A.  Lewis,  of  Bath,  Rev.  T.  F.  Jones, 
South  Portland,  Rev.  H.  C.  Went  worth,  Dexter,  and  Rev.  J.  R.  Clifford, 
Farmington,  furnished  most  delightful  music  during  the  Convention. 

The  President  called  the  Convention  to  order  at  10.80.  Music  by 
the  quartet.  Prayer  by  Mrs.  A.  C.  Peaslee.  Roll  call,  to  which  the 
General  Otlicers  and  many  of  tlie  Presidents  and  Superintendents  re- 
sponded.    The  following  Committees  were  appointed : 

On  Credentials — Mrs.  H.  B.  C.  Beedy,  Franklin,  Miss  A.  C.  Bagley, 
York,  Mrs.  A.  B.  Cole,  Cumberland. 

On  Greetings — Mrs.  A.  C.  Peaslee,  Auburn,  Mrs.  O  Xewman,  Lew- 
iston.  Power  was  also  conferred  upon  them  to  increase  their  Committee 
if  found  necessary. 

Reading  of  Executive  minutes  of  Monday  evening  followed.  Voted  to 
continue  the  department  of  Unfermenied  Wine  at  Sacrament.  In  all  other 
respects  the  minutes  were  accepted. 

Decided  to  accept  program  as  prepared  by  FiXccutive  Committee  ex- 
changing the  places  given  to  tlie  reports  of  Miss  Scales,  of  Portland,  and 
Mrs.  Bunker,  of  North  Anson. 

Miss  Ida  Bolster  and  Miss  Pearl  Bobbins  were  appointed  pages  during 
Convention. 

Voted,  that  Corresponding  Secretary  send  telegram  of  greeting  to  Mrs. 
Margaret  T.  W.  Merrill. 


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Selection  by  quartet.  Introduction  and  remarks  of  Mr.  Perrigo,  of 
Hodgdon,  and  Rev.  Mr.  French,  of  Turner,  followed. 

Moved  by  Mrs.  Snow  that  the  remainder  of  morning  session  be  given 
to  a  brief  Bible  reading,  followed  by  a  prayer  meeting.     Carried. 

The  noon  hour  prayer  was  offered  by  Mrs.  F.  A.  Wright. 

Benediction  by  Rev.  A.  A.  Lewis. 

Adjourned. 


CoxvEXTiox,  Sept.  27,  p.  m. 

Opened  with  prayer  by  Mrs.  Wyman. 

Minutes  of  morning  session  read  and  approved. 

Minutes  of  Executive  meeting  read  and  accepted  with  slight  corrections. 

Music  by  quartet. 

Introduction  and  remarks  by  Rev.  Mr.  Gwilym. 

Presentation  of  bouquet  from  Sabattus  of  white,  yellow  and  purple, 
emblematical  of  the  colors  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.,  Franchise  and  King*s 
Daughtei-s. 

Reading  and  accepting  of  Corresponding  Secretary's  report. 

Report  of  Credentials  Committee  read,  and  accepted  as  in  progress.  A 
second  report  to  be  called  for  Wednesday  morning. 

Selection  by  quartet. 

The  Superintendents  of  the  Departments  of  Narcotics,  Sabbath  Obser- 
vance and  Flower  Mission  reported.     Same  accepted. 

Mrs.  Knowlton  and  Mrs.  Odlin,  President  and  Secretary  of  Committee 
on  Entertainment,  were  introduced. 

Committee  on  Resolutions,  consisting  of  one  from  each  County,  were 
appointed :  Mrs.  O.  W.  Hawkes,  Mrs.  E.  Merritt,  Mrs.  A.  M.  West- 
cott,  Mrs.  C.  M.  Keyes,  Miss  S.  W.  Treworgy,  Mrs.  S.  A.  Baker,  Mrs. 
S.  C.  Brastow,  Mrs.  Minnie  Robinson,  Mrs.  A.  L.  Abbott,  Mrs.  Sarah 
A.  Martin,  Mrs.  N.  H.  Vining,  Mrs.  N.  B.  Jordan,  Mrs.  Fannie  Frost, 
Mrs.  E.  M.  Vose,  Mn,.  W.  S.  Mclntire. 

Miss  Patrick  appointed  page.  Announcements  were  made  for  meetings 
of  Resolutions  Committee  and  State  Superintendents. 

Doxology  sung,  and  Aaronite  benediction  by  Mrs.  Stevens. 

Adjourned. 


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CoNVEXTioN,  Sept.  27,  Evening. 

Music — **There  are  Bands  of  Ribbon  White,"  by  quartet. 
Scripture  Reading  and  Prayer,  by  Mrs.  A.  L.  Page.      Music. 
Addresses  of  welcome  by  Rev.  G.    M.    Howe,    Pastor   of   Pine  Street 
Congregational  Church  and  Mrs.  Ida  B.  M.  Wyman,  Le\viston. 
Response  by  Miss  Hattie  T.  Mayo,  Hodgdon.     Music. 
Annual  address  by  State  President. 
Address  by  Mrs.  Dr.  Cheney. 
Collection.     Music. 

Benediction  bv  Rev.  B.  C.  Wentworth. 
Adjourned. 


EXECUTIVK    COMMITTEK,    Sept.   28,  A.  M. 

Opened  with  prayer. 

Decided  to  recommend  that  the  unions  at  Danforth  and  Vanceboro  ia 
Washington  County,  and  the  union  at  Patten  in  Penobscot  County  be 
allowed  to  remain  auxiliary  to  Aroostook  County  union,  independent  of 
geographical  lines,  in  the  interests  of  these  unions. 

The  Committee  rose. 


Convention  Sept.   28,  a.  m. 

Wednesday  morning  opened  with  ])rayer  and  selection  by  quartet. 

Minutes  of  previous  meeting  read  and  approved. 

Rev.  Mr.  Talbot,  French  missionarv  in  the  citv  of  Lewiston,  intro- 
duced.  Mrs.  E.  M.  Blanchard,  Treasurer,  reported.  Report  pronounced 
correct  by  auditor.     Same  accepted  by  a  rising  vote. 

Over  one  hundred  women  pledged  81.00  cacli  toward  meeting  the 
mortgage  on  the  New  Headquarters. 

A  large  package  of  flowers  received  from  Miss  Alice  Suminsby,  of 
Bar  Harbor,  for  officers  and  fiiends  in  Convention. 

Secretary  directed  to  send  letter  of  thanks  and  appreciation  to  ^liss 
Suminsby. 

Temperance  song  written  for  the  Convention  by  Mrs  Caroline  W.  D. 
Rich,  was  accepted  with  thanks. 


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Me^iobial  Sekvice. 

Singing  by  quartet. 

The  Corresponding  Secretar}-  read  the  names  of  those  who  have  passed 
awa^Lsince  we  last  met  in  Convention. 

Mrs.  W.  G.  Sargent,  Sargentville ;  Mrs.  Nathan  Woods,  Ellsworth  ; 
Mrs.  N.  G.  Adams,  Ellsworth ;  Mrs.  Mary  R.  Dinsmore,  Mrs,  Dr.  Fill- 
brown,  Mrs.  Christian  Washburn,  Caribou ;  Mrs.  Julia  Field,  Miss  Mary 
Bryant,  Biddeford ;  Mrs.  J.  B.  Stanton,  Mrs.  M.  A.  Dearborn,  West 
(Jaribou  ;  Miss  J.  Datman,  Mrs.  A.  W.  Backus,  Bath;  Mrs.  Lavinia 
Briggs,  Winthrop  Center ;  Mrs.  Frances  Lyford,  Augusta  ;  Mrs.  Martha 
O'Brien,  Miss  Louise  L.  Maxwell,  Mrs.  Sarah  Watkins,  Cumberland 
County;  Miss  Sarah  E.  Norcross,  Union;  Mrs.  Marcia  E.  EUems,  Greene; 
Mrs.  Cynthia  Verrill,  Auburn ;  Mrs.  Miry  S.  Parker,  Mrs.  George 
Webb,  Mrs.  George  Metcalf,  Mrs.  Dr.  Burrell,  Mrs.  W.  R.  Lauphton, 
Lewiston ;  Mrs.  Harrison  Fuller,  North  Jay ;  Mrs.  Annie  Hodge, 
Mrs.  Henkley,  Kingfield ;  Mrs.  Andrew  Bonney,  Miss  Maria  Merrill, 
Farmington ;  Mrs.  C.  N.  Veazie,  Mrs.  (-harlotte  Burkett,  Miss  E.  M. 
Emery,  Miss  M.  A.  Trussel,  Belfast ;  Mrs.  G.  E.  Harding,  Waldo ; 
Miss  H.  A.  Murray,  Bumham  ;  Miss  Lucy  Goodrich,  Greenville.  Hon- 
orary members  :  Mr.  Wright,  Caribou  ;  Rev.  N.  D.  Osgood,  Turner  ; 
Mr.  Parker  Oliver,  Popham  Beach. 

Prayer  by  Mrs.  Humphrey,  of  Portland.     Music. 

Tender  and  loving  words  were  spoken  of  our  promoted  comrades, 
and  a  few  comforting  words  of  scripture  repeated  by  Mrs.  Stevens.  Noon- 
tide prayer  by  Mrs.  Humphrey.     Music. 

Doxology  and  benediction.     Adjourned. 


Executive  Committee,  Sept.  28,  p.  m. 

Prayer  by  Mrs.  R.  A.  Springer. 

The  Corresponding  Secretary  expressed  her  wish  that,  in  future,  County 
Presidents  might  report  for  their  Counties  to  her. 

Voted,  that  a  Committee  be  appointed  to  confer  with  a  Committee  of 
three  from  the  Superintendents,  concerning  a  change  in  printing  of  State 
minutes. 

Mrs.  Blaisdell,  Mrs.  Bunker,  Mrs.  Springer  and  Mrs.  Spaulding  ap- 
pointed as  that  committee.     Committee  rose. 


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Convention,  Sept.  28,  p.  m. 

Convention  opened  with  music  by  quartet. 

Bible  reading  by  Mrs.  Barney. 

Reading  of  the  minutes  of  morning  session  followed.     Same  accepted. 

Reading  of  minutes  of  Executive  meeting  of  Wednesday,  1.30  p.m., 
read  and  accepted. 

Rev.  Mr.  Hinckley,  of  Good  Will  Farm,  introduced. 

Reports  from  the  Departments  of  Fairs  and  Purity  in  Literature  and 
Arts  read  and  accepted. 

Department  of  Reformatory  l^rison  for  Women  reported  by  Mrs.  Han- 
nah J.  Bailey.  Supplemented  by  remarks  from  Mrs.  Geo.  S.  Hunt. 
Accepted  and  referred  to  General  Otlicers. 

Rev.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Cheney  introduced. 

Revs.  Fair,  Corey  and  Thayer  introduced,  the  last  named  gentleman 
calling  the  attention  of  the  Convention,  as  had  Rev.  Mr  Talbot  in  the 
morning  session,  to  the  need  of  our  work  in  this  State  among  foreigners. 

Mrs.  Hunt,  of  Portland,  moved  that  this  matter  be  referred  to  Exec- 
utive Committee  for  action.  This  move  receivin«ij  a  second  was  unani- 
mously carried. 

The  hour  for  electing  officers  having  arrived,  Mrs.  R.  P.  Grindle,  of 
Hancock  County,  was  called  to  preside. 

Mrs.  Rogers,  of  Washington  ;  Mrs.  Brastow,  of  Knox  ;  Mrs.  Fuller, 
of  Franklin  ;  Mrs.  Robinson,  of  Oxford,  were  appointed  tellers. 

Then  followed  distribution  of  ballots,  resulting  in  a  total  of  1 7C  votes, 
all  for  Mrs.  L.  M.  N.  Stevens  for  State  President. 

Upon  the  motion  of  Mrs.  Hannah  J.  Bailey,  the  informal  ballot  was 
made  formal  by  a  vote  cast  by  the  Recording  Secretary.  Mrs.  Delano 
and  Mrs.  Daggett  escorted  Mrs.  Stevens  to  the  chair.  Mrs.  Stevens  was 
received  with  the  Chautauqua  salute,  and  every  expression  of  love  and 
confidence,  as  for  the  fifteenth  time  she  with  tender  and  heart-felt  words 
accepted  the  position  as  President  of  the  Maine  Woman's  Christian  Tem- 
perance Union. 

Mrs.  Richardson,  of  Lewiston,  followed  in  prayer,  the  quartet  also 
giving  a  selection  in  music. 

Moved  by  Mrs.  George  S.  Hunt,  and  seconded  by  Mrs.  H.  J.  Bailey, 
that  the  remaining  officers  be  elected  by  acclamation.     Carried. 

The  following  were  elected  :    Corresponding  Secretary',    Mrs.    Sarah   L. 


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Cram ;  Recording  Secretary,  Miss  Clara  M.  Farwell ;  Treasurer,  Mrs. 
£.  M.  Blanchard. 

Each  of  these  were  introduced  and  briefly  responded. 

Miss  Farwell  named  Mrs.  Adelaide  S.  Johnston  as  Assistant  Record- 
ing Secretary,  which  was  confirmed  by  the  (Convention. 

Voted  that  the  selection  of  delegates  for  National  Convention  be  de- 
ferred until  Thursday  morning. 

Miss  Scales,  of  Portland,  then  reported  on  Kindergarten  work.  This 
report,  upon  motion  of  Mrs.  G.  S.  Hunt,  was  accepted  by  a  rising  vote 
of  thanks.  Mrs.  F.  A.  Wright  was  introduced,  who  read,  in  part,  a  letter 
from  ^frs.  Margaret  T.  W.  Merrill,  alluding  to  the  fact  that  we  were  in 
session  upon  the  birthday  of  our  National  President,  and  at  Mrs.  Merrill's 
request,  the  letter  received  from  Miss  Willard  at  the  Maine  Convention  a 
year  ago  was  again  read. 

Mrs.  Hannah  J.  Bailey  moved,  seconded  by  Miss  Cornelia  M.  Dow, 
that  a  cablegram  of  remembrant  e  and  sympathy  be  sent  by  Correspond- 
ing Secretary  to  Miss  Willard. 

Mrs.  Gertrude  S.  Leavitt  called  attention  to  a  non-alcoholic  prepara- 
tion of  Jamaica  Ginger,  prepared  by  the  Baker  Extract  Company,  called 
crystalline  ginger. 

A  motion  to  adjourn  carried. 

Closed  with  Doxology  and  Aaronite  benediction. 


Convention  Sept  28,  Evening. 
Music  by  quartet. 
Scripture  reading  by  Mrs.  Barney. 
Prayer  by  Mrs.  Hannah  J.  Bailey. 
Music  by  quartet. 

Address  by  Mrs.  Barney — **  The  World's  Bondage." 
Collection .     M  u  sic . 
Benediction  by  Rev.  A.  A.  Lewis. 
Adjourned. 


Executive  Committee,  Sept.  29,  a.  m. 

Opened  with  prayer  by  Mrs.  Wyman. 

Voted  that  in  accordance  with  national  plan  the  Department  of  Work 
Among  Foreign  Speaking  People  be  added  to  out  staite  woxV.  ^m>^tvx^&\v- 
dents  of  Departments  were  recommended  aa  foWows  *. 


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Work  Among  Foreign  Speaking  People,  Mrs.  G.  M.  Howe,  Lewiston ; 
Young  Woman's  Work,  Miss  Luville  Patrick,  Groveville ;  Juvenile  Work, 
Miss  Annie  C.  Bagley,  Springvale  ;  Kindergartens,  Miss  Florence  Scales, 
Portland ;  Hygienic  Reform  and  Heredity;  Mrs.  E.  E.  Pinkham,  W^ood- 
ford's  ;  Scientific  Temperance  Instruction,  Mrs.  G.  F.  French,  Portland  ; 
Sunday  School  Work,  Mrs.  E.  A.  G.  Stickney,  Brownfield ;  Temperance 
Literature,  Mrs.  Alice  L.  Raymond,  Mrs.  N.  S.  Fernald,  Portland; 
School  Savings  Banks,  Mrs.  Charlotte  A.  Ricker,  Cherryfield ;  Influencing 
the  Press,  and  Reporter  for  Union  Signal,  Miss  Mary  L.  French,  Au- 
burn ;  Narcotics,  Mrs.  1.  S.  Wentworth,  Dexter ;  Bible  Reading  and 
Evangelistic  Work,  Mrs.  Lucy  A.  Snow,  Windham  Center ;  Unfermented 
Wine  at  Sacrament,  Mrs.  L.  J.  Spaulding,  Caribou  ;  Systematic  Giving, 
Mrs.  Anna  M.  Hussey  North  Berwick ;  Prison  Jail  and  Alms  House  Work, 
Mrs.  B.  Minard,  Houlton ;  Reformatory  Prison  for  Women,  Mrs.  H.  J. 
Bailey,  Winthrop  Center,  Mrs.  G.  S.  Hunt,  Portland,  Miss  Clara  M. 
Farwell,  Rockland ;  Securing  Homes  for  Homeless  Children,  Mrs.  Ida 
M.  B.  Wyman,  Lewiston ;  Work  Among  Soldiers  and  Sailors,  Mrs.  F. 
C.  Johnston,  Portland;  Work  Among  Lumbermen,  Mrs.  A.  L.  Harvey, 
Orono ;  Sabbath  Observance,  Mrs.  H.  J.  Bailey,  Winthrop  Center; 
Purity,  to  be  supplied ;  Purity  in  Literature  and  Art,  Mrs.  A.  L.  Page, 
Houlton ;  Mercy,  Mrs.  Clara  W.  Mumford,  Winthrop  Center ;  Flower 
Mission,  Miss  Edith  Libby,  Portland ;  State  and  County  Fairs,  Mrs. 
Susan  French,  Auburn ;  Legislation  and  Petition,  Mrs.  L.  C.  Lamb, 
Auburn  ;  Franchise,  Mrs.  A.  F.  Greely,  Ellsworth  ;  Peace  and  Arbitra- 
tion, Miss  Alice  M.  Douglass,  Bath. 

The  Department  of  Co-operation  with  other  Societies  was  discon- 
tinued as  a  separate  department,  but  the  Executive  Committee  recom- 
mended that  the  general  officers  of  local  societies  carefully  attend  to  this 
work. 

Recommended  that  every  Union  having  no  "  Y  "  should  have  a  de- 
partment of  Young  Woman's  Work,  standing  in  the  same  relation  to 
the  community  as  a  **  Y"  would. 

The  Committee  rose. 


Convention,  Sept.  29,  a.  m. 

Opened  with  prayer  by  Mrs.  Springer  and  selection  by  quartet. 
Reading  and  acceptance  of  the  minutes  of  Wednesday,  p.  m. 


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By  vote  of  yesterday  the  selection  of  National  Delegates  became  the 
order  of  the  da  v. 

Delegates  were  chosen  as  follows  ;  Miss  Cornelia  M.  Dow,  Mrs.  W.  S. 
Spaulding,  Mrs.  M.  F.  Bunker,  Mrs.  Abbie  Peaslee,  Mrs.  Anna  Hussey, 
Mrs.  Abbie  Campbell,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Hibbard,  Mrs.  Almira  Bowler, 
Mrs.  G.  S.  Hunt. 

Alternates  :  Miss  Almira  Quimby,  Mrs.  H.  M.  Robbins,  Mrs.  Dr. 
Newton,  Mrs  Alice  Raymond,  Mrs.  John  E.  Parker. 

Consent  was  given  to  listen  to  suggestions  from  State  Superintendents, 
presented  by  Mrs.  Geo.  S.  Hunt  : 

Suggestion  1,  That  hereafter  in  arranging  the  programs  for  State 
Conventions  the  departments  be  grouped  in  the  same  manner  as  at  the 
National  Convention,  under  the  five  heads ;  Evangelistic,  Educational, 
Legal,  Preventive  and  Social. 

Sug,  2,  That  we  recommend  that  the  year  for  ending  County  reports 
close  immediately  after  the  County  Conventions. 

Sug,  3.  That  we  recommend  Directory  of  County  Officers  and  Sup- 
erintendents be  published  in  the  Star  in  the  East  immediately  after 
State  Convention  and  that  County  Secretaries  report  all  changes. 

Sug,  4.  Voted  that  the  Committee  be  instructed  to  request  that  the 
reports  of  Superintendents  be  published  in  the  Minutes,  the  Superinten- 
dents agreeing  to  condense  these  reports  as  much  as  is  consistently 
practicable. 

Voted,  that  the  first  three  of  these  suggestions  be  accepted.  The 
fourth  was  left  to  the  Executive  Committee,  as  it  had  been  previously  so 
left. 

Mrs.  Houghton  and  Mrs.  Chase,  of  Fairfield,  Miss  Noyes,  of  Bruns- 
wick, Introduced. 

Selection  by  quartet. 

Report  of  State  Superintendent  of  Systematic  Giving,  Mrs.  Hussey, 
read  and  accepted. 

Report  of  Peace  and  Arbitration  by  Miss  Douglass  accepted. 

Prison,  Jail  and  Alms  House  presented  by  Mrs.  Minard.     Accepted. 

Moved  that  Mrs.  Williams,  of  Augusta,  write  out  the  work  done  in 
Kennebec  County  and  add  to  this  report. 

Introduction  of  Mrs.  Caroline  Rich. 

Introduction  of  Rev.  Mr.  Rogers,  of  Auburn. 


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Report  of  Lumbermen's  Work,  by  Mrs.  Har^•ey,  of  Orono.  Accepted. 
Followed  by  remarks. 

Introduction  of  Mrs.  Keyes,  who  had  just  arrived  from  G.  A.  R.  reunion 
at  Washington,  who  gave  us  a  most  interesting  talk. 

Report  of  Miss  Mary  L.  French  on  Press  Department.     Accepted. 

Rev.  Mr.  Blaisdell  introduced. 

Then  followed  the  introduction  of  Miss  Treworgy,  who  led  the  devo- 
tional meeting,  closing  with  a  prayer  offered  by  her  at  the  noon  hour. 

Report  of  Evangelistic  Department  by  Mrs  Snow.     Accepted. 

Announcements. 

Voted,  that  the  report  of  the  Resolutions  Committee  be  made  the 
order  of  the  day  directly  after  the  reading  of  the  Minutes  at  the  afternoon 
session. 

Adjourned. 

Benediction  by  Miss  Treworgy. 


ExEcrxivi:  C(immittee,  Sept.  29,  p.  m. 

Opened  with  prayer  by  Mrs.  Pierce,  of  Hiram. 

Voted,  that  the  Minutes  be  printed  as  lieretofore. 

Moved,  that  an  effort  be  made  to  raise  the  money  to  pay  for  the  Min- 
utes by  accepting  pledges  from  individuals  for  tlicmselves  or  for  their 
constituency.     Carried. 

Ordered,  that  Star  in  the  East  be  continued  under  sole  management  of 
Mrs.  Blanchard. 


Con  VENT  I  ox,  Sept.  29,  v.  m. 

Prayer  by  Mrs.  R.  A.  Springer. 

Minutes  of  morning  Executive  Committee  read  and  approved. 

Committee  on  Resolutions  reported.  Report  accepted,  resolutions 
taken  up  seriatim,  discussed  and  adopted  as  now  recorded. 

Hon.  Nelson  Dingley  Jr.  was  presented  to  the  Convention  and  re- 
marked that  he  was  sure  that  there  Is  no  good  citizen  who  does  not  thank 
the  Lord  for  the  work  in  which  the  Union  is  engaged. 


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Resolutions. 

Resolved^  That  we  recognize  the  hand  of  our  Heavenly  Father  in  all  our  past  work 
and  that  during  the  coming  year  we  will  continue  to  trust  in  His  leading  guidance. 

Resolved,  That  we  deplore  the  prevalence  of  Sabbath  desecrations  and  protest 
against  the  Sunday  excursions,  and  also  the  opening  of  the  Columbian  exposition  on 
the  Sabbath. 

IVhereaSy  The  fact  is  apparent  that  the  use  of  tobacco  and  opium  is  steadily 
increasing  among  our  American  people,  and,  that  because  of  the  demand  for  opium 
a  poppy  ranch  has  been  started  in  California,  and  in  view  of  the  immense  loss  of 
money,  health,  life  and  human  souls  caused  by  these  habits,  therefore. 

Resolved,  That  we  will  be  more  earnest  in  warning  the  young,  in  spreading  knowl- 
edge on  these  points,  and  in  using  our  influence  ahvays  and  everywhere  for  pure 
habits  among  all  people. 

Resolved,  That  we  have  noted  with  great  gratification  the  remarkable  work  of 
the  Keeley  cure  in  renovating  men  and  women  degenerate  in  appetite  and 
desires,  restoring  them  to  society  in  a  condition  to  become  a  blessing  to  the  world. 
In  view  of  this  we  earnestly  recommend  the  Keeley  cure  to  the  attention  of  the  local 
Unions  as  one  of  the  best  lines  of  charitable  work  in  reforming  those  brought  low  by 
the  drink  or  morphine  habit,  the  money  so  furnished  held  as  legal  loan  to  be  refunded 
when  the  patient  is  able  to  earn  and  save. 

Whereas,  We  view  with  alarm  the  evident  sympathy  of  the  judiciary  of  our  State 
with  the  liquor  traffic,  therefore. 

Resolved,  That  the  thanks  of  the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union  are  due  to 
Judge  Foster  for  his  clear  and  able  charge  to  the  jury  on  the  liquor  cases. 

Resolved,  That  our  influence  be  brought  to  bear  on  all  social  evils,  especially  among 
the  young ;  that  we  continue  to  ask  for  better  legal  protection  for  girls,  and  that  we 
claim  equal  standards  of  purity  for  men  and  women. 

Resolved,  That  we  recommend  that  more  attention  be  given  to  our  new  departments. 
Homes  for  Homeless  Children,  School  Savings  Banks,  Systematic  Giving  and  Work 
Among  Foreign  Speaking  People. 

Resolved,  That  we  give  increased  attention  to  the  Department  for  Influencing  the 
Press,  as  the  most  direct  means  of  bringing  the  temperance  question  and  the  work  of 
our  society  before  the  people;  we  gratefully  recognize  the  many  courtesies  we  have 
received  from  the  erlitors  of  the  State  during  the  past  year. 

Resolved,  That  the  best  interest  of  humanity,  the  basis  upon  which  our  republic  is 
founded,  the  demands  of  justice  ami  the  command  embodied  in  the  golden  rule 
demand  the  enfranchisement  of  women. 

Resolved,  That  local  Unions  be  urged  to  appoint  superintendents  who  will  endeavor 
to  secure  the  enforcement  of  the  scientific  temperance  law,  recommendmg  the  use  of 
the  approved  text  books;  also  to  organize  Loyal  Temperance  Legions  in  every  Union 
in  our  State. 

Resolved,  That  we  strive  most  earnestly  to  improve  the  larger  opportunity  for 
thorough  temperance  education  in  our  Sunday  Schools  through  the  quarterly  temper- 
ance lessons  in  the  regular  course  of  the  International  series. 

Whereas,  Sheriff  Cram  by  his  faithful  and  efficient  enforcement  of  the  prohibition 
law,  has  closed  the  saloons  in  Cumberland  county,  and  has  demonstrated  to  the  world 
that  prohibition  will  prohibit  when  faithfully  enforced,  therefore. 

Resolved,  That  we  extend  our  hearty  thanks  to  him  for  his  faithful  enforcement  of 
the  law,  and  congratulate  him  on  his  re-election. 

Resolved,  That  we  extend  the  hearty  thanks  of  this  assembly  to  the  pastor  and 
committee  of  the  Pine  street  Congregational  church,  t«»  the  entertainment  committee 
of  the  Lewiston  W^oman's  Christian  Temperance  Union,  and  to  those  who  have  so 
kindly  opened  their  homes  to  us;  to  the  railroad  officials  for  reduced  rates;  to  the 
Lewiston  yoiimal  and  Auburn  Gazette  for  reports  of  the  Convention,  and  to  all  who 
have  in  any  way  contributed  to  make  the  Convention  a  success. 


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Report  of  Sunday  School  Work  read  and  accepted,  after  which  it  was 
supplemented  by  remarks  from  Miss  Lucia  E.  K.  Kimball,  National 
and  World's    Superintendent  of  Sunday  School  Work. 

Singing  by  the  quartet. 

Report  of  Superintendent  of  Department  for  Securing  Homes  for 
Homeless  Children  read  and  accepted. 

Mrs.  Johnson  made  a  plea  for  money  to  print  the  Minutes,  and  pledges 
were  taken  for  this  purpose. 

Report  of  Mrs.  F.  A.  Wright,  Superintendent  of  Department  of  Purity, 
was  accepted  by  a  rising  vote. 

Rev.  A.  S.  Ladd,  of  Auburn,  introduced. 

Reports  of  Departments  of  Legislation  and  Petitions,  Jtivenile  Work, 
Mercy,  Hygiene  and  Heredity,  Soldiers  and  Sailors,  Scientific  Temperance 
Instruction  read  and  accepted. 

Report  of  Mrs.  Alice  L.  Raymond,  Superintendent  of  Temperance 
Literature,  detained  in  Denver  by  ill  health,  was  read  by  Mrs.  N.  S. 
Fernald  and  accepted. 

The  Recording  Secretary  was  instructed  to  send  a  letter  of  cordial  sym- 
pathy and  love  to  Mrs.  Raymond. 

Mr.  Randall,  Mrs.  Newman  and  Mrs.  Haskell  introduced. 

Invitations  were  n^ceived  from  Rockland  and  Houlton  for  next  Con- 
vention.    Referred  to  Executive  Committee. 

Voted  to  refer  all  unfinished  business  to  Executive  Committee.  An- 
nouncements. 

Doxology.     Adjourned. 


Convention,  Sept.  29,  Evening. 
Music. 

Scripture  reading  and  prayer  by  Mrs.  Mary  G.  Richardson,  of  Lewiston. 
Music. 

Address  by  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Livermore,  **  The  New  Aristocracy." 
Song  by  the  quartet  with  special  reference  to  Mrs.  Livermore. 
Moved  by  Mrs.  H.  J.  Bailey,  and  seconded  by  Miss  Cornelia    M.    Dow, 
that  the  Eighteenth  Annual  Convention  do  now  adjourn. 
Benediction  hymn. 
Prayer  by  Miss  S.  W.  Treworgy.     Adjourned. 


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ExECUTFV'E  Committee,  Sept.  30,  a.  m. 

Prayer  by  Mrs.  Wade. 

Minutes  of  Thursday  afternoon  and  evening  meetings  read  and  ap- 
proved. 

Mrs.  Norton  declined  to  accept  the  position  of  Superintendent  of  Purity 
Department.     Mrs.  Oscar  Holway  was  chosen  to  fill  that  position. 

The  Department  of  Mercy  was  taken  from  the  Juvenile  Work  and 
made  a  department  by  itself.  Mrs.  Clara  W.  Mumford  was  continued  as 
Superintendent  of  that  department  and  Miss  A.  C.  Bagley  chosen  to 
take  charge  of  the  Juvenile  work. 

Voted,  that  the  Treasurer  be  authorized  to  pay  Mrs.  Stevens  $200  to 
be  used  by  her  according  to  her  best  judgment  for  the  interest  of  the 
work. 

The  Committee  rose. 


MfSS^CLARA  M.  FARWELL, 

Recordivij  Secretary. 


By  especial  request  of  the  State  President  her  annual  address  is  omitted, 
to  give  more  room  for  the  reports  of  the  Superintendents  of  Departments. 


Corresponding  Secretary's  Report. 


Madam    President  and  Co-workers  : 

Our  organization  is  growing.  The  Unions  are  broadening  their  work 
and  you  will  be  glad  to  know  that  this  year  I  have  been  overwhelmed 
with  reports.  What  you  do  not  find  in  this  review  will  be  presented 
either  in  the  tabulated  statement  or  in  the  reports  of  Superintendents.  I 
shall  use  as  far  as  possible  the  words  of  the  County  Presidents  and  Sec- 
retaries, as  they  have  kept  me  informed  of  the  work. 

AxDROscoGGix  County. 

Androscoggin  County  has  eight  Unions.  Auburn  has  a  large  member- 
ship. The  special  lines  taken  up  have  been  Social  Purity,  Homes  for 
Homeless  Children  and  Benevolent  Work.  The  restaurant  at  the  State 
Fair  had  even  more  than  its  usual  amount  of  patronage,  as  did  that  one 
run  by  the  Lewiston  Union. 

The  society  organized  at  South  Durham  in  August  has  made  a  good 
beginning. 

At  Greene  more  real  work  has  been  accomplislied  the  pa*«t  year  than 
in  any  previous  one.  A  neat  hall  has  been  secured  and  fitted  up  for 
Headquartc!  s,  and  during  the  last  few  months  the  President  has  met 
every  week  with  the  young  people,  giving  them  their  temperance  instruc- 
tion and  persuading  nearly  all  of  them  to  sign  the  pledge. 

The  work  of  the  Lewiston  Union  has  been,  as  for  two  years  past,  chiefly 
for  needy  children.  In  all  thirty-four  little  ones  have  been  admitted  to 
the  Home.  The  average  number  cared  for  at  one  time  has  been  ten.  Over 
one  thousand  dollars  has  been  expended  on  this  work  ;  several  children 
have  been  placed  in  homes  by  adoption.  A  parlor  entertainment  and  a 
lawn  party  were  among  the  encouraging  helps  received  during  the  year. 
An  Easter  sale  was  held,  and  5,000  copies  of  an  ''  Easter  Bulletin,"  were 
published  by  the  President  for  free  distribution,  the  receipts  from 
advertisements  largely  increasing  the  profits. 


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At  Lisbon  work  has  revived  with  promise  of  substantial  results  this 
year.  « 

Livennore  Falls  opened  a  Reading  Room  early  in  the  year,  to  which 
the  public  had  access  every  evening  except  Sunday,  from  December  1st 
to  May.  The  Gospel  Temperance  Meetings  held  by  this  Union  were 
most  helpful. 

The  society  at  Mechanic  Falls  has  distributed  400  copies  of  Miss  Wil- 
lard*s  address  at  the  last  National  Convention,  and  reorganized  the  Loyal 
Temperance  Legion.  The  department  of  Flower  Mission  has  been  suc- 
cessfully carried  on  and  clothing  supplied  to  the  poor. 

At  Turner  the  members  of  the  Union,  though  widely  scattered,  meet 
regularly  and  take  a  course  of  reading.  They  have  made  a  specialty  of 
Temperance  Instruction  and  Sabbath  Observance. 

Akoostook  County. 

Aroostook  County  is  prospering  in  all  particulars.  There  are  twenty- 
two    Unions   doing   very   good    work  with  one  or  two  exceptions. 

Caribou  has  taken  up  Work  among  Lumbermen,  Temperance  In- 
struction, Juvenile  Work,  Franchise,  and  Social  Purity  Departments 
with  success.  A  petition  remonstrating  against  the  licensing  of  a  pool 
room  by  the  town  was  presented  with  favorable  results. 

Fort  Fairfield  devotes  the  social  hour  of  its  meeting  to  parliamentary 
drills,  discussions,  bringing  in  of  temperance  sentiments,  etc.  Several  of 
the  ladies  have  spent  an  hour  or  more  weekly  giving  temperance  instruc- 
tion in  the  village  schools  and  in  tliis  way  a  large  number  of  children  can 
be  reached. 

Hodgdon  held  a  medal  contest  with  success,  and  has  secured  most  of 
the  children  in  the  Sunday  School  to  sign  pledge  cards. 

The  Union  at  Houlton  is  strong  in  membership  and  influence.  The 
County  Convention  held  here  was  the  largest  ever  assembled  and  helped 
to  create  new  interest  in  the  Women's  Christian  Temperance  Union.  A 
great  deal  of  literature  has  been  sent  out  and  Demorest  Medal  work  taken 
up  with  very  flattering  results. 

Presque  Isle  stands  among  the  first  as  to  membership  and  work.  It 
is  the  special  aim  of  this  society  to  elevate  motherhood  by  personal  effort 
and  Mother's  Meetings. 

Aroostook  is  laying  a  good  foundation  for  the  future  in  the  work  being 
done  among  children.  At  Limestone,  Blaine,  Lin neus,  Littleton,  Monticello, 


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New  Limerick,  North  Amity,  Sprague    Mills   and    Washburn,    there   are 
prosperous  I-K)yal  Legions.  ^ 

These  societies  are  also  doing  work  along  other  lines  as  are  Ashland, 
Bridgewater  and  Crystal,  the  new  Union  at  Haynesville,  and  others. 
Danforth  and  Vanceboro  rei)ort  to  Aroostook,  although  situated  in 
Washington  County,  as  does  also  Patten.     They  are  all  active  societies. 

CUMBERLAXD    CoUNTY. 

In  Cumberland  County  among  tlic  seventeen  old  Unions  there 
has  been  no  falling  off;  all  have  done  good  work  and  in  all  ways  held 
their  own.  Portland  has  250  members.  Among  special  lines  of  work 
the  Free  Kindergarten  and  Day  Nursery  has  been  particularly  en- 
couraging as  to  results.  The  meetings  at  the  jail  are  still  kept  up  and 
literature  has  been  sent  out  through  many  avenues. 

The  society  at  South  Portland  has  been  greatly  revived.  A  strong 
Loyal  Legion  has  been  organized  and  the  Union  is  pushing  other  de- 
partments as  never  before.  Admirable  work  among  the  children  is  also 
being  done  at  Cumberland's  Mills,  Peak's  Island,  South  Windham  and 
and  Stroudwater. 

At  Westbrook  both  the  Union  and  Young  Woman's  Branch  have  done 
benevolent  work  in  clothing  needy  children  and  teaching  a  sewing  class. 

Windham  Center  has  made  the  Evangelistic  Department  its  chief  con- 
cern. The  County  (.-onvention  held  here  was  the  largest  ever  called  to- 
gether ;  it  was  royally  entertained  and  has  proved  a  help  to  the  local  and 
neighboring  Unions. 

At  Woodford's  the  Mother's  Meetings  seem  to  be   the   best  work  done. 

A  *'  pound  party,"  in  aid  of  the  Temporar}'  Home,  brought  in  over 
200  pounds  of  groceries  and  considerable  clothing.  This  Union  has  an 
original  way  of  circulating  literature — a  leaflet  is  placed  in  each  book 
sent  out  from  the  public  library.  The  ministers  of  the  place  are  fur- 
nished with  the  Union  SvjnaL 

North  Gorham  celebrated  its  first  anniversary  by  inviting  the  Unions 
in  the  vicinity  to  meet  with  it.  In  this  way  the  new  Unions  at 
White  Rock  and  North  Windham  were  greatly  strengthened  through  a 
better  knowledge  of  methods  ot  work  and  acquaintance  with  the  workers. 
There  are  also  active  auxiliaries  at  Cape  Elizabeth  and  South  Bridgton. 
The  Union  at  Brunswick  has  been  reorganized  and  one  formed  at  New 
Gloucester. 


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Franklin  County. 

Franklin  County  has  given  no  uncertain  sound  in  regard  to  Women's 
Christian  Temperance  Union  Work.  A  new  Union  has  been  organ- 
ized at  Allen's  Mills,  another  at  Rangely,  making  the  entire  number 
nine.  The  older  societies  have  increased  in  membership  and  enthu- 
siasm, owing  in  part  to  the  fact  that  every  Union  in  the  County  was 
represented  at  the  great  Convention  in  Boston  last  fall. 

The  County  Convention  at  Wilton  in  June  was  characterized  by  a 
devout  earnestness  and  harmony.  Every  Union  reported  marked  prog- 
ress '  in  all  the  lines  of  work.  A  semi-annual  re-union  was  held  in  Sep- 
tember on  the  camp-ground  at  Strong.  The  County  President  has  given 
six  public  addresses  and  conducts  the  press  work  for  the  County. 

The  Union  at  Farmington  placed  barrels  of  ice-water  on  the  streets 
the  Fourth  of  July  and  thereby  greatly  lessened  intemperance.  It  has 
found  a  new  field  in  connection  with  the  Kecley  Institute,  recently  lo- 
cated there,  and  has  raised  a  fund  of  $200  for  the  purpose  of  lending  to 
persons  who  wish  to  take  the  treatment  and  have  no  means.  All  the 
Unions  in  the  County  are  interested  in  helping  the  Institute. 

Kingfield  has  sent  out  a  large  amount  of  literature,  especially  to  lum- 
ber camps.  It  carries  on  a  Loyal  Legion,  as  do  also  Phillips  and  Wil- 
ton. The  society  at  Stratton  suffers  many  difficulties  in  holding  regu- 
lar meetings  as  some  of  the  members  are  fourteen  miles  away,  but  the 
fire  of  enthusiasm  burns  and  they  are  not  daunted.  Strong  has  been 
doing  exceedingly  well  in  the  line  of  sustaining  a  reading  room,  and  at 
Phillips  the  ladies  still  keep  up  their  interest  in  a  similar  enterprise. 

Hancock  County.  * 

Hancock  County  claims  six  auxiliaries.  There  is  a  large  society  at 
Southwest  Harbor  in  the  town  of  Tremont  and  the  County  Convention 
was  entertained  here  in  the  very  best  manner.  Not  the  least  of  this 
Union's  work  is  the  care  of  the  Loyal  Legion.  There  are  large  numbers 
of  men  engaged  in  the  numerous  quarries  in  this  County  and  a  great 
deal  of  liquor  is  sold  and  consumed.  So  the  Union  has  supplied  temper- 
ance reading  matter  to  the  men,  and  by  search  and  seizure  warrants  has 
had  some  of  the  sellers  brought  before  the  court. 

Ellsworth  has  a  Band  of  Mercy  numbering  nmety.  This  society  sub- 
scribes   liberally   to  the    Signal  and  Siar   and  in  several  departments  is. 


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doing  exceptionally  good  work.  They  have  an  opportunity  which  few 
women  of  the  State  have,  the  right  of  school  suffrage.  At  Bar  Harbor, 
Bluehill,  Hancock  and  Surry  there  are  also  societies  carrying  on  various 
lines  of  work  in  an  acceptable  manner. 

Kennebec  County. 

Kennebec  County  has  at  present  nine  Unions,  nearly  all  prosperous 
— some  exceedingly  so.  At  Augusta  the  special  work  has  been  Evan- 
gelistic. The  meetings  held  at  the  jail  and  almshouse  have  been  attend- 
ed with  most  gratifying  results.  Twicf*  the  Union  has  been  to  Togus  to 
hold  seivices  there.  The  two  Loyal  Legions,  junior  and  senior,  are  under 
the  care  of  this  Union  and  the  Young  Woman's  Branch. 

Gardiner  has  done  excellently  in  the  line  of  sending  out  litera  ture  and 
keeping  wall  pockets  in  public  places  well  supplied.  An  interesting 
Demorest  contest  was  held.  In  the  line  of  Juvenile  Work  also  this 
Union  is  active,  as  is  the  Hallowell  Union.  There  is  a  flourishing  Young 
Woman's  Branch  here.  Every  year  a  Christmas  dinner  is  given  to  the 
needy  in  the  city. 

The  society  at  Monmouth  is  very  energetic.  Gospel  Temj^erance 
meetinj::s  have  been  held  everv  month.  A  s'if!i?ient  amDunt  of  money 
was  raised  and  a  man  who  wished  to  reform  was  sent  to  the  Keeley 
Listitute  at  Farmington. 

Winthrop  carries  on  work  in  twenty- two  departments.  There 
are  two  Loyal  Legions  here,  one  at  the  Center,  the  other  at  the  village. 

The  Union  has  endeavored  to  have  the  Sabbath  laws  enforced.  The 
Unions  at  China,  South  China,  ^'assalboro  and  North  Vassalboro  are 
doing  well.     There  is  a  new  Union  at  Clinton. 

Knox  Count  v. 

Knox  County  has  a  list  of  eight  auxiliaries.  At  Rockland  the  elder 
Union  and  the  Young  W^oman's  Branch  are  both  strong.  Special  lines  of 
work  have  been  engaged  in  with  most  satisfactory  results,  j)articularly  that 
of  Temperance  Instruction  in  Schools. 

Thomaston  conducts  helpful  services  at  the  prison  and  has  in  charge  a 
fine  Loyal  Legion. 

The  Union  at  Spruce  Head  also  takes  up  Juvenile  work  with  success. 
Union  and  Warren  seem  to  have  made  public  temperance  meetings  the 
chief  feature  of  work.     The  former  held  one  every   Sunday   of  the   year. 


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Union  also  entertained  the  County  Convention  in  a  most  hospitable  man- 
ner. The  reports  from  Camden  and  Rockport  show  that  the  women 
have  not  been  idle  there. 

Lincoln  County. 

Lincoln  County  has  six  auxiliaries.  The  society  at  Waldoboro  is  large 
and  meets  at  headquarters  nicely  located  and  furnished.  One  of  the 
best  managed  Loyal  Legions  in  the  State  is  in  charge  of  this  Union.  The 
County  Convention  was  held  here  and  a  review  showed  that  much  had 
been  done.  The  aim  of  the  County  President  is  to  establish  reading 
rooms,  loan  libraries  and  Loyal  Legions  in  every  Union,  in  order  to  lay  a 
strong  foundation  stone  in  educating  young  people. 

The  society  at  Bremen  has  a  good  juvenile  band,  and  there  are  auxilia- 
ries at  Round  Pond,  East  Jefferson  and  Dresden  Mills  working  in  lines 
adapted  to  their  respective  needs. 

Oxford  County. 

Oxford  County  has  seven  Unions,  most  of  them  small  as  to  num- 
bers, but  doing  each  its  part  to  help  make  the  grand  total  of  member- 
ship and  work.  The  principal  branches  carried  on  by  the  societies  at 
Brownfield,  Hiram  and  West  Paris  are  Sabbath  School,  Sabbath  Obser- 
vance, Temperance  Instruction  in  Schools,  and  Narcotics. 

Norway  has  raised  a  good  sum  of  money  to  expend  in  work  and  has 
furnished  the  public  with  excellent  lectures  and  sent  out  a  quantity  of 
literature.  Oxford  is  an  active  society ;  it  has  put  most  of  its  energy  into 
charitable  work.     Mothers'  Meetings   are  held  with  profit. 

The  Union  at  South  Paris  does  not  report,  but  the  Young  Woman's 
Branch  does  and  shows  an  encouraging  condition  of  affairs.  They  have 
a  Loyal  Legion  of  which  they  may  well  be  proud. 

Penobscot  C-ounty. 

Penobscot  County  has  nineteen  auxiliaries,  having  organized  nine 
the  past  year.  Some  of  these  new  Unions  though  in  the  country 
with  members  living  many  miles  apart,  have  done  good  work,  and  give 
promise  of  great  usefulness. 

Bangor  Union  rejoices  in  n'^w  members  and  a  good  year's  work.  Be- 
sides a  series  of  ten  meetings  held  by  John  Wooley,  parlor  meetings  and 
three  Demorest  contests  have  been  held  and  much  literature  distributed. 

Bangor  Crusade  holds  gospel  meetings  ever}'  Sabbath  afternoon  and 
services  of  great  interest  are  held  at   the  jail.     A   Christmas   tree   with. 


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gifts  for  one  hundred  children  is  provided  each  year,  often  opening  the 
way  to  reach  the  parents*  hearts.  Dexter  has  received  a  welcome  in- 
crease in  membership  during  the  year,  and  has  done  good  work  in 
Temperance  Instruction,  Literature  and  other  Departments.  Orono  has 
had  two  Demorest  contests,  put  temperance  text-books  into  the  schools, 
and  is  about  to  ojKjn  a  free  library. 

Plymouth  has  heli>cd  poor  families,  sent  out  reading  matter  to  sailors, 
and  been  active  in  several  other  lines  of  good  work. 

Hampden  has  done  alms-house  visiting,  sent  clothing  to  a  southern 
school,  aided   the  i)oor  at  home  and  in  many  ways  lent  a  helping  hand. 

C'orinna  has  grown  in  numbers  and  strength,  has  held  three  Demorest 
contests. 

Stillwater  has  supplied  lumber  camps  and  wall  pockets  with  temper- 
ance reading  matter. 

Kenduskeag  has  doubled  its  membership  sin^e  organizing,  less  than  a 
year  ago. 

The  Unions  at  Dixmont,  Winn  and  Mattawamkeag,  though  recently 
formed,  have  begun  work  with  much  earnestness.  The  latter  is  spec- 
ially interested  in  the  Good  Will  Farm.  There  are  also  auxiliaries  at 
Charleston,  East  Corinth,  Medway,  Lincoln,  Patten,  Springfield  and 
Veazie. 

Piscataquis  County. 

There  are  six  Unions  in  Piscataquis  County,  no  new  ones  having 
been  organized  the  last  year ;  but  as  five  of  these  were  formed  the  pre- 
vious year  they  arc  new  in  the  work.  They  have  all  increased  in 
numbers  and  taken  up  new  departments.  All  have  had  one  or 
more  lectures,  besides  temperance  concerts.  Literature  is  circulated 
quite  generally  from  the  Unions,  especially  at  Greenville,  Dover 
and  Fox  croft  to  lumber  camps.  Greenville  has  a  Loyal  Temperance 
Legion.  Shirley  also  is  doing  Juvenile  Work.  The  Guilford  Union  se- 
cured a  W.  C.  T.  U.  column  in  the  paper  published  there  and  keeps  it 
well  filled.  Four  Unions  on  the  line  of  the  railroad  have  wall  pockets  in 
stations.  Milo  and  Brownville  carry  on  several  departments.  The  work 
of  the  Dover  and  Foxcroft  Union  has  been  chiefly  to  push  County  work, 
using  the  funds  in  the  treasur)'  for  that  purpose.  So  while  no  new  so- 
cieties have  been  formed  this  year  the  seed  has  been  planted  which  will 
perhaps  in  the  future  bear  fruit  in  new  Unions  and  much  good. 


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Sagadahoc  County. 

In  Sagadahoc  County  there  are  auxiliaries  at  Bath  and  Popham  Beach. 
Bath  has  assisted  the  Law  and  Order  League  in  its  efforts  to  enforce  law 
and  has  united  with  them  in  securing  four  of  the  best  Women's  Chris- 
tian Temperance  Union  lecturers  for  the  bi-monthly  mass  meetings.  In 
July  our  President  of  the  State  Union  attended  the  annual  County  Con- 
vention held  here,  it  being  the  last  one  of  fifteen  at  which  she  had  been 
present  since  the  year  began.  Though  no  new  departments  have  been 
taken  up  there  has  been  more  thorough  work  done  than  ever  before,  and 
the  Union  has  gained  in  membership.  A  large  amount  of  literature  was 
distributed  at  the  County  Fair  and  at  other  places.  In  August  a  suc- 
cessful lawn  party  was  given,  and  the  19th  of  this  month  a  silver  medal 
contest  was  held,  which  was  another  success.  The  Loyal  Legion  meets 
regularly  in  the  different  churches  and  in  mass  meetings. 

The  society  at  Popham  Beach  carries  on  several  departments  with 
gratifying  results ;  nearly  every  member  is  ready  to  work.  There  is  now 
building  a  church  which  the  Women's  Christian  Temperance  Union 
started  the  first  year  of  its  existence  by  laying  down  one  dollar  as  *'  a  cor- 
ner stone."  This  was  by  and  by  made  $200  by  efforts  of  the  Union, 
until  now  sufficient  enthusiasm  has  been  aroused  to  form  a  church  or- 
ganization. This  Union  has  held  fifty -two  gospel  temperance  meetings 
and  has   begun  a  series  of  temperance  sociables. 

Somerset  County. 

In  Somerset  County  are  ten  auxiliaries  each  making  a  record  ac- 
cording to  its  respective  opportunities.  The  societies  at  St.  Albans  and 
East  St.  Albans  have  perhaps  done  most  in  the  line  of  sending  out 
literature.  East  St.  Albans,  North  New  Portland,  and  North  Anson 
each  have  flourishing  juvenile  societies.  The  Union  at  Madison  is  wide- 
awake. Several  branches  of  work  are  profitably  carried  on.  This  Union 
contributed  to  the  Easter  sale  at  Lewiston  in  aid  of  the  Day  Nursery. 

Pittsfield,  although  a  newly-organized  society,  has  made  its  influence 
for  good  felt  in  the  town. 

There  are  also  auxiliaries  at  New  Portland,  Fairfleld  Shawmut  and 
Ripley,  the  last  organized  Sept.  7. 

Waldo  County. 

In  Waldo  County  there  are  three  Unions — the  largest  is  at  Belfast. 
This  society  has  held  eleven  Demorest  contests  and  has   carried   on   work 


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faithfully  in  twelve  departments ;  food  and  clothing  have  been  gjiven  to 
the  poor.  A  nice  room  for  headquarters  has  been  rented  and  furnished, 
and  not  the  least  of  all  the  ladies  from  the  Union  have  organized  a 
Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union  in  the  town  of  Waldo  which 
promises  well. 

In  Searsmont  there  is  a  little  company  of  women  who  do  what  lies  in 
their  power  to  help  on  the  work.  They  entertained  the  County  Conven- 
tion in  a  very  satisfactory  manner. 

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Washington  County  now  numbers  fifteen  Unions.  Cherryfield  is  the 
most  progressive  of  all ;  work  in  many  departments  has  been  done  with 
grand  results. 

Harrington  is  steadily  increasing  in  numbers  and  activity.  The  County 
Convention  was  held  here  in  June  and  the  report  showed  that  more  w*ork 
had  been  done  than  any  previous  year.  The  Convention  caused  a  quick- 
ening of  interest  throughout  the  community  and  twenty-one  members 
were  added  as  a  result.  Calais  is  in  a  pros])erous  condition,  though  only 
a  year  old.  A  good  deal  has  already  been  accomplished.  Legal  work  is 
being  pushed  and  a  number  of  prosecutions  liave  been  made. 

Kastport  is  doing  excellently  in  the  Juvenile  and  Literature  Depart- 
ments. A  large  number  of  names  were  added  to  the  World's  petition^ 
and  temperance  sentiment  is  growing. 

The  societv  at   Machias   is   small,   but    lias    some  earnest    and  faithful 

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workers.      Press  work  is  esj)ecially  well  conducted. 

The  auxiliary  at  Kast  Machias  is  wide-awake,  and  is  keeping  pace  with 
the  work  done  in  the  Countv.  Pembroke,  Lubec.  Columbia  Falls, 
Jonesport.  Addison  Point  and  Steuben  have  not  been  idle  during  the 
tlie  year,  but  have  accomplished  good  results  along  various  lines.  Mill- 
bridge  is  just  organized. 

York  County. 

York  County  has  twelve  Unions,  some  of  them  doing  really  good  work, 
others  showing  great  lack  of  earnestness.  Four  have  been  organized  this 
year.  South  Berwick  Young  Woman\s  Branch  and  Unions  at  iSpring- 
vale,  Sanford  and  Groveville. 

Every  town  in  the  County  has  been  urged  by  the  County  i^resident  to 
use  the  endorsed  text-books  and  to  tr}*  to  have  the    Temperance   Instruc- 


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tion  Law  enforced.  An  effort  is  being  made  to  work  through  the  Grange 
in  promoting  the  cause  of  temperance  by  circulating  the  pledge  and  by 
discouraging  the  manufacture  of  cider. 

East  Parsonsfield  has  a  very  successful  Juvenile  Society.  The  new 
Union  at  Springvale  has  opened  a  reading  room  for  young  men,  and  has 
petitioned  and  received  a  promise  from  the  selectmen  that  they  will  not 
license  pool  rooms  nor  permit  a  liquor  agency. 

Lebanon  has  done  excellently  in  the  Social  Purity,  Literature,  Tem- 
perance Instruction  and  Systematic  Giving  Departments  and  has  a  very 
promising  Loyal  Legion.  Cornish  has  given  special  attention  to  the 
study  of  parliamentary  law,  served  a  dinner  to  the  Grand  Army  Post  on 
Memorial  Day,  sent  a  quantity  of  literature  to  the  Sailors'  Library,  and 
has  furnished  several  hundred  garments  and  a  large  amount  of  food  to 
the  sick  and  destitute.  It  has  done  some  work  in  nearly  every  depart- 
ment. The  auxiliary  at  Biddeford  is  small  in  proportion  to  the  size  of 
the  city.  The  most  encouraging  results  have  been  secured  through  the 
faithful  work  of  the  Superintendent  of  the  Evangelistic  Department. 
The  society  at  Saco  i^  large  and  has  done  well  in  several  departments, 
attaining  its  most  satisfactory  results  in  the  line  of  Literature,  Press  and 
Evangelistic  Work. 

Kennebunk  has  a  pleasant  room  for  headquarters.  A  sewing  school  of 
about  one  hundred  has  been  carried  on  and  some  comforters  made  by  the 
children  sent  to  the  Home  in  Portland.  The  County  Convention  was 
nicely  entertained  here  in  the  spring.  Contributions  of  fancy  articles 
were  sent  to  the  Easter  Sale  at  Lewiston  in  aid  of  the  Day  Nursery. 

There  is  an  enterprising  society  at  South  Berwick.  Copies  of  the 
Sunday  Law  were  posted  all  over  town.  Through  the  influence  of  the 
Union  a  club  room  where  gambling  and  Sabbath  desecration  went  on 
was  closed  up.  The  representative  of  the  Woman's  Temperance  Publica- 
tion Association  has  visited  from  house  to  house  and  sold  many  dollars* 
worth  of  literature. 

The  tabulated  statement  will  show  that  Unions  throughout  the  State 
have  done  very  well  in  regard  to  circulating  literature,  holding  public  and 
gospel  temperance  meetings,  and  in  carrying  on  other  departments  of  work. 
When  access  to  the  columns  of  the  press  has  been  obtained,  the  oppor- 
tunity is  promptly  accepted.  Quite  liberal  contributions  have  been  made 
to  the  tablets  for  Temperance  Temple  in  Chicago.     We  have  as  in  fonwet 


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years  called  into  service  the  best  speakers  in  our  State  and  Nation  to  be 
heard  at  our  public  meetings,  conventions  and  Summer  School  of  Methods. 
In  the  aggregate  the  work  of  our  Unions  makes  a  grand  showing.  Even 
the  smallest  and  feeblest  Union  is  a  '*  leaven/*  for  there  is  sure  to  be  at 
least  one  woman  in  it  who  has  in  her  soul  a  spark  of  the  divine  fire,  and 
in  her  little  circle  of  influence  she  will  speak  some  helpful  word  or  do 
some  earnest  work  which  will  broaden  our  borders  and  make  the  world  a 
better  place. 

SARAH  L.  CRAM, 

Corresponding  Secretary. 


Treasurer's  Report. 


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Rbciipts  1891-1892. 

Cb. 
By  cash  Iwlance,  Oct.  21,  '91,  $542  76 

"  Stock,  W.  T.  P.  A.,  100  00 

DlTldcDd  on  stock,  4  50 

UoUeotions  at  Convent  Ion  and  offer- 
lues  for  Willard  Picture,  108  38 

From  Mrs.  Harvey,  67  00 

Lady  Somerset's  lecture,  317  W 

Kent  of  rooms  at  New  Headquarters, 

160  Free  f»t.,  435  62 

Freewill  offerings  : 

Sbawmut,  2  00 

Rockland,  10  75 

Orono,  3  00 

Bangor,  6  00 

Bath.  15  75 

Popbam  Beach,  6  00 

Minutes  sold, 

<'ook  books  and  photogravures. 

School  of  Methods. 

Collection  Ocean  Park, 

Self  denial  fund, 

"  World's  •«     ♦* 
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For  Tempeaau'^e  Temple, 
Dues  from  local  Unions, 


48  60 

21  84 

60 

101  35 

11  87 

3  00 

4  25 
3  00 

1,241  U5 


$2,906  66 


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expenses  of  Convention  and  Willard 

picture. 
Printing  and  mailing  Minutes, 
Postage  of  State  President, 
Rent  of  old  Headquarters  and  Head. 

quarters  expenses, 
Stationery  and  printing. 
Redeem  pledges  to  National  W.  C. 

T.  U., 
Lettering  banner. 
Telegrams  and  express, 
Slate  Superintendentii, 
Literature  Department, 
Appropriation  for  State  work. 
Meeting  at  Fryeburg, 
Miss  Kimball  at  Togus, 
Mrs.  Barney  at  Thomaston, 
W.  C.  T.  U.  day  at  Ocean  Park, 
School  of  Metl^ods, 
Expenses  (Corresponding  Secretary, 
Toward  Treasurer's  postage. 
Due  Auburn   printer   on    '*  Star," 

Oct.  21, 1891, 
Advertising  Lady  Somerset's  lect- 
ure. Lewlston, 
Legal  papers,  insurance  and  inter- 
est   on    New    Headquarters,   150 
Free  street, 
Running  expenses  New  Headquar- 
ters, 
Paid  for  furniture  and  repairs. 
Sent  World's  W.  C.  T.  U.  fund. 
Temperance  Temple  " 

Dues  to  National  Treasurer,  1891, 

1892. 


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$189  52 

162  77 

200  00 

93  36 

20  75 

30  00 

I  00 

95 

69  55 

28  25 

200  00 

14  25 

9  00 

15  90 

16  30 

98  35 

29  61 

20  00 

32  48 

4  50 

229  65 

141  57 

589  40 

4  25 

3  00 

9  20 

413  68 

"  Balance  stock  in  W.  T.  P.  A., 
"  Cash  on  hand. 


$2,627  19 
100  00 
2t*9  47 

$2,996  66 


By  1100  subscriptions  at  25  cts.  each 
'*  Advertisements  and  copies  sold, 
*'  By  stock  on  hand. 


Star  in  the  East. 
From  October  21,  1891,  to  September  28,  1892. 

Cb. 


$277  5<) 
409  12 


Db. 


"  Paper  priotiog  and  mailing  49,600 

papers,  and  22,500  supplements,     $479  37 


13  00    "  Cash  to  balance. 


$699  62 


220  26 


$699  62 

NBT  CASH  ON  HAND. 

From  "  star  in  the  Sast," 

$220  25 

**   General  treasury, 

269  47 

September  28,  1892. 


Total  cash  balance,  $489  72 

E.  M.  BLANCHARD.   Treasurer, 


I  have  examined  the  above  report  and  find  it  correct.  * 


S.  P.  SMITH,  Auditor. 


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Dl'KS   FROM    LOCAL   UNIONS. 

Androscoggin  County  :  Auburn,  $30.00;  Cireene,  $8.10;  Lewiston,  530.30; 
Jjvermore  Falls,  15.00;  Lisbon,  $6.00;  Mechanic  Falls,  $16.50; 
Sabattus,  S6.00;   South  Durham,  8. 10;  Turner,  58.1  o  5128  10 

Aroostook  County :  Amity,  $4.50;  Ashland,  $3.60;  HIaine,  $14.40;  Bridge- 
water,  J7.80;  Caribou,  $15.00:  Crystal,  S3.00;  Dyer  Brook,  $3.60; 
Fort  Fairfield,  $18.00;  Houlton,  $22.50;  Hodgdon,  $7.80;  Haynesville, 
$5.10;  Linneus,  $3.60;  Liitleion,  $9.00;  M onticello,  $4.80;  New  Lime- 
rick, ^^9.30;  Presque  Isle,  $21.60;  Sprague's  Mills,  $9.00;  Sherman's 
Mills,  $7.50;   Washburn,  $7.50.  177  60 

Cumberland  County:  Cumberland  Mills,  $10.80;  Cape  Elizabeth,  S5.00; 
Brunswick,  $9.00;  Deering,  Woodford's,  $11.40;  Portland,  $75,00; 
Portland  V.,  $3.90;  Peak's  Island,  $7.05;  Stroudwater,  $8.10;  South 
Bridgton,  $3.00;  South  Windham,  $7.50;  North  Windham,  $9.00; 
North  (iorham,  $10.20;  New  Ciloucester,  $3.30;  Westbrook.  $3.00; 
Westbrook  Y.,  $11.10;   Windham  Center,  $11.40;   White  Rock,  $1.50.       19025 

Franklin  County:  Allen's  Mills,  $3.30;  Farmington,  $9.00;  KingHeld, 
$12.00;  North  Jay,  $4.00;  Phillips,  S5. 70;  Rangeley,  $4.20;  Strong, 
$5.40;   Stratton^  $5.10;   Wilton,  $7.50.  56  20 

Hancock  County :    Bar  Harbor,  $7.00;    Ellsworth,  $5.50;    Franklin,  $2.50; 

South  Hancock,  $4.20;   South  West  Harbor,  $21.00;   Surr\',  $2.70.  42  90 

Kennebec  County:  Augusta,  S15.00;  Augusta  V.,  $15.00;  China,  $6.60; 
Clinton,  S3. 60;  Hallowell,  $5.00;  Monmouth,  $7.20;  North  Vassal- 
boro,  $2.40;  South  Gardiner,  $6.00;  South  China,  $7.20;  Vassalboro, 
^3-v50;  WMnthrop  C^entre,  $15.00.  86  30 

Knox  County:  Rocklan<l,  $23.00;  Rockland  Y.,  $6.50;  Rockport,  $4.80; 
Spruce  Head,  $4.80;  Thomaston,  $12.00;  Union,  $18.00;  W^arren, 
$7.80.  76  90 

Lincoln  County:    Bremen,  S3.30;    Dresden  Mills.  $2.40;    EsiSt  Jefferson, 

$4.50;   Newcastle,  $3.00;    Roun<l  I'ond,  $9.60;    Waldoboro,  $22.50.  45  30 

Oxford  County:  East  BrownheKI,  $3.00;  East  Hiram,  $4.80;  Norway, 
$6.30;  Oxford,  $7.50;  South  Paris,  $7.50;  South  l^aris  Y.,  $1.80;  W'cst 
Paris,  $3.90.  34  80 

Penobscot  County:  Bangor,  $13.20;  Bangor  Crusade,  $11.90;  Corinna, 
$3.60;  Charleston,  $5.10;  Dexter,  $13.20;  Dixmont,  $5.10;  East 
Corinth,  $6.30;  Hampden  Corner,  $3.30;  Kenduskeag,  $8.10;  Lincoln, 
S5.10;  Mattawamkeag,  $8.70;  Patten,  $7.50;  Plymouth,  $9.60;  Still- 
water, $4.80;   Winn,  $3.30.  108  80 

Piscataquis 'County  :  Brownville,  $4.50;  Dover  and  Foxcroft,  $7.80;  Green- 
ville, $3.00;   Milo,  $3.30;  Shirley,  $5.40.  24  00 

Somerset  County:  East  St.  Albans,  $6.60;  ?'airfield,  $11.40;  Madison, 
$13.80;  North  Anson,  $4.80;  New  Portland,  $2.70;  North  New 
Portland,  $3.60;  Pittsfield.  $7.50;  St.  Albans,  $3.90;  Shawmut,  $3.90; 
Ripley,  $3.30.  60  70 

Sagadahoc  County :  Bath,  $16.20;   Popham  Beach,  $7.50.  23  70 

Waldo  County:  Belfast,  $12.30  North  Searsmont,  $2. 10;   Waldo,  $3.00.  1740 

Washington  County :  Addison  Point,  $6.00;  Cherry  field,  $16.80;  Columbia 
Falls,  $8.25;  Calais,  $12.90;  Danforth,  $6.30;  Eastport,  $6.00;  East 
Machias,  $2.40;  Harrington,  $16.50;  Jonesport,  $2.40;  Lubec,  $2.40; 
Pembroke,  $4-50;  Steuben,  $3.00;  Vanceboro,  $6.00.  93  45 

York  County:  Biddeford,  $8.10;  Cornish,  $7.50;  Grovevillc,  $2.40;  East 
Parsonsfiehl,  $2.70;  Kennebuok,  $8.40;  Old  Orchard,  $3.15;  Saco, 
$11.40;  South  Berwick,  ^.40;  Y.  Branch,  South  Berwick,  $3.90; 
Springvalc,  $13.50;  West  Lebanon,  $4.20.  73  65 

Two  members  at  large,  i  00 

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Systematic  Giving. 


As  this  movement  has  been  but  recently  introduced  into  the  Union,  the 
vfoik  is  still  in  its  infancy  and  largely  initiatory  in  its  character.  The 
absence  also  of  the  Superintendent  of  the  department  during  a  part  of  the 
Autumn  and  Winter  months  tended  to  delay  the  work  for  a  time. 

Distribution  of  literature  pertaining  to  systematic  giving  has  been  an 
important  feature  in  the  work  thus  far.  In  addition  to  this  we  wish  to 
bring  the  subject  more  generally  before  the  people  through  sermons, 
addresses,  talks,  etc.  Through  the  co-operation  of  County  Superintendents 
I  am  confident  much  blessing  will  result  from  this  effort,  although  the  good 
work  may  seem  to  progress  but  slowly  at  first. 

Androscoggin — Miss  Mary  E.  Perkins,  Superintendent,  reports  that  the 
subject  has  been  faithfully  kept  before  all  the  Unions  of  this  county.  Lit- 
erature has  been  distributed  and  letters  occasionally  sent,  urging  the 
importance  of  the  work.  Department  leaflets  by  Esther  Tuttle  Pritchard, 
our  National  Superintendent  of  Systematic  Giving,  have  been  sent  out  to 
all  locals.  These  leaflets  have  also  been  given  to  pastors  with  the  request 
that  they  would  speak  upon  the  subject.  Three  Unions  in  this  county 
have  Superintendents  and  are  prepared  to  go  forward  in  the  work. 

These  Unions  represent  one  hundred  and  twenty  nine  families ;  eighty 
of  them  have  been  supplied  with  literature.  Quite  a  number  of  their 
members  practice  this  method  in  giving ;  returns  do  not  state  how  many. 
The  Superintendent  writes  :  '*  I  intend  to  push  this  work  more  vigorously 
another  year.  I  have  suggested  that  we  make  each  of  our  departments 
more  prominent  in  our  Union  meetings,  bringing  out  all  the  information 
respecting  its  work  that  we  can.  I  know  He  wants  this  work  to  prosper 
so  I  keep  on  praying  and  working  as  opportunity  off*ers.  I  do  not  confine 
myself  lo  the  Union  but  try  to  reach  all  wherever  I  go."  We  want  to 
say,  work  on,  faithful  s'ster ;  the  Lord  bless  thee  and  crown  all  thy  labor 
with  His  blessing. 


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Aroostook — Miss  Hattie  Mayo  is  Superintendent.  During  the  County 
Convention  held  in  Houlton  in  June,  a  special  meeting  was  appointed  to 
consider  the  work  of  this  department.  Literature  was  dispensed  to  Super- 
intendents, and  information,  together  with  printed  helps  given  to  those  who 
desired  to  become  better  informed,  and  an  appeal  was  made  that  they  take 
up  the  work  in  earnest  the  coming  year.  Thus  through  the  timely  activity 
of  their  Superintendent,  the  work  was  brought  prominently  before  those 
attending  the  Convention,  and  much  help  and  encouragement  were  given 
to  the  workei*s.  Eight  Unions  in  this  County  are  organized  for  the  work. 
Six  of  these  report  one  hundred  and  sixty-four  families ;  one  hundred  and 
five  supplied  with  literature.  The  Superintendent  writes  :  '*  I  am  sure 
much  more  literature  has  been  distributed  than  stated,  but  I  can  only  give 
the  figures  given  me."  Thirty-eight  persons  practice  proportionate  giving. 
Seven  meetings  have  been  held  in  the  interest  of  the  department,  and 
eight  sermons  and  addresses  delivered  on  the  subject. 

Similar  reports  from  other  counties,  where  the  work  has  already  been 
taken  \ip,  show  that  the  subject  has  been  faithfully  presented  to  local 
Unions,  and  in  each  of  these  counties  a  number  of  Unions  are  doing  good 
work. 

We  have  County  Superintendents  in  Androscoggin,  Aroostook,  Cumber- 
land, Hancock,  Kennebec,  Sagadahoc,  Somerset  and  York.  Some  other 
counties  are  prepared  to  choose  Superintendents.  Others  have  the  subject 
under  favorable  consideration.  We  rejoice  in  the  belief  that  this  cause  is 
claiming  the  earnest  attention  of  our  women  in  Maine  as  never  before  and 
that  soon  our  entire  State  will  be  organized  for  the  work. 

In  attempting  to  present  the  work  of  this  newly-created  Department  I 
am  forcibly  reminded  of  the  words  expressed  years  ago  by  the  noted  Dr. 
Bushnell,  who  declared  :  '*The  great  problem  now  on  hand  is  the  Chris- 
tianizing of  the  money  power  of  the  world.  Wliat  we  wait  for  and  look 
hopefully  to  see  is  the  consecration  of  the  vast  money  power  of  the  world 
to  the  cause  and  kingdom  of  Jesus  Christ." 

Do  we  not  all  heartily  re-echo  his  words  to-day  r  And  what  a  thrilling 
inspiration  it  sliould  be  to  every  White  Kibboner  to  realize  that  in 
accepting  and  advocating  the  claims  of  ])roi)ortionatc  givini;  she 
practically  aids  in  the  accomplishment  of  this  grand  purpose — the  con- 
secration of  the  world's  vast  money  power  to  Christ.  God  has  wonderfully 
blessed  the  Christian  nations  of  the  world.     With  the  gift  of  the  Gospel 


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He  has  also  bestowed  upon  them  resources  of  immense  wealth.  Even  to 
(>hrist*s  avowed  followers  alone  He  has  entrusted,  in  the  aggreprate,  vast 
treasure.  And  yet  the  one  great  hindrance  in  carrying  forward  His  own 
work  to-day  is  the  lack  of  consecrated  means — means  set  apart  unto  the 
Lord. 

We  are  told  that  there  are  forty  billions  of  dollars  in  the  coffers  of 
American  and  British  Christians  alone,  who  are  giving  annually  only  about 
twelve  millions  to  carry  the  Gospel  to  one  thousand  millions  of  people. 
In  this  great  financial  failure  on  the  part  of  Christ's  church  to  meet  her 
indebtedness  to  His  cause,  while  the  coffers  of  Christendom  are  full,  we 
realize  how  sadly  God  is  robbed — robbed  **  in  tithes  and  offerings,''  which, 
if  faithfully  rendered  unto  Him,  would  supply  His  treasur}'  with  abundant 
means  to  carry  on  His  own  great  work. 

Throughout  the  Bible  we  are  taught  the  principle  of  Divine  ownership 
and  human  stewardship,  and  that  therefore  the  money  we  possess  is  not  to 
be  spent  wholly  in  selfish  interests.  We  hold  it  only  in  tnist  for  Him  who 
has  said  **  The  silver  is  mine  and  the  gold  is  mine."  If  we  accept  the 
teaching  of  Scripture  in  relation  to  the  use  of  money,  and  honor  God's 
method  of  rendering  unto  Him,  we  shall  surely  be  led  into  proportionate 
giving, — laying  by  us  in  store  for  the  Lord  continually  according  as  He 
hath  prospered  us.  And  the  blessing  which  invariably  follows  obedience 
to  His  will  is  always  sure  to  follow.  Thousands  of  Christians  arc  able  to 
testify  that  in  the  practice  of  systematic  or  proportionate  giving  they  find 
great  peace  and  delight  and  an  increase  of  spiritual  and  temporal  pros- 
perity. 

In  conclusion,  dear  sisters,  I  would  affectionately  ask  that  this  impor- 
tant subject  of  world-wide  interest  continue  to  receive  your  honest  and 
most  prayerful  consideration.  And  may  the  constraining  love  of  Christ  so 
fill  our  hearts  that  ere  long  the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union 
of  Maine  shall  present  one  solid  phalanx  battling  for  this  great  reform 
upon  which  so  largely  depends  the  success  of  all  other  reforms  and  all 
Christian  enterprise. 

"  Sits  He  not  against  the  treasury? 
( >pen  I     ( >pen  hearts  and  hands  I 
And  as  surely  His  he^t  l)lessings 
Will  o'ertlow  all  hearts,  all  lands." 

ANNA  M.  HUSSEY, 

Statt:  Sujtt.  Dept.  of  SifMeniatir  Uirnn^, 


Peace  and  Arbitration. 


Literature  has  been  distributed  at  several  conventions.  Tracts  have  been 
sent  to  the  Maine  General  Hospital.  A  letter,  showing  the  evil  influences 
resulting  from  Boys*  Brigades  was  sent  to  a  clergyman  in  one  of  our  cities 
who,  in  one  of  his  sermons,  spoke  in  praise  of  the  Boys*  Brigade  in  con- 
nection with  Sabbath  School  work.  A  letter  was  sent  by  our  National 
Superintendent  to  the  chairman  of  the  Board  of  Education  of  Portland, 
asking  that  board  to  give  a  negative  answer  to  the  petition  of  the  girls 
of  the  High  School,  asking  permission  to  be  formed  into  a  ladies*  military 
company.     Their  petition  was  not  granted. 

Articles  have  been ,  written  for  the  press.  One  hundred  addresses  of 
clergymen,  local  Peace  Snperintendents  and  others  have  been  sent  to  the 
editor  of  the  Advocate  of  Peace^  who  has  sent  that  excellent  paper  to 
these  addresses.  Easter  souvenirs  given  by  Mrs.  H.  J.  Bailey,  the  World's 
Superintendent  of  this  department,  have  been  sent  to  local  Superintend- 
ents and  others. 

North  Anson  reports  literature  distributed,  two  sermons  preached  and 
one  lecture  delivered.  Literature  has  been  distributed  at  Cumberland 
Mills.  Mechanic  Falls  reports  one  copy  of  the  Acorn  taken.  A  peace 
petition  has  been  circulated.  North  Searsmont  reports  no  direct  work. 
Literature  has  been  given  out,  and  the  subject  has  received  attention  from 
the  pulpit,  the  press,  and  in  ordinary  conversation.  Broad  Cove  reports 
literature  distributed.  At  Green's  Corner  literature  has  been  distributed 
and  six  sermons  preached  in  the  interest  of  peace.  At  Plymouth  a  few 
pages  of  peace  tracts  have  been  distributed. 

Waldoboro  reports  fifty  leaves  of  literature  distributed.  The  peace  peti- 
tion sent  out  by  the  American  Peace  Society  has  been  circulated.  The 
press  has  been  utilized  for  the  cause  in  a  general  way.  In  answer  to  the 
question  *'  Has  your  Union  subscribed  to  the  Pacific  Banner  for  its  own 
use  or  for  any  clergyman,  reading  room,  library  or  railroad  station  ? "  the 
Superintendent  reports  **  fifty  copies."  Vassal boro  has  placed  peace  liter- 
ature in  the  railroad  depot. 


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One  copy  of  the  Pacific  Banner  is  taken  at  Machias.  One  peace  ser- 
mon has  been  preached,  and  a  few  articles  sent  to  the  Machias  Union  for 
publication.  Tracts  have  been  distributed.  St.  Albans  reports  a  *' goodly 
number*'  of  peace  tracts  given  away.  Twelve  copies  of  the  Acorn  are 
taken  at  Turner.  The  Superintendent  writes  :  '*  The  Haddock's  Testi- 
mony is  still  being  passed  from  house  to  house."  A  paper  covered  book 
that  can  stand  a  constant  circulation  for  over  a  year  is  certainly  a  com- 
mendable missionary.  South  Windham  has  accomplished  a  little  work  in 
this  department,  and  is  planning  work  for  the  future. 

China  has  introduced  the  Acorn  into  school.  Fifty  pages  of  tracts  have 
been  distributed.  One  public  peace  meeting  has  been  held.  One  sermon 
has  been  preached  in  the  interest  of  the  department.  Cherryfield  has  just 
appointed  a  new  superintendent.  She  writes  :  **  I  am  very  much  inter- 
ested and  willing  to  do  all  I  can."  Popham  Beach  has  introduced  the 
Acorn  into  Sunday  School  Five  copies  of  the  Banner  are  taken.  Two 
hundred  leaves  of  peace  tracts  have  been  distributed.  Three  peace  ser- 
mons have  been  preached.  South  China  reports  1,500  pages  of  peace 
tracts  distributed.  One  copy  of  the  Banner  is  taken.  One  peace  sermon 
has  been  preached,  and  the  Acorn  has  been  introduced  into  the  Sunday 
School. 

Th^  report  of  the  North  New  Portland  Union  has  been  sent  by  the 
Superintendent  of  Somerset  County,  who  has  secured  seven  local  Superin- 
tendents out  of  the  ten  Unions.  She  says  :  **  There  has  been  some  litera- 
ture circulated.  The  first  Sabbath  in  June  was  observ^ed  as  general  Peace 
Day  by  a  public  meeting  in  our  church  by  the  Loyal  Temperance  Legion, 
nearly  every  child  taking  part  in  the  exercises ;  also  public  readings  on 
this  subject  have  been  given." 

Shawmut  has  distributed  544  pages  of  department  literature,  and  circu- 
lated **  Haddock's  Testimony."  One  Bible  Readin^^,  also  one  concert  has 
been  held.  Jiath  has  a  Peace  Band.  One  sermon  has  been  preached  on 
peace.  The  Banner  and  Acorn  have  been  distributed.  About  2,000 
pages  of  peace  literature  have  been  distributed.  Considerable  was  placed 
CD  out-goinj(  vessels.  The  local  Superintendent,  Miss  Susan  Cary,  makes 
it  a  custom  to  place  one  of  our  tracts  within  a  religious  paper  and  send  a 
bundle  of  such  to  vessels  lying  near  her  home. 

Peak's  Island  has  a  Peace  Band  of  twelve  members  in  connection  with 
the  Loyal  Temperance  Legion.  Peace  tracts  have  been  distributed  among 
the  children. 


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At  Augusta  the  Superintendent  reports  as  follows:  ''More  than  one 
thousand  pages  of  peace  literature  have  been  distributed  the  past  year. 
Peace  items  have  been  sent  to  four  local  newspapers.  Forty  children  have 
signed  the  peacemakers  pledge  and  a  peace  meeting  is  held  with  them 
once  a  month.  The  first  Sabbath  in  June  was  observed  as  peace  day.  A 
meeting  was  held  which  was  a  success.  The  20th  of  December  was  ob- 
served as  peace  day  and  three  sermons  were  preached  on  the  subject  of 
peace  by  the  pastors.  The  peace  petition  was  circulated,  signed  and  sent 
to  Congress.  We  have  a  number  of  subscribers  to  the  Pacific  Banner 
and  Acorn" 

Winthrop  has  distributed  four  thousand  pages  of  literature.  Thirty 
copies  of  the  Acorn  and  ten  of  the  Banner  are  taken.  Two  public  peace 
meetings  have  been  held  and  addresses  have  been  given  by  Revs.  John  F. 
Hansen  of  South  Dakota  and  B.  F.  Trueblood,  the  Secretary  of  the  Amer- 
ican Peace  Society. 

ALICE  MAY  DOUGLAS, 
Superintendent  of  Peace  and  Arbitration. 


Franchise. 


Madam  President  and  Members  of  the   Convention: 

In  reviewing  the  past  twelve  months  I  note  marked  progress  in  the 
cause  of  equal  rights,  but  if  asked  what  work  had  been  done  in  that  de- 
partment your  Superintendent  could  make  but  a  feeble  response.  What 
then  has  produced  this  wonderful  change  in  public  sentiment?  I  answer, 
the  increase  of  intelligence  and  Christianity  among  the  masses,  for  as  the 
light  of  Christianity  dawns  upon  a  people  they  realize  more  fully  the  truth 
contained  in  the  Golden  Rule,  "Whatsoever  ye  would  men  should  do  to 
you  do  ye  even  so  to  them"  and  unconsciously  men  and  women  are  learn- 
ing to  practise  it.  During  the  past  year  I  have  distributed  about  fifteen 
hundred  suff'rage  leaflets,  have  sent  forty  suffrage  petitions  to  Unions  in 
this  state,  several  of  whom  had  a  suff'rage  department,  with  the  request 
.that  they  should  be  circulated  for  the  signature   of   men    and   women  and 


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then  sent  to  Mrs.  Clara  liewick  Colby  of  Washington,  D,  C,  editor  of  the 
MVomarCi  Tribune,  I  am  sorry  to  say  from  Mrs.  Colby's  report  but  few 
of  the  Unions  responded  to  my  request,  but  I.  am  not  discouraged,  for  I 
lemember  the  promise  of  Him  who  will  never  fail  us,  that  "The  blind 
shall  receive  their  sight  and  the  lepers  shall  be  healed,"  and  so  there  is 
hope  even  for  those  who  are  indifferent  to  the  sufferings  of  those  less  for- 
tunate than  themselves.  I  have  also  circulated  many  copies  of  the 
Woman  8  Column  and  the  Woman^a  Tribune  and  spoken  once  in  Har- 
rington and  once  at  Southwest  Harbor,  in  both  places  to  good  sized  audi- 
ences. At  our  local  weekly  meetings  1  have  made  it  a  rule  to  read  or  talk 
on  the  subject  a  portion  of  the  hour  of  the  meeting  and  it  has  awakened 
much  interest  in  the  cause.  Miss  E.  U.  Yates  writes  me  that  '*Soon  after 
the  State  convention  last  year,  I  was  appointed  National  Franchise  Lec- 
turer and  the  demand  upon  my  time  in  other  states  has  been  so  great  I 
have  been  able  to  give  but  little  time  to  the  cause  in  Maine."  Only  six 
Unions  have  sent  in  their  reports,  but  from  all  the  Unions,  even  where 
there  is  no  Franchise  department,  comes  the  good  word  that  the  cause  of 
equal  rights  is  growing  in  favor,  and  that  people  who  a  year  ago  would 
not  listen  to  it,  are  now  discussing  the  question. 

Under  date  of  Sept.  27th  Mrs.  DeWitt  of  Presque  Isle  writes  that 
although  but  few  of  the  Unions  in  Aroostook  County  have  organized 
suffrage  departments,  all  the  older  Unions  are  strongly  in  favor  of  equal 
rights,  and  that  some  of  the  Unions  that  were  very  indifferent  last  year 
are  now  in  favor. 

From  Mrs.  Lamb  of  Androscoggin  County  I  get  encouraging  reports  of 
awakened  interest  in  the  enfranchisement  of  women,  although  but  few 
of  the  Unions  have  organized  that  department. 

Miss  Emily  Miller  of  North  Scarsmont,  Superintendent  of  Franchise  for 
Waldo  County  writes,  **I  have  distributed  about  seventy-five  leaflets  and 
twenty-five  Woman  s  Journals  and  I  have  frequently  touched  on  the  sub- 
ject incidentally  but  no  aggressive  work  has  been  done."  I  am  glad  to 
learn  from  Miss  Miller  that  she  wears  the  yellow  ribbon  (the  suffrage  badge) 
and  I  wish  more  of  the  white  ribbon  women  would  follow  her  example. 
The  value  of  the  significance  of  the  colors  entwined  would  be  of  great  as- 
sistance to  the  cause. 

MrM.  L.  B.  Crocker  of  St.  Albans  writes  under  date  of  Sept.  9th,  that 
although   there  has    been   but  two  Unions    organized  for  Franchise  work. 


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^here  has  Been  some  work  done  Iq  many  of  the  Unions.  She  has  dis- 
.ributed  two  packages  of  leaflets  and  other  literature  and  has  circulated  the 
Wamans  Column,  and'there  has  been  a  great  change  in  public  sentiment 
n  regard  to  woman  suffrage  since  the  Unions  have  been  reading  the  liter> 
ature  and  discussing  the  subject." 

Miss  Louisa  Titcomb,  Superintendent  Franchise  for  Cumberland  County 
reports,  '*Our  cause  is  surely  gaining,  but  in  so  many  unforeseen  and 
various  directions  it  is  very  difficult  to  reduce  them  to  facts.  For  instance, 
woman's  late  splendid  work  in  Great  Britain  is  telling  on  our  people  here- 
and  the  World's  Fair  is  building  better  than  they  know  for  woman's  ability,, 
success  and  final  liberty  to  do  what  she  will.  Every  day  she  is  steadily 
gaining  in  the  most  difficult  departments  of  art,  learning  and  science. 
Our  last  county  convention  showed  great  unanimity  on  the  suffrage  cause. 
We  have  a  new  suffrage  clubjn  Portland  under  the  leadership  of  Mrs. 
Hannah  J.  Bailey  that  is  increasing  in  numbers  and  interest." 

Mrs.  Ruth  A.  Hanson  of  East  Machias,  Washington  County,  writes,. 
**A11  of  our  members  are  in  favor  of  equal  rights.  I  have  circulated  leaf- 
lets and  am  confident  the  cause  is  gaining  although  none  of  our  Unions 
have  organized  suffrage  departments." 

And  80  from  every  quarter  comes  the  good  word.  The  light  is  surely 
breaking,  '*they  who  were  once  blind  now  see,"  and  as  the  masses  be« 
come  informed  in  regard  to  the  claims  of  women,  prejudice  born  of  igno- 
rance, will  vanish  like  mist  before  the  sun.  During  the  present  month 
our  country  has  lost  by  death  two  of  its  noblest  and  in  the  cause  of  equal 
rights,  fearless  and  out  spoken  champions,  George  William  Curtis  and 
John  G.  Whittier.  Thank  Heaven,  they  left  many  testimonials  of  their 
love  for  our  cause.  Mr.  Curtis  said  in  his  splendid  address  entitled  "Fair 
Play  for  Women,"  ''1  say  the  movement  is  a  plea  for  justice,  and  I  assert 
that  the  rights  of  women,  not  as  citizens,  but  as  human  beings,  have 
never  been  acknowledged.  There  is  no  audacity  so  insolent,  no  tyranny 
so  wanton,  no  inhumanity  so  revolting,  as  the  spirit  that  says  to  any 
human  being,  you  shall  be  developed  just  as  far  as  we  choose,  and  your 
mental  and  moral  life  be  subjected  to  our  pleasure,  and  if  women  do  not 
care  about  the  question  of  suffrage,  it  is  high  time  they  should,  both  for 
themselves  and  for  men.  The  spirit  of  society  cannot  be  just  nnr  the  law* 
equitable  so  long  as  half  of  the  population  are  politically  paralyzetl."  Mr. 
Whittier  said  **For  over  forty  years,  I  have  not   hesitated  to  declare  my 


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convi'^tions  that  justice,  fair  dealing  and  the  democratic  principles  of  our 
government  demand  equal  rights  of  citizenship  irrespective  of  sex.  I  ha^'e 
not  been  able  to  see  any  good  reason  why  the  ballot  should  be  denied  to 
v^romen."  And  so,  my  sisters,  let  us  take  courage,  the  day  is  surely  com- 
ing when  every  fetter  shall  be  broken,  and  we  shall  march  shoulder  to 
shoulder  with  our  brothers  in  the  battle  against  wrong,  and  our  govern- 
ment shall  recognize  no  sex  in  citizenship,  then,  and  not  until  then,  will 
the  true  republic  be  born,  and  the  dreams  of  your  forefathers  be  realized. 

ANN  F.  GREELY, 
State  Superintendent  Department  of  Franchise. 


Narcotics, 


Madame  President^  Sisters  of  the  Convention^  and  Friends  : 

**  There  is  a  sore  evil  which  I  have  seen  under  the  sun."  It  is  a  mon- 
ster evil.  It  is  an  evil  which  has  sent  thousands  to  our  lunatic  asylums, 
which  takes  every  year  30,000  people  to  their  graves,  and  makes  semi- 
invalids  of  thousands  more.  It  is  an  omnipresent  evil.  You  meet  it 
everywhere.  You  can  hardly  step  from  the  protecting  shelter  of  your  own 
home  without  meeting  it ;  and  sometimes — oh,  dreadful  fact ! — it  is  found 
right  in  the  midst  of  home.  But  for  7ny  own  part  I  fully  sympathize  with 
the  little  boy  who  wrote  and  put  up  over  the  door  of  his  home  the  follow- 
ing notice  :  **  No  swearness,  no  drunkness,  no  smokeness  allowed  here." 
I  think  it  ought  to  be  an  understood  thins^  that  this  motto  is  in  the  creed 
of  every  woman's  home,  but  in  order  to  do  this,  she  must  begin  away 
back  in  her  girlhood,  and  she  must  say,  as  a  little  girl  in  my  home  says, 
*•  ril  never  marry  a  man  that  drinks  liquor  or  uses  tobacco ;  I'll  be  an 
old  maid  first." 

We  have  many  reasons  for  encouragement  in  this  department.  One  is 
in  the  fact  that  our  ministers  are  grandly  coming  t'^  the  rescue,  and,  true 
to  their  convictions,  are  declaring  the  whole  counsel  of  God  in  relation  to 
this  matter,  and  as  a  consequence  the  church  is,  to  some  extent,  purifying 
itself  from  this  abomination.     We  note  with  pleasure  the  fact  that  our 


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Methodist  brethren  gave  the  trumpet  no  uncertain  sound  in  their  resolu- 
tions at  the  last  session  of  the  Maine  and  Eastern  Maine  Conferences, 
also  at  the  General  Conference  at  Omaha.  We  presume  other  denomina- 
tions are  equally  outspoken.  Yet  we  long  for  the  time  to  come  when  in 
America  church  law  will  be  as  strict  as  in  some  heathen  countries,  where 
no  convert  from  heathenism  is  admitted  to  the  Christian  church  until  he 
renounces  opium  and  tobacco.  Many  of  the  new  Unions  are  adopting 
this  department  at  their  organization,  and  I  am  very  glad  to  say  that  no 
department  can  boast  of  better  county  and  local  superintendents  than 
this. 

The  Superintendent  for  Androscoggin  County  reports  that  there  has 
been  more  good  work  done  the  past  year  tlian  ever  before,  and  that  the 
sentiment  against  the  us*}  of  narcotics  never  was  so  great.  The  minis- 
ters are  helping  grandly.  Most  of  the  Unions  have  circulated  our  depart- 
ment literature  and  cigarette  petition.  Auburn  has  posted  the  cigarette 
law  in  many  places,  and  much  personal  good  has  been  done.  Mechanic 
Falls  is  alive,  and  does  good  work  in  the  Sunday  Schools.  At  Turner 
the  teacher's  are  all  interested  in  the  work.  Places  where  cigarettes  are 
sold  have  been  closed  on  the  Sabbath,  and  the  law  j)osted.  Green's  Su- 
perintendent is  active.  Public  meetings  have  been  held,  with  talks  on 
narcotics.  At  Lcwiston  the  sentiment  is  much  changed  since  the  cigar- 
ette law  has  been  enforced  in  some  places  in  the  city.  The  Superintend- 
ent for  Aroostook  (-ounty  says  the  interest  in  this  department  is  slowly 
but  steadily  increasing.  We  can  see  that  during  the  past  year  there  has 
been  a  decided  improvement  in  the  sentiment  of  the  Unions  regarding 
it.  Nearly  every  Union  has  distributed  literature  on  this  subject,  and 
many  have  circulated  the  cigarette  petition. 

In  Amity  ten  copies  of  the  Anti-Tobacco  Gem  are  taken  and  distrib- 
uted. Several  men  have  given  up  the  use  of  tobacco.  Caribou  sup- 
plies wall  pockets  at  the  station,  in  the  post-office,  and  stoi-es,  with  our 
department  literature.  The  Superintendent  is  helping  this  department 
by  teaching  the  boys  in  the  Sabbath  School  class  to  hate  the  filthy  weed. 
In  Danforth  Union  an  interesting  paper  upon  narcotics  was  read  by  the 
Superintendent.  Easton  has  had  one  sermon,  and  the  Su])erintendent 
keeps  the  department  well  agitated.  At  Hodgdon  the  subject  of  narcot- 
ics was  taken  up  at  a  recent  meeting  of  the  Union. 

Limestone  keeps  a  wall  pocket  in  the  principal  store  in  the  village  con- 
stantly supplied  with  our  literature  ;  circulated  500  pages  literature,  also 


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"  The  Tobacco  Problem"  ;  has  had  one  sermon  on  the  subject.  Linneus, 
Littleton,  and  Monticello  have  each  had  one  lecture.  New  Limerick  cir- 
culated literature  and  petition,  also  Presque  Isle  Superintendent,  and 
requested  pastors  to  preach  on  the  subject.  Patten's  Superintendent  dis- 
tributed literature  in  the  schools.  Houlton  Union  offered  prizes  in  schools 
for  best  essays  on  the  effects  of  narcotics.  This  called  forth  a  large  num- 
ber of  excellent  essays,  several  of  which  were  printed  in  the  local  paper. 

At  the  County  Convention,  held  here  in  June,  Mrs.  Gleason  gave  an 
address  on  narcotics,  which  greatly  delighted  everybody  not  addicted  to 
their  use. 

Cumberland  County  has  done  good  work  in  this  department.  Most  of 
the  Unions  have  distributed  our  department  literature  and  circulated  the 
cigarette  petition.  The  triple  pledge  has  also  been  circulated;  two  men 
are  reported  as  having  given  up  the  use  of  tobacco.  In  So.  Windham 
the  law  has  been  carried  to  dealers  in  tobacco.  In  Westbrook  one  ser- 
mon has  been  preached  qn  the  sin  of  using  narcotics.  In  the  same  place 
prizes  were  offered  by  the  Union  to  the  High  School  for  best  essays  on  the 
effects  of  narcotics  on  the  system.  The  result  was  one  hundred  essays. 
We  wish  all  Unions  would  **  go  and  do  likewise."  Mrs.  Gleason  spoke 
in  Westbrook  and  Cumberland,  giving  evening  addresses,  and  also  short 
talks  in  several  Sabbath  Schools. 

Franklin  County  is  the  banner  county  in  that  it  is  fully  organized,  ev- 
ery Union  in  the  county  having  a  Superintendent  of  Narcotics.  We  wish 
this  migbt  be  said  of  every  county  in  the  State. 

WD  ton  has  circulated  the  triple  pledge  cards  in  the  Sabbath  Schools ; 
its  local  paper  has  published  clippings  on  narcotics.  They  have  also  cir- 
culated the  petition.  North  Jay  has  supplied  itself  with  literature,  To- 
bacco Problem,  Prize  Essays,  <kc.,  and  has  distributed  many  leaflets  on 
narcotics.  Stratton  Union  and  its  Eustis  branch  are  active  in  this  de- 
partment. Kingfield  and  Phillips  do  this  work  mostly  through  their  L. 
T.  L.*8.  Strong  has  had  one  lecture.  Other  Superintendents  have  been 
too  recently  appointed  to  send  a  report.  Hancock  has  a  new  Superin- 
tendent, but  she  has  been  at  work.  At  Ellsworth  items  showing  the  evil 
effects  of  narcotics  have  been  printed  in  the  local  paper.  At  Bluehill  they 
hare  circulated  literature,  have  had  two  sermons  on  the  subject,  one  man 
has  given  up  the  sale  of  tobacco. 

The  schools  are  teaching  the  effects  of  narcotics  on  the  system.  The 
petition  has  been  circulated,  also  the  triple  pledge.     At  Tremont  tvveivOj 


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copies  of  the  Anti-Tobacco  Gem  are  circulated  each  month.  Articles 
relating  to  the  subject  have  been  read  at  the  public  meetings.  The  cler- 
gj'meri  have  all  taken  up  the  subject,  though  no  entire  sermon  has  been 
preached.  Three  merchants  have  given  up  the  sale  of  cigarettes.  Many 
of  the  triple  pledge  cards  have  been  signed.  Items  have  been  printed  in 
the  papers.  The  cigarette  law  has  been  posted  in  public  places.  The 
County  Superintendent  says :  "  We  hope  soon  to  have  a  Superintendent 
in  each  Union.  We  thoroughly  hate  tobacco,  and  think  it  should  be 
classed  with  rum,  and  both  driven  from  civilized  society.'* 

Kennebec  County  has  an  official  Superintendent,  who  is  also  local  Su- 
perintendent at  Augusta.  Here  she  is  doing  good  work  for  the  depart- 
ment through  the  L.  T.  L.;  has  distributed  literature  and  circulated  peti- 
tion. One  sermon  has  been  preached.  They  take  twenty  copies  of  the 
Anti-Tobacco  Gem  for  distribution.  They  expect  soon  to  offer  prizes  in 
schools  for  best  essays  on  effects  of  narcotics.  So.  China  has  had  one 
public  address  on  the  subject ;  literature  and  triple  pledge  have  been  cir- 
culated in  the  schools  ;  35  names  secured  for  the  pledge.  Gardiner  does 
its  work  through  its  L.  T.  L.  Hallowell  circulated  petition.  Vassal- 
boro  is  circulating  a  petition  to  abolish  smoking  in  their  grocery  store. 
Winthrop  has  distributed  literature,  invited  ministers  to  preach  on  the 
subject,  circulated  petition,  35  children  signed  triple  pledge. 

Knox  County  has  a  Superintendent  recently  appointed  who  will  do  good 
work.  Our  only  report  from  that  county  comes  from  Mrs.  Hall,  of  Rock- 
land. She  says :  '*  When  we  circulated  the  triple  pledge  in  the  Sab- 
bath School  there  were  so  many  of  the  boys  who  would  not  sign  because 
lots  of  good  men  used  tobacco,  and  they  might  want  to  $ovie  time,  that  I 
was  filled  with  indignation,  not  against  the  boys,  but  against  the  good 
men  who  use  it."  Soon  after  she  read  a  paper  on  tobacco  at  a  young 
people's  temperance  meeting,  the  pastor  supplementing  her  paper  with  a 
strong  talk  on  the  same  subject.  As  a  result,  one  young  man  gave  up 
the  habit,  and  others  are  troubled. 

Lincoln  County  sends  reports  from  four  Unions,  each  of  which  havp  cir- 
culated some  literature.  In  addition  to  this,  Bremen  has  had  items  relat- 
ing to  effects  of  narcotics  printed  in  local  papers,  and  obtained  the  names 
6f  35  children  to  the  triple  pledge.  Good  work  is  done  in  <^chools.  Wal- 
doboro  has  circulated  petition,  and  had  one  lecture.  One  man  gave  up 
the  sale  of  tobacco. 


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Kouiid  Pond  offered  prizes  in  the  schools  for  best  essays  on  effects  of 
narcotics  on  the  system.  This  brought  out  17  essays,  all  of  which  were 
so  good  that  it  was  difficult  to  decide  to  whom  the  prize  should  be  given. 

No  report  comes  from  Oxford  County.  Penobscot  County  has  a  new 
Superintendent,  who  is  taking  hold  of  the  work  in  earnest.  She  has 
made  an  effort  to  get  a  Superintendent  in  each  local  Union.  Bangor  has 
put  leaflets  into  papers  sent  into  the  wards,  circulated  cigarette  petition, 
put  900  pledge  cards  into  the  Sabbath  Schools. 

Bangor  Crusade  has  distributed  literature.     Corinna  has  sent  out  60  , 
leaflets,  clergymen  have  been  invited  to  preach  on  the  subject,  cigarette 
peti^on  has  been  circulated,  four  children  have  signed  the  pledge.     E. 

■ 

■Corinth  has  distributed  100  pages  literature,  had  one  lecture  on  alcohol 
and  tobacco.  Some  of  the  schools  are  teaching  quite  thoroughly  the 
•effects  of  narcotics.  The  autograph  pledge  cards  have  been  given  out  in 
Sabbath  Schools.  Stillwater  puts  anti-narcotic  literature  in  W.  C.  T.  U. 
wall  pockets.  Public  school  teachers  are  doing  a  good  work  in  this  line. 
The  triple  pledges  were  introduced  into  the  Sabbath  School,  and  about  80 
willingly  signed.  Dixmont  has  had  one  lecture  and  one  sermon.  One 
copy  of  Anti-Tobacco  Gem  taken.  At  Kenduskeag  two  clergymen  wee 
invited  to  preach  on  the  evils  of  narcotics  ;  one  complied.  The  effects 
of  narcotics  are  taught  in  the  schools,  31  have  signed  the  triple  pledge  ; 
have  induced  one  store  to  give  up  the  sale  of  cigarettes.  Lincoln  has  had 
one  lecture  ;  63  signers  to  triple  pledge. 

Plymouth  has  distributed  200  pages  literature.  One  sermon  was 
preached  on*  the  subject,  and  one  lecture  has  been  given ;  26  children 
signed  the  pledge. 

Dexter,  last  May,  invested  $6.00  in  50  copies  of  the  Anti-Tobacco 
Oem,  which  were  distributed  in  the  Sabbath  Schools  and  public  schools 
throughout  the  town.  Some  of  our  public  school  teachers  are  literally 
doing  all  they  can  to  impress  upon  the  children's  minds  the  truth  about 
stimulants  and  narcotics.  Their  temperance  exercises  at  the  closing  of 
their  schools,  in  June,  were  worthy  of  unlimited  praise.  Some  of  our 
pastors  are  very  out-spoken  in  regard  to  this  matter,  and  as  a  consequence 
some  ate  giving  up  the  tobacco  habit.  One  man  has  used  the  Keeley 
cure  for  tobacco,  but  the  most  of  them  are  taking  the  Divine  cure,  and 
-find  it  a  success. 

Mattawamkeag  has  had  one  lecture.  Greenville  is  doing  some  work 
^through  its  L.  T.  L  —one  lecture. 


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Sagadahoc  County.  Bath  has  distributed  much  literature,  circulated 
cigarette  petition,  had  one  lecture,  four  of  the  pastors  have  preached  on 
the  sin  of  tobacco  using.  Mrs.  Purington  obtained  the  signatures  of  seven 
physicians  to  the  cigarette  petition. 

Somerset  County  has  an  earnest  Superintendent.  In  Madison  the  cigar- 
ette law  has  been  sent  to  the  barber-shops  and  stores  where  tobacco  was 
sold,  225  pages  of  literature  distributed,  and  three  sermons  preached. 
Waldo  County  Superintendent  reports  2,000  pages  of  literature  distrib- 
uted in  the  county.  Belfast  and  Scarsmont  have  circulated  the  cigarette 
petition.  In  Belfast  literature  has  been  sent  to  the  school  teachers,  and 
placed  in  wall  pockets.  Pledge  cards  distributed.  The  cigarette  law  has 
been  posted  in  conspicuous  places.  Letters  have  been  written  to  railroad 
and  steamboat  companies  asking  them  to  prohibit  the  use  of  tobacco  on 
those  parts  of  steamers  and  trains  occupied  by  lady  passengers.  At 
Searsmont  one  man  has  given  up  the  use  of  tobacco.  Most  of  the  Unions 
in  Washington  County  have  circulated  the  petition.  Danforth  and  Vance- 
boro  have  had  lectures  on  the  subject  of  narcotics.  Pembroke  has  circu- 
lated literature  ;  had  two  sermons.  At  Harrington  the  members  of  L.  T. 
L.  are  taught  to  step  on  all  cigar  stubs  they  see. 

Your  Superintendent  has  sent  out  nearly  1,800  pages  of  literature, 
written  110  letters  and  postals,  and  given  11  public  addresses  ;  have  sent 
out  through  the  State  140  copies  of  cigarette  petition.  More  than  1,200 
signatures  have  been  sent  to  me,  probably  many  more  have  been  sent  directly 
to  Mrs.  Ingalls.  I  suppose  many  are  interested  to  know  the  result  of  our 
petitioning.  Our  bill  was  introduced  into  Congress  and  referred  to  the 
Committee  on  Epidemic  Diseases.  Further  than  that  1  have  no  knowl- 
edge of  it. 

Sisters,  let  us  push  the  battle  to  the  gates.  Let  us  resolve  the  coming 
year  to  do  more,  if  possible,  for  the  exterminatioi  of  this  great  evil. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

lANTHA  S.  C.  WENTWORTH, 

State  Superintendent  Narcotics. 


Work  Among  Lumbermen. 


Madam  President  and  Members  of  this  Convention: 

In  spite  of  the  fact  that  a  new  superintendent  was  being  broken  in,  the 
work  has  gained  in  interest  during  the  last  year.  More  reading  matter 
sent,  more  camps  supplied  and  more  local  superintendents  appointed* 

There  has  been  an  earnest  effort  made  to  interest  the  County  Superin- 
tendents that  they  in  turn  might  enthuse  their  local  superintendents.  The 
County  Superintendents  are  earnest,  interested  workers.  We  would  urge 
that  each  Superintendent  take  a  new  interest  and  put  forth  greater  effort 
in  the  coming  year. 

In  no  department  of  W.  C.  T.  U.  work  can  greater  or  better  work  be 
done  than  in  supplying  lumber  camps  with  wholesome  reading  matter,  es- 
pecially as  there  is  so  much  impure  literature  distributed  among  them.  We 
can  scarcely  realize  to  what  an  extent  they  are  a  community  by  them- 
selves, at  some  distance  from  civilization  and  its  restraints.  The  Sabbath 
is  only  a  day  when  work  ceases.  How  much  the  majority  of  these  men 
need  wholesome  influences,  and  in  no  other  way  can  this  be  accomplished 
at  present,  save  by  distributing  among  them  plenty  of  attractive,  whole- 
some reading  matter.  We  have  found  no  trouble  in  procuring  plenty  of 
most  excellent  literature,  as  many  outside  of  our  white  ribboners  are  glad 
to  contribute  reading  matter. 

The  greatest  need  at  present  is  a  camp  missionary,  one  who  is  willing 
for  the  sake  of  God  and  humanity  to  consecrate  himself  to  this  work.  Un- 
told good  would  be  accomplished  for  temperance  and  morality  and  we 
hope  the  time  is  not  far  distant  when  our  treasury  will  admit  of  our  put- 
ting a  good  man  in  the  fleld  from  fall  until  spring.  The  possibilities  of 
this  work  are  unlimited.  Can  we  not  come  nearer  the  hearts  of  those  men 
when  they  are  surrounded  only  by  the  natural  * 'Temples  of  God'*  than 
when  at  home  under  the  evil  influences  of  the  saloon,  where  so  much  of 
their  time  and  money  is  spent.  We  would  like  to  especially  call  the  atten- 
tion of  the  executive  committee  to  this  great  need.     There  are  ten  County 


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♦Superintendents.  We  have  written  to  each  one  urging  a  full  report.  The 
reports  that  have  been  received  are  very  good,  yet  we  again  urge  a  re- 
newed zeal  during  the  next  few  months  which  are  our  harvest  time.  The 
reports  in  detail  are  as  follows: 

Penobscot  County,  Mrs.  S.  J.  Pickard,  Stillwater.  Mrs.  J.  V.  Tucker 
filled  wall  pockets  of  mill  boarding  house,  distributed  papers,  leaflets. 
Union  Signals,  Star  in  the  East,  Youth's  Companion,  Bangor  Crusade, 
Mrs.  S.  J.  Pickard  sent  a  large  number  of  papers  and  books  into  needy 
homes.  Bangor  Union,  Mrs.  Whitman  sent  1500  papers  and  magazines 
into  lumber  camps,  with  tobacco  leaflets  in  each  package.  Orono,  Mrs. 
A.  J.  Gordon,  eight  large  packages  of  journals,  magazines  and  leaflets, 
-3  volumes  of  Black  Beauty,  eight  camps  supplied.  Waldo  County,  Mrs. 
Eliza  Hunnewell,  report  no  lumber  camps  in  their  vicinity.  They  sent 
-a  large   lot  of  books,  magazines,  papers  and  leaflets  to  distribute. 

Cumberland  County,  Mrs.  S.  W.  McLellan.  The  locals  reported  very 
generally  that  much  good  work  was  done.  The  report  after  being  writ- 
ten, was  misplaced  by  County  Superintendent  so  no  detailed  report  can  be 
given.  Franklin  County,  Miss  Edith  Church,  Kingfield.  Mrs.  Louisa  Gil- 
bert sent  literature  and  a  small  number  of  books.  Twenty-three  camps 
were  looked  after.  Sent  reading  to  families.  Stratton,  Mrs.  Standish 
sent  literature  to  camps  in  vicinity.  Largely  foreigners,  cannot  read 
English.     Phillips,  Literature  sent.     Men  do  not  seem  to  care  for  it. 

Somerset  County,  S.  M.  Boothby.  Not  reported  by  Unions.  Have  sent  lit- 
erature when  opportunity  offered.       Am  much  interested   in  the    work. 

Hancock  County,  Mrs.  Dr.  Neal.  One  Local  Superintendent.  Tremont 
Union  supplies  camps  at  Seal  Cove.  Mrs.  Bobbins  reports  visiting  camps 
and  found  the  men  eager  for  reading  matter.  Sent  about  15,000  pages 
to  camps.  Supplied  Blue  Ribbon  Temperance  club  with  what  they 
needed,  amounting  to  500  pages.  Sent  1000  pages  to  families  where 
needed.  Demands  have  been  made  for  more.  Collecting  a  few  books  for 
circulating  library. 

Washington  County,  reported  by  Mrs.  Abbie  Nash,  ('herryfield.  Has 
^\e  Unions  who  take  this  work.  Calais  reports  1 1  camps  supplied  with 
books,  magazines  and  10,000  pages  of  good  reading,  all  stamped 
Women's  Christian  Temperance  Union.  Cherryfield.  Ten  camps  supplied 
with  literature  and  magazines.  A  large  number  of  leaflets  sent.  East 
Machias.     Good    work   done  by  Superintendent  and  members   of  Union, 


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but  no  record  kept.  Steuben.  New  Union,  but  accomplished  some  work. 
Vanceborough  and  Danforth,  report  working  with  Aroostook  County. 
County  Superintendent  writes  that  some  500  men  are  employed  in  that 
County  during  the  winter  nionths,  and  urges  that,  as  a  company,  a  greater 
effort  be  made  to  reach  them. 

Piscataquis  County,  Mrs.  Rogers,  Greenville.  Have  had  eighteen 
camps  to  supply,  distributed  over  20,000  pages  literature.  Many  juvenile 
papers  have  been  sent  to  lumbermen's  families.  Have  had  the  promise  of 
a  good  man  to  go  to  some  of  the  camps  and  speak  to  the  men.  They 
will  be  glad  to  get  reading  matter  from  any  Union.  Freight  should  al- 
ways be  prepaid. 

Aroostook,  Mrs.  E.  E.  Morrill.  Thirteen  Unions  reported  as  follows: 
Amity,  Sent  literature  every  week.  Blaine,  did  much  good  work,  no- 
record  kept.  Caribou,  Union  Signals  and  leaflets  sent  to  camps.  Dan- 
forth, reading.  Fort  Fairfield,  a  large  amount  of  papers.  Hodgdon, 
papers.  Houlton,  Temperance  papers  and  leaflets.  Littleton,  sent  liter- 
ature, visited  lumber  camps,  read  and  prayed  with  the  men.  Linneus, 
sent  papers.  Monticello,  tracts  and  papers.  New  Limerick,  papers. 
Presque  Isle,  papers  and  prohibition  address  by  V.  Cushing.  Vanceboro,. 
did  some  work.     Lewiston  and  Mapleton  failed  to  report  work  done. 

Aroostook  has  done  nobly.  We  hoix)  each  County  Superintendent  here 
will  resolve  that  every  local  Union  must  have  a  Superintendent  of  this 
work.  Of  course  this  would  only  apply  to  those  Counties  where  op- 
portunity for  this  work  is  offered.  There  are  several  Counties  where  the 
work  is  not  taken  up.  I  have  had  returns  from  all  County  Superintend- 
ents save  Sagadahoc.  We  hope  next  year  will  show  a  great  gain  in  the 
work  over  this  year.  May  God  help  us  to  do  the  very  best  we  can  for" 
God,  home  and  dear  old  Maine. 

MRS.  A.  L.  HARVEY, 
State  Supt.  Dept.  Work  Among  Lumbermen.. 


Soldiers  and  Sailors. 


In  presenting  my  second  annual  report  of  this  department  of  the  work, 
the  sixth  year  since  its  adoption  by  the  State,  I  rejoice  in  the  steady  growth 
and  increasing  interest  manifested. 

Of  the  sixteen  counties,  three  did  not  appoint  Superintendents ;  three 
appointed  Superintendents,  but  reported  no  work  ;  the  remaining  nine 
appointed  Superintendents,  and  sent  reports  of  work  done. 

Androscoggin  County,  Mrs.  L.  A.  Foster,  Superintendent,  reports  each 
veteran  in  the  G.  A.  R.  Posts  supplied  with  button-hole  boquets  for  Mem- 
orial Day  ;  some  literature  collected  for  sailors. 

Cumberland  County  Superintendent  reports  8  barrels  of  literature  sent 
to  sailoi-8,  including  eight  years  Youths'  Companions,  fifteen  years  Har- 
per's and  Century  Magazines,  and  many  years  of  the  Portland  Transcript 
and  miscellaneous  papers.  Three  years  illustrated  papers,  beside  leaflets 
and  letters,  sent  to  the  Marine  Hospital. 

Our  Loan  Library  numbers  118  books,  all  in  good  condition — so  much 
appreciated  by  the  captains  that  twice  money  has  been  sent  to  help  the 
work  along.  Some  literature  has  been  sent  from  this  county  to  Monhegan 
Light,  also,  by  the  kindness  of  the  captains  of  the  Maine  Steamship  Line, 
to  lighthouses  between  New  York  and  Portland. 

Four  Unions  in  this  county  liavo  local  Superintendents,  and  have  con- 
tributed generously  to  the  supply.  Peak's  Island  has  done  considerable 
work,  but  no  report  received.  Three  years  magazines  have  been  placed  in 
G.  A.  11.  Post  rooms.  Mrs.  McClees,  of  Brooklyn,  National  Superin- 
tendent of  this  department,  spoke  at  Fort  Preble  Sunday,  Sept.  18,  and  in 
Portland  the  evening  of  the  same  day.  The  addresses  were  full  of  interest, 
and  the  work  received  an  uplift.     She  also  spoke  at  Westbrook. 

Franklin  County.     No  Superintendent. 

Hancock  County.  Mrs.  E.  \V.  Neal,  Su])erintcndcnt,  includes  in  her 
report  work  done  for  lighthouses,  life-saving  stations,  and  the  homes  of 
the    fishermen.     In  three  lighthouses  white  ribboners  dwell,  and  were  of 


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great  assistance  in  the  work.  Three  barrels  of  literature  have  been  dis- 
tributed, one  barrel  containing  choice  books,  which  are  used  as  a  loan 
library.  The  Y.  M.  C.  A.  of  Bangor  sent  a  box  of  900  papers  and  t€n 
pamphlets.  Forty  thousand  pages  of  literature  have .  been  distributed  on 
the  islands,  on  board  vessels,  for  fishermen,  lighthouses,  and  families.  Many 
signers  to  the  pledge  have  been  obtained.  Mrs.  McClees  gave  an  address 
at  Bass  Harbor,  which  gave  satisfaction  and  resulted  in  pledges,  new  and 
'renewed,  and  strong  additions  to  Union  membership. 

Kennebec  County.  Mrs.  M.  H.  Wyipan,  Superintendent,  reports  her 
first  work  done  on  Memorial  Day,  when  she  gave  to  each  veteran  memo- 
rial letters,  in  white  envelopes,  with  a  card  on  which  an  appropriate  verse 
had  been  printed.  On  June  3  the  first  temperance  meeting  was  held  at 
Togus.  The  Y.*s  had  previously  held  a  Demorest  contest  there,  which 
was  successful,  and  at  which  time  a  few  words  were  said  to  prepare  the 
men  for  the  meeting  that  was  to  follow. 

At  this  meeting  (June  3)  addresses  were  given  by  Miss  Lucia  E.  F. 
Kimball  and  Mrs.  H.  J.  Bailey,  and  were  listened  to  with  great  interest. 
At  the  close  six  men  signed  the  pledge,  a  number  came  forward  to  receive 
literature,  and  many  expressed  their  appreciation  of  the  efibrt.  The  sur- 
geon, a  Christian  man,  does  not  advise  personal  work  at  present,  but  is 
heartily  in  sympathy  with  the  public  meetings.  Gen.  Stevenson  has  been 
exceptionally  courteous  and  kind,  has  taken  great  care  and  interest  in 
arranging  for  meetings,  has  furnished  conveyance  to  and  from  the  Home,  and 
at  the  more  recent  meetings  bore  all  the  expenses.  He  has  made  arrange- 
ments whereby  the  men  can  avail  themselves  of  the  Keeley  cure,  at  reduced 
rates,  if  a  sufficient  number  will  form  a  class. 

The  last  meeting  was  held  Sept.  18,  and  addressed  by  Mrs.  McClees. 
A  trio  of  accomplished  singers  were  present,  and  the  meeting  was  pro- 
nounced by  one  of  the  officers  as  the  *'  best  one  yet."  At  its  close  a  num- 
ber signed  the  pledge  and  came  forward  to  speak  to  Mrs.  McClees. 

Knox  County.      Mrs.   S.   B.   Young,  Superintendent.     The   Union  at 
Spruce  Head  has  put  up  two  wall  pockets  and  filled  them  with  temper- 
.  ance  literature,  and  made  some  comfort  bags  for  the  sailors. 

Rockport  distributed  some  literature.  Union  has  sent  6,000  pages  of 
literature.     Lincoln  and  Oxford  Counties.     No  Superintendents. 

Penobscot  and  Piscataquis.  Superintendents  appointed.  No  work 
reported.     Somerset  County.     No  superintendent. 


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Sagadahoc.  Mr8.  Vesta  Jones.  Sui)erintendent.  Bath  has  8«nt  1,100* 
pages  of  literature  to  out-going  vessels.  Popham  Beach,  2,000  pages 
literature  sent  to  life-saving  stations,  3,000  pages  literature  put  upon  out- 
going vessels.  Miscellaneous  literature  distributed  to  quite  an  amount. 
Mrs.  McClees  was  engaged  for  a  lecture  at  Popham  Beach,  but  the  rain 
prevented  the  meeting. 

Waldo  County.  Mrs.  H.  W.  Pitcher,  Superintendent,  reports :  The 
wall  pocket  at  Memorial  Hall  has  been  kept  supplied  with  good  reading. 
550  pages  of  literature,  132  religious  papers,  especially  adapted  to  sailors, 
have  been  put  upon  out-going  vessels,  1 ,200  pages,  written  by  the  Na- 
tional Superintendent,  have  been  placed  in  G.  A.  R.  Post  rooms,  and  dis- 
tributed in  the  most  important  places.  Mrs.  S.  A.  McClees  gave  an  ad- 
dress at  Belfast.  More  white  ribboners  have  participated  in  the  soldiers' 
reunions,  taking  part  in  the  social  life  of  the  veteran. 

Washington  County.  Mrs.  Kumball,  Superintendent.  Have  distrib- 
uted 1,600  papers,  16  magazines,  150  temj)erance  leaflets,  25  religious 
books,  25  Bibles,  50  memorial  letteis,  and  150  miscellaneous  books.  Have- 
visited  160  vessels  in  port,  called  on  sick  soldiers  and  presented  fruit  and 
flowers,  which  were  in  everj'  case  gratefully  i-eceived. 

York  County.  Mrs.  Rand,  Superintendent,  reports  working  under 
some  discouragements  on  account  of  the  sickness  of  members,  but  two- 
barrels  of  literature  distributed. 

In  closing  I  would  say  I  think  this  department  of  work  is  better  under- 
stood than  one  year  ago.  We  more  thoroughly  realize  that  when  the 
sailor  comes  to  port,  so  many  are  already  to  invite  him  to  the  saloon, 
where  he  not  only  loses  his  moiicv,  but  his  manhood.  Sisters  let  us 
work  earnestly  that  places  may  be  i)rovi(led  and  people  ready  to  unite  and 
welcome  him  to  better  things.  Let  us  pray  easncstly  to  God  who  is  on 
sea  as  on  land,  that  we  may  successfully  work  for  his  salvation.  A  deeper 
spiritual  life  is  everywhere  manifest  among  workers  in  the  Department  of 
Soldiers  and  Sailors.  The  object  is  not  alone  to  induce  men  to  sign  the 
pledge  but  to  lead  them  to  Christ,  in  whose  Almighty  strength  they  may 
find  grace  to  resist  the  tempter  and  overcome  their  slavish  appetites.  God 
grant  we  may  faithfully  bear  our  part  in  the  great  work. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

MRS.  F.  C.  JOHNSTON, 
State  Supt.  Dept.  of  Soldiers  and  Saitars, 


Sabbath  Observance. 


Dr.  Lockville  says,  **God*s  church,  God*s  book,  and  God's  day,  are 
three  pillars  of  American  society.  Without  them  it  must  go  the  way 
of  all  flesh,  and  God  will  raise  up  some  other  nation  or  continent  to  carry 
out  His  designs;  but  with  them  it  will  continue  to  prosper,  notwithstand- 
ing all  hindrances  from  without  and  within."  Dr.  Mark  Hopkins  once 
said,  "A  nation  that  does  not  observe  the  Sabbath  will  not  endure,  if  for 
no  other  reason  than  because  God  will  not  let  it." 

The  most  characteristically  American  institution  we  have  is  the  Sabbath, 
and  yet,  in  many  localities  in  our  good  state  of  Maine,  it  is  sadly  dese- 
crated and  the  Christian  conscience  seems  to  be  growing  less  responsive 
to  its  demands. 

According  to  reports  received  from  the  different  Counties  more  than 
15,000  pages  of  Sabbath  Observance  literature  have  been  distributed  and 
hundreds  of  copies  of  our  state  Sunday  laws  posted  in  public  or  conspicu- 
ous places,  fifty-seven  sermons  preached,  four  articles  sent  to  the  press, 
nearly  three  thousand  signatures  obtained  to  the  petition  for  closing  the 
Columbian  Exposition  on  the  Sabbath,  and  the  endorsement  of  six 
churches  and  the  Salvation  Army  obtained.  The  petition  was  well  cir- 
culated in  our  state  last  year. 

Resolutions  have  been  successfully  presented  at  several  religious  Con- 
yentions.  Two  public  meetings  were  held  in  the  interest  of  Sabbath  ob- 
servance at  Bar  Harbor  while  the  crowds  of  summer  visitors  were  there, 
several  prayer  meetings  had  the  4  th  commandment  for  a  topic,  three  lec- 
tures given,  five  places  of  business  have  been  closed  that  were  wont  to 
keep  open  on  the  Sabbath,  one  Sunday  base  ball  game  broken  up  and  dis- 
continued. One  local  Union  sent  a  protest  against  Sunday  excursions,  to 
a  railroad  company.  One  Union  appealed  to  Postmaster  General  Wana- 
maker  to  have  the  post-office  closed  during  the  entire  Sabbath  day,  as  con- 
fectionery, cigare,  etc.,  were  sold  there,  and  he  ordered  it  closed  which  was 
done. 


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The  moral  sentiment  in  the  state  is  generally  good,  but  there  is  open 
violation  of  the  law  in  some  places  and  officers  refuse  to  enforce  it.  Steam- 
boats and  excursion  trains  are  run  on  the  Sabbath  at  special  summer  re- 
sorts and  even  some  of  our  Women's  Christian  Temperance  Union  women 
are  not  as  strict  in  obser\'ing  the  day,  and  having  their  families  do  so,  as 
should  be  expected.  One  Superintendent  says  the  members  of  our  local 
Unions  need  the  benefit  of  Conventions  to  enthuse  them. 

Some  of  our  County  Superintendents  hold  meetings  of  local  Superin- 
tendents to  instruct  and  interest  them,  so  they  will  push  the  work.  This 
is  a  very  important  method  for  Superintendent*  of  superior  Unions  to  use. 
There  is  much  good  home  influence  exerted.  One  local  Superintendent 
reported  that  there  was  but  little  need  of  efibrt  in  the  line  of  Sabbath  ob- 
servance in  her  locality. 

It  is  cause  for  rejoicing  that  the  mammoth  petitions  sent  to  Congress 
and  to  the  Commissioners  of  the  Columbian  Exposition  from  the  good 
people  of  our  land  and  many  in  other  countries,  have  had  due  weight 
and  influence,  so  that  the  tVorld's  Fair  will  probably  be  closed  on  the 
Sabbath  if  past  action  is  not  rescinded. 

The  constitution  of  the  United  States  guarantees  to  the  President  of  the 
United  States  one  day's  rest  each  week.  Every  citizen  should  be  protected 
in  this  right  to  a  weekly  day  of  rest  as  well  as  the  President.  The  Sunday 
newsj)aper  is,  as  Horace  Greely  said,  *'A  social  demon.*'  It  invades  the 
people's  homes  and  their  opportunities  for  worship.  I  hope  that  no 
Women's  Christian  Temperance  Union  woman  will  ever  patronize  it,  or 
allow  her  familv  to  do  so. 

''There  remaineth,  therefore,  a  Sabbath  rest  for  the  people  of  God." 
The  people  that  are  not  **of  God"  livinji;  in  Sabbath  keeping  countries, 
are  greatly  debtors  to  this  rest  day;  but  it  is  the  Christian  who  gathers  the 
ripest,  fattest  clusters  from  this  vine  of  blessing.  Do  not  permit  it  to  be 
destroyed.  Since  the  beginning  of  Christianity  no  graver  responsibility 
has  been  laid  upon  the  discipleship  than  rests  upon  it  at  this  hour,  and 
in  this  particular. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

HANNAH  J.  BAILEY, 
State  Superintendent  Department  Sahhath  Observance. 


Temperance  Work  at  Fairs. 


Madam  President  and  Sisters  of  the  Convention: 

After  80  many  years  of  rich  experience  at  State  and  County  fairs,  we 
trust  that  every  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  woman  in  our  state  has 
become  convinced  of  the  feasibility  ofthis  department  of  work;  our  presence 
not  only  has  an  influence  for  temperance  and  sobriety  on  the  fair  ground, 
but  the  country  towns  are  reached  by  the  literature  that  is  given  to  the 
people,  especially  the  women,  who  take  it  to  their  homes,  where  they 
with  their  children,  can  read  and  perhaps  for  the  first  time  realize  the 
dangerous  results  from  the  beer,  cider  and  tobacco  habit;  also  through  this 
source  many  women  have  become  interested  in  our  organization  and  have 
been  led  to  join  our  ranks. 

The  Auburn  and  Lewiston  Unions,  after  many  days  of  careful  planning 
for  work  at  the  State  Fair,  were  amply  rewarded  by  greater  success  than 
ever.  The  restaurants  were  made  as  attractive  as  possible,  by  large  and 
small  flags,  Chinese  lanterns,  clematis,  potted  plants,  and  cut  flowers;  the 
two,  having  a  seating  capacity  of  one  hundred  and  sixty,  were  well  patron- 
ized during  the  four  days  of  fair.  The  State  department  furnished  100 
State  papers,  the  Auburn  Union  several  hundred  cider  leaflets,  some  of 
which  were  folded  inside  of  ])apers.  Others  without  papers  were  dis- 
tributed and  eagerly  received.  Spring  water  was  free  for  the  thirsty.  The 
Auburn  Union  employed  a  young  man  who  had  been  addicted  to  drink, 
in  their  restaurant;  he  said  it  was  the  first  State  Fair  week  for  many 
years  that  he  had  not  been  drunk  when  out  of  jail.  Last  fourth  of  July 
the  same  young  man  came  at  early  morn  and  offered  his  sers-ices  for  the 
day  at  the  Union's  lawn  party  at  the  Court  House,  saying  he  knew  he 
should  be  safe  there  from  temptation  to  drink. 

The  Presque  Isle  Union  distributed  2594  pages  of  temperance  literature 
at  the  fair  held  at  that  place,  also  the  Houlton  Union  gave  away  several 
hundred  pages  at  the  fair  at  Houlton.  The  Norway  Union  furnished  and 
distributed  at  the  Oxford  County  fair  500   beer  series,  500    cider  series. 


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350  social  purity  leaflets  and  300  copies  of  the  Star;  the  leaflets  were 
folded  inside  of  the  papers.  The  Norway  Union  has  never  failed  to  da 
faithful  work  at  their  County  fair. 

For  the  first  time  Cumberland  County  established  head-quarters  on  the 
fair  ground  at  Gorham.  Mrs.  Little,  the  local  Superintendent  of  South 
Windham,  with  the  assistance  of  other  ladies,  distributed  several  hun- 
dred pages  of  temperance  literature.  She  succeeded  in  some  measure  in 
attracting  the  young  from  the  beer  and  cider  stands. 

It  is  impossible  to  report  the  usual  number  of  fairs  this  year,  as  our 
Convention  was  held  at  such  an  early  date,  but  I  think  we  have  reason  to 
thank  God,  and  take  courage  that  there  are  so  many  faithful  Superintend- 
ents and  good  Unions,  which  have  furnished  literature  and  done  all. in 
their  power  to  help  on  the  work.  Among  the  many  interesting  letters 
which  I  have  received  giving  outlines  of  plans  of  work  at  fairs,  which  will 
be  hald  later  in  the  season,  are  those  from  Cherr}'field,  Madison,  Round 
Pond.     They  doubtless  will  come  into  the  next  year's  report. 

It  is  important  that  the  Unions  heartily  co-operate  with  our  State  Board 
of  Women  Commissioners  for  the  World's  Fair.  I  rejoice  in  the  fact  that 
there  is  a  growing  interest  in  this  department  of  work,  and  trust  that  it 
will  be  better  farther  on. 

SUSAN  FRENCH, 
State  Superintendent  Department  Fairs. 


Purity  in  Literature  and  Art. 


This  >vas  formerly  a  branch  of  the  social  purity  work,  but  at  the  great 
Convention  in  Boston  last  Autumn  it  was  made  a  separate  department 
and  now  embraces  what  has  been  known  as  *'suprcssion  of  impure  litera- 
ture." Its  object  is  the  protection  of  the  moral  purity  of  children  and 
vouth  of  our  nation. 

The  National  Superintendent  says:  "When  we  consider  that  twenty 
millions  of  the  population  of  the  United  States  are  under  twenty-one  years 
of  age  we  can  see  the  importance  of  this  department.  This  work  is  patriotic 


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and  Christ-like.  In  the  purity  of  the  youth  of  our  beloved  land  lies 
the  only  hope  for  the  preservation  of  our  republic."  Here  is  the  portrait 
of  the  woman  she  desired  for  State  and  local  Superintendent:  *'A  woman 
of  rarest  good  judgment  and  one  who  will  delight  in  this  work  of  trying 
to  suppress  all  that  is  obscene  and  indecent  in  books,  newspapers,  posters 
and  in  the  so  called  works  of  art  that  are  often  exhibited  in  public  places 
and  art  galleries."  If  the  importance  of  the  work  has  led  Miss  Willard 
and  the  national  executive  to  make  this  a  separate  and  distinct  depart- 
ment surely  it  ought  to  commend  itself  to  every  local  Union  in  our   State. 

The  first  duty  of  all  concerned  in  the  training  of  children  is  to  see  to  it 
that  none  of  this  obscene,  vile  trash — which  seems  so  well  nigh  omnipresent 
—ever  reaches  them;  its  very  touch  is  contamination  and  death.  Protect 
the  children  then,  against  the  vicious  influences  that  come  through  the 
printing  press.  "Look  out  for  obscene  matter  sent  by  criminals  through 
the  mails,  and  help  bring  the  evil  doers  to  justice."  Is  it  too  much  to 
ask  that  in  every  local  Union  in  our  state,  the  coming  year,  a  brave, 
true,  pure  woman  shall  be  appointed  for  "picket  duty"  in  this  depart- 
ment? 

Out  of  the  thirteen  Counties  that  have  appointed  County  Superintend- 
ents of  this  department  only  seven  have  sent  in  reports,  viz.,  Cumberland, 
Kennebec,  Lincoln,  Sagadahoc,  Somerset,  Waldo  and  York.  In  some  of 
these  Counties  good  work  has  been  done  but  in  most  of  them  there  seems 
to  exist  the  feeling  that  they  have  not  the  women  or  the  time  to  take  up 
any  more  departments.  Cumberland  has  seventeen  or  more  Unions  and 
the  County  Superintendent  writes  that  she  has  heard  from  only  four, 
though  she  has  written  to  them  all.  Some  have  Superintendents  for  the 
fiuppresvion  of  impure  literature,  but  give  no  report.  (Now  just  here  let 
me  repeat  for  the  benefit  of  the  local  Unions,  that  that  department  is 
merged  in  this.) 

Kennebec  County  reports  good  work  done  by  five  local  Superintendents 
in  posting  the  state  law  in  school  houses  and  other  public  places,  dis- 
tributing literature  for  the  promotion  of  purity  in  literature  and  art,  also 
by  the  removal  of  immoral  papers  and  pictures  and  by  personal  talks  with 
mothers  and  teachers. 

Sagadahoc  County  has  an  efficient  Superintendent,  yet  she  has  failed 
to  awaken  an  interest  in  this  work,  but  seems  determined  to  do  so.  Mrs. 
B.  F.  Viles,  Superintendent  of  Somerset  County,  says:     "There   is   work 


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done  in  six  or  seven  of  the  Unions  of  the  County/'  Madison  has  shown 
some  interest  in  the  work,  has  a  ladies'  meeting,  had  an  essay  on  social 
purity  and  a  sermon  Shawmut  Union  has  distributed  literature  on  the 
subject.  St.  Albans  also  distributed  literature.  East  St.  Albans  has 
cir»Milat»d  nearly  one  thousand  pages  of  literature. 

York  County  Superintendent  reports  that  '*every  Union  has  been  noti- 
fied that  they  are  expected  to  appoint  a  local  Superintendent  for  this  work 
and  only  one  responded  that  they  had  a  person  named  for  this  department. 
Others  thought  that  they  could  not  attend  to  any  more  than  they  already 
had." 

Waldo  County  has  done  some  work.  One  evening  eleven  of  us  went 
to  the  grange  hall,  taking  literature  on  our  several  departments  and 
spoke  of  our  work.  The  hall  was  full  of  grangers,  many  of  them  young 
men  and  women.  I  left  copies  of  the  law  and  literature  and  may  God 
bless  the  words  spoken.  One  of  the  old  farmers  said:  **I  have  been 
to  hear  several  of  the  political  speakers  this  fall  but  this  is  the  best  of  all. 
I  did  not  know  you  were  doing  such  a  work — it  beats  anything  I  ever 
heard  of  yet." 

Lincoln  County  reports  some  interest  in  this  work  and  something  done 
by  circulating  literature  and  posting  up  state  law  and  hoj)es  to  do  better 
another  year. 

All  of  which  is  respectfully  submitted, 

MRS.  A.  L.  PAGE, 

Slate  SKperinfevdi-nt  rfirifj/  hi  Literature  and  Art, 


Flower  Mission  Work. 


Madam  President  and  Members  of'  the  Convention  : 

ft 

From  fifteen  counties  which  have  taken  up  [the  [Flower  Mission  work 
nine  have  reported.  There  have  been  a  number  of  new  superintendents 
appointed  this  year,  many  Unions,  however,  taking  up  ^the  work  so  late 
that  they  were  unable  to  do  as  much  as  they' intend  to  do'next  season. 
Following  is  the  summary  of  the  work  done,  as  far  as  reported  : 


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Aroostook  County. — Nine  Unions  have  taken  up  the  Flower  Mission 
work,  but  only  a  few  have  kept  records.  The  reported  number  of  bou- 
quets distributed  was  eighty-eight,  although  many  more  were  sent  to  the 
poor  and  sick. 

Kennebec  County. — Augusta  reports  distributed  twenty-six  bouquets  at 
the  jail,  twenty-two  at  the  almshouse,  and  twenty  at  the  Old  Ladies 
Home.  Hallowell  reports  no  Superintendent,  but  work  done  at  the  alms- 
house, carr}ing  flowers  and  literature  to  the  inmates.  South  China  has 
carried  twenty-seven  bouquets  to  the  sick  and  aged.  Monmouth  has  done 
some  work  and  Vassalboro  has  distributed  forty-five  bouquets  to  the  sick 
and  '*shut  ins."  On  prison  day  twenty-five  bouquets  together  with  copies 
of  the  Union  Signal  and  scripture  cards  were  given  to  the  prisoners. 
China,  since  May,  has  distributed  fifty  bouquets  with  text  cards  and  also 
boxes  of  flowers.  On  Memorial  day  flowers  have  been  furnished  and  also 
on  funeral  occasions. 

Knox  County. — Warren  has  furnished  the  required  number  of  bouquets 
on  prison  day,  and  a  delegation  of  four  visited  the  prisoners  on  the  same 
day.  Flowers  with  cards  attached  have  also  been  sent  to  the  sick.  On 
flower  mission  day  the  Unions  of  Rockland,  Warren,  Union  and  Waldo- 
boro  united  with  the  Thomaston  Union  in  contributing  bouquets  for  the 
prisons.  To  each  prisoner  there  was  also  given  the  flower  mission  num- 
ber of  the  Union  Signal.     Rockland  has  done  much  work  in  this  line. 

Lincoln  County. — Jefferson  reports  that  flowers  have  been  furnished  for 
the  church  and  those  who  needed  such  ministr}'.  Broad  Cove  and  Dam- 
ariscottahave  also  carried  on  the  work.  Waldoboro  has  sent  more  than 
a  hundred  bouquets  with  text  cards  attached,  to  the  sick  and  those  in 
prisons,  and  has  contributed  flowers  for  memorial  day  and  a  number  of 
funerals. 

Piscataquis  County. — As  there  are  no  prisons  or  reformatories  in  this 
county  the  work  of  the  flower  mission  has  been  to  furnish  flowers  for  funer- 
als and  to  send  them  to  the  poor,  sick  and  **shut  ins."  At  Greenville,  the 
Union  held  a  very  successful  flower  mission  concert  near  Jennie  Casse- 
day's  birthday.  They  have  also  sent  wreaths  or  bouquets  in  every  instance 
of  death,  with  a  text  card  and  white  ribbon  attached.  Guilford  has  fur- 
nished flowers  for  all  funerals,  and  has  sent  them  to  the  neighboring 
towns.     Dover  sent  flowers  to  **shut  ins"  and  sick  friends. 

Waldo  County. — Belfast  reports  that  on  flower  mission  day  a  large 
delegation  visited  the  county  jail  and  also  the  alms-house,  carrying  litera- 


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tare  and  bouquets  tied  with  white  ribbon  having  a  scripture  text  card 
attached  to  each.  Searsmont  distributed  twenty  bouquets  to  sick  and 
aged  people,  having  no  jails  or  special  places  to  visit. 

Washington  County. — Harrington  has  endeavored  to  carry  to  all  "shut 
ins"  bouquets  and  text  cards  tied  with  white  ribbon.  They  also  furnished 
floral  pieces  for  the  dead  and  helped  to  decorate  the  church.  Steuben 
has  furnished  flowers  for  the  church  and  Sabbath  school  every  week  and 
floral  decorations  for  Sabbath  school  concerts  and  W.  C.  T.  U.  lectures 
and  entertainments,  also  sent  flowers  to  a  Sabbath  school  in  a  distant  part 
of  the  town,  every  week,  and  after  the  8er\'ice8  these  have  been  sent  to  the 
sick  or  those  who  cannot  have  flowers  of  their  own.  At  West  Jonesport 
the  Sabbath  school  has  been  supplied  with  flowers  and  the  sick  have  had 
their  share. 

At  Cherr3rfield  flower  mission  day  was  generally  observed.  The  alms- 
house was  visited  and  sick  people  were  supplied  with  flowers.  The  work 
has  been  continued  since  then,  fifty  bouquets  having  been  sent,  fruit,  jelly 
and  othpr  delicacies  sometimes  being  added.  In  this  Union  several  mem- 
bers are  past  eighty  years  old  and  these  they  were  very  particular  to  visit 
in  their  mission  of  love.  At  Machias  flower  mission  day  was  observed. 
Bouquets  were  carried  to  the  jail  by  a  number  of  little  girls.  West  Pem- 
broke has  sent  a  number  of  bouquets  to  the  sick  and  **8hut  ins*'. 

York  C'ounty. — The  Sui)erintendent  writes  that  the  Unions  have  failed 
to  send  their  reports.  Biddeford  and  Saco  have  done  some  work  but  have 
not  reported.  Kennebec  has  carried  on  the  work  as  different  occasions 
have  arisen. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

EDITH  E.  LIBBY, 
State   Superintendent    Flower  Mission    Work. 


Reformatory  Prison  for  Women. 

As  this  has  been  the  *'  off  year"  for  the  Legislature,  there  has  not  been 
much  opportunity  for  advantageous  effort  to  promote  this  much  needed 
"work  of  securing  a  reformatory  institution  for  women  who  are,  under  our 
present  system  of  punishment,  incarcerated  in  jails  and  prisons  where 
male  criminals  are  also  imprisoned.  It  is  impossible  to  do  much  to  elevate 
-either  sex,  under  such  circumstances. 

Outside  of  Maine,  all  the  New  England  prisons  where  females  are 
incarcerated  have  matrons  to  take  care  of  them.  We  believe  the  law  of 
Maine  ought  to  provide  for  a  matron  in  this  State.  We  think  there  ought 
to  be  a  woman  (one,  at  least,)  on  the  State  Board  of  Prison  Inspectors,  in 
order  that  an  influence  may  be  exerted  to  have  female  prisoners  properly 
cared  for  and  punished. 

Preliminary  steps  have  been  taken  to,  if  possible,  secure  this  if  we  fail 
to  succeed  in  getting  a  prison  for  won^en,  officered  by  women,  ver}'  soon. 
We  expect  to  renew  our  efforts  to  convince  the  next  Legislature  which  will 
•convene  early  in  1893,  of  the  wisdom  and  necessity  (for  society's  sake,)  of 
instituting  a  reformatory  prison  where  women  criminals  may  be  taught 
better  ways  of  living  and  doing  and  where  they  may  be  won  by  love  and 
kindness  from  motherly-hearted  officers,  to  step  upon  a  higher  plane  and 
adopt  higher  aims,  and  teach  them  to  their  children,  in  order  that  succeed- 
ing generations  may  be  benefited  by  such  an  institution  as  we  hope  to 
.secure. 

The  States  of  Indiana  and  Massachusetts  have  tested  the  experiment  of 
instituting  such  a  place  with  marked  success.  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Livermore 
has  visited  both  of  those  institutions  and  she  gives  glowing  reports  of  them. 
-Speaking  of  the  one  in  Indianapolis,  which  one  member  of  your  committee 
-also  has  visited,  she  says  :  **  I  discovered  that  even  the  hardened  criminals, 
in  the  technical  sense  of  the  word,  women  who  had  been  guilty  of  the 
most  terrible  crimes  in  the  calendar,  were,  nevertheless,  under  the  excel- 
lent protective  system,  developing  the  latent  good  within  them,  so  that 
they  could  now  be  trusted  to  act  like  honorable  beings." 


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We  trust  that  every  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union  woman  in 
our  State  will  strive  to  exert  an  influence  for  this  object  for  which  we  are 
working.  Let  those  who  have  friends  or  acquaintances  in  the  Legislature 
speak  or  write  to  each  of  these  and  try  to  secure  their  vote  in  favor  of  the 
measure.  Let  us  not  bo  "weary  in  well  doing"  but  keep  on,  assured 
that  no  effort  rightly  put  forth,  is  in  vain.  Success  is  sure  if  we  falter 
not  but  persevere.  Let  us,  at  least,  sow  seed  for  others  to  reap  it  we  do 
not. 

"  Watch  not  the  clouds  above  thee, 

Let  the  wild  winds  round  thee  sweep; 
God  may  the  seed  time  give  thee, 
Another's  hand  may  reap." 
But  we  expect  to  reap  if  we  faint  not. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

HANNAH  J.  BAILEY, 
MRS.  GEO.  S.  HUNT, 
CLARA  M.  FARWELL, 

Committee. 


Hygiene  and   Heredity. 


This  department  has  not  received  the  attention  the  past  year  which  its 
importance  demands,  but  slowly  and  surely  thought  is  being  aroused,  and 
interest  shown  not  only  among  the  women  of  our  Unions,  but  we  now 
find  instruction  given  on  the  laws  of  hygiene  by  maps,  charts  and  text 
books  in  most  of  our  schools.  The  children  can  tell  that  the  poison  of 
alcohol  lurks  in  every  glass  of  beer  or  cider,  and  these  lessons  are  followed 
by  practical  studies  on  narcotics,  physical  culture,  etc. 

Ought  not  the  inflexible  laws  of  heredity,  which  will  bring  surely  either 
joy  or  sorrow,  to  be  studied  and  taught  also,  in  our  homes  and  schools  ? 
Is  it  not  the  duty  of  this  enlightened  age  to  transmit  to  future  generations 
strong  muscles,  healthy  rerves  and  vigorous  brains  ?  It  is  required  of 
parents  and  governments  to  make  the  environments  of  the  young  such  as 
will  elevate,  and  suppress  such  as  will  deteriorate.  I  am  glad  that  our 
white  ribboners  are  waking  up  to  the  need  of  active  work  along  these  lines. 


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I  will  not  give  details,  but  many  Unions  are  doing  efficient  work.  This 
department  has  been  presented  at  most  of  the  County  Conventions  by 
papers  and  discussions  that  have  caused  increased  interest,  especially  in 
Mothers*  Meetings. 

Considerable  literature  has  been  circulated,  some  lectures  given,  and  the 
subject  brought  before  teachers  and  super\'isors,  urging  the  need  of  having 
women  on  school  boards  and  boards  of  health.  These  topics  should  be 
brought  before  grangers  and  medical  associations,  requesting  them  to  discuss 
'*  The  Effects  of  Physical,  Mental  and  Moral  Inheritance  from  Parents 
Addicted  to  the  Use  of  Alcoholic  Drinks  and  Narcotics." 

Since  environment  is  so  important  a  factor  in  causing  intemperance,  let 
us,  my  sisters,  be  active  in  organized,  persistent  work,  which  is  as  much 
neede:1  in  this  as  any  of  our  departments,  sowing  patiently  the  good  seed 
for  future  generations  to  reap. 

llespectfully  submitted, 

MRS.  M.  F.  BUNKER, 
State  Sujtt.  Dcjtt.  Hi/f/iene  and  Heredity. 


Prison,  Jail  and  Almshouse  Work. 


Madam  President  and  Co-worktrs  of  the  W.  0.  T.   i\  : 

Warren  F.  Spauldmg,  Secretary  of  the  Massachusetts  Prison  Associa- 
tion, says,  '*  Nothing  surprises  me  more  than  the  indifference  of  many 
thoroughly  good  people  to  the  work  of  helping  those  who  have  committed 
crime.  Many  whose  hands  and  hearts  are  always  open  to  every  other 
form  of  charity  have  no  interest  in  the  kind  of  pcoi)le  for  whom  we  are 
working."  The  blessed  Christ  was  not  unmindful  of  those  who  were  sick 
and  in  prison,  and  when  He  was  (piestioned  by  those  to  whom  He  was 
talking  He  answereil  **  Inasmuch  as  ye  have  done  it  unto  one  of  the  least 
of  these,  ye  have  done  it  unto  me."  God  is  no  resi)ecter  of  persons,  and 
each  soul  is  alike  precious  to  Him.  The  interest  in  our  prison  and  alms- 
house work  in  the  State  is  deepening  and  widening,  but  I  feel  that  we 
might  all  be  more  interested.  Dear  sisters,  let  us  work  as  if  some  cif  our 
dear  ones  weie  shut  in  from  the  sunlight,  bird  music  and  freedom.     Would 


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we  not  then  be  more  in  earnest  ?     Remember,  each  one  is  some  mother  8 
child,  once  just  as  pure  as  are  the  dear  ones  in  your  home  or  mine. 

In  a  report  like  this,  only  a  faint  idea  can  be  given  of  the  work  accom- 
plished, but  good  seed  has  been  sown  and  we  are  willing  to  leave  the 
results  with  God. 

Mrs.  Wagg,  Superintendent  of  Androscoggin  County,  says,  *'  Our  jail 
is*oneof  the  three  that  has  a  worjishop  attached,  so  that  criminals  of 
other  counties  who  are  sentenced  for  any  length  of  time  are  brought  here. 
During  the  year  we  have  had  a  very  large  number,  sometimes  as  many  as 
one  hundred  at  a  time.  There  are  meetings  held  every  Sabbath  in  the 
year  at  9  o'clock  in  the  morning.  Each  month  we  hold  a  Gospel  Temper- 
ance meeting  under  the  auspices  of  the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance 
Union.  There  have  been  real  conversions  among  the  prisoners,  and  after 
they  have  been  released  from  the  prison  they  have  come  into  the  meetings 
to  labor  for  the  conversion  of  those  remaining. 

At  the  Aroostook  County  jail,  located  at  Houlton,  faithful  work  has 
been  done.  Religious  services  have  been  held  the  second  Sabbith  in  each 
month  during  the  year.  At  Christmas  there  were  ten  prisoners.  A  treat 
of  fruit  and  confectionery  was  given  each.  Two  hundred  newspapers  have 
been  passed  in  and  exchanged  among  the  prisoners.  We  take  Youths' 
Companion,  Signal,  Voice,  Star  in  the  East,  Sunday  School  Times,  and 
many  religious  papers.  The  prison  number  of  the  Siynal  was  also  given 
each  inmate. 

Cumberland  County. — In  August  I  had  a  very  helpful  letter  from  Miss 
Abbie  Lieavitt  of  Portland,  who  was  then  in  England  for  her  health.  She 
said  that  most  blessed  work  was  being  done  in  her  county. 

Miss  Scales  of  Franklin  County  writes,  *'  Our  jail  has  been  empty  a 
good  part  of  the  time  during  the  year.  At  present  there  are  three  inmates, 
only  one  from  our  own  county,  a  young  man  of  an  exceptionally  idle  and 
ignorant  family.  The  other  two  are  swindlers  from  away.  Since  the  close 
of  the  liquor  agency  here  crime  has  been  on  the  decrease.  We  have  a 
very  active  sheriff  and  there  is  very  little  law  breaking. 

Mrs.  M.  W.  Cook  of  Hancock  County,  reports,  "  It  is  the  rule  of  the 
W^oman's  Christian  Temperance  Union  of  Ellsworth  to  appoint  some  of 
its  members  to  visit  the  jail  every  Sunday  and  hold  a  Gospel  Temperance 
meeting,  and  during  the  summer  with  the  exception  of  a  few  Sundays,  the 
jail  has  been  visited.     Ten  men  have  signed  the  pledge.     Over   two  hun- 


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died  papers,  both  religious  and  secular,  have  been  given  out.  Books  have 
been  loaned  often  from  the  Sunday  School  library.  Four  women  have 
been  imprisoned  at  different  times  during  the  year. 

The  following  good  report  comes  from  the  local  Superintendent  at 
Augusta.  Mrs.  M.  C.  Haskell  says,  "  I  can  say  that  our  jail  work  has 
been  more  encouraging  this  year  than  in  any  of  the  past  sixteen  years  in 
which  we  have  labored.  Formerly  we  held  religious  services  every  Sunday 
but  since  Mr.  Stevens*  administration  we  have  been  restricted  to  one  serv- 
ice a  month.  Since  Mr.  Stevens  has  had  an  opportunity  of  judging  our 
work  by  its  results,  which  before  he  evidently  did  not  understand  or  appre- 
ciate, he  has  given  us  aid  and  encouragement  in  all  ways  in  his  power. 
We  have  been  permitted  to  carry  religious  and  temperance  literature  every 
Sunday  afternoon,  and  a  committee  from  our  Union  carry  from  thirty  to 
forty  papers  to  the  prisoners  each  week.  More  than  one  has  given  evi- 
dence of  a  regenerated  life. 

Miss  Mehan  of  Knox  County,  says,-  *'  The  ladies  of  our  Union  have 
taken  turns  in  going  to  the  prison  Sunday  mornings  to  hold  a  service  with 
the  women  convicts,  and  I  think  they  have  done  a  great  deal  of  good. 
There  are  ^ye  women  in  the  prison.  The  warden  is  anxious  to  find  some 
good,  faithful  woman  to  act  as  matron,  and  I  sincerely  hope  he  will  be 
successful,  for  they  need  a  woman's  care  and  instruction.  This  year  a 
chaplain  has  been  appointed  who  devotes  all  his  tme  to  the  good  of  the 
prisoners,  teaching  and  helping  them.  He  is  an  excellent  man,  a  Metho- 
dist minister,  and  is  well  suited  to  his  position. 

Lincoln  County. — Miss  Emma  Trowbridge,  Superintendent,  says,  **Four 
Unions  have  taken  up  almshouse  work.  In  Round  Pond  only  is  there  an 
almshouse,  and  the  Superintendent  of  that  department  has  the  work  in 
charge.  The  town's  poor  in  our  other  towns  are  boarded  in  different  fam- 
ilies, and  wherever  a  Union  has  been  organized  the  members  have  always 
thought  of  these  unfortunate  ones  by  sending  good  literature,  flowers  and 
remembering  the  sick  ones  by  sending  some  delicacy  to  tempt  their  appe- 
tites. Mrs.  Prichard  reports  that  the  Crusade  has  charge  of  the  devotional 
service  every  other  Sunday  at  the  jail.  They  have  given  clothes  to  many 
of  the  prisonerp,  so  that  they  might  look  respectable  on  leaving  the  jail. 
They  have  secured  employment  for  several,  which  is  the  hardest  work  of  all, 
as  so  few  are  willing  to  employ  men  who  have  been  in  jail. 

Piscataquis  County. — Mrs.  Addie  Chamberlain,  Superintendent,  says, 
•♦  There  are  only  a  few  lock-ups  where  those  arrested  are  held  until  they: 


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can  be  sent  to  the  Bangor  jail.  Most  of  the  towns  have  an  almshouse  or 
poor  farm,  but  there  are  few  inmates,  and  most  of  these  have  ver}*  little 
intellect.     I  think  they  are  generally  well  cared  for. 

Miss  Hicks  of  Waldo  County,  has  taken  prison  work  in  charge  along 
with  her  many  other  duties.  The  Belfast  Union  visited  the  jail  and  alms- 
house on  Flower  Mission  Day. 

A  few  words  ia  regard  to  our  prisoners.  Men,  and  women  too,  commit 
crimes  and  are  shut  avvav  from  the  world — from  God's  sunshine,  and  from 
the  voices  of  loved  ones  at  home.  In  the  great  majority  of  instances  these 
crimes  have  been  committed  while  under  the  influence  of  liquor — and  the 
poor  victim  would  not  have  done  such  a  thing  in  a  sober  moment  any 
more  quickly  than  you  or  I.  I  hope  for  the  coming  of  the  time  when  it 
will  be  clearly  understood  that  all  who  commit  crimes  are  not  criminals  at 
heart ;  that  the  act  a  man  commits  is  not  necessarily  an  indent  of  his  real 
character ;  that  the  worst  men  and  women  have,  at  times,  aspirations  for 
better  things  ;  that  a  "jail  bird"  is  not  always  to  be  shunned  or  distrusted 
or  shut  out  from  all  hcpe.  Let  us  thank  God  that  we  were  not  exposed 
to  similar  temptations. 

Dear  sisters,  during  the  coming  year  let  us  petition  for  a  charity  fund 
toward  providing  a  home  for  those  who  have  been  discharged  from  prison, 
where  they  can  be  cared  for  until  they  can  secure  em})loyment.  May  the 
dear  Lord  help  us  to  help  others  to  heaven  and  to  God. 

llespectfuUy  submitted, 

MRS.  B.  MIXARD, 
Stafc  Sujft.  Prlsotu  Jail  aiifl  Ahnsho^/se  Work, 


Influencing  the  Press. 


Madam  President  and  Go-  Workers: 

"As  a  man  readeth  in  his  newspaper,  so  is  he,"  is  a  saying  evidently 
believed  by  the  founders  of  our  society,  for  the  department  for  influencing 
the  press  was  one  of  the  five  original  lines  of  work  adopted  at  the  forma- 
tion of  the  national  Union.  As  our  own  State  President  was  its  first 
Superintendent,  all  press  workers  may  feel  that  they  are  following  her  by 
direct  apostolic  succession.  And  of  what  could  a  Maine  woman  be 
prouder  ? 

The  session  of  the  World's  and  National  convention  so  near  us,  gave 
this  department  a  wonderful  impetus  at  the  beginning  of  the  year.  The 
State  Superintendent  urged  every  Maine  white  ribboner  she  met  there  to 
liberally  supply  her  local  editor  with  reports  of  that  great  gathering,  her- 
self undertaking  to  send  suitable  notes  to  the  religious  press  in  addition  to 
her  local  papers.  The  numerous  papers  sent  me  indicate  that  faithful 
work  was  done,  and  that  the  doings  of  the  convention  were  well  aired  in  all 
paHs  of  the  state. 

The  Coufity  reports  this  year  arc  far  superior  to  any  previously  received 
and  show  a  marked  gain,  both  in  the  number'  of  press  workers  and  the 
amount  of  temperance  matter  published.  Seventy-three  local  Superin- 
tendents are  reported  against  fifty-six  last  year.  At  least  thirty-five 
papers  grant  us  a  column  more  or  less,  per  week,  while  about  eighty-five 
publish  occasional  articles  and  about  one  thousand  columns  of  selected 
matter,  touching  every  phase  of  the  temperance  movement  and  every 
branch  of  our  work,  have  been  published  through  the  enterprise  of  our 
Superintendents. 

Androscoggin  County. — All  the  papers  publish  temperance  matter  con- 
tributed by  the  local  Superintendents,  though  only  two  run  regular  col- 
umns. The  Lewiston  Journal  and  Auburn  Gazette  have,  during  the 
year,  published  many  columns  consisting  chiefly  of  short  newsy  paragraphs 
and  reports  of  meetings. 


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Aroostook  County. — Excellent  work  done  in  this  County;  Houlton,  Fort 
Fairfield,  Caribou,  Danforth,  Blaine  and  Presque  Isle  all  have  com- 
petent Superintendents.  Several  papers  run  reji^ular  temperance  columns. 
At  Presque  Isle,  Mrs.  Tarbell  secured  the  publication  of  a  temperance 
sermon  by  Dr.  Merrill  of  Portland  and  a  letter  from  Superintendent  Luce, 
on  temperance  teaching  in  schools 

Cumberland. — The  Su|)erintendent  says:  **The  Republican  papers  have 
been  forced  to  take  a  stand  for  temperance  and  the  enforcement  of  the 
prohibitory  law  by  Democratic  opposition." 

Franklin.  Every  paper  in  the  Country  kindly  offers  its  columns  to  our 
work.  The  column  in  the  Farmington  Chronicle,  reopened  in  June,  ia 
proving  ver}'  helpful.  Even  those  not  of  our  order  have  sent  kindly  mes- 
sages concerning  it. 

Kennebec's  report  contains  many  good  points.  A  discussion  of  Sab- 
bath observance  by  Augusta  clergymen  filled  many  columns.  At  Win- 
throp,  the  President's  annual  address  was  printed  in  full.  A  Gardiner 
paper  has  devoted  a  column  to  items  of  special  interest  to  women.  China's 
Superintendent  has  contributed  fifty-one  columns  to  her  local  newspaper, 
sent  items  to  others  in  the  County  and  secured  a  temperance  column  from 
the  friendly  editor  of  the  Kennehec   Valhy  Sews. 

Several  Knox  Superintendents  have  done  good  work,  notably  Rockland, 
who  has  sent  in  276  items,  112  of  which  have  appeared.  Lincoln  has  but 
three  Superintendents.  The  Round  Pond  Union  has  regularly  contributed 
a  column  or  more  to  the  Pemaquid  Messenger.  Waldoboro  and  Jefferson 
have  found  a  helper  in  the  Lincoln  Count g  Netcs. 

Piscataquis. — So  many  of  the  Unions  are  new  that  there  are  as  yet  few 
press  workers.  Mrs.  Mar. in  of  Foxcroft  furnishes  temperance  matter  for 
the  Pl^cataqais  Ohscrver  and  other  papers.  Guilford  Union  conducts  a 
weekly  column  in  the  Guilford  Citizen,  while  several  others  send  occa- 
sional items. 

Sagadahoc. — Twelve  articles  sent  the  Bath  paper,  three  reports  of  ser- 
mons. Application  made  for  space  in  the /t/r//7?/f)//f/ /yee.  Somerset  is  the 
Banner  County.  Mrs.  Lawrence  writes:  **There  are  ten  Unions  in  the 
County  eight  of  which  have  press  Superintendents.  Nine  papem  are 
published,  seven  containing  Women's  Christian  Temperance  Union  col- 
umns, and  I  hope  soon  to  have  a  column  filled  in  the  FittsJiM  Advertiser. 
I  sent  Mrs;  Stickney's  article  on  Sunday  schools  and  the  World's  Fair  to 
every  paper  in  the  County  and  think  it  was  published  in  all. 


8! 

Waldo — The  two  papers  usually  publi8h«*d  items  and  articles  by  re- 
quest. About  twelve  columns  printed  during  the  year.  Washington. 
Mrs.  Drisko,  wife  of  the  editor  of  the  Machias  Union,  sends  an  excellent 
report.  Of  the  six  papers,  four  give  space  to  the  Unions  and  show  a 
growing  interest  in  the  temperance  cause.  Mrs.  Drisko  averages  about 
two  columns  a  week,  besides  sometimes  selecting  a  temperance  story. 
Subjects  oftenest  treated,  liquor  drinking,  tobacco  using,  social  purity  and 
woman  suffrage.  At  Eastport  articles  have  been  freely  inserted  and  a 
definite  space  is  now  promised.  Calais  has  just  taken  up  the  department. 
Cherryfield  has  no  local  paper,  but  Mrs  Silsby  has  sent  communications 
to  other  towns. 

In  Hancock,  Oxford  and  York  good  local  work,  but  no  County  re- 
ports. By  an  oversight  Penobscot  failed  to  appoint  a  County  Superin- 
tendent at  its  last  convention,  though  local  Unions  have  continued  the 
department  with  good  success.  Perhaps  the  greatest  need  at  present  is 
more  attention  to  some  of  the  city  dailies,  but  let  every  Union,  whether  in 
city  or  country,  aid  its  press  Superintendent  by  hearty  encouragement  and 
the  small  amount  of  money  required  in  the  successful  prosecution  of  this, 
the  most  wide-reaching  of  all  our  departments. 

AS    STATE   REPOBTER    TO  UNION  SIGNAL. 

I  have  sent  eleven  letters  and  I  desire  to  thank  all  who  have  supplied  me 
with  news  either  of  their  own  department  or  of  local  Unions  and  to  solicit 
yet  more  assistance  of  this  kind  the  coming  year,  since  without  it  I  am 
compelled  to  make  "bricks  without  straw." 

MARY  L.  FRENCH. 
State  Superintendent  Department  Injlaencing  the  I\ess. 


Social  Purity. 


**  Blessed  are  the  pure  in  heart  for  they  shall  see  God."  With  this 
incentive  to  cheer  us  on  and  as  the  years  are  quickly  passing  by,  we  feel 
these  golden  opportunities  as  they  are  improved  or  neglected  will  all  appear 
to  us  again  some  day,  so  if  we  would  wear  the  crown  let  us  bear  the  cross. 
We  have  only  to  do  the  work  that  comes  to  our  hands,  carefully  and 
prayerfully,  leaving  the  result  with  Him  who  said  **  your  labor  is  not  in 
vain  in  the  Lord." 

The  year  now  closing  has  been  full  of  changes  to  tjiis  department,  which 
has  hindered  the  work  very  much.  Many  new  superintendents  have  been 
appointed  to  the  county  work  as  well  as  local,  thus  the  work  and  the 
workers  both  being  new,  the  work  has  been  retarded  not  a  little.  Your 
State  Superintendent's  removal  to  another  state  has  also  hindered  the  work, 
but  amid  all  this  there  has  been  more  and  better  work  than  ever  before, 
and  with  such  seed  sowing  we  may  look  for  an  abundant  harvest  '*  some 
sweet  day  bye  and  bye." 

There  has  been  \cry  much  work  done  that  cannot  be  reported  here.  As 
you  arc  aware  this  department  differs  from  all  others,  therefore  the  reports 
to  which  you  listen  will  but  imperfectly  record  the  amount  of  prayerful 
and  earnest  personal  effort  that  has  been  done  in  a  silent  way  and  must 
only  await  the  ingathering  of  the  final  harvest  when  even  the  cup  of  cold 
water  is  not  forgotten  if  given  in  His  name.  My  heart  is  made  to  rejoice 
that  so  many  mothers  are  being  awakened  to  the  great  truths  of  this  sub- 
ject. Public  sentiment  has  been  advanced,  and  in  many  ways  we  know 
the  standard  has  been  raised  to  higher  ideals  of  purity.  Thus  the  work 
is  reaching  out  from  our  white  ribbon  homes  to  influence  other  homes,  and 
so  the  good  work  goes  on. 

Androscoggin. — Mrs.  C.  I).  Parsons  has  made  2,005  calls,  written  168 
letters  outside  her  county  work,  105  people  helped  directly,  B34  articles  of 
clothing  given  away.  Other  Unions  have  done  similar  work,  and  as  a 
whole  this  county  seems  to  be  the  banner  county  for  the  great  amount  of 


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work  done.     Lewiston  has  done  grand  work  through  the  police  matron 
who  is  employed  by  the  city  and  is  also  the  Purity  Superintendent. 

Aroostook  County. — Mrs.  L.  A.  Smart,  Superintendent.  Eleven  lect- 
ures were  given  in  the  county  on  **  Social  Evils,"  and  many  Mothers' 
Meetings  held.  Each  member  of  one  Union  pledges  herself  to  pray  and 
work  for  some  person  one  year  that  he  or  she  may  be  reformed.  I  trust 
all  Unions  will  adopt  this  method  of  work. 

Cumberland  County. — Mrs.  G.  E.  Morrill,  Superintendent.  Separate 
recesses  have  been  secured  in  four  prim arj'  schools  and  good  work  done 
with  the  purity  pledges.  Portland  holds  Mothers'  Meetings,  has  public 
lectures,  also  has  one  regular  meeting  devoted  to  purity  work.  We  know 
much  good  work  has  been  done  by  our  beloved  Mrs.  T.  W.  Merrill,  who 
was  our  State  Superintendent  for  many  years  and  is  still  local  Superin- 
tendent of  Portland.  Mrs.  Berry  of  New  Gloucester,  has  a  lecture  for 
young  girls — ver}-  helpful ;  hope  Unions  will  remember  this  and  employ  her. 

Franklin  County. — Mrs.  Imogene  F.  Norton,  '^uperintentendent.  Moth- 
ers' Meetings  held  which  have  been  very  beneficial,  1,457  pages  of  litera- 
ture distributed,  books  in  circulation,  and  a  growing  interest  in  this  line  of 
work  ;  three  new  Superintendents. 

Hancock  County. — Mrs.  L.  B.  Pcckham,  Superintendent.  A  large 
amount  of  literature  distributed  and  several  books  loaned.  Kennebec 
County. — Mrs.  J.  A.  Jenkins,  Superintendent.  New  Superintendents 
have  been  appointed,  thousands  of  })a<;cs  of  literature  distributed.  Mothers' 
Meetings  held,  many  pled{i;es  signed  ;  lectures  have  been  given ;  five 
Unions  have  taken  up  the  work.  Two  thousand  pages  of  literature  can- 
not fail  to  bring  forth  fruit  for  higlicr  ideals  of  purity. 

Oxford  County. — Mrs.  Benj.  Swett,  Superintendent,  feels  pleased  to 
report  three  new  local  Superintendents.  Three  Unions  hold  Mothers' 
Meetings.  One  Union  spent  $o.00  for  literature.  A  large  amount  of 
pledge  cards  signed.  Another  Union  has  distributed  2,773  pages  of  liter- 
ature, with  80  pledge  cards  signed. 

Penobscot  County. — Mrs.  U.  S.  Mathews,  Superintendent.  The  Unions 
make  Mothers'  Meetings  a  special  feature  ;  afternoon  meeting  and  lecture 
in  the  evening  by  the  State  Superintendent  at  Plymouth,  annual  subscriber 
to  the  Temporary  Home  at  Portland,  earnest  work  done  among  the  girls 
which  has  been  wonderfully  blessed,  school  premises  cleaned  from  all 
impure  markings,  and  the  teachers  are  enlisted  to  keep  things  pure.  This 
all  is  the  outcome  of  Mothers'  Meetings. 


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Piscataquis  County. — Mrs.  C.  M.  Young,  Superintendent.  This  county 
keeps  its  record  good  by  appointing  new  Purity  Superintendents  as  fast  as 
there  are  new  Unions  formed ;  426  pages  of  literature  distributed  and  100 
pledge  cards  signed. 

Washington  County. — Mrs.  Abby  A.  Campbell,  Superintendent.  Have 
sent  two  girls  to  the  Temporary  Home  in  Portland,  and  two  others  who 
were  fatherless  and  worse  than  motherless  have  been  cared  for.  Pledges 
have  been  signed  both  in  the  mission  schools  and  sewing  school  and  Loyal 
Temperance  Legions,  also  a  poor,  lame,  sick  boy  has  been  ca^^d  for  by  the 
dear  sisters.  This  county  is  noted  especially  for  its  care  for  the  homeless 
children,  putting  them  in  homes  where  they  will  have  pure  influences. 

Knox  County. — Mrs.  M.  H.  Mallett,  Superintendent.  Most  of  the 
Unions  have  Superintendents.  Work  has  been  done  in  public  schools,  and 
one  lecture  given  ;  a  few  Mothers'  Meetings  held. 

York  County. — Mrs.  Sarah  A.  Weymouth,  Superintendent.     The  Unions 
are  slow  to  take  up  the  work  in  this  department.     Only  two  Unions  have^ 
Superintendents,  and  they  have  sent  in  no  report. 

Sagadahoc  County. — Mrs.  Nancy  J.  Clark,  Superintendent,  reports  one 
thousand  pages  of  literature  distributed  and  some  three  hundred  pages  of 
a  sermon  on  **  Evil  Speaking,"  by  Rev.  H.  G.  Spaulding  of  Boston.  It 
not  being  convenient  to  hold  Mothers'  Meetings  the  Superintendent  of 
Purity  Work  was  given  twenty  minutes  at  each  meeting  to  present  her 
department.     The  work  has  been  blessed  throughout  the  county. 

Waldo  County. — Mrs.  E.  A.  Piper,  Superintendent.  She  has  had  five 
silver  medal  contests,  the  proceeds  to  go  to  buy  her  purity  literature,  and 
now  has  another  in  readiness  for  the  gold  medal  contest.  She  has  been 
enabled  to  distribute  thousands  of  pages  of  literature,  and  has  a  large 
amount  of  pledge  cards  signed.  She  has  taught  it  in  her  Sabbath  School 
class,  talked  at  society  sociables,  and  in  fact  everywhere  and  in  every  place 
where  she  could.  Mrs.  Merrill  recommends  the  Free  Kindergarten  School 
as  one  of  the  best  means  of  regenerating  the  homes  of  the  poor  and  the 
homes  of  the  community  generally. 

Your  Superintendent  would  urge  all  Unions  to  take  the  magazine  rec- 
ommended so  highly  by  Miss  Willard,  which  comes  monthly,  81.25  per 
year,  called  the  Home  Guardian.  It  is  devoted  to  moral  education  and 
moral  reform,  and  b  very  helpful  in  Mothers'  Meetings.  In  this  year 
before  us  let  us  all  remember  that  **  she  that  goeth  forth  and  weepeth. 


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bearing  precious  seed  shall  doubtless  come  again  with  rejoicing,  bringing 
her  sheaves  with  her." 

In  conclusion,  your  SujKjrintendent  feels  that  she  has  been  remiss  in 
many  ways  the  past  year,  hindered  by  over- work,  removal  from  the  state 
and  other  circumstances  over  which  she  had  no  control,  and  to-day  gladly 
resigns  her  work  into  other  hands  which  can  better  carry  on  this  im^wr- 
tant  work. 

"  Others  shall  sing  the  song; 
Others  shall  right  the  wrong; 
Finish  what  I  begin, 
And  all  I  fail  to  win. 

What  matter,  I  or  they, 
Mine  or  another's  day, — 
So  the  right  word  he  said. 
And  life  the  sweeter  made." 

FLORA  A.  WRIGHT, 

State  Supt.  Dept,  Purity. 


Evangelistic  Work. 


Madam  President  and  Sisters  of  the  Convention  : 

1  come  before  you  to-day  i-calizing  that  the  work  of  this  department  has 
fallen  far  short  of  what  should  have  been  accomplished  in  the  past  year. 
It  is  still  the  old  story  of  our  Saviour  s  day,  fields  white  and  laborers  few, 
and  the  need  of  the  same  command  to  his  workers,  '*  pray  ye  therefore  the 
Lord  of  harvest  that  he  would  tend  forth  more  laborers."  Myself  unfitted 
by  illness  even  from  much  writing  through  a  large  })art  of  the  winter,  yet 
never  were  so  many  calls  for  tender  ministration  to  the  sick  and  dying,  the 
bereaved  and  sorrowing,  a  part  of  our  work  jxiculiarly  blessed  and  honored 
of  God.  Many  of  our  county  and  local  Su[)eriiitendents  were  held  back 
from  the  same  cause,  yet  the  reports  give  touching  evidence  of  a  deepening 
sympathy  and  enlarged  spiritual  life  on  the  part  of  those  who  have  put 
themselves  into  the  Master  s  hands  to  be  used  for  His  work. 


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Androscoggin  Count}*  has  sent  its  usual  excellent  reports  of  work  in 
different  Unions :  children  gathered  into  Sabbath  School,  parents  into  the 
church,  Moth«*r8'  Meetings  held,  kept  in  sympathy  with  the  Y/s,  and  are 
very  helpful  to  them,  are  at  the  front  in  Gospel  and  jail  work,  where  they 
have  headquarters  especially  ;  and  more  and  more  the  blessed  spirit  of 
self-denial  and  persevering  faith  is  apparent. 

Aroostook  County  is  waking  up  in  this  direction.  In  Caribou  there 
have  been  seventeen  Gospel  Temperance  Meetings  held,  literature  distrib- 
uted and  eight  Mothers*  Meetings  and  Cottage  Meetings.  Other  Unions 
report  Mothers'  Meetings,  visiting  sick,  distributing  literature  and  more 
hopeful  signs  for  the  future. 

Cumberland  County  has  sent  no  report,  but  we  know  that  good  woik 
has  been  done  in  many  places.  Franklin  County  has  sent  no]  report  of 
work  done  except  through  some  of  the  local  Unions.  Some  Gospel  Tem- 
perance Meetings  have  been  held,  literature  distributed,  andsorae  sick 
visited. 

Hancock  County  has  sent  excellent  reports  from  some  of  its  local  Unions, 
notably  Southwest  Harbor,  where  Gospel  Meetings  in  the  form  of  Bible 
readings  have  been  held  ;  social  meetings  and  other  work  in  that  direction. 

Kennebec  County  reports  live  Gospel  Temperance  Meetings  held  at 
the  Augusta  headquarters,  aggressive  missionary  work  in  the  city — litera- 
ture distributed,  etc.,  some  Mothers'  Meetings  held.  In  many  instances 
the  Union^}  of  this  county  have  sent  delegates  to  School  of  Methods, 
grove  meetings,  etc. 

China  has  been  active  in  spiritual  work.  In  Winthrop  Mrs.  Hannah  J. 
Bailey  makes  the  local  press  and  the  literature  sent  out  from  thence  a 
power  for  good  throughout  not  only  our  state  but  the  nation  and  world  as 
well. 

Knox  County  reports  very  little  work  done — and  that  through  her  local 
Unions.  Lincoln  County  reports  its  Unions  growing  in  spirituality  and  in 
interest  in  evangelistic  lines  of  work,  many  of  its  Unions  observing  the 
trysting  time  of  prayer.  A  number  of  meetings  for  Bible  exposition  have 
been  held,  sixty-one  Gospel  Temperance  Meetings,  ten  in  churches,  ten 
Mothers'  and  Cottage  Meetings,  delegates  sent  to  S  hool  of  Methods,  1,000 
pages  of  literature  distributed,  300  leaflets  suggested  by  National  Super- 
intendent, and  some  new  names  enrolled  for  a  course  of  study  under  Dean 
Wright,  Gospel  institutes  held  conducted  by  Superintendent  of  Co-opera- 
tive Work.     Altogether  the  report  from  this  county  is  most  hopeful. 


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Oxford  County  has  reported  only  through  some  of  its  local  Unions. 
Good  work  has  been  done,  delegates  sent  to  School  of  Methods  at  Old 
Orchard,  poor  families  clothed  so"  they  could  attend  church  and  Sunday 
School,  Gospel  Meetings  held,  sick  visited,  etc. 

Penobscot  County  has  reported,  some  of-  its  Unions  showing  renewed 
interest  in  this  department.  Meetings  have  been  held  in  some  places  under 
the  care  of  the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union,  children  gathered 
into  its  Sabbath  Schools,  church  privileges  provided,  and  we  look  for  better 
days  for  this  county. 

Piscataquis  County  sends  no  report.  Sagadahoc  County  reports  work 
done  of  inestimable  val^e  to  themselves  as  well  as  a  precedent  to  others. 
One  Union  has  held  meetings  every  Sunday  the  past  year  with  three  excep- 
tions, which  were  very  stormy.  They  have  employed  a  minister  the  past 
year  and  have  engaged  him  for  another  year ;  have  had  three  temperance 
sermons,  one  peace  sermon.  Through  the  efforts  of  the  pastor  a  church 
has  been  organized  ;  one  baptism  ;  quite  an  interest  among  the  young  ; 
hope  another  year  to  distribute  more  literature  and  to  build  a  chapel  for 
the  worship  of  God.  May  a  wonderful  blessing  come  down  on  that  Union 
and  they  realize  that  "  them  that  honor  me  I  will  honor.'* 

Somerset  County  reports  some  good  work,  some  interest  in  work  among 
the  fallen  of  our  own  sex,  and  is  learning  the  secret  we  are  all  so  slow  at 
finding  out,  that  we  can  do  no  one  any  permanent  good  unless  we  truly 
love  them.  A  new  Union  has  been  organized  at  Ripley,  where  the  evan- 
gelistic element  seems  strong,  and  the  pastor  is  in  thorough  sympathy  with 
our  work  in  all  its  phases. 

Waldo  County  sends  a  most  thrilling  and  tender  report  from  its  Super- 
intendent, who  has  passed  her  allotted  threescore  and  ten  :  Distributing 
literature  broadcast,  trying  to  impress  the  Sabbath  Schools  with  the  impor- 
tance of  temperance  teaching,  gathering  in  the  unchurched  where  possible, 
and  again  holding  open  air  meetings  by  the  sea  shore. 

York  County  reports  throujrh  its  Superintendent  that  one  of  its  workers 
has  visited  334  families  of  the  sick,  aged  and  afflicted,  attended  1 17  relig- 
ious meetings,  a  few  cottage  meetings,  also  prayer  and  mission  meetings, 
and  church  services,  besides  temperance  meetings  ;  has  also  continued 
prison  woik,  corresponding  with  cgnverted  prisoners,  some  of  whom  are 
Christian  workers  among  their  fellow  prisoners  trying  to  lead  them  also  to 
Christ,  thus  cheering  their  solitude,  encouraging  them  in   their  Christian 


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life  and  work  for  Jesus  ;  has  sent  se\ieral  thousand  pages  of  religious'  liter- 
ature to  these  prisoners  and  has  had  many  evidences  that  God  has  used 
them  for  His  glory. 

This  closes  the  list.  I  hope  I  may  do  more  another  year  in  visiting  and 
laboring  personally  among  the  Unions  as  I  have  in  a  few  of  the  counties 
this  year,  and  I  greatly  hope  also  to  have  reports  from  each  County  Super- 
intendent of  work  done  in  each  local  Union  in  her  county  as  it  makes  the 
work  of  the  State  Superintendent  much  simpler  and  more  comprehensive. 
Let  us  press  on,  dear  sisters,  with  renewed  ardor  toward  that  glad  day  of 
blessed  cousummation  when  '*  they  that  sow  and  they  that  reap  shall 
rejoice  together." 

Respectfully  submitted, 

LUCY  A.  SNOW, 
StcUe  Supt,  Dept,  Evangeliatic  Work, 


Temperance  Instruction, 


Dear  Co-tvorkers: 

In  presenting  this,  my  third  annual  report,  I  would  like  to  tell  you  that 
all  the  schools  in  the  state  are  meeting  the  requirements  of  the  temperance 
education  law;  that  the  children  are  reciving  good  oral  instruction  the  first 
year  they  are  in  school,  and  after  the  fourth  year  that  they  are  well  sup- 
plied with  text  books  and  that  every  teacher  is  giving  the  importance  to 
the  study  which   it  demands. 

I  cannot  bring  the  report  I  would.  We  are  not  doing  ideal  work,  far 
from  that,  but  there  is  something  doing  in  all  of  our  schools,  and  the 
work  is  more  encouraging  than  ever  before.  Every  County  in  the  State 
is  organized,  and  all  but  two  are  doing  active  work.  The  work  is  intel- 
ligently carried  forward  with  a  fixed  purpose.  There  are  two  hundred 
and  twelve  Superintendents  of  temperance  teaching  in  the  State.  They 
have  each  received  an  outfit  from  our  National  Superintendent,  Mrs.  Mary 
H.  Hunt,  and  many  of  them  have  recei\'ed  help  from  the  State  Superin- 
tendent. 


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The  reports  received  from  County  and  local  Superintendents  are  more 
encouraging  than  ever  before.  One  County  Superintendent  writes: 
"Good  reports  come  from  all  of  my  local  Superintendents,  and  also  from 
many  towns  where  there  are  no  Women's  Christian  Temperance  Union 
workers.  It  seems  as  though  the  supervisors  of  schools  were  trying  to 
outdo  the  towns  where  there  are  Women's  Christian  Temperance  woikers." 
Another  County  Superintendent  writes;  "Let  us  thank  God  and  take 
courage.  In  one  of  my  towns  nothing  could  be  done  last  year  because 
the  school  Supervisor  was  so  indifferent. .  Last  spring  another  took  his 
place  and  now  more  than  a  thousand  « hildren  in  that  town  will  receive 
temperance  instruction." 

Very  many  Superintendents  report  teachers  and  scholars  interested  and 
good  work  being  done.  A  strong  temperance  sentiment,  and  much  dis- 
cussion among  the  boys.  Think  along  this  line  a  little  farther,  please. 
Some  one  has  said  "Law  is  the  thermometer  of  public  sentiment.'*  In  ten 
years  the  eleven  year  old  boy  of  to-day  will  be  a  voter,  a  little  later  a  law- 
maker and  man  of  affairs.  Let  us  educate  him  before  appetite  warps 
or  controls  his  intellect,  and  when  he  makes  laws  to  protect  the  homes  of 
his  children,  and  his  children's  children,  he  will  know  what  to  do  with 
one  American  industry,  that  is  the  American  liquor  traffic.  He  will 
firmly  stand  for  no  manufacture,  importation  or  sale  of  alcoholics  in  any 
form,  and  have  the  scientific  reasons  for  his  belief  within  himself.  Then 
will  National  prohibition  help  those  who  are  incapacitated  to  resist  temp- 
tation. Men  thus  trained  would  no  more  think  of  applying  any  system  of 
license  or  local  option  to  the  liquor  traffic  than  they  would  think  of 
licensing  or  granting  local  option  for  murder,  theft  and  wife-beating, 
these  natural  fruits  of  the  saloon. 

Friends,  it  does  mean  something  that  thirteen  million  school  children 
in  the  United  States  are  being  taught  the  reasons  for  total  abstinence,  as 
they  exist  in  the  nature  of  alcoholic  drinks  and  other  narcotics.  This  is 
the  greatest  temperance  movement  of  the  times,  and  the  educational  de- 
partment the  most  important  and  hopeful  branch  of  the  Women's  Chris- 
tian Temperance  work.  Xo  seed  is  so  sure  to  yield  an  increase,  as  that 
sown  in  the  heads  and  hearts  of  children.  The  soil  is  good  and  the  in- 
crease an  hundred  fold. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

MRS.  G.  F.  FRENCH, 
State  Supt,  Dept,   Temperance  Instruction. 


Legislative  Work, 


Madam  President,  Sisters  of  the  Convention: 

In  presenting  to  you  this  report  we  would  like  to  be  able  to  tell  of 
more  work  done.  Last  winter  as  we  had  no  session  of  the  Legislature, 
there  is  nothing  to  report  of  work  there.  In  this  state  it  has  been  demon- 
strated that  a  prohibitory  law,  even  if  imperfectly  enforced,  is  the  best  law 
to  enforce  the  liquor  traffic.  We  have  learned  that  the  law  must  be  the 
foundation  upon  which  a  pure  republic  can  stand,  so  its  powers  have 
been  called  forth,  and  that  one  of  the  foundation  principles  of  our  govern- 
ment is  that  government  exists  for  the  welfare  of  the  governed. 

Let  us  white  ribbon  women  use  our  influence  to  secure  just  and  pure 
legislation.  I  would  ask,  nay,  I  will  urge  all  to  give  more  earnest 
thought  along  this  line,  and  I  would  recommend  as  our  State  Superin- 
tendent did  last  year  that  every  Union  have  a  copy  of  our  Maine  Prohibi- 
tory law  as  it  now  stands,  and  that  it  be  studied  and  understood   by    all. 

We  think  good  work  has  been  done  in  most  of  the  counties.  In  An- 
droscoggin the  world's  petition  and  suffrage  leaflets  have  been  sent  ta 
every  Union.  We  cannot  ascertain  how  many  names  have  been  secured, 
on  the  petition  as  they  have  not  all  been  returned  and  ma'  y  have  been 
sent  direct  to  headquarters.  In  Cumberland  County  the  Superintendent, 
Mrs.  Grant  has  been  at  work.  She  writes  if  Unions  answered  as  promptly 
as  usual  we  might  get  our  reports  next  year  at  this  time. 

Knox  County. — Superintendent,  Mrs.  Bradford,  has  written  to  every 
Union,  requesting  local  Superintendents  to  be  appointed.  Rockland  has  a 
Superintendent  and  they  have  circulated  the  world's  petition.  Spruce 
Head  has  circulated  a  petition  to  stop  sending  liquors  to  Africa — thirty- 
eight  signed;  petition  on  cigarettes,  21  ;   the  world's  petition,  30. 

Kennebec  County. — Mrs.  H.  J.  Bailey,  Superiatendent,  reports  that 
much  planning  has  been  done,  which  if  successfully  carried  out  must  rid 
the  county  of  the  traffic  in  intoxicants,  except  on  the  very  smallest  scale. 
There  was  a  liquor  nuisance  in  the  town  of  Winthrop  last  winter,  and  the 


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Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union  by  its  efforts  closed  that.  The 
world's  petition  has  been  circulated  and  presented  to  assemblies  of  repre- 
sentative bodies  and  she  thinks  five  hundred  names  have  been  obtained, 
perhaps  more. 

Waldo  County. — Mrs.  Miller,  Superintendent,  reports  good  work  all 
over  the  county.  Piscataquis  County. — Mrs.  E.  D.  Straws  is  unable  to 
make  a  full  report.  About  three  hundred  names  on  the  world's  petition. 
Penobscot  County. — Mrs.  Horton,  Superintendent,  cannot  give  any  report 
of  department  work. 

Washiugton  County. — Mrs.  Crandon,  Superintendent,  is  doing  efficient 
work.  Eastport  sends  109  names  on  the  world's  petition,  that  great  peti- 
tion that  is  to  go  before  all  of  the  governments  of  the  world  in  1893,  after 
the  petition  shall  have  been  exhibited  at  the  World's  Fair.  We  already 
have  one  or  two  million  names,  and  we  want  one  million  more.  There 
have  been  over  1,700  names  secured  in  Maine  the  past  year,  and  very 
many  are  sent  direct  to  headquarters. 

The  other  evening,  in  reading  the  liCwiston  Journal  I  found  the  follow- 
ing :  "  The  current  question  heurd  in  the  talk  through  Maine  just  now  is, 
'  What  will  the  Legislature  find  to  do  r '  Beyond  a  few  changes  in  the 
election  law,  to  give  greater  safeguards,  there  is  scarcely  a  subject  of 
needed  legislation  suggested."  But  as  the  boy  said,  "  Oh,  my  !  "  Just 
wait  till  the  Solons  get  warm  in  their  seats,  and  then  see  what  a  lot  of 
tinkering  they  have  on  hand. 

We  would  recommend,  believing  it  to  be  our  duty  to  protect  our  homes 
and  our  loved  ones  from  intemperance  and  other  evils,  and  feeling  that  we 
cannot  hope  to  successfully  do  this  unless  our  powers  be  felt  at  the  ballot 
box.  we,  maintaining  that  woman  has  equal  rights  with  man  in  this  respect, 
that  a  petition  be  presented  to  our  Legislature  this  coming  winter,  that  it 
be  accompanied  by  a  tangible  proof  of  the  earnest  feeling  which  fills 
woman's  heart  to-day.  When  our  last  efforts  failed,  gentlemen  of  the 
press  said,  the  women  do  not  themselves  want  this  measure  or  they  would 
show  more  earnestness.  Let  two  hundred  earnest  women  present  them- 
selves before  the  Governor  and  (Council  and  they  would  prevail.  We 
would  also  suggest  if  it  would  not  be  well  to  ask  the  Legislature  to  so 
amend  the  statutes,  especially  in  regard  to  taking  bail  by  bail  commission- 
sioners,  municipal,  supreme  and  trial  justices,  courts  of  our  state.  There 
is  too  much  "  straw   bail,"   so  called,  found  in  enforcing  the  prohibitory 


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law.  The  bondsmen  can  sell  their  personal  property,  convey  their  real 
estate  to  other  parties  and  nothing  can  be  taken  but  their  bodies,  and  thirty 
days  in  jail  with  a  worthless  note  given  to  the  county  will  release  them.  . 
Should  not  paities  offering  themselves  as  bondsmen  be  required  if  they  do 
not  have  real  estate  to  deposit  the  amount  of  bail  with  the  county  treas- 
urer or  clerk  of  courts,  to  be  returned  to  the  bondsmen  if  the  defendant 
appears  at  the  time  and  place  named  in  the  recognizance  and  abide  the 
order  of  the  court ;  and  if  real  estate  is  offered  the  description  thereof 
shall  be  returned  to  the  register  of  deeds  office  in  the  county  and  it  shall 
be  an  attachment  on  the  same  until  discharged  by  the  appearance  of  the. 
defendant  and  abide  the  order  of  the  court  as  above  stated.  Now  if  this 
could  be  done  it  would  do  much  towards  stopping  the  sale  of  intoxicating 
liquors ;  it  would  not  be  so  easy  to  secure  bail  as  at  present.  It  would 
mean  that  the  offender  would  have  to  appear  and  answer  or  forfeit  his  bail, 
which  would  be  within  reach  of  the  prosecuting  officer  and  could  be  secured 
with  very  little  expense  to  the  county. 

As  there  has  been  no  Legislature  to  report,  we  would  like  to  call  your 
attention  to  the  work  done  in  some  of  the  states.  In  the  Union  Signal 
of  September  15th,  is  the  following :  There  have  been  eighteen  state  cam- 
paigns for  constitutional  prohibition,  of  which  seven  have  been  acknowU 
edged  successful.  Thirty-four  states  have  passed  scientific  temperance 
instruction  laws.  There  have  been  hundreds  of  minor  triumphs  in  legis- 
latures, thousands  in  town  councils,  and  although  there  have  been  many 
defeats  yet  these  victories  give  us  hope  and  faith  and  courage. 

"  And  when  the  strife  is  fierce,  the  warfare  long, 

Steals  on  the  ear  the  distant  triumph  song, 

And  hearts  are  brave  again,  and  arms  are  strong." 

Dear  sisters,  may  we  often  be  found  as  petitioners  at  the  throne  of  the 
Great  Lawgiver.     Let  us  ask  great  things  of  God  and  expect  great  things 
from  God. 

L.  C.  LAMB, 
Stale  Supt.  Depl,  Legislative  Petition. 


Juvenile  Work. 


No  one  of  our  departments  exceeds  in  importance  the  juvenile  work. 
With  our  national  motto  from  Mrs.  Rice  before  us,  "Expect  great  things 
from  God  attempt  great  things  for  God,"  earnest  workers  have  pushed 
forward,  making  "attempts"  the  greatness  of  which  God  only  can  meas- 
ure. 

The  requests  and  suggestions  of  our  national  Superintendent  have  been 
carried  out  as  far  as  has  been  possible.  Autograph  pledge  cards  have 
been  circulated  and  generous  contributions  sent  to  the  sale-tables  and  for 
the  Willard  Fountain.  The  lesson  manuals  of  the  Women's  Temper- 
ance Publication  Association  are  largely  in  use.  Five  hundred  and  eleven 
copies  of  The  Young  Crusader  are  taken.  We  think  it  much  im- 
proved in  its  new  form.  Many  successful  entertainments  have  been  given 
and  have  helped  largely  to  maintain  the  interest  and  increase  the  funds. 
We  have  tifty-eight  active  companies  with  a  pledged  membership  of  about 
three  tnousand 

In  Aroostook  County  are  eleven  active  companies,  reporting  a  member- 
ship of  four  hundred  and  eighty-four.  The  pupils  are  studying  for  di- 
plomas. In  one  Union  the  ladies  entertain  the  children  once  a  month, 
thus  keeping  up  their  own  interest  in  this  branch  of  the  work. 

Our  Superintendent  in  Androscoggin  County  is  active  and  earnest,  al- 
though the  Good  Templars  are  carrying  on  the  work  with  the  children 
very  successfully.  Cumberland  County  reports  three  active  companies 
with  a  total  membership  of  one  hundred  and  fifty-six.  Franklin  County 
sends  no  report  but  at  last  accounts  there  were  four  active  companies  there. 

Penobscot  County  sends  report  from  two  companies,  one  of  which  has 
been  organized  during  the  past  year.  Good  practical  work  is  being  done. 
The  work  is  carried  on  bravely  in  Hancock  County  in  the  face  of  op- 
position and  indifference.  One  company  has  reported  a  membership  of 
fifty. 

Knox  County  reports  good  work  done.  There  are  four  active  Legions 
with  a  membership  of  two  hundred  and  sixty-six.       Fifteen  or  twenty  are 


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studying  for  diplomas.  One  legion  reports  all  the  boys  but  one  in  the 
place,  in  the  Loyal  Temperance  Legion.  Lincoln  County  has  two  active 
companies,  one  organized  during  the  past  year.  Waldoboro  has  a  mem- 
bership of  one  hundred  and  thirty-two.  An  earnest,  devoted  Superin- 
tendent, who  gives  oral  teaching  with  blackboard  exercises  and  Kellogg's 
charts  is  doing  grand  work  with  the  children.  This  County  has  no 
Superintendent. 

Kennebec  County  reports  a  membership  of  three  hundred  and  twenty- 
five  besides  eleven  honorar}'  members.  Seven  companies  are  reported. 
Entertainments,  temperance  concerts,  motion  exercises,  and  in  one  Loyal 
Temperance  Legion,  Swedish  gymnastics,  taken  up  this  summer,  are 
helping  to  hold  the  interest.     Oxford  County  sends  no  report.        1 

Two  Loyal  Temperance  Legions  are  reported  from  Piscataquis  ('ounty, 
and  a  membership  of  one  hundred  and  twenty-eight.  This  County  has 
active  and  earnest  workers.  One  small  Legion  in  Sagadahoc  County,  at 
Popham  Beach,  is  doing  its  best.  Bath,  through  some  mistake,  has  not 
been  heard  from  Three  active  companies  in  Somerset  County  are  doing 
good  work.  In  other  places  temperance  is  taught  in  the  Sunday  and  day 
schools. 

Washington  County  reports  eight  active  companies  and  a  membership  of 
five  hundred  and  eleven,  a  gain  over  last  year  of  one  hundred  and  twelve. 
Two  companies  have  been  organized  during  the  past  year.  One  is  not 
under  the  care  of  a  Union.  Cherryfield  has  formed  a  class  of  twelve  bright 
girls  and  boys  who  are  studying  for  diplomas.  Eastport  has  two  hundred 
pledged  members.  The  new  Loyal  Temperance  Legion  at  Calais  numbers 
ninety  members.  Waldo  reports  no  work  in  this  department.  York  re- 
ports one  active  company  of  twenty-seven  members.  It  is  im])os.sible  to 
embody  in  a  report  the  actual  work  which  has  been  done.  The  ])rayers, 
the  sacrifices  and  the  wearisome  detail  of  work  in  local  organizations  by 
faithful  Superintendents  cannot  be  re])orted. 

Would  tliat  wc  had  more  such  workers  in  our  state.  We  shall  not  be 
satisfied  until  we  have  a  Loyal  Temperance  Legion  in  every  Woman's 
Christian  Temperance  Union.  When  we  have  dont'  oiir  utmost  to  save 
the  boys  and  girls,  then  may  we  ''Expect  great  tilings  from  God." 

CLAKA  W.  MUMIX)HD. 
Sfafe  Superiiiioidenf  Jurt-nUc    Work 


Sunday  School  Work. 


In  reviewing  the  work  of  the  year  now  closed,  the  letters  indicate  an 
increased  interest.  Some  County  Superintendents  have  been  active  and 
the  work  in  their  counties  better  organized.  Among  these  Aroostook, 
which  has  twenty-five  Unions  with  a  local  Superintendent  in  each,  and 
reports  by  figures,  which  are  so  important.  Androscoggin,  Piscataquis, 
Sagadahoe,  Washington,  York,  show  increased  interest.  In  the  most  of 
the  others  local  Superintendents  have  reported,  and  it  may  be  from  some 
cause  some  reports  have  not  been  received. 

It  seems  very  important  that  the  work  be  systematic  ;  the  local  report 
to  the  county,  the  county  to  the  state,  and  that  the  answers  on  the  blanks 
be  given  with  as  much  accuracy  as  possible.  Let  me  urge  this  again,  as 
I  have  so  many  times,  and  when  any  change  occurs  in  the  officers,  let  the 
state  Superintendent  be  notified. 

The  Quarterly  Lesson  we  must  now  take  an  interest  in,  not  to  urge  its 
use  for  that  is  assured,  but  to  make  the  lesson  and  in  fact  the  day  as 
interesting  and  profitable  as  possible.  Here  the  local  Superintendents  wiU 
find  work  to  do.  The  teachers  of  the  Sunday  Schools  will  need  aids  to 
their  work.  Such  helps  in  the  way  of  leaflets  and  literature  as  is  suitable 
they  must  have.  On  JaMuary  17th  the  first  lesson  in  the  regular  course 
appeared  and  the  leaflet  prepared  by  our  National  Superintendent  f(»r  that 
day  was  largely  used.  It  would  be  well  to  look  tlic  lessons  over  in 
advance  and  if  we  find 'the  lesson  in  the  quarterly  is  not  as  well  presented 
as  is  necessary,  some  other  helps  should  be  secured,  either  of  the  National 
Superintendent  or  the  Woman's  Temperance  Publication  Association. 

The  circulation  of  literature  has  been  increased  and  well  reported.  That 
is  as  it  should  be  and  let  the  good  work  go  on.  Let  books  be  secured 
for  the  libraries  where  there  are  not  many,  and  by  all  nicans  place  our 
department  literature  in  the  children's  hands.  The  pledging  of  the  chil- 
dren has  always  been  urged  and  the  work  of  the  year  which  has  in  part 
created  more  interest,  has  been  the   circulatin^j  of   the    autograph  pledge 


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cards  for  the  Columbian  Exposition.     This  has  been  the  one  bright  thought 
which  has  been  so  successful  in  securing  such  grave  results. 

The  work  is  not  done.  There  is  time  yet  for  wider  circulation.  In 
some  of  our  large  cities  and  towns  these  have  not  been  circulated  in  the 
Sunday  schools.  Will  not  the  County  and  local  Superintendents  look  after 
this  work  at  once,  that  Maine  may  take  the  lead  as  well  as  look  after  the 
children.  The  National  Superintendent  offers  a  banner  to  the  state  se- 
curing the  largest  per  cent,  of  these  cards  signed.  May  not  we  be  able  to 
take  it  ? 

The  new  World's  Sabbath-school  pledge  cards  we  now  wish  to  supple- 
ment the  national  cards  with.  Those  the  children  sii^n  and  send 
away;  these  we  wish  to  provide  them  with  to  keep.  Our  work  has  been 
well  represented  by  Miss  Kimball  at  the  summer  meetings  at  Fryeburg, 
Old  Orchard  and  Sebago.  During  her  summer  outiug  she  spoke  twice 
at  Upper  Gloucester,  and  organized  a  Union.  She  has  spoken  in  the  fol- 
lowing Counties:  Cumberland,  York,  Sagadahoc  and  Kennebec,  spending 
one  week  in  the  last  named. 

I  would  gladly  mention  all  the  places  where  there  has  been  special  work 
done,  as  in  Portland,  Bangor,  Bath,  Saco,  Woodford's,  Deering  Rockland, 
Westboro,  etc.,  but  it  seems  much  more  fitting  to  report  by  the  Counties, 
mentioning  in  each  any  fact  of  especial  merit.  •  Will  not  the  Vice-Presi- 
dent secure  in  each  County  an  efficient  Superintendent,  if  for  any  reason 
ttie  one  who  holds  it  does  not  work  or  it  has  become  vacant.  Figures  this 
year  for  the  first  time  fail  me  save  in  these  two  items:  Literature,  more 
than  50,000  pages;  pledge  cards  sold,  18,780.  What  can  I  say  more 
than  I  have  in  the  matter  of  reporting  ?  May  local,  County  and  State 
Superintendents  be  more  faithful  the  coming  year. 

E.  A.  G.  STICKNEV, 
StcUe  Supenntendent  of  Sunday  School   Work, 


Temperance  Literature. 

Dear  Friends  : 

Late  last  autumn  a  sentence  of  exile  was  pronounced  upon  me  and  I 
was  transported  \o  this  far  distant  state,  as  unlike  Maine  as  can  be 
imagined.  On  account  of  this  distance  I  am  unable  to  report  anything  in 
detail  of  the  work  done  in  the  Literature  Department,  although  I  have 
heard  good  accounts  of  your  labors. 

I  am  glad  to  notice  that  more  Superintendents  of  Literature  have  been 
appointed,  both  in  county  and  local  Unions.  I  hope  next  year  a  still 
larger  Increase  of  Superintendents  in  this  important  department  will  be 
made.  Last  year  I  made  an  attempt  to  introduce  temperance  literature 
on  railroads  with  very  slight  success.  On  my  way  out  here  I  interviewed 
the  newsboys  and  obtained  the  addresses  of  four  railroad  news  agencies. 
I  wrote  letters  to  three  of  them'.  Although  I  enclosed  a  stamp  to  insure 
an  answer  I  received  a  reply  from  only  one  firm,  declining  my  proposition. 
The  newsboy  west  of  Chicago  told  me  as  he  gave  me  the  address  of  his 
employers  that  correspondence  would  achieve  nothing ;  only  personal  inter- 
views would  accomplish  my  object.  So  I  wrote  to  Mrs.  Rastall  and  asked 
her  to  please  send  some  one  to  the  Chicago  news  agencies.  I  have  received 
several  cordial  letters  from  her  on  the  subject,  but  she  has  not  had  time  to 
thoroughly  test  the  experiment.     But  I  will  not  call  it  a  failure. 

Now  a  few  words  about  the  Union  Signal,  From  the  Secretary's  report 
you  will  see  that  the  number  of  Signals  taken  is  very  small  compared  with 
the  membership  of  the  Unions.  This  should  not  be.  The  Union  Signal 
is  a  necessity  to  the  head  of  every  department  and  is  a  source  of  great 
pleasure  and  profit  to  every  woman.  Please  think  of  this  and  before  Con- 
vention is  ended  add  your  name  to  the  subscription  list  at  the  literature 
table.  Names  will  be  received  at  State  Headquarters,  150  Free  St.,  Port- 
land, at  any  time. 

Dear  friends,  I  am  with  you  in  spirit,  during  this  Convention,  but  I  hope 
to  see  you  all  at  the  National  in  Denver  next  month. 

Yours  sincerely, 

ALICE  S.  RAYMOND, 

State  Sttpt.  Dept.  Literature, 


Homes  for  Homeless  Children, 


Madam  President  and  Sisters  of  the  Convention: 

Had  I  realized  all  that  was  involved  when  appointed  to  this  position, 
with  no  one  to  consult  who  had  held  it  before  me  in  this,  or  any  other 
state,  I  fear  I  should  have  hesitated  to  accept  the  position,  but  realizing 
my  own  weakness  and  inability  to  plan  out  the  work,  I  have  been  driven 
to  seek  wisdom  and  guidance  from  Him  who  never  turns  us  empty  away, 
and  although  mistakes  have  undoubtedly  been  made,  the  Lord  has  won- 
derfully blest  our  efforts. 

The  work  was  adopted  by  the  National  Union  at  the  Convention  held 
in  Boston,  in  November,  and  Mrs.  M.  T.  W.  Merrill  of  Portland,  chosen 
National  Superintendent,  and  her  counsels  have  proved  both  wise  and 
helpful.  Immediately  after  my  appointment  in  October,  letters  were  sent 
to  each  Vice-President  requesting  that  Superintendents  be  appointed  for 
this  work,  and  favorable  replies  were  received  from  nearly  all,  and  now 
we  can  report  a  County  Superintendent  and  one  or  more  local  Superin- 
dents  in  every  county. 

Aroostook. — Mrs.  Fannie  A.  Forbes,  Presque  Isle,  Superintendent,  re- 
ports six  local  Superintendents.  One  boy  of  ^xe  years  has  been  placed 
in  an  excellent  home,  and  others  in  temporary  homes.  Although  she 
cannot  see  results  from  the  eighty-six  letters  and  postals  she  has  written 
in  the  interest  of  the  department,  she  believes  "that  the  seed  sown  wiU 
bear  precious  fruit." 

Androscoggin. — Mrs.  C.  D.  Parsons,  Auburn,  Superintendent.  Six  local 
Superintendents.  One  reports  two  children  placed  in  good  homes.  An- 
other, four  placed  in  permanent  homes  and  one  in  a  temporary  home,  and 
through  her  own  efforts  the  County  Superintendent  has  found  homes  for 
six.  Cumberland. — Miss  C.  M.  Dow,  Portland,  Superintendent.  Nine 
local  Superintendents.  One  Union  is  seeking  homes  for  two  boys.  An- 
other reports  a  girl  of  sixteen  years,  who  had  been  motherless  and  sur- 
rounded by  sin  and  suffering  for  several   years,   being   placed  in  a   good 


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home.  Just  here  is  a  point  I  would  like  to  emphasize.  During  the  in- 
terim of  finding  the  child  and  the  home,  a  period  of  five  or  six  weeks, 
the  local  Superintendent  took  her  to  her  own  home,  "not,"  she  says,  "as 
an  outcast,  but  as  one  conferring  a  favor  on  me  to  come  and  help  me." 
Let  the  child  gain  her  own  self  respect  if  she  can  and  feel  that  she  is 
needed  somewhere.  Still  another  says  **In  this  Happy  Valley  there  are 
no  homeless  children,"  but  "she  fails  to  report  if  there  are  any  childless 
homes  that  might  be  broadened  and  brightened  by  imparting  of  their  joy 
to  some  homeless  little  one."  From  others  two  homes  are  reported  as  wil- 
ling to  receive  children.  From  her  own  Union  the  Superintendent  reports 
three  children  already  provided  for  and  several  other  cases  pending. 

Franklin. — Mrs.  Frank  H.  Wilbur,  Phillips,  Superintendent.  A  girl 
of  eleven  years  has  been  placed  in  a  good  home,  and  another  home  is 
ready  to  receive  one  of  about  the  same  age,  which  will  be  supplied  very 
soon.     A  number  of  Unions  report  "much  interest   in    this    department." 

Hancock. — Mrs.  L.  J.  Call,  Ellsworth,  Superintendent.  Her  Union  has 
adopted  the  work.  No  reports  from  the  other  Unions.  Kennebec. — Mrs. 
Blanche  M.  Friend,  Gardiner,  Superintendent.  Four  homeless  little  ones 
have  been  placed  in  good  homes,  two  of  them  taken  from  the  poor  farm. 
Your  State  Superintendent  has  sent  one  beautiful  baby  to  a  home  in  this 
County. 

Knox. — Mrs.  C.  M.  Rice,  I'nion,  Superintendent.  Some  Superintend- 
ents appointed.  One  child  has  been  adopted  where  the  relation  is  most 
harmonious.  Lincoln. — Mrs.  Helen  M.  Daggett,  Waldoboro,  Superin- 
tendent. The  department  has  been  materially  aide^  by  a  contribution  of 
money  from  one  of  the  members  of  her  Union.  A  beautiful  babe  has  been 
placed  m  a  permanent  home  i  i  this  County  by  your  Stale  Superintendent. 
Oxford. — Mrs.  F.  Ella  Wilson,  East  Hiram,  Superintendent.  One  local 
Superintendent  appointed. 

Penobscot. — Mrs.  S.  H.  Clark,  Bangor,  Superintendent.  One  child  has 
been  taken  from  the  Children's  Home  in  Bangor,  and  placed  in  a  perma- 
nent home,  and  there  are  four  children  on  a  town  firm  for  whom  we  de- 
sire homes.  Piscataquis. — Mrs.  Addie  L.  Chamberlain,  Superintendent. 
Three  local  Superintendents.  A  boy  thirteen  years  of  age  has  been 
taken  from  one  of  the  town  farms  and  placed  in  a  good  home,  where  he 
is  giving  the  best  of  satisfaction,  and  they  are  seeking  a  home  for  another 
boy  of  about  the  same  age.     A  home  is  ready  to  welcome  a  child  whibh  we 


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hope  to  supply  at  the  close  of  this  Convention.  Somerset. — Mrs.  H.  F 
Evans,  Madison,  Superintendent.  Five  Unions  have  taken  up  the  work. 
One  Superintendent  immediately  found  a  home  for  a  beautiful  boy  whose 
home  was  ruined  by  the  fearful  curse  of  rum.  Another  made  inquiries 
of  the  selectmen  regarding  the  children  at  the  poor  farm,  and  was 
informed  that  they  were  not  such  children  as  we  would  want  in  our 
society.  The  Superintendent  asks,  "What  are  we  to  do  with  such  chil- 
dren ?  What  would  we  want  done  with  them  if  they  were  ours  ?  "  and 
adds,  "God  help  us  to  look  into  the  work  as  never  before,  with  the  Golden 
Rule  ever  before  us,  "Do  unto  others  as  you  would  have  others  do  unto 
you.'*  She  writes  of  another  sad  case  where  there  are  two  interesting 
little  girls  whose  parents  receive  help  from  the  town.  They  are  both 
young  and  healthy,  but  wickedly  neglecting  their  children,  and  yet,  un- 
willing to  give  them  away.  She  asks,  "How  can  we  make  these  people 
see  the  sinfulness  of  sin,  and  the  beauty  of  holiness."  I  only  know  of  one 
answer,  "And  when  he  was  come  into  the  house,  his  disciples  asked  him 
privately,  why  could  not  we  cast  him  out  ?  And  he  said  unto  them,  this 
kind  can  come  forth  by  nothing,  but  by  prayer  land  fasting." 

Sagadahoc. — Miss  E.  S.  Trott,  Bath,  Superintendent,  reports:  One  child 
sent  to  the  Day  Nursery,  Lewiston;  three  to  the  Temporary  Home, 
Portland;  one  to  the  Orphan  Asylum,  Portland;  two  to  the  Industrial 
School,  Hallowell;  two  to  the  Little  Wanderer's  Home,  Boston.  Waldo. — 
Miss  A.  A.  Hicks,  Belfast,  Superintendent,  reports  that  she  has  secured  a 
home  for  a  girl  of  twelve  years,  where  she  is  happy  and  contented. 

Washington. — Mrs.  Nellie  Ward,  Cherryfield,  Supeiintendent,  reports: 
A  home  has  been  foUnd  a  boy  of  eleven  years  where  he  is  contented  and 
happy.  Two  children  placed  in  the  Industrial  School.  Two  mothers  and 
three  babies  sent  to  the  Temporary  Home,  and  three  other  children  pro- 
vided with  good  homes.  The  Cherryfield  Union  has  been  boarding  a  poor 
boy  where  he  could  receive  medical  treatment.  The  Union  has  paid  over 
fifty  dollars  towards  his  support,  also  two  little  girls  were  taken  from  the 
poor  farm  and  placed  in  the  Orphan  Asylum  at  Portland.  Many  poor 
children  have  received  clothing  and  been  gathered  into  the  Sunday  Schools. 

York. — Mrs.  I.  W.  Haley,  Biddeford,  Superintendent.  One  Union 
has  taken  up  the  work.  Your  State  Superintendent  has  placed  one  girl 
of  eleven  years  m  a  good  home  in  this  County.  During  the  year  eighty- 
on§  children  have  been  found  who  were  sadly  in  need  of  homes.      Thirty- 


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five  of  them  have  been  placed  in  permanent  homes  and  seventeen  in  tem- 
porary homes.  Twenty-nine  are  still  waiting  on  town  farms,  and  other 
places,  for  us  to  provide  the  homes.  In  view  of  the  great  work  accom- 
plished and  what  might  oe  accomplished,  if  wc  had  a  local  Superintendent 
in  every  Union,  will  you  not  see  to  it  that  this  department  Is  added  to  the 
work  of  your  Union,  and  have  a  part  in  taking  little  helpless  children 
from  scenes  of  misfortune,  and  placing  them  in  good  Christian  homes  ?  I 
would  like  to  suggest  to  all  who  live  in  those  favored  localities  where 
there  are  no  homeless  and  neglected  children,  that  such  localities  are  just 
where  we  would  like  to  place  these  children,  and  that  it  is  just  as  im- 
portant to  find  the  homes  as  the  children,  therefore  there  is  need  of  this 
work  in  your  Union.  And  to  all  local  Superintendents,  that  when  you 
desire  a  home  for  a  child,  or  a  child  for  a  home,  you  will  immediately 
notify  your  County  Superintendent,  who  will  notify  me.  In  this  way 
alone  can  the  work  be  effectually  done.  Your  State  Superintendent 
must  know  of  the  homes  and  the  needy  children  all  over  the  State,  and 
then  when  the  need  is  made  known  from  your  County,  she  can,  with  com- 
parative ease,  point  your  Superintendent  to  the  child,  or  home,  desired. 
Let  each  County  Superintendent,  with  renewed  energy,  seek  to  fully  or- 
ganize her  County  for  this  work.  And  to  those  who  have  placed  children 
in  temporary  homes,  do  not  feel  that  your  work  is  done  for  them,  but  find 
permanent  homes  as  fast  as  you  can,  to  which  they  can  be  taken. 

"Give  thy  mite,  give  golden  treasure, 
Freely  as  to  child  thine  own; 
Give  thy  heart  in  loving  measure, 
Help  a  child  to  tind  a  home." 

Respectfully  submitted, 

IDA  M.  B.  WYMAX, 
State  Supt.  Dept.  for  Securing  Homes  for  Homeless  Children. 


Kindergartens. 


It  is  now  generally  conceded  by  philanthropists  that  the  most  effective 
method  of  suppressing  an  evil  is  the  preventive  rather  than  the  reformatory 
method.  That  education  is  an  important  factor  in  our  great  social  prob- 
lems. It  is  also  granted  that  education  must  begin  at  the  earliest  period 
possible,  as  early  impressions  are  so  much  more  lasting  than  later  ones, 
and  because  in  the  little  child  the  power  of  resistance  is  so  much  less.  With 
a  true  appreciation  of  the  best  and  most  advanced  lines  of  philanthropic 
work,  the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union  has,  among  its  varied 
departments,  wisely  introduced  that  of  the  kindergarten,  feeling  sure  that 
the  hope  of  the  country  lies  in  the  right  training  of  the  children.  But 
what  is  a  kindergarten,  and  how  does  the  training  it  gives  especially  rec- 
ommend itself  to  us  in  its  relation  to  the  temperance  work  ? 

Let  me  take  you  for  a  few  moments  into  our  Women's  Christian  Tem- 
perance Union  Kindergarten  in  Portland,  that  you  may  see  for  yourselves 
what  a  kindergarten  is.  We  are  ushered  into  a  bright,  sunny  room, 
with  pictures  and  flowers  and  twenty  little  ones,  all  under  five  years  of 
age,  gathered  in  it.  The  room  Ls  swept  clean,  in  direct  contrast  to  the 
homes  from  which  manv  of  the  children  have  come.  Chairs  and  tables 
are  adapted  to  childish  bodies;  comfortable  closets  with  hooks  low  enough 
for  tiny  hands  to  hang  small  jackets  and  caps  upon  are  waiting,  and  a  re- 
fined and  loving  kindergartener  greets  each  child  with  a  pleasant  good 
morning  and  a  shake  of  the  hand.  Can  you  not  see  that  this  first 
introduction  into  the  kindergarten  is  a  revelation  to  many  a  child, 
a  revelation  of  cleanliness,  order  and  beauty,  before  undreamedof?  The 
kindergartener,  seated  with  her  little  flock  about  her  in  a  circle,  leads  their 
thoughts  away  from  themselves,  out  into  God's  beautiful  world,  and  with 
talk  of  sunshine  and  flowers,  rain  and  clouds,  fruits  and  harvesting, 
of  home  and  family,  she  brings  them  gently  to  a  reverent  thought  of  the 
Father  who  watches  and  cares  for  them  all  so  lovingly.  With  rhythmic 
music  she  arouses  the  inborn,  but  often  undeveloped  and  therefore   latent 


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talent  of  music,  in  the  little  heart,  and  leads  him  to  pour  out  his  soul  in 
song.  But  recognizing  that  active  little  brains  need  rest  and  change,  and 
active  little  bodies  need  motion  and  exercise,  the  kindergartner  soon  has 
the  little  ones  standing  in  a  ring  and  merry  games  are  being  played,  in 
which  mind  and  body  are  being  developed  in  a  most  natural  way,  for 
play  is  the  natural  expression  of  the  child's  inner  nature.  Then  comes 
work  at  table  or  sand-box,  where  all  the  varied  industries  of  life,  weaving, 
sewing,  building,  modelUng,  planting  and  harvesting  may  be  worked  out 
by  the  child,  he,  for  the  time,  identifying  himself  with  the  particular 
branch  of  work  which  he  is  representing  and  thus  coming  in  touch  with 
the  labor  questions  of  the  day,  and  acquiring  a  wholesome  respect  for 
work.  As  he  works  he  is  led  to  see  the  interdependence  of  all  things,  to 
see  how  much  each  one  has  to  do  in  order  that  all  may  be  happy  and  re- 
ceive the  most  good. 

Can  you  not  see  that  he  is  learning  in  play,  to  be  sure,  life's  great  les- 
sons of  the  brotherhood  of  man  and  the  Fatherhood  of  God  ?  Lessons, 
too,  of  obedience,  for  obedience  is  absolute;  not  obedience  to  the  arbitrary 
wish  of  one  person,  but  obedience  to  the  law  of  the  little  community,  an 
obedience  that  insures  freedom  to  each  individual  in  so  far  as  he  does 
not  infringe  upon  the  rights  of  others.  Lessons  of  self-control,  as  each 
defers  to  the  other  and  waits  patiently  to  be  served;  lessons  in  unselfish- 
ness, as  one  shares  his  lunch  or  patiently  untangles  the  work  of  a  younger 
laborer.  So  with  song  and  game,  with  work  of  hand  and  brain,  with 
plenty  of  physical  exercise  in  march  and  movement,  with  order  in  every- 
thing, the  minutes  pass  all  too  quickly.  The  good-bye  song  is  sung  and 
the  children  reluctantly  leave  the  pleasant  room,  and  what  have  they 
learned  ?  Not  printed  words  surely,  but  they  have  read  God's  Book  of 
Nature.  They  have  studied  social  life  as  they  builded  together  the  villajre 
in  which  lived  the  blacksmith,  the  shoe-maker,  the  grocer,  and  all  the 
people  who  furnish  our  homes  with  their  necessities  if  not  their  comforts. 
They  have  been  introduced  to  the  arts  of  weaving  and  modelling,  they 
have  learned  to  respect  our  country's  flag,  and  best  of  all,  they  have 
learned  to  live  happily  together,  each  conceding  a  little  to  the  other,  in 
order  that  all  may  achieve  the  highest  good.  Has  not  a  good  foundation 
been  laid  for  a  strong  character  in  after  life  ?  Will  not  this  introduction 
into  the  miniature  world  and  the  life  that  is  lived  there,  serve  as  a  model 
for  the  living  in  after  years  ?       Will    not    those  children  grow  into  nobler. 


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purer,  more  considerate  men  and  women,  as  a  result  of  these  early  im- 
pressions ?  Aud  not  alone  are  the  children  reached,  but  through  the 
children,  a  door  is  opened  into  the  home,  and  the  fathers  and  mothers, 
the  brothers  and  sisters  are  brought  under  the  beneficent  influence  of  the 
kindergarten.  From  a  recent  number  of  the  Christian  Union,  devoted 
especially  to  the  interests  of  the  kindergarten,  I  clip  the  following :  "Every 
kindergarten  established  in  a  crowded  tenement  district,  is  a  glimpse  of 
purity  and  order,  cleanliness  and  nature,  to  children  who  have  never 
known  these  things.  It  Is  a  gospel  of  service  and  intelligence  to  the  whole 
neighborhood,  for  it  presents  a  daily  illustration  of  a  beauty  and  interest  in 

life  unknown  to  the  unfortunates  in  many  a  neglected  comer." 
«  «  «  «  «  •  « 

Will  not  the  women  of  these  various  Unions  look  carefully  into  this 
general  department  of  the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union  and 
lend  a  helping  hand  to  the  children  of  our  state  ? 

FLORENCE  M.  SCALES, 
State  Superintendent  Department  Kindergartens. 


Mercy. 


Since  cruelty  is  an  effect  of  the  drink  vice,  it  is  fitting  that  the  Woman's 
Christian  Temperance  Union  have  a  department  for  the  development  of 
mercy,  the  Christ  virtue.  On  the  hearts  of  some  of  God's  grand  women, 
he  has  placed  the  burden  and  the  grief  of  the  world's  wrongs.  As  we 
consider  this  subject  for  a  few  moments  may  a  share  of  the  burden  touch 
each  one  of  our  hearts.  We  must  acknowledge  that  the  need  of  such 
work  is  very  great.  We  know  the  terrible  heredity  of  drink.  The  evil 
passions  which  drink  excites  are  often  transmitted,  also  perversity,  cruelty, 
and  even  a  tendency  to  murder.  Through  the  teachings  in  our  Band  of 
Mercy  such  children  can  be  saved,  and  those  who  do  this  part  of  Christ's 
work,  may,  in  the  day  of  Christ,  find  that  they  have  turned  many  to 
righteousness.     The  aim  of  this  department  is: 

1 .  To  secure  a  more  wide-spread  knowledge  of  existing  laws  against 
cruelty  to  children  and  to  animals,  and  a  better  enforcement  of  them. 


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2.  To  secure  in  public  schools,  Sunday  Schools,  and  in  Loyal  Tem- 
perance Legions,  the  formation  of  Bands  of  Mercy. 

3.  To  secure  the  co-operation  of  ministers  of  the  Gospel  by  requesting 
them  to  preach  upon  the  universal  duty  of  mercy  to,  and  consideration  to- 
wards all  6od*s  creatures. 

4.  To  endeavor,  by  the  circulation  of  literature  and  by  such  other 
means  as  may  be  deemed  best,  to  develop  public  sentiment  against  the  un- 
necessary, cruel,  and  demoralizing  practice  called  vivisection,  with  a  view 
to  its  total  abolition. 

5.  To  discourage  any  practice,  custom  or  fashion  which  involves  the 
infliction  of  unnecessary  suffering  on  any  living  creature. 

But  little  has  been  done,  as  yet,  towards  a  systematic  organization  in 
our  state.  Letters  have  been  sent  to  some  of  our  County  Conventions 
asking  that  this  work  be  taken  up.  Franklin,  Kennebec,  Oxford  and  Pis- 
cataquis Counties  have  reported  Superintendents  appointed.  The  forma- 
tion of  Bands  of  Mercy  has  been  requested  of  the  Juvenile  Superintendents. 
In  some  places  good  work  is  being  done  in  this  direction,  one  Band  of 
Mercy  numbering  ninety  members.  Where  there  are  no  Rands  organized, 
some  of  our  Loyal  Temperance  Legion  Superintendents  are  faithfully 
teaching  laws  of  kindness  and  lessons  of  mercy. 

We  hope  for  great  advancement  during  the  coming  year.  We  pray 
for  it  because  the  full  and  perfect  work  of  the  influence  of  Christianity 
towards  making  mankind  better,  cannot  be  accomplished  until  the  scrip- 
tural doctrine  of  mercy  and  consideration  for  all  God's  creatures  is  more 
universally  diffused.  "The  Lord  is  good  to  all,  and  his  tende^  mercies 
are  over  all  his  work.'*  "He  giveth  to  the  beast  his  food,  and  to  the 
young  ravens  which  cry."  "Every  beast  of  the  forest  is  mine,  and  the 
cattle  upon  a  thousand  hills.'*  "Are  not  five  sparrows  sold  for  two  farth- 
ings, and  not  one  of  them  is  forgotten  before  God  ?  **  "Be  ye  therefore 
merciful,  as  your  Father  also  is  merciful.'*  "Blessed  are  the  merciful  for 
they  shall  obtain  mercy.**  "What  doth  the  Lord  require  of  thee,  but  to 
do  justly,  to  love  mercy,  and  to  walk  humbly  with  thy  God.** 
Respectfully  submitted, 

CLARA  W.  MUMFORD, 
State  Super  intend  e.nt  Department  of  Mercy. 


CONSTITUTION 

OF 


M/iNE  WoMA{(s  Christian  Temperance  Uhjon. 


PREAMBLE. 

We,  Christian  women  of  this  State,  alarmed  at  the  danger  and  tendencies  of  intem- 
perance and  kindred  evils,  believe  it  to  be  our  duty,  under  the  providence  of  God,  to 
unite  our  efforts  for  their  extinction.  That  we  majk  the  more  successfully  prosecute 
this  work,  we  adopt  the  following  pledge  and  constitution. 

PLEDGE. 

I  hereby  solemnly  promise,  God  helping  me,  to  abstain  from  all  distilled,  fermented,, 
and  malt  liquors,  including  wine  and  cider,  and  to  employ  all  proper  means  to  dis- 
courage the  use  of  and  traffic  in  the  same. 


CONSTITUTION. 


ARTICLE  L— Name. 

The  organization  shall  be  known  as  the  Maine  Woman's  Christian  Temperance 
Union,  auxiliary  to  the  National  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union.  Its  object 
shall  be  to  enlist  the  women  of  this  State  in  the  promotion  of  the  cause  of  temper- 
ance, and  of  the  various  branches  of  work  recommended  by  the  National  Union;  to 
make  permanent  the  work  already  accomplished  and  to  secure  the  organization  of  a 
local  Union  in  every  place  in  the  Stale  where  it  is  practicable. 

ARTICLE  II.— Officers. 

The  officers  of  this  Union  shall  be  a  President,  one  Vice  President  from  each 
county  (the  President  of  each  being  cx-officio  Vice  President  of  the  State  Union),  a 
Corresponding  Secretary,  a  Recording  Secretary,  an  Assistant  Recording  Secretary,, 
and  a  Treasurer,  who  together  shall  constitute  an  Executive  Committee,  of  whom 
seven  shall  be  a  quorum. 


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ARTICLE  111.— Membership. 

The  annual  meeting  shall  be  composed  of  the  Executive  Committee,  State  Superin- 
tendents of  Departments,  State  Organizers,  Secretaries  and  Treasurers  of  County 
Unions,  the  President  and  one  delegate-at-large,  and  one  delegate  for  every  twenty* 
five  paying  members  of  each  auxiliary  Union. 

ARTICLE  IV.— Auxiliaries. 

Any  society  of  women,  regularly  organized  under  the  supervision  or  approval  of  the 
State  officers,  and  adopting  the  Constitution  of  this  organization,  including  a  total 
abstinence  pledge,  and  a  paying  fee  of  thirty  cents  per  member  annually  to  State 
Treasurer  (ten  cents  of  which  shall  be  paid  by  her  to  the  National  Woman's  Christian 
Temperance  Union)  is  auxiliary  to  the  Maine  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union. 

ARTICLE  v.— Meetings. 

The  annual  meeting  shall  be  held  at  some  time  within  September  or  October,  in 
such  place  as  may  be  decided  by  a  vote  of  the  Executive  Committee. 

ARTICLE  VI. — Amendments. 

The  Constitution  may  be  altered  or  amended  by  vote  of  two-thirds  of  the  delegates 
present  at  the  annual  meeting,  provided  notice  has  been  given  at  the  previous  annual 
meeting. 


BY-LAWS. 


ARTICLE  I.— Duties  of  Officers. 
President. 

Sec.  I.  In  case  of  the  illness  or  death  of  the  President,  the  duties  of  her  office 
shall  devolve  upon  the  General  Officers  in  the  order  of  their  election. 

Sec.  2.  The  President  may,  through  the  Recording  Secretary,  call  special  meetings 
of  the  Executive  Committee,  when  she  may  deem  it  necessary,  or  in  response  to  the 
written  request  of  any  seven  members  of  the  Executive  Committee,  in  which  case  the 
topics  to  be  considered  at  the  meeting  shall  be  stated,  and  she  shall  perform  all  other 
duties  usual  to  such  office. 

Vice  President. 

Sec.  3.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  each  Vice  President  to  aid  and  foster  the  work  of 
the  Union  in  her  County,  and  to  arrange  for  and  preside  at  conventions  in  her 
County,  co-operating  with  the  C^eneral  Officers  of  the  State  in  carrying  out  their  plans 
for  the  prosecution  of  the  work,  making  a  report  semi-annually  to  the  Corresponding 
Secretary  of  the  State  Union. 


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Corresponding  Secretary, 

Sec.  4.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Corresponding  Secretary  to  conduct  the  cor- 
respondence of  the  organization  and  to  perform  all  duties  usual  to  such  office.  She 
shall  also  send  to  the  Secretary  of  each  local  Union  at  least  twice  a  year  a  blank  sim- 
ilar to  those  used  by  the  National  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union  Corres- 
ponding Secretary,  to  be  filled  as  a  semi-annual  report.  From  these  reports  she  shall 
collate  her  own  report  for  the  annual  meeting. 

Recording  Secretary, 

Sec.  5.  The  Recording  Secretary  shall  attend  all  meetings  of  the  Unions,  the  Elxecutive 
Committee  and  the  General  Officers,  and  shall  keep  correct  record  of  their  proceed- 
ings. She  shall  send  to  each  member  of  the  Executive  Committee  a  notice  of  such 
meetings.  She  shall  apprise  members  of  Committees  of  their  appointment.  At 
the  first  meeting  of  each  annual  session  she  shall  read  in  their  order,  for  action 
by  said  meeting,  the  minutes  of  all  meetings,  and  shall  perform  all  other  duties  usually 
pertaining  to  such  office. 

Treasurer, 

Sec.  6.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Treasurer  to  keep  accurate  account  of  all  re- 
ceipts and  disbursements  of  money,  and  to  present  a  detailed  report  thereof  at  each 
annual  meeting.  She  shall  pay  no  bills  except  on  an  order  signed  by  the  President. 
The  fiscal  year  shall  terminate  one  week  previous  to  the  annual  meeting,  and  the 
books  shall  then  be  closed.  At  the  annual  meeting  she  shall  give  to  the  Correspond- 
ing Secretary  the  whole  number  of  delegates  to  which  each  local  Union  is  entitled  ac- 
cording to  the  amount  of  dues  paid,  and  shall  perform  all  other  duties  usually  per- 
taining to  such  office. 

Super  intcn  dents . 

Sec.  7.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Superintendents  to  originate,  to  advise,  and  to 
direct  plans  of  work  relating  to  their  several  departments;  to  correspond  and  to  co- 
operate with  County  Superintendents  to  report  to  the  annual  meeting  work  pro- 
posed and  work  accomplisheti.  They  shall  he  required  to  give  an  itemized  account 
of  their  receipts  and  expenditures  in  department  work.  ' 

ARTICLE  II.— Election. 

Sec.  I.  The  officers,  with  the  exception  of  the  Vice  Presidents,  and  Assistant 
Recording  Secretary  (the  latter  shall  be  nominated  by  the  Recording  Secretary  and 
elected  by  acclamation,  unless  otherwise  ordered)  shall  be  elected  by  ballot  on  the 
morning  of  the  last  day  of  the  annual  meeting. 

Vacancies  in  Dt-le .nation. 

Sec.  2.  Each  delegation  may  fill  its  quota  by  visiting  members  from  its  own  auxil- 
iary; if  any  Vice  President  is  absent,  said  county  may  be  represented  on  the  Execu- 
tive Committee  by  a  member  of  its  delegation. 


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I  'oting. 

Sec.  3.  General  Officers,  Superintendents  of  Departments,  State  Organizers  and 
ex -officio  members  shall  vote  in  person. 

Tellers, 

Sec.  4.  Tellers  having  been  appointed  by  the  meeting,  an  informal  ballot  shall  be 
cast  for  each  officer  separately,  and  the  members  of  the  Convention  shall  then  pro- 
ceed to  vote  by  ballot  for  the  person  thus  nominated. 

Superinten  dents. 

Sec.  5.  Superintendents  shall  be  nominated  by  the  Executive  Committee  and 
elected  by  the  annual  meeting.  Their  election  shall  be  by  acclamation,  unless  other- 
wise ordered. 

Vacancies, 

Sec.  6.  The  Executive  Committee  may  Hll  any  vacancies  occurring  in  the  interim 
of  annual  meetings. 

ARTICLE  III— Committees. 

Sec.  I.  The  following  committees  shall  be  chosen  on  the  first  day  of  the  annual 
meeting :  On  Credentials,  on  Business,  on  Resolutions.  The  last  shall  consist  of  one 
delegate  from  each  county,  chosen  by  the  delegation  of  her  county. 

Sec.  2.  An  Auditing  Committee  shall  be  appointed  by  the  General  Officers  in  the 
interim  of  the  annual  meetings. 

ARTICLE  IV. — Individual  Members. 

Sect.  Any  pledged  woman  in  a  community  where  there  is  no  local  Union  may 
become  a  meraber-at-large  of  the  State  Union  by  the  payment  of  an  annual  fee  of 
fifty  cents,  ten  cents  of  which  shall  be  paid  to  the  National  Woman's  Christian  Tem- 
perance Union. 

Sec.  2.  Any  woman  may  become  a  life  member  by  signing  the  pledge,  and  paying 
ten  dollars  at  one  time  to  the  State  Treasurer;  and  any  man  may  become  an  Honor- 
ary Member  by  signing  the  pledge  and  by  the  payment  of  one  dollar  annually. 

ARTICLE  V. — Department  of  OKt:ANizATiox. 

The  Department  of  Organization  shall  be  in   charge   of  the  General   Officers,  and 
organizers   appointed   by   them  shall  be  reported  to  the  Convei.tion  and  entitled  to  a 
seat. 

ARTICLE  VI. 

These  By-laws  may  be  amended  by  a  two-thirds  vote   of  the  members   present  at 
any  annual  meeting. 


LOCAL    CONSTITUTION. 


ARTICLE  I.— Name. 

This  organization  shall  be   known   as   the \^oman*s  Christian  Tern" 

perance  Union,  auxiliary  to  the  Maine  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union. 

PLEDGE. 

I  hereby  solemnly  promise,  God  helping  me,  to  abstain  from  all  distilled,  fermented 
and  malt  liquors,  including  Wine,  Beer  and  Cider,  and  to  employ  all  proper  means  to 
discourage  the  use  of  and  traffic  in  the  same. 

ARTICLE  II.—Objkct. 

The  object  of  this  Union  shall  be  to  educate  public  sentiment  up  to  the  standard 
of  total  abstinence,  train  the  young,  save  the  inel)riate,  and  aim  to  secure  the  com- 
plete banishment  of  the  liquor  traffic. 

ARTICLE  III— Membership. 

Any  woman  may  become  a  member  of  this  organization  by  signing  the  constitution 

(including  the  pledge)  and  by  the   payment  of per   year   into   the  Treasury*,  30 

cents  of  which  shall  be  paid  the  State  Union.  Ten  cents  of  that  amount  the  State 
Treasurer  sends  to  the  National  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union. 

Where  it  is  deemed  necessary  the  following  article  may  be  substituted  : 

Any  woman  may  become  a  member  of  this  organization  by  a  two-thirds  vote  at  any 
legal  meeting  and  by  signing  the  constitution  and  pledge  and  paying  the  regular  dues 
and  continuing  to  do  so  annually. 

Gentlemen  may  become  honorary  members  by  signing  the  pledge  and  the  payment 
of  one  dollar  a  year,  all  of  which  shall  be  retained  for  home  work. 

ARTICLE  IV.— Officers. 

The  officers  of  this  organization  shall  be  a  President,  Vice-Presidents,  one  from 
each  church,  when  practicable;  a  corresponding  Secretary,  Recording  Secretary  and 
Treasurer,  who  shall  constitute  an  Executive  Committee. 

ARTICLE  V. — Duties  of  Officers. 

Sec.  I.     President  to  call  to  order  and  open  the  meetings. 

To  announce  the  business  before  the  meeting  in  the  order  in  which  it  is  to  be 
acted  upon. 


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To  put  to  vote  all  questions  which  have  been  regularly  moved  and  seconded,  and 
to  announce  the  result. 

To  preserve  order,  and  to  decide,  when  referred  to,  all  questions  of  order  or  prac- 
tice which  may  arise. 

To  append  her  signature  when  necessary  to  all  orders  and  proceedings  of  the 
Union. 

To  have  a  general  oversight  of  the  Union,  and,  in  conjunction  with  the  Executive 
Committee,  to  plan  for  its  best  interests  and  the  good  of  the  cause. 

To  call  special  meetings  when  deemed  advisable  by  herself  and  any  three  members 
of  the  Union,  due  notice  being  given  to  all  the  members. 

Sec.  2.     Corresponding  Secretary  to  conduct   the   correspondence  of  the  Union. 

To  report  to  the  Corresponding  Secretary  of  the  State  Union  as  required  by  the 
State  Constitution  (having  Hrst  submitted  her  report  to  the  Union)  giving  such  facts 
and  items  of  general  interest  as  will  enable  the  State  Secretary  to  judge  correctly  of 
the  condition  of  the  Union  and  the  progress  of  the  work. 

Sec.  3.  Recording  Secretary  to  keep  a  record  of  the  proceedings  of  the  meetings 
of  the  Union. 

To  notify  the  public  of  its  meetings. 

To  read  all  papers,  etc.,  which  may  be  required. 

To  notify  Committees  of  their  appointments  and  of  business  referred  to  them. 

To  take  charge  of  all  papers  and  documents  of  the  Union. 

To  make  reports  at  each  meeting  of  the  preceding  meeting. 

Sec.  4.  Treasurer  to  collect  the  membership  dues,  and  to  devise  ways  and  means 
to  increase  the  funds  of  the  Unii)n.  To  forward  to  State  Treasurer  the  dues  for  each 
member  as  required  by  the  State  Constitution  (namely  30  cents  per  member) 
two  weeks  previous  to  State  Convention.  Old  Unions  and  those  organized 
early  in  the  year  shall  make  part  payment  of  dues  previous  to  March  first,  the  re- 
mainder two  weeks  before  State  Convention.  To  hold  all  money  collected  for  the 
use  of  the  Union,  paying  bills  on  order  of  the  President  and  Secretary,  keeping  an 
exact  book  account  and  making  a  report  of  the  same  at  each  regular  business  meeting. 

Sec.  5.  Vice-Presidents  to  preside,  in  their  order,  at  meetings  in  the  absence  of 
the  President,  and  to  perform  all  duties  of  the  President  in  case  of  absence  on  any 
account  from  her  office.  To  interest  the  women  of  their  respective  churches  in  the 
work  of  the  Union,  and  to  canvass  for  members.  To  assist  the  Pre«»ident  in  ar- 
ranging and  carrying  out  plans  for  the  benefit  of  the  Union.  To  endeavor  to  secure 
special  recognition  of  the  temperance  cause  in  the  church  prayer-meeting  (juarterly, 
and  also  l)y  a  sermon  from  the  pastor  at  least  once  a  year. 

AKTICLK  VI.— Mektings. 

The  regular  meetings  of  the  Union  shall  be  held ,  at  which  time  Super- 
intendents shall  report. 

Public  Prayer  and  Conference  meetings  shall  be  held  as  often  as  the  interest  of  the 
work  demands,  aifd  if  possible,  mass  meetings  quarterly. 

The  Executive  and  other  Committee^  shall  meet  as  often  as  may  be  deemed  advisable. 


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ARTICLE  VII.— Annual  Meetings. 

The  annual  meeting  shall  be  held  on  the day  of month,  at  which  time 

the  officers  shall  be  elected  for  the  ensuing  year. 

ARTICLE  VIII. — Amendments. 

This  Constitution  may  be  altered  or  amended  at  any  regular  meeting  of  the  Union, 
by  a  two-thirds  vote  of  the  members,  notice  having  been  given  at  the  previous  meeting. 


BY-LAWS. 


Sec.  I.  Departments  of  Work,  Superintendents  shall  be  appointed  for  such  of 
the  following  departments,  as  local  needs  seem  to  call  for:  i.  Heredity.  2.  Hy- 
giene. 3.  Scientific  Instruction.  4.  Sunday  School  Work.  5.  Juvenile  Work. 
6.  Temperance  Literature.  7.  Influencing  the  Press.  8.  Evangelistic  Work. 
9.  Prisons  and  Police  Stations.  10.  Railroad  Work.  11.  Soldiers  and  Sailors. 
12.  Unfermented  Wine.  13.  Young  Women's  Work.  14.  Parlor  Meetings. 
15.  Flower  Missions.  16.  State  and  County  Fairs.  17.  Legislation  and  Peti- 
tions. 18.  Work  among  Foreigners.  19.  Work  among  Colored  People.  20.  Im- 
pure Literature.     21.     White  Shield. 

Sec.  2.     All  meetings  of  the  Union  shall  be  opened   by   reading   of  Scripture  and 
prayer. 

Sec.  3.     A  majority  of  the  Executive  Committee  shall  constitute   a   quorum   at  any 
regular  meeting,  and  the  same  rule  may  apply  to  all  other  Committees. 

Sec.  4.     Officers  shall  remain  such  till  their  successors  are  elected. 

Sec.  5.     All  members  of  the  Union  shall  be  entitled  to  vote. 

Sec.  6.     Order  of  Business: — 

1.  Devotional  Exercises. 

2.  Report  of  Recording  Secretary. 

3.  Report  of  Corresponding  Secretary. 

4.  Report  of  Treasurer. 

5.  Report  of  Chairman  of  Executive  Committee. 

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6.  Reports  of  Superintendents. 

7.  Reports  of  Special  Committees. 

8.  Unfinished  Business. 

9.  New  Business. 

10.  Course  of  Reading. 

11.  Discussion. 

Sec.     7.     These  By-Laws  may  be  altered  or  amended  at  any  regular  meeting  <  f  the 
Union,  by  a  vote  of  two-thirds  of  the  members  of  the  Union. 


Extracts  from  the  Public  Laws. 


TEMPERANCE    EDUCATION. 


CHAPTER  267  OF  THE  PUBLIC  LAWS    OF    THE  STATE  OF  MAINE. 

An  Act  relating  to  Scientific  Temperance  Instruction  in  Public  Schools. 
Be  it  enacted,  etc.,  as  follows: 

Sec.  1.  Provisibn  shall  bp  made  by  the  proper  local  school  authorities 
for  instru'  ting  all  pupils  in  all  schools  supported  by  public  money,  or 
under  State  control,  in  physiology  and  hygiene,  with  special  reference  to 
the  effects  of  alcoholic  drinks,  stimulants  and  narcotics  upon  the  human 
system. 

Sec.  2.  No  certificate  shall  be  granted  any  person  to  teach  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  in  this  state  after  the  fourth  day  of  July,  eighteen  hundred  and 
eighty-five,  who  has  not  passed  a  satisfactory  examination  in  physiology 
and  hygiene,  with  special  reference  to  the  effects  of  alcoholic  drinks,  stim- 
ulants, and  narcotics  upon  the  human  system. 

(Approved  February  19,  1885.) 


EXTRACTS    FROM    THE    SABBATH     LAWS. 


WTioever,  on  the  lord's  Day,  keeps  open  his  shop,  workhouse,  ware- 
house, or  place  ot  business;  travels,  or  does  any  work,  labor  or  business 
on  that  day,  except  works  of  necessity  or  charity;  uses  any  sport,  game  or 
recreation;  or  is  present  at  any  dancing,  public  diversion,  show  or  enter- 
tainment, encouraging  the  same,  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not  exceed- 
ing ten  dollars. — R.  S.,  Chap.  124,  Sec.  20. 

If  any  innholder  or  viitualler,  on  the  Lord's  Day,  suffers  any  persons 
except  travelers,  strangers  or  lodgers,  to  abide  in  his  house,  yard  or  field, 
drinking  or  spending  their  time  idly,  at  play  or  doing  any  secular  business, 
except  works  of  necessity  or  charity,  he  shall  be  punished  by  ^xv^  ^^1  ^^- 


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ceeding  four  dollars  for  each  person  thus  suffered  to  abide;  and  if  alter 
conviction  he  is  again  guilty,  by  fine  not  exceeding  ten  dollars  for  each  of- 
fence; and  upon  a  third  conviction,  he  shall  also  be  incapable  of  holding 
any  license;  and  every  person  so  abiding  shall  be  fined  not  exceeding  four 
dollars  for  each  offense. — R.  S.,  ('hap.  124,  Sec.  21. 

Sunday  is  a  close  time,  oti  which  it  is  not  lawful  to  hunt,  kill  or  destroy 
game  or  birds  of  any  kind,  under  the  penalties  imposed  therefor  during 
other  close  times;  but  the  penalties  already  imposed  for  violationH  of  the 
Sunday  laws  are  not  repealed  or  diminished. — R.  S.,  Chap.  30,  Sec.  27. 

The  jailer,  at  the  expense  of  the  county,  shall  furnish  to  each  prisoner 
who  is  able  to  read,  a  copy  of  the  Hible,  and  to  all  on  Sunday,  such  reli- 
gious instruciion  as  he  may  be  able  to  obtain  without  expense,  and  to 
such  as  may  be  l)enefitcd  thereby,  instruction  in  reading,  writing  and 
arithmetic  one  hour  every  evening  except  Sunday. — R.  S.,  Chap.  80,  Sec.  30. 

• 

CIGARETTE    LAW. 


Be  if  enacted  Inj  the  Seiiate  and  House  of  liej^reHnitatives   in    Legislature 

assembled: 

Sec.  1.  No  person  shall  sell  any  cigarette  to  any  person  under  the  age 
of  sixteen  years. 

Sec.  2.  No  person  other  than  the  minor's  parent  or  guardian,  shall 
give  to  any  jyerson  under  tlie  age  of  sixteen  years  any  cigarette,  for  such 
minor's  personal  use. 

Sec.  1*3.  Any  person  violating  any  of  the  foregoing  provisions,  shall  be 
punished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars. 

■ 

IMPURE    LITERATURE    LAW. 


Sec.  13.  Whoever  imports,  prints,  publishes,  sells,  exhibits  or  dis- 
tributes any  book,  pamphlet,  ballad,  or  printed  j)ai)er,  containing  obscene 
language,  prints,  pictures,  or  descriptions,  manifestly  tending  to  corrupt 
the  morals  of  youth;  or  procures,  receives,  or  has  any  of  them  in  his  pos- 
session with  intent  to  sell,  exhibit  or  circulate  them,  shall  be  punished  by 
imprisonment  for  less  than  one  year,  or  by  fine  not  exceeding  five  hundred 
dollars.— R.  S.,  Chap.  124. 


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"For  God,  and  Home,  and  Native  Land." 


ROCKLAND,  ME. 

PMMTKD  AT  THE  TRIBUNE  OFFICE. 
1893. 


Suggestions  to  Local  Unions, 


It  is  very  desirable  that  our  Union  should  immediately  inform  the 
State  Corresponding  Secretary  whenever  any  changes  in  their  list 
of  officers  are  made  ;  also  that  the  officers  of  new  Unions  be 
repoited  promptly. 

Each  Superintendent  of  the  various  departments  of  work  has  the 
privilege  of  selecting  her  committee,  the  number  of  the  latter  being 
limited  to  five. 

Unions  are  requested  to  duplicate  the  State  Committees  as  far  as 
possible. 

Since  our  next  State  annual  meeting  is  to  occur  the  last  week  in 
September,  the  reports  of  the  Corresponding  Secretary  and  Superin- 
tendents will  be  much  more  complete  if  the  local  Unions  will  change 
the  time  of  their  annual  meeting  to  the  first  week  in  September. 

For  all  desired  information  about  the  Union  Signal  address  the 
Superintendents  of  this  department,  or  the  Union  Signal^  The 
Temple,  Chicago. 

Temperance  Text  Books  and  Temperance  Literature  can  be  ob- 
tained of  the  Superintendent  of  Temperance  Literature,  or  at  Head- 
quarters, 150  Free  Street,  Portland. 

Copies  of  the  Minutes  containing  the  Constitution  will  be  furnished 
from  Headquarters  to  Vice-Presidents,  or  ladies  wishing  to  form  a 
Union. 

The  Superintendents  of  the  various  branches  of  work  will  always 
be  ready  to  assist  those  who  desire  information. 

SARAH  L.  CRAM, 
State  Corresponding  Secretary, 


Plan  of  Work. 


The  following  plan  of  work  is  reconn mended  by  the  corresponding 
secretary  to  local  Unions  for  their  consideration  and  adoption  as  far 
practicable : 

1.  Appoint  a  visiting  committee  to  arouse  and  interest  Christian 
women  in  the  temperance  cause,  and  secure  them  as  members  of 
the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union. 

2.  Endeavor  to  increase  the  circulation  of  the  Union  Signal^  the 
Star  in  the  East^  the  Oak  and  Ivy  Leaf^  and  the  Toung  Crusader, 

3.  Secure  space  for  temperance  matter  in  the  local  papers. 

4.  Procure  temperance  literature  and  have  it  judiciously  dis- 
tributed. 

5.  Hang  up  temperance  hand-bills  in  churches,  school-houses, 
town  halls,  public  libraries,  railroad  stations,  engine  houses,  factories, 
horse  cars, — in  short,  wherever  permission  to  do  so  can  be  obtained. 

6.  Establish  9  loan  library;  buy  suitable  temperance  books  and 
place  them  in  the  Sunday  School  libraries ;  furnish  tracts  to  put 
into  Sunday  School  books. 

7.  Hold  gospel  temperance  meetings  and  distribute  tracts  on 
some  topic  suitable  for  each  occasion. 

8.  Circulate  the  pledge  in  the  Sunday  Schools  and  throughout 
the  place. 

9.  Urge  the  use  of  the  "Temperance  Lesson"  once  a  quarter  in 
the  Sunday  Schools;  also,  advocate  the  introduction  of  temperance 
as  a  feature  into  Sunday  School  concerts. 

10.  Request  the  pastors  to  preach  a  temperance  sermon  to  the 
children  as  often  as  practicable. 

1 1 .  Secure  the  use  of  unfermented  wine  at  the  communion  service. 

12.  Form  children's  temperance  societies. 

13.  Urge  the  enforcement  of  the  law  providing  for  scientific  tem- 
perance instruction  in  the  public  schools. 

14.  Institute  parlor  meetings  to  be  held  once  a  month,  if 
practicable. 

15.  Hold  meetings  at  almshouse,  jail,  and  other  charitable  insti- 
tutions, and  distribute  temperance  and  religious  papers. 

*'Praying  always  with  all  prayer  and  supplication"  unto  Him  who 
"18  able  to  do  exceeding  abundantly  above  all  that  we  ask  or  think." 


NATIONAL  AND  WORLD'S  PflCSIDCNT, 

MISS  FRANCES  E.    WILLARD. 


State  Officers  for  1893-94. 


PRESIDENT: 
MRS.  L.  M.  N.  STEVENS,  Stroudwater. 

Vice-Presidents : 

Androscoggin — Mrs.  R.  A.  Springer,  Livermore  Falls. 

Aroostook — Mrs.  L.  J.  Spaulding,  Caribou. 

Cumberland — Miss  Cornelia  M.  Dow,  Portland. 

Franklin — Mrs.  Helen  B.  C.  Beedy,  Farmington. 

Hancock — Mrs.  R.  P.  Grindle,  Bluehill. 

Kennebec — Mrs.  M.  N.  Wyman,  Augusta. 

Knox — Mrs.  R.  C.  Hall,  Rockland. 

Lincoln — Mrs.  S.  F.  Winslow,  Waldoboro. 

Oxford — Mrs.  Ellen  L.  Pierce,  East  Hiram,  and  Mrs.  Minnie  Robin* 

son,  Norway. 
Penobscot — Mrs.  Annie  V.  Curtis,  Dexter. 
Piscataquis — Mrs.  Ella  M.  Getchell,  Foxcroft. 
Somerset,  Mrs.  M.  F.  Bunker,  North  Anson. 
Sagadahoc — Mrs.  Helen  M.  Delano,  Bath. 
Waldo — Miss  A.  A.  Hicks,  Belfast. 
Washington — Mrs.  Bernard  Rogers,  Pembroke. 
York — Mrs.  S.  P.  Smith,  Cornish. 

Corresponding  Secretary. 
Mrs.  Sarah  L.  Cram,        ....  Biddeford 

Recording  Secretary. 
Miss  Clara  M.  Farwbll,  ...  Rockland 

Assistant  Recording  Secretary. 
Mrs.  Adblaidb  S.  Johnston,        ...     Fort  Fairfield 

Treasurer, 

Mrs.  E.  M.  Blanchard,      ....  Lewiston 

State  Headquarters,  150  Free  St.,  Portland. 


Superintendents  of  Departments 

FOR  1693-4. 


I,    ORGANIZATION. 

Work  Among  Foreign  Speaking  People — Miss  Mary  G.  Walsh,  Brewer. 
Young  Woman's  Work—Miss  Lubelle  Patrick,  GrovtTille. 
Juvenile  Work— Miss  Annie  C.  Bagley,  Springvale. 

II.    PREVENTIVE. 
Hygienic  Reform  and  Heredity — To  be  supplied. 

III.  EDUCATIONAL. 

Scientific  Temperance  Instruction — Mrs.  G.  F.  French,  Portland. 

Sunday  School  Work — Mrs.  £.  A.  G.  Stickney,  Brownfield. 

Temperance  Literature — Mrs.  N.  S.  Femald,  Portland. 

Influencing  the  Press  and  Reporter  for  Union  Signal — Miss  Mary  L.  French,  Auburn. 

Narcotics — Mrs.  I.  S.  Wentworth,  Dexter. 

IV.  EVANQELISTIC. 

Bible  Reading  and  Evangelistic  Work — Mrs.  Lucy  A.  Snow,  Windham  Center. 

Unfermented  Wine  at  Sacrament — Mrs.  L.  J.  Spaulding,  Caribou. 

Systematic  Giving — Mrs.  Anna  M.  Hussey,  North  Berwick. 

Prison,  Jail  and  Almshouse  Work — Mrs.  B.  Minard,  Houlton. 

Reformatory  Prison  for  Wbmen — Mrs.  H.  J.  Bailey,  Winthrop  Center,  Mrs.  G.  S. 

Hunt,  Portland,  Miss  Clara  M.  Farwell,  Rockland. 
Securing  Homes  for  Homeless  Children — Miss  Harriet  A.  Leavitt,  Portland. 
Work  Among  Railroad  Employes — Mrs.  Helen  A.  Thomas,  Greene. 
Work  Among  Soldiers  and  Sailors — Mrs.  F.  C.  Johnston,  Portland. 
Work  Among  Lumbermen — Mrs.  A.  L.  Harvey,  Orono. 
Sabbath  Observance — Mrs.  F.  A.  Rollins,  Winthrop  Center. 
Purity— Mrs.  F.  A.  Wright,  East  Newport 
Purity  in  Literature  and  Art — Mrs.  A.  L.  Page,  Houlton. 
Mercy— Mrs.  Clara  W.  Mumford,  Winthrop  Center. 

V.    SOCIAL. 
Flower  Mission — Miss  Edith  Libby,  Portland. 
State  and  County  Fairs— Mrs.  Edith  N.  Oakes,  Foxcroft. 

VI.    LEGISLATION  AND  PETITION. 
Legislation  and  Petition — Mrs.  L.  C.  Lamb,  Auburn. 
Franchise— Mrs.  A.  F.  Greely,  Ellsworth. 
Peace  and  Arbitration — Miss  Alice  M.  Douglas,  Bath. 

For  infonnation  regarding  Demorest  Medal  Contests  inquire  of  Mrs.  Susan  M. 
Giant,  So.  Windham. 


Directory  of  Maine   Unions. 


ANDROSCOGGIN  COUNTY. 

County  Cor.  Secretary—MTs,  Abbie  J.  Benner,  Auburn. 

County  Treasurer — Miss  Mary  £.  Perkins,  Mechanic  Falls 


Auburn 
Greene 

Lewiston 

Lisbon 

Livennore  Falls 

Mechanic  Falls 

Sabattis 

So.  Durham 

Turner 


Mrs. 


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PRESIDENT. 

Rhoda  Pratt 
R.  S.  Thomas 

(Greene  Comer) 
S.  B.  Hayes 
J.  Ranks 


COR.  SECRETARY. 

Miss  Mary  L.  French 
Mrs.  G.  W.  Parker 


II 


Mrs.  S.  I.  Jewett 
Mrs. Golder 


Miss  Jennie  P.  Douglas 

Mrs.  I.G.Burdin(Chase*s  Mills)  Mrs.  H.  M.  Wilder 


W.  H.  Nye 
W.  H.  Miles 
Miss  Myra  R.  Billings 
Mary  £.  Perkins 

Maxwell 

Lizzie  C.  Vamey 


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AROOSTOOK  COUNTY. 

County  Cor.  Secretary — Mrs.  A.  L.  Page,  Houlton. 

County  Treasurer — Mrs.  Kate  De  Witt,  Presque  Isle 


Ashland 

Mrs. 

Blaine 

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Bridgewater  Centre 

II 

Caribou 

II 

Crystal 

II 

Dyer  Brook 

II 

Fort  Fairfield 

II 

Haynesville 

II 

Hodgdon 

II 

Houlton 

II 

Limestone 

II 

Linneus 

II 

Littleton --^. 

11 

Mapleton 

II 

Monticello 

II 

New  Limerick 

Miss 

No.  Amity 

Mrs. 

Presque  Isle 

II 

Sprague's  Mills 

II 

Washburn 

11 

Annie  Foster 

S.  C.  Beals 

J.  C.  Smith 

C   B.  Vamum 

Amelia  Wheaton 

Lizzie  A.  Libby 

Viola  C.  Richardson 

J.  H.  Brown 

L.  Mayo 

A.  L.  Page 

Sarah  C.  Chase 

Newbert 

Z.  M.  Miller       

O.  J.  Higgins 

E.  E.  Morrill 
Miss  Isabel  James 
Mrs.  Hannah  W.  Tracey 

Fannie  Forbes 

Julia  A.  W.  Estes 


Mrs. 


M.  L.  Bartlett 
L.  L.  Mcintosh 
Frances  A.  Kimball 

Miss  L.  F.  Runnals 
"     Grace  M.  Walker 

Mrs.  Mary  J.  Kelley 

Myrtle  G.  R.  Ames 
Mary  Logue 

Miss  Hattie  I.  Mayo 

Mrs.  B.  Minard 

Annie  C.  Long 
E.  J.  Boyd 
Fannie  J.  Crosby 
M.  H.  Lepprelle 

Miss  Annie  Copperthwaite 
"  Annie  E.  Esterbrook 
"     Ella  L.  Reed 

Mrs.  Kate  DeWitt 

Laura  Gilpatrick 
Leonora  Chase 


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II 


II 


II 


Lucy  C.  Farrell 

CUMBERLAND  COUNTY. 

County  Cor.  Secretary — Mrs.  Sarah  W.  McLellan,  Newhall. 

County  Treasurer — Mrs.  Emma  E.  Thompson,  Portland 


Brunswick 
Cape  Elizabeth 
Cumberland  Mills 
Newhall 

(So.  Windham) 
New  Gloucester 

North  Gorham 
North  Windham 
Peaks  Island 
Portland 


Miss  M.  J.  Noyes 
Mrs.  E.  A.  Poland 
"     G.  E.  Morrill 
Mrs.  Sarah  W.  McLellan 


Mrs.  J.  S.  Towne 

Emma  H.  Jewett 
J.  S.  Bragdon 

Miss  EtU  M.  Walker 


II 


II 


"     Eliza  L.  White 


II 


II 


II 


II 


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A.  D.  P.  Moses 
Mary  Witham 
V.  E.  Wheatley 
Geo.  S.  Hunt 


Eliza  J.  Jordan 

(Upper  Gloucester) 
Mrs.  Jane  Whipple 
**     Mary  Boody 
Miss  Fannie  G.  Brewer 

Cornelia  M.  Dow  — ■ 


II 


PRESIDENT. 

Mrs.  F.  F.  Johnson 
"     M.  M.  Bodge 
Miss  Louise  Titcomb 
Mrs.  Emma  F.  Duran 
Mary  E.  Files 
Belle  H.  Allen 
£.  A.  Robbins 


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So.  Bridgton 
So.  Windham 
Stroudwater 
Westbrook 
White  Rock 
Windham  Center 
Woodford's 
Yarmouth 

FRANKLIN  COUNTY. 

County  Cor,  Secretary — Mrs.  C.  M.  Keyes,  North  Jay. 

County  Treatiurer — Mrs.  Luella  Reynolds,  Farmington 


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COR.  SECRETARY. 

Mrs.  G.  D.  Knights 
"     M.  A.  Edwards 
Miss  A.  F.  Quinby 
Mrs.    M.  £.  Spiller 
"     Annie  E.  Files 
Adelia  L.  Fellows 
Julia  A.  Blackstone 


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Allen's  Mills 

Farmington 

Kingfield 

Phillips 

North  Jay 

Stratton 

Strong 

Wilton 

Rangeley 

Bar  Harbor 

Bluehill 

Brooklin 

Ellsworth 

Hancock 

South  Surry 
Tremont 


Mrs.  D.  A  Goodridge 
O.  M.  Jennings 
Fannie  Howe 
A.  M.  Greenwood 
Carrie  M.  Keyes 
E.  B.  Myers 
Nancy  Daggett 
R.  C.  Fuller 


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II 


II 


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II 


II 


Miss  Lillian  M.  Rackliffe 
"     J.  W.  Hoyt 

Mrs.  Emma  H.  Sanford 
N.  P.  Noble 
lola  A.  Emery 
L.  A.  Standish 
A.  L.  Edwards 
Mrs.  Louie  Greene 


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HANCOCK  COUNTY 

Mrs.  Carrie  J.  Lord 
Caro  J.  Folsom 
J.  W.  Cheney 
Amanda  Bowler 

(So.  Harbor) 
Julia  A.  Chatto 
Arvilla  Clark, 

(S.  W.  Harbor) 


II 


II 


II 


II 


II 


Miss  Alice  Suminsby 
Mrs.  Lula  E.  Grindle 

Grace  C.  Johnston 
Ann  F.  Greely 
Carrie  S.  Jellison 


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Etta  S.  Chatto 
Evelyn  W.  Neal 


KENNEBEC   COUNTY. 

County  Cor.  Secretary — Mrs.  M.  G.  Bailey,  Winthrop. 

County  Treasurer — Miss  Cora  L.  Fallen,  Winthrop  Center 


„iUigu8ta 

THilxliner 

Hallowell 

Monmouth 

North  Vassalboro 

South  China 

Vassalboro 
^  Winthrop  Center 


Mrs.  E.  S.  Fogg 

Lavinia  Quint 
E.  Rowell 
"     Emma  L.  King 
Frances  E.  Hussey 
Augusta  Ellis 
Miss  Emily  S.  Weeks 
Mrs.  Hannah  J.  Bailey 


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Mrs.  Althea  Carey^ 
Blanche  Frien 
B.  F.  Fuller 
Ida  M.  Pierce 
Helen  M.  Cook 

Miss  Hatiie  L.  Hoxie 
"     Kate  R.  Stilson 

Mrs.  Clara  W.  Mumford 


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KNOX  COUNTY. 

County  Cor,  Secretary — Mrs.  G.  M.  Brainerd,  Rockland. 

County  Treasurer — Mrs.  S.  Whitcomb,  Thomaston 


Camden 

Rockland 

Rockport 

Spruce  Head 

Tiiomaston 

Union 

Warren 


Mrs.  Sylvester  Arau 
Miss  Clara  M.  Farwell 
Mrs.  Sarah  C.  Brastow 
C.  S.  Coakley 
A.  T.  Crosby 
E.  L.  Thompson 
Mary  F.  Newbert 


II 


II 


II 


II 


Mrs.  D.  F.  Wadsworth 

•'  Susie  S.  Johnson 

"  Ella  M.  t.  Wentwortb 

"  Maggie  Godfrey 

•*  A.  F.  Burton 

"  A.  M.  Jones 

*'  Marion  H.  Mallett 


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LINCOLN  COUNTY. 

CoufUy  C^r.  iSRecrctory— Mrs.  M.  F.  Dyer,  Waldoboro. 

County  Treasurw — Mrs.  Emma  I.  Morelen,  Pemaqaid 

PRESIDENT. 

Bremen  Mrs.  Abbie  Mesenrev 

(Broad  Cove) 
Dresden  Mills  Miss  Caroline  C.  Alley 

£.  Jefierson  Mrs.  A.  A.  Skinner 

Newcastle  &  Dama.    Miss  Almira  F.  Ginn  (Dama.) 


COE.  SBCEETAEY. 

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Mrs.  Carrie  M.  Dodge 

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Countff  Cor,  Secretary — Miss  Jennie  B.  Kimball,  East  Hiram. 

County  Dre€isurer — Mrs.  B.  S.  Rideout,  Norway 


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E.  A.  G.  Stickney 

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Nellie  L.  Prince 
Minnie  Robinson 
Geo.  Jones 
G.  A.  Wilson 
Amanda  M.  Andrews 


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Miss  Delia  Spring 


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Mrs.  Alice  Oxnard 
Miss  Kate  W.  Houghton 

"    Lizzie  Winslow 
Mrs.  Emily  L.  Emmons 

PENOBSCOT  COUNTY. 

County  Cor,  Secretary  and  Treasurer — Mrs.  Addie  L.  Harvey,  Orono. 

Mrs.  Lizzie  P.  Swett 
"     S.  J.  Pickard 
"     Vina  H.  Rideout 
**     Warren  Canr 
Miss  Annette  M.  Alden 
Mrs.  L.  M.  Reed 
"     Nellie  L.  Mason 
Eliza  L.  Ayerill 

(Lincoln  Cen.) 
F.  C.  Hammond 
Myra  M.  Daisy 
Amanda  Cowam^ , 
C.  L.  Banghart" 
Rosetta  Morse 
A.  M.  Blanchard 
A.  M.  Porter 


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Bangor  Crusade 
Charleston 
Dexter 
Dixmont 
Hampden  Comer 
Kenduskeag 
Lincoln 

Mattawamkeag 
Medway 

prono 

Patten 

Plymouth 

Springfield 

Stillwater 

Veazie 

Winn 


Mrs.  H.  A.  Whitman 

H.  E.  Prentiss 

Sarah  Noyes 

E.  R  Horton 

Alice  Tilton 

Caroline  Mayo 

Evelyn  Harvey 

Mrs.  Ellen  L.  Hammond 
(No.  Lincoln) 

Jennie  L.  Stetson 

Mary  R.  Keniston 

A.  J.  Durgin 

Rives  Mitchell 

A.  L.  Abbott 

J.  A.  Reed 

S.  U.  Mathews 
Miss  C.  L.  Davis 


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Mrs.  H.  M.  Huston 

PISCATAQUIS  COUNTY. 

County  Cor,  Secretary — Mrs.  Sarah  A.  Martin,  Foxcrod. 

County  Treasurer — Mrs.  Ellen  Straw,  Guilford. 

BrownvOle  Mrs.  Ellen  S.  Smith  Mrs.  Annie  L  Ryder 

Foxoroft  and  Dover  "    L.  P.  Whittier(Foxcro(t)        "     Annie  B.  Emerson 

(Dover) 
Greenville  "     W.  L.  Rogers  "     Frances  Rogers 

Guilford  "    Lottie  M.  Hussey  "    Agnes  M.^Bennett 

Milo  "    Mary  Kittredge  "    M.  F.  Hobbs 


SAGADAHOC  COUNTY. 
County  Cor,  Secretary — Miss  Kate  W.  Spinney,  Popham  Beach. 

County  Treasurer — Mrs.  A.  M.  Purrington,  Bath 

Bath  Mrs.  Helen  M.  Delano  Miss  £.  W.  Smiley 

Popham  Beach  Miss  Kate  W.  Spinney  Mrs.  Sarah  £.  Perkins 

SOMERSET  COUNTY. 
County  Cor.  Secretary — Mrs.  H.  N.  Vining,  St.  Albans. 

County  Treasurer — Mrs.  G.  A.  Hewett,  Madison 


East  St.  Albans 

Fairfield 

Madison 

New  Portland 

North  Anson 

North  New  Portland 

Pittsfield 

Ripley 

Shiawmut 

St.  Albans 


Mrs.  Ruth  M.  Mower 

Mary  L.  Houghton 
C.  K.  Evans 
M.  J.  Butts 
M.  F.  Bunker 
Flora  A.  Clark 
Eva  Bryant 
Fidelia  C.  Rand 
Rebecca  £.  Lawrence 
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Miss  M.  M.  Owen 
Mrs.  Alma  F.  Wood 

"     L.  J.  Carville 
Miss  Beatrice  Wasson 
Mrs.  B.  F.  Bartlett 

Flora  E.  Sturtevant 
Mary  E.  Felker 
Rebecca  N.  Greene 
A.  L.  Vining 


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WALDO  COUNTY. 
County  Cor,  Secretary — Miss  Emily  F.  Miller,  North  Searsmont. 

County  Treasurer — Mrs.  Emma  Moore,  Belfast 

Belfast  Mrs.  W.  B.  Conant  Miss  A  A.  Hicks 

North  Searsmont  "     A.  A.  Bridgham  "     Emily  F.  Miller 

Waldo  "     L.  E.  Roberts  (Belfast)       Mrs.  Mary  A.  Smith 

WASHINGTON   COUNTY. 
County  Cor.  Secretary — Mrs.  Fannie  E.  Cox,  Elast  Machias. 

County  Treasurer — Mrs.  E.  A.  Holmes,  Eastport 


Addison 
Calais 
Cherryfield 
Columbia  Falls 
Danforth 
East  Machias 
Eastport 
Harrington 
Jonesport 
Lubec 
Machias 
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Steuben 
Vanceboro 
West  Pembroke 
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Dr.  Vose 
E.  B.  Silsby 
Annie  J.  Chandler 
D.  H.  Powell 
Ruth  A.  Hanscom 
Wm.  Sears 
Sophia  Strout 
"     Elvira  B.  Ireland 

Miss  Virginia  McFadden 

Mrs.  E.  C.  Drisko 
Sarah  P.  Shear 
Jennie  S.  Leighton 
Geneva  B.  Seavey 
Lizzie  Frost 
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"     S.J.  Purington 
Miss  Margaret  C.  Hunter 

"     Maud  Bucknam 
Mrs.  L.  A.  Smart 
Miss  Fannie  E.  Cox 
Mrs.  Hannah  P.  Adams 
Miss  Lillian  Rumball 
Mrs.  Clara  Farnsworth 

(West  Jonesport) 

"    M.  W.  Stone 

Miss  Fannie  E.  Leighton 
Mrs.  Cora  L.  Overlock 
Miss  Laura  Kelley 
Mrs.  Margarette  A  Gardner 
Nellie  Mercier 


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YORK   COUNTY. 
County  Cor,  Secretary — Mrs.  Sarah  L.  Cram,  Biddeford 

County  Treasurer — Mrs.  S.  W.  Ricker,  So.  Berwick. 

Mrs.  W.  S.  Mclntire  Mrs.  S.  L.  Cram 

"     Ann  D  Webb  "    Hattie  Pease 

Miss  Lubelle  Patrick  Miss  Ida  M  Burbank 

"    Anna  O  Kimball  Mrs.  R  W  Lord 
Mrs  A  C  Dawley  *•    L  H  Moody 

G  S  Chase  "    Howard  Frost 

S  W  Ricker  Miss  Ella  W  Ricker 

G  F  Millward  Mrs.  E  Morgan 

E  J  Cowell  Miss  EVVii  C  \\>xc^ 


Biddeford 
Cornish 
Groveville 
Kennebunk 
Old  Orchard 
Springvale 
South  Berwick 
Sanford 
West  Lebanon 


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GENERAL  OFFICERS. 

Mrt.  L.  M.  N.  Stevens,  President, 

"     Sarah  L.  Cram,  Cor,  Secretary, 
Miss  Clara  M.  Farwell,  Rec.  Secretary, 
Mrs.  Adelaide  S.  Johnston,  Asst,  Rec,  Sec, 
"     E.  M.  Blanchard,  Treasurer, 

COUNTY  PRESIDENTS. 

Mrs.  R.  A.  Springer. 
Miss  Cornelia  M.  Dow. 
Mrs.  Helen  B.  C.  Beedy. 

R.  C.  Hall. 

S.  F.  Winslow. 

Ella  M.  Getchell. 

M.  F.  Bunker. 

Helen  M.  Delano. 
Miss  A.  A.  Hicks. 
Mrs.  S.  P.  Smith. 

SUPTS.  OF  DEPARTMENTS. 

Miss  Lubelle  Patrick. 

"    Annie  C.  Bagley. 
Mrs.  G.  F.  French. 

"     E.  A.  G.  Stickncy. 

"    N.  S.  Fernald. 

"    Charlotte  A.  Ricker. 
Miss  Mary  L.  French. 
Mrs.  I.  S.  Wentworth. 

"     Lucy  A.  Snow. 

**    Anna  M.  Hussey. 

"     H.  J.  Bailey. 

"     Ida  M.  B.  Wyman. 

"     L.  C.  Lamb. 
Miss  Alice  M.  Douglas. 

ANDROSCOGGIN  COUNTY. 

Auburn — Mrs.  Abbie  J.  Benner,  Mrs.  A. 
J.  Dennison,  Mrs.  R.  A.  Pratt,  Mrs. 
Julia  A.  Young,  Mrs.  Nancy  San- 
born, Mrs.  Louisa  Wagg,  Mrs.  H.  J. 
Luce. 

South  Durham — Mrs.  Lucy  J.  Lunt, 
Mrs.  Phebe  R.  Cartland. 

Mechanic  Falls — Mrs.  S.  I.  Jewett, 
Miss  Mary  £.  Perkins. 

Turner— Mrs.  H.  M.  Wilder. 

Greenb— Mrs.  Helen  A.  Thomas. 


AROOSTOOK  COUNTY. 

Caribou — Mrs.  Mary  £.  Luce,  Mrs.  H. 
H.  Luf  kin,  Mrs.  F.  A.  Wright 

Amity — Mrs.  Jennie  F.  Seamens. 

Fort  Fairfield— Miss  Jessie  Bartlett 

HODGDON — Miss  Hattie  T.  Mayo. 

CUMBERLAND  COUNTY. 

Brunswick — Miss  Nellie  Wyman,  Mrs. 
Julia  A.  Morse,  Mrs.  Isora  Brown 

Cumberland  Mills  —  Mrs.  Augusta 
Bragdon,  Mrs.  L.  Stevens. 

Deering — Mrs.  F.  E.  C.  Robbins,  Mrs. 
S.  M.  Bennett,  Mrs.  A.  B.  Rice. 

New  Gloucester— Mrs.  E.  S.  White, 
Mrs.  Charlotte  Reed,  Mrs.  F.  M. 
Thayer. 

Newhall — Mrs.  Sarah  W.  McLellan« 
Mrs.  Susan  M.  Graqt. 

Portland — Mrs.  J.  E.  McDowell,  Mrs. 
N.  S.  Fernald,  Mrs.  Gertrude  S. 
Leavitt,  Mrs.  Roxana  Homstead, 
Mrs.  Florence  A.  Nickerson,  Mrs. 

M.  S.  Snell,  Mrs.  Kent,  Miss 

Alice  Fernald. 

Stroudwater — Miss  Louise    Titcomb, 
Miss  A.  F.  Quinby,   Mrs.   Olive  S.    , 
Hanson. 

Westbrook — Mrs.  Emma  F.  Duran> 
Mrs.  M.  E.  Spiller. 

WestbrookY's— Miss  Carrie  A.McCann, 
Miss  Delia  M.  Merean. 

Peak's  Island — Mrs.  Violet  Wheatley, 
Miss  Nellie  Lane. 

Windham  Centre — Mrs.  Ellen  Webb. 

South  Windham — Mrs.  M.  A.  Edwards 

Yarmouth — Mrs.  Lena  Marston,  Miss 
Alice  B.  Thomas. 

FRANKLIN  COUNTY. 

Farmington — Mrs.  Julia  W.  Butler. 

North  Jay — Mrs.  M.  A.  Emery,  Mrs. 
lola  A.  Emery,  Mrs.  Gertrude  M. 
Waite,  Mrs.  Stella  E.  Keyes. 


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HANCOCK  COUNTY. 

Brookun — Mrs.  Caro  J.  Folsom,  Mrs. 
Belle  C.  Blake. 

Brcx>klin  Y*s — Miss  Ethel  M.  Eaton. 

Bar  Harbor — Miss  Alice  I.  Suminsby 

South  Hancock — Mrs.  Amanda  Bowler 
Mrs.  E.  L.  Jellison. 

Southwest  Harbor  —  Mrs.   Lizzie  B. 

Holmes,  Miss  Mary  A.  Carroll,  Mrs. 

Alice  Higgins,Miss  Bertha  A.Robbins 

KENNEBEC  COUNTY. 
Augusta — Mrs.    M.   C.   Haskell,   Mrs. 
Althea  Carey,  Mrs.  V.  L.  Perkins, 
Mrs.  Kate  C.  Pishon. 

China — Mrs.  J.  G.  Nelson,  Mrs.  W.  S. 
Hunnewell,  Mrs.  A.  S.  Woodsum. 

South  China — Mrs.  Hannah  T.  Jenkins. 

Gardiner — Mrs.  Julia  A.  Hodgkins. 

South  Gardiner — Miss  Eleanor  Law- 
rence. 

Winthrop — Mrs,  F.  A.  Rollins,  Mrs.  J. 
M.  Lang,  Mrs.  Olive  M.  Tuttle,  Mrs. 
Eliza  Lang. 

KNOX  COUNTY. 

Mrs.  G.  M.  Brainerd,  Cor,  Sec. 

Mrs.  M.  F.  Hanly,  Bee.  Sec, 
Mrs.  S.  Whitcomb,  Treat. 

Camden — Mrs.  Sylvester  Aran,  Mrs.  D. 
F.  Wadsworth. 

Rockland — Mrs.  Abbie  Hall,  Mrs.  S.  S. 
Johnson,  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Hicks,  Mrs. 
A.  B.  Butler. 

Spruce  Head — Mrs.  C.  S.  Coakley,  Mrs. 

Agnes  Meservey. 
RoCKPORT — Mrs.  S.  C.  Brastow,  Mrs.  H. 

H.  Merriam. 

Thom ASTON — Mrs.  E.  F.  Crosby,  Mrs.  S. 
J.  Wight,  Mrs.  M.  Smith. 

Union — Mrs.  E.  S.  Thompson,  Mrs.  H. 

M.  Robbins,  Mrs.  E.  W.  Cobb,  Mrs. 

A.  J.  Young. 
Warren — Mrs.  Mary  F.  Newbert,  Mrs. 

Marion  H.  Mallett,  Mrs.  Mary  A. 

Moody. 

LINCOLN  COUNTY. 
Jefferson — Mrs.  Ameda  C.  Partridge, 

Mrs.  Angie  H.  Skinner. 
Newcastle   &  Damariscotta  —  Mrs. 

Lucinda   Thompson,    Mrs.   Emma 

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Round  Pond— Miss  Mary  A.  Rhomdes, 
Mrs.  M.  E.  Carter. 

Waldoboro— Mrs.  E.  H.  Curtis,  Mrs. 
Delia  Kennedy,  Mrs.  Sarah  Young. 

PENOBSCOT  COUNTY. 

Bancx)r— Mrs.  H.  A.  Whitman,  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  Patten,  Mrs.  M.  C.;Freese. 

Orono— Mrs.  E.rL.  Deering,  Mrs.  L. 
Chaplin,  Mrs.  A.  J.  Cowan. 

Mattawamkeag — Mrs.  Jennie  Stetson. 

Dexter — Mrs.  Fannie  B.  Damon,  Mrs- 
Mary  B.  Pierce,  Mrs.  E.  R.  Horton, 
Mrs.  Ella  Eldridge. 

Stillwater— Mrs.  S.  U.  Matthews,  Mrs. 
M.  J.  Reed. 

SOMERSET  COUNTY. 

Fairfield— Mrs.  E.  F.  Chase,  Mrs.  May 
L.  Houghton. 

North  New  Portland — Mrs.  Flora  A. 
Clark,  Mrs.  Laura  Clark. 

Ripley — Mrs.  Julia  A.  Bowdoin. 

SAGADAHOC  COUNTY. 

Bath — Miss  Susan  P.  Cary,  Mrs.  Ann 
M.  Robinson,  Mrs.  H.  B.  Jordan. 

Popham  Beach — Mrs.  Jane  M.  Oliver, 
Miss  Kate  W.  Spinney. 

WALDO  COUNTY. 

Belfast — Mrs.  H.  W.  Pitcher,  Mrs.  E. 
Hunnewell,  Mrs.  E.  Cook. 

Searsmont — Miss  Emily  F.  Miller. 
Waldo — Mrs.  S.  S.  Freeman. 

WASHINGTON  COUNFY. 

Calais — Mrs.  Geo.  W.  Condee. 

Cherryfield — Mrs.  E.  B.  Silsby,  Mrs. 
Samuel  Ray,  Mrs.  A.  C.  Sproul, 
Mrs.  E.  L.  Nash. 

Harrington— Mrs.  Mary  Nash,  Mrs. 
Bessie  Smith,  Mrs.  G.  W.  Rumbull. 

Jonesport — Mrs.  Elvira  B.  Ireland,  Mrs. 
Clara  Farns worth,  Mrs.  E.  R.  Peaslee 

MiLLBRiDGE — Mrs.  Shear,  Mrs.  Frances 
I.  Sawyer. 

YORK  COUNTY. 
Biddeford— Mrs.  W.  S.  Mclntire. 
San  ford — Mrs.  Sherburne. 
West  Lebanon — Mrs.  C.  C.  Foster,  Mrs. 

A.  E.  Shapleigh. 
Old    Orchard — Mrs.    A.  C.    Dawley, 

Mrs.  S.  D.  Moulton. 


MINUTES. 


ExKCUTivK  Meeting,  Sept.  25,  Evening. 

Executive  meeting  on  Monday  evening  opened  with  prayer  by 
Mrs.  Helen  B.  C.  Beedy  of  Farmington. 

Voted^  That  State  Superintendents  be  given  five  minutes  for  pre- 
senting their  reports  either  verbally  or  written,  to  be  followed  by 
discussion  not  exceeding  ten  minutes. 

Voted^  To  appoint  Mrs.  Beedy  and  Miss  Cornelia  M.  Dow  of 
Portland  to  confer  with  Mrs.  Cram  and  Mrs.  Blanchard  as  to  the 
classification  for  delegates  to  the  World's  and  National  Conventions. 

Miss  Dow,  Mrs.  Beedy  and  Mrs.  Bunker  of  No.  Anson  appointed 
a  committee  to  arrange  for  seating  of  delegates. 

The  Committee  rose. 


Convention,  Sept.  26,  a.  m. 

The  Nineteenth  Annual  Convention  of  the  Maine  Woman's 
Christian  Temperance  Union  opened  at  the  First  Baptist  Church, 
Rockland,  Tuesday,  Sept.  26,  1893. 

The  pulpit  platform  was  almost  hidden  by  vases  of  cut  flowers, 
boxes  of  splendid  hydrangeas,  and  potted  plants  of  various  kinds. 
A  magnificent  basket  of  sweet  peas,  from  the  Bar  Harbor  Union, 
graced  the  center  of  the  platform.  The  State  Banner  and  the  pic- 
ture of  Miss  Willard  occupied  conspicuous  positions.  Over  the 
platform  hung  the  motto,  '*For  God  and  Home  and  Native  Land," 
at  the  other  end  of  the  audience  room,  "For  God  and  Home  and 
Every  Land."  The  County  Banners  were  ranged  on  one  side  of 
the  auditorium  and  mottoes  of  various  sorts  adorned  the  other  walls. 

The  National  Prize  Banner,  the  third  time  awarded  Maine  for  the 
largest  proportionate  gain  in  membership,  was  placed  on  the  wall 
where  it  could  not  fail  to  be  seen. 

The  music  for  the  Convention  was  placed  in  charge  of  Mr.  L.  G. 


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March,  assisted  by  Miss  Jessie  Bartlett  of  Fort  Fairfield.  Their 
sweet  singing  gave  great  pleasure  through  the  entire  session. 

At  9 :3o  a  devotional  meeting  vfas  held,  led  by  Mrs.  Lucy  A. 
Snow  of  Windham,  Superintendent  of  Evangelistic  Department. 

At  lo  o'clock  Convention  was  called  to  order  by  the  president, 
Mrs.  L.  M.  N.  Stevens. 

''Rock  of  Ages"  sung. 

The  roll-call  revealed  the  presence  of  all  the  general  officers  ex- 
cept the  Treasurer,  who  arrived  an  hour  later,  and  eleven  of  the 
State  superintendents. 

The  following  committees  were  appointed  : 

Committee  on  Credentials — Mrs.  S.  L.  Cram,  Biddeford ;  Mrs. 
M.  F.  Bunker,  No.  Anson  ;  Mrs.  L.  C.  Lamb,  Livermore  Falls. 

Committee  on  Courtesies — Mrs.  Abbi^  Hall,  Rockland ;  Mrs* 
S.  C.  Brastow,  Rockport. 

Notice  was  given  to  county  delegations  to  choose  their  repre- 
sentative for  Resolutions  Committee  and  hand  in  at  the  Secretary's 
table  to  be  announced  later. 

Programs  as  arranged  by  Executive  Committee  accepted. 

Miss  Lubelle  Patrick  and  Miss  Ethel  Eaton  appointed  to  act  as 
pages. 

Moved  that  the  presentation  and  discussion  of  Y.  work  be 
made  the  order  of  the  day  at  4  p.  m.  on  Wednesday.     Carried. 

Miss  Bagley  of  Springvale  reported  on  Juvenile  Work.  Accepted, 
discussion  following. 

Mr.  H.  M.  Lord,  Editor  of  T^e  Courier- Gazette  introduced, 
who  welcomed  the  delegates  in  a  brief  speech. 

Song,  ''Stand  Up,  Stand  Up  for  Jesus." 

Moved  that  a  telegram  of  love  and  sympathy  be  sent  from  this 
Convention  to  the  State  Convention  of  Kansas  now  in  session.  Car- 
ried and  Corresponding  Secretary  instructed  to  select  the  same. 

Mrs.  £.  M.  Getchell  recently  elected  president  of  Piscataquis 
county,  and  Mrs.  Winslow  recently  elected  president  of  Lincoln 
county,  were  introduced. 

Miss  Scales,  Superintendent  of  Kindergarten  Work  being  absent 
the  work  of  her  department  was  spoken  upon  and  reported  locally 
by  Miat  Dow  of  Portland. 


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Mrs.  Shelburne  of  Sanford,  Mrs.  Marston,  Mrs.  S.  S.  Freeman 
of  Waldo  Union  and  J  Mrs.  Bowden  of  Ripley  Union,  were  in 
turn  presented  to  the  Convention. 

The  departments  of  work  among  Foreign  Speaking  People, 
Hygiene  Reform  and  Heredity,  Scientific  Temperance  Instruction, 
Sunday  School  Work  and  School  Savings  Banks  were  passed  over 
for  the  time  on  account  of  the  absence  of  their  superintendents. 

The  report  on  Influencing  the  Press  and  reporting  for  Union 
Signal  was  given  by  Miss  Mary  L.  French  of  Auburn.     Accepted. 

The  noon  hour  was  observed  by  silent  prayer,  vocalized  by  Mrs. 
I.  M.  B.  Wyman  of  Lewiston. 

Executive  Committee  Meeting  for  1.30  announced. 

Appointments  made,  and  notices  given. 

Adjourned  with  singing. 


Executive  Meeting,  Sept.  26,  p.  m. 

Opened  at  1.30  with  prayer  by  Mrs.  Springer,  president  of 
Androscoggin  County. 

Moved  to  consider  some  plan  by  which  programs  for  the  use  of 
Local  Unions,  if  they  choose  to  use  them,  may  appear  in  the  Star 
in  the  East,  Carried,  and  Mrs.  Beedy  of  Farmington,  Miss  Dow 
of  Portland,  Mrs.  Johnston,  Fort  Fairfield  and  Mrs.  Silsby  of 
Cherryfield  appointed  as  committee  on  preparation  of  programs  for 
one  year. 

The  Committee  rose  to  meet  at  8.30  Wednesday  a.  m. 


Convention,  Sept.  26,  p.  m. 

Devotional  exercises  were  conducted  by  Mrs.  Seamens  of  Amity. 

Secretary's  minutes  read  and  approved. 

Minutes  of  the  Executive  meetings  of  Monday  evening  and  of 
Tuesday  afternoon  read  and  accepted. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Williams  of  San  Francisco  introduced,  Mrs. 
Williams  bringing  us  greetings  from  our  western  sisters  in  the  tem- 
perance work  and  giving  Maine  some  very  gracious  words  of  com- 


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mendation  for  her  reputation  as  leader  in  the  Temperance  Reform. 

Report  of   State  Corresponding  Secretary,  Mrs.   S.   L.  Cram, 
followed.     Accepted. 

Song,  "We  Belong." 

Dr.  Brown  introduced. 

Report    of   Treasurer  made    the    special    order  of  the  day   for 
1 1  o'clock  Wednesday  morning. 

Mrs.  A   S.  Johnston  appointed  Auditor. 

Mrs.  I.  S.    Wentworth,    Superintendent   of  the   Department  of 
Narcotics  reported.     Accepted. 

Announcement  of  the  progress  made  in  selection   of  Resolutions 
Committee. ' 

Superintendent  of  Evangelistic  Department,  Mrs.  Lucy  A.  Snow, 
reported.     Same  accepted. 

Corresponding  Secretary  reported  message  sent  to  Kansas  Con- 
vention as  follows : 

Greeting  from  Maine  State  Convention  : 

Read  Isaiah  60,  2d  and  3d  verses. 

Voted ^  Corresponding  Secretary  prepare  and  send  greetings  to 
N.  H.  State  Convention  now  in  session. 
Announcements. 
Adjourned  with  singing. 


Convention,  Sept.  26,  Evening. 
Singing. 

Scripture  reading  and  prayer  by  Mrs.  H.  J.  Bailey. 

Mrs.  R.  C  Hall,  president  of  Knox  County  Union,  made  a  cor- 
dial address  of  welcome. 

Rev.  J.  H.  Parshley,  pastor  of  the  First  Baptist  Church,  followed, 
expressing  his  cordial  endorsement  of  the  work  of  the  Woman's 
Christian  Temperance  Union,  and  his  fixed  belief  in  the  final 
triumph  of  the  principles  for  which  they  are  laboring. 

Solo,  '*If  I  were  a  Voice,"  by  Miss  Bartlett,  was  most  delight- 
fully rendered. 

Responses  were  made  by  Mrs.  Elizabeth  A.  Robbins  of  Deering 


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and  Miss  Lubelie  Patrick,  expressing  in  the  choicest  manner  their 
appreciation  of  thecordial  and  inspiring  words  of  welcome  extended 
to  the  Convention. 

W.  O.  Fuller,  Jr.,  read  a  poem  written  for  the  occasion,  which 
was  received  with  great  applause. 

Mrs.  Stevens  then  delivered  her  annual  address. 

Collection  speech  by  Mrs.  H.  B.  C.  Beedy.     Collection. 

Music. 

Benediction  by  Rev.  J.  H.  Parshley. 


Executive  Meeting,  Oct.  27,  a.  m. 

Opened  with  prayer  by  Mrs.  Smith  of  Cornish. 

Representatives  from  the  following  counties  became  responsible 
for  the  thorough  notification  of  the  County  Treasurers  of  their  coun- 
ties that  the  State  annual  dues  of  Local  Unions  are  to  be  collected 
and  remitted  by  County  Treasurers  to  State  Treasurer  on  or  before 
the  ist  of  September  of  each  year,  viz  :  Aroostook,  Cumberland, 
Knox,  Lincoln,  Piscataquis,  Waldo  and  York. 

Moved  that  the  Executive  Committee  recommend  that  the  State 
Treasurer  notify  the  Treasurers  of  remaining  counties  not  repre- 
sented in  this  meeting  that  the  above  manner  of  collecting  State 
dues  has  become  a  requirement.     Carried. 

The  Committee  rose  to  meet  at  1.30  p.  m. 


Convention,  Sept.  27,  a.  m. 

The  devotional  exercises  of  Wednesday  morning  were  led  by 
Mrs.  A.  S.  Johnston  of  Fort  Fairfield. 

Minutes  of  the  meeting  of  Tuesday  afternoon  and  the  Executive 
meeting  of  8.30  read,  and  after  some  consideration  both  were 
accepted. 

The  names  of  those  selected  to  serve  on  Resolutions  committee 
announced  and  a  committee  meeting  called  at  close  of  morning 
meeting. 

Credential  committee  reported.  131  Delegates  announced  as  in 
attendance. 


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Report  accepted  and  it  was  voted  that  the  names  of  other  dele- 
gates who  should  arrive  later  be  added,  also  the  names  of  County 
Superintendents,  County  Presidents,  and  General  Officers  who  are 
''ex-officio"  delegates. 

Miss  Cora  Loring,  an  invalid  of  many  years,  and  Rockland's 
Superintendent  of  Press  Work  was  introduced, her  faithful  labors  and 
zeal  for  our  work  receiving  tender  words  of  well  deserved  recogni- 
tion from  Mrs.  Stevens.  She  was  received  by  the  Convention  with  the 
Chautauquan  salute,  as  with  much  feeling  they  learned  of  the  pres- 
ence of  this  devoted  friend  from  the  *'Shut  Ins,'*  present  for  the  first 
time  in  six  years  in  any  public  assemblage,  now  seated  in  her  wheel 
chair  surrounded  by  her  loving  sisters  of  the  White  Ribbon  band. 

Business  was  resumed  by  the  reading  of  the  Treasurer's,  Mrs. 
E.  M.  Blanchard's,  report. 

By  vote  the  Treasurer's  report  was  given  by  counties  instead  of 
by  local  Unions. 

Report  of  Auditor  followed. 

Treasurer's  report  accepted. 

Report  of  Flower  Mission  made  a  special  order  for  4.30  Wednes- 
day afternoon. 

The  hour  having  arrived  for  the  Memorial  Service  for  those  of 
our  members  entering  the  Higher  Life  during  the  year,  the  opening 
hymn,  '*One  Sweetly  Solemn  Thought,"  was  sung. 

The  names  of  members  and  honoraries  were  read. 

Mrs.  Stevens  spoke  with  tenderness  and  much  feeling  of  our  pro- 
moted comrades,  of  the  pleasure  we  had  had  in  their  devoted  lives, 
and  our  faith  in  the  continuance  of  love,  communion  and  service  in 
the  spiritual  life. 

Mrs.  Abbie  Shapleigh  followed  in  a  most  tender  tribute  to  the 
memory  of  her  friend  and  our  much  esteemed  honorary  member 
Mrs.  Amelia  C  Thorpe  of  Cambridge,  Mass. 

Prayer  was  ottered  by  Mrs.  Seamens. 

Duet,  "Sometime  We'll  Understand,"  rendered  by  Miss  Bartlett 
and  Mr.  March. 

Noon  tide  hour  observed. 

Announcements. 

Benediction.     Adjournment. 


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irJ  MEMORIAM- 


What  comfort,  when  with  clouds  of  woe 

The  heart  is  burdened,  and  must  weep, 
To  feel  that  pain  must  end — to  know, 

He  giveth  his  beloved  sleep.*' 

--Alice  Cary, 


Mrs.  Alice  L.  Raymond,  Portland. 

Mrs.  Hosea  Reynolds,  Biddeford. 

Mrs.  Abigail  P.  French,  Mrs.  Caroline  R.  Marshall, 

North  Anson. 
Mrs.  Allie  Knowlton,  Camden. 
Mrs.  Lucy  A.  Sleeper,  Rockland. 
Mrs.  Carrie  Phillips,  Southwest  Harbor. 
Mrs.  Toothaker,  Phillips. 
Mrs.  Mary  J.  Blethen,  Spruce  Head. 
Mrs.    Martha  J.    Stackpole,   Mrs.  Mary  Creighton, 

Mrs.  L.  M.  Lash,  Thomaston. 
Mrs.  Dobbin,  Jonesport. 
Mrs.  Lizzie  Stanwood,  Brunswick. 
Mrs.  Belinda  Andrews,  Windham  Center. 
Mrs.  Katie  Prescott,  South  Windham. 
Mrs.  A.  P.  White,  Lewiston. 
Mrs.  Maria  P.  Getchell,  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Blanchard, 

Mrs.  Achsa  M.  Porter,  Stillwater. 
Mrs.  Susan  Tibbetts,  Brooklin. 
Mrs.  Rebecca  S.  Dunn,  Amity. 
Mrs.  Mary  Estabrook,  Hodgdon. 
Mrs.  Maria  L.  Trafton,  Limestone. 

honorary  members. 

Mrs.  Amelia  C.  Thorpe,  West  Lebanon. 
Hon.  John  C.  Chilcott,  Ellsworth. 
Mr.  John  W.  Mitchell,  Rockland. 
Dea.  Edward  Mansfield,  Orono. 
Mr.  Weston  McAllister,  Calais. 
Dr.  Luce,  Caribou. 
Rev.  James  Graham,  Waldoboro. 


For  if  we  believe  that  Jesus  died  and  rose  again,  even  so  them  also  which  sleep  in 
Jesus  will  God  bring  with  him. — /  Thess.  4:14. 


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Executive  Meeting,  Oct.  27,  p.  m. 

Opened  with  prayer  offered  by  Mrs.  Ireland. 

Voted ^  That  State  Minutes  contain  names  of  County  secretaries 
and  treasurers  as  well  as  presidents. 

The  Executive  Committee  recommend  that  County  organizations 
engage  W.  C.  T.  U.  Missionaries  from  time  to  time  as  they  may  be 
able  to  do,  to  visit  their  Unions,  in  order  to  encourage  and  help  in  any 
way  and  every  way  possible,  and  they  cheerfully  recommend  Mrs. 
F.  A.  Wright,  East  Newport,  and  Mrs.  Jennie  Seamens  of  Amity, 
both  of  whom  have  had  successful  experience. 

The  Committee  rose  to  meet  Sept.  28,  a.  m. 


Convention,  Sept.  27,  p.  m. 

Devotional  services  were  led  by  Mrs.  Chase. 

Minutes  of  morning  meeting,  and  of  last  Executive  meeting  read 
and  accepted. 

Mrs.  Watts  and  Miss  Maggie  Everett  appointed  as  pages. 

Mr.  W.  O.  Fuller, Jr.,  editor  of  Rockland  Tribune  was  introduced 
and  said  that  if  such  women  as  he  saw  before  him  wished  to  vote, 
he  was  convinced  they  ought  to  be  allowed  to  do  so.  Mr.  Fuller 
was  at  once  decorated  with  a  yellow  ribbon. 

Rev.  Mr.  Pettengall  of  Rockland,  Mrs.  J.  R.  Nichols  of  Indian- 
apolis was  introduced  and  made  brief  remarks. 

Mrs.  I.  M.  B.  Wyman,  Superintendent  of  Homes  for  Homeless 
Children  reported.     Accepted. 

Here  occurred  the  introduction  of  a  month  old  baby,  a  charge  of 
the  Rockland  Union. 

The  baby  was  named  by  Mrs.  Stevens,  "Frances  Willard,"  and  the 
Aronite  benediction  was  pronounced  over  the  little  one  by  her. 
Mrs.  Stevens  then  announced  the  baby  as  the  adopted  child  of  the 
Maine  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union,  and  a  candidate  for 
home  and  parents.  Later  on  news  was  received  of  the  adoption  of 
this  child  into  a  good  home  in  our  state. 

Mrs.  Hannah  J.  Bailey,  chairman  of  Committee  on  Reformatory 
Prison  for  women,  reported. 


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This  report  was  supplemented   by  remarks  from   Mrs.   J.  R. 

Nichols.     Accepted. 

Mrs.  R.  C.  Hall  invited  to  preside  during  election  of  officers. 

Mrs.  Getchell,  Mrs.  Silsby  and  Mrs.  Delano  appointed  to  serve  as 
tellers. 

Prayer  was  offered  by  Mrs.  A.  C.  Dawley  of  Old  Orchard. 

A  total  vote  of  165  was  cast  for  President,  all  for  Mrs.  Stevens. 

By  motion  of  Mrs.  Sarah  L.  Cram,  the  Recording  Secretary  was 
instructed  to  cast  the  ballot  of  the  Convention  for  Mrs.  Stevens  as 
President. 

Our  newly  elected  and  long  loved  President  was  introduced  to  the 
Convention  by  Mrs.  Pratt  of  Auburn,  and  was  received  by  the  audi- 
ence rising  and  giving  the  Chautauquan  salute,  following  which  the 
doxology  was  sung  with  the  heartfelt  gratitude  of  every  white 
ribboner  present. 

Mrs.  H.  J.  Bailey  moved  that  the  remaining  officers  be  chosen  by 
acclamation.  A  second  was  received  and  the  motion  carried,  the 
result  being  the  re-election  of  the  old  officers  throughout,  viz :  Mrs. 
Sarah  L.  Cram,  Biddeford,  Corresponding  Secretary  ;  Miss  Clara 
M.  Farwell,  Rockland,  Recording  Secretary  ;  Mrs.  E.  M.  Blanch- 
ard,  Lewiston,  Treasurer.  Mrs.  A.  S.  Johnston,  Fort  Fairfield,  was 
nominated  by  Miss  Farwell  as  Assistant  Recording  Secretary  and 
confirmed  by  Convention. 

Voted ^  That  Mrs.  H.  J.  Bailey  select  and  send  cablegram  to 
Miss  Willard  our  National  President. 

The  message  sent  and  reported  later  was  from  II  John,  i  113; 
Joshua,  I  rp. 

The  choice  of  World's  and  National  delegates  deferred  till  Thurs- 
day morning. 

Mrs.  Cram  announced  message  sent  to  New  Hampshire  Conven- 
tion as  found  in  Ezekiel  34:  12,13. 

The  hour  for  Y  meeting  having  arrived.  Miss  Lubelle  Patrick, 
Superintendent  of  that  department,  was  called  to  the  chair. 

Song,  "Y  Bells,"  was  sung. 

Miss  Carrie  McCann  spoke  for  the  Westbrook  Y. 

Report  of  State  Work  by  Miss  Patrick. 

Mrs.  Blake  of  Brooklin  spoke  for  Hancock  County. 


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Miss  Alice  Fernald  read  the  report  of  Miss  Edith  Libby,  Superin- 
tendent of  Flower  Mission  department.     Accepted. 
Mrs.  Gertrude  Stevens  Leavitt  made  closing  remarks. 
Announcements.     Adjournment. 


Convention,  Sept.  27,  Evening. 
Music. 
Scripture  reading  by  Mrs.  E.  B.  Silsby. 

Prayer  by  Mrs.  F.  M.  Wright. 

Solo,  "Behold  I  Come  Quickly,"  by  Mr.  March,  was  received 
with  much  pleasure. 

Address  by  Mrs.  Josephine  R.  Nichols,  "The  Home  versus  the 
Saloon."  Mrs.  Nichols  held  her  large  audience  with  the  closest 
attention  and  impressed  them  with  the  conviction  that  she  is  one 
of  the  foremost  speakers  of  the  present  day. 

Duet,  "In  the  Cross  of  Christ  I  Glory,"  by  Mrs.  F.  M.  Shaw 
and  Mr.  March  was  greatly  enjoyed  by  the  audience.  After  a  short 
speech  by  Miss  Cornelia  M.  Dow  a  collection  was  taken. 

Benediction  by  Rev.  Mr.  Fultz. 


Executive  Meeting,  Sept.  28,  a.  m. 

Opened  with  prayer  by  Mrs.  Luce  of  Caribou. 

Superintendents  of  departments  were  nominated  for  the  ensuing 
year,  for  names  of  whom  see  page  5. 

Voted^  That  the  Executive  Committee  recommend  that  the  super- 
intendents' reports  appearing  in  the  State  minutes  shall  not  exceed 
1000  words,  or  about  two  pages  of  State  minutes. 

Voted^  That  Mrs.  Blanchard  be  continued  as  editor  and  publisher 
of  Star  in  the  East. 

The  Committee  rose  to  meet  at  1.30  p.  m. 


Convention,  Sept.  28,  a.  m. 
Thursday  morning's  devotional  exercises  were  led  by  Mrs.  E.  M. 
Getchell  of  Dover.      A  souvenir  token   sent  to   Mrs.   Stevens  by 
Lady  Henry  Somerset,  was  presented  to  her  by  Mrs.  Blanchard. 


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Mrs.  Ida  M.  B.  Wyman  then  introduced  a  little  girl,  a  child  of  six 
years  with  a  lovely,  intelligent  face  and  a  sweet  voice,  as  evidenced 
in  a  little  song  rendered  somewhat  later,  for  whom  a  good  home 
was  desired. 

An  hour  or  two  later  a  good  mother  for  this  little  girl  was  greeted 
by  the  Convention  in  the  person  of  Mrs.  Webb  of  Windham. 

Rev.  Mr.  Moody  of  Rockland  was  introduced,  and  at  the  close 
of  a  few  remarks  invited  the  ladies  present  to  visit  the  Home  of  the 
Good  Shepherd,  a  charitable  institution  for  homeless  children  in 
charge  of  the  Episcopal  Church  of  that  place. 

This  invitation  was  accepted  for  5  p.  M.  by  a  rising  vote  of  the 
Convention. 

Minutes  of  Wednesday  afternoon  read  and  accepted. 

Executive  minutes  of  8.30  read  and  accepted,  after  passing  an 
amendment  to  the  effect  that  the  limit  of  superintendents'  reports  be 
2000  instead  of  1000  words. 

Voted^  the  two  State  Reports  be  sent  free  to  each  Union,  the 
remainder  for  sale  to  any  who  wish,  at  ten  cents  each. 

By  a  rising  vote  many  Unions  then  pledged  themselves  to  make  an 
effort  to  hold  Free  Will  Offering  meetings  in  the  interest  of  our 
State  work. 

Mrs.  Anna  M.  Hussey  of  North  Berwick  reported  on  department 
of  Systematic  Giving.     Adopted. 

Mrs.  G.  F.  French,  Superintendent  of  Scientific  Temperance 
Instruction  reported.     Adopted. 

Noon-tide  prayer  observed  silently,  then  vocally  by  Mrs.  Thomp- 
son of  Newcastle. 

Announcements. 
Adjournment. 

Executive  Meeting,  Oct.  28,  1.30. 

Opened  with  prayer  by  Mrs.  Johnston. 

The  Executive  Committee  recommend  that  the  names  of  Mrs. Flora 
A.  Wright,  East  Newport,  Mrs.  Jennie  Seamens,  Amity,  Mrs.  I.  S. 
Wentworth,  Dexter,  be  recognized  as  the  beginning  of  a  Maine 
Lecture  Bureau  and  the  committee  recommend  that  counties  need- 
ing speakers  should  apply  to  these  ladies. 


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The  Executive  Committee  suggest  that  it  is  the  duty  of  the 
Corresponding  Secretaries  to  report  changes  in  their  County  Super- 
intendents at  once  to  the  State  Superintendents.  Also  that  all  offi- 
cial communications  during  the  year  shall  appear  in  the  Star  in  the 
£ast;  and  urge  that  superintendents  of  departments  make  use 
of  this  their  only  public  medium,  and  by  far  their  cheapest,  for 
communication  with  County  Superintendents,  and  those  interested 
in  the  various  departments. 

The  Committee  rose. 


Convention,  Sept.  28,  p.  m. 

Opened  by  scripture  reading  and  prayer  by  Mrs.  W.  S.  Mclntire 
of  Biddeford. 

Minutes  of  morning  and  executive  meetings  read  and  accepted. 

Introduction  of  Mr.  March,  secretary  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  of  Rock- 
land and  leader  of  the  singing  of  the  Convention. 

Mrs.  L.  C.  Lamb,  Superintendent  of  Legislation  and  Petitions 
reported .     Accepted . 

Miss  Alice  M.  Douglass,  Superintendent  of  Department  of  Peace 
and  Arbitration,  reported.     Adopted. 

Sunday  School  work  reported  by  Mrs.  E.  A.  G.  Stickney,  Super- 
intendent.    Adopted. 

Department  of  Purity  reported  by  Mrs.  Flora  A.  Wright,  Super- 
intendent.    Accepted. 

Mrs.  Jennie  Seamens  of  Amity  was  introduced. 

Department  of  Sabbath  Observance  reported  by  Mrs.  H.J.  Bailey. 
Accepted. 

A  request  was  made  that  the  Convention  unite  in  prayer  for  the 
recovery  of  Miss  Alzira  L.  Crie,  a  beloved  member  of  the  Rockland 
Union,  County  and  Local  Superintendent  of  Sabbath  Observance, 
absent  from  home,  to  undergo  a  dangerous  surgical  operation. 
Prayer  was  offered  by  Mrs.  Hall  of  Rockland,  and  Mrs.  Hunne- 
well  of  Belfast. 

Report  of  State  and  County  Fairs  read  by  Mrs.  Cram,  Mrs. 
Susan  French,  Superintendent,  being  absent. 


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Moved  by  Mrs.  Blanchard  that  this  report  be  accepted  by  a  rising 
vote  of  thanks  and  the  Secretary  be  instructed  to  convey  to  Mrs. 
French  our  regrets  at  her  resignation.  A  second  being  received,  it 
was  carried. 

Fifty-two  White  Ribbon  visitors,  upon  invitation,  arose  and  were 
counted. 

Voted ^  by  rising,  that  Mrs.  Stickney,  Superintendent  of  Sunday 
School  Work,  extend  to  Mr.  B.  F.  Jacobs  and  Rev. Wilbur  F.  Cra  s 
the  appreciation  and  thanks  of  the  Maine  Woman's  Christian  Tem- 
perance Union  for  their  active  and  efficient  help  in  that  department 
at  the  late  International  Sunday  School  Convention. 

Voted^  That  a  greeting  be  sent  to  Mrs.  Margaret  T.  W.  Merrill 
of  Portland  from  this  Convention. 

World's  and  National  Delegates  were  then  announced  as  follows: 

Delegates  World^s  Convention^  at  Chicago^  Oct.  16-17 — 
Mrs.  A.  S.  Johnston,  Fort  Fairfield ;  Mrs.  Susie  F.  Winslow, 
Waldoboro ;  Mrs.  Sarah  J.  McLellan,  So.  Windham;  Mrs.  Rob't 
Lord,  Kennebunk. 

Alternates — Mrs.  L.  J.  Spaulding,  Caribou  ;  Miss  Cornelia  M. 
Dow,  Portland;  Mrs.  Olive  Hanson,  Stroudvvater ;  Mrs.  E.  M. 
Blanchard,  Lewiston. 

Delegates NationalConvcntion^Chicago^Oct .  18-2J — Mrs.  L.  J. 
Spaulding,  Caribou  ;  Miss  C.  M.  Dow,  Porthmd  ;  Mrs.  E.  R.  Hor- 
ton.  Dexter;  Mrs.  I.  M.  B.  Wyman,  Lewiston;  Mrs.  H.  B.  C. 
Beedy,  Farmington ;  Mrs.  Amanda  Bowler,  So.  Hancock ;  Mrs. 
E.  O.  Hall,  Thomaston  ;  Mrs.  E.  A.  G.  Stickney,  East  Brownfield  ; 
Miss  Edith  Libby,  Portland. 

Alternates — Mrs.  A.  S.  Johnston,  Fort  Fairfield  ;  Mrs.  Olive 
Hanson,  Woodfords ;  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Patten,  Bangor;  Mrs.  Susie 
Winslow,  Waldoboro;  Mrs.  F.  I.  Sawyer,  Millbridge ;  Miss  Ann 
M.  Robinson,  Bath  ;  Mrs.  Flora  A.  Clark,  New  Portland  ;  Mrs.  S. 
P. -Smith,  Cornish  ;  Miss  Alice  Suminsby,  Bar  Harbor. 

Hymn,  '^Nearer  My  God  to  Thee." 

Report  of  Resolutions  Committee  by  Mrs.  Helen  B.  C.  Beedy. 
The  report  was  accepted,  the  resolutions  read  and  discussed  one  by 
one,  and  adopted  as  herewith  recorded : 


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Besolvedf  That  as  every  good  and  perfect  gift  comes  from  our  Father  in  Heaven, 
we  will  continue  to  thank  Him  for  the  marvelous  results  of  the  great  Crusade  and  the 
privilege  that  we  have  of  working  in  this  organized  movement  for  **God  and  Home 
and  Every  Land." 

Resolvetlt  That  we  deplore  the  non-enforcement  of  the  Prohibitory  Law  in  some 
localities,  but  we  realize  that  this  is  due  to  the  unfaithfulness  of  officials  and  not  to 
the  inefficiency  of  the  law ;  and  we  hereby  re  affirm  our  belief  in  the  wisdom  and 
righteousness  of  prohibition,  and  we  desire  renewedly  to  express  our  gratitude  to  the 
father  of  prohibition — Gen.  Neal  Dow. 

Whereas,  We  view  with  great  alarm  the  growing  tendency  of  our  people  to  dis- 
honor the  Sabbath,  therefore 

Resnlved,  That  with  the  hourly  guidance  of  our  Father  we  will  watch  unto  prayer 
and  protest  everywhere  against  all  amusements  which  draw  from  Sabbath  keeping, 
and  be  more  persistent  in  our  efforts  to  bring  under  the  teaching  of  the  Master  those 
who  transgress  the  command,  "Remember  the  Sabbath  day  to  keep  it  holy." 

Resolved^  That  in  view  of  the  recent  action  of  the  St.  Louis  International  Sunday 
School  Convention  whereby  the  temperance  lesson  is  retained  for  the  remaining  six 
years,  that  we  pledge  ourselves  to  make  the  Sunday  on  which  it  occurs  of  special 
mterest  to  our  cause  and  recommend  those  who  use  the  Blakeslee  system  to  be  sure 
to  provide  the  free  temperance  lesson  for  the  blank  Sunday. 

_  Resolved,  That  in  view  of  the  work  accomplished  for  soldiers  and  sailors  in  pro- 
viding reading  matter  and  proper  places  for  them  to  pass  their  leisure  time,  we  will 
do  more  in  the  future  and  remember  them  daily  in  our  petitions. 
.  Whereas,  We  have  seen  with  gratification  the  good  results  of  the  Keeley  Cure, 
therefore 

Resolved,  That  we  recommend  our  Unions  to  assist  in  this  work  but  not  to  the  ex- 
clusion of  their  more  definite  lines  of  work. 

Resolved,  That  we  strive  more  earnestly  to  have  laws  en?cted  forbidding  any  per- 
son to  sell  cigars  or  tobacco  in  any  form  to  minors. 

Resolved,  That  recognizing  in  the  Press  one  of  the  most  potent  agencies  for 
moulding  public  opinion,  we  urge  upon  every  Union  in  Maine  the  importance  of  tak- 
ing up  this  department  as  the  readiest  means  of  enlisting  the  sympathy  and  co-opera- 
tion of  those  outside  our  society. 

Resolved,  That  as  our  new  department.  Homes  for  Homeless  Children,  has  made 
such  wonderful  progress,  we  commend  it  to  the  mother-heart  of  each  local  Union  for 
special  and  watchful  work. 

Resolved,  That  we  believe  that  the  high  destiny  awaiting  the  State  of  Maine  as  a 
leader  in  Temperance  Reform  will  be  hastened  through  the  enfranchisement  of  its 
women. 

Resolved,  That  we  consider  the  enforcement  of  the  .State  law  requiring  scientific 
temperance  instruction  in  all  public  schools  of  great  importance  and  recommend,  at 
the  beginning  of  this  school  year,  that  the  Unions  co-operate  with  school  officers  and 
teachers  to  secure  a  better  enforcement  of  this  law. 

Whereah,  The  hope  of  the  Nation  lies  in  the  coming  generations,  therefore 
Resolved,  That  we  will  strive  the  coming  year  to  do  more  towards  educating  the 
children  of  our  State  in  the  true  principles  of  temperance  in  our  Loyal  Legions. 

Resolved,  That  we,  as  a  body  of  christian  women,  give  increased  attention  to  the 
Department  of  Purity  that  our  influence  be  brought  to  bear  on  all  social  evils ;  that 
we  claim  equal  standards  of  purity  for  all. 

Resolved,  That  we  tender  our  heartfelt  thanks  to  the  local  Union  of  Rockland  and 
other  friends  who  have  given  us  such  cordial  welcome  to  their  homes  and  have  made 
such  generous  and  thoughtful  provision  for  our  comfort ;  to  the  First  Baptist  church, 
its  pastor  and  society  for  the  use  of  their  church  ;  to  the  lines  of  travel  for  the  re- 
duced rates ;  to  the  Press  for  kindly  notices  of  our  coming  ;  to  the  committee  who 
have  so  beautifully  decorated  the  church ;  to  those  who  by  their  fine  music  have 
added  so  much  to  the  pleasure  of  our  meetings,  and  to  all  who  in  any  way  have 
helped  to  make  this  Convention  a  success. 


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A  cablegram  was  received  from  Miss  Willard : 
"Read  II  John  i :  5." 

A  telegram  was  also  received  from  the  New  Hampshire  State 
Convention. 

The  introduction  of  Rev.  Mr.  Fultz  of  Islesboro  and  Rev.  Mr. 
Bradlee  of  Rockland  followed.  Mrs.  R.  C.  Hall  and  others  of  the 
Rockland  Committee  on  Entertainment  then  introduced  and  thanks 
extended  to  them  for  their  untiring  efforts  to  make  everybody  com- 
fortable during  the  Convention. 

Mrs.  Lizzie  Y.  Butler  of  Rockland  introduced  as  a  contributor  to 
the  Union  Signal, 

Voted^  That  all  unfinished  business  be  referred  to  General 
Officers. 

An  invitation  was  extended  to  hold  next  State  Convention  in 
Houlton,  Aroostook  County. 

Adjourned  with  song  and  benediction  by  Rev.  Mr.  Fultz  of 
Islesboro. 


Convention,  Sept.  28,  Evening. 

Opened  with  an  anthem,  ''Consider  and  Hear  Him,"  by  the 
(Congregational  choir,  who  very  kindly  consented  to  assist  in 
the  services  of  the  evening,  and  which  elicited  much  applause. 

Scripture  reading  and  prayer  by  Mrs.  Abbie  E.  Shapleigh. 

An  address  by  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Livermore  on  '*The  Dangers  of  the 
Republic,"  was  listened  to  with  the  most  profound  attention. 

Hymn,  ''Rock  of  Ages,"  by  the  choir. 

Collection. 

Mrs.  E.  B.  Silsby,  said  "I  move  that  the  Nineteenth  Annual  Con- 
vention of  the  Maine  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union  do  now 
adjourn." 

The  Convention  united  in  singing  "God  be  with  you  till  we  meet 
again." 

Benediction  by  Mrs.  Lucy  A.  Snow. 

CLARA  M.  FARWELL, 

Recording  Secretary, 


President's  Annual  Address. 


JBeloved  Comrades: 

In  the  National  Conference  of  Charities  and  Correction  which  was 
held  in  the  Memorial  Art  Institute,  Chicago,  last  June,  representa- 
tives of  different  states  told  of  the  progress  made  along  the  lines  under 
consideration  during  the  last  twenty  years.  It  was  very  interesting 
to  listen  to  the  comparison  between  then  and  now  and  I  was  then 
forcibly  reminded  and  it  comes  to  me  even  at  this  hour  that  the 
W.  C.  T.  U.  is  very  near  the  completion  of  the  twentieth  year  since 
the  crusade  of  the  Ohio  women  against  the  dram  shops  in  their  midst 
sounded  the  trumpet  that  called  us  forth  to  battle.  They  went  out 
in  the  power  of  the  spirit  and  the  banner  "God  gave  them  hath  been 
displayed  because  of  the  truth"  all  over  the  world. 

I  greet  you,  beloved,  to-night  as  a  part  of  this  great  army,  or- 
ganized to  put  down  the  great  evil  of  intemperance  and  its  attendant 
vices. 

Your  record  in  the  past  proves  that  you  are  indeed  worthy  to 
belong,  and  I  believe  that  no  nobler,  truer  women  live  than  the 
Maine  division  of  the  White  Ribbon  Army,  which  has  chosen  for  its 
motto — *'Not  by  might  nor  by  power  but  by  my  spirit  saith  the 
Lord  of  hosts,"  and  believe  the  account  of  the  year's  work,  as  it  will 
be  presented  during  these  convention  days,  will  prove  that  His 
blessed  Spirit  of  Truth  has  guided  you  during  all  the  days  since  last 
we  met. 

Very  likely  some  of  you  have  discouragements  upon  your  heart — 
you  are  not  satisfied  with  what  you  have  been  able  to  accomplish — 
but  we  must  never  be  faint-hearted  because  we  do  not  see  immediate 
results.  We  can  not  always  understand  why  the  desire  of  our  hearts 
for  which  we  work  so  hard  is  not  sooner  revealed— but 

"If  we  could  push  ajar  the  gates  of  life, 
And  stand  within,  and  all  God's  workings  see, 
We  could  interpret  all  this  doubt  and  strife, 
And  for  each  mystery  could  find  a  key. 


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In  1776,  ''Proclaim  liberty  throughout  all  the  land  to  all  the 
inhabitants  thereof,"  rung  out  from  the  liberty  bell. 

"Peace  on  earth,  good  will  to  men,"  was  added  to  the  peal  in  the 
Centennial  year  1876. 

But  in  1893  on  the  Columbian  bell,'* A  new  commandment  I  give 
unto  you,  that  ye  love  one  another"  was  added  to  all  the  rest. 

And  upon  the  shore  of  Lake  Michigan  during  the  last  five  months 
many  who  never  met  in  kindness  before  have  come  together  in  peace 
and  love — and  the  people  of  the  world  have  had  a  banquet  of  science, 
art,  friendship,  humanity,  philanthropy  and  religion.  Conspicuous 
in  the  World's  Columbian  Exhibition  has  been  the  equal  recognition 
in  many  ways  of  woman's  work  and  woman's  power.  When  the 
proper  observance  of  the  400th  anniversary  of  the  discovery  of 
America  was  first  discussed,  the  fact  was  emphasized  as  never  t)e- 
fore  that  Isabella,  who  shares  with  Columbus  the  discovery  of  the 
new  world,  was  one  of  the  most  excellent  characters  of  all  times. 
She  was  humble  of  heart ;  simple  in  her  life ;  she  would  not  drink 
wine  ;  she  did  not  like  jewels  ;  she  visited  among  the  poor  ;  was 
open-hearted,  incapable  of  a  secret  scheme  ;  was  true  to  her  promises 
as  a  queen,  and  was  from  childhood  to  death  upright  and  deeply 
religious. 

And  then  we  have  also  heard  if  it  had  not  been  for  "encourage- 
ment given  to  Columbus  by  his  wife,  and  her  paternal  charts,  her 
husband  would  never  had  the  courage  to  ask  the  queen  to  help  him 
— and  the  fact  that  we  owe  our  existence  as  a  nation  to  two  women 
as  well  as  to  a  man,  is  a  pleasant  suggestion." 

Perhaps  it  was  in  part,  because  of  this  that  Congress  authorized 
that  the  Board  of  Management  of  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition 
should  consist  equally  of  men  and  women,  with  equal  power  and 
equal  pay,  and  I  can  but  believe  had  the  example  set  by  Congress 
been  followed,  and  women  given  a  fair  share  of  appointments  on 
the  various  important  committees — some  of  the  afiairs  would  have 
been  more  satisfactorily  adjusted  than  they  have  been.  For  instance, 
the  settling  of  the  Sunday  Closing  question — for  it  will  go  down 
through  history  to  the  honor  of  the  Board  of  Lady  Managers  that  it 
very  early  set  itself  right  upon  this  matter,  by  a  large  majority  vote 
in  favor  of  a  closed  fair  on  Sunday. 


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Considering  the  handicapped  way  in  which  women  have  been 
obliged  to  work,  I  think  they  have  acted  well  their  part  in  conec- 
tion  with  the  World's  Fair.  The  Woman's  Congress  is  acknowledged 
to  have  been  a  marvel  of  success  in  every  respect,  and  marks  a  great 
epoch  in  the  progress  of  woman.  All  fair  minded  people  admit 
that  the  Woman's  Building  is  being  well  managed,  and  temperance 
people  especially  ought  to  rejoice  that  in  its  cafe,  (said  by  many  to 
be  the  best  on  the  ground,)  nothing  of  an  intoxicating  nature  is  sold» 
and  yet  it  is  so  well  patronized  that  there  is  always  to  be  found  there 
a  waiting  crowd,  thus  proving  that  it  is  not  necessary,  as  some  said 
it  would  be,  to  furnish  intoxicating  drinks  in  order  to  make  a  restau- 
rant popular  on  the  Fair  Ground.  Besides  that  special  ways  in 
which  women  have  had  the  privilege  to  prove  their  ability  to  carry 
on  alone — as  well  as  men  can — great  enterprises.  They  have  had 
positions  of  trust  and  honor  on  nearly  every  State  Board. 

The  cause  of  equality  and  justice  to  woman  will,  I  believe,  receive 
a  lasting  impetus  from  the  developments  of  the  Columbian  year ; 
and  this  leads  me  to  speak  directly  of  the  Franchise  department  of 
the  W.  C.  T.  U.  It  is  stated  on  good  authority  that  at  the  begin- 
ning, the  Board  of  Lady  Managers  of  the  World's  Fair  was  composed 
largely  of  women  who  were  opposed  to  woman  suffrage,  but  nearly 
every  member  has  become  an  enthusiastic  suftragist,  and  among  the 
converts  is  the  gracious,  capable  and  honored  President,  Mrs.  Bertha 
Honore  Palmer.  As  the  wife  of  a  many  times  millionaire,  leading 
a  fashionable  life,  a  great  society  leader,  aiming  to  do  her  part  of  the 
work,  she  beautifully  represented  that  class  of  women  (of  whom  we 
hear  sometimes  even  in  Maine)  who  '^haveall  the  rights  they  want." 
But,  placed  as  Mrs.  Palmer  was,  by  the  action  which  made  her 
President  of  the  Board  of  Lady  Managers,  as  a  leader  among  women 
commissioned  to  do  a  great  work^  being  obliged  to  acquaint  herself 
with  the  work  of  ivomen  of  different  classes,  and  with  a  heart 
naturally  kind  and  sympathetic,  it  was  but  natural  that  she  should 
come  to  see  as  she  does  ;  that  society  has  no  right  to  limit  the  intelli- 
gent efficiency  of  woman  in  any  direction  in  which  their  co-opera- 
tion is  needed,  and  to  acknowledge  that  the  ballot  in  the  hands  of 
women,  would  help  to  secure  measures  in  the  interest  of  the  home, 
the  neighborhood  and  the  State.     To  believe  in    Woman's  Suffrage 


so 

is  by  no  means  a  test  of  membership  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.     And  yet  I 
am  sure  that  the  great  majority  of  white  ribboners,  through  the  logic 
of  events,  has  come  to  believe  the  woman's  ballot  would  be  a  power- 
ful help  towards  putting  down  the  liquor  traffic.     This  is  one  reason 
why,  through  our  franchise  department,  petitions  to  the  last  legisla- 
ture were  feo  actively   circulated.     As  you  well  know,  never  before 
have  the  pleadings  of  the  Maine  Woman  Suffragists  been  so  kindly 
listened  to   and  so  many   strong  speeches  made  in   its  advocacy,  as 
was  the   case  last   winter.     And   they  who   watch  the   signs  in  our 
State,  and  in  the  Nation,  too,    may  behold  the  dawn   of  a  new  day, 
distant  it  may  be,   but  sure  to  come,  when  the  united  throng  of  men 
and   women  will    inaugurate  a  just  government,  a  happy  home,  a 
civilization  in    which  ignorance,   poverty,    intemperance  and  crime 
will  not  be   so  prevalent  as   to-day.     The   opinions  of  many  of  the 
wisest   men    of  the   day   are   favorable  to  the   enfranchisement  of 
woman,  the  day  of  argument  has  passed  away  ;  and  to  prove  that 
women  desire  the   ballot  is    really  the   necessary  thing   in  order  to 
secure  it  in  our  State.    To  help  to  this  proof  is  really  the  chief  work 
of  the  franchise  department.     May  we  be  steadfast  and  tiue,  willing 
to  take  any  new  responsibility  if  thereby  we  are  climbing  towards 
the    heights  upon  which   is  the  one  who   represents  the  Way,  the 
Truth,   the  Life,  as  shown  to  us   in  Christianity  and   exemplified  in 
the  Golden  Rule. 

Some  who  claim  to  be  prophets — but  I  do  not  think  they  are  truly 
so,  say  that  our  prohibitory  law  is  in  danger;  that  there  are  perni- 
cious folks  at  work  to  undermine  it ;  and  that  the  action  of  Kentucky 
and  Iowa  is  likely  to  be  repeated  in  Maine.  I  am  such  a  firm  be- 
liever that  prohibition  is  the  settled  policy  of  our  State,  and  that  it 
will  not  be  changed,  that  I  can  not  entertain  the  fears  which  some  of 
you  may  have.  But  it  can  do  no  harm  for  us  to  be  on  the  alert — 
for  the  enemy  always  is.  There  is  no  doubt  but  that  the  non-en- 
forcement of  the  law  in  many  of  our  cities  and  towns  has  brought  to 
it  disfavor,  among  some  really  good  people,  who  have  not  carefully 
studied  the  liquor  problem — and  yet  all  enlightetied  total  abstainers, 
so  far  as  I  know  such,  readily  allow  that  even  to  change  poorly  en- 
forced prohibition,  such  as  we  have  in  some  places,  f(»r  a  license  law, 
would  be  going  from  bad  to  worse.     All  really  good   thinking  peo- 


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pie  must  admit  that  the  principle  of  prohibiting  an  evil  is  right — to 
license  an  evil  is  wrong — then  it  logically  follows,  if  liquor  selling  is 
an  evil  it  should  be  prohibited  by  law,  not  licensed.  Again  there 
is  ample  proof  to  show  that  the  provisions  of  a  high  license  law  be- 
sides being  wrong  are  as  hard  to  enforce  as  are  the  provisions  of  a 
prohibitory  law.  So  there  is  no  way  to  reckon,  to  show  that  good 
could  come  to  a  place  through  license  ;  but  on  the  other  hand,  infinite 
harm.  It  it  wise  for  us  to  be  well  furnished  with  facts,  to  show  the 
reason  of  the  faith  within  us  concerning  the  righteousness  of  pro- 
hibition laws. 

Let  us  place  the  blame  of  non-enfoi  cement  of  our  law  where  it 
belongs,  on  the  unfaithfulness  of  officials,  the  love  of  gain  and  par- 
tisan fear,  and  not  upon  the  inability  of  prohibition  to  prohibit,  for 
it  will  prohibit  wherever  it  has  a  fair  chance. 

However  dark  Uie  day  may  seem  let  us  never  lower  our  banner, 
let  us  never  lose  faith  in  God  and  the  right.  Let  us  be  true  to 
our  motto,  total  abstinence  for  the  individual,  prohibition  for  the 
State  and  Nation. 

And  while  it  does  sometimes  seem  : — 

"That  Right  is  ever  X)n  the  scaffold, 
Enror  ever  on  the  throne," 
let  us  believe 

"That  scaffold  sways  the  future, 

And  behind  the  dark  unknown 
Standeth  God  within  the  shadow 

Keeping  watch  above  His  own." 

I  took  occasion  to  say  at  the  Conference  of  Charities  held  in  con- 
nection with  the  World's  Fair  that  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  of  Maine  was 
the  Children's  Aid  Society  of  the  State,  and  had  been  for  many 
years,  inasmuch  as  it  aims  to  improve  the  condition  of  the  dependent 
and  delinquent  classes,  as  well  as  to  save  them,  if  possible,  from  be- 
coming such.  And  nu  class  of  dependents  appeal  so  touchingly  to 
the  heart  as  the  little  children  who  come  from  a  sin-stricken  and  a 
death-stricken  parentage.  I  hope  I  may  not  be  considered  in  any 
degree  disloyal  to  the  institutions  with  which  I  am. connected  when 
I  affirm,  that  while  I  know  they  are  necessary  to  the  present  time, 
exponents  of  the  better  side  of  society,  hopeful  harbingers  of  better 
things,  yet  there  is  a   *'more  excellent  way."     Already  has  the  con- 


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gregatc  plan  of  institutions,  in  our  progressive  States,  become  a 
thing  of  the  past,  replaced  by  institutions  on  the  cottage  and  family 
plan,  and  the  smaller  the  institutional  family  the  better.  Even  these 
I  believe  will,  in  some  glad  future  day  disappear,  and  instead  of 
these  will  be  a  real  home  for  every  homeless  child.  But  at  present 
I  hardly  know  how  we  could  get  along  without  the  Temporary 
Home  for  women  and  children,  the  Good  Will  Home  for  hoys,  the 
Industrial  School,  which  aims  to  do  for  girls  what  Good  Will  does 
for  boys,  the  Bangor  Children's  Home, the  Portland  Orphan  Asylum, 
and  lam  told  the  Home  of  the  Good  Shepherd  recently  established 
in  Rockland  is  doing  an  excellent  work  for  the  needy  little  ones. 
But  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  in  its  departmentof  securing  homes  by  adoption 
for  homeless  children  has  struck  a  chord  which  will  yield  music  full 
of  love  to  humanity,  and  to  Him  who  '*took  the  little  children  in  His 
arms  and  blessed  them."  Our  efficient  State  Superintendent  will 
tell  you  of  work  accomplished  and  work  planned. 

The  ?im  of  the  department  is  to  bring  together  the  homeless  child 
and  the  children's  home.  An  institution  is  not  a  real  home ;  the 
almshouse,  however  well  it  may  be  conducted,  is  not  a  home.  In 
some  of  the  best  children's  institutions  the  aim  is  to  find  homes  for 
the  inmates  as  soon  as  practicable,  and  in  some  of  our  States  the  law 
prohibits  the  placing  of  any  child  in  the  almshouse.  I  am  sorry  that 
Maine  is  not  included  in  the  number,  but  I  ought  to  say  to  the  credit 
of  our  State,  that  there  are  not  many  children  in  the  poor-house  ; 
and  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  is  rapidly  lessening  that  number,  by  trans- 
planting these  children,  caring  for  them,  and  placing  them  in  homes 
by  adoption — and  let  me  say,  it  will  be  to  the  shame  of  the  local 
VV.  C.  T.  U.  if  it  allows  in  its  place  a  child  to  remain  a  town  or  city 
charge. 

A  statistical  research  which  I  was  obliged  to  make  last  winter,  in 
preparing  Maine's  Exhibit  of  Charities  and  Corrections  for  the 
World's  Fair,  (and  it  may  be  found  in  the  south-west  corner  of  the 
Anthropological  building)  revealed  the  fact  that  there  were  57  towns 
in  Maine  with  no  paupers  and  almshouse.  To  be  sure  there  are 
some  feeble-minded  children,  and  in  nearly  every  case  they  have 
idiotic  mothers  and  illegitimate  fathers.  In  placing  the  adjective 
illegitimate  where  it   belongs,  and  I    never  allow    myself  to  place  it 


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before  the  sweet,  innocent  name  of  childhood,  I  feel  that  I  but  feebly 
express  the  depravity  of  the  man  who  forsakes  his  offspring  as  so 
many  illegitimate  fathers  do.  The  class  of  feeble-minded  children 
is  most  pitiful.  There  is  a  State  provision  that  some  of  them,  at 
least,  may  be  cared  for  in  the  Massachusetts  School  for  this  class. 
And  White  Ribboners  should  see  to  it  that  even  these  shall  receive 
all  possible  benefits.  But  to  turn  from  this  dark  side  of  the  picture 
to  the  other  side,  that  of  providing  homes  for  the  needy,  but  bright 
and  beautiful  little  ones,  such  as  have  come  into  some  of  the  homes 
represented  here  to-night,  bringing  love,  joy  and  sunshine  and 
sweet  satisfaction. 

There  is  a  line  of  temperance  work  which  is  receiving  much  at- 
tention at  the  present  time,  and  it  may  be  well  for  me  to  speak  of  it. 
Whatever  our  theories  may  be  relative  to  the  Keeley  Cure,  looking 
at  the  results  we  must  readily  and  gratefully  admit  that  it  is  good* 
I  am  glad  that  so  many  of  our  Unions  have  been  instrumental  in 
sending  many  a  bewildered  one,  to  find  through  the  Keeley  treatment 
release  from  the  terrible  bondage  of  appetite  for  alcoholic  stimulants. 
I  rejoice  in  the  formation  of  Keeley  Leagues,  wherever  they  are 
needed — but  our  Unions  should  maintain  their  own  distinct  organiza- 
tion and  be  ever  ready  as  an  organization  to  help  a  man  or  a  woman 
to  secure  the  benefits  of  the  Keeley  Cure.  A  fund  for  this  purpose 
can  be  raised  by  subscription,  many  giving  to  it  who  would  not 
give  to  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  for  any  other  purpose.  So  that  it  does  not 
involve  drawing  upon  the  membership  money  of  the  Union.  One 
of  our  Unions  has  enabled  sixteen  men  to  become  free  men  through 
the  Keeley  Cure  and  yet  it  has  not  neglected  any  of  its  departments 
of  work,  but  comes  to  tiiis  Convention  with  an  increased  member- 
ship. So  many  acknowledgements  that  wine  is  a  mocker  and 
*  ^whosoever  is  deceived  thereby  is  not  wise,"  that  they  are  sick  and 
desire  to  be  cured,  is  a  great  incentive  for  us  to  do  more  than  ever 
in  all  our  preventive  lines  of  work. 

I  should  be  too  much  out  of  fashion  to  pass  over  altogether  the 
questions  of  labor  and  finance.  On  Labor  Day  I  saw  a  man  wear- 
ing the  badge  of  the  Labor  Union,  all  covered  with  mud,  into  which 


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he  had  fallen  while  intoxicated.  And  I  said  in  my  heart,  while 
there  are  undoubtedly  wrong  conditions  in  a  land,  where  one  man 
can  spend  several  thousand  dollars  for  a  supper  for  his  friends,  and 
another  man's  children  go  supperless  to  bed,  yet  to  turn  the  fourteen 
hundred  million  dollars  spent  annually  in  this  nation  for  strong 
drink  into  right  and  useful  channels,  would  go  a  long  way  towards 
solving  the  vexed  labor  problem. 

•  *•«««« 

In  many  ways  this  has  been  a  prosperous  year  for  our  organiza- 
tion. The  Temple, — the  W.  T.  P.  A.,  have  weathered  the  storm 
of  financial  difficulties  and  numerically  we  are  strong  and  great,  our 
prospects  fair  and  bright.  To  be  sure  there  have  come  across  the 
way  great  shadows.  Our  precious  leader,  Miss  Willard,  has  been 
stricken  by  disease  and  her  absence  from  her  Native  Land  in  this 
eventful  year,  has  hindered  it  from  being  to  us  our  year  of  jubilee; 
but  we  cannot  believe  it  will  be  God*s  way  to  advance  the  interests 
of  His  Kingdom  to  take  from  this  world  one  who  has  done  so  much 
to  lift  it  heavenward.  And  so  we  confidently  believe  that  the 
breezes  which  play  around  her  in  the  mountains  of  Switzerland  may 
be  laden  with  healing  power  from  on  high  and  that  our  beloved 
chieftain  will  be  permitted  to  come  back  to  us,  and  lead  us  on  to  the 
victories  promised  to  them  that  overcome. 

Dear  comrades,  since  last  we  met  in  annual  meeting,  some  of  ours 
have  been  gathered  home.  Have  gone  away  from  us  to  join  the 
silent  majority — Silent  did  I  say?  Is  it  not  true  that  though  dead 
they  yet  speak  us  ?  I  mention  most  lovingly  one  of  our  National 
Superintendents,  Mary  Allen  West  of  Illinois,  whose  spirit  took  its 
flight  to  heaven  while  she  was  laboring  nobly  for  our  cause  in 
Japan.  I  mention  tenderly  ami  reverently  the  name  of  Mrs.  Amelia 
C.  Thorpe  of  Massachusetts ;  sweet,  strong,  helpful  and  hopeful  she 
was ;  and  Jennie  Cassedy  of  precious  memory — I  know  you  will 
join  with  me  in  placing  a  garland  of  immortelles  upon  her  grave. 
And  but  a  few  days  ago,  Alice  Lowell  Raymond,  one  of  our  State 
Superintendents,  capable  and  true,  closed  her  eyes  in  that  sleep 
which  He  giveth  to  His  beloved.  I  would  not  fail  to  mention  the 
death  of  Hon.  J.  C.  Chilcott,  editor  of  the  Ellsworth  American? 
who  has  been  for  years  an  honorary  member  of  our  Union,  always 


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attending  our  meetings  in  his  county  and  with  voice  and  editorial 
pen  doing  much  to  help  the  work  of  our  organization.  And  with 
equal  sadness  I  speak  of  the  going  away  so  suddenly  from  our  midst 
and  from  his  chosen  work,  our  friend  and  brother,  JohnW.  Mitchell. 
He  was  unselfish  and  heroic,  and  humanly  speaking,  we  could  illy 
afford  to  have  him  go.  Hail  brothers  and  farewell !  May  your 
noble  example  be  incentives  to  other  men,  to  labor  for  the  banish- 
ment of  the  drink  curse,  as  nobly  as  did  you.  I  am  thinking  of 
others — members  of  our  different  local  Unions, 

"Bom  into  beauty  and  bom  into  bloom, 
Victor  immortal  o*er  death  and  the  tomb.*' 

And  to-morrow  in  our  morning  service  we  will  record  their  names, 
and  will  sing  the  hymns  they  have  sung  with  us  in  days  gone  by* 
and  speak  of  their  devotion  to  our  precious  cause. 

******* 

Beloved  comrades  in  a  sacred  cause,  m^y  you  and  E,  upon  whom 
is  shed  the  white  light  of  that  holy  crusade  fire,  kindled  by  women 
called  by  God  to  lead  in  this  great  reform,  may  we  be  ever  steadfast 
and  true,  remembering 

We  are  climbing  up  the  steeps  of  Time, 
For  God,  and  Home  and  Native  Land. 
I  think  I  see  a  dawn  sublime, 
When  not  a  link  of  evil's  chain 
Shall  any  of  his  children  bind. 
Pray  God  it  come,  and  that  right  soon. 
When  body,  soul  and  spirit  all 
Shall  know  the  ownership  divine 
And  knowing,  will  not  dare  defile 
The  gift  that  cost  so  great  a  price. 
For  we  are  truly  not  our  own. 


S6 


Treasurer's  Report. 


RXCEIPTS    1892-93. 

Cr. 

By  Cash  balance,  Sept.  28, 1892,  $269  47 
Stock  in  the  W.  T.  P.  A.,  100  00 
Dividend  on  stock,  6  00 

Collections  at  Convention,  98  07 

Turner  Union  for  tablet,  i  00 

Local  Unions  for  Minutes,  9  80 

Isabel  Gibson  fund,  4  00 

Self-denial  fund,  12  35 

Freewill  Offering  Bath,  15  41 

For  Headquarters : 

Hon. W.W.Thomas,  $100  00 
A  friend,  10  co 

Bangor  W.  C.  T.  U.,  15  00 
Peering  W.  C.  T.  U.,  20  00 
$1  collect'ns,  Houlton,  15  00 
From  others,  7»  75 


DISBURSBMBNTS   1 892-93. 


Dr. 


Rent  of  rooms.   Head- 
quarters, 
Dues  from  Local  Unions, 


To  balance. 


231  75 

1,072  59 
1,196  80 

$3,017  24 
40  19 

>3i057  43 


To  Expenses  of  Convention,  $158  74 
President's  postage,  200  00 

Appropriation  for  State  work,  200  00 
Toward  Minutes,  56  53 

World's  Fair  exhibit,  10  00 

Monogram  electrotyped,  75 

Hotel  directory,  3  00 

Lettering  banner,  I  00 

Stationery  and  printing  Head* 

quarters,  29  89 

State  Superintendents,  57  60 

Mrs.  Gleason,  Fryeburg,  *5  5© 

Mrs.  Barney,  Prison  Day,  26  75 

Printing,  3  00 

Self-denial  fund  sent  to  World's 

W.  C.  T.  U.,  9  60 

Isabel  Gibson  fund,  4  00 

Expenses  Cor.  Sec'y,  27  46 

Stationery  and  postage.  Treas,    30  00 


Dues  to  National  Treas., 
Interest  on  Headquarters, 
Insurance  ** 

Taxes,  " 

Furniture,  carpets  and  repairs 

(old  bills). 
Help  and  incidentals. 
Heat  and  lights, 
Water  and  ice, 
W.  T.  P.  A.  stock  on  hand. 


400  00 
467  80 

45  00 
64  35 

652  20 
207  81 
256  15 

30  30 
100  00 


>3,o57  43 


Cash  on  hand  Sept.  28,  '92, 

Subscriptions  at  25  cts.. 

Papers  sold, 

Ads.  collected, 

Stock  on  hand,  Sept.  '93, 


Sept.  28,  1893. 


Star  in  the  East. 

Cr.  Dr. 

$220  25  To  stock  on  hand  Sept.  '92,           $13  oc 

240  65  "  Paper,  printing  and  postage, 

9  27  2500  monthly  and  25,000 

204  58  extras  in  March,                  471  08 

28  00  Cash  on  hand,                                 218  67 

>702  75  I  $702  75 

(MRS.)  E.  M.  BLANCHARD,  Treasurer. 


I  have  examined  the  accounts  and  vouchers  of  the  Treasurer  and  find  them 
correct. 

ADELAIDE  S.  JOHNSTON. 
Rockland,  Sept  27, 1893. 


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DuKs  FROM  Local  Unions  1892-93. 

Androscoggin  County  :  Auburn,  $30.10;  Greene,  $9.60;  Lewiston,  $26.40;  Liver- 
more  Falls,  $10.50;  Mechanic  Falls,  $14.70;  Sabattis,  $3.30;  So.  Durham,  $6; 
Turner,  $7.50;  total,  $108.10. 

Aroostook  County — Ashland,  $3.60;    Blaine,  $7.50  ;    Bridgewater,  $7  20;    Caribou ' 
$16.50;    Danforth,  9540;    Fort  Fairfield,  $18.00;    Houlton,  $22.50;  Hodgdon, 
$7.50;  Haynesville,  $5.40;  Linneus,  $4.80;  Limestone,  $7.50:  Mapleton,  $6.80; 
New  Limerick,  $9.00;   N.  Amity,  $4.50;    Presque  Isle,  $15.30;    Fatten,  $2.40; 
Sprague's  Mills,  $7.50;  Washburn,  $5.10;  total,  $156.50. 

Cumberland  County — Brunswick,  $22.50;  Cumberland  Mills,  $9.90;  Cape  Eliza- 
beth, $5.00;  New  Gloucester,  $9.30;  Newhall,  $4.20;  No.  Gorham,  $9.00;  Port- 
land, $68  10;  Peak*s  Island,  $7.90;  So.  Portland,  $3.00;  So.  Bridgton,  $3.00; 
So.  Windham,  $5.10;  Stroud  water,  $7.50;  Windham  Centre,  $12.60;  Westbrook, 
$5.00;  Westbrook  Y.,  $13.50;  White  Rock,  $3.60;  Woodfords,  Deering,  $15.00; 
Yarmouthville,  $8.70;  total,  $212.90. 

Franklin  County — Allen's  Mills,  $480;  Farmington,  $9.90;  Kingfield,  $12.30;  N. 
Jay,  $5.70;  Phillips,  $4.20;  Stratton,  $3.90;  Strong,  $4.^0;  Wilton,  $7.50; 
Raingley,  $8.10;  total,  $61.20. 

Hancock  County — Brooklin,  $16.20;  Bar  Harbor,  $6.00;  Ellsworth,  $6.00;  Hancock, 
$1.50;  Tremont,  $17.40;  toul,  $47  10. 

Kennebec  County — Augusta,  $22.50;  China,  $4.80;  Gardiner,  $4.80;  Hallowell, 
$5.00;  No.  Vassalboro,  $3.00;  So  China,  $7.50;  So.  Gardiner,  $6.00;  Vassal- 
boro,  $3  00;  Winthrop  'Jentre,  $15.00;  total,  $71.30. 

Knox  County — Camden,  $5.10;  Rockland,  $22.50;  Rockport,  $3.60;  Spruce  Head, 
$6.60;  Thomaston,  $12.00;  Union,  $19.80;  Warren,  $9.00;  toUl,  $78.60. 

Lincoln  County — Bremen.  $3.60;  Dresden  Mills,  $2.40;  E.  Jefferson,  $3.90;  New- 
cascle  and  Damariscotta,  ^.00;  Round  Pond,  $7.80;  Waldoboro,  $11.70;  total, 
$38.40. 

Oxford  County — Bethel,  11. 10;  E.  Brownfield,  $3.00;  Norway,  $5.70;  Oxford,  $5.70; 
«   West  Paris,  $2. 10;  total,  $27  60. 

Penobscot  County:  Bangor,  $14.40;  Bangor  Crusade,  $9.00;  Charleston,  $7.50; 
Corinna,  $2.70;  Dexter,  $15;  Dixmont,  $3:  Hampden  Comer,  $2.40;  Lincoln, 
$360;  Mattawamkeag.  $10.20;  Medway,  i>v -o;  Urono  for  1892,  $13.50;  for 
1893,  $15;  Patten,  $4.20;  Plymouth,  $4.20,  :3pringfield,  .60;  Stillwater,  $4.80; 
toul,  $129.20. 

Piscataquis  County — Dover  &  Foxcrof^,  $8.10;   Greenville,  $5;  total,  $13.10. 

Somerset  County :  East  St.  Albans,  $4.80;  Fairfield,  $3.90;  Madison,  $13.20; 
North  Anson,  $3;  N.  Portland,  .90;  North  New  Portland,  $3  30;  Pittsfield, 
$7.50;  Ripley,  $4.20;  Shawmut,  $3;  St.  Albans,  $3  90;  toUl,  $47.70. 

Sagadahoc  County:     Bath,  $12.60;  Popham  Beach,  $8.  ic;  total,  $20.70. 

Washington  County  :  Addison,  $6.30;  Calais,  $12.90;  Cherryiield,  $14.10;  East 
Machias,  $2  40;  Eastport,  $6.00;  Harrington,  $15;  Jonespurt,  $3.90;  Mill- 
bridge,  $12.60;  Pembroke,  $3.90;  Steuben,  $8.80;  Princeton,  $4.50;  total,  $9040 

Waldo  County :     Belfast,  $12.90;  N.  Searsmont,  $2.40;  Waldo,  $3;  total,  $18.30. 

York  County:  Biddeford,  $6;  Cornish,  $5.40;  Groveville  Y,  $1.50;  Kennebunk, 
$9.60;  Old  Orchard,  $2.10;  Springvalc,  $ii;  South  Berwick,  $6.60;  South 
Berwick  Branch,  $3.90;    Sanford,  $18;    West   Lebanon,  $8.10;    total,  $72.70. 

Members  at  large,  $4.00.         In  full  from  membership  dues,  $1 196.80. 


Corresponding  Secretary's  Report 


The  following  tabulated  statement  shows  in  brief  die  work 
accomplished  by  the  Maine  Unions  the  past  year.  A  few  have 
failed  to  report  therefore  no  mention  can  be  made  of  their  work. 
For  information  concerning  Young  Women's  Branch,  Loyal  Legion 
and  other  department  work  see  reports  of  Superintendents. 

SARAH  L.  CRAM. 


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Young  Woman's  Work. 

Madam  President  and  Sisters  of  the  Convention : 

It  is  my  pleasant  privilege  to  present  to  you  to-day,  the  main 
points  of  the  work  done  by  the  young  women  of  our  State  during 
the  past  year. 

The  report  is  not  all  we  could  wish,  but  we  have  found,  neverthe- 
less, the  "true  and  the  tried"  among  the  girls  of  Maine.  We  have 
only  two  new  Y  Unions,  three  Branches,  and  three  newly  appointed 
County  Superintendents,  but  we  have  gleaned  even  among  the 
sheaves  and  still  pray  and  work  for  more  recruits  in  the  coming  year. 

Cumberland  County  has  an  efficient  Superintendent  in  the  person 
of  Mrs.  G.  S.  Leavitt,  Portland.  The  Portland  Y,  finding  that 
better  work  could  be  done  by  giving  up  the  separate  Y  meetings 
and  joining  the  local  W.  C.  T.  U.  as  a  Y  Branch,  accordingly  did 
so,  soon  after  the  State  Convention.  One  of  their  number  is  agent 
for  the  Union  Signal  and  keeps  the  literature  pocket  at  the  Union 
Station  filled.  Their  most  important  work  is  caring  for  a  little  sick 
girl  who  is  at  the  Hospital.  They  keep  her  supplied  with  clothing 
and  carry  her  fruit,  dainties  and  toys.  At  Westbrook  is  a  flourish- 
ing Y  of  over  fifty  members.  They  have  sent  two  men  to  the 
Keeley  Institute  and  helped  two  others,  clothed  several  children  for 
school,  sent  magazines  to  a  lumber  camp,  and  co-operate  with  the 
W's  in  their  bi-monthly  temperance  meetings. 

Franklin  County,  Miss  G.  V.  Wilbur,  Superintendent,  writes: 
**Only  a  few  young  women  relatively  are  members  of  our  Unions, 
the  King's  Daughters  taking  the  members."  In  some  Unions  how- 
ever, the  young  women  do  efl^ective  work  with  the  W's.  There  is 
but  one  Y  in  this  county,  the  No.  Jay  Branch. 

Hancock  County  has  this  year  appointed  a  Superintendent,  Mrs. 
Belle  Blake  of  Brooklin.  She  brings  to  the  work  a  willing  heart 
and  ready  hand.  The  new  Y  at  Brooklin  of  thirty-two  members 
is  very  promising. 


4€ 

Kennebec  County  has  an  excellent  Supt.,  Miss  Cora  L.  Pullen  of 
Winthrop  Center.  On  account  of  severe  illness  she  has  been  un- 
able to  give  a  full  report  of  her  county,  but  sends  the  following : 
'*In  Augusta  there  is  a  large  and  flourishing  Y  numbering  sixty. 
They  work  harmoniously  with  the  W's,  hold  entertainments  and 
look  well  after  young  girls  who  come  as  strangers  into  the  city. 
Hallowell  has  a  Y  and  is  doing  good  work." 

No  Y  in  Knox  County. 

Oxford  County,  Miss  Jennie  B.  Kimball  of  East  Hiram,  Supt. 
She  is  deep  in  love  with  the  work,  and  we  hope  for  an  awakening  of 
the  young  women  of  her  county.  Miss  Kimball  writes  of  the  Hiram 
Branch  which  was  formed  in  March :  '*Our  Branch  has  been 
quite  successful  in  re-organizing  the  L.  T.  L.  Much  interest  is 
manifested  and  we  hope  for  good  results  "  South  Paris  Y  reports 
an  active  Union.  In  December  they  held  a  successful  fair.  Needy 
children  have  been  clothed  through  their  efforts,  and  a  deformed  boy 
was  sent  by  them  to  the  Maine  General  Hospital. 

Piscataquis :  Y  work  has  this  year  been  taken  up  in  the  Dover 
and  Foxcroft  Union. 

Somerset:  Miss  Luetta  Blanchard  of  North  Anson  was  appointed 
Superintendent  during  the  winter.  Pittsfield  Y  was  organized  soon 
after  last  State  Convention  and  has  been  doing  faithful  work,  but 
no  report  of  the  work  for  the  last  half  year  has  been  received. 

Washington  :  Mrs.  S.  A.  Strout  of  Harrington,  Supt.  The  Y's 
in  this  County  have  disbanded,  yet  there  is  great  hope  of  the  revival 
of  temperance  interest  among  the  young  women  of  this  county,  for 
the  Superintendent  is  an  earnest  and  undaunted  worker. 

York;  Though  last  is  not  least.  Miss  Ella  W.  Ricker  of  South 
Berwick  is  the  energetic  Supt.  Groveville  Y  organized  a  year  ago 
is  still  very  few  in  number.  In  December  we  gave  a  **Crusade 
Concert"  which  was  a  success  in  spite  of  the  exceeding  cold  weather. 
In  September  a  fruit  sociable  was  held  with  a  temperance  pro- 
gramme. The  autograph  pledge  cards  have  been  circulated  and 
several  parlor  meetings  held.  One  member,  who  is  teaching,  does 
not  forget  Scientific  Temperance  instruction.  The  South  Berwick 
Y's  give  an  entertainment  of  some  sort  each  month,  do  a  great  deal 
in  Social  and  Flower  Mission  work,  have  had  for  a  time  a  class  in 


47 

physical  and  local  culture,  and  held  three  Demorest  Medal  (Contests. 
Some  of  the  honoraries  are  constant  attendants  at  the  business  meet- 
ings and  manifest  much  interest. 

In  summing  up  we  find  nine  Y  Unions,  three  Branches  and  eight 
Counties  have  Y.  Supts.  There  are  about  two  hundred  and  four- 
teen members  with  sixty-nine  honoraries.  They  have  distributed 
7,000  pages  of  literature,  raised  for  all  purposes  $276.35,  take  11 
copies  of  the  Star^  10  of  the  Union  Signal  -and  27  of  the  Oak  and 
Ivy  Leaf ,  When  the  Portland  Y  disbanded  and  became  a  Branch 
ten  dollars  from  their  treasury  was  put  in  my  hands  to  use  for  Y 
work.  I  have  sent  to  the  National  one  dollar  as  Maine's  part  toward 
Mrs.  Barnes'  gavel,  and  three  paid  into  the  Isabel  Gibson  Fund. 
Remaining  six  in  my  possession. 

As  we  close  up  this  year's  work  dear  Y  sisters  let  us  take  our 
stand  more  firmly  than  ever  for  the  right.  We  have  not  made  the 
gain  in  membership  that  we  could  wish,  but  we  have  taken  many 
paces  forward  nev^ertheless,  we  understand  each  other  better  and 
are  better  prepared  to  work.  Let  us  feel  grateful  for  the  new 
campfires  that  are  burning  and  may  they  be  lighted  in  every  county 
in  our  broad  State. 

Dear  sisters  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.,  the  young  women  need  your 
help,  you  need  the  help  of  the  young  women.  Think  of  these 
things  seriously  and  prayerfully,  labor  to  arouse  the  young  women 
who  are  indifferent,  and  '*your  work  shall  be  rewarded." 

Respectfully  submitted, 

LUBELLE  B.  PATRICK, 

State  Supt.  T  Work, 


Loyal  Temperance  Legions. 

Madam  President  and  Sisters  of  the  Convention : 

Never  before  in  the  world's  history  has  so  much  attention  been 
given  to  childhood  as  at  the  present.  The  people  of  to-day  are 
waking  up  to  the  fact  that  the  children  of  this  generation  are  to  be 
the  men  and  women  of  the  next,  and  that  we  are  responsible  for  the 
kind  of  armor  with  which  they  are  furnished  to  go  into  life's  battle. 
Opportunity  stretches  out  its  hands,  and  childhood's  voice  calls  to 
the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union,  the  '^Organized  Mother 
Love  of  the  World."  Let  us  heed  the  call,  remembering  the  words 
of  our  blessed  Master,  '*Even  so,  for  it  is  not  the  will  of  your  Father 
which  is  in  Heaven,  that  one  of  these  little  ones  should  perish." 

In  presenting  to  you,  this,  my  first  annual  report,  I  am  glad  to 
tell  of  an  increased  interest  in  the  Juvenile  Work.  All  along  the 
line  comes  words  of  cheer.  It  will  be  impossible  for  me  in  this 
brief  report  to  do  justice  to  the  grand  work  that  is  being  done  by 
the  faithful  self-sacrificing  superintendents,  hut  Me  for  whose  sake 
the  work  was  undertaken  will  reward  then.  The  past  year,  ten  new 
Legions  have  been  organized,  seven  disbanded  re-organized  ;  gain  in 
membership  reported  670.  But  it  is  safe  to  say  that  there  is  a  gain 
of  100  or  more  not  reported,  as  two  counties  have  not  been  heard 
from,  and  new  Legions  have  been  organized  in  theni.  Money  has 
been  freely  contributed  for  the  Willard  Fountain  and  other  objects ; 
each  Company  has  given  one  or  more  entertainments,  among  them 
quite  a  number  of  **medal  contests,"  which  were  found  to  be  very 
helpful. 

Two  Legions,  (W^ddo  and  Calais)  are  reported  as  taking  part  in 
County  Conventions,  wheie  they  did  themselves  credit.  Many 
copies  of  different  papers  are  taken  by  the  children.  Lesson  man- 
uals, and  other  W.  T.  P.  A.  helps  are  used  quite  extensively,  a  large 
number  of  children  reported  as  studying  for  diplomas,  two  Senior  * 
Grade  Divisions  reported,  one  at  Phillips,  and  the  L.  M.  N.  Stevens 
Senior  Grade  at  Springvale. 


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Androscoggin  sends  no  report  but  at  last  accounts  the  good  work 
was  going  on. 

Cumberland  County,  Mrs.  Elsie  Cannel,  Superintendent.  South 
Windham  has  an  L.  T.  L.,52  members;  meets  weekly.  Westbrook 
Y's  have  an  organization  called  * 'Loyal  Crusaders, **68  members  ;  the 
same  at  Cumberland  Mills,  124  meml)ers,  under  the  leadership  of 
our  faithful  sister  Mrs.  Augusta  Bragdon  ;  good  work  is  being  done. 
The  other  fifteen  Unions  in  the  County  report  that  no  person  can  be 
found  to  take  charge  of  the  work.  May  the  Lord  send  convictions 
as  to  duty. 

Franklin  County,  under  the  faithful  and  efficient  leader  Miss  G.V. 
Wilbur,  is  marching  onto  victory;  two  Legions  re-organized  and 
one  new  one  the  past  year.  Phillips  has  a  very  promising  Senior 
Grade  Division. 

Lincoln  County  has  no  Superintendent.  Flourishing  L.  T.  L. 
reported  at  Bremen,  Round  Pond  and  Waldoboro  ;  in  this  Company 
the  children  are  much  interested. 

Sagadahoc,  Mrs.  Vesta  Jones,  Superintendent,  reports  two  active 
companies,  Bath  and  Popham  Beach  ;  at  Bath  the  meetings  are  held 
Sunday  afternoon.  These  are  addressed  by  the  pastors  of  the 
different  churches ;  many  new  members  have  been  added.  Miss 
Alice  Douglass  has  done  all  in  her  power  to  hold  and  interest  the 
children.  Miss  Carey  in  charge  of  the  Winter  Street  Division 
has  succeeded  in  keeping  up  the  interest  all  the  year.  Popham 
Beach  has  held  two  *'mcdal  contests,**  sent  out  ''pledge  cards,**  con- 
tributed for  the  Willard  Fountain,  made  useful  articles  for  the  annual 
fair  and  gave  the  proceeds  to  aid  In  building  a  chapel  there. 

Aroostook  is  the  Banner  County.  Mrs.  Vesta  Carle,  Superinten* 
dent,  reports  eleven  Companies  with  a  large  membership.  One 
Superintendent  writes,  "I  have  more  faith  in  this  line  of  work  re- 
sulting in  good  than  in  any  other.*'  Would  that  we  had  many  more 
like  this  dear  sister.  Washington  has  added  two  new  Legions  and 
re-organized  one  ;  money  contributed  to  Willard  Fountain  ;  various 
kinds  of  work  done  by  the  children  ;  copies  of  Advance  Sword  and 
Toung  Crusader  taken.  Cherry  field  Legion  is  under  the  care  of 
the  faithful  and  devoted  County  Superintendent,  Mrs.  Effie  L.  Nash, 
membership  117;  meets  every  Sunday  afternoon. 


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Oxford  has  no  Superintendent,  but  one  new  Company  organized 
the  past  year. 

Kennebec  no  report.  One  Company  has  been  re-organized,  Mis. 
Clara  Mumford,  Superintendent. 

In  Hancock  County  practical  work  has  been  done,  one  new 
Legion  formed  and  one  re-organized  the  past  year.  One  Company 
held  a  public  meeting  and  the  Superintendent  writes,  *'It  was  worth 
as  much  as  a  temperance  lecture  to  hear  the  children  that  night." 
Mrs.  Maria  B.  Perry  is  the  County  Superintendent. 

Waldo  has  no  County  Superintendent,  but  there  is  a  flourishing 
Legion  at  Waldo,  children  very  constant  in  attendance.  They  took 
a  very  important  part  in  the  County  Convention. 

Knox  County  has  for  its  Superintendent  Mrs.  Fannie  D.  Gould 
of  Rockland.  Every  eflx)rt  has  been  put  forth  by  her  to  make  this 
branch  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  a  success.  Since  last  January  4.693 
cigar  and  cigarette  stubs  have  been  trampled  under  foot.  The 
largest  number  stepped  on  by  one  boy  was  1,193.  -^^  Spruce  Head 
31  new  members  have  been  gained  the  past  year.  During  the  year 
they  have  made  a  patchwork  L.  T.  L.  quilt,  each  child  furnishing  a 
square  with  nam^ thereon,  for  Good  Will  Farm.  They  have  dis- 
tributed 100  pages  of  literature,  take  several  copies  of  different 
papers  and  use  the  lesson  manuals.  A  great  deal  of  credit  is  due 
Mrs.  Coakley.  Thomaston  reports  a  membership  of  100,  with 
seven  platoons.  They  hold  their  meetings  regularly  every  week  on 
Sunday  afternoon.     Ten  new  members  added  during  the  year. 

Piscataquis  sends  no  report.  One  Legion  organized  during  the 
year.     Miss  Lizzie  M.  Nason,  County  Superintendent. 

Somerset  reports  one  new  Legion.  Mrs.  F.  M.  Chandler,  County 
Superintendent. 

The  faithful  Superintendent  of  Penobscot,  Mrs.  A.  L.  Abbott, 
reports  one  new  Legion  added. 

York  County,  Miss  Annie  R.  Munger,  Supt.,  two  new  Legions, 
Springvale  and  Groveville.  Center  Lebanon  has  a  finely  organized 
Company.  Platoon  No.  3  has  been  organized  in  one  of  the  outlying 
districts  a  few  miles  away,  by  Mrs.  Shapleigh,  Supt.  Children  are 
all  much  interested,  some  walking  two  miles  or  more  to  attend 
meeting  every  week,  and  are  trying  to  live  by  their  motto,  "We'll 


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Stand  for  the  Right."  West  Lebanon  has  a  flourishing  Legion. 
Mrs.  Closson  the  Superintendent  reports :  Children  interested  in 
Temperance  and  Mission  Work.  Lesson  manuals  and  marching 
songs  used.  They  have  just  held  a  most  successful  "medal  contest.' 
Springvale  Legion  organized  and  carried  on  in  accordance  with  the 
plan  of  work  outlined  in  ''Questions  Answered."  The  manuals 
and  song  books  were  paid  for  by  the  Y.  W.  C.  T.  U.,  Work,  Flower 
Mission  and  Band  of  Mercy.  This  Company  has  been  recently 
organized  ;  we  hope  to  have  a  good  report  for  the  coming  year. 

I  would  have  been  glad  to  mention  in  this  report  every  Legion  in 
the  State  and  the  work  done  by  them  the  past  year,  but  the  items 
in  many  reports  were  so  lacking  in  detail,  that  it  is  impossible, 
some  only  reporting  when  organized  and  number  of  members. 

SOME  OF   THE  WORK   DONE    BY   THE    MEMBERS  OF   THE    L.  T.  L. 

Quilt  for  Good  Will  Farm  ;  sailor's  companions  made;  temper- 
ance concerts ;  temperance  picnics ;  one  bird  concert  (Bar  Harbor)  ; 
picture  books  for  the  Children's  Hospital ;  public  meetings,  chil- 
dren in  charge  ;  literary  entertainments  ;  bonnet  sociables  ;  money 
raised  by  selling  ice  cream  during  the  summer ;  fir  pillow  for  the 
Children's  Table  at  Chicago;  clothing  sent  to  Colored  School; 
Flower  Mission  Work  ;  $630.00  raised  by  the  L.  T.  L.  at  Waldo- 
boro  for  an  organ  ;  $10.00  sent  Good  Will  Farm  by  the  Southwest 
Harbor  L.  T.  L. ;  120  garments  made  by  the  children  and  given  to 
them ;  the  sewing  school  in  connection  with  the  L.  T.  L.  at 
Calais — those  who  made  and  received  the  garments  were  the  poor 
children  of  the  city  ;  money  contributed  for  Willard  Fountain,  Mis- 
sion work,  ciiurches,  for  inmates  of  the  Almshouse,  poor  children 
on  Christmas  and  Thanksgiving  day,  and  other  purposes. 

Sisters  does  it  pay  to  have  an  L.  T.  L.  ?  and  may  we  not  have 
one  in  every  Union  ? 

Better  to  teach  one  youth  the  way 

To  higher  life  and  nobler  thought, 
Than  own  the  wealth  of  untold  mines 

By  selfish  hands  and  spirits  wrought. 

ANNIE  C.  BAGLEY, 
State  Supt,  Loyal  Temperance  Legion, 


Hygiene  and  Heredity. 

The  Superintendent  of  this  department  has  been  prevented  by 
unavoidMbK"  circumstances  from  giving  much  attention  to  the  work 
during  the  past  year.  She  has,  however,  had  the  pleasure  of  hear- 
ing from  many  of  the  Unions  in  the  State,  several  of  which  report  that 
they  have  iiad  readings,  a  few  lectures,  and  have  distributed  literature. 
Too  many  report  that  it  is  a  department  for  which  they  cannot  pro- 
cure a  Superintendent,  or  that  it  is  the  department  which  they  can 
best  leave  out,  as  they  have  only  force  enough  to  take  up  a  few  lines 
of  work.  It  is  evident  that  the  importance  of  this  department  of 
temperance  instruction  is  greatly  underestimated.  Its  purpose  is  to 
teach  how  to  eradicate  the  inherited  desire  for  strong  drink,  and  how 
to  avoid  the  transmission  of  this  desire.  Men,  women  and  children 
need  to  be  taught  the  temperate  use  of  proper  food  and  drink,  and  that 
high  living  and  gluttony  prepare  the  way  for  drunkenness.  They 
should  also  be  taught  that  drunkenness  is  often  a  disease  rather  than  a 
mere  habit,  and  that  this  disease  often  results  from  highly  seasoned 
food,  narcotic  drinks,  and  drugs,  particularly  from  alcoholic  medi- 
cation. The  one  effective  remedy  for  intemperance  is  the  one  sove- 
reign remedy  for  sin,  the  complete  consecration  of  the  body  and 
soul  to  the  obedience  of  Divine  laws.  *'I  beseech  you  therefore 
brethren  by  the  mercies  of  God,  that  you  present  your  bodies  a  liv- 
ing sacrifice,  holy,  acceptable  to  God.** 

Whether  future  generations  are  to  enjoy  a  complete  victory  over 
the  sin  of  intemperance  as  a  habit,  and  drunkenness  as  a  disease, 
will  depend  much  upon  the  knowledge  imparted  to  the  present  gen- 
erations upon  the  subject  of  Divine  law  respecting  those  influences 
which  promote  physical  health,  strength  and  purity,  and  those  influ- 
ences which  minister  to  disease,  imbecility,  and  depravity. 

Legislation,  closing  the  saloon,  enforcing  the  most  stringent  pro- 
hibitory laws,  will  not  kill  this  evil.  There  will  still  linger  in  the 
depraved  appetites  of  the  people  the  same  pernicious  root,  of  which 


drunkenness  is  the  fruit,  and  which  no  legislotion  can  destroy,  the 
demands  of  which  will  be  met  by  secretly  procuring  alcoholic  drinks, 

icir  place  will  be  supplied  by  drugs  equally  pernicious. 

will  venture  to  say  th.il  no  department  in  our  organization  otTers 
«  belter  opportunity  to  teach  the  needy,  neglected  masses  the  way 
out  of  the  evil  of  intemperance  than  this  one  which  strikes  at  the 
root  of  the  whole  matter,  the  eradication  of  the  appetite. 

take   this  occasion  to  suggest,  that  each  Union  which  has  not 

n  up  the  Btmly  of  Hygiene  and  Heredity  in  its  relation  to  lem- 

ince,  and  to  those  who  may  regard  this  subject  as  peculiarly 
difficult,  that  they  send  at  once  lo  the  W.  T.  P.  A.  of  Chicago  or 
to  Julia  Colman,  54  Bible  House.  N.  Y.,  and  procure  literature 
upon  these  subjects.  I  feel  safe  in  saying  that  most  thoughtful 
inien  vfho  will  take  pains  lo  investigate  this  inteiesting  subject 
II  find  themselves  fully  persuaded  of  the  importance  of  making  it 
well  understood  by  others,  and  that  the  number  of  Unions  report- 
ing definite  work  done  in  this  depiirtment,  will  ere  long  be  greatly 


EMMA  C.  PINKHAM, 
Supt.  of  Hygiene  and  Heredity. 


Sunday  School  Work. 

This  Columbian  year  has  been  one  of  interest  in  this  department. 
And  first  let  me  mention  the  late  report  of  the  International  Sunday 
School  Convention  at  St.  Louis,  which  is  such  a  victory  that  we 
should  thank  God  and  lake  courage. 

The  temperance  lesson  is  retained  for  the  next  six  years,  and  the 
strong,  helpful  words  of  some  of  the  leaders  must  hiive  its  ciTecl. 
The  report  is  found  on  page  iz,  Sept.  17  issue  of  the  Union  Signal. 
I  hope  all  who  have  not  read  it  will  do  so.  I  wish  an  expression 
of  thanks  in  some  form  might  be  sent  from  this  Convention  to 
Rev.  W.  F.  Crafts  and   those  who  stood  with  him,  for  their  action. 

May  I  not  ui^  all  to  try  and  make  th«  da^  0I 


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especial  interest.  To  teach  the  lesson  well  and  impress  the  truths 
sweetly  and  forcibly  must  be  our  aim.  If  the  church  demands  it, 
the  temperance  lesson  will  be  provided  as  long  as  there  is  need — 
the  will  of  the  majority  must  rule. 

Not  all  County  Superintendents  have  reported.  Androscoggin 
sends  the  best  it  ever  has.  Aroostook  always  has  a  good  report. 
York,  Oxford,  Sagadahoc  and  Piscataquis  have  sent  reports,  and 
some  local  Superintendents  in  other  counties.  The  summing  up 
gives  better  returns  than  last  year  and  if  all  the  county  work  had 
been  reported  I  am  sure  there  would  have  been  shown  a  great  gain. 
More  literature  has  been  distributed ;  the  leaflets  prepared  by  the 
National  Superintendent  have  had  a  good  eflect.  Through  the 
kindness  of  J.  M.  Libby  of  Portland  who  gave  $5.00  for  the  pur- 
pose, the  Sunday  Schools  of  that  city  were  supplied  with  the 
December  leaflet.  Westbrook  reports  much  work  done.  Wood- 
fords  also  ;  the  Congregationalist  Sunday  School  there  of  3cx>  mem- 
bers all  signed  the  triple  pledge  save  six. 

Bath  sends  good  reports.  Farmington,  under  the  auspices  of  the 
W.  C.  T.  U.  has  organized  and  sustained  a  Mission  Sunday  School 
at  the  box  factory,  Mrs.  Purington,  the  local  superintendent,  giving 
it  her  personal  supervision.  Houlton  has  had  a  fine  concert. 
Through  the  eflbrts  of  the  local  superintendent,  Mrs.  Ingraham, 
there  was  a  union  of  the  eight  Sunday  Schools,  Catholic  and 
Protestant,  and  it  was  a  great  success. 

Mrs.  Getchell  of  Foxcroft  was  invited  to  prepare  a  paper  for  the 
County  Sunday  School  Convention. 

Augusta  reported  in  the  spring,  of  work  done. 

Through  the  kindness  of  a  friend  the  Reform  School  was  pro- 
vided with  the  autograph  pledge  cards. 

The  circulation  of  the  autograph  pledge  cards  for  the  Exposition 
has  been  remarkable.  As  reported  by  the  Nat'l  Sup*t  there  have 
been  sent  out  by  her  and  the  Nat'l  Sec'y,  201,971  ;  many  have  been 
ordered  from  the  W.  T.  P.  A.,  and  some  States  printed  their  own. 
Could  we  have  the  whole  number  it  would  be  greater.  The  space 
in  th«  Woman's  building  and  the  Children's  were  filled  and  the 
remainder  placed  in  a  glass  case.  What  may  we  not  expect  from 
this  seed  sowing? 


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It  was  impossible  for  the  committee  to  decide  where  many  came 
from,  whether  from  the  Sunday  Schools  or  L.  T.  L's.  As  far  as 
they  were  able  to  determine,  the  Sunday  Schools  outnumbered  the 
others  largely.  Maine  ordered  24,750;  New  York,  53,497.  These 
were  the  most  from  any  of  the  States,  l^he  banner  seems  to  belong 
to  both,  but  New  York  ordering  so  many  more — though  her  Sunday 
School  scholars  far  outnumber  ours — it  has  been  decided  to  give  the 
banner  to  New  York.  The  competition  was  so  close  that  Miss 
Kimball  offered  to  give  one  to  each,  but  our  President  as  well  as 
myself  consider  it  an  unwise  expenditure  of  money  ;  we  are  agreed 
that  we  have  an  equal  honor  with  New  York  and  to  the  children 
the  honor  belongs.  May  the  dear  Lord  help  the  children  to  be  true 
to  their  very  best  and  help  us  to  be  true  to  them. 

This  has  been  a  very  busy  year,  may  the  coming  be  busier. 

I  will  recommend  the  use  of  the  World's  pledge ;  tliese  the  chil- 
dren are  to  keep. 

I  would  urge  all  teachers  to  make  the  most  of  the  temperance 
lesson,  to  have  concerts  as  often  as  may  seem  practicable,  to  dis- 
tribute temperance  literature  widely,  and  whenever  possible  secure 
a  place  on  the  program  of  the  County  S.  S.  Convention. 

I  hope  to  have  sixteen  County  Superintendents  this  year,  may  I  not  .^ 

Reports  give  155,785  pages  of  literature  distributed.      I  have  no 

doubt  the  amount  would  be  trebled  were  all  reported.     With  hardly 

an  exception  is  the  regular  lesson  pronounced  a  great  help.     Let  us 

all  take  courage  and  work  as  we  never  have,  and  God  will   surely 

bless  the  work. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

E.  A.  G.  STICKNEY, 
State  Supt,  Sunday  School  Work. 


Temperance  Literature. 


Madam  President  and  Members  of  the  Convention : 

It  may  not  be  the  fault  of  the  County  Superintendents  that  many 
of  the  counties  have  not  reported  any  work  done  in  the  department 
of  Literature  during  the  past  year.  It  may  be,  had  the  present  State 
Superintendent  written  to  each  one  during  the  year  they  might  have 
responded.  Many  thanks  to  the  faithful  ones  who  have  reported, 
for  they  sent  their  reports  unsolicited.  As  some  who  had  not  the 
privilege  of  attending  the  State  Convention  may  not  have  learned 
of  the  death  of  our  dear  Mrs.  Alice  S.  Raymond  who  has  served  so 
faithfully  as  State  Superintendent  for  several  years,  I  would  like  to 
say  here,  as  long  as  Mrs.  Raymond  was  with  us  I  wanted  her  name 
to  stand  as  Superintendent  of  this  department  and  I  did  no  work 
which  she  would  have  done  had  she  been  in  health,  consequently 
much  has  been  left  undone.  I  feel  this  explanation  is  due  the 
Superintendents  who  have  not  reported. 

Androscoggin  County  :  The  SuptMintendent  of  Auburn  Union 
writes:  During  the  year  the  Union  has  supplied  the  wall  baskets  at 
the  depots  with  temperance  literature  from  time  to  time.  Many 
hundred  pages  have  been  distributed  among  the  prisoners  at  the  jail, 
among  which  have  been  Ufiion  Signals.  They  are  eager  for  read- 
ing mailer  which  is  carried  to  them  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  Sunday.  Two 
thousand  pages,  consisting  of  beer,  cider,  tobacco  and  social  purity 
leaflets  were  distributed  on  the  grounds  during  the  State  Fair.  She 
also  reports  have  visited  the  several  barber  shops  and  have  always 
been  received  with  respect  and  consideration.  The  Superintendent 
of  the  new  Union  at  South  Durham  says  she  has  had  a  box  for  lit- 
erature put  up  in  the  store  and  post  office  and  has  kept  it  supplied. 
Have  a  large  supply  of  cider,  beer  and  narcotic  leaflets  on  hand 
ready  for  distribution  at  a  public  temperance  meeting  soon  to  be 
held.  Lewibton — A  box  of  literature  sent  to  the  logging  camps  at 
Dead  River.     Livermore  Falls — The  Superintendent  writes:     have 


07 

distributed  at  gospel  temperance  meetings  loo  Union  Signals  and 
600  pages  of  other  temperance  literature.  80  of  the  decorative 
pledge  cards  were  distributed  in  our  Sunday  Schools  and  most  of 
them  signed  and  sent  in.  One  annual  subscription  to  the  Signal 
has  been  procured  and  12  subscribers  for  one  month,  which  I  hope 
may  mean  more  Signals  in  our  Union  for  tiie  coming  year.  Have 
placed  in  our  box  at  the  railroad  station  at  different  times  1,000 
pages  of  literature,  including  many  leaflets  of  diflerent  kinds.  We 
have  13  copies  of  responsive  readings  which  we  have  used  in  our 
meetings,  also  purchased  nine  white  ribbon  hymnals  for  the  use  of 
our  temperance  choir.  Other  Unions  would  find  these  hymnals 
very  helpful  in  their  meetings. 

Aroostook  County  :  A  large  amount  of  literature  has  been  distrib- 
uted, two  Unions  reporting  over  9,000  pages.  In  many  cases  good 
reading  matter  has  been  placed  in  poor  families  unable  to  provide  it 
for  themselves.  Qiiite  a  number  of  wall  pockets  in  railroad  stations, 
stores  and  other  places  have  been  kept  filled.  A  large  amount  has 
been  sent  to  lumber  camps,  and  in  most  cases  gratefully  received. 
Our  excellent  papers,  the  Union  Signal  and  Star  in  the  JSasty 
have  not  as  many  subscribers  in  our  county  as  their  merits  deserve, 
although  quite  a  number  are  taken  by  our  women.  At  our  County 
Convention  literature  to  the  amount  of  $13  was  sold  from  the  table. 
We  hope  next  year  to  be  more  systematic  in  our  work  and  do  more 
in  this  very  important  department. 

Cumberland  County :  There  has  been  no  report  of  Superinten- 
dent from  Cumberland  County.  The  local  Superintendent  of  Port 
land  has  kept  wall  pockets  at  Union  Station  fllled  throughout  the 
year,  many  thousand  pages  having  been  used.  There  have  been  42 
subscribers  for  Union  Signal  and  29  for  Star  in  the  Easty  beside  a 
number  of  Oak  and  Ivy  Leaf  and  Toung  Crusader, 

Knox  County :  Rockport  Union  reports :  have  circulated  more 
than  900  pages  of  literature,  most  of  which  was  placed  in  vessels 
leaving  the  harbor ;  have  placed  copies  of  the  Union  Signal  and 
Star  in  the  East  in  the  reading  room  and  in  restaurants.  Spruce 
Head — We  have  bought  and  circulated  leaflets,  Signal  lights,  Gos- 
pel lights  and  tracts,  735  pages,  92  scripture  cards.  We  take  three 
copies  Union  Signal y  la  copies  of  Star  in  the  East^  10  copies  of 


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Toung"  Crusader  and  lo  copies  of  Anti-Tobacco  Gem.  Union — 
The  Superintendent  sends  an  excellent  report.  7i934  pages  of  tem- 
perance literature  have  been  distributed,  including  copies  of  Union 
Sig'nal^  Z ion's  Herald^  Touth*s  Companion  and  Star  in  the  East, 
This  has  been  distributed  at  the  State  prison,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  rooms 
and  in  poor  families.  We  are  commanded  to  sow  by  all  waters, 
and  what  fields  we  have  to  work  in  if  we  will  only  improve  the 
opportunity.  Poor  families — how  many  might  have  their  homes 
brightened  and  made  happy  by  good  reading  if  they  only  had  it. 
Dear  sisters,  bring  out  your  papers  and  magazines  that  you  have 
read  and  let  your  poor  friends  and  neighbors  have  the  benefit  o> 
them.  Restaurants,  prison  and  barber  shops — who  can  tell  the 
results  of  a  few  minutes  time  spent  in  good  reading  from  a  little 
tract  left  by  loving  hands  in  these  places.  Thomaston — Have  dis- 
tributed 2,000  pages  of  literature  among  sailors,  at  the  Prison  and 
in  railroad  station.  Warren  Union — Superintendent  has  sent  to 
Rockland  for  soldiers  and  sailors  3.050  pages  of  reading;  to  the 
depot  1,820  pages  of  literature  and  113  copies  of  leaflets  and  dis- 
tributed leaflets  at  our  Gospel  temperance  meeting. 

Oxford  County  :  Brownfield  reports  three  copies  of  Union  Sig- 
nal taken  and  eight  copies  of  Star  in  the  East.  A  wall  pocket  at 
the  railroad  station  into  which  at  least  600  pages  of  literature  has 
been  placed  during  the  year.  One  of  the  ladies  sent  her  Signal  to 
a  friend,  and  leaflets  are  placed  in  letters  of  which  no  record  has 
been  made.  Hiram — One  Signal  and  eight  copies  of  Star  taken. 
1,000  pages  of  literature  distributed  by  the  department  Superintend- 
ent. Norway — No  accurate  report  can  be  made  as  the  Superintend- 
ent moved  away  and  left  no  record.  Eight  copies  of  Star  taken 
and  two  of  Union  Signal.  $3.75  spent  for  leaflets,  largely  the 
Social  Purity  series.  Distributed  at  the  County  Fair  300  copies  of 
the  Star.,  i  ,000  pages  of  beer  series,  i  ,000  pages  of  cider  series  and 
fifty  dollars  were  spent  for  Signal  lights  and  other  leaflets.  Wes 
Paris — This  Union  is  small  but  has  willing  workers,  though  not  able 
to  do  but  little.  The  Superintendent  writes  :  "Any  literature  suit- 
able for  distribution  in  this  department  would  be  gladly  received  by 
her."     One  copy  of  the  Star  in  the  East  taken. 

Somerset  County :  The  County  Superintendent  reports  from  the 


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Unions  collectively.  There  are  lo  Unions  in  the  county.  Eight 
have  a  superintendent  of  literature.  Much  literature  has  been  dis- 
tributed. The  Superintendent  at  Pittsfield  writes  they  have  spent 
thirteen  dollars  for  literature  during  the  year.  Papers  taken  in  the 
county  are  as  follows  :  Sig'nals  36,  Star  65,  Toung  Crusader  47, 
Oak  and  Ivy  Leaf  8,  WomatCs  Column  2.  Three  women  send 
Monthly  Advices  to  the  school  teachers.  Twelve  wall  pockets  are 
kept  filled  with  good  reading. 

Waldo  County  :  North  Searsmont  Union  has  given  out  about  200 
pages  of  literature  and  about  40  papers.  County  Superintendent 
has  distributed  700  pages.  These  have  touched  on  nearly  every 
department.  Has  also  distributed  six  months*  numbers  of  Woman^s 
yournal  and  other  papers.  Loaned  and  given  some  books.  Two 
copies  of  the  Star  and  two  of  Union  Signal  taken. 

SUSAN  J.  FERNALD, 
Supt,  Dept,  Temperance  Literature, 


Influencing  the  Press. 


The  purpose  of  the  press  department  is  two-fold:  ist,  to  influ- 
ence the  press ;  2d,  to  influence  public  sentiment  through  the  press. 
Though  most  of  our  eflbrts  are  directed  to  the  latter  work,  our 
success  must  in  great  measure  depend  upon  the  tact  with  which  we 
accomplish  the  former,  for,  after  all,  an  editor  is  only  a  man  with 
his  likes  and  dislikes  which  must  to  a  certain  extent  determine  the 
character  of  his  paper. 

Some  very  interesting  anecdotes  have  come  to  me  of  our  Super- 
intendents* eflbrts  in  educating  editors  who  are  sometimes  quite 
ignorant  of  the  temperance  movement,  and  especially  of  our  part  in 
it,  not  necessarily  because  they  are  hostile,  but  because  their  minds 
are  occupied  with  so  many  other  subjects.  Some  of  our  workers 
have  enlisted  their  interest  by  loaning  copies  of  our  state  or  national 


minutes  whose  department  reports  reveal  the  power  and  scope 
of  our  organization.  Several  Unions  have  subscribed  for  the 
Union  Sig'nal  and  Woman^s  Column  for  their  local  editors,  and 
declare  it  a  profitable  investment.  Most  of  our  newspaper  men 
are  friendly  and  obliging  to  Superintendents  who  have  sufficient 
patience  to  become  skillful  reporters,  oflen  thanking  them  for  their 
contributions. 

Early  in  the  year  our  National  Superintendent,  Mrs.  Reed,  pre- 
pared and  published  a  valuable  and  comprehensive  pamphlet  on 
the  Press  department,  copies  of  which  I  have  distributed  throughout 
the  State.  Each  Superintendent  has  doubtless  found  something 
adapted  to  her  needs.  Our  department  has  long  been  in  want  of 
such  a  plan  of  work,  and  nearly  every  County  Superintendent  has 
expressed  her  appreciation  of  its  helpfulness.  Any  local  press 
worker  who  has  not  received  a  copy  should  apply  for  one  without 
delay. 

We  have  fifteen  County  Superintendents,  most  of  whom  are  com- 
petent and  faithful,  though  a  few  have  not  reported  as  promptly  and 
definitely  as  could  be  desired.  Beside  these  there  are  sixty-nine 
local  workers.  At  least  i,ooo  columns  furnished  by  them  have  been 
published,  about  equally  divided  between  original  and  selected  mat- 
ter. This  includes  a  great  variety  of  material — reports  of  meetings, 
news  of  World's  and  National  Unions,  scientific  and  statistical  facts. 
In  short,  there  is  hardly  a  phase  of  the  temperance  movement  and 
no  line  of  our  work  to  which  the  Press  department  has  not  min- 
istered. The  principal  sources  from  which  our  workers  have  selected 
what  has  not  been  original  are  the  Union  Sig'nal^  New  Tork  Voice^ 
National  Temperance  Advocate^  Woma?i^s  Column  for  suflTiage 
news,  and  the  Philanthropist  for  the  purity  movement. 

If  we  consider  the  money  value  of  these  thousand  columns,  allow- 
ing lOO  lines  to  a  column — a  very  low  estimate — at  ten  cents  a  line, 
we  find  that  the  papers  of  Maine  have  given  us  $10,000  worth  of 
space  within  the  year.  About  thirty-five  papers  give  us  a  definite 
space,  but  fully  ninety  are  willing  to  sandwich  in  our  items  with  the 
general  news.     Each  method  has  its  advantages. 

It  would  greatly  aid  all  the  branches  of  our  work  if  every  Union 
which  has  not  already  done  so,  would  at  once  appoint  a  Press  Super- 


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intendent.  Appointments  should  be  made  even  in  places  where  no 
paper  is  published,  and  the  press  worker  should  keep  correspond- 
ents of  papers  patronized  there,  informed  of  what  the  Union  is 
doing ;  or  if  there  is  no  correspondent,  she  should  offer  her  services 
in  that  capacity.  She  should  also  send  news  of  her  Union  to  me 
as  Union  Signal  reporter,  and  to  the  State  paper. 

Do  not  neglect  the  county  papers,  for  they  are  more  thoroughly 
read  than  any  others,  and  if  we  are  to  reach  the  promised  land  of 
total  abstinence  for  the  mdividual  and  prohibition  for  the  nation,  it 
looks  as  if  the  good  farm  wagon  must  take  us  there. 

Each  Superintendent  is  advised  to  make  a  scrap-book,  clipping 
whatever  she  secures  published.  This  will  enable  her  to  make  a 
more  accurate  report,  beside  being  a  valuable  souvenir.  There  has 
been  far  too  much  guess  work  in  reporting ;  let  us  have  facts  and 
figures. 

Aroostook  County — Mrs.  Anna  Tarbell,  Superintendent.  Best 
prepared  county  report.  Ten  local  Superintendents ;  increase  dur- 
ing the  year,  four.  Three  of  the  seven  county  papers  give  regular 
space;  all  publish  notices,  etc.,  making  a  total  of  loo  columns  or 
more.  Fort  Fairfield  Union  has  purchased  a  half-column  for  a  year 
in  the  Northern  Leader,  This  is.  as  far  as  known,  the  only  Union 
which  pays  for  space  except  for  advertising.  Houlton  supplies  its 
Press  Superintendent  with  the  Union  Signals  Voice^  Woman*s  Co/- 
umn  and  Portland  Herald  in  order  that  she  may  be  well  equipped 
for  her  work.  Other  Unions  should  aid  their  press  workers  in  a 
similar  manner.  Until  about  the  middle  of  the  year  Mrs.  Tarbell 
had  very  successfully  conducted  a  column  in  the  Presque  Isle  paper. 
It  then  changed  management  and  though  a  democratic  organ,  is 
edited  by  a  staunch  republican,  who,  under  these  trying  circum- 
stances, is  unequal  to  the  task  of  publishing  a  temperance  column. 
Aroostook  Unions  have  been  more  faithful  than  any  others  in 
sending  news  for  Union  Signal  letters. 

Somerset — Mrs.  R.  E.  Lawrence :  There  is  not  only  a  Superin- 
tendent in  every  Union,  but  each  reported  to  the  County  Superin- 
tendent more  or  less  work  done  in  this  department.  A  column  is 
run  in  the  Pittsfield  Advertiser^  but  most  of  the  matter  published 
is  mixed  with  the  general  news.     Mrs.  Lawrence  is  trying  the  plan 


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of  requesting  all  her  local  Superintendents  to  send  her  weekly  or 
fortnightly  reports  of  local  work,  which  the  Fairfield  publishers  are 
very  willing  to  use,  her  only  trouble  being  to  obtain  them  regularly. 

Knox  County's  Superintendent,  Miss  Cora  Loring,  has  as  usual, 
looked  well  to  the  interests  of  her  department.  Among  the  year's 
gains  may  be  mentioned  a  column  in  the  Union  Times.  Beside 
filling  this  the  local  worker  as  correspondent  for  another  paper,  tries 
to  advance  temperance  ideas.  At  Rockland  Miss  Loring  has  done 
excellent  work,  the  Tribune  being  especially  kind  in  preparing  the 
way  for  State  Convention  by  printing  articles  on  the  work  and  per- 
sonnel of  the  Union  for  several  weeks  prior  to  the  session. 

Miss  Anna  Kimball  of  York  County  writes :  *'  Biddeford  reports 
that  items  of  interest  and  -work  done,  with  accounts  of  temperance 
meetings,  have  been  furnished.  South  Berwick  has  no  paper  but 
furnishes  items  to  a  neighboring  paper.  Cornish  keeps  itself  before 
the  public  by  sending  temperance  matter  to  the  county  papers. 
Springvale  also  contributes  items  of  interest.  Kennebunk  has  for 
many  years  edited  a  column  in  the  local  paper  and  furnishes  temper- 
ance items  of  local  importance. 

Kennebec  :  Mrs.  Julia  Wood,  Augusta's  Superintendent,  has  con- 
tributed thirty-six  articles,  including  articles  on  sufiVage,  the  Keeley 
cure  and  reports  of  tem[)erance  meetings  at  Togus.  7'he  Weekly 
Kennebec  yournal  devotes  part  of  a  column  to  temperance.  South 
China  repoits  a  better  disposition  on  the  part  of  editors,  both  orig- 
inal and  selected  matter  usually  accepted.  A  Winthrop  editor 
recently  came  out  with  a  decided  editorial  in  favor  of  woman's  suf- 
frage. Considerable  miscellaneous  matter,  including  the  president's 
annual  address,  has  appeared,  and  now  a  weekly  column  is  at  the 
disposal  of  the  Superintendent. 

Androscoggin — State  Superintendent:  At  Mechanic  Falls  excel- 
lent work  has  been  done  in  the  local  paper.  Greene,  Turner  and 
Livermore  Falls  are  often  heard  from  through  the  dailies  of  the 
county.  Lewiston  has  no  Superintendent,  but  items  of  local  work 
have  occasionally  appeared.  Auburn's  Superintendent  has  furnished 
many  columns,  including  news  of  local.  State  and  National  Unions, 
also  general  matter.  The  Lewiston  yournal  has  been  especially 
ready  to  publish  all  she  has  prepared. 


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Washington  is  fortunate  in  having  the  wife  of  an  editor,  Mrs.  E. 
C.  Drisko,  in  charge.  At  Machias,  Eastport  and  Cherryfield  the 
most  work  has  been  done.  Mrs.  Diisko  is  at  present  editing  a  col- 
umn in  her  husband's  paper,  the  Machias Union^  but  thinks  that  on 
the  whole  our  items  are  more  widely  read  when  mixed  with  the 
other  news. 

Franklin — Mrs.  Beedy  reports:  *'VVe  have  sustained  columns  in 
all  our  county  papers  and  find  them  alv\ays  ready  to  extend  any 
notices  we  wish.  The  W.  C.  T.  U  column  is  read  bv  manv  women 
who  from  their  remoteness  from  Unions  are  unable  to  attend  the 
meetings,  but  are  in  sympathy  with  the  movement  and  are  glad  of 
this  medium  by  which  they  can  keep  in  touch  with  their  more  active 
sisters." 

Mrs.  Martin  of  Piscataquis  writes  that  she  has  had  great  difficulty 
in  eliciting  reports,  though  items  concerning  the  Greenville,  Guil- 
ford and  Shirley  Unions  often  appear  in  the  county  papers.  At 
Foxcroft  Mrs.  Martin  is  successful  in  getting  temperance  matter 
published.     She  also  corresponds  with  a  Dexter  paper. 

Waldo — Mrs.  Emily  Miller,  Superintendent,  weekly  sends  articles 
to  the  Belfast  Agc^  averaging  about  half  a  column.  Nearly  all  sub- 
jects in  which  the  Union  is  interested  are  treated.  All  notices  are 
also  cheerfully  printed. 

Cumberland — Mrs.  E.  A.  Robbiiis  states  that  a  fortnightly  col- 
umn is  admirably  filled  by  Woodford's  Press  worker,  and  refers  to 
the  fact  that  the  Portland  papers  give  place  to  the  Union's  work. 

All  Maine  white  ribboners  sympathize  with  the  Hancock  Unio.is 
which  have  lost  a  steadfast  friend  and  helper  by  the  death  of  Hon. 
J.  C.  Chilcott  of  the  Ellsworth  American.  The  State  Superin- 
tendent will  always  gratefully  remember  the  unfailing  courtesy  and 
encouragement  shown  her  by  this  genial  editor  and  good  man  dur- 
ing the  four  years  since  her  appointment.  Mrs.  Mason  of  South- 
west Harbor  has  sent  news  of  the  Union,  L.  T.  L.  and  Good  Tem- 
plars to  the  American  and  to  leading  dailies  outside  the  county. 

Sagadahoc — Mrs.  J.  N.  Jackson  :  The  two  Unions,  Bath  and 
Popham  Beach,  are  both  fortunate  in  their  Press  Superintendents, 
who  have  chiefly  used  the  Bath  papers  as  a  means  of  reaching  the 
public. 


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During  the  last  National  Convention  Mrs.  Stevens  forwarded  mc 
the  Denver  dailies,  and  for  several  days  I  did  little  but  prepare 
reports  for  our  leading  papers,  sending  about  twenty-five  letters  to 
nearly  as  many  papers.  From  most  of  these  editors  I  received 
marked  copies  containing  my  notes.  I  have  also  given  special 
attention  to  the  religious  press  of  the  State,  and  have  found  the 
Christian  Mirror  and  Zion*s  Advocate  very  obliging,  usually 
including  my  paragraphs  in  their  editorial  notes. 

Probably  no  other  organization  in  Maine  has  received  more  favors 
from  the  press  than  has  ours,  but  it  is  also  probable  that  no  other  has 
so  many  interested  friends  outside  itself,  since  none  touches  society 
at  so  many  points  as  does  ours,  the  home,  the  church,  the  school, 
the  State.  Let  us  therefore  enter  upon  another  year  with  renewed 
zeal,  helping  in  the  fulfillment  of  the  prophecy,  *'  The  Lord  giveth 
the  word,  the  women  that  publish  the  tidings  are  a  great  host." 

AS    REPORTER    OF   THE    UNION    SIGNAL, 

I  have  sent  six  letters  during  the  year.  It  depends  upon  the  local 
Unions  and  department  Superintendents  how  often  Maine  shall  be 
heard  from  in  the  future.  If  a  sufficient  quantity  of  nev^s  is  sent 
me,  we  can  have  a  column  a  month.  When  an  event  of  interest 
occurs,  do  not  wait  for  some  convenient  season  which  mav  never 
come,  to  write  it  up  in  a  smooth  and  elegant  manner,  but  give  me 
the  facts  without  a  day's  delay. 

MARY  L.  FRENCH, 
Supt.  Press  Dept.  and  Reporter  to  Union  Signal- 


Narcotics. 


Madam  President  and  Sisters : 

Another  year  has  gone  into  eternity  and  we  come  aorain  with  our 
reports  of  work  done  or  attempted  durin<]^  its  days.  In  the  depart- 
ment of  Narcotics  more  work  has  been  done  than  we  have  space  to 
record.  Each  county  has  a  Superintendent,  and  we  have  105  local 
Superintendents. 

Aroostook  County :  Ashland  has  20*  children  pled<2jed  against 
tobacco.  At  Amity,  leaflets,  pledge  cards, etc.,  have  been  distributed. 
Several  copies  oi  Anti- Tobacco  Gem  taken,  and  as  a  result  one  mer- 
chant gave  up  using  and  selling  tobacco.  At  Caribou  one  lecture 
was  given,  200  pages  literature  given  out,  25  Anti-Tobacco  Gems 
circulated.  The  Superintendent  visits  schools  ajul  speaks  on  the 
subject.  In  one  neighborhood  in  this  town  where  a  revival  is  in 
progress  almost  every  man  and  boy  has  given  up  the  tobacco  habit. 
There's  no  cure  for  the  tobacco  habit  like  the  gospel  cure.  Fort 
Fairfield  has  had  one  lecture,  also  Houlton,  Presque  Isle,  New 
Limerick,  Sprague's  Mills  and  Limestone.  At  the  latter  place  300 
pages  of  literature  have  been  circulated  and  one  sermon  preached, 
which  did  good  execution.  Houlton's  Superintendent  has  distrib- 
uted 1,000  pages  of  literature.  Sprague's  Mills  does  its  work  in  the 
L.  T.  L.  Some  literature  given  out.  Mrs.  Seamcns  of  Cary  on  a 
missionary  tour  through  this  county  held  13  parlor  meetings  and 
gave  17  public  addresses,  *' in  all  of  which,"  she  says,  *' I  have 
spoken  strongly  against  the  use  of  opium  and  tobacco."  Hodgdon 
oflTered  prizes  in  schools  for  best  essays  on  effects  of  narcotics. 

Androscoggin  County  :  The  County  Superintendent  says  that  good 
work  has  been  done,  but  largely  by  the  Unions  as  a  whole,  rather 
than  by  Superintendents.  Much  literature  has  been  distributed  in 
various  places.  The  Superintendent  says  she  has  never  seen  so  little 
smoking  on  the  streets  of  Auburn  as  during  the  past  year.     The 


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clergy  of  that  city  are  faithful,  constantly  keeping  before  the  people 
the  evils  and  sin  of  using  narcotics.  Mechanic  Falls  has  distributed 
literature  ;  has  a  goodly  number  of  children  pledged  against  tobacco. 

Cumberland  County  :  Portland  Superintendent  issued  a  call  for 
all  interested  in  the  subject  to  gather  in  a  public  meeting.  Not  a 
very  large  gathering  resulted  but  much  interest  was  manifested. 
At  Westbrook  the  Superintendent  has  distributed  1,230  pages  of 
literature  and  has  induced  two  young  men  to  give  up  cigarette  smok- 
ing. One  sermon  has  been  preaciied.  At  White  Rock  narcotics 
has  been  taken  for  a  subject  at  three  Union  meetings.  First,  they  dis- 
cussed the  use  and  injury  of  narcotics.  Second,  learned  what  they 
could  of  their  origjin,  etc.  Third,  the  rights  of  those  who  do  not 
use  them.  Such  discussion  would  be  profitable  to  all  Unions.  200 
pages  of  literature  distributed.  South  Bridgton  has  circulated  Anti- 
Tobacco  Gems  and  other  literature.  Peak's  Island  Superintendent 
has  circulated  leaflets.  North  Gorham  Union  hist  winter  offered 
two  prizes  for  best  and  second  best  essays  on  narcotics  by  the  older 
pupils.  The  seven  contestants  did  such  commendable  work  that  a 
part  of  one  day  was  given  up  to  the  reading  of  the  essays  in  school 
before  visitors.  One  prize  found  its  way  into  a  famdy  where  the 
father  was  an  inveterate  tobacco  user.  He  has  partly  promised  his 
son,  who  won  the  prize,  that  he  will  take  the  tobacco  treatment. 

Franklin  County  :  Milton  has  worked  througii  its  L.  T.  L.  and 
has  had  readings  in  the  Union  meetings.  North  Jay  distributed  200 
pages  of  literature  ;  has  had  one  sermon  on  the  suV»ject.  One  copy 
of  Anti-Tobacco  Gem  taken.  Articles  on  narcotics  have  been 
printed.  Several  children  pledged  against  tobacco.  The  Young 
Crusader  is  furnished  to  all  children  in  the  vicinity.  At  the  County 
Convention  the  County  Supet  intendcnt  distributed  literature  and 
urged  its  reading  at  Union  meilings.  At  Farmington  the  matter  is 
discussed  at  the  Gospel  Temperance  meetings. 

Hancock  County  :  At  Bluchill  80  children  have  signed  the  triple 
pledge,  and  literature  has  been  distributed.  Brooklin  W.  C.  T.  U. 
put  temperance  physiologies  in  schools.  The  minister  has  given 
many  talks  against  tobacco.  80  children  signed  triple  pledge.  Sev- 
eral men  have  discarded  tobacco.  Cigarette  hivvshave  been  posted. 
Tremont  W.  C.  T.  U.  circulates  20  copies  of  Anti-Tobacco  Gem, 


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looo  pages  literature  distributed.  67  children  pledged.  Bar  Harbor 
works  through  its  L.  T.  L.,  and  Ellsworth  in  its  Band  of  Hope. 
Surry  has  distributed  Department  literature. 

Kennebec  County  :  Much  instruction  regarding  the  evils  of  nar- 
cotics has  been  given  to  members  of  the  L.  T  L.  at  Augusta,  liter- 
ature distributed  and  petition  circulated.  At  Cliina  one  smoker 
has  left  off  the  habit.  Hallowell  works  through  its  L.  T.  L.  The 
Supt.  at  So.  Gardiner  takes  ten  copies  of  Afitl-Tobacco  Gem  which 
she  circulates  among  the  boys ;  has  sent  some  of  them  to  the  grocery 
men,  also  to  public  school  teachers. 

Knox  County :  Union  has  had  two  sermons  on  narcotics.  About 
30  children  signed  the  triple  pledge  ;  10  adults.  In  Rockland  300 
children  pledged  against  narcotics,  give  hope  for  the  future.  One 
man  has  given  up  tobacco.  At  Spruce  Head  1 25  pages  of  literature 
have  gone  on  their  mission  of  enlightenment.  One  lecture  given, 
petition  circulated,  one  man  given  up  selling  cigarettes.  Ten  copies 
of  Anti-Tobacco  Gem  taken. 

Lincoln  County  :  Supt.  of  East  Jefferson  has  circulated  literature, 
also  pledge  cards  among  children.  At  Dresden  twelve  children 
have  signed  pledge.  Waldoboro  does  its  work  through  L.  T.  L. 
At  Round  Pond  one  lecture  has  been  given  ;  prizes  for  best  essays 
on  tobacco  have  been  offered  ;  articles  on  narcotics  have  been  printed  ; 
one  merchant  given  up  the  sale  of  tobacco.  $6.00  spent  in  this 
Department. 

Piscataquis  County  :  Dover  had  one  lecture.  Several  men  have 
given  up  tobacco,  and  as  a  consequence  enjoy  more  religion. 
Greenville  has  over  60  pledged  children.  700  pages  literature  dis- 
tributed. 10  copies  of  Anti'  Tobacco  Gem  taken.  Three  merchants 
stopped  selling  tobacco  to  minors.      Browiiville  has  had  one  lecture. 

In  Penobscot  County  nearly  all  the  Unions  have  distributed  our 
Department  literature.  Hundreds  of  children  have  signed  the  auto- 
graph pledge  cards.  Lectures  have  been  given  at  Corinnn,  East 
Corinth,  Charleston,  Bangor,  Orono  and  N.  Stillwater.  At  the  lat- 
ter place  one  man  has  given  up  tobacco.  North  Lincoln  circulates 
18  copies  of  the  Toung  Crusader.  Dexter  W.  C.  T.  U.  takes  30 
copies  of  the  Anti-Tobacco  Gem  distributing  them  in  the  schools, 
wall  pockets,  etc.     Talks  on  tobacco  have   been  given   in  some  of 


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the  schools.  Charleston  ladies  went  to  the  stores  and  liotel,  asking 
the  proprietors  to  give  up  selling  cigarettes,  which  they  agreed  to  do, 
giving  the  ladies  what  they  had  except  in  one  case,  where  the 
ladies  bought  them. 

Sagadahoc  (bounty  :  Bath  has  had  two  sermons  in  aid  of  narcotic 
work.  A  large  number  of  children  and  adults  have  signed  pledge. 
200  pages  literature  given  out.  At  Popham  Beach  50  cents  worth 
of  literature  was  distributed.  One  public  discussion  of  tobacco 
question. 

Somerset  County :  Literature  has  gone  on  its  mission.  Your 
Superintendent  has  given  addresses  at  St.  Albans,  PittsBeld, 
North  Anson  and  Madison,  which  we  hope  will  bear  fruit. 

Waldo  County  :  locx)  pages  of  narcotic  literature  found  their  way 
into  various  homes  in  Belfast.  Many  children  have  sigpied  the 
pledge  cards.  One  sermon  preached.  Searsmont  and  Waldo  have 
done  some  work.  At  the  latter  place  the  Supt.  distributed  litera- 
ture at  the  Grange,  after  which  they  discussed  the  tobacco  question. 

In  Washington  County,  Millhridge  reports  lo  copies  of  Gtfiw  cir- 
culated and  cigarette  laws  posted.  The  most  of  the  Unions  have 
circulated  petitions  to  the  Pullman  and  Webb  Palace  Car  Companies 
asking  them  to  abolish  the  smoking  compartment  on  their  trains. 

Your  Supt.  has  travelled  more  than  600  miles  in  the  interest  of 
this  Department  on  some  of  the  coldest  days  in  winter,  and  the  hot- 
test days  of  summer.  Has  given  20  public  addresses,  which  in 
some  instances  at  least,  have  borne  immediate  fruit.  One  man  had 
used  tobacco  25  years,  been  a  member  of  the  church  several  years, 
and  had  never  been  told  that  tobacco  using  was  wrong,  but  at  once ^ 
when  the  light  came  he  acted  up  to  it  and  was  greatly  blessed  in  so 
doing.  I  wish  thus  publicly  to  thank  the  dear  sisters  who  have  so 
kindly  received  me,  given  the  **cup  of  cold  water,"  and  bid  me  God 
speed.     God  bless  them  every  one. 

(MRS.)  I.  S.  WENTWORTH, 

Supt,  Dept,  Narcotics, 


Temperance  Education. 


In  bringing  this,  my  fourth  annual  report  to  you,  I  wish  to  thank 
you  for  the  earnestness  which  has  characterized  the  work  through- 
out the  year.  There  has  been  a  steady  increase  in  interest  and  im- 
provement in  methods  of  work.  More  gain  has  been  made  during 
the  past  year  than  in  tlie  three  preceding  years.  The  work  should 
be  doubled  in  the  coming  year. 

We  have  a  good  temperance  education  law,  the  text-book  ques- 
tion settled,  (the  leading  text-book  makers  having  revised  their 
physiologeis  until  they  are  up  to  the  standard).  The  State  Supt.  of 
Public  Instruction,  Hon.  N.  A.  Luce,  was  asked  what  the  obstacles 
to  the  execution  of  the  law  is  and  replied  :  **To  bring  this  instruction 
up  to  the  efficiency  desired,  calls  not  for  law  but  for  labor.  Labor 
with  teachers  is  needed  to  awaken  them  to  deeper  interest  and  more 
effort;  with  school  officers  to  enforce,  them  to  full  exercise  of  their 
authority;  and  especially  with  the  people  to  educate  them  to  an  in- 
telligent appreciation  of  the  value  of  the  results  sought.**  Work 
is  carried  along  on  each  of  these  lines.  The  teachers  are  ready  and 
glad  to  give  this  instruction,  when  given  anything  to  work  with. 
They  realize  better  than  ever  before  that  it  is  not  more  preachy- 
preachy  talk  that  is  needed,  but  scientific  truths  are  to  be  taught — 
this  study  is  natural  science  and  not  moral  philosophy. 

More  text-books  in  this  branch  are  used,  and  used  as  other  text- 
books are.  The  oral  instruction  is  generally  better — classes  not 
being  allowed  to  waste  the  time  in  merely  talking  about  what  they 
have  seen  and  know. 

Many  teachers  testify  to  the  helpfulness  of  the  Scientific  Temper- 
ance Monthly  Advices  published  by  Mary  H.  Hunt.  It  contains 
the  result  of  much  careful  research,  and  should  be  in  the  hands  of 
every  teacher  in  the  State. 

There  is  still  indifference  to  this  branch  of  study,  but  very  little 
direct  opposition.     Let  us  double  our  diligence,   become  well   in- 


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formed  on  this  question,  and  by  gentle  methods,  which  are  ever  the 
best,  arouA  the  indifferent,  and  overcome  the  opposition  which  is 
usually  honest  difference  of  opinion  ;  and  argument  should  be  met 
by  argument. 

The  compulsory  temperance  education  is  the  greatest  temperance 
movement  the  world  has  ever  known.  The  National  Woman's 
Christian  Union  was  certainly  ordained  of  God  to  take  up  this  de- 
partment of  work. 

Friends,  it  does  mean  something  that  in  the  United  States  twelve 
million  children  are  being  taught  the  truth  in  regard  to  Alcohol.  A 
boy  eleven  years  old  to-day  in  ten  years  will  be  a  voter,  a  little 
later  a  law-maker,  congressman,  lawyer  or  judge  ;  influencing  the 
lives  of  individuals  and  prosperity  of  the  Nation.  Having  God's 
law  of  abstinence  written  in  his  very  being  will  he  not  know  how  to 
dispose  of  one  American  industry — the  saloon  ! 

The  influence  of  this  work  among  the  children  is  far  reaching. 
It  not  only  affects  the  health  atid  happiness  of  the  individual,  but 
the  permanency  of  the  home  and  Nation.  Its  ultimate  influence 
reaches  the  farthest  shores  of  Eternity. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

MRS.  G.  F.  FRENCH, 

State  Superintendent. 


Systematic  and  Proportionate  Giving. 

This  term,  which  is  now  adopted  by  our  National  department, 
expresses  more  definitely  the  original  idea  of  this  movement  than 
the  simple  phrase  Systematic  Giving,  which,  strictly  speaking,  may 
be  used  to  signify  giving  regularly  or  at  stated  periods.  If  this 
condition  alone  were  regarded,  we  might  bestow  very  small  sums 
which  in  the  aggregate  would  never  reach  our  individual  responsi- 
bility. Proportionate  is  used  in  relation  to  the  measure  of  our 
offerings — giving  in  proportion  to  our  means  or  income.  Thus  the 
two  acts  combined  lead  us  mto  God*s  way  of  giving,  unfolded  in 
the  Scriptures. 


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• 

Perhaps  some  one  may  say  right  here,  **I  have  no  income  beyond 
what  my  comfort  and  my  necessities  demand."  But  just  at  this 
point  the  greatest  blessing  to  the  giver  may  come  in.  If  we  consider 
the  tithe  or  the  tentli  as  a  debt  we  owe  to  God,  the  self-denial  prac- 
ticed in  promptly,  cheerfully,  lovingly  rendering  to  our  Lord  his 
due^  **will  be  precious  in  his  sight,"  and  we  find,  perhaps  to  our 
astonishment,  the  remaining  nine-tenths  with  his  blessing  are  as 
ample  to  supply  our  need  as  the  whole  when  selfishly  retained. 

This  experience,  with  the  knowledge  that  we  are  doing  the 
Master's  will,  and  the  peace  that  willing  obedience  surely  brings, 
will  cause  our  cup  of  blessing  to  be  full.  Many  with  very  limited 
means  testify  to  their  great  joy  in  giving  to  the  Lord,  and  these  have 
always  something  to  bestow,  because  they  have  learned  to  practice 
the  '*systematics"  of  Thanks-giving  Ann.  How  many  ''lost  bless- 
ings" dim  the  pathway  of  God's  dear  children  because  we  are  afraid 
simply  to  trust  His  word  of  promise,  seeking  first  the  kingdom  of 
heaven  in  all  things  and   leaving  temporal  consequences  with  Him. 

During  the  year  now  closing  the  interest  in  the  cause  of  this 
department  has  been  steadily,  though  perhaps  in  many  places,  very 
quietly  advancing.  Several  of  the  counties  unorganized  at  the  time 
of  our  Convention  last  autumn  have  since  adopted  this  department, 
and  the  work  is  now  carried  on  to  a  greater  or  less  extent  i:i  Aroos- 
took, Androscoggin,  Cumberlanrl,  Franklin,  Hancock,  Kennebec, 
Lincoln,  Oxford,  Somerset,  Sagadahoc,  Washington  and  York. 
Knox  County  we  trust  can  soon  be  counted  in.  The  work  will  be 
introduced  there  when  a  Supt.  of  Department  is  obtained. 

We  think  too,  our  sisters  in  Waldo  will  see  it  their  privilege  to 
adopt  this  system  in  connection  with  their  existing  Charity  depart- 
ment. This  method,  as  we  have  seen,  does  not  in  any  wise  aflect 
the  appropriation  of  benevolent  funds.  Allow  me  to  repeat,  it  has 
only  to  do  with  the  laying  aside  a  certain  portion  of  our  income  for 
the  Lord,  the  sum  whether  great  or  small  to  be  considered  no  longer 
ours — it  is  given  to  the  Lord.  And  from  this  deposit  or  Lord's 
purse  we  draw  the  means  for  all  our  benevolent  and  religious 
purposes. 

In  this  particular  instance  in  Waldo  where  much  beneficence  is 
already  practiced,  the  introduction   of  this  system  might  not  nee- 


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essarily  affect   the   amount   donated  or   its   appropriation,  but   its 
adoption  there  would  strenjrthen  and  promote  the  general  cause. 

Reports  show  much  activity  in  Aroostook  County,  Miss  Hattie  T. 
Mayo,  Superintendent,  who  has  the  hearty  co-operation  of  fourteen 
local  Superintendents,  and  with  liiis  hand  of  earnest  and  devoted 
helpers  grand  work  is  heing  done.  The  membership  of  the 
W.  C.  T.  U.  in  this  county  is  4S8,  nearly  all  supplied  with  literature 
on  this  subject.  Ten  meetings  have  been  held  in  the  interest  of 
this  department.  Fifty  persons  practice  Systematic  giving  and 
thirteen  sermons  and  addresses  on  the  subject  have  been  delivered. 
An  original  paper  on  Systematic  giving  was  prepared  and  read  by 
our  Supt.  before  a  large  public  meeting  held  in  the  interest  of  tem- 
perance Feb.  26,  bringing  the  system  belore  this  large  audience  in  f 
very  interesting  and  instructive  manner. 

Another  interesting  meeting  is  noted,  held  at  Amity.  Systematic 
giving  was  the  subject.  After  remarks  by  the  sisters  and  reading 
of  leaflets,  some  of  the  brotuers  took  part,  and  expressed  a  desire  to 
try  this  method. 

We  tru>.t  meetings  like  this  will  be  multiplied,  instructive  to  our 
own  members,  and  influencing  those  beyond  our  own  borders, 
touching  even  the  brotheis,  who  so  generally  hold  the  purse.  The 
Supt.  of  this  comity  adds  to  her  report,  ''1  believe  the  seed  sown  is 
taking  root  and  will  s[)ring  up  and  bear  fruit  in  due  time.  I  find 
the  pledge  cartls  just  what  we  need.'* 

At  the  Annual  Convention  in  Androscoggin,  May  nth,  a  paper 
of  much  interest  on  Ssstematic  giving  was  |)resented  and  read  by 
the  Supt.  of  that  county,  Miss  Mary  E.  Perkins,  bringing  their 
work  in  this  depaitment  in  an  appropi  iate  and  very  interesting  way 
to  the  special  attention  of  the  members  of  the  Convention.  Will 
not  other  Supts.  avail  themselves  of  similar  opportunities  to  increase 
the  interest  and  encourage  activity  in  this  effort.'^ 

Returns  to  some  extent  have  been  received  from  nearly  all  coun- 
ties engaged  in  the  woik,  excepting  those  where  it  has  been  recently 
assumed.  But  reports  are  only  partial  and  very  much  wanting  in 
figures,  so  important  in  satisfactory  reports.  From  what  has  been 
reported  we  gather  that  our  County  Supts.  have  been  very  faithful 
in   endeavoring   to   awaken   and    stimulate   interest  in   their  local 


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Unions.  Literature  has  been  extensively  distributed,  and  a  large 
number  of  pledge  cards  circulated.  Let  the  nunr»ber  signed  be  care- 
fully recorded,  that  accurate  returns,  in  future,  may  be  secured. 
Sermons  and  addresses  have  been  delivered  to  some  extent  and 
meetings  held  in  the  interest  of  this  department.  And  here  I  would 
appeal  to  members  of  local  Unions.  Will  }ou  not,  dear  sisters,  be 
in  earnest  to  appoint  Supts.  in  your  Unions,  that  they  may  prompt- 
ly co-operate  with  your  County  Superintendent?  And  will  you  not 
be  wilh'ng  to  devote  a  small  fraction  of  your  precious  time  to  this 
department,  which,  thoroughly  officered,  would  consume  but  little 
time  and  means  and  would  yield  such  rich  results. 

We  surely  cannot  aflord  to  be  indifferent  to  this  cause,  which  is 
broadening  out  into  wider  and  wider  circles  every  year,  and  is 
among  the  im[>ortant  subjects  claiming  the  consideration  of  the 
world's  great  Congress  of  Missions,  now  convening  in  the  city  of 
Chicago. 

**In  the  voice  of  a  king  there  is  p>ower."  We  believe  the  gen- 
eral neglect  on  the  part  of  Christ's  church  to  heed  and  obey  the 
royal  call  issued  through  the  prophet  Malachi,  ^^Bring  ye  all  the 
tithes,"  has  staid  the  fultillm^nt  of  GjJ's  word  of  promise;  and 
**the  windows  of  heaven  are  waiting  to  open  with  the  flood-tide  of 
blessing  at  the  touch  of  consecrated  giving."  In  view  of  this,  dear 
sisters,  shall  we  not  through  individual  faithfulness  and  activity, 
seek  to  restore  the  manner  of  giving  which  prevailed  in  the  early 
Christian  church,  that  now,  as  then,  the  fullness  of  God's  blessing 
may  rest  upon  the  giver  and  gift,  and  world-wide  beneficence  be  no 
longer  hindered  for  lack  of  consecrated  means. 

ANNA  M.  HUSSEY, 
State  Supt,  Dept.  Systematic  and  Proportionate  Giving, 


Prison,  Jail  and  Almshouse  Work. 


Taking  a  retrospect  of  the  past,  we  feel  that  in  coming  to  you 
with  the  report  of  another  year's  work,  that  it  is  almost  a  repetition 
of  the  past.  Yet  there  are  many  new  experiences  which  have  come 
to  each  worker,  and  we  wish  we  were  permitted  space  to  tell  all  the 
cases  of  interest  which  have  come  under  our  notice,  and  that  of  the 
many  different  workers. 

Aroostook — Mrs.  M.  A.  Churchill,  Supt. :  *'We  hold  religious 
services  in  the  jail  the  oecond  Sabbath  in  each  month.  We  have 
some  one  talk  to  the  men,  and  have  good  singing.  The  largest 
number  confined  at  any  one  time  of  our  visitation  was  26.  Flowers 
tied  with  the  white  ribbon  with  scripture  texts  attached  have  been 
given  the  prisoners  several  times  during  the  summer.  We  distribute 
large  numbers  of  temperance  and  religious  papers,  also  leaflets, 
which  are  gratefully  received.  Several  have  taken  the  pledge  during 
the  year.  The  almshouses  have  been  visited  and  flowers  and  litera- 
ture bestowed  ;  religious  services  have  also  been  held. 

Androscoggin  County — Mrs.  Geo.  W.  Wagg,  Supt.  :  We  have 
meetings  every  Sabbath  morning  at  9  o'clock,  and  the  last  Sabbath 
in  the  month  we  hold  a  Gospel  Temperance  meeting  under  the 
W.  C.  T.  U.  I  think  we  have  had  three  true  conversions  and 
others  have  gone  to  take  the  Keeley  Cure.  There  has  one  child 
been  born  and  one  death  occurred  in  jail.  The  average  number 
of  prisoners  for  the  year  has  been  sixty.  Amount  of  liquor  seized 
between  twenty  and  thirty  thousand  gallons ;  also  two  gambling 
places  raided.  Amount  paid  in  fines,  $3,000.  There  is  a  library 
in  jail  for  the  prisoners  and  good  reading  is  furnished  by  people 
who  carry  papers  every  Sunday.  Bibles  are  given  to  all  those  who 
care  to  read  them." 

Cumberland  County — Miss  A.  C.  Leavitt,  Supt. :  "We  never 
mean  to  have  a  Sabbath  go  by  without  some  kind  of  religious  ser- 
vice in  the  jail.     The  W.  C.  T.  U.  has  often  the  charge.     We  have 


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at  present  the  largest  niimbef  of  men  in  our  county  jail  for  a  long 
time — some  one  hundred  and  fifty.  We  have  distributed  some  six 
thousand  papers  and  tracts,  bibltrs  and  leaflets.  We  look  after  the 
families  of  the  men  who  are  in  prison. 

Franklin  County — H.  M.  Scales,  Supt  :  ''We  have  but  little  to 
report  as  we  have  hofew  poor.  There  is  no  rum  sold  openly  in  the 
county  so  we  have  a  great  decrease  of  criminals  and  crime  by  intox- 
ication. We  have  one  cider  drinker  in  jail  now.  The  largest  num- 
ber in  at  any  one  time  during  the  year  was  three.  We  have  carried 
flowers,  and  have  talked  and  prayed  with  those  ;  have  supplied  books 
from  the  library,  have  given  pledge  cards  to  nearly  all,  and  try  to 
influence  them  for  good." 

Hancock  County — From  Mrs.  A.  Greely :  "There  has  been  no 
jail  work  done  by  our  Union  since  July — up  to  that  time  our  jail 
was  visited  every  Sunday  by  two  or  sometimes  three  members  of 
our  Unions.  The  exercises  consisted  of  scripture  reading,  singing 
and  prayer  by  one  of  the  visitors.  Our  custom  has  been  to 
distribute  in  the  jail  a  great  deal  of  our  literature  which  has  been 
well  received." 

Kennebec  County — Mrs.  M.  C.  Haskell :  "Having  but  one  jail 
in  the  county,  I  have  but  one  report  to  give  on  jail  work,  and  that  is 
what  has  been  done  in  our  Augusta  jail. 

We  hold  our  religious  meeting  in  the  Augusta  jail  the  second 
Sabbath  of  every  month.  It  is  the  exception  when  there  are  not 
some  who  make  it  manifest  that  they  desire  to  live  a  better  life.  We 
carry  flowers  on  Flower  Mission  day.  I  have  seen  the  prisoners 
carefully  tending  these  flowers  long  after  they  were  faded  and  not 
hardly  the  semblance  of  a  flower  remaining.  I  cannot  say  too  much 
in  commendation  of  our  faithful  Committee  who  has  unwcariedly 
carried  th^  reading  matter  on  Saturdays.  She  has  visited  the  jail 
every  week  with  very  few  exceptions,  when  she  provided  j»  substi- 
tute, since  last  August  carrying  1,535  papers,  magazines  and  books 
and  obtained  i;5  signers  to  the  pledge.  Several  of  the  pris- ners  after 
their  discharge  she  has  helped  to  clothing  and  other  necessaries. 
The  Augusta  Almshouse  Committee  have,  since  our  last  report,  dis- 
tributed 615  papers,  135  magazines  and  2  books;  their  visits  have 
been  monthly,  sometimes  oftener.     Flowers  are  carried  and  Christ- 


roae  gifts.  Hallowell  Union  have  carried  to  the  alnahouse  dimity 
last  summer  books,  papers  and  flowers  and  this  winter  have  seal 
pa[>ers  every  week,  carried  fruit,  candy,  handkerchief  and  cards  and 
on  New  Years  sent  them  each,  fourteen  in  number,  a  box  which 
made  them  very  happy.  Winthrop  Union  reports  but  four  inmates. 
Their  committee  have  made  five  calls,  attended  one  funeral  and 
distributed  reading  matter." 

Knox  County — Mrs.  A,  T.  Crosby,  Supt :  "In  the  ThomastiMi 
Union  the  members  tiike  turns  in  going  every  Sabbath  to  the  prisoB 
and  holding  religious  services  with  the  women  while  the  chaplain 
conducts  the  services  in  the  Chapel ;  and  we  keep  them  supplied 
with  leligious  reading.  At  the  almshouse  there  are  only  five  in- 
mates  who  are  all  well  cared  for.  Meetings  are  held  at  the  alms. 
house  in  Rockland.*' 

Lincoln  Co. — From  Mrs.  Daggett :     **We  have  discontinued  your 
department  of  work.      We  have  no  almshouse  in  our  town.     The 
jail  at  Wiscasset  is  not  easy  of  access  but  Mrs.  Emma   Trowbridg 
Potter  sends  literature  there." 

Oxford  County — Miss  Mary  Deering,Supt.,says:  "I  was  notified 
of  my  appointment  in  July  but  did  not  understand  my  duties  so 
have  done  nothing  as  yet,  but  will  be  glad  to  do  all  that  is  required 
of  a  County  Superintendent." 

Penobscot  County — Mrs.  S.  J.  Pickard  :  '*There  is  a  large  attend- 
ance at  our  meetings  at  the  Bangor  jail  from  outside,  so  we  reach 
many  in  this  way  who  need  the  instruction  quite  as  much  as  the 
prisoners.  We  have  missed  no  alternate  Sabbath  during  the  year. 
We  have  distributed  a  much  larger  amount  of  reading  matter,  indeed 
we  are  doing  quite  an  educational  work.  The^  prisoners  come  to  us 
for  advice  while  we  are  dealing  out  our  papers  after  the  meeting, 
and  I  know  our  influence  has  worked  wonders  in  some.  We  help 
them  to  clothing  and  to  get  employment.  Our  sheriff  seconds  all 
good  that  we  do  and  is  ready  to  help  us  in  all  possible  ways." 

Piscataquis  not  heard  from. 

Somerset — From  Mrs.  M.  F.  Bunker:  "The  Union  at  Skowhe- 
gan  (N.  P.)  being  nearest  our  County  Jail  has  always  done  this 
work." 

Sagadahoc  not  heard  from. 


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Waldo^MiM  A.  A.  Hicks  writes :  '*Our  work  in  the  jail  in  my 
county  has  been  by  far  the  most  efficient  of  any  previous  year.  Ser- 
vices held  every  Sabbath,  iiteratuie  distributed  and  very  much  good 
done.  Many  requests  for  prayers  at  the  close  of  the  meetings,  and 
a  goodly  number  added  their  testimonies  to  those  given  by  attend- 
ants. At  the  expiration  of  their  sentence  quite  a  number  were 
assisted  by  giving  money  and  clothing  to  help  them  obtain  work. 
Sometimes  there  would  be  forty  inmates  and  sometimes  four." 

Washington  County — Mrs.  Maria  B.  Hill,  Supt. :  ''There  have 
been  seventy  prisoners  in  all  during  tht»  past  year.  Five  of  them 
women.  We  take  for  the  prisioners  one  weekly  and  one  monthly 
paper,  and  supply  each  one  with  a  Testament  and  books  and 
papers.  Our  two  ministers  (Methodist  and  Congregational)  have 
each  held  a  service  in  jail  once  in  two  months,  the  Endeavor 
Society  once  in  the  same  time,  and  Mrs.  Stone  and  I  the  other  time. 
If  the  prisoners  are  ill  we  look  after  them,  and  when  they  go  out 
we  sometimes  help  them  to  get  home.  We  have  but  few  in  the 
almshouse  and  hold  occasional  prayer  meetings  and  carry  reading. 

York  County  not  heard  from. 

We  do  wish  to  thank  the  County  Superintendents  who  have  re- 
ported so  promptly  and  who  have  done  such  faithful  work.  They, 
under  God,  have  accomplished  the  work.  Most  excellent  work  has 
been  done.  I  pray  the  dear  Lord  to  give  us  wisdom  and  patience. 
It  18  ours  to  do  the  work  and  God  will  give  the  increase.  We  know 
not  the  result  from  a  kind  word,  a  sacred  song,  or  humble  prayer. 
Let  us  remember  that  however  low  the  man  may  be  fallen,  he  was 
once  *'Some  mother's  child."  He  has  a  soul  for  which  the  blessed 
Jesus  sufiered  and  died.     Let  us  not  think  our  labor  in  vain  if  one 

soul  is  saved. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

EMMA  E.  MINARD, 
State  Supt,  Prison y  Jail  and  Almshouse  Work, 


Reformatory    Prison  for  Women. 


Dear  Sisters  of  the  Maine  W,  C.  T.  U: 

Your  committee  on  the  subject  of  a  Reformatory  Prison  for 
Women,  have  not  found  it  apparently  practicable  to  do  more  during 
the  past  year,  than  to  agitate  the  subject  and  keep  the  people, 
especially  those  in  the  Legislature  and  others  who  have  political 
influence,  aware  that  such  an  institution  is  needed  and  would  be  a 
blessing  to  the  State.  We  felt  that  we  had  already  petitioned 
enough  for  it.  The  State  has  been  canvassed  in  previous  years  and 
large  petitions  sent  to  the  Legislature.  We  do  not  need  to  convince 
the  people  of  the  necessity.  The  only  excuse  is  that  the  State  can- 
not afford  it.     We  think  it  cannot  afford  to  do  without  it. 

The  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union  petitioned  the 
Legislature  last  winter  to  appoint  a  Matron  to  care  for  the  women 
at  the  State  Prison.  A  hearing  was  obtained  before  the  Committee 
on  State  Prison  at  which  Mrs.  Stevens,  Mrs.  Hunt,  Warden  Allen, 
Prison  Inspector  Jones  and  other  friends  were  present,  and  advo- 
cated the  necessity  of  such  an  appointment,  from  a  moral,  educa- 
tional, and  humanitarian  standpoint,  but  on  account  of  the  slight 
expense  which   would  be  necessary,  the  petition  was  not  granted. 

Those  states  that  have  institutions  of  this  kind  officered  by  women, 
have  found  them  to  be  a  great  saving  of  crime  and  expense.  Miss 
Florence  Balgarnie  of  England,  on  her  recent  tour  in  the  United 
States,  visited  the  Woman's  Prison  in  Indiana  and  afterwards  wrote 
this  to  the  Union  Signal  \  *'You  cannot  even  faintly  imagine  what 
an  eventful  day  it  was  for  me  wlien  I  paid  my  first  visit  to  a  prison 
entirely  under  the  supci'vision  and  guidance  of  women.  The  fame 
of  the  Indianapolis  prison  for  women  had  reached  my  ears  long  ago, 
it  is  true,  but  not  until  recently  did  my  eyes  really  behold  what  they 
had  so  long  and  anxiously  ached  to  see.  I  discovered  tliere  that  even 
the  ''hardened  criminals,*'  in  the  technical  sense  of  the  word,  women 
who  had  been  guilty  of  the    most  terrible  crimes  in   the  calendar. 


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were,  nevertheless,  under  the  excellent  protective  system,  develop- 
ing the  latent  good  within  them,  so  that  they  could  now  be  trusted 
to  act  like  honorable  beings.** 

These  methods  are,  as  we  know,  successful  there, and  also  similar 
ones  as  carried  out  in  the  Sherborn  Prison  in  Mai ssachu setts.  One 
of  us  who  saw  it  was  impressed  with  the  excellent  and  unique  way 
in  which  this  institution  for  incarcerating  and  reforming  criminal 
women  is  represented  by  its  exhibit  at  the  World's  Fair  in  Chicago. 
Each  division  of  prisoners  is  represented  by  a  large  doll  dressed  in 
the  uniform  garb  of  that  division  and  doing  the  kind  of  work 
assigned  to  some  of  the  prisoners  in  it.  One  is  petting  and  caring 
for  a  cow  and  calf,  both  of  which  are  there  in  miniature  in  a  large- 
glass  case.  In  another  apartment  of  the  case  a  woman  is  feeding 
little  chickens;  another  is  taking  care  of  sheep  and  lambs;  still  an- 
other is  sewing  on  a  machine, and  samples  of  work  done  by  the  pris- 
oners in  that  way  are  laying  near  the  machine  where  they  can  be  ex- 
amined by  lookers  on,  and  they  are  well  done.  One  prisoner  is 
opening  cocoons  and  a  card  near  says:  '*None  but  those  who  have 
won  a  reputation  to  be  trusted  implicity  are  assigned  this  kind  of 
work."  Two  women  are  washing  clothes.  One  woman,  wearing 
clean  white  apron  and  cap,  is  making  bread.  A  nursery  woman  is 
caring  for  children  while  the  mothers  are  af  work  elsewhere.  One 
is  discharged  and  starting  out  to  enter  a  family  as  domestic.  There 
are  four  divisions  and  the  prisoners  rise  to  the  fourth  only  by  good 
conduct  and  credit  marks.  The  woman  intrusted  with  the  work  on 
silk  always  belongs  to  the  fouith  and  highest  division  as  she  has  a 
position  of  responsibility.  The  dress  of  each  indicates  her  division 
and  rank. 

The  Superintendent  keeps  a  record  card  for  each  prisoner,  and 
reports  on  it  credit  or  loss  marks  according  to  her  behavior.  One 
card  placed  with  the  exhibit  reads  thus: 


"RECORD  CARD. 


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"Mary  Smith,  No.  4,456,  Page  315.  Entered  Division  2,  Sept  12th,  1892.  Will 
be  promoted  to  Division  3  when  160  credit  marks  are  gained.  If  no  marks  are  lost 
this  will  be  in  16  weeks,  or  on  the  2nd  day  of  Jan.,  1893.  For  each  week  of  perfect 
conduct,  labor  and  study,  10  credit  marks  are  allowed.  Misconduct  or  lack  of  indus- 
try in  work  ur  study,  will  cause  a  loss  of  credit  marKS.*' 


M 

This  card  showed  by  the  marking  that  Mary  Smith  had  lost  no 
credit  marks  and  had  gained  i6o  by  the  second  day  of  last  January, 
hence  she  was,  of  course,  promoted. 

It  was  most  interesting  to  observe  and  study  this  peculiar  exhibit 
and  also  to  listen  to  some  of  the  remarks  made  by  those  who  were 
looking  at  it.  Some  of  them  comprehended  the  meaning  of  it  at 
once  and  saw  and  remarked  upon  its  merits  and  the  valuable  illus- 
tration it  gave  of  a  great  work  for  the  uplift  of  humanity.  Others,  by 
their  remarks  showed  that  they  had  no  idea  of  the  meaning  of  it. 

The  Judiciary  Committee  of  our  State  Legislature  which  met  in 
Augusta  last  winter  was  reminded  at  the  ^'Suflrage  Hearing'  that 
we  still  wanted  a  Reformatory  Prison  for  women,  but  were  expect- 
ing to  have  to  be  able  to  vote  ourselves  first  in  order  to  get  it.  The 
assembled  members  of  that  committee  were  also  informed  of  our 
great  disappointment  in  not  securing  the  prison  before  this  late 
date,  after  all  our  eflbrts.  Doubtless  the  ballot  in  the  hands  of 
woman  will  bring  her  more  blessings  nnd  privileges  than  have  yet 
been  thought  of.  Even  the  agitation  of  the  subject  has  done  much 
already  for  the  sex. 

But  let  us  not  forget  our  sisters  that  are  in  bonds.  Let  us  agitate, 
labour  and  talk  for  them,  remembering  that  what  we  do  for  the  least 
of  the  created  is  known,  acknowledged,  approved  and  rewarded  hy 
the  Creator. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

HANNAH  J.  BAILEY, 
AUGUSTA  M.  HUNT, 
CLARA  M.  FARWELL, 

Committee. 


Securing  Homes  for  Homeless  Children. 


Madam  President  and  Co^  Workers : 

In  reviewing  the  work  accomplished  in  the  department  of  Secur- 
ing  Homes  for  Homeless  Children  during  the  year,  much  of  the 
effort  made  cannot  be  recorded,  but  the  results  will  be  as  far- 
reaching  as  eternity. 

Aroostook  County — Mrs.  F.  A.  Forbes,  Presque  Isle,  Supt., 
reports :  Ten  of  the  Unions  have  Superintendents.  Two  little  ones 
have  been  placed  in  good  christian  homes  during  the  year — a  three 
months  old  baby  and  a  girl  of  six  years.  Wretched  places  called 
^^home"  have  been  visited  where  actual  needs  have  been  ministered 
to  and  words  of  cheer  given. 

Androscoggin — Mrs.  C.  D.  Parsons,  Auburn,  Supt.  for  the  past 
year ;  Mrs.  C.  T.  Newman  appointed  for  the  coming  year  :  Fifteen 
little  homeless  ones  are  reported  as  being  placed  in  permanent  homes 
and  seven  in  temporary  homes  by  the  Superintendents  of  this  county. 
Beside  these,  thirty-one  have  been  cared  for  at  the  Lewiston  Day 
Nursery.  The  most  of  these  are  children  of  poor  people  who  work, 
and  pay  in  part  for  the  board  of  their  children.  We  would  be  glad 
if  this  institution  could  be  placed  on  such  a  basis  as  t(^  enable  us  to 
care  for  more  of  the  homeless  children  of  our  State  who  are  for 
adoption,  but  as  it  is,  the  burden  has  been  heavy  for  the  Lewiston 
Union,  although  grateful  acknowledgement  is  made  of  $500 
received  from  the  State,  clothing,  small  sums  of  money  and  grocer- 
ies from  sister  Unions.  Three  have  had  temporary  shelter  at  the 
Nursery  who  have  been  placed  in  permanent  homes  by  the  State 
Superintendent.  Two  baby  boys  arc  still  there  waiting  for  the 
homes  to  be  provided.  Three  others  have  been  placed  in  good 
homes  in  this  county  by  your  State  Superintendent. 

Cumberland — Miss  C.M.Dow,  Portland,  Supt.,  reports:  A 
Superintendent  of  this  department  in  eleven  of  the  Unions.     One 


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Superintendent  reports  a  mother,  four  children  and  a  grandmother 
found  in  great  need,  and  homes  being  provided  for  three  of  the  chil- 
dren, the  mother  retaining  the  youngest.  Another  fieimily  of  four 
children  were  also  provided  with  good  homes,  and  a  home  is  now 
desired  for  a  girl  of  ten  years.  Portland  Union  reports  eight  chil- 
dren cared  for  by  this  department — one  in  a  temporary  home,  six 
adopted,  and  one  sent  to  a  home  on  trial  for  adoption. 

Franklin — Mrs.  F.  H.  Wilbur,  Phillips,  Supt.,  reports:  A  local 
Superintendent  for  every  Union  in  the  county  save  one,  and  that  one 
does  some  work  in  this  direction.  Two  children  have  been  adopted 
and  homes  are  waiting  for  five  others. 

Hancock — Mrs.  L.  J.  Call,  Ellsworth,  Supt :  Four  children 
are  reported  as  being  taken  from  a  town  farm  in  the  county  and  pro- 
vided with  permanent  homes,  and  this  alone  would  sufficiently  re- 
pay us  for  many  hours  of  labor.  Your  State  Superintendent  knows 
of  one  boy  having  found  a  home  in  this  county  and  four  otliers  still 
in  need  of  homes. 

Kennebec — Mrs.  B.  M.  Friend,  Gardiner,  Supt:  Your  State 
Superintendent  has  placed  three  children  in  fine  christian  homes  and 
has  another  home  ready  to  receive  one. 

Knox — Mrs.  M.  F.  Hanly,  Union,  Supt.  past  year;  Mrs.  John 
Stetson,  Thomaston,  coming  year:  One  child  placed  in  a  home, 
and  interest  when  work  has  not  met  with  the  desired  results. 

Lincoln — Mrs.  S.  F.  Winslow,  Waldoboro,  Supt.,  reports: 
Eflbrts  made  but  no  definite  work  accomplished. 

Oxford — !^lrs.  F.  E.  Wilson,  East  Hiram,  Supt.  past  year;  Mrs. 
L.  A.  Burr,  Bethel,  coming  year:  Interest  in  the  work.  One 
child  placed  in  a  home  on  trial  for  adoption. 

Penobscot — Mrs.  S.  H.  Clark,  Bangor,  Supt.  the  year  past;  Mrs. 
Etta  Fowler,  Med  way,  the  yejir  to  come  :  Five  children  from  this 
county  have  been  placed  in  good  homes,  and  already  the  new  Supt. 
has  found  one  in  need  of  a  home. 

Piscataquis — Mrs.  A.  L.  Chamberlain,  Foxcroft,  Supt:  One 
child  adopted  where  the  relations  are  most  pleasant.  A  box  of 
clothing  and  small  sum  of  money  sent  from  the  Dover  &  Foxcroft 
Union  to  the  Lewiston  Nursery. 

Sagadahoc — Mrs.  L,  F.  Packard,  Bath,  Supt :     Seven  children 


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have  been  found  in  need  of  homes.  Three  have  been  provided  with 
permanent  homes  and  one  with  a  temporary  home.  Who  will  receive 
the  others, — a  beautiful  boy  of  eight  years,  a  nice  girl  of  five  years, 
and  a  baby  girl  ? 

Somerset — Mrs.  H.  F.  Evans,  Madison,  Supt.  for  past  year  ;  Mrs. 
Florence  M.  A.  Hoyt,  Ripley,  coming  year :  Only  three  Unions 
are  reported  as  actively  engaged  in  the  work.  The  Supt.  has  had 
correspondence  relative  to  eleven  children.  One  child  has  been  placed 
in  a  permanent  home  and  one  in  a  temporary  home ;  three  others 
to  be  sent  soon  to  permanent  homes.  Two  homes  ready  to  receive 
children,  and  two  bright  boys,  four  and  seven,  waiting  for  homes  to 
be  provided. 

Waldo — Miss  A.  A.  Hicks,  Belfast,  Supt. :  Deep  interest  in  the 
work,  and  one  child  adopted  into  a  good  W.  C.  T.  U.  home. 

Washington — Mrs.  Nellie  Ward,  Cherryfield,  Supt.  :  The  boy 
mentioned  last  year  in  need  of  a  surgical  operation  and  cared  for  by 
the  Cherryfield  Union  is  able  now  to  get  along  without  his  crutches, 
but  is  still  supported  by  them.  The  Calais  Union  has  sent  two 
colored  girls  to  the  Orphan  Asylum,  Portland,  and  two  little  girls, 
five  and  six  years  of  age,  to  the  State  Superintendent,  who  provided 
them  both  with  most  excellent  christian  homes  where  each  is  the 
beloved  only  daughter  in  the  home.  A  baby  girl  has  also  been 
adopted  in  this  county. 

York — Miss  A.  C.  Bagley,  Springvale,  Supt.,  reports:  The 
Cornish  Union  has  found  a  temporary  home  for  a  boy  and  perma- 
nent homes  for  four  girls.  A  young  mother  of  fifteen  with  her 
infant  in  her  arms  were  fitted  out  with  clothing  and  sent  to  the 
temporary  home  in  Deering,  and  many  poor  made  comfortable  by 
the  help  of  clothing.  Kennebunk  Union  is  doing  good  work  in  the 
Sewing  School ;  about  thirty  attend  and  the  garments  made  are 
given  to  the  children.  They  have  also  sent  a  barrel  of  clothing  and 
groceries  to  the  Home  in  Lewiston.  Biddeford  Union  has  helped 
poor  children  also,  by  means  of  the  Sewing  School  and  in  the  home. 
Sanford  Union  has  also  sent  contributions  of  groceries,  clothing  and 
a  small  sum  of  money  to  the  Lewiston  Home,  as  has  also  the 
Springvale  Union,  and  taken  two  children  from  the  town  farm  and 
placed  in  the  temporary  home  at  Deering.     Good  work  done  by 


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West  Lebanon  Union,  and  the  South  Berwick  Union  has  provided 
a  woman  and  child  with  a  temporary  home ;  also  a  sixteen  year  old 
girl  with  a  permanent  home. 

Your  State  Superintendent  has  on  her  record  book  now  twenty- 
four  homes  where  children  will  be  received,  and  the  names,  of 
thirty-eight  children  in  need  of  homes. 

Could  these  be  adjusted  without  a  great  deal  of  prayerful  consid- 
eration, we  might  at  once  place  twenty-four  children  in  the 
twenty-four  homes  and  have  only  fourteen  left;  but  great  care  must 
be  taken  to  fit  the  child  to  the  home.  Because  this  has  been  done, 
your  Superintendent  has  yet  to  receive  the  first  letter  of  dissatisfac- 
tion from  a  home  where  a  child  has  been  placed  on  trial.  But 
instead,  such  letters  as  the  following  are  frequent :  "We  are 
delighted  with  the  child  you  sent  us;  she  grows  dearer  and  dearer 
every  day.  We  wouldn't  know  how  to  live  without  her  now,"  etc., 
etc.  We  look  to  one  who  knows  to  direct  us  in  every  case,  and 
He  never  fails  those  who  trust  in  Him. 

The  following  is  as  nearly  as  we  can  give  a  summary  of  the  work  : 
During  the  year  one  hundred  and  thirty-one  children  have  been 
found  in  need  of  homes.  Sixty-eight  have  been  placed  in  perma- 
nent homes,  twenty-five  in  temporary  homes,  and  thirty-eight  remain 
to  be  provided  for.  Dear  sister,  cannot  you,  or  your  friend  give  one 
of  these  needy  ones  a  home?  Is  there  one  here  who  has  no  child 
to  play  around  the  hearthstone?  If  so,  although  you  may  not  realize 
it,  your  home  is  incomplete.  We  need  the  child  life  to  mingle  with 
ours  to  make  the  home  complete. 

It  is  simply  our  aim  to  carry  out  the  plan  of  the  Father  who  has 
placed  us  in  families,  by  bringing  the  childless  home  and  the  home- 
less child  together.  Do  not  rest,  dear  Superintendents,  till  every 
needy  child  in  our  State  is  provided  with  a  comfortable  home.  And 
I  would  urge  the  necessity  of  most  careful  investigation  of  every 
home  open  to  receive  one  of  these  needy  ones.  Get  a  recommenda- 
tion from  a  neighbor  whenever  possible.  Remember,  when  you 
place  a  child  in  a  home,  you  are,  to  a  great  extent,  deciding  that 
child's  future.  When  satisfied  that  the  home  is  a  good  one,  urge 
the  adoption  of  the  child,  and  do  not  be  satisfied  with  anything  less 
unless  there  is  an  insuperable  barrier.     Finally,  sisters,  talk  up  the 


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department  on  every  possible  occasion.  It  is  worthy  of  it.  We  are 
sure  of  the  Master's  smil;;  when  trying  to  save  the  children. 

And  now,  sisters,  it  becomes  my  painful  duty  to  inform  you  that, 
should  you  desire  it,  I  could  not  accept  a  re-election  to  the  position 
of  State  Superintendent  of  this  department  of  work.  I  love  the 
work,  and  hope  to  do  more  or  less  of  it  all  my  life,  but  my  duty  for 
the  present  has  been  made  very  plain. 

I  bespeak  your  prayers  for,  and  co-operation  with  my  successor. 
And  as  in  the  past  so  in  the  future  may  the  work  be  abundantly 

blessed  of  God. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

IDA  M.  B.  WYMAN. 


Work  Among  Soldiers  and  Sailors 


In  presenting  the  annual  report  for  this  department  I  want  to 
speak  of  the  increasing  interest  and  untiring  efforts  of  the  County 
Superintendents  on  whom  the  work  has  depended  for  the  past  year. 
Through  their  faithfulness  the  work  has  not  lagged.  While  my 
heart  has  gone  out  to  those  for  whom  we  are  interested,  circum- 
stances have  prevented  my  hands  from  doing. 

A  number  of  counties  have  dropped  this  department,  feeling 
they  could  do  more  effectual  work  in  other  branches ;  nine  have 
responded,  appointing  Superintendents,  and  report  good  work. 

A  large  amount  of  literature  has  been  distributed,  the  Loan 
Library  increased,  wall  pockets  in  sailors*  boarding  houses  kept 
filled,  sailors'  families  supplied  with  good  reading,  and  papers  and 
flowers  sent  to  the  Marine  Hospital.  No  special  Temperance  work 
has  been  carried  on  at  the  Togus  Home  by  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  as  the 
managers  became  interested  in  the  Keeley  Cure  for  the  inmates  and 
did  not  think  best  for  meetings  to  be  held.  In  a  letter  to  Kennebec 
County  Superintendent,  Gen.  Stevenson  says  :  "Through  the  Keeley 


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Cure  they  are  being  reclaimed  at  the  rate  of  one  per  day."     We  are 
glad  of  results,  by  whoever  the  work  may  be  done. 

Two  counties  have  sent  reading  matter  to  the  G.  A.  R.  Post  rooms, 
and  in  one  place  taken  the  whole  charge  of  Decoration  Day. 

At  the  last  State  Convention  the  work  among  quarrymen  was 
added  to  this  department.  In  one  county  much  has  been  done  for 
these  men  and  their  families ;  good  reading  placed  in  their  homes,  a 
Sabbath  School  started  for  the  children  by  our  County  Superinten- 
dent and  good  results  have  followed.  We  are  somewhat  crippled  in 
what  we  would  like  to  do  by  the  lack  of  sufficient  reading  matter  to 
distribute,  as  papers  and  magazines  soon  are  worn  beyond  use  by 
the  constant  handling ;  but  the  expressions  of  gratitude  we  are  con- 
stantly receiving  from  captains  of  vessels,  and  the  inmates  of  homes 
and  the  Marine  Hospital  encourages  us  to  use  the  little  we  have,  and 
leave  the  results  with  Him  who  knoweth  all  and  cares  for  whatever 
is  done  in  His  name. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

MRS.  F.  C.  JOHNSTON, 

State  Supt.  Dept,   Soldiers  and  Sailors, 


Work  Among  Lumbermen. 


Madam  President  and  Members  of  this  Convention : 

In  looking  over  the  reports  of  various  County  Superintendents 
we  feel  sure  that  there  has  been  an  increase  of  interest  in  this  de- 
partment of  work.  Some  counties  have  done  nobly.  There  have 
been  many  new  local  Superintendents  appointed  thus  enlarging  the 
working  force.  I  am  so  glad  to  learn  of  the  zeal  of  most  of  the 
County  Superintendents.  We  have  had  many  assurances  from 
camps  that  our  work  is  appreciated  and  the  reading  matter  gladly  re- 
ceived. The  work  of  supplying  the  camps  is  much  more  systematic. 
This  work  needs  to  be  done  regularly  and  not  in  a  spasmodic  man- 
ner. A  little  each  week  is  much  better  than  a  quantity  once  in  one 
or  two  months.  Let  each  County  Superintendent  try  to  enthuse  her 
local  Superintendent  to  greater  etlbrts  than  ever  before.  I  wish  we 
might  reach  every  lumber  camp  in  Maine.  The  State  Superinten- 
dent would  be  very  glad  to  have  the  addresses  of  any  out  of  the  way 
camps  that  are  not  being  supplied. 

We  again  urge  the  need  of  a  camp  missionary.  We  could  then 
win  many  to  Christ  and  temperance  that  are  now  beyond  our  reach, 
if  we  could  only  bring  these  men  to  see  the  folly  and  sinfulness  of 
drinking  up  the  money  earned  by  such  hard  labor  and  exposure. 
My  dear  co-laborers  let  us  work  as  never  before,  tAis  winter^  that 
we  may,  with  God's  help  be  able  to  do  much  good  in  these  camps. 
There  are  ten  County  Superintendents  all  of  whom  have  been  writ- 
ten to  urging  them  to  send  a  report  of  work  done.  I  would  like  to 
urge  that  the  County  Superintendent  each  year  send  me  her  report 
aS  soon  as  read  at  County  Convention.  The  reports  received  are  as 
follows : 

Penobscot  County — Mrs.  S.  J.  Pickard,  Bangor,  Supt :  Orono, 
supplied  seven  camps  regularly,  sending  130  papers  and  magazines, 
also  130  pagesof  other  literature  ;  depot  wall  pocket  and  barber  shop 


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supplied.  Stillwater,  sent  reading  matter  to  camps  and  kept  mill 
boarding  house  supplied.  Bangor  Crusade,  sent  reading  to  camps 
and  Life  Saving  Station  at  Islesford,  Me.  Kenduskeag  is  just  start- 
ing the  work.  Bangor  Union  sent  supplies  whenever  opportunity 
offered. 

Sagadahoc  County  —  Mrs.  H.  N.  Jackson,  Bath:  Bath,  is 
ready  for  work  this  winter. 

Washington  County — Mrs.  G.  H.  Condell,  Calais,  Me:  Have 
written  to  each  Union  three  times  last  year.  Columbia  Falls,  re- 
port good  work  done.  Work  not  in  detail.  East  Machias,  have 
done  good  work  but  kept  no  record.  Princeton,  just  organized  but 
is  ready  for  work  this  winter.  CherryHeld,  sent  3,228  papers, 
several  personal  letters,  put  a  large  wall  pocket  in  the  post  office  and 
kept  it  well  filled  with  temperance  literature.  Calais,  supplied  18 
camps,  all  matter  marked  W.  C.  T.  U.  Sent  645  papers,  55  tem- 
perance leaflets,  22  magazines,  5  religious  books.  This  Superinten- 
dent has  had  word  personally  that  much  good  was  done  in  the  camps 
by  the  good  reading  sent. 

Hancock  County — ^Mrs.  Evelyn  Neal,  Tremont,  Maine :  Thej 
are  trying  to  reach  all  the  camps  they  can,  lumbering  chiefly  done 
on  islands. 

Waldo  County : — Mrs.  Eliza  Hunnewell  reports  no  camps  near, 
so  have  done  no  work. 

Cumberland  County — Mrs.  S.  J.  McLellan,  South  Windham : 
Stroudwater,  furnished  Portland  Union  with  reading  matter.  South 
Brighton,  630  pages  to  camps.  North  Gorham,  sent  to  camp  one 
year  of  Century  magazine,  2,000  pages  literature,  and  circulated  in 
vicinity  two  years  Century,  450  pages  literature  and  four  good 
books.  South  Portland,  700  pages  sent  to  camps.  Westbrook  Y's, 
a  large  case  of  books,  papers,  magazines,  singing  books,  and  bibles, 
sent  to  Mrs.  W.  L.  Rogers  of  Greenville  for  distribution.  Wood- 
fords,  sent  a  package  once  a  week  to  camps ;  supplied  two  wall 
pockets.  Newhall,  sent  to  camps  360  pages ;  supplied  wall  pocket 
with  50  pages  fresh  literature  each  week.  Peaks  Island,  several 
bundles  of  literature  and  Signals  sent  to  Greenville,  South  Wind- 
ham sent  to  camps  3,000  pages.  Portland,  forwarded  a  case  to 
North  New  Portland  to  be  distributed-— contents,  153  Harpers  and 


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Frank  Leslie's,  40  magazines,  170  other  16  page  papers;  kept  two 
camps  supplied  with  papers  and  magazines. 

Piscataquis  County — Mrs.  Rogers,  Greenville :  Have  supplied 
20  different  camps ;  send  about  5  barrels  reading  matter,  and  4  or 
5  dozen  comfort  bags  to  men  in  camps ;  sent  children's  literature 
to  lumbermen's  families.  All  sending  Mrs.  Rogers  reading  matter 
must  prepay  charges. 

I  regret  that  I  cannot  include  the  three  other  counties  not  yet 
heard  from. 

May  we  at  this  Convention  gather  more  strength  for  our  next 
year's  work.  Let  us  all  do  something,  no  matter  how  small  it  seems, 
remembering  that  God  giveth  the  increase. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

ADDIE  LILLIAN  HARVEY, 

State  Supt,  of  Work  Among'  Lumbermen, 


Sabbath  Observance. 


The  Sabbath  Observance  department  aims  to  arouse  the  public 
intellect  and  conscience  by  presenting,  through  leaflets,  press  arti- 
cles, teaching  in  Loyal  Temperance  Legions,  petitions  to  corpora- 
tions, etc.,  the  religious,  scientific  and  other  reasons  for  hallowing 
the  Loid's  special  day.  It  also  urges  the  examination  of  our  own 
lives  and  practices  to  see  whether  we  ourselves  are  above  reproach 
in  this  respect. 

We  find  by  the  reports  received  from  our  county  and  local  Unions 
that  not  as  much  actual  labor  has  been  done  in  the  interests  of  this 
department  during  the  year  jubt  closed  as  in  previous  years,  proba- 
bly, on  account  of  your  State  Superintendent  not  having  had  so 
much  time  to  devote  to  pushing  this  department  of  work  as  was 
needed ;  but  the  few  circular  letters,  copies  of  Sabbath  laws,  the 
literature  and  petitions  sent  out  have  met  a  kindly  response,  and 


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there  has  been  a  steady  influence  exerted  in  favor  of  the  consecration 
of  the  Christian  Sabbath,  which  is  encouraging. 

Reports  have  been  received  from  some  parts  of  each  county  and 
not  so  many  complaints  of  Sabbath  desecration  have  been  reported 
as  in  former  years.  There  seems  to  have  been  a  steady  growth  of 
moral  sentiment.  We  find,  in  summing  up  the  reports,  that  nearly 
15,000  pages  of  literature  have  been  circulated,  76  public  meetings 
held  in  the  interests  of  the  Sabbath,  6^  sermons  preached,  10  lec- 
tures or  addresses  given  by  Mrs.  James  H.  Earl  of  Boston  and  oth- 
ers. Nine  public  meetings  are  reported,  the  public  press  utilized  to 
some  extent  and  nearly  2,000  signatures  obtained  to  Sabbath  Observ- 
ance petitions. 

One  hundred  and  fifty  local  Unions  were  asked  by  your  Superin- 
tendent to  circulate  the  petition  praying  Congress  not  to  reconsider 
the  act  they  passed  to  enjoin  upon  the  World's  Fair  Commissioners 
to  close  the  Fair  grounds  on  Sabbaths.  Ninety  Unions  responded 
and  3,087  petitioners  were  represented  on  the  petitions  returned  to 
the  authorities  at  Washington.  The  movement  for  Sabbath  closing, 
although  not  as  successful  as  we  hoped  for,  has,  we  believe,  not  been 
made  in  vain.  It  caused  an  agitation  of  the  Sabbath  question  which 
awakened  some  out  of  lethargy  and  aroused  the  indifferent  to  action 
in  one  direction  or  another,  and  caused  the  American  people  to 
awaken  to  the  fact  that  our  blessed  God-instituted  American  Sabbath 
was  in  danger  of  being  overthrown  by  the  enemy  who  had  been 
sowing  tares  while  men  slept.  O  how  often  nothing  but  his  attacks 
will  arouse  us  to  duty  !  If  the  efforts  that  have  recently  been  exerted 
in  our  country  to  reclaim  the  Sabbath  had  been  put  forth  in  years 
past  to  keep  it  sacred,  this  precious  institution  would  now  be  in  less 
danger. 

Petitions  against  Sunday  excursions,  signed  by  12,430  persons 
were  sent  to  our  State  Legislature  at  its  last  session.  This  was  not 
done  especially  under  the  auspices  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.,  but  it  shows 
a  growth  of  moral  sentiment  which  is  encouraging.  It  is  in  viola- 
tion of  nearly  every  State  law  that  railroads  run  Sunday  trains,  yet 
the  Stajtes  are  powerless  to  prevent  it  since  Congress  alone  can  con- 
trol inter-state  commerce.  Congress  is  composed  of  the  represent- 
atives of  the  people  (or  at  least  one-half  of  the  people,  the  male 


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voters,)  and  hence  they  are  responsible.  Everything  depends  on 
the  suffrages  of  the  voting  people.  "  What  we  want,"  says  Dr. 
Herrick  Johnson,  *'  is  a  good  deal  more  of  the  individual  conscience." 

Many  of  the  exhibits  at  the  World's  Fair  are  closed  on  Sabbaths. 
I  noticed  while  there  that  every  Saturday  night  the  custodian  of  the 
exhibit  of  the  United  Society  of  Christian  Endeavor,  would,  before 
leaving  his  booth,  hang  a  large  curtain  before  it  which  hid  the  entire 
exhibit  from  Sunday  visitors  to  the  Liberal  Arts  department,  and  on 
the  white  curtain  words  were  printed  in  large  type  :  "  This  exhibit 
18  closed  out  of  respect  for  the  law  of  God  and  regard  for  the  best 
interests  of  man." 

In  Androscoggin  County,  lOO  pages  of  literature  have  been  dis- 
tributed, three  sermons  preached,  and  one  public  meeting  held. 

Aroostook — Abbie  S.  Knight,  Supt.,  reports:  6,600  pages  liter- 
ature, I  Manual,  21  sermons,  7  prayer  meetings,  5  public  meetings, 
and  200  signatures  to  Sabbath  Observance  petitions.  Public  press 
used. 

Cumberland — Lucy  A.  Snow,  Supt. :  3,700  pages,  13  sermons, 
I  prayer  meeting,  4  public  meetings,  and  800  signatures  to  petitions. 
Copies  of  the  Sabbath  laws  of  our  State  have  been  posted  in  public 
places  and  good  results  are  known  to  have  been  accomplished  by 
them. 

Franklin  :  466  pages,  2  sermons  and  3  public  meetings.  Sabbath 
laws  posted. 

Hancock — Mrs.  Caro  J.  Folsom,  Supt. :  Four  sermons  and  one 
public  meeting. 

Kennebec  :  492  pages,  322  petitions,  2  public  meetings,  i  lecture. 
A  Sunday  concert  was  prevented  and  the  attention  of  a  City  Gov- 
ernment called  to  the  fact  that  several  stores  were  unlawfully  kept 
open  on  the  Sabbath  and  a  request  made  for  the  closing  of  a  public 
park  on  Sabbaths.  The  mayor  promised  to  give  the  matter  his 
careful  consideration  but  neither  the  stores  nor  park  are  closed  yet. 

One  Union  sent  a  letter  to  Gov.  Cleaves  asking  him  to  use  his 
influence  to  have  the  Maine  State  building  at  the  Columbian  Exposi- 
tion closed  on  Sabbath,  and  received  a  favorable  and  courteous  reply. 

Knox — Miss  Alzira  L.  Crie,  Supt. :  100  pages  literature  distrib- 
uted, 5  sermons  preached,  500  signatures  to  petitions  obtained.     A 


request  was  sent  from  the  churches  to  the  proper  authorities  asking 
that  the  Maine  building  at  the  Exposition  be  closed  on  Sabbaths. 
The  running  of  Sabbath  trains  is  a  cause  of  much  Sabbath 
desecration.  One  locality  is  troubled  by  Sunday  g^ames  and  the 
Supt  has  appealed  to  the  sheriff  asking  him  to  stop  them  and  has 
sent  him  a  copy  of  our  Sunday  laws.  The  press  has  also  been 
appealed  to.  City  marshals  have  had  copies  of  the  laws  sent  to 
them  and  been  asked  to  close  stores  kept  open  on  Sabbaths.  Manu- 
facturers of  lime  have  been  requested  to  close  their  kilns  on  the 
Sabbath.  The  employees  themselves  have  been  encouraged  to 
petition  for  a  Sabbath  rest  and  have  done  so,  but  without  satisfac- 
tory results  thus  far. 

Lincoln — Mrs.  Almeda  Havener,  Supt. :  600  pages  and  3  ser- 
mons. One  Supt.  reports  that  the  meetings  of  the  Loyal  Temper- 
ance Legion  are  held  on  Sundays,  which  habit  they  think,  has  a  good 
influence*. 

Oxford :  Two  Unions  report  nothing  done,  and  one  of  them 
says  no  need  of  anything  being  done. 

Penobscot:  500  pages,  i  sermon,  and  60  public  meetings  held. 
The  Bangor  Crusade,  reports :  "The  Gospel  temperance  meet- 
ings held  by  the  Crusade  every  Sunday  evening  in  their  parlors  are 
doing  much  for  keeping  the  Sabbath  pure  and  holy.  We  try  to 
impress  upon  the  minds  of  those  who  attend  what  the  Sabbath  is 
and  what  it  was  made  for.  The  simple  testimonies  given  by  these 
men  are  most  interesting.** 

Piscataquis  County :  One  local  Union  reports  nothing  done. 
No  others  heard  from. 

Somerset — ^Julia  A.  Bowdoin,  Supt. :  One  report  says,  "Some 
pages  of  literature  distributed." 

Sagadahoc — Mrs.  H.  N.  Jackson,  Supt. :  916  pages  and  3  ser- 
mons. Some  of  the  literature  was  sent  to  pastors  of  churches,  one 
of  whom  said  it  had  been  an  inspiration  to  him.  Clergymen  have 
written  articles  for  the  local  press  in  regard  to  the  opening  of  the 
World's  Fair  on  the  first  day  of  the  week. 

Waldo— Mrs.  Wm.  Conard,  Supt. :  40  pages  literature  dis- 
tributed and  one  prayer  meeting  held. 


Washington:  Some  literature  and  Sunday  laws  distributed. 
Columbia  Falls  Union  has,  by  proper  and  cunning  effort,  succeeded 
in  getting  stores  closed  which  were  formerly  kept  open  on  the 
Sabbath  and  the  postofiice  has  been  closed  Sunday  evenings.  The 
press  has  been  utilized  to  some  extent ;  public  sentiment  sustained. 
One  Union  has  by  its  efforts  closed  barber  shops,  a  restaurant  and  a 
fruit  store,  and  are  doing  further  work  on  this  line.  One  Sunday 
School  has  been  established.  Wall  pockets  have  been  placed  in 
stores  and  literature  kept  in  them. 

York :  980  pages  of  literature,  five  sermons. 

But  few  of  the  county  Unions  have  informed  me  who  their  Super- 
intendents of  this  department  are,  and  most  of  the  reports  received 
are  directly  from  the  local  Superintendents.  As  the  names  and 
addresses  of  the  Corresponding  Secretaries  are  in  the  State  Minutes, 
I  wrote  to  them  asking  for  reports  from  their  Superintendents. 
Many  of  them  kindly  responded  and  my  report  is  largely  based  upon 
their  reports.  '*  Blessed  is  the  man  that  keepeth  the  Sabbath."  "It 
is  a  sign  between  Me  and  you  throughout  your  generations;  thus 
saith  the  Lord." 

HANNAH  J.  BAILEY, 

State  Supt,  Dept.  Sabbath  Observance, 


Social  Purity. 


"  But  while  men  slept,  his  enemy  came  and  sowed  tares  among 
the  wheat,  and  went  his  way.**  How  true  to  h'fe  the  above  seems 
to  be,  when  we  stop  to  consider  how  people  who  ought  to  be  awake 
and  up  and  doing,  when  the  enemy  of  all  good  is  so  busy  sowing 
the  tares  among  our  wheat.  Turn  where  vou  will  and  on  every  side 
this  great  problem  meets  us  of  how  to  reach  and  save  the  children 
who  are  surrounded  on  every  hand  with  so  many  temptations,  and 
how  shall  we  raise  the  standard  of  purity  is  the  question  before  us. 
In  the  home  must  first  begin  the  sowing  of  good  seed,  and  until 
fathers  and  motheis  wake  up  to  the  great  responsibility  which  God 
has  given  them  through  fatherhood  and  motherhood,  what  can  we 
expect  but  an  unfailing  crop  of  just  such  men  and  women,  boys  and 
girls,  as  we  find  in  every  community,  which  comes  from  neglect  of 
good  seed  sowing  in  the  home.  I  am  glad  to  report  from  coming  in 
touch  with  so  many  Unions  who  are  made  up  of  mothers  of  this 
State  that  there  has  been  an  arrest  of  thought,  and  public  sentiment 
has  been  raised  still  higher  to  ideals  of  purity  and  right  living. 
And  after  years  of  experience  we  trust  every  white-ribbon  woman 
in  our  State  has  become  convinced  of  the  great  fieed  of  personal 
effort  along  this  line. 

As  one  County  Superintendent  says  in  her  report,  so  I  would 
repeat  it  here,  ''  Hebrew  children  found  it  hard  to  make  bricks 
without  straw  **  so  it  is  difficult  to  make  a  satisfactory  and  definite 
report  without  having  reports  from  each  (bounty  Superintendent. 
All  counties  have  a  Superintendent,  and  there  has  been  a  great  in- 
crease of  local  Superintendents.  More  Mothers*  Meetings  are  held. 
This  subject  is  often  taken  up  at  regular  meetings  of  the  Unions. 
More  literature  distributed  than  any  other  year  and  several  hundred 
more  pledge  cards  signed.  I  have  been  able  to  glean  these  facts 
from  personal  work  with  Unions  throughout  the  State,  having  held 


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fifty-seven  Mothers'  Meetings,  lectured  fifty-four  times  and  traveled 
over  3,000  miles. 

There  are  constant  demands  for  earnest  action.  No  one  not 
familiar  with  the  burden  and  duties  of  white-ribbon  women,  who 
have  pledged  themselves  to  work  for  God  and  Home,  can  have  any 
conception  of  the  amount  of  work  and  thought  they  are  putting 
forth  for  humanity ;  and  all  this  is  necessary  to  keep  pace  with  the 
evils  that  are  so  prevalent  among  us  to  ruin  our  young  men  and 
women.  The  greatest,  perhaps,  is  that  of  immoral  publications 
which  are  sown  broadcast  over  our  land,  and  should  be  dreaded  in 
the  community  more  than  the  most  fearful  of  contagious  diseases, 
because  of  the  influence  upon  those  who  are  being  brought  in  con- 
tact with  it.  We  are  thankful  for  enlarged  efforts  for  good  that  have 
been  put  forth  this  year  in  all  great  assemblies  over  our  beloved  land. 
It  is  said  education  is  the  solution  now  being  offered  for  many  of  our 
National  problems,  and  we  are  rapidly  awaking  to  the  fact  that  in 
the  great  question  of  social  impurity,  ignorance  is  an  enormous  fac- 
tor, which  must  be  eliminated  if  we  would  cleanse  our  land  of  the 
dread  pestilence.  Our  hope  is  in  the  children,  and  we  believe  it  is 
the  little  ones  of  this  generation  and  of  those  to  follow,  who  are  to 
lead  this  crusade  on  to  final  victory.  We  would  recommend  that 
every  mother  send  for  a  copy  of  '*  Teacliing  Truth,**  by  Dr.  Mary 
Wood  Allen,  price  25  cents ;  also  that  as  many  Unions  as  can  will 
take  up  "White  Shield'*  Work,  writing  for  instructions  to  Mrs. 
Lydia  A.  Prescott,  Toledo,  Ohio,  14 12  Adams  St. 

And  we  would  urge  every  Union  to  hold  Mothers*  Meetings  as 
often  as  once  a  month,  sending  to  Mrs.  F.  A.  Wright,  East  New- 
port, Me.,  for  circulars  of  instruction. 

In  conclusion,  we  beg  to  say  that  it  would  seem  to  be  heartless 
ingratitude  for  us  to  close  this  report,  or  indeed  any  report  for  any 
year  of  our  experience,  without  making  especial  mention  of  the 
blessing  of  God  upon  our  efforts,  and  of  His  faithfulness  to  His 
promises,  upon  which  we  have  leaned  for  comfort,  cheer  and  support? 
and  to  His  name  we  to-day  gladly  ascribe  all  praise  and  honor. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

F.  A.  WRIGHT, 
State  Supt,  Dept,  Social  Purity, 


Purity  in  Literature  and  Art. 


Madam  President  and  Sisters  of  the  Convention  : 

In  presenting  the  annual  report  of  this  department,  it  is  with  a 
painful  sense  of  its  incompleteness  and  a  serious  lack  of— something 
— on  the  part  of  its  Superintendents.  Next  to  Social  Purity  this 
department  should  commend  itself  to  every  true  woman,  and  espe- 
cially to  every  mother  in  the  State. 

Our  aim  is  to  protect  the  children  and  youth  from  the  vicious 
influences  that  come  through  the  printing  press.  Every  child's  mind 
is  a  fertile  field,  ready  to  receive  good  or  bad  seed,  and  it  is  of  infin- 
ite importance  to  the  parent,  to  society,  to  the  church  and  the  State, 
what  kind  of  seed  shall  be  sown  there.  The  dissemination  of 
obscene,  lewd,  and  immoral  books  and  pictures  is  the  devil's  seed- 
sowing  in  the  receptive  and  fertile  minds  of  our  children.  And 
let  us  not  forget  that  the  foe  works  in  secret ;  hence  we  appeal  to 
parents  and  teachers  to  more  carefully  guard  those  under  their  care 
from  a  contamination  more  to  be  dreaded  than  the  Asiatic  cholera. 
It  is  passing  strange  that  this  department  should  fail  to  impress  '^our 
women  "  with  its  importance  and  the  absolute  need  of  *'  picket 
duty"  all  along  the  line.  Vigilance  is  the  price  of  Purity.  Yet 
many  of  our  Unions  fail  to  see  the  necessity  of  this  work,  while  the 
truth  is,  the  trail  of  this  serpent  is  seen  everywhere,  if  people  will 
only  take  the  time  and  the  trouble  to  investigate.  All  that  this  secret 
foe  desires  is  to  be  let  alone,  and  to  persuade  the  unwary  that  ''these 
things  are  not  half  so  bad  as  they  seem  to  the  eyes  of  the  '  fanatics  * 
who  are  prying  into  other  people's  business." 

Of  the  sixteen  counties  in  our  State  fourteen  have  County  Super- 
intendents who  have  been  doing  their  best  to  encourage  the  Unions 
to  adopt  this  as  one  of  their  lines  of  work.  Some  of  our  County 
Superintendents  report  progress  in  this  respect — others  feel  disheart- 
ened that  they  have  tried  so  often  and  with  such  small  results,  to 
awaken  an  interest  in  the  local  Unions,  in  this  much-needed 
department. 


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Mrs.  Sarah  A.  Brackett  of  Cumberland  County  is  one  of  the  dis- 
couraged ones — listen  to  what  she  says :  "I  have  written  to  all  our 
Unions  with  this  result — I  received  answers  from  only  four.  One 
reported  that  their  Union  was  too  small  to  do  work  in  this  depart" 
ment ;  and  the  others  reported  that  it  was  not  necessary  to  have  a 
Superintendent  of  this  department,  as  they  already  had  one  in  the 
Suppression  of  Impure  Literature.  I  haven't  received  one  word 
from  any  one  of  all  the  Superintendents  in  this  department  in  the 
whole  county ;  so  this  explains  why  my  report  is  so  meagre.  If 
there  are  no  reports  to  be  made  by  the  Unions,  and  if  it  is  not  nec- 
essary to  have  any  local  Superintendents,  would  it  not  be  well  to  do 
away  with  the  County  Superintendents.''*'  I  answer — if  we  can't 
have  local  Superintendents  we  might  as  well  do  away  with  Coun- 
ty, State  and  National.  As  a  matter  of  fact  the  local  Superintend- 
ent  is  the  great  wheel  in  this  grand  engine  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U. ! 
When  that  fails  to  revolve  the  work  is  at  a  stand^still — there  is 
nothing  to  report.  Would  that  all  our  local  Superintendents  real- 
ized this.     The   power  to   do  the  work    is   in    their  hands  alone. 

Cumberland  County  has  done  some  good  work  through  the 
County  Superintendent  and  others. 

Miss  Kate  W.  Spinney,  Superintendent  of  Sagadahoc  County, 
reports  increasing  interest  and  practical  work  done  in  distributing 
literature,  posting  State  Law,  circulating  petitions  for  a  pure 
exhibit  at  the  Columbian  Exposition,  etc. 

Washington  County,  under  the  superintendence  of  Mrs.  G.  H. 
Cleaves,  reports:  ''The  work  of  Social  Purity  is  receiving  con- 
siderable attention,  and  much  has  been  accomplished  in  our  depart- 
ment the  past  year.  Calais  has  done  positive  work  in  removing  im- 
pure literature  from  barber  shops  and  soliciting  gentlemen  to  patron- 
ize only  such  as  will  be  willing  to  do  something  in  that  line." 

York  County  :  Has  done  a  good  work  in  some  of  her  Unions  in 
suppressing  objectionable  window  advertisements,  circulating  peti- 
tions, etc. 

Aroostook  County:  Has  done  good  work  in  a  few  of  her  Unions, 
though  without  a  County  Superintendent,  in  the  suppression  of  vile 
advertisements,  indecent  pictures  and  show  bills,  distributing  litera- 
ture, and  in  toning  up  public  sentiment. 

The  facts  of  this  report  have  been  largely  gleaned  fvotti  covve%- 
poadence  with  local  Superintendents  who  Vvave  vji\\Xexi  ta^  ^mvvw^ 


the  jear«  only  »  few  of  the  County  SaperinteiKients  hmring  reported. 

The  State  Law  regarding  obscene  books,  pictures,  etc.,  through 
ti.e  efforts  of  this  department,  was  amended  by  our  Legislature  bst 
x/jnter,  increasing  its  efficiency  and  penalties.  It  has  been  printed 
'.Aid  tent  to  all  County  Superintendents  and  by  them  to  the  locals, 
to  be  poftted  and  kept  posted  in  public  places,  schoolhouses,  post- 
o.iices,  etc.,  so  that  ^Hhe  people"  may  know  the  law  regarding  in- 
iltcent  papers,  pictures,  posters,  advertisements,  etc.,  etc. 

Not  less  than  forty  petitions  were  circulated  in  the  State  asking 
for  a  pure  exhibit  at  the  World's  Fair.  These  were  sent  to  Prof. 
Ives,  president  of  the  Department  of  Fine  Arts  in  Chicago.  All 
vile  advertisements,  pictures,  etc.,  that  have  come  into  our  hands 
have  been  sent  to  Anthony  Comstock,  to  suppress  these  evils  at  their 
source. 

Praying  that  a  brave,  true,  pure  woman  may  be  appointed 
and  do  **picket  duty"  in  this  department  in  every  Union  of  our 
State,  and  that  more  light  and  love  may  come  to  us  all. 

Yours  in  the  work, 

(MRS.)  AMELIA  L.  PAGE, 
State  Supt.  of  Purity  in  Literature  and  Art. 

NoTR. — Every  Union  having  a  Superintendent  of  "Suppression  of  Impure  Litera- 
ture" should  report  to  the  County  Superintendent  of  this  Department.  Thai  was 
merged  in  ihU  two  years  ago. — A.  L.  P. 


Mercy. 


In  the  work  of  this  department  during  the  past  year  there  has 
been  much  interest  manifested.  Our  women  are  quick  to  feel  that 
this  is  one  with  the  doctrine  of  Christianity,  and  are  ready  to  pro- 
mote in  this  way  the  gospel  of  Him  whose  command  is,  "Be  ye 
therefore  merciful  as  your  Father  also  is  merciful." 

Letters  have  been  sent  to  every  Union  in  our  State,  and  to  every 
County  Convention,  urging  the  adoption  of  this  department. 
Every  county  has  a  Superintendent,  except  Androscoggin,  Aroos- 
took, Knox,  Sagadahoc,  Somerset  and  Washington.  Twenty-two 
local  Unions  have  appointed  Superintendents. 

Mrs.  Maria  B.  Perry  is  doing  active  work  in  Hancock  County. 
The  Band  of  Mercy  at  Ellsworth  which  numbers  133  members  is 
receiving  practical  instruction,  and  the  boys,  especially,  are  being 
much  benefited.  Two  other  Bands,  one  numbering  30  members, 
have  been  formed  in  this  county. 

Mrs.  Nellie  Wade  Whitcomb  of  Dover  gives  an  encouraging  re- 
port of  the  work  in  Piscataquis  County.  Nearly  every  woman  at 
their  County  Convention  signed  the  pledge  against  wearing  birds 
on  bonnets,  and  this  pledge  is  now  being  circulated  in  all  their 
local  Unions.  Bird  leaflets  have  also  been  introduced  into  the  Sun- 
day Schools.  We  hope  the  '^Appeal"  will  be  circulated  freely,  and 
that  more  eflbrt  will  be  put  forth  for  the  protection  of  these  beautiful 
songsters  of  the  air.  Let  us  think  of  this,  and  of  the  blessings  the 
Creator  has  given  us  in  them. 

"  Think  of  your  woods  and  orchards  without  birds ! 
Whose  household  words  are  songs  in  many  keys, 
Sweeter  than  instrument  of'man  e'er  caught, 
Whose  habitations  in  the  tree-tops  even, 
Are  half  way  houses  on  the  road  to  Heaven. 

In  (Cumberland  County  the  Juvenile  and  Mercy  work  is  com- 
bined. The  Superintendent,  Mrs.  Elsie  H.  Cannel,  has  made  an 
effort  to  awaken  an  interest  in  the  nineteen  Unions  of  the  county, 
but  finds  a  lack  of  workers. 


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There  are  eleven  Bands  of  Mercy  now  organized,  with  a  pledged 
membership  of  248.  Besides  these  many  have  signed  the  pledge 
who  do  not  belong  to  an  organization.  Waldoboro  has  a  Band  of 
25  adult  members. 

North  Searsmont  has  secured  68  names  to  the  pledge  against  wear- 
ing birds,  and  Augusta,  50. 

In  Winthrop,  through  the  efforts  of  your  State  Superintendent,  a 
man  has  been  arrested  and  heavily  fined  for  over-driving  and  cruelly 
beating  his  horse. 

Our  State  nas  laws  which  will  help  much  in  the  work  if  we  arc 
active  in  getting  them  enforced. 

A  great  deal  has  been  done  for  this  department  through  the  circu- 
lation of  literature.  There  are  many  leaflets  now  in  print  which 
will  interest,  and  attract  attention,  and  we  hope  that  this  means  of 
reaching  people  will  not  be  forgotten. 

Let  us  as  members  of  a  Chris  tian  organization  whose  aim  is 
the  uplift  of  humanity,  be  careful  to  manifest  a  kind  and  merciful 
spirit,  and  be  on  the  alert  to  promote  in  all  ways  the  happiness  of 
our  fellowmen,  and  the  comfort  of  the  noble  creatures  God  has 
given  us  to  use.     Let  us  be  diligent  to 

"Teach  our  children  gentleness, 
And  mercy  to  the  weak,  and  reverence 
For  life,  which,  in  its  weakness  or  excess, 
Is  still  a  gleam  of  God*s  Omnipotence." 

CLARA  W.  MUMFORD. 


Evangelistic   Work. 


Again  we  gather  up  the  strands  of  our  county  reports  of  Evange- 
listic Work,  finding  them  composed  of  the  silken  threads  of  local 
reports,  while  these  in  turn  are  gathered  from  the  finer  filaments 
spun  in  the  experience  of  individual  lives.  When  we  have  passed 
on  to  our  State  report  it  will  be  twisted  into  that  larger  one  made  up 
of  all  the  States,  this  in  turn  with  that  of  the  World's  W.  C.  T.  U., 
proclaiming,  like  the  scarlet  cord  in  Scripture  to  all  the  friends  and 
enemies  of  David's  holy  son,  ''  Thine  are  we,  David,  and  on  thy 
side  thou  son  of  Jesse." 

Androscoggin  County  :  One  local  Union  reports  eleven  Gospel 
Temperance  meetings  held  ;  another,  monthly  Bible  readings  help 
through  the  summer;  still  another,  fortnightly  meetings  through  the 
year;  an  able  address  delivered  by  Mrs.  Emeline  Burlingame  Che- 
ney, also  one  by  Mrs.  J.  T.  Ellis  of  New  Jersey.  Last  spring  each 
Union  in  the  county  requested  its  pastor  to  preach  a  temperance 
sermon,  which  request  was  complied  with  in  nearly  every  instance ; 
pastors  all  through  the  county  helpful  and  in  sympathy  with  the 
work.  Much  other  work  done,  such  as  visiting,  praying  with  the 
sick,  etc. 

Aroostook  County :  Eight  of  the  local  Unions  have  appointed 
Superintendents  ;  Gospel  Temperance  meetings  have  been  held  with 
good  results ;  sick  have  been  visited,  poor  cared  for,  work  done  in 
Sunday  Schools,  religious  literature  distributed,  Bible  readings 
published  by  W.  T.  P.  A.,  also  other  readings  by  members  of 
Union,  and  prayer  meetings  held.  So  impressive  are  the  closing 
words  of  this  report  your  Superintendent  feels  they  have  a  place  in 
our  State  minutes,  as  well  as  in  all  our  hearts:  '*There  is  need 
of  the  Unions  being  aroused  to  see  the  importance  of  having  a 
Superintendent  of  Evangelistic  Work.  Much  christian  work  has 
been  done  in  a  general  way  that  could  have  been  done  more  effi- 
ciently had  it  been  made  a  special  department  under  the  care  of  a 


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Superintendent.  My  own  conviction  is,  that  just  in  proportion  as 
our  Unions  are  alive  spiritually,  so  will  they  be  alive  and  active  in 
all  these  departments  of  work." 

Cumberland  County,  reports :  Gospel  temperance  meetings  held 
in  many  of  its  Unions  ;  one  mass  meeting  held  by  four  united  Unions 
afternoon  and  evening,  in  which  several  of  the  pastors  and  their 
wives  took  part  and  which  was  addressed  by  Wm.  Y.  Hubbard  of 
Ohio,  the  prohibition  publisher,  Emeline  Tuttle,  former  missionary 
among  the  Modocs,  of  Dover,  N.  H.,  and  Elizabeth  Tenney  Larkin 
of  Peabody,  Mass.  Almshouses  have  been  visited  ;  more  than  forty 
thousand  pages  of  literature  distributed.  One  Union  has  held 
Mothers'  meetings  nearly  every  Thursday  p.  m.,  prayer  meetings, 
and  people  urged  to  attend  church.  This  Union  is  looking  for  a 
revival,  as  they  have  a  right  to  if  they  hold  to  the  promises  without 
wavering.  "A  little  more  faith  in  Jesus,  is  all  I  want/'  s...^s 
Amanda  Smith,  the  colored  evangelist. 

Franklin  County  reports :  One  Sabbath  School  established  at  a 
box  factory  last  January,  which  has  been  continued  with  increasing 
interest ;  two  open  air  preaching  services ;  and  general  work  done 
in  various  directions  with  co-operation  of  pastors. 

Kennebec  County  reports:  Bible  readings  in  many  of  its  Unions, 
temperance  meetings  in  four  Unions.  In  one,  three  temperance 
meetings  were  held,  and  one  on  social  evils;  consecration  meetings, 
large  amounts  of  literature  distributed,  quite  a  number  of  the  pastors 
responded  to  the  invitation  of  its  Evangelistic  Superintendent  to 
preach  temperance  sermons ;  families,  and  especially  the  sick  have 
been  visited,  the  bible  read  and  prayer  offered.  In  one  Union  in  the 
city  of  Augusta,  twenty-seven  drinking  houses  have  been  visited, 
thirty-three  places  where  rum  was  believed  to  be  sold,  six  hotels. 
The  inmates  of  all  these  have  been  invited  to  come  to  Christ  and 
forsake  sin.  More  than  three  hundred  articles  of  clothing  have  also 
been  distributed. 

Knox  County  :  We  know  fron  peisonal  knowledge  that  good 
and  efficient  work  has  been  done  more  than  appears  in  the  report 
and  that  many  of  its  city  pastors  preach  sermons,  give  addresses, 
and  lend  their  warmest  sympathy. 

Lincoln  County :  Has  done  much*  in  the  way  of  distribution  o  f 


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literature,  visiting  sick,  afflicted  and  poor,  pointing  them  to  Christ, 
and  inducing  children  to  attend  the  Sabbath  School,  and  non-church 
goers  to  attend  the  services  of  the  sanctuary. 

Penobscot  County :  Has  a  new  Superintendent,  able  and  suitable, 
who  will  be  heard  from  another  year  in  the  work  now  but  well  begun. 

Piscataquis :  Has  a  Superintendent  who  has  done  some  work  but 
sends  no  reports  from  her  different  local  Unions. 

Sagadahoc  :  Has  but  two  Unions  from  one  of  which  comes  the 
following  resume :  Forty-eight  Gospel  Temperance  meetings  have 
been  held ;  the  weekly  prayer  meeting  attended  through  the  year. 
Public  meetings  held  monthly  since  January,  at  which  times  matters 
of  interest  and  profit  are  discussed.  In  response  to  invitations  to 
pastors  by  the  Superintendent  to  preach  temperance  sermons  three 
out  of  four  responded. 

Somerset  County :  Reports  much  wayside  work  and  stirs  our 
hearts  to  pain  and  our  eyes  to  tears,  as  she  tells  us  of  many  places 
where  children  grow  up  without  hearing  the  gospel  or  entering  a 
church.  One  dear  local  Superintendent,  a  very  busy  woman,  who 
sometimes  leads  the  prayer  meeting,  says  she  has  to  make  what 
preparation  she  can  as  she  stands  behind  her  counter  selling  goods, 
and  thinking  and  praying  as  she  walks  to  the  meeting.  Pray  on 
blessed  gleaners !  and  the  Master  will  let  fall  rich  handfuls  on  pur- 
pose for  you. 

Waldo  County  Superintendent  reports  she  has  distributed  three 
hundred  pages  of  literature  ;  attended  meetings  at  jail  during  winter 
and  spring  in  company  with  white  ribbon  sisters ;  has  done  more 
work  in  season  and  out  of  season,  and  in  all  ways,  than  in  any  year 
before. 

Washington  County  :  Gives  most  interesting  report  of  work  done 
in  the  city  of  Eastport  where  they  have  two  Superintendents. 
These  devoted  sisters  have  done  work  angels  might  covet,  the  first 
holding  a  gospel  meeting  in  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  hall,  supplying  lead- 
ers or  leading  herself  in  the  absence  of  others,  and  having  charge 
of  the  Ringing -also.  These  meetings  were  held  Sunday  afternoon 
arid  were  greatly  enjoyed  by  the  people.  She  also  held  a  series  of 
prayer  meetings  at  her  own  house  on  a  week  night  of  each  week. 
These  meetings  have  been  a  great  blessing*  to  the  neighborhood  and 


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the  means  of  conveiting  some  intemperate  men  who  are  now 
earnest  christians,  one  of  whom  is  one  of  their  best  workers. 
During  the  warm  weather  these  ladies  held  open  air  meetings  at 
Fort  Sullivan,  which  were  led  by  the  pastors  of  the  diflerent 
churches  or  some  layman  invited  by  the  ladies.  These  meetings 
were  attended  largely  by  residents  who  were  non-church  goers  on  the 
ground  of  having  young  children,  lack  of  proper  clothing  and  other 
reasons;  the  meetings  have  increased  in  size  and  they  hope  to  ob- 
tain a  hall  from  the  city  authorities  when  it  becomes  too  cold  for  the 
open  air.     This  Union  has  distributed  a  large  amount  of  literature. 

York  County  :  Tells  of  one  Union  where  its  Superintendent  has 
made  forty  visits, distributed  three  hundied  garments  am^ng  the  poor, 
fruit  and  food  for  the  comft>rt  and  cheer  of  the  sick  and  dying. 
Another  whose  Superintendent  is  a  city  missionary  in  Saco  says  that 
during  the  year  she  has  led  every  month  from  four  to  eight  prayer 
meetings, visited  and  read  the  bible  to  the  sick,  clothed  the  naked,  fed 
the  hungry,  held  many  cottage  meetings,  and  that  men  who  have 
been  rescued  at  these  meetings  from  their  cups  are  pressing  on  in 
the  better  life,  and  that  there  is  a  marked  improvement  in  this  city 
among  the  women  and  children.  In  Saco  as  in  some  other  places 
the  Salvation  Army  becomes  an  efficient  ally,  through  its  noble 
stand  for  total  abstinence  and  prohibition. 

For  the  first  time  your  Superintendent  has  reported  only  as  the 
County  Superintendents  have  reported  to  her,  as  they  have  not 
hitherto  been  sufficiently  well  organized.  It  will  be  seen  that  all 
but  two  counties  have  been   heard  from. 

Your  Superintendent  would  most  earnestly  recommend  more 
diligent  study  of  God's  word,  more  faithfulness  in  prayer  for  each 
other,  remembering  that  we  are  living  in  the  last  days  of  which  it 
was  prophesied  that  the  spirit  should  be  poured  out  upon  ''daugh- 
ters" and  upon  '^handmaidens'*  and  that  "the  women  who  publish 
the  tidings  should  be  a  great  host.**  It  lies  with  us  dear  sisters  so 
to  fulfill  the  divine  conditions  of  our  being  that  when  our  work  is 
ended  here  it  shall  begin  in  the  realm  of  eternal  certainties. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

LUCY  A.  SNOW, 
State  Supt,  JBvangelistic  Work. 


Flower  Mission  Work. 


Madam  President  and  Members  of  the  Convention : 

This  year  re[>orts  have  been  received  from  eleven  counties,  four 
of  which  did  not  send  in  reports  last  year.  Following  is  the  sum- 
mary of  the  work  done,  as  far  as  reported : 

Androscoggin  County  :  At  Lewiston  the  local  Superintendent  has 
distributed  about  200  bouquets.  At  Auburn,  flowers  have  been  sent 
to  the  sick,  the  Aged  Women's  Home,  and  the  county  jail.  At 
Mechanic  Falls,  flowers  and  delicacies  have  been  sent  to  the  sick 
and  "shut-ins."  At  Greene,  bouquets  were  furnished  for  the  soldiers, 
and  the  church  decorated  for  temperance  meetings;  also  flowers  to 
the  sick  and  sorrowing. 

Aroostook  County  :  There  are  fifteen  local  Superintendents,  six 
new  ones  having  been  added  this  past  year.  Eight  have  sent  in  re- 
ports. The  reported  number  of  bouquets  distributed  were  three 
hundred  and  thirty-three  (333)*  Delicacies  have  been  carried  to 
the  sick  and  clothi^ig  to  the  poor.  The  almshouse  and  jail  have 
been  visited. 

Cumberland  County  :  Out  of  twenty-one  Unions,  fourteen  have 
Flower  Mission  departments.     All  carry  on  an  active  work. 

Franklin  County  :  The  ninth  of  June  was  observed  throughout 
the  county.  Flowers  were  carried  to  the  sick,  aged  and  imprisoned 
during  the  season. 

Hancock  County  :  Ellsworth  Union  has  sent  bouquets  to  the  sick 
and  **shut-ins,"  and  Flower  Mission  Day  was  observed  by  carrying 
l)Ouquets  to  the  jail.  Southwest  Harbor  reports  one  hundred  and 
twenty  (120)  boiquets  distributed  to  the  sick,  *'shut-ins,"  and 
funerals. 

Knox  County  :  Warren  Union  has  sent  fruit  and  flowers  to  the 
sick,  collected  two  packages  of  literature  for  the  prison  and  fur- 
nished flowers  for  Prison  Day.  The  Unions  united  as  usual  in  send- 
ing bouquets  to  the  State  Prison  on  Prison  Day,  at  which  time  Mrs. 
J.  R.  Barney  made   a  most  touching  and  helpful  address.     Thom- 


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aston  Union  has  taken  flowers  to  the  women  at  other  times. 
Rockland  Union  has  distributed  bouquets  and  deh'cacies  to  the  sick ; 
also  beautiful  floral  tributes  oflfered  to  their  promoted  members. 

Lincoln  County  :  At  Damariscotta  flowers  have  been  sent  to  the 
sick.  Much  interest  has  been  shown  in  this  work.  Waldoboro 
Union  has  decorated  the  church,  remembered  the  sick  and  sent 
sweet  messages  to  those  in  affliction.  On  Flower  Mission  Day 
thirty-five  (35)  bouquets  were  given  to  the  sick.  Clothing  and  food 
have  been  distributed  to  the  poor. 

Oxford  County  :  Norway  Union  has  distributed  to  the  sick  bou- 
quets tied  with  white  ribbon  with  scripture  cards  attached. 

Penobscot  County  :  The  Bangor  Crusade  observed  Floral  Sun- 
day in  Penobscot  County  jail.  Sixty-five  bouquets  were  given  out 
each  having  a  scripture  card  attached  to  it  by  a  knot  of  ribbon.  On 
other  days  flowers  were  carried  to  the  sick  and  into  darkened  homes. 

Waldo  County  :  Belfast  Union  carried  bouquets  tied  with  white 
ribbon  each  having  a  scripture  card  attached,  to  the  jail,  almshouse, 
sick,  and  ^^shut-ins ;"  they  have  also  distributed  literature.  Sears- 
mont  Union  has  done  a  good  work  in  this  department.  Waldo 
Union  has  carried  flowers  to  the  sick,  afflicted,  and  on  all  funeral 
occasions. 

Washington  County  :  Cherryfield  observed  Flower  Mission  Day  ; 
the  almshouse  was  visited  by  two  white-ribboners,  carrying  bou- 
quets, fruit  and  jellies  ;  also  all  aged  and  sick  were  visited.  Seventy- 
eight  (78)  bouquets  were  distributed  during  the  summer  besides 
several  pieces  for  funerals.  Pembroke  observed  June  9th  by  visiting 
all  sick  and  "shut-ins"  with  bouquets. 

York  County  :  Biddeford  reports  flowers  sent  to  the  sick  and 
*'8hut-ins.*'  South  Berwick  Y*s  have  distributed  bouquets,  furnished 
potted  plants  to  a  sick  girl,  provided  the  Grand  Army  with  flowers 
for  Memorial  Dav.  Cornish  has  distributed  flowers  in  connection 
with  their  charitable  work.  Kennebec  distributed  fifty  (50)  bouquets. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

EDITH  E.  LIBBY, 
State  Supt,  Plower  Mission  Work. 


Temperance  Work  at  Fairs. 


In  presenting  my  fifth  annual  report,  I  cannot  tell  you  that  all  the 
Unions  in  the  State  have  enlisted  in  temperance  work  at  Fairs,  but 
am  rejoiced  in  the  steady  growth  and  increasing  interest  manifested. 

Both  County  and  Local  Superintendents  have  been  appointed  in 
all  the  counties  except  two,  some  of  whom  have  never  failed  to  do 
great  credit  to  the  counties  which  they  represent ;  not  only  by  calling 
the  attention  of  the  Unions  to  the  importance  of  the  work,  but  by 
their  personal  efibrts  on  the  Fair-grounds,  to  create  a  sentiment  for 
total  abstinence  and  prohibition,  and  present  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  work 
to  the  farmers'  wives  and  daughters,  by  free  distribution  of  literature. 

The  Auburn  and  Lewiston  Unions,  as  for  the  past  seven  years, 
were  alert  for  weeks  previous  in  arranging  for  work  at  the  State 
Fair.  Competent  soliciting  committees  canvassed  both  cities  for 
food  for  their  restaurants,  and  the  good  citizens  responded  gener- 
ously. Each  restaurant  was  prettily  decorated,  so  as  to  look  as 
attractive  as  possible.  Hot  meals  were  served  each  day,  and  lunches 
at  all  hours  during  the  Fair.  Both  restaurants  were  well  patronized. 
The  Agricultural  Board  were  courteous  as  ever.  The  Messrs. 
Ricker  kindly  furnislied  Poland  Spring  Water  for  the  Auburn  res- 
taurant, which  was  free  to  the  thirsty.  The  State  Department 
furnished  200  copies  of  the  Star;  the  Sabattis,  Mechanic  Falls,  and 
Auburn  Unions  furnished  Union  Signals  and  3,000  leaflets,  which 
were  freely  distributed  by  your  Superintendent,  and  gladly  received. 
I  never  appreciated  the  precious  opportunity  for  seed  sowing  as  I 
did  at  that  Fair.  Ladies  were  eager  to  ask  questions  in  regard  to 
our  department  work  ;  one  lady  who  desired  to  adopt  a  little  girl, 
sought  the  address  of  our  State  Superintendent  of  Homes  for 
Homeless  Children  ;  another  lady  said  she  would  have  her  name 
proposed  for  membership  at  the  next  local  meetingof  the  W.C.T.U. 
in  her  city.  The  Durham  Union  intend  to  be  represented  at  their 
Fair  to  be  held  later. 


108 

You  will  see  by  the  above  that  Androscoggin  County  Unions  arc 
alive  to  the  good  work,  an  example  for  those  Unions  living  remote 
from  the  Fair-grounds  to  follow. 

Aroostook  County  reports  2,000  pages   of  literature  beside  150 

leaflets  distributed  at  the  Fair  held  at  Presque  Isle,  too  late  to  report 

last  season. 

Cumberland  County :      New  Gloucester  Union,  although    in  its 

infancy  distributed  literature  at  the  Fair  held  in  their  town  last  season. 

Kennebec  County  :     The  Winthrop  Union  furnished  S,ooo   pages 

of  literature  and  Mrs.  Baker,  the  County  Superintendent,  distributed 

it  at  the  Readfield  Fair.     South  China  reports   some  work  done. 

China  W.  C.  T.  U.  distributed    literature  at  a  Fair  held   by  their 

Union. 

At  the  North  Knox  Fair  which  was  held  at  Union  the  W.  C.  T.  U. 

of  that  place  furnished  meals  and  took  $28.00,  and  also  distributed 

100  copies  of  the  Union  Signal, 

Mrs.  Carey,  the  Sagadahoc  County  Superintendent,  sends  a  most 
excellent  report.  Says  that  on  her  arrival  at  the  County  Fair  at 
Topsham  she  was  introduced  to  the  one  in  charge  and  was  given  the 
privilege  of  selecting  her  place  in  the  hall,  which  she  made  attrac- 
tive with  sea  shells  and  an  engraving  of  Frances  Willard.  The 
women  in  attendance  gave  her  a  cordial  greeting,  said  they  enjoyed 
the  literature  they  received  last  year,  and  were  eager  for  it  this  year. 
Several  ladies  asked  the  price,  and  seemed  surprised  when  told  that 
it  was  presented  by  the  Bath  VV.  C.  T.  U.  Distributed  100  Union 
Signals^  200  pages  Peace  Tracts  and  Leaflets  beside  25  Mission 
Day  Springs  to  the  children.  Some  of  the  children  were  interested 
to  hear  about  the  Loyal  Temperance  Legion.  Many  ladies  wished 
the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union  '*God  Speed." 

The  Superintendent  of  Washington  County  writes:  ''The  Cherry- 
field  Union  had  a  Booth  opened  as  usual  on  the  Fair-ground,  where 
we  gave  cold  water  and  literature.  Sold  hot  coffee  and  dinners  to 
all  who  called." 

Mrs.  Holden,  the  Oxford  County  Superintendent,  reports  the  fol- 
lowing literature  distributed  at  the  County  Fair  at  Norway  :  250 
copies  Star  ;  Timely  Talksy  420 ;  Signal  Lights^  200 ;  National 
Leaflets^  50;  other  literature  1,000  pages.  East  Brownfield  dis- 
tributed 550  pages.     Total  3,200  pages. 


109 

York  County — Mrs.  Bagley  of  Springvale  writes  :  **A  Superin 
tendent  was  appointed  by  the  president  of  the  Union  to  work  on  the 
Fair  ground  at  Springvale,  Sept.  20-23.  ^^^  name  was  withheld 
from  even  the  members  of  the  Union,  that  blame  or  praise  rest  upon 
the  Union  as  a  whole,  and  not  on  one  member  alone.  The  Union 
voted  to  contribute  all  the  money  needed  for  the  work,  also  that 
the  Superintendent  use  any  methods  that  she  thought  best ;  result 
was,  that  6ve  gamblers  who  had  started  in  to  do  a  flourishing  busi- 
ness were  ordered  to  leave  the  ground.  They  left  in  a  hurry,  while 
the  sixth  refused  to  go;  he  was  arrested,  locked  up  over  night  and 
the  next  day  was  fined  $10.69.  The  two  officers  hired  by  the 
W.  C.  T.  U.  did  well.  The  ground  was  covered  with  white-rib- 
boners  from  Lebanon,  Sanford,  and  Springvale.  The  officers 
thought  they  were  all  watching  them,  and  so  did  their  duty  ;  they 
were  mistaken,  as  there  was  but  one  member  that  knew  how  the 
work  was  being  carried  on  until  after  it  was  all  over.  Our  town  is 
beginning  to  understand  that  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  is  a  live  organization. 

Maine  W.  C.  T.  U.  did  its  part  toward  making  the  National 
Exhibit  at  the  World's  Fair. 

Dear  sisters,  let  us  take  courage,  and  embrace  the  opportunities 
given  us  to  meet  the  masses  at  every  Fair  held  in  our  State,  that  my 
successor  may  see  grand  results,  and  that  sower  and  reaper  may  re- 
joice together. 

MRS.  SUSAN  FRENCH, 

State  Supt,  of  Temperance  Work  at  Fairs. 


Legislation  and  Petition. 


In  reviewing  the  work  of  the  past  year,  we  would  like  very  much 
to  8ay  to  you,  that  all  of  our  petitions  and  efforts  were  successful. 
But  you  well  know  that  the  *' best  laid  schemes  o'  mice  an'  men 
gang  aft  a-gley,"  and  why  not  woman's  occasionally?  We  have 
proof  of  the  change  in  the  public  opinion  in  Maine,  and  we  may 
thank  God  and  take  courage,  that  this  first  step  in  political  justice 
passed  in  the  Senate  and  lacked  but  nine  votes  in  the  Maine  House 
of  Representatives  of  giving  municipal  suffrage  to  women.  That 
great  petition  of  the  W.C.  T.  U.  in  which  we  are  interested,  and 
glad  to  have  our  names  enrolled  with  three  million  of  representative 
women  of  different  nations,  with  the  names  pasted  on  cloth,  bound 
with  red  and  blue  and  rolled  in  large  bales,  attracts  more  attention 
than  anything  else  at  the  World's  and  National  W.  C.  T.  U.  exhibit. 

Androscoggin  County  :  Some  of  the  Unions  report  a  number  of 
petitions  circulated.  A  number  of  ladies  interested  in  the  suffrage 
petition  were  present  at  the  hearing  before  the  Legislature 

Aroostook  has  not  replied. 

Cumberland  County — Mrs.  S.  M.  Grant,  Supt.,  writes:  An  im- 
mense amount  of  work  has  been  done.  The  suffrage  petition  at 
So.  Portland  had  50  signers,  all  women,  25  of  them  tax-payers. 
Behind  that  petition  was  a  w  oman  with  a  purpose  who  will  rest  not 
until  that  purpose  is  accomplished. 

Franklin  County  :  Mrs.  Beedy  has  looked  after  that  department, 
and  we  may  know  work  has  been  done. 

Hancock  County  has  a  Superintendent,  but  nu  report  of  work  done. 

Kennebec  County — Mrs.  H.  J.  Bailey,  Supt.,  writes:  ''We  have 
been  looking  out  for  opportunities  to  prevent  the  introduction  of 
more  evils  than  we  now  have,  as  well  as  to  suppress  those  from 
which  we  are  now  suffering." 

Knox  County — Mrs.  A.  E.  Bradford  :  Has  not  been  idle  in  her 
department,  and  some  of  the  Unions  have  circulated  petitions. 


Ill 

Penobscot  County — Mrs.  E.  R.  Horton,  Supt.,  says:  ''Our  peo- 
ple are  grand  in  work  but  poor  in  reporting.  Of  19  Unions  to  which 
cards  were  sent,  only  seven,  including  our  Union,  replied." 

Piscataquis  County — Mrs.  E.  D.  Straw,  Supt.,  reports:  A  large 
number  of  names  secured  for  municipal  suffrage  for  women  ;  other 
petitions  circulated. 

Somerset  County :  Mrs.  M.  F.  Bunker  has  attended  to  petitions 
and  legislative  work. 

Sagadahoc  County  reports :  No  Superintendent. 

Waldo  County — Mrs.  Emily  F.  Miller,  Supt.,  reports  :  Five  peti- 
tions circulated. 

Washington  County — Mrs.  Lizzie  Frost,  Supt,  has  no  report,  but 
we  learn  work  has  been  done. 

York  County,  Mrs.  S.  P.  Smith  :  Is  doing  good  work. 

So  along  the  line  very  much  the  same  work  has  been  done.  Thir- 
teen different  petitions  have  been  circulated  in  some  counties.  We 
hope  to  have  the  National  Plan  of  Work  to  send  to  every  Union  not 
having  a  Superintendent  of  this  department,  that  the  importance  of 
the  work  may  be  more  clearly  seen.  Through  this  truly  educative 
division  much  valuable  legislation  has  been  secured,  and  there  is 
more  to  follow.  Believing  firmly  in  the  ballot  as  a  means  of  pro- 
tection against  the  organized  saloon  powers,  we  endeavor  through 
various  methods  to  secure  that  power  for  women. 

"  Oh,  Sister  1  Do  what  you  can, 

Not  what  you  cannot ; 

Not  what  you  think  might  be  done, 

Not  what  you  would  like  to  do ; 

Not  what  you  would  do  if  you  had  more  time, 

Not  what  somebody  else  thinks  you  ought  to  do, 

But  what  you  can." 

For  God  and  home  and  every  land. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

(MRS.)  L.  C.  LAMB, 
State  Supt.  Legislation  and  Petition. 


Errata — Mrs.  L.   C.   Lamb's  address  should  be  Livermore   Falls  instead  of 
Auburn  as  printed  in  the  directory  of  Superintendents  of  Departments. 


Franchise. 


The  cause  of  Equal  Rights  never  looked  brighter  than  this  year. 
Though  your  Superintendent  has  received  the  reports  from  but  four 
Unions — Presque  Isle,  Stroudwater,  North  Searsmont  and  Machias, 
all  report  gains  in  public  sentiment.  Many  leaflets  are  being  circu- 
lated and  several  lectures  have  been  given  on  the  subject,  all  ot 
which  have  been  productive  of  much  better  feeling  in  regard  to  the 
reform,  and  indicates  that  the  time  is  drawing  near  when  the  prin- 
ciples imbodied  in  the  Dechiration  of  Independence  shall  be  ap- 
plied to  all  citizens,  irrespective  of  sex. 

ANN  F.  GREELY, 
State  Supt,  of  Franchise. 


Peace  and  Arbitration. 


During  the  past  year  the  State  Superintendent  has  sent  circulars, 
leaflets  and  sample  copies  of  our  ofHcial  papers,  77/r  Pacific  Ban- 
ner and  TheAcorn,^Xo  every  Union  in  the  State.  Many  inquiries 
concerning  the  work  have  been  received.  The  World's  Superinten- 
dent has  sent  The  Banner  gratuitously  to  miniy  clergymen. 
Interest  in  the  work  is  increasing. 

Winthrop  Centre  reports:  Distribution  of  1,700  pages  of  litera- 
ture. Mrs.  H.  J.  Bailey  has  sent  1,200  copies  of  The  Pacific 
Banner  and  1,000  copies  of  The  Acorn,  Dr.  B.  F.  Trueblood, 
secretary  of  the  American  Peace  Society^  through  Mrs.  Bailey's 
instrumentality,  lectured  at  Winthrop  ;  also  before  the  scliools  at  Oak 
Grove  and  Kent's  Hill.  One  public  meeting  has  been  held.  A 
lecture  has  slIso  been  given  by  John  F.Hatvsotv  awd  v^\^^. 


US 

At  Manchester  a  vigorous  Peace  Band  has  kept  the  children  busy. 

Turner  reports  literature  distributed  and  several  copies  of  TTie 
Acorn  taken.     Searsmont  also  reports  the  distribution  of  literature. 

Augusta  Union,  Phebe  Wadsworth,  Supt.  reports:  During  the 
past  year  we  have  distributed  over  500  pages  of  leaflets  in  the  jail, 
in  the  State  House,  in  stores,  in  cars,  in  places  of  worship,  etc.  Peace 
items  have  been  occasionally  sent  to  four  local  newspapers.  Seven 
children  have  signed  the  Children's  Peacemakers  Pledge.  All  the 
pastors  were  invited  to  preach  Peace  sermons  on  Peace  Day.  On 
the  25th  of  December  a  Peace  talk  was  given  by  the  local  Superin- 
tendent.    Seven  copies  of  Banner  and  eight  copies  of  Acorn  are 

taken. 

China  reports  one  Peace  sermon  preached  by  a  local  pastor,  five 

subscribers  to  TTie  Acorn ^  and  about  50  ppges  of  literature   dis- 
tributed. 

South  China  reports  an  excellent  Peace  lecture  by  Wm.  G.  Hub- 
bard, who  also  did  some  personal  work  for  the  cause;  J.  H. 
Hanson  and  wife  also  lectured  on  the  subject.  About  500  pages  of 
literature  have  been  distributed  and  a   few   copies  of  The   Acorn 

taken. 

At  Monmouth,  literature  has  been  distributed,  and  a  wall  pock(t 

put  in  the  railroad  station. 

Popham  Beach  reports :  400  pages  of  literature  distributed.  A 
debate  on  the  "  Peace  vs.  War"  has  been  held.  One  sermon  has 
been  preached,  the  pastor  remarking  that  there  was  no  subject  he 
better  enjoyed  speaking  on. 

The  Superintendent  at  Cherryfield  reports  as  follows:  ''  Litera- 
ture pertaining  to  the  subject  has  been  distributed,  particularly  to 
the  young.  As  we  have  no  Peace  Band  in  our  community,  Gen- 
eral Peace  Day  (the  third  Sabbath  in  December)  was  observed  by 
the  young  of  *'  The  Loyal  Legion  "  by  carrying  out  the  pro- 
gramme suggested  by  the  World's  Superintendent,  with  a  few 
additions.  The  exercises  were  presided  over  by  our  W.  C.  T.  U. 
President,  assisted  by  Superintendents  of  Loyal  Legion  and  Peace 
and  Arbitration.  By  request,  able  and  eloquent  sermons  were 
preached  by  the  pastors  of  the  Congregational  and  Methodist 
churches.  The  sermons  were  favorably  commented  on  by  the  lead- 
ing men  of  our  town." 


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Belfast  has  no  Superintendent,  but  articles  in  the  interest  of  peace 
are  often  read  aloud  in  the  regular  meetings  and  TTie  Acorn  is  dis- 
tributed among  ihe  children  of  the  L.  T.  L. 

At  Madison,  i  ii  leaflets  have  been  placed  in  wall  pockets. 

At  Bath,  200  pages  of  literature  were  distributed  at  the  County 
Fair;  300  pages  were  placed  on  outgoing  vessels,  and  500  pages 
distributed  elsewhere.  One  L.  T.  L.  has  taken  up  as  a  part  of  their 
exercises  three  of  our  Bible  readings. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

ALICE  MAY  DOUGLAS, 

State  Supt.  Peace  and  Arbitration, 


CONSTITUTION 

OF 

Maine  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union. 


PREAMBLE. 

We,  Christian  women  of  this  State,  alarmed  at  the  dan^r  and  tendencies 

of  intemperance  and  kindred  evils,  believe  it  to  be  our  duty,  under  the  pro- 

▼idence  of  God,  to  unite  our  efforts  for  their  extinction.     That  we  may  the 

more  successfully  prosecute  this  work,  we  adopt  the  following  pledge  and 

constitution. 

PLEDGE. 

I  hereby  solemnly  promise,  God  helping  me,  to  abstain  from  all  distilled, 
fermented,  and  malt  liquors,  including  wine  and  cider,  and  to  employ  all 
proper  means  to  discourage  the  use  of  and  traffic  in  the  same. 


CONSTITUTION. 


ARTICLE  I— Name. 
The  organization  shall  be  known  as  the  Maine  Woman's  Christian  Tem- 
perance Union,  auxiliary  to  the  National  Woman's  Christian  Temperance 
Union.  Its  object  shall  be  to  enlist  the  women  of  this  State  in  the 
promotion  of  the  cause  of  temperance,  and  of  the  various  branches  of  work 
xeoommended  by  the  National  Union  ;  to  make  permanent  the  work  already 
accomplished  and  to  secure  the  organization  of  a  local  Union  in  every  place 
in  the  State  where  it  is  practicable. 

ARTICLE  II— Officers. 

The'officers  of  this  Union  shall  be  a  President,  one  Vice-Preeident  from 
each  county  (the  President  of  each  being  ex-officio  Vice-President  of  the 
State  Union),  a  Corresponding  Secreiary,  a  Recording  Secretary,  an  Assist- 
ant Recording  Secretary  and  a  Treasurer,  who  together  shall  constitute  an 
Executiye  Committee,  of  whom  seven  shall  be  a  quorum. 


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ARTICLE  ni— Mrmbebship. 

The  annual  meeting  shall  be  composed  of  the  Executive  Committee, 

State  Superintendents  of  Departments,  State  Organiz'TS,  Secretaries  and 

Treasurers  of  County  Unions,  the  President,  and  one  delegate-at-large,  and 

one  delegate  for  every  twenty-five  paying  members  of  each  auxiliary  Union. 

ARTICLE  IV— AuxiLiAKiEs. 
Any  society  of  women,  regularly  organized  under  the  supenrision  or 
approval  of  the  State  officers,  and  adopting  the  Constitution  of  this  organ- 
ization, including  a  total  abstinence  pledge,  and  a  paying  fee  of  thirty  cents 
per  member  annually  to  State  Treasurer  (ten  cents  of  which  shall  be  paid 
by  her  to  the  National  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union)  is  auxiliary 
to  the  Maine  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union. 

ARTICLE  V— Meetinos. 
The  annual  meeting  shall  be  held  at  some  time  within  September  or  Octo- 
ber, in  such  place  as  may  be  decided  by  a  vote  of  the  Executive  Committee. 

ARTICLE  VI— Amendments. 
The  Constitution  may  be  altered  or  amended  by  vote  of  two-thirds  of  the 
delegates  present  at  the  annual  meeting,  provided  notice  has  been  given 
at  the  previous  annual  meeting. 


BY-LAWS. 


ARTICLE  I— Duties  of  Officers. 

Sec.  1 .  President,  In  case  of  the  illness  or  death  of  the  President,  the 
duties  of  her  office  shall  devolve  upon  the  Oeneral  Officers  in  the  order  of 
their  election. 

Sec.  2.  The  President  may,  through  the  Recording  Secretary,  call  special 
meetings  of  the  Executive  Committee,  when  she  may  deem  it  necessary,  or 
in  response  to  the  written  request  of  any  seven  members  of  the  Executive 
Committee,  in  which  case  the  topics  to  be  considered  at  the  meeting  shall 
be  stated,  and  she  shall  perform  all  other  duties  usual  to  such  office. 

Sec.  3.  Vice- President .  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  each  Vice-President  to 
aid  and  foster  the  work  of  the  Union  in  her  county,  and  to  arrange  for  and 
preside  at  conventions  in  her  county,  co-operating  with  the  General  Officers 
of  the  State  in  carying  out  their  plans  for  the  prosecution  of  the  work,  mak- 
ing a  report  semi-annually  to  the  Corresponding  Secretary  of  the  State  Union. 


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Qec,  4.  Corresponding  Secretary,  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Correspond- 
ing Secretary  to  conduct  the  correspondence  of  the  organization  and  to  per- 
form all  duties  usual  to  such  office.  She  shall  also  send  to  the  Secretary  of 
each  local  Union  at  least  twice  a  year  a  blank  similar  to  those  used  by  the 
National  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union  Corresponding  Secretary, 
to  be  filled  as  a  semi-annual  report.  From  these  reports  she  shall  collate 
her  own  report  for  the  annual  meeting. 

Sec.  5.  Recording  Secretary.  The  Recording  Secretary  shbll  attend 
all  meetings  of  the  Union,  the  Executive  Committee  and  the  General  Offi- 
cers, and  shall  keep  correct  record  of  their  proceedings.  She  shall  send  to 
each  member  of  the  Executive  Committee  a  notice  of  such  meetings.  She 
shall  appraise  members  of  committees  of  their  appointment.  At  the  first 
meeting  of  each  annual  session  she  shall  read  in  their  order,  for  action  by 
said  meeting,  the  minutes  of  all  meetings  and  shall  perform  all  other 
duties  usually  pertaining  to  such  office. 

Sec.  6.  Treasurer,  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Treasurer  to  keep  ac- 
curate account  of  all  receipts  and  disbursements  of  money,  and  to  present  a 
detailed  report  thereof  at  each  annual  meeting.  She  shall  pay  no  bills  ex- 
cept on  an  order  signed  by  the  President.  The  fiscal  year  shall  terminate 
one  week  previous  to  the  annual  meeting,  and  the  books  shall  then  be  closed. 
At  the  annual  meeting  she  shall  give  to  the  Corresponding  Secretary  the 
whole  number  of  delegates  to  which  each  local  Union  is  entitled  according 
to  the  amount  of  dues  paid,  and  shall  perform  all  other  duties  usually  per- 
taining to  such  office. 

Sec.  7.  Superintendents.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Superintendents 
to  originate,  to  advise,  and  to  direct  plans  of  work  relating  to  their  several 
departments ;  to  correspond  and  to  co-operate  with  County  Superinten- 
dents, and  to  report  to  the  annual  meeting  work  proposed  and  work  accom- 
plished. They  shall  be  required  to  give  an  itemized  account  of  their  re- 
ceipts and  expend.tures  in  department  work. 

ARTICLE   II— Election. 

Sec.  1.  The  officers,  with  the  exception  of  the  Vice-Presidents,  and 
Assistant  Recording  Secretary  (the  latter  shall  be  nominated  by  the  Re- 
cording Secretary  and  elected  by  acclamation,  unless  otherwise  ordered) 
shall  be  elected  by  ballot  on  the  morning  of  the  last  day  of  the  annual 
meeting. 


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Sec.  2.  Vacancies  in  DtlegaJtions.  Each  delegation  may  fill  its  quota 
by  visiting  members  from  its  own  auxiliary ;  if  any  Vice-President  is  ab- 
sent, said  county  may  be  represented  on  the  Executive  Committee  by  a 
member  of  its  delegation. 

Skc.  3.  Voting.  General  Officers,  Superintendents  of  Departments, 
State  Organizers,  and  ex-officio  mcmbtrs  shall  vote  in  person. 

Sec.  4.  Tellers.  Tellers  having  been  appointed  by  the  meeting,  an  in- 
formal ballot  shall  be  cast  for  each  officer  separately,  and  the  members  of 
the  Convention  shall   then   proceed  to  vote  by  ballot  for  the  person  thus 

nominated. 

Sec.  5.     Superintendents,     Superintendents  shall  be  nominated  by  the 

Executive  Committee  and  elected  by  the  annual  meeting:     Their  election 

shall  be  by  acclamation,  unless  otherwise  ordered. 

Sec.  6.      Vacancies.     The  Executive  Committee  may  fill  any  vacancies 

occurring  in  the  interim  of  annual  meetings. 

ARTICLE  III.— Commit  IKES. 

Sec.  1.     The  following  committees  shall  be  chosen  on  the  first  day  of  the 

^nnual  meeting:  On  Credentials,  on  Business,  On  Resolutions.     The  last 

shall  consist  of  one  delegate  from  each  county,  chosen  by  the  delegation  of 

her  county. 

Skc  2.     An  Aiullti;i<^  Committee  shall   be  appointed  by  the  General 

Officers  in   the  interim  of  the  annual  meetings. 

AHTIC'LE  IV. — Individual  Mkmbers. 

Sfc.  I.  Any  pledged  womai  in  a  community  where  there  is  no  local 
Union  may  become  a  mcmber-at-large  of  the  State  Union  by  the  payment 
of  an  annual  fe<  of  fifty  cents,  ten  cents  of  which  shall  be  paid  to  the  Na- 
tional Woman's  C'hristian  Temperance  Union. 

Sec.  2.  Any  woman  may  become  a  life  member  by  signing  the  pledge, 
and  paying  ten  dollars  at  one  time  to  th^  State  Treasurer;  and  any  man 
may  become  an  honorary  member  by  signing  the  pledge  and  by  the  pay- 
ment of  one  dollar  annually. 

ARTICLE  V. — Dkpartment  of  Organization. 
The  Department  of  Organization  shall  be  in  charge  of  the  General  Offi- 
cers, and  organizers  appoinieil  by  them  shall  be  reported  to  the  Convention 

and  entitled  to  a  seat. 

ARTICLE  VI. 
These  By-laws  may  be  amended  by  a  two-thirds  vote  of  the  members 
present  at  any  annual  meeting. 


LOCAL  CONSTITUTION. 


ARTICLE  I.— Name. 
This  organization  shall  be  known  as  the Woman's  Christian  Tem- 
perance Union,  auxiliary  to  the  Maine  Woman's  Christian   Temperance 
Union. 

PLEDGE. 
I  hereby  solemnly  promise,  Ood  helping  me,  to  abstain  from  all  distilled, 
fermented  and  malt  liquors,  including  Wine,  Beer  and  Cider,  and  to  em- 
ploy all  proper  means  to  discourage  the  use  of  and  traffic  in  the  same. 

ARTICLE  IL— Object. 
The  object  of  this  Union  shall  be  to  educate  public  sentiment  up  to  the 
standard  of  total  abstinence,  train  the  young,  savp  the  inebriate,  and  aim 
to  secure  the  complete  banishment  of  the  liquor  traffic. 

ARTICLE  III.— Membership. 

Any  woman  may  become  a  member  of  this  organization  by  signing  the 

constitution  (including  the  pledge)  and  by  the  payment  of  per  year 

into  the  Treasury,  30  cents  of  which  shall  be  paid  the  State  Union.  Ten 
cents  of  that  amount  the  State  Treasurer  sends  to  the  National  Woman's 
Christian  Temperance  Union. 

Where  it  is  deemed  necessary  the  following  article  may  be  inscited: 

Any  woman  may  become  a  member  of  this  organization  by  a  two- thirds 
▼ote  at  any  legal  meeting  and  by  signing  the  constitution  and  pledge  and 
paying  the  regular  dues  and  continuing  to  do  so  annually. 

Gentlemen  may  become  honorary  members  by  signing  the  pledge  and  the 
payment  of  one  dollar  a  year,  all  of  which  shall  be  retained  for  home  work. 

ARTICLE  IV.— Officers. 
The  officers  of  this  organization  shall  be  a  President,  Vice-Presidents, 
one  from  each  church  when  practicable,  a  Corrcs[)on(ling  Secretary,  Record- 
ing Secretary  and  Treasurer,  who  shall  constitute  an  Executive  Committee. 

ARTICLE  V. — Duties  of  Officers. 
Sec.  1.     President  to  call  to  order  and  open  the  meetings. 
To  announce  the  business  before  the  meeting  in  the  order  in  which  it  is 
to  be  acted  upon. 


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To  put  to  vote  all  questions  which  ha^^e  been  regularly  moved  and 
seconded,  and  to  announce  the  result. 

To  preserve  oider,  and  to  decide,  when  referred  to,  all  questions  of 
order  or  practice  which  may  arise. 

To  append  her  signature  when  necessary  to  all  orders  and  proceedings 
of  the  Union. 

To  have  a  general  oversight  of  the  Union,  and  in  conjunction  with  the  Ex- 
ecutive Committee,  to  plan  for  its  best  interests  and  the  good  of  the  cause. 

To  call  special  meetings  when  deemed  advisable  by  herself  and  any  three 
members  of  the  Union,  due  notice  being  given  to  all  the  members. 

Sec.  2.  Corresponding  Secretary  to  conduct  the  correspondence  of  the 
Union. 

To  report  to  the  Corresponding  Secretary  of  the  State  Union  as  required 
by  the  State  Constitution  (having  first  submitted  her  report  to  the  Union) 
giving  such  facts  and  items  of  general  interest  as  will  enable  the  State  Sec- 
retary to  judge  correctly  of  the  condition  of  the  Union  and  the  progress  of 
the  work. 

Sec.  3.  Recording  Secretary  to  keep  a  record  of  the  proceedings  of  the 
meetin^rs  of  the  Union. 

To  notify  the  public  of  its  meetings. 

To  read  all  papers,  etc.,  which  may  be  required. 

To  notify  Committees  of  their  appointments  and  of  business  referred  t9 
them. 

To  take  charge  of  all  papers  and  documents  of  the  Union. 

To  make  reports  at  each  meeting  of  the  preceding  meeting. 

Sec.  4.  Treasurer  to  collect  the  membership  dues,  and  to  devise  ways 
and  means  to  increase  the  funds  of  the  Union.  To  forward  to  State  Treas- 
urer the  dues  for  each  m'^mber  as  required  by  the  State  C  jusiitution  (namely 
30  cents  per  member)  two  weeks  previous  to  State  Convention.  Old  Unions 
and  those  organized  early  in  the  year  shall  make  part  payment  of  dues 
previous  to  March  first,  the  remainder  two  weeks  before  State  Convention. 
To  hold  all  money  collected  for  the  use  of  the  Union,  paying  bills  on  order 
of  the  President  and  Secretary,  keeping  an  exact  book  account  and  making 
a  report  of  the  same  at  each  regular  business  meeting. 

Sec.  5.  Vice-Presidents  to  preside,  in  their  order,  at  meetings  in  the 
absence  of  the  President  and  to  perform  all  duties  of  the  President  in  case 
of  absence  on  any  account  from  her  office.     To  interest  the  women  of  their 


in 

respective  churohes  in  the  work  of  the  Union  and  to  canvass  for  members. 
To  assist  the  President  in  arranging  and  carrying  out  plans  for  the  benefit 
of  the  Union.  To  endeavor  to  secure  special  recognition  of  the  temperance 
cause  in  the  church  prayer- meeting  quarterly,  and  also  by  a  sermon  from 
th€  pastor  at  least  once  a  year. 

ARTICLE  VI.— Mektings. 

The  regular  meetings  of  the  Union  shall  be  held • — ,  at  which 

time  Superintendents  shall  report. 

Public  Prayer  and  Conference  meetings  shall  be  held  as  often  as  the  in- 
terest of  the  work  demands,  and  if  possible,  mass  meetings  quarterly. 

The  Executive  and  other  Committees  shall  meet  as  often  as  may  be 
deemed  advisable. 

ARTICLE  VII.— Annual  Meetings. 

The  annual  meeting  shall  be  held  on  the day  of  ■  month, 

at  which  time  the  officers  shall  be  elected  for  the  ensuing  year. 

ARTICLE  VIII.— Amendments. 
This  Constitution  may  be  altered  or  amended  at  any  regular  meeting  of 
the  Union,  by  a  two-thirds  vote  of  the  members,  notice  having  been  given 
at  the  previous  meeting. 


BY-LAWS. 


Sec.  1 .  Departments  of  Work,  Superintendents  shall  be  appointed  for 
such  of  the  following  departments,  as  local  needs  seem  to  call  for:  Work 
among  Foreigners.  Young  Woman*s  Work.  Juvenile  Work.  Hygienic 
Reform  and  Heredity.  Scientific  Temperance  Instruction.  Sunday  School 
Work.  Temperance  Literature.  Influencing  the  Press.  Narcotics. 
Evangelistic  Work.  Unfermented  Wine.  Systematic  Giving.  Prison, 
Jail  and  Almshouse  Work.  Reformatory  Prison  for  Women.  Securing 
Homes  for  Homeless  Children.  Railroad  Employes.  Soldiers  and  Sailors. 
Lumbermen.  Sabbath  Observance.  Purity.  Purity  in  Literature  and 
Art.  Mercy.  Flower  Mission.  State  and  County  Fairs.  Legislation 
and  Petition.     Franchise.     Peace  and  Arbitration. 

Skc.  2.     All  meetings  of  the  Union  shall  be  opened  by  reading  of  Scrip- 
ture and  prayer. 


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Sec.  3.  A  majority  of  the  ExecutiTe  Committee  shall  constitate  a  qno- 
nim  at  any  re^lar  meeting,  and  the  same  rale  may  apply  to  all  other 
Committees. 

Sec.  4.     Oificen  shall  remain  such  till  their  successors  are  elected. 

Sec.  5.     All  members  of  the  Union  shall  be  entitled  to  vote. 

.    Sec.  6.     Order  of  Businesi : — 

1.  Devotional  Exercises. 

2.  Report  of  Recording  Secretary. 

3.  Report  of  Corresponding  Secretary. 

4.  Report  of  Treasurer. 

5.  Report  of  Chairman  of  Executive  Committee. 

6.  Reports  of  Superintendents. 

7.  Reports  of  Special  Committees. 

8.  Unfinished  Business. 

9.  New  Business. 

10.  Coune  of  Reading. 

11.  Discussions. 

Sec.  7.  These  By-Laws  may  be  altered  or  amended  at  any  regular  meet- 
ing of  the  Union,  by  a  vote  of  two- thirds  of  the  members  of  the  Union. 


in 


Extracts  from  the  Public  Laws, 


TEMPERANCE    EDUCATION. 


CHAFTEB  267  OF  THE  PUBLIC  LAWS  OF  THE  STATE  OF  MAINE. 

An  Act  relating  to  Scientific  Temperance  Instruction  in  Public  Schools. 
Be  it  enadedy  e^c,  as  follows: 

Sec.  I .  Provision  shall  be  made  by  the  proper  local  school  authorities 
for  instructing  all  pupils  in  all  schools  supported  by  public  money,  or  under 
State  control,  in  physiology  and  hygiene,  with  special  reference  to  the  effects 
of  alcoholic  drinks,  stimulants  and  narcotics  upon  the  human  system. 

Sec.  2.  No  certificate  shall  be  granted  any  person  to  teach  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  in  this  State  after  the  fourth  day  of  July,  eighteen  hundred  and 
eighty-five,  who  has  not  passed  a  satisfactory  examination  in  physiology 
and  hygiene,  with  special  reference  to  the  effects  of  alcoholic  drinks,  stim- 
ulants and  narcotics  upon  the  human  system. 

[Approved  February  19,  1885.] 


EXTRACTS    FROM    THE    SABBATH    LAWS. 


Whoever,  on  the  Lord's  Day,  keeps  open  his  shop,  workhouse,  ware- 
house, or  place  of  business ;  travels,  or  does  any  work,  labor  or  business 
on  that  day,  except  works  of  necessity  or  charity ;  uses  any  sport,  game 
or  recreation ;  or  is  present  at  any  dancing,  public  diversion,  show  or  enter- 
tainment, encouraging  the  same,  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding 
ten  dollars. — R.  S.,  Chap.  124,  Sec.  20. 

If  any  innholder  or  victualler,  on  the  Lord's  Day,  suffers  any  persons 
except  travelers,  strangers  or  lodgers,  to  abide  in  his  house,  yard  or  field, 
drinking  or  spending  their  time  idly,  at  play  or  doim^  any  secular  business, 
except  works  of  necessity  or  charity,  he  shall  be  punished  by  fine  not  ex- 
ceeding four  dollars  for  each  person  thus  suffered  to  abide ;  and  if  after 
convicuon  he  is  again  guilty,  by  fine  not  exceeding  ten  dollars  for  each 
offence ;  and  upon  a  third  conviction,  he  shall  also  be  incapable  of  holding 
any  license  ;  and  every  person  so  abiding  shall  be  fined  not  exceeding  four 
dollars  for  each  offence. — R.  S.,  Chap.  124,  Sec.  21. 


It4 

Sunday  is  a  close  time,  on  which  it  is  not  lawful  to  hunt,  kill  or  destroy 
game  or  birds  of  any  kind,  under  the  penalties  imposed  therefor  during 
other  close  times ;  but  the  penalties  already  imposed  for  violations  of  the 
Sunday  laws  are  not  repealed  or  diminished. — R.  S.,  Chap  30,  Sec.  27. 

The  jailer,  at  the  expense  of  the  county,  shall  furnish  to  each  prisoner 
who  is  able  to  read,  a  copy  of  the  Bible,  and  to  all  on  Sunday,  such  reli- 
gious instruction  as  he  may  be  able  to  obtain  without  expense,  and  to  such 
as  may  be  benefited  thereby,  instruction  in  reading,  wiiting  and  arithmetic 
one  hour  every  evening  except  Sunday. — R.  S.,  Chap.  80,  Sec.  30. 


CIGARETTE    LAW. 


Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Repregentativei  in  Legidaiurt 

a$$emhled: 

Sec.  1 .  No  person  shall  seU  any  cigarette  to  any  person  under  the  age 
of  sixteen  years. 

Sec.  2.  No  person  other  than  the  minor  s  parent  or  guardian,  shall  give 
to  any  person  under  the  age  of  sixteen  years  any  cigarette,  for  such  minor*s 
personal  use. 

Sec.  3.  Any  person  violating  any  of  the  foregoing  provisions,  shall  be 
punished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars. 


IMPURE    LITERATURE    LAW. 


\_A8  amended  in  1893^ 
Sec.  13.  Whoever  imports,  prints,  publishes,  sells  or  distributes  any 
book,  pamphlet,  ballad,  printed  paper,  or  other  thing  containing  obscene, 
indecent,  or  impure  language,  or  manifestly  tending  to  the  corruption  of  the 
morals  of  youth,  or  an  obscene,  indecent,  or  impure  print,  picture,  figure  or 
description,  manifestly  tctidin«;  to  the  corruption  of  the  morals  of  youth,  or 
introduces  into  a  family,  school,  or  place  of  education,  or  buys,  procures, 
receives,  or  has  in  his  possession  any  such  book,  pamphlet,  ballad,  printed 
paper  or  <»ther  thing,  either  for  the  purpose  of  sile,  exhibition,  loan  or  cir- 
culation, or  with  in  cent  to  introduce  the  same  into  a  family,  school  or 
place  of  education,  shall  be  punished  by  imprisonment  in  the  State  prison 
not  exceeding  five  years,  or  by  imprisonment  in  the  jail  not  exceeding  two 
years,  and  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  one  thousand  dollars  nor  less  than  one 
hundred  dollars. 


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ntlHTBD  AT  TUB  TKIBUNI  OFrlCK. 

■J94- 


Suggestions  to  Local  Unions. 


It  is  very  desirable  that  our  Union  should  immediately  inform  the 
State  Corresponding  Secretary  whenever  any  changes  in  their  list 
of  officers  are  made ;  also  that  the  officers  of  nevf  Unions  be 
reported  promptly. 

Each  Superintendent  of  the  various  departments  of  work  has  the 
privilege  of  selecting  her  committee,  the  number  of  the  latter  being 
limited  to  five. 

Unions  are  requested  to  duplicate  the  State  Committees  as  far  as 
possible. 

Since  our  next  State  annual  meeting  is  to  occur  the  last  week  in 
September,  the  reports  of  the  Corresponding  Secretary  and  Superin- 
tendents will  be  much  more  complete  if  the  local  Unions  will  change 
the  time  of  their  annual  meeting  to  the  first  week  in  September. 

For  all  desired  information  about 'the  Union  Signal  address  the 
Superintendents  of  this  department,  or  the  Union  Signal^  The 
Temple  Chicago. 

Temperance  Text  Books  and  Temperance  Literature  can  be  ob- 
tained of  the  Superintendent  of  Temperance  Literature,  or  at  Head- 
quarters, 150  Free  Street,  Portland. 

Copies  of  the  Minutes  containing  the  Constitutition  will  be  fur- 
nished from  Headquarters  to  Vice-Presidents,  or  ladies  wishing  to 
form  a  Union. 

The  Superintendents  of  the  various  branches  of  work  will  always 
be  ready  to  assist  those  who  desire  information. 

SARAH  L.  CRAM, 
State   Corresponding  Secretary. 


Plan  of  Work. 


The  following  plan  of  work  is  recommended  by  the  corresponding 
secretary  to  local  Unions  for  their  consideration  and  adoption  as  tar 
as  practicable : 

1.  Appoint  a  visiting  committee  to  arouse  and  interest  Christian 
women  in  the  temperance  cause,  and  secure  them  as  members  of 
the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union. 

2.  Endeavor  to  increase  the  circulation  of  the  Union  Signal^  the 
Star  in  the  East^  the  Oak  and  Ivy  Leafy  and  the  Young'  Crusader. 

3.  Secure  space  for  temperance  matter  in  the  local  papers. 

4.  Procure  temperance  literature  and  have  it  judiciously  dis- 
tributed. 

5.  Hang  up  temperance  hand-bills  in  churches,  school-houses, 
town  halls,  public  libraries,  railroad  stations,  engine  houses,  factories, 
horse  cars, — in  short,  wherever  permission  to  do  so  can  be  obtained. 

6.  Establish  a  loan  library  ;  buy  suitable  temperance  books  and 
place  them  in  the  Sunday  School  libraries ;  furnish  tracts  to  put 
into  Sunday  School  books. 

7.  Hold  gospel  temperance  meetings  and  distribute  tracts  on 
some  topic  suitable  for  each  occasion. 

8.  Circulate  the  pledge  in  the  Sunday  Schools  and  throughout 
the  place. 

9.  Urge  the  use  of  the  "Temperance  Lesson"  once  a  quarter  in 
the  Sunday  Schools ;  also,  advocate  the  introduction  of  temperance 
as  a  feature  into  Sunday  School  concerts. 

10.  Request  the  pastors  to  preach  a  temperance  sermon  to  the 
children  as  often  as  practicable. 

1 1 .  Secure  the  use  of  unfermented  wine  at  the  communion  service. 

12.  Form  children's  temperance  societies. 

13.  Urge  the  enforcement  of  the  law  providing  for  scientific  tem- 
perance instruction  in  the  puclic  schools. 

14.  Institute  parlor  meetings  to  be  held  once  a  month,  if 
practicable. 

15.  Hold  meetings  at  almshouse,  jail,  and  other  charitable  insti- 
tutions, and  distribute  temperance  and  religious  papers. 

"Praying  always  with  all  prayer  and  supplication"  unto  Him  who 
"is  able  to  do  exceeding  abundantly  above  all  that  we  ask  or  think." 


NATIONAL  AND  WORLD'S  PftCSIDCNT, 

MISS    FRANCES    E.     WILLARD. 


State  Officers  for  1894-'95. 


PRESIDENT: 
MRS.  L.  M.  N.  STEVENS,  Stroudwater. 

Vice-Presidents : 

f    Androscoggin — ^Mrs.  N.  O.  Odlin,  Lewiston. 
/•  Aroostook — Mrs.  L.  J.  Spaulding,  Caribou. 
-   Cumberland — Miss  Cornelia  M.  Dow,  Portland. 
4  Franklin — Mrs.  Helen  B.  C.  Beedy,  Farmington. 

Hancock — Mrs.  R.  P.  Grindle,  Bluehill. 

Kennebec — Mrs.  M.  H.  Wyman,  Augusta. 

Knox — Mrs.  R.  C.  Hall,  Rockland. 

Lincoln — Mrs.  S.  F.  Winslow,  Waldoboro. 

Oxford — Mrs.  Ellen  L.  Pierce,  East  Hiram,  and  Mrs.  Minnie  Robin- 
son, Norway. 

Penobscot — Mrs.  Annie  V.  Curtis,  Dexter. 

Piscataquis — Mrs.  Ella  M.  Getchell,  Foxcroft. 

Somerset — Mrs.  Mary  L.  Houghton,  Fairfield. 

Sagadahoc — Mrs.  Helen  M.  Delano,  Bath. 
Y"  Waldo — Miss  A.  A.  Hicks,  Belfast. 

Washington — Mrs.  Bernard  Rogers,  Pembroke. 

York — Mrs.  S.  P.  Smith,  Cornish. 

Corresponding^  Secretary. 

*     Mrs.  Sarah  L.  Cram, Biddeford 

Recordings   Secretary. 

:    Miss  Clara  M.  Farwell, Rockland 

Assistant  Recording  Secretary, 
\    Mrs.  Adelaide  S.  Johnston,       -        -        -        -    Fort  Fairfield 

Treasurer. 
Mrs.  E.  M.  Blanchard,  ....  Lewiston 

State  Headquarters,  150  Free  St.,  Portland. 


Superintendents  of  Departments 


FOR  1894-6. 


I.    ORGANIZATION. 
T    State  Organiiere— Mn.  F.A,  Wtight,  Vamouthvilk,  Mra.  Jennie  P.Seunuu,  Amitr.  ' 
>  Work  Among  Foreign  Speaking  People— Mrs.  Gertrude  Steven*  Leavitt.  Portland.   ," 
y  Voung  Woman's  Work— Mis»  Lubellc  Patrick,  GroTevillc. 
Juvenile  Work— Miss  Annie  C.  Bagley,  Springvalc. 

II,    PREVENTIVE. 
Hygienic  Reform  and  Heredity— Mrs.  Annie  B.  Emerson,  Dover. 

Ml       EDUCATIONAL 
Scientific  Temperance  Instruct  ion— Mrs.  G.  F.  French,  Portland. 
/  Sunday  School  Work— Mrs.  E.  A.  G.  Stickney.  E.  Brownfield. 

Temperance  Literature— Mrs.  N.  S.  Femald,  Portland. 
/'  Influencing  the  Press  and  Reporter  for  Union  Signal— Miss  Matv  L,  French,  Auburn. 
/  Narcotics— Mrs.  I,  S.  Wentwortii,  Deiter. 

Kindergarten— Miss  I,ouiae  Woodman,  Portland. 


EVAN 


irW— >I>s.  Lucy  A.  Sno 

tin.  L,  J.  Spaulding,  Cariboi 
Hussev.  North  Berwic 


Windham  Cen 


pMia.  L,  J.  Spaulding,  Cant 
9bo,]{  3^"~~~^^^^^^^*^^BB.  Hussey.  North  Bervrick. 
P'ntBiVBrjjIJ     '*«  ^OiZn — "  i  'i"*  ^'  "'"'"'•  Lewiston. 

':»^C\F''-'-VV^-o'r:^r^^       -C.  Johnston  PoHland 
"t?-    ifft,     /'"''>m,,^''„/-".fwr„o".>en-M.s.  A.  L.  Harvey,  Orono. 
■^'W'.!,"-    fi^L?^^    ™^;;^L*,ns,Wmlhrop  Center. 
E^-   1>./^"?.?«"''^^:^J  .«>■«;  Ul  ,    p,„.  Houlton. 


*OW'n«'-   a    O.    o*     "«'^^    ™^;;^L*,ns,WmlhropC=nl, 

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PETITION. 

rrooie  Falls. 


.  Gieely,  Ellsworth. 
M.  Douglas,  Bath. 

Medal   Contests  inquire  of  Mrs.  Susan  1 


NATIONAL  AND  WORLD'S  PRCSrDENT. 

MISS    PBANCES    E.      WILLARD. 


State  Officers  for  I894-'9S. 


PRESIDENT: 
MRS.  L.  M.  N.  STEVENS,  Stroudwater. 


f    Androscoggin — Mrs 
/  Aroostook — J 


mberlai 


Vice-  Presidents  : 
.  N.  O.  Odtiti,  Lewiston. 
L.  J.  Spaulding,  Caribou. 
s  Cornelia  M.  Dow,  Porllani 
,  Franklin— Mrs.  Helen  B.  C.  Beedy,  FarmingH 
Hancock— Mrs.  R.  P.  Grindle,  Bluehill. 
Kennebec- Mrs.  M.  H.  Wyman,  Augusta. 
Knox— Mrs.  R.  C.  Hall,  Rockland. 
Lincoln— Mrs.  S.  F.  Winslow,  Waldoboro. 
Oxford— Mrs.  Ellen  L.  Pierce,  EaslHiram. 

son,  Norway. 
Penobscot— Mrs.  Annie  V.  Curtis, 
PiscaWquis— Mrs.  Ellu  M.  Getc 
Somerset — Mrs.  Mary  L.  HoukI 
Sagadahoc— Mrs.  Helen  M.  Di 
+•  Waldo— Miss  A.  A.  Hicks,  Bell  i 
Washington — Mrs.  Bernard  Roge' 
York— Mrs.  S.  P.  Smith,  Cornis, 


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Correspo  n  din^y 


■"t    Mrs.  Sarah  L.  Cra: 


Recording 


Miss  Clara  M.  Farwell, 


Assistant  Rci 
-\  Mrs.  Adelaide  S.  Johnston-. 

Treasur 
Mrs.  £.  M.  Blanciiard^ 

State  Headquarters,  150  f 


Co»»»'-'"S 


£\  Stan^P®** 


al  «1>">' 


\q\.  oil 


Superintendents  of  Departments 

FOR  1894-6. 


I.    ORGANIZATION. 

-p   Sute  Organizers — Mrs.  F.  A.  Wright,  Yarmouthyille,  Mrs.  Jennie  P.  Seamans,  Amity. 
7^  Work  Among  Foreign  Speaking  People — Mrs.  Gertrude  Stevens  Leavitt,  Portland. 
X  Young  Woman's  Work — Miss  Lubelle  Patrick,  Groveville. 
^-^  Juvenile  Work — Miss  Annie  C.  Bagley,  Springvale. 

II.    PREVENTIVE. 

Hygienic  Reform  and  Heredity — Mrs.  Annie  B.  Emerson,  Dover. 

Ill      EDUCATIONAL. 

Scientific  Temperance  Instruction — Mrs.  G.  F.  French,  Portland. 
^  Sunday  School  Work— Mrs.  £.  A.  G.  Stickney,  £.  Brownfield. 

Temperance  Literature — Mrs.  N.  S.  Femald,  Portland. 
7^  Influencing  the  Press  and  Reporter  for  Union  Signal — Miss  Mary  L.  French,  Auburn. 
f^  Narcotics — Mrs.  I.  S.  Wentworth,  Dexter. 

Kindergarten — Miss  Louise  Woodman,  Portland. 


/ 


IV.    EVANGELISTIC. 

Bible  Reading  and  Evangelistic  Work — ^Mrs.  Lucy  A.  Snow,  Windham  Center. 
^  Unfermented  Wine  at  Sacrament — Mrs.  L.  J.  Spaulding,  Caribou. 
"^Systematic  Giving — Mrs.  Anna  M.  Hussey,  North  Berwick. 

Mson,  Jail  and  Almshouse  Woric — Mrs.  B.  Minard,  Lewiston. 
^  Securing  Homes  for  Homeless  Children — Miss  Harriet  A.  Leavitt,  Portland. 
%    ¥  Work  Among  Railroad  Employes — Mrs.  Helen  A.  Thomas,  Greene. 
r  Work  Among  Soldiers  and  Sailors — Mrs.  F.  C.  Johnston,  Portland. 
X  Work  Among  Lumbermen  and  Quanymen — Mrs.  A.  L.  Harvey,  Orono. 
-/  Sabbath  Observance — Mrs.  F.  A.  Rollins,  Winthrop  Center. 
n|  Purity— Mrs.  F.  A;  Wright,  Yarmouth ville. 
Zl  Purity  in  Literature  and  Art — Mrs.  A.  L.  Page,  Houlton. 
y  Mercy — Mrs.  Clara  W.  Mumford,  Winthrop  Center. 

V.    SOCIAL. 
Flower  Mission — Miss  Edith  Libby,  Portland. 
Bute  and  County  Fairs— Mrs.  Edith  N.  Oakes,  Foxcroft. 

VI.    LEGISLATION  AND  PETITION. 

/*  Legiilation  and  Petition — Mrs.  L.  C.  Lamb,  Livermore  Falls. 
-jr  Franchise — Miss  Louise  Titcomb,  Stroudwater. 
,  */*  Lecturer  on  Franchise — Mrs.  A.  F.  Greely,  Ellsworth. 
*7C  Peace  and  Arbitration — Miss  Alice  M.  Douglas,  Bath. 

For  information  regarding  Demorest   Medal  Contests  inquire  of  Mrs.  Susan  M. 
Grant,  So.  Windham. 


Directory  of  Maiiie  Unioiift. 


CSHMly  C»r. 


Oreene 


I^em^^re  Fall* 
MvJkasiK  FaOft 

So«  Dorfaan 
Tomer 


Mary  E. 


C  V; 
U.  A.  Wilder 

(ClnK's  Mini) 


AROOSTOOK  COUNTY. 


CoufUff  Cor,  fkeretarf — Mrs.  A.  L.  Page,  Hovhon. 

County  Treasurer— Mn.  Kate  I>e  Witt,  Picaque  Ue 


AfhUnd 

Hlaine 

Hridgewater  Center 

^.'ariliou 

f,*ry»tal 

I>y«rr  JJrook 

Fort  Fairfidd 

Fort  Fairfield  V 

llaynenvtlle 

liodgdon 

If  out  ton 

Limestone 

LinneuH 

Littleton 

Island  Falls 

Mapleton 

Monticello 

New  Limerick 

North  Amity 

I'rcKquc  Inle 

Soragiie's  Mills 

Washburn 


Mrs.  Annie  Foster 
"     S.  C.  Beala 
"     W.  H.StJckncy 
"     C.  B.  Vamam 
"     Amelia  Wbeaton 
Lizzie  A.  Libbj 
Mary  Jellerson 
Miss  Kate  C.  Pierce 
Mrs.  John  Brown 
"     L.  Mayo 
"     A.  L.  Page 
•*     Sarah  C.  Chase 
S.  B.  Alexander 
Z.M.   Miller 
Lizzie  Dow 
O.  T.  Higgins 
"     K.  E.  Morrill 
Miss  Isabel  James 
Mrs.  Hannah  Tracey 
F.  A.  Forbes 
Julia  A.  W.  Estes 
Lucy  C.  Farrell 


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Mrs.  M.  L.  Bartiett 
"     E.  R.  Carselej 
"     Frances  A.  KimbsD 

Mifls  L.  F.  Rmmals 
"     Grace  M.  Walker 

Mrs.  Mary  J.  KeUer 

Miss  Myrtle  Ames 
*'    LoQ  Condon 

Mrs.  Mary  Logan 

Bliss  Hattie  T.  Bfayo 


tt 


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Mrs.  Annie  C.  Long 
"    E.  J.  Boyd 
"     Fannie  J.  Crosby 
"    Alice  SewaD 
"     M.  H.  Sipprelle 

Miss  Annie  Copperthwaite 
"    Annie  E.  Esterbrook 
**    ElU  L.  Reed 

Mrs.  S.  M.  Chandler 
"     Laura  Gilpatrick 
**    Leonora  Chase 


CUMBERLAND  COUNTY. 

County  Cor,  Seeretary^Mn,  Sarah  W.  McLellan,  Newhall. 

County  Treasurer — Mrs.  Emma  E.  Thompson,  Portland 


PRESIDENT. 

Brunswick  Miss  Ellen  Wyman 

Cape  Elizabeth  Mrs.  E.  A.  Poland 

Cumberland  Mills  "    G.  E.  Morrill 

Newhall(So.  Windham)  *«    Sarah  W.  McLellan 
New  Gloucester  **    L.  W.  Reed 


North  Gorham 
North  Windham 
Peaks  Island 
Portland 

South  Bridgton 
South  Windham 
Struudwater 
Westbrook 
Westbrook  Y 
White  Rock 
Windham  Center 
Woodfords 

Yarmouthville 
Yarmouthville  Y. 


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A.  D.  P.  Moses 
Manr  L.  Whitman 
"    V.  E.  Wheatley 
Miss  Cornelia  M.  Dow 


Mrs.  F.  F.  Johnson 
"     M.  M.  Bodge 
Miss  Louise  Titcomb 
Mrs.  W.  H.  Duran 
Miss  Ellen  A.  Winslow 
Mrs.  Mary  E.  Files 
Belle  H.  Allen 
Elizabeth  A.  Robbins 


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Levi  Marston 
Miss  Alice  B.  Thomas 


COR.   SKCRVTARY. 

Mrs.  J.  S.  Towne 
"    Emma  H.  Jewell 
"    J.  S.  Bragdon 
Miss  Etta  M.  Walker 
Eliza  J.  Jordan 

(Upper  Gloucester) 
Jane  Whipple 
Mrs.  Annie  Morse 

Fannie  G.  Brewer 
M.  £.  Cole 
(549  Cumberland  St.) 
G.  D.  Knights 
M.  A.  Edwards 
Miss  A.  F.  Quimby 
Mrs.  M.  E.  Spiller 
Miss  Alice  Springer 
*•    Annie  E.  Files 
Mrs.  Adelia  L.  Fellows 
Miss  C.  M.  Goodrich 

(Deering) 
Mrs.  Emma  L.  Blake 
Miss  Mary  L.  Mitchell 


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FRANKLIN  COUNTY. 

County  Cor,  Secretary — Mrs.  C.  M.  Keyes,  N«.  Jay. 

County  Treasurer — Mrs.  Luella  E. 


Allen's  MiUs 

Farmington 

Kingfield 

North  Jay 

Stratton 

Strong 

West  MiUs 

Wilton 

Rangeley 


Mrs.  D.  A.  Goodridge 
O.  M.  Jennings 
Fannie  L.  Howe 
Carrie  M.  Keyes 
Laura  E.  Blanchard 
Nancy  Daggett 
Aurelia  Norton 
R.  C.  Fuller 
Alice  Foster  Kempton 

HANCOCK  COUNTY. 


II 


II 


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II 
II 
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II 


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Mrs. 

Miss 

Mrs. 
II 

II 

II 

II 

II 

II 


Reynolds,  Farmington 

Ella  A.  Hobbs 
J.  W.  Hoyt 
Ellen  Kershner 
lola  A.  Emery 
E.  B.  Myers 

A.  L.  Edwards 

B.  y.  Davis 
Louie  Greene 
John  Russell 


County  Cor.  Secretary — Mrs.  C.  J.  Lord,  Bluehill 

County  Treasurer— Mrs,  A.  W.  Clark,  South  West  Harbor 


Bar  Harbor 
Bluehill 
Brooklin 
Brooklin  Y, 
Deer  Isle 
Ellsworth 
Green's  Landing 
Hancock 
South  Surry 
Tremont 


II 
II 


Mrs.  Geo.  Freeman 
Carrie  J  Lord 
Dora  F.  Eaton 

Miss  Ethel  M.  Eaton 

Mrs.  Katie  P.  Pickering 

Mrs.  M.  B.  Perry 
Emily  Babbidge 


II 


II 
II 


Julia  A.  Chatto 
Arvilla  Clark 

(South  West  Harbor) 


Miss  Juliette  Nickerson 
Mrs.  Lula  E.  Grindle 

"     Grace  C.  Johnston 
Miss  Josephine  Nutter 
Miss  J.  Etta  Haskell 
Mrs.  A.  F.  Greely 

Celeste  Haskell 
Carrie  S.  Jellison 
Etta  S.  Chatto 
Evelyn  W.  Ncal 


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KENNEBEC  COUNTY. 

County  Cor.  Seoretary — Mrs.  M.  G.  Bailey,  Winthrop. 

County  Treasurer — Miss  Cora  L.  Pullen,  Winthrop  Center 

FRKSIDBNT.  COR.  SKCRBTARY. 


Aug^ta 
Augusta  Y. 
Gardiner 
Hallowell 
Monmouth 
North  Vassalboro 
South  China 
Vassalboro 
Winthrop  Center 


Mrs.  E.  S.  Fogg 
Miss  Laura  Dinslow 
Mrs.  Lavinia  Quint 
"    E.  Rowell 
**    Olive  Blake 
F.  E.  Hussey 
Augusta  Ellis 
Miss  Emily  S.  Weeks 
Mrs.  H.  J.  Bailey 


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Miss  Ellen  Hanilen 
"    Alice  Kelley 
Mrs.  Blanche  Friend 
B.  F.  Fuller 
M.  L.  Clough 
Helen  M.  Cook 
Miss  Hattie  L.  Hoxie 

"    K.  R.  Stilson 
Mrs.  C.  W.  Mumford 


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KNOX  COUNTY. 

County  Cor.  Secrttary^tArs,  G.  M.  Brainerd,  Rockland. 

County  Treasurer — Mrs.  S.  Whitcomb,  Thomaston 


Camden 

Rockland 

Rockport 

Spruce  Head 

Thomaston 

Union 

Warren 

Washington 


Mrs  Sylvester  Arau 
Miss  Clara  M.  Farwell 
Mrs.  S.  0.  Brastow 
C.  S.  Coakley 
S.  Whitcomb 
E.  L.  Thompson 
Mary  F.  Newbert 
Isaac  Johnson 


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Mrs.  D.  F.  Wadsworth 
«*  '  Abbie  R.  Hall 
"     E.  M.  T.  Wentworth 
Miss  Maggie  Godfrey 
Mrs.  A.  F.  Burton 
A.  M.  Jones 
Mary  E.  Moody 
Pauline  Pierpont 


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LINCOLN  COUNTY. 

County  Cor,  Secretary — Mrs.  M.  F.  Dyer,  Waldoboro. 

County  Treasurer — Mrs.  Emma  I.  Morelen,  Pemaquid 

Mrs.  Abbie  Meservey  Mrs.  Laura  £.  Turner 

Miss  Caroline  C.  Alley  "     Lizzie  Alley 

Mrs.  A.  H.  Skinner  Miss  Addie  Ames 

Miss  Almira  F.  Ginn  Mrs.  W.  A.  Jones 

(Damariscotta) 

Mrs.  M.  E.  Palmer  Miss  Lidie  Tuller 

Helen  M.  Daggett  Mrs.  Susie  Curtis 


Bremen 
Dresden  Mills 
East  Jefferson 
Newcastle  Sl  Dama. 

Round  Pond 
Waldoboro 


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OXFORD  COUN1Y. 

County  Cor.  Secretary — Miss  Jennie  B.  Kimball,  East  Hiram. 

County  Treasurer — Mrs.  B.  S.  Rideout,  Norway 


Andover 

Mrs. 

H.  F.  Talbot 

Mrs.  H.  O.  Burdett 

Andover 

II 

M.  H.  Graffam 

*•     E.  N.  Carver 

Bethel 

II 

Martha  B.  Chapman 

"     O.  M.  Mason 

Brown  field 

II 

E.  A,  G.  Stickney 

(East  Brownfield) 

Miss  Delia  Spring 

Hiram 

1* 

Ellen  L.  Pierce 

Miss  Jennie  A.  Kimball 

Norway 

II 

Mary  L.  Howe 

Mrs.  Alice  Oxnard 

Oxford 

II 

Emma  Jones 

"    T.  J.  Dawes 

South  Paris 

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G.  A.  Wilson 

"     Lir^ie  Winslow 

West  Paris 

II 

Amanda  M.  Andrews 

"     Emily  L.  Emmons 

County  Cor,  Secretary — 


Bangor 

Bangor  Crusade 
Charleston 

Mrs. 

Dexter 

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Dixmont 

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East  Corinth 

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Hampden  Center 

Kenduskeag 

Lincoln 

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Mattawamkeag 

Medway 

Orono 

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Patten 

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Plymouth 

Springfield 

Stillwater 

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Veazie 

Miss 

Winn 

Mrs. 

H.  A.  Whitman 

Mrs. 

S.  V.  Crossman 

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Ellen  McCully 

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E.  R.  Horton 

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Alice  Tilton 

Miss 

Eliza  J.  Morrison 

Mrs. 

Caroline  Mayo 

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Evelyn  Harvey 

If 

Ellen  L.  Hammond 

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(North  Lincoln) 

Jennie  L.  Stetson 
Mary  R.  Kenniston 

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If 

A.  J.  Durgin 

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Rives  Mitchell 

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A.  L  Abbott 

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J.  A.  Reed 

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S.  N.  Matthews 

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C.  L.  Davis 

H.  M.  Huston 

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PENOBSCOT  COUNTY. 

County  Treasurer — Mrs.  Addle  L.  Harvey,  Orono 

PRESIDENT.  COR.  SECRETARY. 

Lizzie  P.  Swett 
L.  J.  Wheelden 
Vina  H.  Rideout 
Warren  Can- 
Annette  M.  Alden 
Amanda  B.  Riley 
Susan  Blaisdell 
Nellie  L.  Mason 
Eliza  L.  Averill 

(Lincoln  Center) 
F.  C.  Hammond 
Myra  M.  Daisy 
A.  J.  Cowan 
C.  L.  Banghart 
Nellie  Emerson 
A.  M.  Blanchard 
A.  M.  Porter 

J.  F.  E.  Sunwood 

PISCATAQUIS  COUNTY. 

County  Cor,  Secretary — Mrs.  Sarah  A.  Martin,  Foxcroft. 

County  Treasurer — Mrs.  Ellen  Straw,  Guilford 

Miss  Harriet  A.  Rowe 
"    A.  B.  Emerson 

(Dover) 
"     F.  S.  Rogers 
Miss  Nettie  Troy 
Mrs.  Agnes  M.  Bennett 
"    Elsie  E.  Sherburne 
"     Etta  Davis 
*'     Helen  L.  Kent 

SAGADAHOC  COUNTY. 

County  Cor,  Secretary — Miss  Kate  W.  Spinney,  Popham  Beach. 

County  Treasurer — Mrs.  A.  M.  Purington,  Bath 

Bath  Mrs.  Helen  Delano                       Miss  £.  vV.  Smiley 

Georgetown  Miss  Azuba  Berry  (Five  Islands)  Mrs.  Dr.  Steadman 

Popham  Beach  "     Kate  W.  Spinney                     "     Sarah  Perkins 

Richmond  Mrs.  S.  A.  Jordan                            "     Hattie  Smith 

SOMERSET  COUNTY. 

County  Cor,  Secretary-^  Mrs.  H.  N.  Vining,  St.  Albans 

County  Treasurer — Mrs.  G.  A.  Hewett,  Madison 

Mrs.  Martha  L.  Boynton  Mrs.  S.  B.  Crocker 

Mary  L.  Houghton  Miss  M.  M.  Owen 
Ella  A.  Butler  "     Alma  Wood 

M.  F.  Bunker  •*    J.  A.   Moulton 

E.  H.  ButU  Mrs.  L.  J.  Carville 
Flora  Clark  "     B.  F.  Viles 


Atkinson 

Mrs.  Jennie  Lyford 

Foxcroft  &  Dover 

"     L.  P.  Whittier 

(Foxcroft) 

Greenville 

•*     F.  S.    Rogers 

Greenville  Y, 

Miss  Nellie  Shaw 

Guilford 

Mrs.  AbbieF.  Moulton 

Milo 

•«     Mary  F.  Hobbs 

Sangerville 

"     Frank  Carr 

Sebec 

"     Sara  C.  Morrill 

East  St.  Albans 
Fairfield 
Madison 
North  Anson 
New  Portland 
North  New  Portland 


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Pittsfield 
Ripley 
Shawmut 
St.  Albans 
West  Palmyra 


PRESIDENT. 

Bin.  Eva  W.  Bryant 
F.  C.  Rand 
R.  £.  Lawrence 
A.  L.  Vining 
Hattie  Famnam 


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COR.  SECRETARY. 

Mrs.  Jennie  Randlett 
'*    O.  A.  Jadldns 
"    R,  V.  Greene 
**    Annie  C.  Prescott 

Miss  Mae  Lord 


WALDO  COUNTY. 

County  Cor.  Secretary — Miss  £.  F.  Miller,  North  Searsmont. 

County  Treasurer — Mrs.  Emma  Moore,  Bel£ut 

Mrs.  W.  B.  Conant  Miss  A.  A.  Hides 
A.  A.  Bridgham  **     Emily  F.  Miller 

£.  Nickerson  Mrs.  TL,  L.  Downs 
L.  £  Roberts,  (Belfast)         "     Mary  A.  Smith 

WASHINGTON  COUNTY. 
County  Cor.  Secretary — Mrs.  Elvira  Ireland,  JonesporL 

County  Treasurer — Mrs.  £.  A.  Holmes,  Eastport 


Belfast 

North  Searsmont 

Swanville 

Waldo 


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Addison 

Calais 

Cherryfield 

Columbia  Falls 

Danforth 

East  Machias 

Eastport 

Harrington 

Indian  River 

Jonesport 

Jonesport  Y. 

Lubcc 

Machias 

Millbridge 

Pembroke 

Princeton 

Steuben 

Vanceboro 

West  Pembroke 


Mrs.  O.  F.  Crowley 
E.  M.  Vose 
£.  B.  Silsby 
Annie  J.  Chandler 
D.  H.  Powell 
J.  R.  Talbot 
Wm.  Sears 
Sophia  A.  Strout 
S.  J.  Emerson 
Elvira  Ireland 


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Miss  Lena  Rummery 
Miss  Virginia  McFadden 

•'     Martha  A.  Hill 
Mrs.  Nettie  Wallace 

John  Dudley 

Lydia  Hall 

Jennie  S.  Leighton 

Geneva  B.  Seavey 

L.  J.  Frost 

YORK  COUNTY. 


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Mrs.  M.  L.  Plununer 

"    C.  B.  Collins 
Miss  Margaret  C.  Hunter 

"    Maud  Bucknam 
Mrs.  L.  A.  Smart 
Miss  Eliza  W.  Harris 
Mrs.  H.  P.  Adams 
Miss  Lillian  A.  Ramsdell 
Mrs.  B.  A.  Noyse 
"    Clara  Famsworth 

(West  Jonesport) 
Miss  Cora  Smith 

Miss  Mary  O.  Longfellow 

Mrs.  Fannie  E.  Leighton 
Cora  Wright 
Nellie  C.  Mercier 
Cora  L.  Overlook 

Miss  Laura  Kelley 

Mrs.  Margarette  A.  Gardne 


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County  Cor,  Secretary — Mrs.  Sarah  L.  Cram,  Biddeford. 


Biddeford 

Cornish 

Groveville  Y. 

Kenn«bunk 

Kittery 

Old  Orchard 

Springvale 

Sanford 

South  Berwick 

South  Berwick  Y. 

West  Lebanon 


County  Treasurer — Mrs. 

Mrs.  B.  F.  Dudley 
**     M.  A.  Snow 
Miss  Lubelle  B.  Patrick 
'•     Annie  O.  Kimball 
Mrs.  M.  E.  Til  ton 
A.  C.  Dawley 
G.  S.  Chase 
G.  F.  Millward 


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Mrs. 


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Miss 
Mrs. 


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Miss  Ella  W.  Ricker 
Mrs.  A.  S.  Furbush 


II 

Miss 
Mrs. 


.  Ricker,  South  Berwick 

S.  L.  Cram 

S.  B.  Goodrich 
May  E.  Sawyer 
R.  W.  Lord 

A.  W.  Hobbs 

L.  H.  Moody 

Howard  Frost 

C.  C.  Spear 

S.  W.  Ricker 
Grace  Atkinson 
E.  L.  Closson 


List  of  Deles^ates. 


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General  Officers. 
L.  M.  N.  Stevens,  President 
Clara  M.  Farwell,  Hec.  Secretary 
Adelaide  S.Johnston,  Asst.  Rec,  Sec. 
E.  M.  Blanchard,  Treasurer 
C.  P'.  Allen,  Honorary  President 

Vice  Presidents. 
N.  O.  Odlin 
L.  J.  Spaulding 
Cornelia  M.  Dow 
Helen  B.  C.  Beedy 
R.  P.  Grindle 
M.  H.  Wyman 
R.  C.  Hall 
S.  F.  Winslow 
Ella  F.  Getchell 
Mary  L.  Houghton 
Helen  M.  Delano 
A.  A.  Hicks 
Bernard  Rogers 
S.  P.  Smith 


State  Superintendents. 
Miss  Lubelle  Patrick 

"    Annie  C.  Bagley 
Mrs.  G.  F.  French 

"    N.  S.  Femald 
Miss  Mary  L.  French 
Mrs.  Lucy  A.  Snow 

"    Anna  M.  Hussey 
Miss  Harriet  A.  I^avitt 
Mrs.  Flora  A.  Wright 

"    R.  S.  Thomas 
Miss  Edith  Libby 
Mrs.  Edith  N.  Oakes 

"    L.  C.  Lamb 
Miss  Alice  M.  Douglas 

Androscoggin  County. 
Miss  Mary  E.  Perkins,  Co.  Treas.;  Mrs. 
A.  J.  Dennison,  Mrs.  D.  L.  Tobie,  Mrs. 
G.  Fenderson,  Mrs.  G.  N.  Torsey,  Mrs. 
Augusta  Maloon,  Mrs.  Ruth  A.  Bray, 
Mrs.  P.  M.  Reynold,  Mrs.  Flora  S. 
Beane,  Miss  Lizzie  French,  Mrs.  H. 
M.  Wilder,  Mrs.  Ellen  S.  Clark,  Mrs. 


Laura  Thomas  Lombard,  Miss  Mary  E 
Webber,  Mrs.  Lucy  Lunt,  Mrs.  C.  Y. 
Newman,  Mrs.  S.  P.  Hayes,  Mrs.  Mary 
Richardson,  Mrs.  C.  K.  Smith,  Mrs.  L. 
W.  Qark,  Mrs.  O.  B.  Dwinal,  Mrs.  O. 
W.  Hawkes,  Mrs.  A.  W.  Mathewson, 
Mrs.  S.  J.  Jewett. 

Aroostook  County. 

Mrs.  Kate  DeWitt,  Mrs.  Effie  Eastman, 
Mrs.  V.  Downs,  Mrs.  H.  E.  Ebbett, 
Miss  Gretchen  Barker. 

Cumberland  County. 

Mrs.  Sarah  W.  McLellan,  Cor.  Sec;  Mrs. 
Emma  E.  Thompson,  Treas.;  Mrs. 
Gertrude  Leavitt,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Bunt- 
ing, Mrs.  Deborah  Norton,  Mrs.  Eliza- 
beth Martin,  Mrs.  J.  E.  McDowell, 
Miss  Jennie  Anthoine,  Mrs.  Mary  E. 
Cole,  Mrs.  A.  Nickerson,  Mrs.  L.  Rob- 
erts, Mrs.  J.  F.  Spear,  Mrs.  M.  A. 
Bettis,  Miss  C.  E.  Jordan,  Miss  Ida 
M.  Center,  Miss  Ethel  Dana,  Mrs. 
Mary  Chenery,  Miss  Alice  B.  Thomas, 
Miss  Mary  L.  Marston,  Mrs.  G.  E. 
Morrill,  Mrs.  P.  S.  Graham,  Mrs. 
Augusta  Bragdon,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Cot- 
ton, Mrs.  Ann  M.  Westcott,  Mrs.  Min- 
nie Small,  Mrs.  Martha  M.  Bodge,  Mrs. 
L.  M.  Little,  Mrs.  Olive  S.  Hanson, 
Mrs.  A.  L.  Plummer,  Mrs.  Mary 
Witham,  Mrs.  Addie  M.  Westcott,  Mrs. 
B.  F.  Harmon,  Mrs.  Julia  Morse,  Mrs. 
Ezekiel  Smith,  Mrs.  Edward  Hacker, 
Mrs.  M.  H.  Hanson,  Mrs.  S.  M.  Grant, 
Mrs.  E.  B.  Seeley,  Miss  C.  M.  Record, 
Mrs.  E.  E.  Knight,  Mrs.  Emily  Stevens, 
Mrs.  F.  M.  Thayer,  Miss  Lydia  Keith, 
Mrs.  F.  A.  Holt,  Mrs.  Lizzie  M.  Mor- 
rill, Mrs.  Annie  L.  Morrill,  Mrs.  Eliza- 
beth Hicks,  Mrs.  Hannah  Marsh,  Mrs. 
Fannie  Fogg,  Miss  Nellie  Wyman,  Mrs. 
E.  Robbins,  Mrs.  Margaret  Jordan,  Miss 
Elizd  J.  Jordan,  Mrs.  George  Evelyth, 
Mrs.  Celia  Berry,  Mrs.S.  F.  Hilton,  Miss 
Annette  Hagan,  Mrs.  J.  S.  Brown,  Mrs. 


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Emma  J.  Lattimore,  Mrs.   Emma  L. 
Blake,  Mrs.  Mary  O.  Raynes. 

Franklin  County. 

Mrs.  Luella  Reynolds,  Treas.;  Mrs.  L. 
E.  Blanchard,  Mrs.  N.  W.  Fuller,  Mrs. 
E.  P.  Packard,  Mrs.  H.  P.  Keys,  Mrs. 
Marcia  C.  Knapp,  Mrs.  Jennie  I.  Pul- 
Icn,  Mrs.  Lydia  Durrell,  Mrs.  Arvilla 
Abbott,  Mrs.  Carrie  M.  Keyes,  Mrs.  J. 
H.  Emery,  Miss  Mary  Kellogg,  Mrs. 
S.  T.  Nash. 

Hancock  County. 

Miss  Juliette  Nickerson,  Mrs.  A.  W.  Qark, 
Mrs.  E.  W.  Ncal,  Mrs.  Geo  E.  Free- 
man, Mrs.  M.  A.  Winslow,  Mrs.  W.  M. 

Clark. 

Kennebec  County. 

Miss  E^telle  Brainard,  Sec;  Mrs.  Jennie 
A.  Packard,  Mrs.  Olive  Tuttle,  Mrs.  M. 
J.  Bates,  Mrs.  S.  A.  Baker,  Mrs.  A.  M. 
Ward,  Mrs.  A.  M.  Smith,  Mrs.  B.  F. 
Fuller,  Mrs.  Olive  Blake,  Miss  Lizzie 
Qough,  Mrs.  O.  Holway,  Mrs.  J.  E. 
Fuller,  Mrs.  A.  M.  Cary,  Mrs.  E.  S. 
Fogg,  Mrs.  Charles  Clary,  Miss  S.  L, 
Smith,  Mrs.  E.  K.  Jones,  Miss  Hattie 
Hoxie,  Mrs.  J.  A.  Hodgkins,  Mrs.  Liz- 
zie Woodward,  Mrs.  Nancy  McKinney, 
Mrs.  O.  Williamson,  Mrs.  Phcbe  Wads- 
worth,  Miss  Horence  Fuller,  Y. 

Knox  County. 
Mrs.  Abbie  R.  Hall;  Mrs.  G.  M.  Brainard, 

Cor.  .Sec;   Mrs.  S.  K.  Taylor,  Mrs.  M. 

C.  Smith,  Mrs.  E.  A.  Copeland,  Mrs. 

A.  E.  Bradford,  Mrs.  A.  S.  Hills,  Mrs. 

M.  K.  Drake,  Mrs.  J.  A.  Teague,  Mrs. 

M.  F.  Newbert,    Miss  Nellie  Bryant, 

Miss  Glenore  Vannah,  Mrs.  N.  B.  Starr, 

Mrs.  A.  J.  Young,   Mrs.  Abbie  Post, 

Mrs.  E.  L.  Thompson. 

Lincoln  County. 
Mrs.  Elsie  Bowman,  Mrs.  J.  Curtis,  Mrs. 

Newbert,  Mrs.  Banghart,  Miss  A.  F. 

Ginn,  Mrs.  Emma  Morelen,  Mrs.  W. 

A.  Meservey,  Mrs.  S.  A.  Trowbridge, 

Mrs.  M.  J.  Perkins,  Miss  Caroline  Alley, 

Mrs.  M.  F.  Dyer,  Mrs.  Lucinda  Thom- 


son, Mrs.  LoeUa  Winchenbach,  Mis* 
H.  N.  Winslow,  Mrs.  Annie  M.  Trott, 
Mrs.  Emma  Potter. 

Oxford  County. 
Miss  Isabel  Shirley,  Mrs.  Ida  M.  Good- 
win, Mrs.  Addie  L.  Andrews,  Mrs. 
Mary  L.  Howe,  Mrs.  Helen  A.  Crocker, 
Mrs.  M.  H.  Graffam,  Mrs.  I.  M.  Swett, 
Mrs.  Martha  B.  Chapman. 

Penobscot  County. 
Mrs.  H.  A.  Whitman,  Mrs.  Nellie  Wagg, 
Mrs.  Nellie  Perkins,  Mrs.  E.  A.  Harvey, 
Mrs.  A.  L.  Abbott,  Mrs.  W.  H.  Carr, 
Mrs.  E.  P.  Savage,  Mrs.  S.  A.  Fuller. 

Piscataquis  County. 

Mrs.  Ebie  Sherburn,  Mrs.  Abbie  Ham- 
lin, Mrs.  L.  P.  Whittier,  Mrs.  H.  J. 
Dexter,  Mrs.  S.  A  Martin,  Mrs.  F.  M. 
Sawyer. 

Somerset  County. 

Mrs.  M.  F.  Bunker,  Mrs.  Eva  Bryant, 
Mrs.  E.  Lewis,  Mrs.  A.  Brown,  Miss 
Abbie  Fitzgerald,  Mrs.  G.  A.  Hewett, 
Mrs.  Caro  Folsom. 

Saoadahoc  County. 
Miss  Kate  W.  Spinney,  Mrs.  Carrie  Ida 
Spinney,    Miss    E.    W.   Smiley,    Mrs. 
Louise  Packard,  Mrs.  H.  N.  Jackson. 

Waldo  County. 
Mrs.  C.  E.  Cottrell,  Mrs.  G.  M.  Knowlton, 
Mrs.  J.  W.  Wyman,  Mrs.  A.  L.  Sim- 
mons, Miss  Emily  Miller. 

Washington  County. 
Mrs.  E.  B.  Silsby,  Cor.  Sec;    Mrs.  E.  A. 

Holmes,  Treas.;   Mrs.  Betsey  Harmon, 

Mrs.  J.  Dudley,  Mrs.  J.  R.  Talbot,  Mrs. 

E.  M.  Vose,  Mrs.  M.  A.  Perkins,  Mrs. 

A.  S.  N.   Merrill,   Mrs.  C.  A.  Ricker, 

Mrs.   Qara    Farnsworth,    Miss    Lena 

Rummery. 

York  County. 
Mrs.  M.  A.  Snow,  Miss  A.  O.  Kimball, 

Miss  S.  C.  Littlefield,  Miss  F.  M.  Cres- 

sey,  Mrs.  M.  A.  Harley,  Mrs.  J.   E. 

Lord,   Miss   Ella  Ricker,   Miss  N.  J. 

Dockham,  Mrs.  Ellen  M.  Fernald. 


MINUTES. 


Executive  Meeting,  Sept.  24,  Evening. 

Executive  meeting  opened  with  prayer  by  Mrs.  R.  C.  Hall. 

Mrs.  Blanchard,  County  Treasurer,  explained  the  difficulty  of  re- 
porting at  Conventions  the  number  of  delegates  each  local  Union 
was  entitled  to  since  the  adoption  of  the  method  of  remitting  State 
dues  through  County  Treasurers.  This  led  to  a  discussion  of  the 
matter  and  resolved  itself  into  this  recommendation  offered  by  Miss 
Dow  of  Portland,  viz  :  Th.at  that  part  of  by-law  6th  requiring  the 
Treasurer  to  report  to  the  Convention  the  number  of  delegates  to 
which  each  local  Union  is  entitled  be  stricken  out.     Carried 

Moved  by  Mrs.  Blanchard  that  County  Presidents  in  connection 
with  County  Treasurers  report  to  the  State  Corresponding  Secretary        /^ 
the   number  of  delegates   to   which  each  local  Union   is  entitled. 
Carried. 

Miss  Dow  moved  a  reconsideration  of  the  vote.     Carried. 

Miss  Dow  then  moved  the  substitution  of  county  Unions  instead 
of  local.     Carried. 

Voted^  To  hold  an  Executive  meeting  at  8.30  Tuesday    morning 
the  first  item  of  business  being  the  seating  of  delegates.* 

The  Committee  rose. 


,  Executive  Meeting,  Sept.  25,  a.  m. 

Executive    meeting    opened    with    prayer     by    Mrs.    Beedy. 
Arrangements  were  n-ade  for  seating  the  delegates. 
The  Committee  rose. 


Convention,  Sept.  25,  a.  m. 
The   Twentieth   Annual    Convention   of   the    Maine    Woman's 
Christian    Temperance  Union  opened  at  the  High  St.  Congrega- 
tional Church,  Auburn,  Sept.  25,  1894. 


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The  decorations  of  the  church  were  numerous  and  beautiful.  The 
pictures  of  Miss  Willard  and  Lady  Henry  Somerset  graced  the 
platform,  twined  about  with  American  and  British  flag^. 

Green  vines,  beautiful  flowering  plants,  the  banners  of  the  various 
county  organizations  and  mottoes  adorned  the  church.  "Welcome" 
was  written  across  the  organ  front.  Green  foliage  and  bloom  fell 
in  the  dark  place  in  the  recess  at  the  rear  of  the  church.  The  fol- 
lowing are  some  of  the  mottoes : 

"For  God  and  Home  and  Every  Land." 

**Not  by  might,  nor  by  power,  but  by  my  spirit,  saith  the  Lord 
of  Hoste." 

'*The  Lord  giveth  the  word.  The  women  that  publisheth  the 
tidings  are  a  great  host." 

'*Thou  crownest  the  year  with  thy  goodness." 
•    ''Whatever  afl^ects  humanity  is  a  part  of  our  work." 

**The  W.  C.  T.  U.  stands  for  no  sectarianism  in  religion,  no 
sectionalism  in  politics,  no  sex  in  citizenship." 

At  lo  a.  m.,  a  devotional  service  was  led  by  Rev.  Sarah  K.  Taylor 
of  Rockland.  At  10.30  the  roll  was  called.  The  general  oflficers, 
except  Mrs.  Oam,  and  many  of  the  vice  presidents  and  superin- 
tendents answered  to  their  names. 

Mrs.  Stevens  said  this  was  tlie  first  time  since  her  election 
twelve  years  ago,  that  Mrs.  Cram  had  been  absent  from  the  State 
Convention.  She  was  rejoiced  to  say  it  was  not  sickness  or  sorrow 
that  detained  her,  but  a  great  joy  ;  for  into  the  home,  two  months 
ago,  came  •a  little  baby  boy,  Robert  Nathan.  By  a  rising  vote  a 
telegram  of  congratulation  was  ordered  sent  to  Judge  and  Mrs. 
Cram.     Report  of  minutes  of  Executive  Committee  accepted. 

Committee  on  Credentials  appointed — Mrs.  Thompson  of  f^ort- 
land  ;  Mrs.  Fogg  of  Augusta  ;  Mrs.  Talbot  of  East  Machias. 

Committee  on  Courtesies — Mrs.  Dennison  of  Auburn;  Mrs. 
Hayes  of  Lewiston. 

The  badges  prepared  for  the  members  of  the  Convention  were 
distributed. 

Mrs.  Stevens,  the  president,  made  a  little  speech  urging  the  mem- 
bers of  the  Convention  to  carry  on  the  business  of  the  session  in  ac- 
cordance with  parliamentary  usage. 


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Mrs.  Dennison  was  introduced  as  president  of  the  hostess 
Union.  Misses  Theresa  and  Bertha  Ballard  were  also  presented  as 
pages  to  serve  during  the  first  day  of  the  session. 

Mrs.  Hall  moved  that  the  program  as  arranged  by  the  general 
officers,  be  accepted,with  such  modifications  as  may  be  for  the  interest 
of  the  work. 

Moved  by  Mrs.  Dennison  of  Auburn,  that  the  annual  address  of 
the  State  President  and  the  Corresponding  Secretary's  report  be  re- 
versed in  order  of  presentation. 

Moved  by  Mrs.  Beedy  of  Farmington  that  the  report  of  tlie 
Superintendent  of  Scientific  Temperance  Instruction  be  made  the 
order  of  the  day  Wednesday  at  lo  a.  m.     Motion  carried. 

Moved  by  Mrs.  Leavitt  that  the  report  on  Homes  for  Homeless 
Children  be  made  the  order  of  the  day  at  ii  o'clock.     Carried. 

Moved  by  Mrs.  Silsby  of  Washington  County  that  a  committee 
of  two  be  appoin<^ed  to  gather  the  names  of  members  who  have 
died,  for  the  memorial  service.    Mrs.  Silsby  and  Mrs.  Wilder  chosen. 

In  the  absence  of  the  correspond  in  jj  secretary  her  report  was  ably 
read  by  Mrs.  Johnston.  This  report  was  of  great  intercut.  It  gave 
a  bird's  eye  view  of  the  whole  field,  stating  many  things  of  special 
interest.  Mrs.  Cram's  report  gave  brief  reports  for  each  Union,  and 
the  general  sum  of  them  all  was  tliat  the  work  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U. 
in  Maine  was  never  better  than  it  is  today.  The  report  was  accepted 
with  instruction  to  have  a  fuller  notice  given  of  the  general  obser- 
vance of  Gen..  Neal  Dow's  birthday  by  the  local  Unions  of  the  State. 

Miss  Anna  Ciimmings  of  Soutli  Africa  was  introduced.  She  was 
led  to  the  platform  and  all  hands  stood  and  waved  white  handker- 
chiefs at  her.  Miss  Cummings  said  that  she  wouldn't  '•  inflict"  a 
speech  on  them  now.  '*You  will  hear  enough  of  my  voice  later  on." 
Then  looking  over  the  Convention  she  said,  '*But  where  are 
the  Y's?" 

Somebody  said  that  the  Y's  would  be  in  evidence  later  on. 

Miss  Cummings  is  a  representative  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  of  Africa. 
She  is  the  daughter  of  a  Congregational  minister,  was  educated  at 
Mt.  Holyoke  and  went  as  a  missionary  to  South  Africa.  She  has 
been  a  teacher  for  seven  years  in  Huguenot  Seminary,  Latin  and 
botany  being  her  specialties.     While  thus  working  as  a  teacher.  Miss 


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Cummings  has  devoted  her  spare  time  to  the  temperance  cause, 
having  been  for  6ve  years  colonial  superintendent  of  Young 
Woman's  Work  in  South  Africa. 

The  report  of  Young  Woman's  Work  was  presented  by  Miss 
Lubelle  Patrick  of  Groveville. 

Mrs.  Wyman  of  Augusta  suggested  the  desirability  of  Miss  Patrick 
visiting  the  Y's  of  the  State,  which  was  favorably  received. 

Miss  Yates  of  New  Jersey  was  presented,  and  related  a  very 
touching  story  pf  a  little  Arab  boy  who  associated  the  name 
America  with  the  American  strong  drink  which  had  ruined  his 
home  in  Egv'pt. 

Mrs  Allen,  a  member  of  the  Nebraska  Union,  was  also  intro- 
duced, and  responded,  in  behalf  of  her  state. 

Miss  Monroe  of  Lynn,  Mass.,  was  presented. 

During  the  forenoon  Mrs.  C.  F.  Allen,  honorary  president  of  the 
State  W.  C.  T.  U.  came  forward  and  was  greeted  with  applause. 

Noon  time  prayer  was  offered  by  Mrs.  Lucy  Snow. 

Mrs  E.  B.  Cheney,  formerly  president  of  the  Rhode  Island  State 
Union  was  introduced. 

Mrs.  Houghton,  the  newly-elected  president  of  the  Somerset 
County  Union,  was  introduced. 

A  call  was  made  for  Miss  Millett.  A  lady  in  black  arose  and 
walked  down  the  aisle.  Approaching  the  front  she  was  grasped  by 
the  hand  and,  Mrs.  Stevens  facing  the  audience,  said,  "Miss  Millett. 
Miss  Millett  is  the  missionary  from  Bombay,  India."  Miss  Millett 
bowed  low,  touching  her  forehead  and  saying,  'Peace  be  with  you' 
— the  East  Indian  form  of  salutation.  She  said,  "As  I  entered  here, 
I  saw  these  standards  with  the  names  of  the  counties  on  them,  but  I 
saw  no  place  for  me.  I  saw  none  with  'Bombay,  India'  on  it. 
Then  I  looked  up  and  said  'Under  God  we  are  all  one.*" 

Kennebec  County  acknowledges  a  helpful  visit  from  Mrs.  Emilie 
Underhill  Burgess. 

Announcements  were  made  and  notices  given.     Doxology. 

Adjourned. 


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Executive  Meeting,  Sept.  25,  p.  m. 

Prayer  by  Mrs.  M.  H.  Wyman. 

According  to  program,  it  is  important  that  every  county  president 
respond  in  person  or  by  substitute. 

Moved  to  recommend  that  county  delegations  be  filled  from 
visitors  from  said  counties  irrespective  of  local  Unions,  at  the  discre- 
tion of  the  regularly  chosen  delegates. 

The  Executive  Committee  recommend  that  the  delegations  remain 
in  their  seats  a  few  minutes  at  the  close  of  each  adjournment  to 
transact  any  business  that  may  arise  belonging  to  that  delegation, 
and  v^ait  for  dismissal  by  chairman  of  the  delegation. 

The  Committee  rose. 


Convention,  Sept.  25,  p.  m. 

Devotional  meeting   at  2.30,  led  by  Mrs.  Mary  E.  Richardson. 
Minutes  of  morning  meeting  read  and  approved. 
Report  of  Executive  Committee  read  and  accepted,  after  discussion 
The  president's  address  was  carefully  prepared,  well  presented 
and  enthusiastically  received. 

The  recommendations  were  as  follows : 

Take  the  Union  Signal. 

Take  the  Star  in  the  East.  The  latter  should  be  most  carefully 
read  as  it  often  contains  important  ofHcial  notices  valuable  to  local 
Unions  and  members. 

Observe  all  the  Red  Letter  Days  of  the  society.  They  are  set 
forth  in  the  Union  Signal  and  should  be  kept  by  all. 

Each  local  Union  should  have  a  large  list  of  honorary  members. 

Increase  your  membership.  Hundreds  of  women  in  every  town 
and  city  stand  ready  to  join  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  if  it  is  explained  and 
if  they  are  asked  to.  How  frequently,  indeed,  do  you  hear  ladies 
say,  '*I  was  asked  at  such  and  such  a  time  to  join,  but  I  never  knew 
much  about  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  I  would  join  it  if  I  had  an  opportunity." 

Use  the  White  Ribbon  Hymnal  at  your  meetings. 

Always  wear  the  White  Ribbon.  You  cannot  define  the  amount 
of  good  that  it  will  do.  It  is  hard  to  tell  in  a  short  time  all  that  it 
means,  but  always  wear  it. 


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I  recommend  an  all-day  session  at  Augusta  this  winter  during 
the  Legislature  on  the  day  before  the  hearing  on  municipal  suflfrage 
for  women. 

That  the  State  Union  pay  $io  a  year  for  five  years  to  Madam 
Sakarai's  School  of  Christian  Education  for  girls  in  Japan. 

The  address  was  received  with  thanks,  and  the  recommendations 
referred  to  the  Executive  Committee. 

The  state  treasurer,  Mrs.  Blanchard,  reported  for  the  general 
treasuf}'  and  the  Star  in  the  East.  The  total  receipts  for  the  year 
are  $3,499.53  ;  total  expenditures,  $3,075.35;  in  the  treasury  now, 
$424.18— of  which  $274.30  is  to  the  credit  of  the  Star. 

Mrs.  S.  J.  Jewett  of  Mechanic  Falls,  auditor,  reported  that  she 
hail  examined  the  accounts  of  the  treasurer  very  carefully,  and  found 
them  perfectly  correct.  Accepted.  After  which  the  reports  of  the 
auditor  and  of  the  treasurer  were  accepted  by  a  rising  vote  of  thanks. 

The  Star  Prize  Banner  offered  for  the  largest  number  of  sub- 
scribers according  to  membership  in  the  local  Unions  was  awarded 
to  Piscataquis  County.  Mrs.  Martin  of  Foxcroft,  county  correspond- 
injj  secretary,  received  the  banner  for  the  county  with  these  words: 
**We  thank  you  very  much  for  the  banner — and  we  dare  you  all  to 
get  it  next  year." 

The  address  of  Miss  Anna  Cummings  was  listened  to  with  the 
greatest  interest  and  delight. 

The  names  of  the  committee  on  resolutions  were  read  as  follows: 
Androscoggin,  Miss  Mary  E.  Perkins;  Aroostook,  Mrs.  H.  E. 
Ebbett ;  Cumberland,  Mrs.  Gertrude  S.  Leavitt ;  Franklin,  Mrs. 
Marian  Knapp ;  Hancock,  Mrs.  Geo,  G.  Winslow  ;  Kennebec,  Mrs. 
M.  H.  Wyman ;  Knox,  Mrs  A  E.  Bradford  ;  Lincoln,  Mrs.  Emma 
Potter;  Oxford,  Miss  Bell  Shirley;  Penobscot,  Mrs.  W.  N.  Carr ; 
Piscataquis,  Mrs.  Edith  N.  Oakes  ;  Sagadahoc,  Mrs.  Louise  Packard  ; 
Somerset,  Mrs.  Eva  Bryant ;  Waldo,  Mrs.  C.  E.  Cottrell ;  Washing, 
ton,  Mrs.  E.  A.  Holmes;  York,  Mrs.  M.  A.  Snow. 

A  meeting  of  the  committee  was  appointed. 

Announcements  were  made  and  notices  given.      Doxology. 

Adjourned. 


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Convention,  Sept.  25,  Evening. 

The  services  opened  by  singing  Coronation,  Mr.  E.  W.  Hanscom 
at  the  organ. 

Scripture  reading  and  prayer  by  Miss  Anna  Cummings. 

Music. 

The  Convention  was  then  welcomed  by  Mayor  Hillman  Smith,  in 
behalf  of  the  city,  Rev.  Carl  S.  Patton  in  behalf  of  the  churches, 
and  by  Mrs.  Dennison,  president  of  the  Auburn  Union.  Mrs.  Hattie 
.C.  Keyes  eloquently  responded  to  the  welcome. 

A  special  feature  of  the  evening  was  the  three-minute  speeches  by 
the  county  presidents,  each  of  whom  spoke  in  a  manner  fully 
demonstrating  the  fact  stated  by  Mrs.  Stevens,  that  our  county 
presidents  are  **bright  women." 

Collection. 

Doxology. 

Benediction  by  Rev.  C.  S.  Patton. 

Adjourned. 


Executive  Meeting,  Sept.  26,  a.  m. 

Prayer  by  Mrs.  Jewett. 

Mrs.  Blanchard  moved  that  Miss  Emily  Miller  of  No.  Searsmont 
be  appointed  to  take  subscriptions  for  the  Union  Signal  and  the  Star 
in  the  East  at  the  reduced  rates  secured  by  her.  Mrs.  Blanchard 
moved  that  Mrs.  L.  J,  Spaulding,  and  Mrs.  A.  S.  Johnston  be  a 
committee  to  formulate  a  plan  for  county  organization. 

Recommended,  That  each  local  Union  shall  hold  its  annual  meet- 
ing for  the  election  of  officers,  etc.,  the  last  week  in  August  or  the 
first  in  September. 

That  the  recording  secretary  of  each  county  Union  give  notice  to 
each  county  officer  of  her  election  and  other  information  that  may  be 
deemed  requisite. 

That  the  suggestion  by  the  president  that  an  all  day  meeting  of  the 
state  Union  be  held  in  Augusta  on  the  day  prior  to  the  hearing  on 
the  women  suffi-age  question  be  carried  out. 

The  Committee  rose. 


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Convention,  Sept.  26,  a.  m. 

At  9.30  a  service  of  praise  and  prayer  was  conducted  by  Mrs. 
L.  W.  Clark.     Minutes  of  afternoon  meeting  read  and  approved. 

Minutes  of  Executive  Coiimittee  meeting  read  and  accepted  except 
the  recommendation  relating  to  the  annual  meeting,  which  was  re- 
ferred back  to  the  committee. 

Mrs.  Bailey  moved  that  a  letter  be  sent  to  Miss  CampbelK  presi- 
dent of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  of  South  Africa,  expressing  our  apprecia- 
tion of  the  work  of  Miss  Cummings  for  the  Y's  in  this  country 
Carried,  and  Mrs.  Bailey  was  requested  to  prepare  such  a  letter. 

The  order  of  the  day  was  called  for  the  report  of  the  superinten- 
dent of  Scientific  Temperance  Instruction. 

Mrs.  G.  F.  French  made  her  report,  and  offered  the  following 
resolutions  which  were  adopted : 

Beaolved,  First,  That  we  rejoice  that  Scientific  Temperance  is  now  a  mandatory 
study  for  all  pupils,  in  all  public  schools,  in  thirty-nine  States,  inclading  our  own 
State  of  Maine,  and  in  all  schools  under  Federal  control,  including  those  in  the  Terri- 
tories, the  District  of  Columbia,  Indian  and  colored  schools,  military  and  naval 
academies,  comprising  more  than  13,000,000  of  the  children  and  youth  of  school  age 
in  this  country. 

Beaolved,  Second,  That  we  believe  the  thorough  enforcement  of  these  laws  is  the 
hope  of  the  Temperance  Reform  ;  and  that  while  recognizing  with  g^ratitade  provi- 
sion for  such  enforcement,  wherever  it  has  been  made,  we  believe  that  the  carelessness 
and  neglect  concerning  its  enforcement,  on  the  part  of  many  school  executors  of  this 
law  in  our  State,  is  not  only  depriving  our  public  school  pupils  of  this  warning  in- 
struction, which  is  their  legal  right,  but  also  setting  before  them  an  example  of  disre- 
gard to  law,  by  school  officers  and  teachers,  which  is  liable  to  be  followed  by  a  spirit 
of  lawlessness  on  the  part  of  numbers  of  pupils  who  witness  this  neglect ;  which 
lawlessness  can  illy  be  afforded  under  this  "government  of  the  people.*' 

We  therefore  call  upon  all  school  boards,  officers,  and  teachers  to  set  before  the 
children  of  this  State,  who  are  soon  to  be  its  men  and  women,  an  example  of  loyal 
obedience  to  law,  by  promptly  making  adequate  provision,  where  such  provision  is 
lacking,  for  the  pursuit  of  the  study  of  Physiological  Temi>erance,  by 

1st,  Selecting  or  providing  a  series  of  well-graded  text-books  on  this  topic  that 
contain  the  truths  the  law  requires  taught ;  and 

2d,  By  making  an  adequate  place  for  this  branch  in  the  course  of  study  for  all 
pupils  in  all  schools  under  their  control,  with  the  same  examinations  or  tests  of  the 
pupils'  proficiency  as  are  used  in  the  case  of  other  studies.  In  short,  we  ask  that 
they  require  this  compulsory  study  to  be  pursued  in  all  respects  as  thoroughly  as 
other  mandatory  branches  are. 

Resolvedt  Third,  That  while  we  appreciate  the  good  school  work  in  Scientific 
Temperance  that  some  faithful  teachers  are  doing,  we  believe  there  is  great  need  of 
information  as  to  the  best  methods  of  teaching  this  branch. 

We  therefore  respectfully  ask  The  National  Education  Association  (comprised  of 
representative  school  officers  and  teachers,  legal  executors  of  the  school  laws  of  this 


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country)  to  make  permanent  and  adequate  provision  in  the  programmes  of  their 
yearly  meetings  for  consideration  of  methods  of  teaching  to  all  pupils  in  all  schools 
the  new  mandatory  study,  viz.,  The  Nature  and  Effects  of  Alcoholic  Drinks  and 
other  Narcotics  in  connection  with  Relative  Physiology  and  Hygiene. 

Besolvedt  Fourth,  That  we  advise  our  local,  county,  and  State  Superintendents  of 
Scientific  Temperance  Instruction  to  secure  the  widest  possible  publicition  of  the 
three  foresoing  resolutions  in  every  paper  published  in  this  State,  and  that  copies  of 
the  same  be  sent  to  State,  county,  and  local  school  officials  and  teachers.  We  advise 
also  that  copies  of  our  State  Ten4>erance  Education  Law  be  inserted  in  the  papers 
with  these  resolutions. 

Mr.  Stetson,  supervisor  of  the  Auburn  schools  was  introduced' 
and  made  some  very  telling  remarks. 

Mrs.  Helen  M.  Barker  treasurer  of  the  National  Union,  was  in- 
troduced and  gave  the  Convention  some  cheering  information  regard- 
ing the  financial  status  of  the  Woman's  Temperance  Publishing 
Association. 

The  following  telegram  from  Mrs.  Sarah  L.  Cram  of  Biddeford, 
corresponding  secretary,  was  received  and  read  : 

Love  and  greeting  to  you  and  this  Twentieth  Annual  Convention.  Phil.  chap,  i, 
▼erses  3, 4,  5  and  6. 

A  telegp'am  of  love  and  greeting  was  sent  to  Miss  Frances  E. 
Willard. 

The  report  of  Miss  Harriet  A.  Leavitt,  Portland,  for  the  depart- 
ment of  Securing  Homes  for  Homeless  Children  was  ably  presented 
and  listened  to  with  deep  interest.  She  described  in  an  interesting 
manner  the  method  of  locating  needy  children  and  the  operation  of 
the  intelligence  bureau  in  placing  children  in  homes. 

The  report  was  accepted  by  a  rising  vote. 

Voted,  To  refer  the  recommendations  of  the  report  to  Executive 
Committee,  and  also  to  consider  some  method  of  raising  money  for 
the  department. 

A  telegram  was  ordered  sent  to  the  Convention  of  the  Maritime 
Provinces  in  session  at  Fredericton. 

Memorial  Services  opened  by  singing  Tennyson's  '^Crossing  the 
Bar"  by  Miss  Rice. 

Reading  of  names  of  the  sisters  and  honorary  members  wiio  have 
died  during  the  year. 


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IN  MEMORIAM* 


Mrs.  Lizzie  B.  Walker,  Mechanic  Falls. 

Mrs.  Ann  Sedgeley,  Greene. 

Mrs.  Carrie  Day,  Livermore  Falls. 

Mrs.  Cora  Elliot,  Livermore  Falls. 

Mrs.  Moore,  Livermore  Falls. 

Mrs.  H.  A.  Osgood,  Lewiston. 

Mrs.  a.  p.  White,  Lewiston. 

Mrs.  Flora  A.  Rackliff. 

Miss  Mabel  Pierce. 

Mrs.  K.  Smith. 

Mrs.  R.  Smith. 

Mrs.  H.  Ward. 

Mrs.  H.  Dunn. 

Mr.  J.  Withee,  Honorary. 

Mrs.  Mary  E.  Leavitt,  Portland. 

Mrs.  Burnham,  Portland. 

Miss  Judith  Hall,  Westbrook  Y. 

Mrs.  Nellie  P.  Phinney,  South  Windham. 

Mrs.  Carollne  Bickford,  South  Windham. 

Mrs.  Susan  Hanson,  Cumberland  Mills. 

Mrs.  Albert  Cook,  Windham  Center. 

Mrs.  Martha  Stanwood,  Brunswick. 

Miss  M.  J.  Noyes,  President,  Brunswick. 

Dea.  a.  C.  Chandler,  New  Gloucester. 

Mrs.  Eva  Danfortii,  Farmington. 

Mrs.  Louise  Gilbert,  Kingfield. 

Mrs.  Lena  Hinds  Luce.  Kingfield. 

Mrs.  Mary  Eldridge,  Kingfield. 

Mrs.  Stella  Keyes,  North  Jay. 

Mrs.  Martha  Dascomb,  Wilton. 

Mrs.  Alasia  Higgins,  Bar  Harbor. 


Miss  Alice  Suminsby,  Bar  Harbor. 

Mrs.  Amanda  Bowler,  South  Hancock. 

Mrs.  Rebecca  J.  Sturgis,  Augusta. 

Mrs.  Lucy  Blackman,  Augusta. 

Mrs.  Lane  Boardman,  Augusta. 

Miss  Alice  Blanchard,  Hallowell  Y. 

Mrs.  Ruth  Lincoln,  China. 

Mrs,  H.  H.  Crie,  Rockland. 

Mrs.  Keniston,  Union. 

Mrs.  Pricilla  Brown,  Broad  Cove. 

Mrs.  Clement,  Bangor. 

Mrs.  S.  J.  PiCKARD,  Crusade. 

Mrs.  a.  a.  Harvey,  Kenduskeag. 

Mrs.  J.  H.  Higgins,  Charleston. 

Mrs.  Mansell,  Greenville. 

Mrs.  McPheters,  Guilford. 

Mrs.  Mary  A.  Brown,  Fairfield. 

Mrs.  Mary  Knights. 

Miss  Fannie  E.  Cox,  East  Machias. 

Mrs.  Clara  Burnham,  Cherryfield. 

Mrs.  E.  C.  Small,  Cherryfield. 

Mrs.  Maggie  Maller,  Eastport. 

Mr.  L.  T.  Reynolds,  Pembroke. 

Mrs.  Luella  F.  J.  Morton,  Kennebunk. 

Mrs.  Peti'INER,  Old  Orchard. 

Mrs.  Stevens  followed  with  words  of  love  and  respect  for  these 
beloved  and  faithful  comrades  who  have  left  us  in  person  but  whose 
gentle  and  elevating  influence  abides  with  us. 

Prayer  was  offered  by  Mrs.  Freeman  of  Bar  Harbor. 

Miss  Willard*s  poem,  **On  Heights  of  Power,"  was  sung  by  Miss 
Rice. 

The  services  closed  by  singing  "In  the  Sweet  By  and  Ry''  led  by 
Miss  Rice,  and  Aaron ite  Benediction  pronounced  by  Mrs.  Stevens. 


Mrs.  M.  H.  Wyman  was  requested  to  convey  a  messi^  of  love 
and  sympathy  to  Mrs.  Ida  M.  B.  Wyman  who  Is  just  recovering 
from  a  severe  illness. 

Notices  were  read,  and  the  Doxology  sung. 

Adjourned. 

ExBcuTivs  Meeting,  Sept  26,  p.  m. 

Prayer  by  Mrs.  Getchell. 

Moved  to  recommend  that  Miss  Dow  and  Mrs.  Spaulding  arrange 
counties  so  as  to  bring  the  most  equitable  distribution  of  national 
delegates. 

MrH.  Annie  B.  Emerson  of  Piscataquis  County  recommended  as 
superintendent  of  Hygienic  Reform. 

Mrs.  Gertrude  Stevens  Leavitt  recommended  as  superintendent  of 
Work  Among  Foreign  Speaking  People. 

Committee  rose. 


Convention,  Sept.  26,  p.  m. 

At  2  o'clock  a  Bible  Reading  was  conducted  by  Mrs.  Lucy  A. 
Snow. 

IMimitcs  of  morning  meetings  read  and  approved.  Minutes  of 
ICxcciitivc  Comniitlee  read  and  accepted. 

Mrs.  N.  S.  Fernald  reported  for  the  department  of  Temperance 
Literature.  Good  work  lias  been  done  and  a  large  amount  of  litera- 
ture (iistrihuted  in  various  ways. 

Miss  Mary  L.French  reported  for  the  Press  department.  1,000 
columns  of  space  has  been  filled  by  county  superintendents  in  local 
newspapers. 

Miss  Kimball,  Kennebunk,  has  furnished  over  sixty  columns  dur- 
ing the  year  for  a  York  county  local  weekly. 

Mrs.  Flora  A.  Wright,  State  organizer,  read  an  exhaustive  report 
indicating  the  growth  of  the  new  Unions  and  the  meetings  that  have 
been  held  to  promote  the  extension  of  the  work.  Seventy-two  meet- 
ings have  been  held,  and  seven  new  unions  have  been  organized. 

Mrs.  Dudley  of  Pembroke  and  Mrs.  Graffam  of  Rumford  Falls 
were  greeted  as  presidents  of  new  Unions. 


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The  recording  secretary  was  instructed  to  write  to  the  mother  of 
Miss  Suminsby  thanking  her  for  flowers  received  from  her,  and  ex- 
pressing our  sympathy  for  her  in  her  great  loss,  which  is  also  our  loss. 

The  report  of  the  Evangelistic  Work  was  made  the  order  of  the 
day  for  11.30  a.  m.,  Thursday. 

Miss  Annie  C.  Bagley  of  Springvale  reported  for  the  department 
of  Juvenile  Work.  The  songs,  badges,  plan  of  organization  and 
instruction  were  explained  and  the  rapid  growth  of  the  Loyal  Tem- 
perance Legion  discussed. 

The  Committee  on  Credentials  reported. 

Whole  number  present  252.  The  Convention  therefore  is  the 
largest  ever  held  in  Maine  by  about  fifty  delegates. 

The  election  of  officers  being  the  next  order  of  business,  Mrs.  N. 
O.  Odlin  of  Androscoggin  was  called  to  the  chair. 

"He  Leadeth  Me"  was  sung  by  the  congregation,  led  by  Miss  Rice 
of  Portland. 

Mrs.  B.  C.  Beedy,  Mrs.  G.  F.  French,  Mrs.  Geo.  M.  Brainerd 
and  Miss  Estelle  Brainerd  acted  as  tellers. 

After  the  informal  ballot  the  recording  secretary  was  directed  to 
cast  the  vote  of  the  conveption  for  Mrs.  Stevens  for  the  ensuing  year 
which  was  done.  Mrs.  L.  J.  Spaulding  was  requested  to  present 
Mrs.  Stevens  to  the  Convention.  Mrs.  Stevens  was  greeted  by  the 
rising  of  the  entire  audience,  the  Chautauqua  salute  and  the  singing 
of  the  Doxolojjy. 

Mrs.  Stevens  responded  in  a  few  words  of  grateful  and  sincere 
appreciation.  She  then  referred  to  the  forming  of  the  state  organiza- 
tion at  Old  Orchard  twenty  years  ago,  and  asked  if  any  other  woman 
present  at  that  time,  was  present  now.  Mrs.  Oscar  Hoi  way  of 
Augusta  was,  so  far  as  could  be  ascertained,  the  only  other  woman 
present  at  that  time. 

Mrs.    Sarah   L.   Cram,  Biddeford,  corresponding  secretary,  Miss 

Clara  M.  Farwell,  Rockland,  and  Mrs.  E.  M.  Blanchard,  Lewiston, 

treasurer,  were  re-elected.     Mrs.  A.  S.  Johnston  was  nominated  as 

assistant  recording  secretary  by  Miss  Farwell  and  confirmed  by  the 

Convention. 

A    telegram    was   sent   to    Mrs.  Cram  announcing  to  her   her 

re-election. 


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The  following  delegates  to  the  National  Convention  at  Cleveland 
were  chosen : 

Aroostook — Mrs  F.  A.  Wright ;  Mrs.  L.  J.  Spaulding,  alternate. 

Androscoggin  and  Waldo^Miss  A.  A.  Hicks,  Belfast ;  alternate, 
Mrs.  J.  T.  Dennison,  Auburn. 

Cumberland — Miss  Cornelia  M.  Dow,  Portland  ;  alternate,  Mrs. 
Clara  T.  Shaw,  North  Gorham. 

Oxford,  Somerset  an..  York — Mrs.  Anna  M.  Hussey,  South  Ber- 
wick ;  alternate,  Mrs.  M.  F.  Bunker,  North  Anson. 

Franklin  and  Hancock — Mrs.  Carrie  F.  Keyes,  North  Jay  ;  alter- 
nate, Mrs.  Ann  F.  Greely,  Ellsworth. 

Doxology.      Adjourned. 


Convention,  Sept.  26,  Evening. 

The  exercises  \/ere  opened  by  singing  Coronation.  Scripture 
reading  by  Mrs.  H.  J.  Bailey.     Prayer  was  offered  by  Mrs.  Cole. 

Miss  Henrietta  D.  Rice  of  Portland  followed  with  a  solo.  Miss 
Rice  has  assisted  greatly  in  the  musical  portion  of  the  Convention, 
and  was  publicly  thanked  by  Mrs.  Stevens  Wednesday  afternoon. 

Mrs.  Helen  M.  Barker  was  then  introduced  by  Mrs.  Stevens. 

Mrs.  Barker  made  a  magnetic  and  strikingly  logical  plea  for 
prohibition.  She  ^aid  :  '^You  may  regulate  a  wrong  to  all  eternity 
and  youMl  never  make  it  right.  There  isn't  a  law  laid  down  in  the 
decalogue  that  the  saloon  doesn't  violate  and  defile.**  •  •  • 
"In  four-fifths  of  South  Dakota  towns,**  says  Mrs.  Barker,  "pro- 
hibition is  just  as  well  enforced  as  any  law  on  our  statute  books. 
They  say  that  high  license  will  take  the  rum  business  out  of  the 
hands  of  the  cheap  class  and  place  it  with  ^respectable*  parties.  Yes, 
and  thus  it  is  made  a  hundred  times  more  dangerous  and  more 
seductive.  Will  it  mend  the  breaking  hearts  of  the  mothers  to  know 
that  their  boys  went  to  ruin  'respectably.?'  I  am  here  to  assert 
today  that  prohibition  is  the  very  best  plan  ever  proposed.  It 
is  a  thousand  times  better,  even  poorly  enforced,  than  free 
rum.  In  Chicago  the  curse  is  rampant  and  unchecked  with  our 
high  ofhcials  sitting  passive    in    their  offices.     It*s  a  great  national 


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conspiracy  against  law  that  we  are  struggling  against.  It  is 
better  to  send  over  the  water  and  import  a  king  to  rule  over  us  than 
sit  down  and  supinely  allow  the  saloon  keeper  to  hold  his  horrid 
sway  in  our  land." 

Music.       Collection. 

Adjourned. 

Executive  Meeting,  Sept.  27,  a.  m. 

Prayer  by  Mrs.  Houghton. 

Moved  that  a  committee  be  chosen  to  raise  money  for  the  depart- 
ment of  Homes  for  Homeless  Children.  Miss  Dow,  Mrs.  Spauld- 
ing,  Mrs.  Talbot,  and  Mrs.  Holway  appointed  as  such  committee. 

Voted^  That  each  state  superintendent  should  have  yearly  $5.00 
for  postage,  to  be  paid  just  before  the  Annual  Convention. 

Moved  that  Miss  Louise  Titcomb  be  appointed  as  superintendent 
of  department  of  Franchise,  and  Mrs.  A.  F.  Greely  lecturer  for  that 
department. 

Moved  that  the  old  board  of  superintendents  be  re-elected,  except- 
ing such  changes  as  have  already  been  made. 

The  Committee  rose. 


Convention,  Sept.  27.  a.  m. 

Devotional  exercises  were  conducted  by  Mrs.  F.  A.  Wright. 
Minutes  read  and  approved. 

Minutes  of  executive  meeting  accepted. 

Voted^  That  the  time  for  each  superintendent  shall  not  exceed 
ten  minutes  and  that  Mrs.  H.  J.  Bailey  be  appointed  as  time 
keeper. 

Mrs.  L.  J.  Spaulding  of  Caribou  for  the  department  on  Unfer- 
mented  Wine  at  Sacrament,  reported  that  fermented  wine  had  been 
banished  from  nearly  every  church  in  tlie  state. 

Mrs.  H.  J.  Bailey  reported  for  the  department  of  the  Reforma- 
tory Prison  for  Women.  She  said  that  the  project  had  moved  but 
slowly,  and  she  recommended  that  the  matter  be  allowed  to  rest 
awhile  until  a  sentiment  in  favor  of  it  has  been  aroused  in  our  state. 
Recommendation  adopted. 


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Mrs.  Bailey  also  read  the  report  of  Mrs.  F.  A.  Rollins  of  Win- 
throp,  superintendent  of  department  of  Sabbath  Observance.  That 
famous  Sunday  concert  affair  in  Augusta  was  adduced  as  a  sample  of 
the  earnest  work  performed.  The  public  will  recall  that  the 
Augusta  W.  C.  T.  U.  battled  most  uncompromisingly  against  the 
"sacred"  concert  and  the  Sunday  opening  of  a  local  "garden." 

Mrs.  R.  C.  Hall  of  Knox  read  a  note  from  Miss  Alzira  L.  Crie 
of  Rockland  thanking  the  Convention  for  prayer  offered  in  her  be- 
half last  year  and  expressing  her  g^titude  for  the  answered  prayer. 
At  the  request  of  Mrs.  Stevens  Mrs.  Hall  offered  a  prayer  of  thank- 
fulness to  God  for  this  great  mercy. 

For  the  department  of  Purity,  Mrs.  Flora  A.  Wright  of  Yarmouth- 
ville  reported.  A  large  amount  of  literature  has  been  distributed  in 
all  portions  of  the  State. 

Mrs.  Emma  Potter  of  Lincoln  Co.  read  the  report  on  Prison,  Jail 
and   Almshouse  Work  for  the   superintendent,  Mrs.  B.  Minard  of 

Lewiston. 

Mrs.  Abbie  J.  Benner  and  Mrs.  Mary  McCollum,  of  the  com- 
mittee on  entertainment,  were  introduced  to  the  Convention  and 
complimented  for  their  work. 

Rev.  Dr.  Penny  addressed  the  Convention  briefly,  also  N.  F. 
Woodbury,  esq.,  of  Auburn. 

Work  among:  railroad  employees  was  reported  by  Mrs.  R.  S. 
Thomas  of  Greene.     This  work  has  been  in  progress  but  one  year. 

Mrs  Helen  A.  Barker  of  South  Dakota  spoke  briefly  on  this  sub- 
ject and  emphasized  its  importance.  She  said  that  railroad  work  in 
the  west,  not  only  among  the  employees,  but  visitation  among  the 
wives  and  mothers,  was  in  successful  progress. 

Moved  that  we  in  some  wa}  express  our  disapprobation  of  the 
prominence  given  by  the  press  to  reports  of  prize  fights,  sparring 
matches,  etc.     Referred  to  committee  on  resolutions. 

The   following   telegram   from  Fredericton,  N.  B.,  was  received 
and  read  : 
Convention  sent  greetings  through  executive.     Malachi  3  :  16  t«  18. 

Edith  J.  Archibald,  Pres 

Mrs.  Clara  C.  HofTman  of  Missouri,  assistant  recording  secretary 
was  introduced  to  the  Convention  and  brought  a  cheerful  and  most 
friendly  greeting. 


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Mrs.  M.  H.  Wyman  of  Kennebec  moved  that  all  White  Ribbon 
women  be  admitted  free  to  the  evening  meeting.  The  motion  was 
laid  upon  the  table  until  afternoon. 

Miss  Edith  Libby  of  Portland  presented  the  report  of  the  Flower 
Mission.     All  parts  of  Maine  report  extensive  work  in  this  line. 

Mrs.  Edith  N.  Oakes  reported  for  department  of  State  and  County 
Fairs  that  a  large  amount  of  literature  has  been  distributed  and 
missionary  work  performed  at  the  various  fairs. 

The  order  of  the  day  was  taken  up  and  Mrs  Lucy  A.  Snow  ""C" 
ported  for  Evangelistic  Work.  She  said  that  never  liad  the  work 
shown  such  growth  and  progress  as  during  the  past  year,  and  those 
who  have  done  the  most  work  under  circumstances  calling  for 
exceptional  self-denial  are  fullest  of  courage  and  inspiration  for  an- 
other year. 

Noon-tide  prayer  by  Mrs.  Wadsworth  of  Kennebec. 

Announcements.      Doxology. 

Adjourned. 

Executive  Meeting,  Sept.  27,  p.  m. 
Opened  with  prayer. 

The  comnrittee  recommend  that  all  arrangements  concerning  the 
sale  and  giving  of  tickets  he  lelt  with  the  committee  first  selected, 
namely,  Mrs.  Blanch.nd  and  Mrs.  Dennison,  assuring  the  Convention 
that  this  matter  nas  been  thoroughly  discussed  by  the  executive  com- 
mittee, and  that  arrangements  iiave  been  made  to  provide  each  mem- 
ber of  any  Union  with  a  ticket. 

The  committee  rose. 


Convention,  Sept.  27,  p.  m. 

Miss  Millet  read  the  scriptures  and  oflered  prayer,  after  which  slie 
gave  a  most  interesting  account  of  her  work  in  India. 

Reading  of  minutes  and  executive  minutes  which  were  duly 
accepted. 

Lady  Henry  Somerset  introduced,  and  received  with  great  ap- 
plause and  prolonged  waving  of  handkerchiefs.  She  made  a  brief 
address. 

Miss  Rice  sang  most  charmingly,  "Flee  as  a  Bird." 


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Mrs.  Johnston  read  the  report  of  Mrs.  A.  F.  Greely  on  Franchise. 
Mrs.  Greely  took  an  optimistic  view  of  the  situation  and  argued  that 
there  had  been  within  the  past  year  a  distinct  movement  in  the  way 
of  securing  the  ballot  for  women. 

F.  L.  Dingley  ot  Auburn,  Rev.  Mr.  Stackpole,  Auburn,  Rev. 
H.  R.  Rose,  Auburn,  Rev.  H.  A.  Clifford,  Richmond,  Rev.  Mr. 
Clark,  Mechanic  Fulls,  and  Rev.  Mr.  Towne,  Auburn,  addressed  the 
Convention  and  endorsed  the  ballot  reform  movement. 

Mrs.  G.  F.  French  leported  for  the  department  of  Narcotics  and 
recommended  more  earnest  work  in  behalf  of  the  children. 

Mrs.  Anna  M.  Hussey  of  North  Berwick  reported  on  Systematic 
Giving  and  urged  the  great  importance  of  this  branch  of  our  work. 

The  department  of  Peace  and  Arbitration  reported  through  Miss 
Douglass  that  much  work  had  been  done. 

Mrs.  L.  C.  Lamb  reported  for  the  department  of  Legislation  and 
Petition,  and  urged  the  necessity  of  much  work  before  the  meeting 
of  the  Legislature  this  winter. 

Mrs.  Ebbett  of  Houlton  read  the  following  letter : 

Madam  President  and  Sisters  of  the  Convention : 

In  behalf  of  the  Houlton  Union  I  invite  the  State  Convention  to  hold  its  next 
session  at  Houlton. 

As  you  are  all  aware  the  Convention  of  1895  will  be  the  21st  anniversary  of  the  State 
Convention.  Next  year  will  also  be  the  tenth  anniversary  of  the  Houlton  Union, 
and  it  has  been  suggested  that  it  be  made  a  double  celebration.  In  order  to  make  it 
a  grand  success  we  want  the  ablest  Temperance  Speakers  obtainable.  Miss  Willard 
has  been  named,  and  Mrs.  I.ivcrmore,  Rev.  Anna  Shaw,  Miss  Clara  C.  Hoffman, 
and  Mrs.  Helen  M.  Barker  ;  our  hopes  are  even  high  enough  to  include  Lady  Henry 
Somerset. 

We  would  respectfully  suggest  a  change  in  the  time  of  holding  the  Convention, 
recommending  that  the  method  of  the  National  Convention  be  followed  by  having  it 
open  Thursday  and  hold  over  Sunday  Wc  would  also  like  to  have  it  convene  as 
early  as  the  12th  of  September,  as  the  Supreme  Judicial  Court  sits  at  Houlton  the 
third  Tuesday  of  September,  and  at  that  time  the  Town  is  usually  crowded  with 
visitors,  making  the  entertainment  of  a  large  delegation  very  difficult. 

We  hope  you  will  favorably  consider  these  points,  and  give  us  the  great  pleasure  of 
entertaining  the  Convention  of  1895. 

The  invitation  was  accepted  with  grateful  thanks. 
Mrs.  Spaulding  moved  that  the  reports  which  have  been  presented 
be  accepted.     Carried. 


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In  addition  to  the  delegates  to  the  National  Convention  at  Cleve* 
land,  O.,  already  reported,  the  following  were  elected  Thursday 
afternoon : 

Kennebec  and  Sagadahoc — Mrs.  M.  H.  Wyman,  Augusta  ;  Mrs. 
H.  B.  Jordan,  Bath,  alternate. 

Piscataquis  and  Penobscot — Mrs.  Mary  R.  Wade,  Dover  ;  Mrs. 
Ellen  H.  McCully,  Charleston,  alternate. 

Washington,  Lincoln  and  Knox — Mrs.  Bernard  Rogers ;  Mrs. 
Emma  T.  Potter,  alternate. 

'*Y"  delegate.  Miss  Florence  Fuller,  Augusta ;  alternate.  Miss 
Belle  Downs,  Houlton. 

The  committee  on  resolutions  reported  through  Mrs.  Gertrude  S. 
Leavitt  of  Portland  as  follows : 

We,  members  of  the  Maine  W.  C.  T.  U  ,  assembled  in  this,  the  twentieth  year  of 
our  organization,  render  thtnks  to  the  Lord  our  God  for  his  protecting  care  and 
guidance  in  the  years  that  have  passed  and  prav  that  more  entire  consecration  may 
mark  our  service  in  the  future.  We  reaffirm  our  allegiance  to  the  mighty  work  that 
has  been  ours,  and  that  is  before  us,  looking  unceasingly  to  the  only  source  of  power 
— the  Lord  our  Master. 

Hesolvedj  That  we  are  deeply  grately  for  the  return  and  restoration  to  health  of  our 
beloved  National  President  Frances  Willard,  and  desire  to  express  our  heartfelt 
thanks  to  Lady  Henry  Somerset  for  all  she  has  been  to  and  is  to  Miss  Willard  and 
to  our  cause  throughout  the  world. 

Resolved,  That  we  reaffirm  our  belief  in  the  righteousness  of  the  principal  of  pro- 
hibition, and  condenm  alike  the  non-enforcement  of  the  prohibitory  law  and  all  sys- 
tems (including  the  Gothenburg)  which  provide  for  licensing  the  liquor  traffic. 

Besolved,  That  the  enfranchisement  uf  women,  upon  the  same  basis  as  men,  is  not 
only  just  but  necessary,  for  the  highest  interests  of  our  citizens  and  the  republic,  and 
we  pledge  ourselves  to  talk,  work  and  pray  for  this  until  we  obtain  it.  We  will  dili- 
gently circulate  the  petitions  now  read}*,  asking  our  next  Legislature  for  municipal 
suffrage,  which  we  regard  as  a  stepping  stone  to  our  full  enfranchisement.  We  will 
try  to  influence  the  newly  elected  representatives  fn»m  our  re.spcctive  districts  to  vote 
for  this  measure  and  will  do  all  in  our  power  to  secure  this  potent  means  for  the  pro- 
tection of  our  homes  and  the  uplifting  of  our  sex 

Whereas,  The  White  Ribbon  is  the  symbol  chosen  by  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  to  expres^ 
the  principles  and  loyalty  of  its  organization, 

Besolved,  That  we  magnify  the  impottance  of  wearing  the  b^w  of  white,  not  only 
at  home,  but  in  our  joumeyings,  knowing  it  to  be  our  best  introduction  to  other  faith- 
ful workers,  and  a  constant  silent  protest  against  the  legalized  liquor  traffic. 

Resolved,  That  realizing  the  mighty  influence  wielded  by  the  public  press  we  do 
urge  the  local  Unions  to  use  their  most  earnest  endeavor  to  secure  space  in  their 
local  papers  and  see  that  no  opportunity  be  neglected  which  will  serve  to  bring  this 
work  before  the  public. 

Resolved,  That  the  Maine  W.  C.  T.  U.,  through  its  superintendents  of  depart- 
ments for  securing  homes  for  homeless  children  and  legislation  and  petitions  shall 
endeavor  to  secure  from  our  next  legislature  adequate  laws  for  the  protection  of 
children. 


3* 

Besolved,  That  we  deplore  the  fact  that  so  much  space  in  our  newspapers  is  de- 
voted to  prize  fights  and  similar  exhibitions. 

Sesolved,  That  we  use  our  methods  and  helps  in  our  juvenile  work  in  preference  to 
those  of  other  organizations. 

Whereas^  Representations  have  been  made  in  England  by  an  American  that  the 
W.  C.  T.  U.  of  this  country  make  no  protest  against  the  cnme  of  lynching,  there- 
fore be  it 

Heaolv^d,  That  the  Maine  W.  C.  T.  U.  has  only  condemnation  for  this  outrage 
against  Christian  civilization  and  demands  for  every  one  accused  of  crime  a  just  and 
tair  trial  in  courts  of  the  law. 

Resolvedt  That  we  note  with  gratification  the  great  interest  in  the  polyglot  petition 
and  pledge  ourselves  to  assist  all  we  can  in  the  project  of  sending  it  around  the  world. 

Resolved^  That  as  the  departments  of  our  work  are  too  many  for  special  mention 
we  would  recommend  to  our  Unions  the  careful  consideration  of  co-operation  with  all 
of  them  as  far  as  possible. 

Resolved,  That  we  extend  our  sincere  and  heartfelt  thanks  to  the  local  Union  of 
Auburn  and  all  other  friends  who  have  so  cordially  welcomed  us  to  their  homes  and 
generously  provided  for  our  comfort  in  every  way.  To  the  first  Coneregational 
church,  its  pastor,  and  society,  for  the  use  of  its  church  edifice  ;  to  the  Ricker  Broth- 
ers for  their  generous  offer  to  provide  Poland  Spring  wafer  for  the  delegates  and  their 
hostesses  ;  to  the  press  for  all  courtesies  extended  by  them  ;  to  the  lines  traveled 
for  reduced  rates,  and  to  all  who  have  in  any  way  contributed  to  make  this  Conven- 
tion a  success,  especially  to  the  decorations  committee,  Mrs.  Taylor,  chairman,  and 
entertainment  committee  represented  by  the  chairman  and  secretary,  Mrs.  Benner  and 
Mrs.  McCollum. 

The  resolutions  were  unanimously  adopted.      Doxology. 
Adjourned. 


Convention,  Sept.  27,  Evening. 

Mrs.  Stevens  read  a  Scripture  lesson. 

Mrs.  H.  B.  C.  Beedy  ottered  prayer. 

Miss  Rice  most  beautifully  rendered  the  solo  "Hosanna  in  the 
Highest." 

Mrs.  Stevens  then  introduced  Lady  Henry  Somerset  in  her  own 
inimitable  way. 

Lady  Henry  said,  ^'Not  as  a  stranger  do  I  stand  among  you  here 
tonight,  for  what  woman  could  feel  as  a  stranger  surrounded  by  the 
badges  of  our  society.  Among  the  happiest  recollections  of  my 
life  are  those  which  I  have  carried  away  from  your  country  ;  my 
finest  inspirations  have  been  received  from  you — and  sol  have  just 
come  over  for  another  refresliing  visit  to  you."  *  *  • 
^*I  find,**  she  said,  *'that  when  any  one  stands  staunchly  for  a  law 
it  is  generally  difficult  to  take  it  away  from  them.  Over  here  you 
seem  frequently  to  underestimate   what   we   are   accomplishing   in 


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England.  The  fact  that  you  are  in  sympathy  with  us  is  a  grea^ 
source  of  inspiration.  We  have  had  a  more  successful  year  in  Eng- 
land than  for  some  time.  The  battle  is  hard.  Had  it  not  been  for 
some  of  you  who  have  come  over  to  help  us  I  know  not  how  well 
we  should  have  succeeded.  One  reason  why  we  are  now  succeeding 
in  our  temperance  work  is  because  one  of  the  leaders  of  the  great 
parties  is  pledged  to  us.  I  don't  know  how  it  is  in,  America,  but  in 
England  politicians  are  generally  with  the  sentiments  that  seem 
likely  to  prevail." 

Following  the  address  of  Lady  Somerset  Mrs.  Hoffman  made  a 
spirited  and  eloquent  address  on  ''What  hinders  the  coming  of  the 
Lord?"  Mrs.  Hoffman  is  a  woman  of  prepossessing  appearance — 
pleasant  face,  wonderfully  sweet  voice,  and  utter  candor  and  fearless- 
ness in  her  discussions  of  conditions  and  institutions.  Among  her 
readiest  and  most  effective  weapons  are  wit  and  sarcasm  both  of 
which  she  uses  with  the  ease  of  a  master.  The  address  was  a  states- 
man-like discussion  of  the  stumbling  blocks  in  the  Lord's  highway. 
Hard  times,  intemperance,  immigration  and  other  kindred  topics 
were  handled  strongly  and  yet  in  good  temper. 

At  the  close  of  Mrs  Hoffman's  address  brief  remarks  were  made 
by  Mrs.  Susan  S.  Fessenden,  President  of  Massachusetts  Woman's 
Christian  Temperance  Union. 

America  was  sung  with  great  enthusiasm. 

Mrs.  R.  C.  Hall  of  Knox  moved  that  the  Twentieth  Annual  Con- 
vention of  Maine  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union  now 
adjourn  and  the  audience  joined  in  singing  the  hymn  ''God  be  with 
you  till  we  meet  again." 

Adjourned. 

Benediction. 


Executive  Meeting,  Sept.  28,  a.  m. 

Prayer  by  Mrs.  Horton. 

The   unread  reports  were  accepted,  and   ordered  printed  in  the 
minutes  on  the  same  footing  as  the  others. 

The  executive  committee   instructed   the  recording  secretary  to      \ 
write  to  each  state  superintendent,  suggesting  to  her  that  it  is  desira-       \ 


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ble  that  she  should  present  her  report  extemporaneously,  and  that 
five  minutes  will  be  g^ven  her  for  such  presentation,  and  five  more 
for  discussion. 

A  telegram  came  from  Miss  Willard  addressed  to  the  Convention 
and  its  president.  To  the  former  the  Scripture  references,  Isaiah 
9 :3,  and  Psalms  14 :7 ;  to  the  latter,  Proverbs  31 :25,  29,  31. 

"Thou  hast  multiplied  the  nation,  and  not  increased  the  joy  !  they  joy  before  thee 
according  to  the  joy  in  hanrest,  and  as  men  rejoice  when  they  divide  the  spoil.** 

"O  that  the  salvation  of  Israel  were  come  out  of  Zion !  when  the  Lord  bringeth 
back  the  captivity  of  his  people,  Jacob  shall  rejoice,  and  Israel  shall  be  glad." 

"Strength  and  honor  are  her  clothing ;  and  she  shall  rejoice  in  time  to  come. 

Many  daughters  have  done  virtuously,  but  thou  ezcellest  them  all. 

Give  her  of  the  fruit  of  her  hands  ;  and  let  her  own  works  praise  her  in  the  gates." 

The  press  superintendent  was  instructed  to  send  Miss  Willard  a 
suitable  reply  for  her  birthday.     The  message  sent  was  as  follows : 

AuBUKN,  Mains,  Sept  28,  1894. 

To  Francei  E,  Willard,  The  Temple,  Chicago,  lU. : 

Congratulations.  Thanks  for  your  message  enthusiastically  received.  "Thou  hast 
loved  righteousness  and  hated  iniquity,  therefore  God,  even  thy  God,  hath  anointed 
thee  wim  the  oil  of  gladness  above  thy  fellows.** 

Mains  W.  C.  T.  U.  Convsntion. 

All  unfinished  business  was  referred  to  the  general  officers. 
The  committee  rose. 

CLARA  M.  FARWELL, 

Recording  Secretary. 


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President's   Address. 


The  president  refused  to  have  her  address  printed  preferring  to 
give  the  space  to  the  superintendents. 


Corresponding  Secretary's  Report. 


Madam  President  and  Comrades : 

The  work  of  our  Unions  is  like  a  beautiful  mosaic.  The  Floren- 
tine artist  vsrrought  patiently  day  after  day,  piecing  together  the  tiny 
fragments  of  rainbow  glass  to  fashion  delicate  leaf  and  flower  and 
just  in  this  way  the  faithful  women  of  our  white  ribbon  host  are 
working  to  perfect  each  little  plan  and  endeavor  to  fit  each  into  its 
own  place.  Then  all  these  apparently  insignificant  efforts  being 
brought  together  make  a  wonderful  result — the  great  mosaic  of  the 
State  and  National  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union. 

Each  vice  president  reports  a  gain  in  her  county  and  speaks  in 
praise  of  the  work  accomplished  by  the  Unions. 

ANDROSCOGGIN   COUNTY. 

• 

Mrs.  N.  O.  Odlin  writes  thus  of  Androscoggin  county :  *'I  have 
eight  (8)  Unions  to  report,  all  working  with  earnestness  of  purpose 
and  increasing  interest.  The  society  at  Greene  is  doing  well  in  the 
departments  especially  along  the  line  of  caring  for  homeless  children 
and  helping  the  needy.  Turner  has  given  attention  to  temperance 
teaching  and  has  been  active  in  several  lines  of  work  with  excellent 
results.  South  Durham  Union  is  in  good  working  order  and  num- 
bers in  its  membership  some  earnest  workers.  Sabattis  Union  is 
small  but  has  done  grand  work  among  the  children.  Auburn  is 
large  and  prosperous.  Many  departments  are  taken  up,  special  at- 
tention is  given  to  social  purity  and  caring  for  homeless  children. 
Through  the  earnest  and  persistent  efforts  of  this  Union  a  city  police 


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matron  was  appointed.  Livermore  Falls  reports  eocouragingly ; 
nine  (9)  departments  are  taken  up  and  much  good  work  dooe. 
Lewiston  is  strong  in  numbers  and  carries  on  as  heretofore  the  good 
work  of  caring  for  the  homeless  little  ones.  Fourteen  (14)  depart- 
ments have  received  attention  with  excellent  results.  Mechanic 
Falls  has  experienced  an  increase  in  interest  and  the  workers  are 
greatly  encouraged." 

AROOSTOOK   COUNTY. 

Mrs.  L.  J.  Spaulding  reports  Aroostook  county  as  follows :  ^^  We 
have  had  a  successful  year ;  our  county  missionary,  a  Christian 
talented  woman,  has  worked  nme  weeks  visiting  every  Union  and 
some  outlying  stations  needing  temperance  work  and  encouragement. 
She  delivered  forty-two  addresses,  held  twenty-two  parlor  meetings, 
has  added  one  hundred  and  fifteen  members  including  the  honoraries 
and  the  Island  Falls  Union  ;  has  distributed  4025  pages  of  literature 
and  the  collections  have  nearly  paid  the  bills.  Our  executive  com- 
mittee think  that  this  is  the  way  to  keep  in  touch  with  our  Unions. 
I  hope  each  county  will  try  this  line  of  work  for  I  know  firom  our 
experience  that  it  will  make  our  efforts  much  more  successful." 

CUMBERLAND   COUNTY. 

Miss  Dow  thus  briefly  reviews  the  work  of  Cumberland  county : 
"I  am  sorry  not  to  be  able  to  report  any  new  Unions  this  year  but  I 
feel  sure  that  the  work  has  progressed  and  the  Unions  have  been 
strengthened  by  re-enforcements  and  activity.  There  have  been  held 
during  the  year  three  conference  meetings  aside  from  the  annual  con- 
vention in  different  sections  of  the  county  in  which  the  surrounding 
Unions  to  the  number  of  five  or  six  have  participated.  These  meet- 
ings have  awakened  interest  in  several  communities  where  nothing 
was  known  of  our  work  and  we  are  sure  a  great  help  to  the  Unions 
with  which  they  have  been  held.  Some  of  the  Unions  have  been 
active  in  the  department  of  temperance  instruction  in  the  public 
schools,  New  Gloucester  Union  having  invited  the  school  board  to 
attend  a  meeting  at  which  this  department  was  ably  presented  by 
some  of  their  members.  Portland  Union  has  begun  a  valuable  work 
among  the  school  children  addicted  to  the  cigarette  habit  and  has 
been  unusually  active  in  flower  mission  work  to  which  it  has  added  a 


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fruit  department.  I  cannot  specify  particularly  the  good  work  of  all 
our  Unions,  among  which  that  of  our  only  Y.  the  Westbrook  stands 
out  prominently." 

FRANKLIN   COUNTY. 

From  Franklin  county  Mrs.  H.  B.  Beedy  sends  this  report: 
''From  this  standpoint  as  I  look  back  over  the  year's  work  I  am  im- 
pressed that  there  has  been  a  healthful  development  in  all  the  lines 
of  work  taken  up  in  the  county.  There  has  been  a  marked  growth 
of  the  workers — a  spiritual  unfolding. 

Perhaps  the  following  resolutions  express  the  spirit  of  our  annual 
meeting  better  than  any  extended  report : 

BeMolved,  That  we  rec6p;nize  the  hand  of  our  Heavenly  Father  in  all  our  work 
and  trust  in  His  Divine  euidance. 

BeMolved,  That  our  influence  be  brought  to  bear  against  all  evil  and  that  we  claim 
equal  standiards  of  purity  for  men  and  women. 

We  recommend  the  subject  of  equal  suffiage  to  the  intelligent  consideration  of  all 
women. 

I  am  very  glad  to  report  that  our  paid  up  membership  exceeds 
that  of  any  previous  year. 

A  new  Union  was  formed  at  West's  Mills  (Industry)  Sept.  3, 
1894.  It  is  small  but  made  up  of  excellent  material.  Our  worthy 
state  president  Mrs.  L.  M.  N.  Stevens  has  paid  the  county  five  visits 
during  the  year. 

Mrs.  Ellen  B.  Deitrich  of  Boston  addressed  the  Normal  students 
in  June  on  the  subject  of  Equal  Suffrage." 

HANCOCK   COUNTY. 

Good  work  has  been  done  in  Hancock  county,  especially  in  the 
Bar  Harbor,  Ellsworth  and  Bluehill  Unions.  The  Unions  are  small 
in  membership  and  labor  under  some  disadvantages  but  the  results 
in  some  departments  of  work  are  very  gratifying. 

KENNEBEC   COUNTY. 

Mrs.  M.  H.  Wyman,  president  of  Kennebec  county  has  this  en- 
couraging word  to  say  :  "We  are  still  nine  in  number.  In  Augusta 
efforts  have  been  made  by  the  Union  in  connection  with  the  pastors 
in  the  direction  of  Sabbath  observance.  The  general  work  at  the 
jail  and  in  the  city  has  progressed  as  usual.  Crusade  Day  was 
fittingly  observed  in  most  of  the  Unions.     Gardiner  has  undertaken 


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some  new  departments  and  has  done  excellent  work  in  the  line  of 
temperance  instruction  in  the  public  schools ;  to  this  end  literature 
was  circulated,  supervisor  interviewed,  and  a  reception  held  for 
school  officers  and  teachers.  Hallo  well  has  been  in  obscurity  this 
year.  Monmouth  and  Vassalboro  are  still  living  but  need  encour- 
agement, enthusiasm  and  strength  for  greater  victories.  Winthrop 
Centre  is  always  active  and  in  earnest  as  it  cannot  help  being  with 
such  a  president.  The  China  and  South  China  Unions  united  July 
31st  in  entertaining  the  county  president  and  a  public  meeting  was 
held.  The  county  published  a  beautiful  souvenir  and  directory 
which  was  distributed  without  expense  to  the  Unions." 

KNOX   COUNTY. 

Knox  county  is  reported  by  Mrs.  R.  C.  Hall  as  follows :  "I  do 
not  hesitate  to  say  that  the  past  year  has  been  the  best  year  our  or- 
ganization has  ever  known.  Our  county  convention  was  most  help- 
ful. The  reports  of  superintendents  show  very  faithful  work  done 
and  in  many  instances  gratifying  results.  Almost  every  Union  re- 
ports an  increase  of  membership.  One  new  Union  has  been  organ- 
ized and  is  already  making  its  influence  felt  in  the  community. 
Splendid  work  was  done  in  our  county  by  Mrs.  Bullock ;  she  was 
present  at  our  convention  and  delivered  five  addresses  in  the  county. 
She  also  spoke  at  Thomaston,  Prison  Day.  Unusual  attention  has 
been  given  to  the  legal  aspect  of  the  temperance  question.  In 
some  localities  it  has  been  made  exceedingly  uncomfortable  for  law- 
breakers. While  we  believe  that  every  member  of  our  organization 
should  be  free  to  follow  the  dictates  of  her  own  conscience  in  these 
matters,  we  are  glad  that  there  are  those  among  us  who  have  the 
courage  of  their  convictions  and  are  willing  to  resist  the  enemy  face 
to  face." 

LINCOLN  COUNTY. 

Mrs.  Winslow  thus  sums  up  the  work  in  Lincoln  county :  ^'It  is 
not  necessary  to  go  into  details  as  these  come  out  in  the  depart- 
mental reports.  The  situation  in  our  county  has  not  materially 
changed  since  last  year.  There  have  been  accessions  and  some  have 
fallen  out.  The  Unions  have  done  much  in  the  line  of  benevolent 
and  charitable  work  but  not  much  in  the  line  of  prosecuting  liquor 


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sellers,  not  from  lack  of  moral  courage  nor  from  indifference  but 
simply  because  we  cannot  obtain  evidence  against  them,  but  we  are 
on  the  watch  tower  and  woe  betide  the  man  who  can  be  proven  as 
transgressor  in  this  particular.  Our  county  convention  was  well 
attended  and  Mrs.  Bullock  proved  most  helpful  in  the  absence  of 
our  state  president." 

OXFORD   COUNTY. 

Mrs.  Pierce,  president  of  Western  Oxford  county,  says :  "Inter- 
est in  the  work  has  increased  and  we  stand  ready  to  do  whatever 
our  hands  find  to  do.  Hiram  Union  has  been  instiumental  in  seiz- 
ing several  boxes  of  liquor,  also  in  sending  two  girls  to  the  Industrial 
school,  and  a  child  taken  from  the  "Town  Farm"  and  placed  in  a 
good  permanent  home.  Sabbath  school  work  has  been  the  chief 
course  of  the  Brownfield  Union."  Mrs.  Robinson,  president  at  East- 
ern Oxford  county  writes :  "There  has  been  good  work  done  in  my 
section  of  the  county  the  past  year.  Different  lines  of  work  have 
been  taken  up  with  good  will.  No  new  Unions  have  yet  been  or- 
ganized. Our  convention  was  held  with  the  Bethel  Union,  one  of 
the  smartest  in  the  county/and  was  a  perfect  success ;  our  state  presi- 
dent was  with  us,  aiding  as  only  she  can.  In  all  we  have  had 
excellent  work  done." 

PENOBSCOT    COUNTY. 

Penobscot  county  is  thus  encouragingly  reported  by  Mrs.  Annie 
V.  Curtis :  "We  have  had  more  work  c'one  than  usual  the  past  year. 
Mrs.  Bullock  was  with  us  for  a  week  in  June,  giving  us  grand  help 
at  our  county  convention.  She  brought  to  our  county  a  new  in- 
spiration from  more  aggressive  workers.  Mrs.  Wright  has  been 
with  us  twice  during  the  year  giving  several  lectures  on  social  purity, 
holding  parlor  meetings,  organizing  new  and  visiting  weak  Unions, 
'Stirring  up  our  pure  minds  by  way  of  remembrance.'  We  have 
increased  in  members  and  general  interest  in  the  work  and  we  have 
awakened  to  a  new  appreciation  of  our  opportunities  and  our  privi- 
leges." 

PISCATAQJJIS   COUNTY. 

Mrs.  Ella  Getchell,  president  of  Piscataquis  county  writes :  "The 
work  has  advanced  in  our  county  the  past  year,  old  Unions  have 
been  revived  and   reorganized  and  new  Unions  formed.     Foxcroft 


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and  Dover  carry  on  twenty  departments  with  most  excellent  results. 
Guilford,  Shirley  and  Greenville  Unions  are  also  active  in  many  lines ; 
the  latter  has  a  Y  branch  which  assists.  Sangerville  and  Sebec  are 
recently  organized  but  are  entering  the  work  with  zeal  and  enthu- 
siasm. Milo  has  revived  and  is  in  a  healthy  condition,  the  county 
convention  was  entertained  here.  Mrs.  Wright  has  been  working 
in  our  county  and  organized  recently  at  Atkinson.  The  Piscataquis 
and  Penobscot  County  Unions  furnished  an  evening  address  on 
^'Responsibilities  of  Teachers"  and  tvvK>  talks  on  Scientific  Tem- 
perance at  the  Piscataquis  Teachers'  Association  at  Foxcroft." 

SAGADAHOC   COUNTY. 

Mrs.  Delano  speaks  of  the  work  in  Sagadahoc  county  as  follows : 
"A  knowledge  of  temperance  work  has  been  extended  in  our  county 
by  the  accession  of  two  new  Unions,  one  at  Richmond  the  other  at 
Georgetown,  and  the  membership  of  old  Unions  has  been  increased 
by  active  and  honorary  members. 

Bath  Union  (as  last  year)  has  aided  several  men  to  take  the 
^'Keeley  cure,"  was  instrumental  also  in  the  appointment  of  liquor 
deputies.  Popham  Beach  Union  is  ever  alive  to  her  opportunities 
in  department  and  general  temperance  work  and  we  believe  the  two 
new  Unions  will  not  fall  behind  in  interest  and  good  results. 

The  pastors  throughout  the  county  have  continued  to  be  our  true 
allies.  Gen.  Neal  Dow's  anniversary  meetings  aroused  much  en- 
thusiasm and  interest  in  the  cause." 

SOMERSET   COUNTY. 

Mrs.  Bunker,  the  former  president  of  Somerset  county,  who  has 
been  obliged  to  resign  on  account  of  ill  health,  gives  these  facts  about 
her  county  work :  "Somerset  county  has  not  retrogaded  but  has 
rather  steadily  advanced  the  past  year.  The  county  convention 
was  generously  entertained  by  Pittsfield  Union,  which  is  a  strong, 
enthusiastic  one.  Ripley  and  the  St.  Albans  Unions  deserve 
much  credit  for  efficient  efforts,  and  all  the  Unions  in  the  county 
have  worked  nobly,  especially  Madison,  whose  band  of  earnest, 
consecrated  women  have  not  only  labored  faithfully  'all  along  the 
line*  but  achieved  2i  great  victory  over  the  rumsellers  of  tliat  town. 
We  are  encouraged  aiUd  hopeful." 


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WALDO   COUNTY. 


Miss  Hicks  writes  in  this  manner  of  her  county,  Waldo :  ^^Our 
work  reaches  out  and  broadens  and  deepens  with  each  year.  In 
the  Belfast  Union  a  large  amount  of  charity  work  has  been  done  and 
have  carried  on  an  evening  school  which  has  made  us  many  friends. 
The  county  convention  wiis  held  with  the  new  Union  at  Swanville 
and  was  the  best  ever  convened.  Waldo  celebrated  their  anniver- 
sary by  inviting  the  Unions  in  the  county  to  meet  with  them  and 
much  good  resulted  to  the  county  work  from  this  coming  together 
and  exchanging  of  ideas  and  plans.  North  Searsmont  is  a  small 
society  but  has  a  few  earnest  workers." 

WASHINGTON   COUNTY. 

Washington  county  is  reported  by  Mrs.  Rogers  as  follows :  **  We 
have  now  fifteen  Unions ;  three  organized  this  year  and  nearly  all  the 
old  ones  have  done  good  work  and  are  growing  in  numbers  and  in- 
fluence. It  is  impossible  to  report  the  exact  amount  of  work  accom- 
plished by  these  Unions  in  detail.  The  Cherryfield  has  followed 
the  programme  given  in  the  Star  and  excellent  papers  have  been 
given  and  discussed.  Eastport  and  Addison  do  a  good  work  among 
the  children.  The  county  convention  met  at  Penobscot  and  a  good 
deal  of  interest  was  aroused  in  W.  C.  T.  U.  work  in  the  community. 
Abetter  sentiment  prevails  throughout  our  county,  the  temperance 
element  is  increasing.  I  visited  nearly  all  the  Unions  in  the  county  in 
June  in  company  with  the  state  missionary,  Mrs.  Wright,  and  found 
much  to  encourage  me." 

YORK   COUNTY. 

Mrs;  S.  P.  Smith,  president  of  York  county,  says:  '*Our  women 
are  all  very  busy  housekeepers  but  they  are  more  and  more  conse- 
crated to  the  work  for  ^God  and  home  and  every  land.'  One  new 
Union  has  just  been  organized  at  Kittery.  A  very  successful  con- 
vention was  held  with  the  enterprising  society  at  South  Berwick  and 
among  the  many  pleasant  features  of  the  meeting  was  the  presenta- 
tion of  a  county  banner.  Kennebunk  has  done  a  large  amount  of 
press  work  and  carried  on  the  sewing  school.  Springvale  showed 
true  grit  in  stopping  the  sale  of  cigarettes   to  minors.     Sanford   has 


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been  laboring  tvrith  some  publishers  of  papers,  where  a  ^house  clean- 
ing' is  particularly  needed  Biddeford  has  made  the  Keely  treatment 
]ts  chief  effort — has  sent  twenty-five  persons.  Cornish  is  especially 
interested  in  social  purity  work.  The  Y's  at  Groveville  arc  a  grow- 
ing influence  among  the  young  people  in  that  community  and  at  Old 
Orchard  good  work  has  been  done  in  several  departments." 

A  large  number  of  Unions  throughout  the  state  celebrated  two 
red-letter  days — the  birthday  of  the  "father  of  prohibition,"  Gen. 
Neal  Dow,  and  also  Crusade  anniversary. 

Dear  comrades  of  the  white  ribbon  army,  by  means  of  this  brief 
review  you  will  be  able  to  gather  some  idea  of  the  truly  great  work 
accomplished  in  our  state  the  past  year.  We  have  today  deep  grati- 
tude for  the  gains  of  the  past  year  and  unbounded  courage  for  what 
may  be  our  victories  in  the  coming  year. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

SARAH  L.  CRAM, 

Cor,  Sec,  Maine  IV,  C.  T,  17, 


Treasurer's  Report. 


RXCBIPTS    1893-4. 

CR. 

Stock  in  the  W.  T.  P.  A.,  |ioo  00 

Collections  Rockland  Convention,   80  50 

Freewill  Offerings, 

Dow  Offerings, 

Headquarters  Fund, 

Houlton  Dime  Offering, 

From  Minutes,  above  expense 

of  mailing. 
Rent  of  rooms,  headquarters. 
Dues  from  local  Unions, 

12,878  so 


Cash  on  hand. 
Subscriptions, 
Ads  and  papers  sold, 
Stock  on  hsmd, 


Sept.  25,  1894. 


144 

5° 

45 

89 

3 

00 

I 

75 

5 

00 

1,237  92 

X.259  94 

DISBURSSMBNTS    1 893-94. 

DR. 

Dr.  Sept.  189^,  $  40  19 

Expenses  Rockland  Convention,  no  90 
Postage  State  President,  200  00 

Appropriation  for  State  Work,  200  00 
Expenses  of  State  Minutes,  i33  88 

Lettering  Banner,  i  50 

Telegrams,  i  75 

Hotel  register,  3  00 

Stationary  and  printing.  Head* 

quarters,  45  76 

Expenses  of  summer  meetings,  36  13 
Mrs.    Bullock  at   Thomaston, 

Prison  Day,  12  00 

Literature  department,  22  50 

National  W.C.7.U.  from  Houlton,  i  75 
DowOffer'gstoWorldsW.C.T.U.,16  63 


Miss  Leavitt,  State  Supt., 
Other  State  Superintendents, 
Expenses  Cor.  Secretary, 
Toward  expenses  Treasurer, 
Interest,  taxes  and  water  rates, 

Headquarters, 
Heating,  lighting  and  service, 
Furniture  and  repairs, 
Dues  t«  National  Treasurer, 
Stock  in  the  W.T.P.  A.  to  bal., 

Total, 
Cash  to  balance, 


Star  in  thb  East. 


CR. 

I218  67 
300  5c 


CO 


I62I  03 


Stock  on  hand,  Sept.  '93, 
Paper,  printing  and  mailing. 


Cash  on  hand. 


1 


NIT  CASH  ON  HAND. 

From  general  treasury, 
<*     Star  in  the  East, 

Total  cash  balance. 


29  so 
40  92 

30  03 

31  26 

562  62 

S5«  57 
156  03 
400  00 
100  00 

•2,728  52 
149  98 

12,878  so 


DR. 
I  28  00 

3'8  73 

I346  73 
274  30 

$621  03 

I149  98 
274  30 

^424  28 


(MRS.)  E.  M.  BLANCHARD,  Treasurer. 


I  have  examined  the  accounts  and  vouchers  of  the  State  Treasurer  carefully  and 
find  them  correct. 

(MRS.)  S.  I.  JEWETT,  Auditor. 
Auburn,  Sept  25, 1894. 


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Duis  BY  CouNTiKS. — Androscoggiii,  $109.50.  AnKMtook,  $173.10.  Cumber- 
land, $306.28.  Franklin,  $63.30.  Hancock,  46.30.  Kennebec,  $9a  35.  Knox,$79.3a 
Lincoln,  $46.40.  Oxford,  $39.79.  Penobscot,  89.40.  Piscataquis.  $42.30.  Somervet, 
$61.85.  Sagadahoc,  $34.80.  Washington,  $90.70.  Waldo,  22.20.  York,  65.50. 
Total,  $1259.94. 

Fribwill  Offbrings. — Bar  Harbor,  $5.00.  Farmington,  $5.00.  Ft.  Fairfield, 
$5.00.  Brooklin,  $5.00.  Dexter,  $5.00.  Cornish,  $5.00.  Winthrop,  $5.00.  Bidde* 
ford,  $5.00.  Kennebunk,  $5.00.  Bangor,  $6.00.  Houlton,  $15.00.  Harrington, 
$4.00.  Stroudwater,  $3.00.  Springvale,  $3.00.  Yarmouthville,  $2.00.  New  Glou- 
cester, $2.50.  Ellsworth  Union,  $1.00.  Newhall,  $1.00.  Miss  A.  F.  Quimby,  $10. 
Hon.  W.  W.  Thomas,  $50.    Total,  $144.50. 

Dow  Offerings. — Bath,  $8.79.  Houlton,  $7.63.  So.  Berwick,  $3.62.  Haynes- 
ville,  $4.00.  Harrington,  $2.72.  Millbridge,  $2.60.  Mechanic  Falls,  $2.80.  Dan- 
forth,  $2.00.  Hodgdon,  $2.00.  Ellsworth,  $1.75.  N.  Gloucester,  $1.50.  Newhall, 
$1.03.    Spruce  Head,  $1.00.  Westbrook,$i.oo.   E.  Brownfield,$i.oo.  Total,  $44.89. 

Headquarters  Fund. — Mrs.  S.  P.  Smith,  $1.00.  Miss  Alice  M.  Douglas,  $1  00. 
Shawmut,  $1.00.    Total,  $3.00. 


Young  Woman's  Work. 


Another  year  has  flown  quickly  by  and  we  find  ourselves  again 
on  the  threshold  of  a  bright  new  year,  but  we  must  pause  ere  we 
enter  and  look  over  the  work  we  have  done.  Is  the  world  better, 
even  a  little,  for  our  having  lived  ?  Have  we  been  faithful  to  our 
trust?  As  the  work  done  this  year  by  the  young  women  of  Maine 
is  presented,  I  am  sure  you  will  say  it  has  not  been  done  in  vain. 

Aroostook  county  has  come  nobly  into  the  work.  Mrs.  Jennie 
Seamans,  one  of  our  state  organizers  has  been  appointed  county 
Y  supenntendent,  who  soon  after  county  convention,  organized 
a  Y  at  Fort  Fairfield.  This  Y  has  taken  up  four  departments  and 
is  growing  in  strength  and  interest. 

Cumberland  county,  Mrs.  G.  S.  Leavitt,  Supt. :  Portland  branch 
makes  a  specialty  of  Flower  Mission  work.  Under  the  direction  of 
an  older  member  of  the  W.  C  T.  U.  circulates  petitions  and  works 
with  W*s  in  every  way.     The  Westbrook  Y's  carry  on  eight  depart- 


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ments ;  have  distributed  over  6,000  pages  of  literature ;  have  partly 
clothed  35  children,  and  later  opened  relief  rooms  with  other  young 
people's  societies  and  W's. 

Franklin  county,  Miss  G.  V.  Wilbur,  Supt. :  No  special  report 
from  North  Jay  branch  on  account  of  illness  of  its  superintendent. 

Hancock  county,  Mrs.  Belle  Blake,  Sqpt. :  The  L.  M.  N. 
Stevens  Y  of  Brooklin  hold  weekly  meetings  in  the  chapel ;  have 
placed  a  wall  pocket  on  board  a  steamer ;  agitate  well  the  subject  of 
narcotics  and  raise  funds  by  means  of  entertainments  for  benevolent 
work. 

Kennebec  county.  Miss  Cora  Pullen,  Supt.,  writes:  "There  is  a 
decidedly  growing  interest  in  Young  Women's  work  and  many  of  the 
young  women  do  excellent  county  work.  At  the  convention  the 
county  president  devoted  some  time  to  the  Y's  and  spoke  in  behalf 
of  the  Y  superintendent  who  was  absent  on  account  of  illness.  At 
Winthrop  the  young  people  do  good  work  in  connection  with  the 
W's.  Augusta  Y's  meet  once  a  week ;  have  held  socials  twice  a 
month  and  given  one  reception.  They  make  a  study  of  physical 
culture  and  have  held  three  Demorest  Medal  Contests." 

Oxford  county.  Miss  Jennie  B.  Kimball,  Supt.  :  Hiram  branch 
has  charge  of  the  L.  T.  L.  and  work  with  the  W's  in  all  other 
departments. 

Piscataquis  county  :  Miss  Maud  Young  of  Sebec  was  made  super- 
intendent at  the  county  convention.  The  new  Y  at  Greenville,  the 
Moosehead  Y,  organized  by  the  county  president,  has  taken  up  four 
dapartments  of  \.ofk. 

Somerset  county.  Miss  Luetta  Blanchard,  Supt. :  Pittsfield  Y's 
meet  with  W's  in  whose  work  they  are  much  interested. 

Washington  county,  Mrs.  S.  A.  Strout,  Supt. :  The  new  Y  at 
Jonesport  makes  a  specialty  of  social  work  and  is  very  successful. 

York  county,  Miss  Ella  W.  Ricker,  Supt. :  The  Groveville  Y 
reports  an  increased  interest;  holds  meetings  fortnightly  in  the 
church ;  is  interested  in  juvenile  work  and  pays  special  attention  to 
Flower  Mission  work,  having  held  appropriate  exercises  at  alms- 
house in  June,  aside  from  regular  work  in  that  line.  South  Berwick 
Y's  held  monthly  socials  through  the  winter,  co-operated  with  C.  E. 


V 


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society  in  temperance  meetings,  have  a  loan  library  and  hold 
Demorest  Medal  Contests  and  do  excellent  Flower  Mission  and 
Press  work.  Several  of  our  Y  unions  co-operated  with  kindred 
societies  or  W's  in  the   celebration  of  Gen.  Neal  Dow's  birthday. 

Over  10,000  pages  of  literature  has  been  distributed  by  the  Y's. 
After  expenses  were  taken  from  Y  fund  last  year  $6.00  remained. 
During  the  winter  $3.00  were  added  by  one  of  our  Y's;  $i-53  has 
been  expended  for  Y  literature,  $7.47  rernaining. 

We  as  young  women  feel  that  there  is  a  great  work  for  us  to  do. 
Let  us  take  it  up  with  renewed  enthusiasm  and  stronger  courage, 
trusting  alone  in  Him  whose  promise  **faileth  never." 

Respectfully  submitted, 

LUBELLE  B.  PATRICK, 

State  Supt.  r  Work. 


Loyal  Temperance  Legions. 


From  sixteen  counties  only  seven  have  reported  through  county 
superintendents.  The  L.  T.  L.  is  an  established  means  of  gospel 
temperance  education,  a  training  school  for  future  W.  C.  T.  U. 
workers.  Good  work  has  been  done  by  our  superintendents  and 
teachers  the  past  year  and  it  ought  to  be  reported.  What  hinders 
our  progress  more  than  anything  else  is  the  incliflerence  of  mothers 
and  lack  of  interest  on  the  part  of  the  W.  C   T.  U. 

Androscoggin,  Aroostook,  Hancock,  Kennebec,  Piscataquis, 
and  Waldo  send  no  report.  Cumberland  county  superintendent 
reports  fixe  active  Legions.  Franklin  county,  no  report  from  county 
superintendent.  Mrs.  H.  B.  C.  Becdy,  county  president,  reports 
good  work  done  by  several  Unions  for  the  children. 

Knox  county,  Mrs.  E.  W.  Cobb,  Supt. :  The  superintendent  of 
this  county  sends  a  most  excellent  report ;  would  V»e  glad  to  give  it 


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in  full  if  space  permitted.  The  Legion  at  Spruce  Head  has  done  a 
wonderful  amount  of  work  the  past  year,  and,  says  the  superinten- 
dent, not  a  boy  in  the  place  makes  any  attempt  to  smoke  or  chew 
tobacco  and  comparatively  no  swearing  in  the  place.  Great  credit 
is  diie  Mrs.  Coakley  for  the  grand  work  done  at  Spruce  Head.  At 
Warren  the  interest  is  on  the  increase ;  the  children  keep  up  the 
practice  of  stepping  on  cigar  stubs — 1462  have  been  stepped  on  the 
past  year.  The  superintendent,  Mrs.  Teague,  is  one  of  our  most 
efficient  workers.  Rockland  Legion  is  in  a  prosperous  condition  ; 
they  meet  every  week  and  are  most  interested.  Mrs.  Robbins  has 
been  very  faithful  and  earnest  in  the  work  the  past  year,  and  we 
expect  the  Rockland  Legion  will  take  up  the  diploma  course  of 
study  the  coming  year  and  be  added  to  the  number  of  graduates  in 
the  State.  Thomaston  is  reported  as  having  a  membership  of 
eighty-five  children,  much  interested  and  doing  good  work.  Along 
the  different  lines  new  members  have  been  added  during  the  year. 

York  County  :  May  E.  Sawyer,  Supt. :  Four  Legions  reported, 
one  senior  grade,  tlie  L.  M.  N.  Stevens,  Springvale ;  lesson  manuals 
used,  work  done  along  the  different  lines,  money  contributed  to 
various   objects ;    three    Legions    are  taking    the    diploma   course 

of  study. 

In  Lincoln  county  only  one  Legion  reported,  Waldoboro.     This 

Legion  has  done  noble  work  the  past  year.  Lincoln  county  ought 
to  be  proud  of  it.  They  gave  a  thanksgiving  dinner  to  ^ve  families, 
sent  more  money  for  the  Loyal  Legion  room,  Temp,  hospital 
than  any  other  Legion  in  the  State  (reported),  gave  one  entertain- 
ment for  the  Keeley  fund,  celebrated  Neal  Dow's  birthday,  and  in 
many  ways  helped  the  cause.  Mrs.  Potter  is  the  right  woman  for 
an  L,  T.  L.  superintendent  and  will  Lead  on  to  Victory. 

Oxford  County,  Mrs.  C.  S.  Littlehale,  Supt. :  Norway — work 
has  been  done  here  with  pledges,  but  no  organized  society  as  yet  for 
lack  of  a  superintendent.  Oxford — work  done  under  the  auspices 
of  the  L  O.  G.  T.  at  close  of  public  school,  Wednesday  afternoons. 
Brownfield — work  done  under  auspices  of  Good  Templars ;  the 
superintendent  is  a  member  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  Bethel  has  an 
L.  T.  L.  organized  and  carried  on  strictly  in  accordance  with  the 
W.  C.  T.  U.  plan  of  work  and  it   is  a   success.     They  have   had 


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picnics  and  sociables,  medal  contests,  concerts,  etc. ;  the  children  have 
worked  nobly.  The  superintendent  reports,  ^*we  have  fine  spirited 
singing,  use  the  lesson  manuals  and  other  helps ;"  and  herein  lies  the 
secret  of  their  success. 

Sagadahoc  county,  Mrs.  Vesta  Jones,  Supt :  Popham.  Beach  has 
an  L.  T.  L.  organized  and  carried  on  as  it  should  be,  strictly  in  ac- 
cordance with  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  plan  of  work.  They  have  two 
grades.  The  Seniors  have  taken  up  the  diploma  course  of  study, 
beginning  with  the  first  books  of  the  series ;  name  of  senior  g^de, 
Frances  E.  Willard.  Among  other  grand  things  done  by  this  Legion, 
was  the  holding  of  a  public  meeting  in  which  the  L.  T.  L.  Com- 
pany was  introduced,  and  the  work  explained  by  the  superintendent. 
This  is  one  of  the  best  organized  companies  in  the  state  and  Miss 
Kate  Spinney  the  superintendent  is  a  consecrated  woman  and  its  in- 
spiration. The  membership  of  the  Bath  Legion  is  200.  Some 
grand  work  has  been  done ;  the  L.  T.  L.  mass  meetings  have  been 
well  attended  and  much  interest  manifested  ;  many  clergymen  of  the 
city  have  addressed  the  children.  It  has  been  a  most  successful 
year  for  the  L.  T.  L.'s  of  this  city.  Alice  May  Douglass  has  charge 
of  the  several  companies. 

Somerset  county,  no  report  from  county  superintendent.  Mrs. 
A.  L.  Vining  reports  for  St.  Albans,  meeting  held  immediately  after 
the  close  of  day  school,  teacher  kindly  giving  all  the  time  asked  for, 
children  much  interested,  the  teachers  also  assisted  in  the  work. 
Pledge  membership  100.  The  Union  takes  a  child's  paper  for  many 
families  who  otherwise  would  have  no  temperance  instruction.  The 
Legion  in  this  county  has  done  grand  work  the  past  year  but  no  re- 
port from  them  has  been  received. 

Washington  county,  Mrs.  Effie  Nash,  Supt. :  The  efficient 
superintendent  of  this  county  always  sends  a  good  report ;  this  is  the 
Banner  county.  Ten  Legions  all  doing  good  work.  One,  (Cherry- 
field)  has  six  graduates.  County  membership  600.  Cherryfield  is 
the  first  Legion  in  the  state  to  call  for  diplomas.  Name  of  senior 
grade  M.  M.  C  Hunter. 

Penobscot  county,  Mrs.  A.  L.  Abbott,  Supt. :  Mrs.  Abbott  is  one 
we  can  depend  upon   at   all  times  for  her  heart  is  in  the  work.     She 


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reports  good  work  done  in  the  county  for  the  children,  but  in  their 
reports  the  superintendents  failed  to  give  details.  Much  of  the  work 
is  done  in  the  Sunday  School  and  Christian  Endeavor.  Plymouth 
has  an  L.  T.  L.,  Charleston  has  an  L.  T.  L.  and  Juvenile  Temple 
which  work  together.  We  hope  to  have  a  Loyal  Temperance  Legion 
organized  in  every  town  and  school  district  in  the  county  the  coming 
year.  Fifteen  new  Legions  organized  in  the  state  during  the  year. 
We  have  one  member-at-large,  40  honorary  members  (reported) , 
estimated  membership  5000,  including  pledged  members  under 
the  auspices  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  in  connection  with  the  Epworth 
League  and  Christian  Endeavor.  Let  us  consider  the  mighty 
'*Ounce  of  Prevention"  and  do  more   and  better  work  the   coming 

year. 

"O,  troops  of  the  Legion,  O,  children  a-field 

Before  your  on-coming  the  foeman  shall  yield. 

Smite  down  the  Oppressors,  shame,  sorrow  and  sin, 

For  the  Master's  true  shrines  are  the  Hearts  he  would  win." 

ANNIE  CURRIER  BAGLEY. 
State  Supt,  Loyal  Temperance  Legion. 


Sunday  School  Work. 


In  collecting,  condensing  and  arranging  the  material  sent  me  by 
the  various  county  superintendents  for  my  fifteenth  annual  report,  I 
am  led  to  the  inquiry,  what  gain  in  these  years?  it  has  been  little  by 
little  that  the  work  has  grown. 

A  little  retrospect  just  here  will  be  pardonable.  When  the  de- 
partment was  adopted  by  our  state,  pledging  the  children  in  the 
Sunday  School  was  unknown  in  general,  a  distinctive  temperance 
lesson  was  hardly  thought  of.  There  were  some  temperance  books 
and  a  few  temperance  papers ;  temperance  concerts  were  rare  and 
temperance  addresses  to  the  children  as  a  part  of  Sunday  School 
teaching  not  expected.  Now  there  is  a  change  surely  and  we  are 
led  to  the  conclusion  that  there  has  been  a  slow  but  steady  advance 
along  this  line. 


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Encouraged  by  the  past  and  seeing  the  need  of  vigilance  to  main- 
tain what  we  have  already  secured  and  to  make  greater  advances  in 
the  future  we  reiterate  former  suggestions  to  sow  beside  all  waters ; 
having  entered  open  doors,  never  let  them  close  behind  us,  but  ever 
advancing  help  to  open  more  and  hasten  the  good  time  ^^When  all 
the  children  shall  be  taught  of  the  Lord." 

The  reports  have  come  from  the  following  counties :  Androscog- 
gin, Aroostook,  Cumberland,  Franklin,  Kennebec,  Knox,  Oxford, 
Sagadahoc,  Penobscot,  York.  Hancock  superintendent  says  no 
work  done  strictly  confined  to  this  department  and  no  one  in  any  of 
the  Unions  in  the  county  think  it  best  to  appoint  a  superintendent, 
I  would  recommend  that  if  any  of  our  evangelists  or  organizers  visit 
Hancock  county  that  they  bring  this  work  before  the  Unions,  mak- 
ing especial  mention  of  improving  the  Quarterly  Sunday,  pledging 
the  children,  distributing  temperance  literature ;  all  of  which  is  of 
vital  importance  if  the  church  of  the  future  is  prepared  for  its 
mission. 

Lincoln  county :  Superintendent  made  no  report  of  work  done  last 
year,  but  at  the  county  convention  a  new  one  has  been  app>ointed, 
who  has  been  in  correspondence  with  the  state  superintendent  and  I 
doubt  not  will  do  the  work  well  this  year. 

Piscataquis,  Somerset,  Waldo  and  Washington  have  sent  no  re- 
ports, at  least  none  have  been  received. 

The  report  from  Aroostook  is  more  general  than  usual,  four 
Unions  only  sending  statistics,  which  is  quite  unusual.  The  county 
superintendent  writes  she  has  visited  and  addressed  several  of 
the  Sunday  Schools  and  the  interest  is  good  and  much  good 
work  is  being  done;  one  new  feature  has  been  adopted,  that  of 
using  autograph  albums  for  pledging  the  children  to  be  kept  for 
future  use,  an  excellent  idea  worthy  to  be  adopted  by  other  counties. 

The  reports  from  Androscoggin  are  more  and  fuller  than  last  year ; 
so  in  Cumberland,  and  if  the  city  of  Portland  with  all  its  Sabbath 
Schools  would  take  more  interest  in  the  department  what  a  stimulus 
it  would  give  the  work. 

Franklin's  is  good,  but  through  an  oversight  of  the  request  of  the 
county  superintendent  for  blanks  there  was  no  tabulated  report. 


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Sagadahoc  I  think  sent  the  largest  per  cent  of  reports  of  any 
county  and  encouraging  also.  There  has  rarely  failed  to  come  a  re- 
port from  Washington  county.  I  hope  more  interest  will  be  taken  in 
several  counties  another  year. 

We  must  be  vigilant,  the  enemy  is  on  the  alert  for  the  children,  the 
forces  of  evil  are  combining  for  their  destruction;  let  us  '*be  strong 
in  the  Lord  and  the  power  of  his  might"  and  work  as  we  never  have 
to  counteract  the  evil  abroad. 

The  Quarterly  Sunday  must  be  made  interesting.  The  Sunday 
previous  to  Neal  Dow's  birthday  was  very  generally  observed,  and 
each  should  have  some  special  notice  where  Unions  exist. 

Temperance  papers  must  be  freely  used.  The  Young  Crusader  is 
being  made  especially  helpful  under  its  new  management. 

The  pledge  must  be  kept  in  mind  and  attention  called  to  it  where 
the  children  have  previously  signed. 

Those  counties  reporting  have  given  so  good  statistics  that  I  insert 
what  I  have  received ;  last  year  they  were  so  meagre  I  did  not.  If 
those  counties  who  have  failed  this  year,  especially  Somerset,  had  re- 
ported the  statistics  would  have  been  much  better.  Number  of  chil- 
dren in  the  Sunday  School,  6,896 ;  number  of  pledges,  4,848 ;  num- 
ber of  pages  of  literature,  46,068 ;  number  temperance  books, 
1,056;  number  concerts,  44;  number  of  societies  connected  with 
Sunday  School,  37;  number  members,  1.057;  number  pages  of 
literature  used,  22,641  ;  number  who  express  their  high  appreciation 
of  the  Quarterly  lesson,  40. 

This  is  but  a  little  of  the  work  done,  so  let  us  thank  God  and  take 
courage,  and  may  the  coming  year  be  one  of  great  progress. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

E.  A.  G.  STICKNEY, 

State  Supt.  of  Sunday  School  Work, 


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Influencing  the  Press. 


Madam  President  and  Co-  Workers : 

It  is  surely  not  necessary  to  emphasize  the  importance  of  the  de- 
partment for  influencing  the  press  before  any  gathering  of  white 
ribboners.  When  our  national  society  was  organized  twenty  years 
ago  in  the  city  of  Cleveland,  but  five  departments  were  adopted,  and 
this  was  one  of  the  five,  for  it  was  clearly  seen  that  it  would  aid 
every  other  line  of  work.  And  according  to  scripture  that  is  the 
greatest,  which  is  the  servant  of  all.  At  any  rate  it  is  certainly  true 
that  a  live  press  superintendent  and  a  dead  Union  cannot  long  exist 
in  the  same  community. 

We  have  had  this  year  in  Maine  fourteen  county  superintendents, 
and  just  one  week  ago  the  fourteenth  county  report  reached  me. 
These  reports  were  on  the  whole  the  best  prepared  and  most  satis- 
factory ones  received  during  the  five  years  in  which  I  have  had  the 
department  in  charge. 

The  two  counties  without  superintendents  are  Penobscot  and  Lin- 
coln.* Some  good  local  work,  however,  has  been  done  in  these 
counties.  The  only  daily  which,  as  far  as  I  know,  has  ever  given 
us  regular  space,  is  the  Bangor  Commercial, 

There  are  now  about  seventy  local  superintendents,  and  as  we  have 
1 60  or  more  Unions,  it  will  be  seen  that  we  average  seven-sixteenths 
of  a  press  superintendent  to  a  Union.  Don't  you  think  we  need  a 
whole  woman  instead  of  only  a  fraction  ? 

The  amount  of  space  filled  by  our  workers  with  temperance  and 
kindred  matter,    varies  little  from  that  of  last  year — about  1000  col- 


*NoTK. — Before  the  adjournment  of  the  Convention  county  superintendents  for 
Penobscot  and  Lincohi  were  secured. 


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umns,  or  if  we  estimate  its  money  value,  $10,000  worth.  Greater 
definiteness  on  the  part  of  each  county  and  local  worker  in  stating  the 
number  of  columns  published,  would  doubtless  increase  this  amount 
which  is  probably  much  too  low  an  estimate. 

There  is  no  class  of  people  to  whom  as  an  organization  we  are 
more  indebted  than  to  these  editors,  and  I  trust  that  every  press 
worker  will  appreciate  this  fact  sufficiently  to  use  the  space  granted 
her  to  the  very  best  of  her  ability. 

It  is  unwise  to  offer  much  reprint,  but  items  of  special  interest  in 
the  Union  Signal  and  other  temperance  papers  may  often  be  fresh- 
ened up  by  re-writing  in  one's  own  words.  A  superintendent  should 
carefully  study  the  tone  of  the  paper  to  which  she  desires  to  con- 
tribute, and  should  avoid  wearying  an  editor  with  a  large  amount  of 
material  which  it  is  not  probable  he  will  want.  Indeed  it  is  almost 
as  important  to  know  what  to  withhold  as  what  to  furnish. 

In  some  of  the  sparsely  settled  counties  like  Franklin  and  Somer- 
set where  few  papers  are  published,  the  county  superintendent  con- 
ducts a  column  of  county  W.  C.  T.  U.  news  in  some  leading  paper, 
the  local  workers  supplying  her  with  the  necessary  material.  Mr. 
Lawrence's  column  in  the  JFairfield  yournal  goes  into  ?is^  other 
papers  published  at  the  same  office. 

In  conducting  weekly  columns  the  first  place  should  as  a  rule  be 
given  to  the  work  of  our  own  organization,  especially  at  the  time  of 
a  convention  or  other  event  of  unusual  interest. 

So  much  time  is  consumed  in  acquiring  the  art  of  a  really  good 
press  worker,  especially  for  the  city  dailies,  that  frequent  changes  in 
superintendents  are  greatly  to  be  deplored. 

A  growing  friendliness  to  woman's  work  on  the  part  of  the  press 
is  one  of  the  most  hopeful  signs  of  the  times.  The  theory  that  a 
woman  must  be  either  an  angel  or  a  demon  is  rapidly  exploding,  and 
the  number  of  newspaper  men  who  attempt  to  keep  it  alive  is  fast 
diminishing,  while  those  who  see  in  her 

"A  being  not  too  fair  nor  good 
For  human  nature's  daily  food — ^" 

A  being  not  too  good  to  help  make  the  world  better,  is  growing 
larger  every  year.  But  I  am  sorry  to  be  compelled  to  add  that  the 
attitude  of  many  of  our  leading  Maine  papers  toward  the   suppres- 


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sion  of  the  liquor  traffic  versus  its  license,  is  very  far  from  what  we 
as  an  organization  desire  it  to  be. 

As  Reporter  for  the  Union  Signal  I  trust  that  this  year  news 
may  come  to  me  from  many  more  local  Unions,  also  from  depart- 
ment superintendents  and  all  others  who  wish  Maine  to  hold  an 
honorable  place  among  the  other  states  as  presented  in  the  organ 
of  the  World's  and  National  Union. 

MARY  L.  FRENCH. 


Evangelistic  Work. 


Madam  Ptesident  and  Sisters  of  the  Convention : 

I  have  received  the  annual  reports  from  most  of  our  counties  and 
deem  it  best  to  omit  the  usual  resume  of  them  in  detail  that  I  may 
touch  upon  some  points  that  may  be  helpful  to  us  in  the  future  of 
this  department.  Never  during  the  years  since  your  superintendent 
held  this  place  has  the  work  shown  such  growth  and  progress,  and 
though  through  some  of  the  reports  there  is  a  minor  chord  that  tells 
of  discouragement  it  is  noticeable  that  those  who  have  done  the  most 
work  under  circumstances  calling  for  exceptional  self-denial  and 
energy  are  fullest  of  courage  and  inspiration  to  do  more  and  better 
work  another  year. 

From  Aroostook  where  this  department  is  newly  organized  I  read : 
''From  letters  received  I  find  a  deepening  spiritual  interest  in  the 
Unions ;  those  that  have  not  grown  more  spiritual  have  fallen  out  by 
the  way,  and  only  one  Union  that  I  know  of  has  gone  down,  and 
even  those  two  or  three  are  praying  daily  the  work  may  be  again 
taken  up,  and  as  I  said  before,  one  of  the  most  hopeful  signs  is,  the 
Unions  feel  as  never  before  the  need  of  gathering  the  Christian 
efforts  that  are  being  made  into  a  special  department  under  the 
charge  of  a  special  superintendent.  I  trust  the  time  will  soon  come 
when  every  local  Union  will  have  this  department." 


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Cumberland,  Washington,  York  and  Waldo  would  each  thrill 
your  hearts  if  they  could  be  read  as  reported  to  your  superintendent. 
Washington  county  makes  special  mention  of  one  who  abundant  in 
good  works  adds  this  also :  she  gathers  a  class  of  girls  from  those 
deemed  incorrigible,  has  had  them  at  her  house  once  a  week,  taught 
them  to  read,  write,  sew,  to  fit  and  repair  their  own  garments,  and 
helping  them  by  tender  advice  and  counsel  in  those  things  that  per- 
tain to  conduct  and  character  not  only  but  calls  on  them  at  their 
homes  Sabbath  afternoons  where  she  can  see  their  parents,  reads, 
sings,  talks  and  prays  with  them,  hoping  soon  to  win  them  to  attend 
church.  York  county  speaks  of  the  great  work  laid  upon  the  Union 
through  the  shutting  down  of  the  mills,  having  many  families  with 
want  staring  them  in  the  face  to  be  relieved  through  the  untiring 
efforts  of  our  Evangelist  and  her  co-workers.  Waldo  county  reports 
among  other  work  that  its  superintendent  held  ii8  social  meetings, 
had  38  converts,  distributed  leaflets,  held  mothers*  meetings,  mass 
meetings,  etc.,  pastors  in  full  sympathy  with  the  work. 

I  am  often  asked  what  constitutes  Evangelistic  work  and  what  are 
the  qualifications  for  it.  Webster  defines  an  Evangelist  as  one  who 
is  a  preacher  or  publisher  of  the  gospel  of  Jesus  Christ.  Licensed 
to  preach  but  not  having  charge  of  a  particular  church.  With 
reference  to  the  work  in  the  W.  C.  T.  U.,  I  believe  we  are  called 
more  largely  to  preach  an  applied  Christianity  to  the  great  question 
of  our  day — the  outlawry  and  final  destruction  of  that  traffic  which 
destroys  so  many  bodies  and  souls  of  men  and  is  the  great  enemy  of 
righteousness  in  the  world.  The  qualification  for  this  work  is  found 
at  Calvary  and  confirmed  at  Pentecost  and  every  true  child  of  God 
can  have  it  if  he  will  seek  it  in  humility  and  prayer  till  the  greatest 
privilege  of  his  life  shall  be  to  tread  in  the  footsteps  of  his  wounded 
Redeemer  who  went  about  doing  good. 

A  dear  sister  wrote  me  to  ask  how  best  to  reach  the  boys  and  girls 
in  jails  and  reformatories.  I  replied,  make  them  your  own  dear 
wandering  boy  and  girl  whom  you  are  trying  to  reclaim  and  with 
whom  you  will  acknowledge  no  such  word  as  ''fail"  but  when  you 
find  it  needs  a  stronger  than  mother's  love  to  reach  them  will  go  to 
Him  who  seemed  to  refuse  the  Syrophenecian  woman  only  that  he 


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might  make  her  faith  more  conspicuous  and  its  results  more  ani- 
mating. 

Dear  sisters,  we  are  looking  for  a  brighter  day  for  women,  we 
are  asking  the  potential  power  of  a  consecrated  ballot,  and  while 
we  wait,  are  we  fitting  ourselves  not  only  for  this  but  for  higher 
privileges?  As  Christian  women  are  we  consecrating  our  daughters 
as  they  are  given  us  with  as  unquestioning  faith  as  we  exercise  for 
our  sons  to  the  Gospel  ministry-?  When  Pundita  Ramabai  was 
with  us  she  made  us  smile  as  she  told  how  the  apostles  of  Buddah 
believed  a  woman  could  not  learn  the  language  of  its  sacred  books 
and  made  it  a  crime  in  him  who  should  attempt  to  teach  it  to  her  and 
then  added  :  ^ "I  see  something  like  this  in  the  Christian  America 
where  woman  is  not  expected  to  sp>eak  the  blessed  precepts  of  the 
bible  from  the  sacred  desk  or  fit  herself  for  the  same  ministry  of  the 
word  as  men." 

Our  mothers  should  give  careful  thought  to  the  religious  atmos- 
phere of  the  schools  where  such  consecrated  child  women  arc  sent. 
We  already  have  many  a  gifted  graduate  of  Mt.  Holyoke  and 
Kent's  Hill  in  our  ranks,  and  I  wish  there  were  more  White  Ribbon 
girls  who  were  taking  a  theological  course  at  Bates.  For  younger 
students,  Oak  Grove  Seminary  is  a  deeply  religious  institution  where 
vital  piety  so  permeates  its  atmosphere  as  to  give  one  the  impression 
it  is  a  part  of  its  curriculum. 

I  v/ould  especially  recommend  to  our  dear  Y.  sisters  and  to  the 
superintendents  of  Loyal  Legions  social  prayer  meetings  to  be  led 
at  first  by  president  or  superintendent.  The  practice  of  reverent 
but  simple  vocal  extempore  prayer  and  testimony  cannot  begin  too 
soon  when  once  the  child  has  learned  to  know  and  love  her  Savior. 

Let  us  be  thoughtful  of  and  faithful  in  our  noontide  hour  of  prayer, 
and  as  we  find  the  world's  great  despair  in  every  department  of  life 
national  and  personal  can  be  expressed  in  the  one  word  '*Christless" 
let  us  meet  its  great  felt  want  in  that  supreme  word,  "Christ." 

Respectfully  submitted, 

LUCY  A.  SNOW, 

State  Supt»  Evangelistic  Work. 


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Narcotics. 


For  various  reasons  your  superintendent  has  been  unable  to  do  as 
much  the  past  year  in  this  department  as  heretofore,  but  the  work 
has  been  going  on  and  we  see  much  to  encourage  us.  There  has 
been  special  ''arousement"  on  the  cigarette  question  all  over  the 
state  and  much  effort  to  have  the  law  enforced,  but  none  too  soon. 
Last  year  3,000,000,000  cigarettes  were  made  in  this  country,  an 
average  of  about  50  to  each  individual.  Who  shall  say  how  many 
are  in  their  graves  in  consequence  of  these  death  dealing  articles, 
more  to  be  feared  than  the  Asiatic  cholera.  We  wish  we  could 
sound  the  note  of  warning  loud  enough  to  awaken  every  living  soul 
to  the  danger. 

No  report  comes  from  Aroostook  owing  to  a  recent  change  in 
county  superintendents. 

Androscoggin  county  has  done  good  work  the  past  year.  At 
Lewiston  one  meeting  was  devoted  to  the  consideration  of  this  sub- 
ject when  papers  were  read  and  a  talk  was  given  by  the  county 
superintendent.  At  a  later  meeting  the  State  President  gave  sug- 
gestions about  this  department  work.  This  Union  has  four  other 
ladies  associated  with  the  narcotic  superintendent.  Auburn's 
superintendent  finds  the  present  *'  hard  times "  productive  of 
some  good  in  that  many  have  been  forced  to  give  up  cigars  and 
cigarettes  and  resort  to  the  less  harmful  clay  pipe.  She  reports  a 
decreased  sale  of  opium  and  morphine  with  an  increase  in  lighter 
drugs.  She  finds  cigarette  smoking  increasing  among  women  and 
girls.  At  Livermore  Falls,  South  Durham,  Mechanic  Falls  and 
Turner  work  has  been  done  and  literature  distributed.  At  the  latter 
place  six  boys  have  given  up  the  use  of  tobacco. 

Cumberland  county  has  13  superintendents.  The  Anti-Tobacco 
Gem  has  been  sent  to  families  where  boys  are  growing  up.  Pastors 
have  preached  on  the  narcotic  evil.     At  Westbrook  a  teacher  in   the 


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public  school  had  her  class  of  forty  boys  each  write  an  essay  on  the 
subject.  Last  winter  an  address  was  given  here  by  the  state  super- 
intendent which  caused  one  boy  to  say  that  he  wasn't  going  to 
smoke  any  more  cigarettes,  '*if  he  knew  himself."  Superintendents 
are  doing  their  best  to  have  the  cigarette  law  enforced.  The  county 
superintendent  is  planning  to  have  Anti-Cigarette  Leagues  formed 
in  the  schools. 

Franklin  county  :  Superintendent  has  distributed  literature  to  local 
superintendents  and  sent  clippings  to  local  papers.  She  says:  ^^My 
thinking  on  these  things  has  stimulated  me  to  work  for  the  introduc- 
tion of  Scientific  Temperance  Instruction  in  schools,  believing  that 
the  Narcotic  question  is  most  substantially  reached  through  that 
means.  The  Kingfield  Union  has  made  a  crusade  against  tobacco 
and  cigarettes,  making  this  the  topic  at  several  Gospel   Temperance 

meetings. 

Hancock's  superintendent  is  hopeful.  At  Bar  Harbor  the  super- 
intendent called  at  shops  and  drug  stores,  asking  proprietors  not  to 
sell  tobacco  to  minors.  Ellsworth  has  tried  to  prevent  the  sale  of 
cigarettes.  Teachers  are  instructing  the  children.  At  Treraont  the 
Loyal  Legion  and  Juvenile  Temple  have  done  good  work.  Brook- 
lin  Y's  have  induced  several  young  men  to  use  No-To-Bac. 

Kennebec  county  :  The  superintendent  at  Augusta  has  worked 
among  the  children,  alsoMonmoutii  Union  ;  superintendent  at  China 
talks  with  the  boys  warning  them  about  the  evil  habit.  A  lecture 
given  here  last  winter  brought  forth  good  fruit.  The  superinten- 
dent at  Hallowell  distributed  200  copies  of  the  Anti -Tobacco  Gem, 
has  visited  several  stores  with  some  success.  One  young  man  has 
almost  decided  to  give  up  tobacco  through  reading  this  paper.  At 
Winthrop  one  young  man  has  given  up  the  habit.  South  China 
and  South  Gardiner  report  some  work. 

The  work  of  Oxford  county's  superintendent  has  re-acted  upon 
her  own  home  her  husband  having  freed  himself  from  tobacco. 
Brownfield  and  Norway  have  sent  out  cigarette  law  and  other  liter- 
ature.    Ten  copies  of  Gem  taken  at  Norway. 

Penobscot  county  :  East  Corinth  take  ten  copies  of  Gem,  Dexter 
thirty.  Upper  Stillwater  ten.     Two  boys  given  up  the  habit  here. 

Superintendent  Piscataquis   county  scattered   150   pages  of  litera- 


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ture.  At  the  Teachers'  Association  at  Foxcroft,  the  state  super- 
intendent of  Scientific  Temperance  Instruction,  while  doing  grand 
work  for  her  own  department  also  dealt  skillful  blows  for  the  Nar 
cotic  department,  while  she  gave  to  the  teachers  the  scientific  facts 
about  the  efiects  of  tobacco  (especially  cigarettes)  upon  the  young, 
and  urged  them  to  vigorous  work  among  their  pupils.  Mr.  Stetson, 
superintendent  of  Auburn  schools,  also  showed  a  deep  interest.  At 
a  temperance  mass  meeting  here  your  superintendent  gave  a  fifteen 
minute  talk  on  tobacco. 

Sagadahoc  superintendent  reports  one  young  man  set  free  from 
tobacco. 

Somerset  county :     Pittsfield  Union    has  stopped  cigarette  selling 

at  one  store.     Many  have  signed  triple  pledge.     Forty-seven  names 

on  Anti-Cigarette  pledge.     Have   had  talks  on   tobacco   at  public 

meetings.     Shawmut  has  distributed  280  pages  of  literature.     North 

Anson  reports  we  have  given  this  department  special  attention   this 

year.     Our  State  Superintendent  sowed  good  seed  in  this  region. 

Waldo  County  has  distributed  cigarette  law  beside   2,000  pages  of 

other  literature.     Teachers  have  circulated  pledge  cards  among  their 

pupils. 

Washington  county:  Superintendent  has  sent  out  much  literature; 

sent   cigarette   law  to   tobacco   dealers.     Eastport,  Cherryfield  and 

Millbridge  have  had  lectures  from  Mrs.  Gleason.     At  the  latter  place 

as  a  result  several   gave  up   tobacco.     We  wish   every  Union  would 

have  her  lecture.     Millbridge  superintendent  posted   cigarette  laws, 

put  leaflets  in  pockets  of  garments  made  or  repaired,  gives  leaflets 

to  teachers  to  read  to  their  pupils,  converses  with  tobacco  users. 

We  regret  that  no  more  Unions  have  offered  prizes  for  best  essays 
on  effects  of  Narcotics ;  this  is  educational.  We  recommend  the 
scattering  broad-cast  our  department  literature,  offering  prizes,  hold- 
ing public  meetings  devoted  to  this  topic,  interesting  teachers  and 
pastors,  distributing  Anti-Tobacco  Gem,  sending  articles  on  Nar- 
cotics to  papers,  posting  law,  lectures  and  sermons  on  this  evil, 
warning  young  and  old,  forming  Anti-Cigarette  Leagues  in  schools. 
Anything  to  arouse  people. 

*'Sow  beside  all  waters"  and  may  God  *'give  the  increase." 

I.  S.  WENTWORTH, 

Supt.  Dept,  Narcotics. 


6o 


Proportionate  and  Systematic  Oivins:. 


In  presenting  our  annual  report  of  this  department  it  may  not  be 
amiss  to  consider  for  a  moment  the  general  and  broader  outlook  of 
this  movement.  An  outlook  truly  encouraging  to  all  interested  in 
works  of  beneficence. 

Never  since  the  apostacy  of  the  church  in  the  dark  ages,  or  in 
other  words,  never  during  the  last  900  years  has  the  plan  of 
Scriptural  giving  claimed  so  extensively  and  effectively  the  attention 
of  Christ's  followers  as  at  the  present  day. 

Aside  from  the  prominence  given  it  in  the  churches,  the  pens  of 
many  able  writers  are  engaged  in  aiding  the  advancement  of  this 
reform.  It  is  advocated  and  practiced  by  many  of  our  best  and 
noblest  men  in  all  positions ;  is  championed  by  our  young  people's 
associations,  and  woman's  organizations  are  coming  nobly  to  the 
front  in  its  support.  Nine  organizations  of  Christian  women  have 
already  created  this  department  and  are  actively  engaged  in  the  pro- 
motion of  Proportionate  and  Systematic  Giving. 

Let  us  therefore,  dear  sisters,  be  strong,  let  not  our  hands  be 
weak,  believing  God's  promise  that  our  work  shall  be  rewarded. 

In  regard  to  the  state  work  of  this  department  I  wish  to  say  that 
many  months  absence  from  this  land  and  the  pressure  of  mission 
interests  prevented  me  from  keeping  in  touch  with  the  work  and 
workers  much  of  the  time  during  the  past  year.  Had  we  known  at 
the  time  of  this  convention  last  autumn  that  your  superintendent 
would  thus  be  called  away,  it  wouU'  have  been  wise  and  best  to  have 
placed  the  care  of  this  department  in  other  hands.  Wherever  the 
work  was  already  well  begun  the  superintendents  have  been  faithful 
and  active  in  carrying  it  forward.  Those  who  had  recently  taken  it 
up  labored  under  greater  disadvantage,  and  the  absence  of  state 
superintendent  tended  to  retard  progress. 


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Much  blessing  has  attended  the  prayerful  efforts  of  our  earnest 
superintendent  in  Androscoggin  county.  Miss  Mary  £.  Perkins. 
Good  interest  has  been  awakened  and  increasing  numbers  practice 
tenth  giving.  Department  literature  has  been  abundantly  distributed, 
meetings  have  been  held  in  the  interest  of  the  cause,  eight  sermons 
preached  on  christian  giving  and  the  subject  well  brought  out  in 
many  others.  The  superintendent  mentions  several  interesting  inci- 
dents connected  with  the  work  :  One  sister  testified  that  she  became 
a  convert  to  this  system  from  reading  '^Thanksgiving  Ann."  An- 
other, a  noble  christian  worker,  who  signed  the  proportionate  giving 
pledge  card  on  her  seventieth  birthday,  had  received  more  light 
from  the  little  pamphlet  *'What  we  Owe  from  a  Lawyer's  Stand- 
point." 

The  work  in  Aroostook  county  moves  steadily  onward  under   the 

efficient  superintendence  of  Miss  Hattie  T.  Mayo  aided  by  her  band 
of  active  helpers  In  addition  to  the  free  literature  already  widely 
diffused,  many  of  the  Unions  now  furnish  means  to  purchase  other 
and  varied  literature  pertaining  to  this  department  for  their  own 
distribution,  thus  wisely  sowing  the  seed  for  a  harvest  that  will  be 
garnered  by  and  by. 

The  report  from  Cumberland  county  reveals  increasing  interest. 
The  superintendent,  Miss  Almira  F.  Qiiimby,  writes:  "I  have  no 
doubt  there  are  many  in  the  different  Unions  who  practice  the 
system  but  it  is  difficult  to  get  statistics."  She  adds,  **Stroudwater 
Union  voted,  'We  jipprove  the  method  theoretically  and  will  try  to 
practice  it.*" 

Good  interest  is  manifested  in  the  Unions  organized  for  this  work 
in  Kennebec  county  and  the  number  who  practice  the  system  in- 
creasing.    Mrs.  M.  B.  Whitehouse,  Supt. 

The  work  has  also  been  taken  up  in  Franklin,  Hancock,  Oxford, 
Penobscot,  Somerset,  Sagadahoc,  Washington  and  York  counties. 

We  regret  that  owing  to  sickness,  change  in  officers  and  other 
causes,  reports  from  S'^me  have  failed  to  reach  us. 

We  are  glad  to  know  our  sisters  in  Piscataquis  county  adopted 
this  department  at  their  last  convention  and  chose  a  superintendent 
whose  whole  heart  is  in  the  cause.  W^e  trust  to  hear  of  much  in- 
terest awakened  there. 


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Doubtless  all  white  ribboners  recognize  the  fact  that  prop>ortionate 
and  systematic  giving  is  simply  the  real  outgrowth  of  the  great  truth 
taught  throughout  the  Bible,  that  is,  God's  ownership  and  man's 
stewardship,  and  is  we  believe  God's  appointed  way  to  secure 
abundant  and  constant  means  for  his  people  to  carry  on  his  work. 
All  beneficent  enterprise  must  rest  on  a  financial  basis.  And  has 
not  God  ordained  that  through  faithful  stewardship  ceaseless  streams 
of  bounty  should  flow  into  his  treasury?  It  has  been  well  said, 
**Our  benevolent  societies  are  toilfuUy  letting  down  buckets  into 
shallow  wells,  wells  easily  drawn  dry  and  slow  to  fill  up.  Far 
down  below  is  a  vast  reservoir  of  unconsecrated  wealth  in  christian 
hands.  Let  the  idea  of  Christian  Stewardship  prevail  and  it  will 
sink  artesian  wells  into  this  reservoir  and  set  money  flowing  of  its 
own  free  consent." 

As  faithful  stewards  we  learn  how  true  the  words  of  Jesus,  ''It  is 
more  blessed  to  give  than  to  receive."  We  learii  for  ourselves  that 
"giving  is  our  need" — the  outflow  must  be  proportionate  to  the  in- 
come of  blessing.  And  thus  too  we  find  it  is  possible  to  put  our 
money  into  *'bags  which  wax  not  old." 

Let  us  remember,  dear  sisters,  the  tithe  is  the  Lord's  and  after 
rendering  the  tithe  let  us  give  joyfully  according  as  God  hath  pros- 
pered us,  for  ''God  loveth  a  cheerful  giver." 

And  let  us  trust  and  pray  that  ere  the  close  of  another  yeiir,  the 

few  remaining  counties  in  our  grnnd  old  state,  not  yet  enlisted,  will 

all  without    one    exception    have    fallen    into  line,    and  all  be    found 

laboring  together   for    the    establishment    of  a    pure    and   abundant 

treasury — one  upon  which  our  Lord's    benediction   will   be    sure    to 

rest. 

ANNA  M.  HUSSEY, 

Supt.  Dept,  Proportionate  and  Systematic  Giving. 


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Reformatory  Prison    for  Women. 


Dear  Sisters: 

It  is  hard  and  somewhat  discouraging  to  bring  to  you  a  report 
of  unsuccessful  or  unfinished  work  after  all  these  years  of  effort  put 
forth  for  the  worthy  object  of  securing  in  our  state  that  much  needed 
institution,  a  special  Prison  for  women  that  shall  be  reformatory  in 
its  management  and  be  officered  by  women  properly  and  regularly 
appointed. 

We  do  not  feel  that  we  are  actually  defeated  in  our  attempt  but 
we  believe  that  it  will  be  best  to  suspend  the  effort  for  awhile  and 
then  renew  it  with  enhanced  vigor.  I'here  is  probably  no  subject 
upon  which  the  public  mind  moves  more  leisurely  than  upon  ques- 
tions of  prison  reform.  Our  legislators  are  very  slow  to  see  the 
advantages  that  a  prison  such  as  we  want,  would  be  to  the  state. 
The  two  states  that  have  tried  the  experiment,  viz. :  Massachusetts 
and  Indiana,  have  found  it  abundantly  satisfactory. 

We  have  no  doubt  that  if  the  proper  building  and  its  needed 
appurtenances  for  such  an  institution  could  be  obtained  and  donated 
to  the  state  our  Legislature  would  vote  to  try  the  experiment  but  it 
does  not  feel  willing  at  present  to  utilize  any  part  of  the  public 
funds  in  this  way.  Doubtless  it  costs  more  to  support  the  criminal 
sons  and  daughters  of  criminal  women,  now  and  heretofore  incar- 
cerated in  our  common  jails  and  prisons,  than  it  would  to  institute 
a  place  where  the  mothers  would  be  reformed  in  time  to  save  their 
children  ;  but,  from  any  but  a  woman's  standpoint,  this  is  not  seen. 
There  are  men  and  women  whose  first  breath  was  drawn  in  a 
polluted  atmosphere,  and  who  I  ave  been  witnesses  of  immoralty 
from  infancy.  It  is  hard  for  such  to  struggle  against  their  natural 
inborn  impulses.  O  that  they  might  be  helped,  and  also  be  pre- 
vented from  bequeathing  their  inheritance  with  two-fold  measure  to 
their  innocent  offspring. 


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Let  us  hope  that  when  women  have  a  voice  and  vote  in  electing 
to  office  those  who  wield  the  sceptre  of  state  there  will  be  an  im- 
provement in  our  prisons,  and  the  male  and  female  prisoners  be 
kept  in  entirely  separate  institutions  and  the  management  of  both  be 
reformatory  rather  than  arbitrary.  Then  there  will  be  fewer  crimi- 
nals and  consequently  fewer  crimes,  and  society  will  be  better  pro- 
tected than  at  present. 

We  are  united  in  asking  that  this  work  for  a  reformatory  prison 
for  women  be  suspended  for  the  present,  which  request  we  respect- 
fully submit  for  your  consideration. 

HANNAH  J.  BAILEY. 

AUGUSTA  M.  HUNT. 

CLARA  M.  FARWELL. 


Securing  Homes  for  Homeless  Children. 


Dear  Sisters: 

Most  of  us  have  never  met  before,  but  I  am  not  looking  upon 
strangers.  Only  your  faces  are  unfamiliar,  truly  "I  know  thy 
works  and  where  thou  dwellest,'*  and  a  multitude  of  pleasant 
tlioughts  come  rushing  upon  me.  Somerset  county  suggests  a  beau- 
tiful home  just  opened  to  some  child.  With  the  thoughts  of 
Washington  county  there  comes  a  face,  sweet,  not  with  the  com- 
moner beauty  of  youth,  but  with  the  rarer  beauty  of  age,  and  I  re- 
call the  work  of  the  superintendent  at  Calais.  Two  other  pictures 
hang  in  my  Washington  gallery  ;  one  a  pale  faced  cripple,  the  other 
a  healthy,  happy  boy,  and  I  remember  this  modern  miracle  would 
never  have  been  wrought,  had  there  been  no  Woman's  Christian 
Temperance  Union  at  Cherryfield.  In  Hancock  county  I  see  a 
group  of  bright  young  women,  and  I  think  of  a  generous  gift  from 
the  Y's  of  Brooklin  ;  and  so  I  might  go  through  every  county  in 
Maine  and  fill  all  the  time  with  these  attractive  pictures,  but  that  is 
not  what  you  have  come  to  hear.  You  want  a  faithful  record  of  the 
work  accomplished  by  the  department  of  Securing  Homes  for 
Homeless  Children  in  Maine  during  the  year  that  has  just  ended. 


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In  making  up  this  report  I  have  aimed  only  at  truth.  I  could  not 
use  the  reports  of  the  county  superintendents,  as  this  report  roust 
cover  the  time  between  the  last  State  Convention  and  this,  and  the 
County  Conventions  were  held  at  different  times  through  the  spring 
and  summer.  I  consequently  appealed  to  the  local  superintendents 
for  a  report  of  their  work. 

However  much  individuality  may  be  desirable  in  other  depart- 
ments of  the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union  I  believe  the 
strength  of  this  department  lies  in  unity.  The  different  counties 
and  Unions  must  work  together,  and  the  reports  will  necessarily 
overlap.  In  order  to  obtain  nothing  but  the  truth,  therefore,  these 
reports  must  be  compared  and  pruned. 

Androscoggin  county :  Auburn,  and  her  nearest  neighbor,  Lewis- 
ton,  were  the  leaders  in  the  work  of  this  department  during  the  past 
year.  Six  children  have  been  placed  in  permanent  homes.  The 
superintendent  at  Auburn  has  placed  five  children  in  free  homes 
temporarily,  and  obtained  sufficient  clothing  to  enable  thirty-two 
poor  children  to  attend  school.  Lewiston  has  furnished  ninety-six 
weeks  of  board  for  unfortunate  children,  and  placed  one  young 
woman  with  her  child  in  a  home  where  the  mother  can  earn  a  living 
for  both,  a  long  step  in  advance  of  separating  a  mother  and  child. 
The  superintendent  of  this  department  has  also  rescued  one  young 
woman  from  the  streets,  placing  her  under  good  home  influences, 
and  has  sent  two  infants  to  the  Temporary  Home  in  Portland.  Both 
Unions  have  spent  a  considerable  sum  of  money  in  their  local  work. 

Reports  have  been  received  from  three  Unions  in  Aroostook 
county.  Two  children  have  been  placed  in  permanent  homes.  The 
Caribou  Union  is  preparing  to  send  a  child  to  the  deaf  mute  school 
in  Portland,  a  new  departure  worthy  of  special  mention.  Every  one 
of  the  three  Unions  have  furnished  clothing  and  money  for  the  local 
work  of  this  department. 

Out  of  eight  reports  received  from  the  superintendents  of  Cumber- 
land county  four  report  no  work  done.  Four  children  have  been  fur" 
nished  with  permanent  homes  in  this  county.  The  youngest  Union 
in  Cumberland  county ,Yarmouth,  has  clothed,  cared  for  temporarily, 
and  ultimately  placed  in  permanent  homes  in  other  counties  two 
children  ;  two  children  have  been  cared  for  temporarily  in  free  homes, 


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and  four  children  placed   in  boarding  homes,  in  all  eighty  weeks. 
Two  of  these  children  have  been  transferred  to  free  permanent  homes. 

The  state  superintendent  is  obliged  to  report  that  outside  of  the 
little  Union  at  Stroudwater  village,  and  the  infant  society  at  Yarmouth, 
neither  money  nor  clothing  has  been  contributed  by  the  Unions  to 
carry  on  the  work  of  this  department.  Both  have  been  needed, 
both  have  been  obtained,  but  not  from  the  sisters  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U. 

There  are  eleven  superintendents  of  this  department  in  Franklin 
county.  Four  have  been  heard  from.  An  excellent  summer  home 
was  offered  at  Rangeley  for  a  child,  but  the  state  superintendent, 
greatly  to  her  regret,  was  unable  to  fill  it  until  too  late.  Two  boys 
have  been  sent  to  Good  Will  Farm  from  Farmington.  At  Farming- 
ton  Falls  a  child  has  been  cared  for  two  months.  Kingfield  contrib- 
uted two  dollars  towards  the  state  work  of  the  department.  The 
Unions  at  Kingfield  and  Farmington  have  contributed  clothing  and 
spent  money  in  the  local  work  of  the  department  of  Securing 
Homes  for  Children. 

Three  superintendents  from  Hancock  county  have  sent  reports. 
Four  children  have  been  removed  from  this  county.  Two  have 
been  placed  in  permanent  private  homes,  one  being  a  defective  child 
was  placed  in  an  institution,  one  received  free  medical  treatment 
and  was  placed  in  a  beautiful  home  for  the  summer.  The 
little  village  of  Brooklin  is  a  shining  example,  not  only  for  the 
county,  but  for  the  state.  It  has  furnished  one  of  the  best  of 
homes,  permanent,  for  a  child,  and  the  Y*s  have  contributed  $10.50 
towards  the  state  work  of  the  department. 

Kennebec  county  has  three  superintendents,  but  report  no  work. 
Two  superintendents  have  been  appointed  in  Knox  county,  but  no 
work  done. 

There  are  four  superintendents  in  Lincoln  county.  The  super- 
intendent at  Newcastle  and  Damariscotta  has  assisted  the  state 
superintendent  in  investigating  a  home  in  which  a  child  has  been 
placed.  Unsuccessful,  but  by  no  means  fruitless  efforts  have  been 
made  to  reach  a  child  cruelly  treated  by  its  guardians.  The  Union 
at  Waldoboro  has  succeeded  in  banishing  a  family  which  has  been  a 
plague  spot  in  the  community.  The  three  children  of  the  family 
have  been  placed  in  reformatory  institutions.     The  county   superin- 


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tendent  has  given  of  her  time  and  money  to  accomplish  this  most 
important  and  difficult  work.  One  other  child  has  been  sent  from 
this  county  to  the  Industrial  School.  Two  boys  have  found  perma- 
nent homes  in  Oxford  county,  and  one  little  fellow  sent  from  this 
county  to  a  temporary  home. 

Penobscot  county  sends  no  report,  but  the  state  superintendent 
remembers  with  pleasure  a  visit  to  the  Union  at  Bangor  and  several 
gifts  of  money  with  which  to  carry  on  the  work.  One  child  has 
been  adopted  in  this  county. 

One  girl  has  found  an  excellent  home  in  Waldo  county,  and  an- 
other waiting  home  is  about  to  be  filled. 

Three  Unions  in  Piscataquis  county  have  been  heard  from.  Only 
one  has  done  active  work.  TWo  children  have  found  a  happy  home 
In  this  county.  One  Union  is  sewing  for  a  family  of  motherless 
children  and  sending  a  child  to  the  Kindergarten. 

One  superintendent  in  Sagadahoc  county  has  placed  three  chil- 
dren in  permanent  homes,  and  two  in  the  Bath  home.  One  has 
been  sent  to  the  Industrial  School  from  Bath,  and  one  to  Good  Will 
Farm.  Three  homes  have  been  filled  in  this  county  by  the  state 
superintendent,   and  one  case  assisted  by   local  superintendent  at 

Auburn. 

Out  of  six  superintendents  in  Somerset  county  three  have  reported. 

Only  two  Unions  in  Washington  county  have  reported,  but  other 
Unions  are  interested  and  several  good  homes  are  waiting  in  this 
county. 

During  the  year  ending  today,  September  25th,  the  Calais  Union 
has  placed  one  child  in  a  permanent  home,  sent  one  child  to  the 
Industrial  School,  and  placed  two  children  in  temporary  homes  un- 
til private  permanent  ones  can  be  found.  All  these  children  with 
others  have  been  well  clothed,  and  as  Calais  is  in  a  remote  corner 
the  traveling  expenses  involved  in  the  distribution  of  these  children 
has  been  no  small  amount. 

The  Union  at  Cherryfield  has  nobly  supported  one  little  fellow  at 
the  Maine  General  Hospital  during  a  long  illness. 

There  are  eight  superintendents  in  York  county,  something  has 
been  heard  from  five.  One  child  has  been  adopted  in  this  county, 
and  several  good   homes  are  waiting  for  children.     One  boy   has 


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been  removed  from  the  Town  Farm,  received  medical  treatment  and 
placed  in  a  good  home  elsewhere.  A  little  three  year  old  girl  has 
had  a  summer  at  Lebanon,  the  influence  of  which  can  never  entirely 
pass  away. 

Several  Unions,  notably  the  one  at  Cornish,  have  given  money, 
time  and  clothing  to  the  work  of  this  department. 

A  summary  of  the  work  is  as  follows  :  The  department  for  Secur- 
ing Homes  for  Homeless  Children  during  the  year  ending  Septem- 
ber 25th,  has  placed  twenty-six  children  in  private  permanent  homes, 
twelve  have  been  placed  temporarily  in  free  private  homes  while 
waiting  for  permanent  ones.  Eighteen  have  been  placed  in  institu- 
tions within  the  state.  One  child  has  been  sent  to  the  Deaf-mute 
school,  three  children  have  received  successful  hospital  treatment, 
one  hundred  and  seventy-six  weeks  of  free  boarding  have  been  given 
homeless  children,  and  numberless  poor  children  have  been  clothed 
and  fed.  Thus  fifty  children  have  in  one  way  and  another  been 
permanently  benefited  by  the  existence  of  this  department,  and  this 
does  not  include  those  who  have  been  simply  clothed  and  fed  or 
boarded  for  a  brief  period. 

During  the  year  one  hundred  and  eighteen  homes  have  opened  to 
the  state  superintendent,  and  letters  have  been  sent  to  every  one 
of  the  real  or  supposed  applicants.  From  nine  of  these  applicants 
nothing  further  has  been  heard.  Twenty  have,  upon  further  consid- 
eration, often  with  ihe  advice  of  the  state  superintendent,  withdrawn 
the  application.  Four  have  been  filled  from  other  sources,  three 
have  been  referred  to  other  state  superintendents.  Four  have  been 
temporary  homes  and  have  been  filled  for  the  summer.  Two  have 
been  boarding  homes  of  the  best  kind  in  the  country.  The  boarding 
homes  should  be  selected  as  carefully  and  supervised  as  thoroughly 
as  the  permanent  homes.  The  state  superintendent  strongly  disap- 
proves of  boarding  more  than  one  child  in  a  home  at  one  time, 
unless  the  children  be  brothers  or  sisters.  After  careful  investi- 
gation, twenty-three  homes  have  been  rejected  as  unsuitable  for  any 
child.  These  homes  have  not  been  discarded  on  the  testimony 
of  any  one  individual,  neither  have  any  homes  been  accepted  by  the 
state  superintendent  upon  the  approval  of  any  one  person,  even 
when   the   approval    comes    from    our    State   President.      Eleven 


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approved  homes  are  now  wailing  for  children,  and  six  are  waiting 
investigation.  Eight  doubtful  homes  are  under  consideration  still. 
Eighteen  of  the  twenty-six  children  have  been  placed  in  permanent 
hemes,  investigated  and  approved  by  the  state  superintendent, 
fifteen  of  these  homes,  as  well  as  the  temporary  and  boarding 
homes,  having  been  visited  by  the  state  superintendent.  During  the 
past  nine  months,  not  during  the  entire  year,  nine  hundred  and 
seventy  relative  letters  to  this  department  have  been  received  by  the 
state  superintendent,  one  thousand  and  six  sent  out. 

The  avowed  object  of  the  department  of  Securing  Homes  for 
Homeless  Children  in  Maine  is  to  extend  a  helping  hand  to  every 
needy  child  in  the  state,  and  wherever  possible  to  provide  the  home- 
less child  with  a  good  home  in  a  private  family.  This  does  not 
mean  the  breaking  up  of  worthy  families  because  they  are  poor,  but 
the  fulfillment  of  God's  command  "To  set  the  solitary  in  families.'* 
When  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  took  up  this  work  in  Maine  it  introduced  in 
the  State  the   placing  out,  or  family  plan   of  caring   for   dependent 

children. 

Let  the  W.  C.  T.  U.   therefore,    stand   emphatically   for    private 

homes  in  preference  to  institutional  life  ;  not  that  we  wish  to  antago- 
nize the  institution,  on  the  contrary,  believing  as  we  do  that  the  child 
saving  institutions  of  Maine  are  among  the  best  in  the  land,  we  are 
most  anxious  to  co-operate  with  them.  The  fact  that  we  have  placed 
children  in  Maine  institutions  during  the  past  year,  while,  on  the 
other  hand,  we  have  transferred  children  from  these  institutions  to 
families,  proves  our  mutual  dependence  and  helpfulness. 

Sisters  you  have  begun  a  great  work,  but  you  have  only  turned  a 
very  few  pages  of  a  new  book ;  upon  how  you  write  the  story  de- 
pends your  success.  The  family  plan  is  a  natural,  but  by  no  means 
a  simple  plan.  There  is  no  room  for  careless  work,  and  there  is 
room  for  great  abuse.  Thorough  investigation  and  careful  super- 
vision of  every  home  in  which  you  place  a  child,  cannot  be  urged 
too  strongly.  Do  your  work  well,  and  I  believe  the  little  child  will 
lead  into  your  ranks  men  and  women  you  have  never  reached  before. 
Do  the  work  carelessly  and  you  will  bring  disgrace  upon  the 
Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union.  Do  you,  my  sisters, 
realize  the  importance  of  this  work,  and  the  personal  responsibility 
resting  upon  you  ? 

HARRIET  A.  LEAVITT. 


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Work  Among  Railroad  Employees. 


Madam  President  and  Sisters  of  the  Conveniion  : 

The  brevity  of  my  report  in  work  among  railroad  employees  maj 
well  compare  with  the  results  obtained. 

Unforeseen  obstacles  interposed  to  prevent  my  g^vin^  that  persooal 
attention  to  the  cause  which  might  have  given  larger  returns.  Tbe 
importance  of  the  work  and  the  necessity  of  a  superintendent  thereof, 
was  urged  upon  each  of  the  county  organizations  and  instructions 
given.  Seven  only  reported :  Androscoggin,  Aroostook,  Cumber- 
land, Franklin,  Kennebec,  Washington  and  York.  Of  these,  only 
one  reported  work  done. 

MissEstelle  Brainard,  superintendent  of  Kennebec  county,  reports 
good  work  done  in  Gardiner.  Local  superintendent  has  distributed 
fifty  leaflets  and  eighteen  cards  at  police  headquarters,  and  among 
cab  and  express  men,  and  fifty  railroad  leaflets  among  engineers  and 
firemen,  on  Maine  Central,  and  electric  car  conductors  and  motor 
men  ;  also  on  the  first  Sabbath  in  March,  requested  the  pastors  of  the 
diflerent  churches  to  offer  prayer  for  railroad  men  which  request  was 
complied  with.     I  felt  to  say,  God  bless  the  workers  in  Gardiner. 

Now,  dear  sisters,  far  be  it  from  my  heart  to  find  any  fault,  know- 
ing as  I  do  how  full  your  hearts  and  hands  are  of  good  works,  but 
may  I  not  urge  that  we  take  up  this  very  important  department  of 
work,  and  if  each  local  Union  in  our  state  would  do  as  much  even 
as  Gardiner,  what  glorious  results  might  not  we  obtain. 

Your  superintendent  has  written  40  letters  and  postals,  also  sent 
plan  of  work,  as  marked  out  by  our  national  superintendent,  Mrs. 
Woodward,  to  each  county  president;  distributed  literature  on 
Maine  Central,  and  kept  boxes  supplied  at  railway  stations,  etc. 

I  hope  in  the  coming  years  to  do  more  in  visiting  and  laboring 
personally  among  railroad  employees. 


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Let  us  press  on,  dear  sisteib,  and  above  all,  ^^Let  us  not  weary  in 
well  doing,  for  in  due  season  we  shall  reap  if  we  faint  not." 

Wc  have  entered  the  fight  against  this  enemy  of  our  homes,  to 
win  ;  and  let  us  remember  that  "The  race  is  not  to  the  swift  nor  the 
battle  to  the  strong." 

For  right  is  right,  since  God  is  God, 

And  right  the  day  must  win ; 
To  doubt  would  be  disloyalty, 

To  falter  would  be  sin. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

(MRS.)  HELEN  THOMAS, 
State  Supt.  of  Work  Among'  R,  R,  Men. 


Soldiers  and  Sailors. 


I  herewith  submit  the  annual  report  of  work  among  Soldiers  and 
Sailors  for  1894.  It  will  necessarily  be  brief  as  few  counties  have 
done  much  work  in   this  department. 

Superintendents  were  appointed  in  all  but  three  counties  ;  reports 
received  from  five. 

Mrs.  Ward,  superintendent  for  Kennebec  county,  reports  having 
visited  and  spoken  to  the  G.  A.  R.  as  a  body  in  the  interests  of  the 
W.  C.  T.  U.  work — the  second  time  a  woman  has  spoken  in  a  Post 
meeting  for  us.     No  work  done  at  Togus. 

Knox  county :  Have  sent  6,500  pages  of  literature  ;  some  work 
Memorial  Day. 

Waldo  reports  150  papers,  50  magazines  and  500  pages  of  litera- 
ture distributed. 

Washington  county  reports  by  the  local  superintendent  at  Calais 
the  following  work:  7291  newspapers,  699  magazines,  799  leaflets 
distributed,  one  library  sent  away  containing  45  books,  i  bible,  75 
leaflets,  2  hymn  books,  6  gospel  song  books ;  another  ready  to  go, 
with  53  books,  55  leaflets,  i  bible,  i  gospel  song  book,  i  testament. 
A  quantity  of  reading  matter  supplied  to  the  poor  families. 


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York  county  did  work  Memorial  Day  in  the  way  of  dinner  for  the 
Post,  and  flowers. 

Cumberland  county :  Peaks'  Island  Union  has  distributed  505 
papers  and  magazines,  45  tracts  among  sailors,  and  are  working  to 
start  a  public  reading-room  for  the  men  when  in  port.  From  Port- 
land has  been  sent  6  barrels  of  literature.  Library  No.  10  has  been 
added  ;  though  it  numbers  10  we  have  but  9  in  circulation  as  one  has 
been  lost  at  sea.  Barrels  have  been  received  by  the  superintendent 
of  Cumberland  county  from  Brownfield,two  barrels  from  Kennebunk, 
one  barrel,  one  package  from  Farmington.  Several  packages  of  illus- 
trated papers  together  with  tracts  have  been  sent  to  the  Marine 
Hospital. 

I  thank  all  who  have  so  generously  helped  the  work  for  the  past 
year  and  ask  the  same  interest  and  help  for  the  new  superintendent, 
knowing  it  is  impossible  to  reckon  the  good  done  by  the  reading 
thus  distributed. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

(MRS.)  F.  C.  JOHNSTON, 

State  Supt,  Dept,  Soldiers  and  Sailors. 


Work  Among  Lumbermen. 


Madam  President  and  Co-  Workers : 

In  justice  to  the  county  superintendents  of  this  work  I  will  say 
that  I  have  been  ill  in  bed  since  the  middle  of  May  so  have  not  been 
able  to  aid  them  in  the  work  of  preparing  reports  as  I  should  have 
done.  The  work  has  been  done  in  a  more  systematic  way  and  good 
has  been  accomplished,  yet  there  is  much  to  be  done  in  the  way  of 
systematic  organization. 

Several  counties  are  in  excellent  working  order  and  we  hope  dur- 
ing the  next  year  to  bring  the  others  up  to  a  better  standard.  Most 
encouraging  words  have  been  received  from  the  camps.  We  are  told 
that  the  lumber  camps  are  not  what  they  were  before  the  W.  C.  T.  U. 


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became  interested  in  them.  With  the  assurance  that  our  efforts  are 
appreciated,  and  that  we  are  making  the  months  spent  in  the  lumber 
camps  more  helpful  and  pleasant  to  the  men,  we  all,  I  am  sure,  will 
put  forth  a  greater  effort  than  ever  during  the  coming  winter.  Again 
we  must  urge  the  need  of  a  camp  missionary  upon  the  Convention. 
One  who  would  not  only  visit  all  the  lumber  camps  but  the  small 
settlements  in  out  of  the  way  places — carrying  to  them  the  gospel  of 
Christ  and  enlisting  workers  in  temperance  reform.  Great  results 
have  followed  this  work  in  other  states,  and  I  feel  sure  that  the  time 
will  come  when  we  will  be  able  to  do  the  same.  We  endeavor  when 
it  is  possible  to  supply  the  lumbermen's  families  with  good  reading 
both  for  adults  and  children.  Many  bibles,  testaments  and  comfort 
bags  have  been  sent  to  the  camps.  We  want  to  urge  that  all  county 
superintendents  send  to  the  state  superintendent  their  county  reports 
in  detail  as  soon  as  possible  after  the  county  conventionB.  We  want 
to  thank  all  those  who  have  so  kindly  assisted  in  delivering  packages, 
free  of  charge,  to  the  lumber  camps.  Let  all  reading  sent  be  marked 
W.  C.  T.  U. 

REPORT    BY   COUNTIES. 

Cumberland  county — Mrs.  S.  J.  McClelland,  South  Windham: 
South  Windham,  2205  pages  mailed  to  camps.  Newhall,  mailed 
350  pages  to  camp.  Peaks'  Island,  300  pages,  beside  tracts  and 
leaflets.  Westbrook  Y's  sent  400  pounds  of  magazines  and  papers, 
248  pages  of  literature  to  Greenville  for  distribution.  Westbrook 
sent  a  large  dry  goods  box  filled  with  good  reading.  Windham  Cen- 
ter, supplied  regularly  each  week  five  camps  and  helped  supply 
county  superintendents. 

Washington  county — Mrs.  G.  H,  Condell :  Calais,  have  distribu- 
ted 1167  papers,  113  magazines,  106  leaflets,  10  books  all  carefully 
selected  and  marked  W.  C.  T.  U.  Pembroke,  have  done  good  work 
but  kept  no  record.  Cherryfield,  distributed  1700  pages  among 
lumber  camps.  Eastport,  distributed  182  papers.  Princeton,  sent 
to  lumber  camps  180  books,  34  papers,  24  magazines,  38  leaflets. 
The  county  superintendent  has  done  much  personal  work.  Has 
written  to  all  local  superintendents  and  had  good  words  from 
the  camps. 


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Piscataquis  county — Mrs.  F.  L.  Rogers,  Greenville :  Greenville, 
sent  to  about  20  camps  who  gp'atefully  received  the  reading  matter, 
sent  bibles  to  most  of  the  camps,  distributed  literature  and  comfort 
bags  from  a  Union  in  Massachusetts,  a  large  box  from  Wintbrop  Y's, 
state  superintendent  and  others,  sent  about  10  bushels  of  reading  to 
camps,  all  of  which  was  carefully  looked  over  by  Mrs.  Rogers,  sup- 
plied lumbermen's  families  with  reading,  distributed  tracts  in  foreign 
language.  Shirley,  supplied  all  camps  in  their  locality.  Dover  and 
Foxcroft,  supplied  all  camps  and  mills  in  their  vicinity. 

Franklin  county — Miss  Edith  Church,  Phillipps:  The  county 
president  assures  me  that  much  good  work  has  been  done  in  the 
northern  part  of  the  county ;  the  superintendent  has  sent  no  detailed 
report. 

Aroostook  county — Mrs.  Sophia  S.  Howe,  Ashland :  The  county 
superintendent  wrote  to  ten  Unions,  only  four  of  which  replied.  The 
sum  of  amount  sent  was  given,  instead  of  in  detail,  as  follows : 
20,962  pages  of  literature,  190  leaflets. 

Penobscot  count}- — Mrs.  Josephine  Jellison,  Bangor:  Mrs.  S.  J. 
Pickard  who  died  in  May,  was  the  county  superintendent ;  her  report 
was  not  completed,  so  the  report  will  only  be  partial.  Many  Unions 
not  reported  have  done  good  work.  Orono,  supplied  seven  camps, 
two  depot  wall  pockets,  sent  literature  to  Greenville  for  distribution. 
Stillwater,  supplies  boarding  houses  and  camps.  Bangor  Crusade, 
sent  many  hundred  pages.  Bangor  Union,  sent  papers  and  leaflets 
in  large  numbers. 

Of  the  ten  counties  written  to  only  five  have  answered.  This  is 
rather  discouraging  but  we  hope  for  better  success  next  year. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

ADDIE  LILLIAN  HARVEY, 

State  Supt,  of  Work  Among'  Lumbermen. 


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Sabbath   Observance. 


Your  state  superintendent  for  the  department  of  Sabbath  Observ- 
ance presents  her  report  with  much  regret  that  more  has  not  been 
accomplished  the  past  year,  partly  due,  no  doubt,  to  your  superin- 
dent  being  new  to  the  work. 

Many  letters  have  been  written,  and  report  blanks  sent,  to  every 
county  and  many  local  superintendents,  and  we  find  in  summing  up 
those  that  have  been  returned  that  22,262  pages  of  literature  have 
been  circulated,  16  public  meetings  held,  54  sermons  preached, 
3  addresses  given,  160  sig^tures  secured  to  the  Sabbath  Observance 
Pledge,  802  signatures  secured  to  the  petition  for  a  ''Sunday  Rest 
Law,"  and  1 7  Manuals  distributed ;  Sabbath  Laws  have  been  posted 
in  many  public  places.  Manuals  sent  to  pastors,  many  Sabbath 
Schools  using  Concert  Exercises  and  Responsive  Readings,  Press 
utilized  in  nearly  every  county,  boys  stopped  from  riding  their 
wheels  on  Sunday,  foreign  children  clothed,  and  brought  into  the 
Sunday  School,  and  one  popular  pleasure  resort  closed  on  the 
Sabbath. 

In  Androscoggin  county,  Mrs.  L.  W.  Clark,  Mechanic  Falls, 
superintendent,  reports :  2,800  pages  of  literature  have  been 
distributed,  10  sermons  preached,  5  public  meetings  held,  State 
Sabbath  Laws  posted  in  stores,  and  much  private  work  in  conversa- 
tion. One  Union  reports  a  copy  of  the  Sabbath  Observance  Manual 
given  to  each  pastor. 

Aroostook — Abbie  S.  Knight,  Fort  Fairfield,  Supt. :  6,000  pages 
of  literature,  7  Manuals,  20  sermons,  5  prayer  meetings,  105  signa- 
tures to  the  petition  for  the  ''Sunday  Rest  Law."  Many  have 
signed  the  Sabbath  Observance  Pledge,  Concert  Exercises  and 
Responsive  Readings  used  in  the  Sunday  Schools,  Sunday  Laws 
printed  in  nearly  all  local  papers  and  copies  of  them  posted  in 
public  places. 


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Cumberland — Lucy  A.  Snow,  Windham  Cen.,  Supt. :  Only  one 
of  the  twelve  superintendents  in  this  county  heard  from.  That  one 
reports,  2,300  pages  of  literature  distributed,  73  signatures  to  the 
petition  for  the  "Sunday  Rest  Law,"  Concert  Exercise  No.  3 
introduced  into  one  Sabbath  School  and  Sunday  Laws  posted  in 
railroad  station. 

Franklin  County  reports  no  superintendent  but  some  work  done. 
One  sermon  preached,  three  public  meetings  held  at  which  Sabbath 
Observance  was  one  of  the  topics. 

Kennebec — Olive  M.  Tuttle,  Augusta,  Supt. :  6,927  pages 
of  literature,  7  sermons,  3  prayer  meetings,  i  address,  248  signatures 
to  petition  for  "Sunday  Rest  Law."  Many  letters  have  been 
written  and  the  public  press  utilized  to  quite  an  extent.  One  paper 
publishes  an  article  every  week.  Sabbath  Observance  has  been 
taught  in  one  Juvenile  society,  is  taken  as  a  topic  often  in  one 
Y.  P.  S.  C.  E. ;  much  personal  work  has  been  done  among  the 
children ;  one  minister  has  arranged  a  Bible  Reading  which  is  to  be 
given  soon.  Augusta  reports  a  legal  protest  has  been  signed  by  the 
president  and  superintendent  and  presented  to  the  proper  persons, 
against  public  amusements  on  the  Sabbath  at  Oakwood  Park  and  in 
the  opera  house.  Also  efforts  have  been  made  to  stop  the  sale 
of  cigars  and  confectionery  on  the  Sabbath. 

Knox  county — Alzira  L.  Crie,  Rockland,  Supt. :  100  pages 
of  literature,  2  manuals,  6  sermons,  54  signatures  to  petition  for  a 
"Sunday  Rest  Law,"  Sabbath  Laws  posted,  all  Unions  without 
superintendents  written  to  and  requested  to  appoint  one,  mayor  and 
city  marshal  written  to  and  urged  to  use  their  authority  to  close  the 
shops  that  are  open  Sunday  mornings,  also  to  prevent  newsboys 
from  crying  and  selling  the  Sunday  papers  on  the  streets.  Manu- 
facturers of  lime  were  requested  to  close  their  kilns  on  the  Sabbath 
last  year,  but  are  still  heedless.  One  popular  pleasure  resort,  where 
thousands  of  excursionists  have  been  in  the  habit  of  going  has  been 
closed  to  the  public  on  Sundays. 

Piscataquis — ^Mrs.  Elsie  E.  Sherburne,  Milo,  Supt. :  500  pages 
of  literature  distributed,  2  sermons  preached,  144  signatures  to 
petition,  press  utilized,  foreign  children  influenced  into  Sunday 
school,  laws  printed  in  local   papers,  boys   riding  on  their  wheels 


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Sunday  were  requested  to  stop  unless  they  could  find  a  place  where 
God  could  not  see  them  and  the  practice  was  given  up.  Every  local 
Union  reported  doing  something. 

Somerset — Mrs.  Julia  Bowdoin,  Ripley,  Supt. :  3,000  pages 
of  literature,  i  sermon,  2  public  meetings,  109  signatures  to  petition 
obtained;  wall  pockets  placed  in  stores  and  Sabbath  laws  and 
other  literature  kept  in  them.  Stores  and  barber  shops  requested  to 
close  on  the  Sabbath  but  with  little  effect.  Public  sentiment,  how- 
ever, more  favorable  than  in  the  past. 

Sagadahoc — ^Mrs.  H.  N.  Jackson,  Bath,  Supt.,  reports:  Petition 
for  a  "Sunday  Rest  Law"  being  circulated,  one  address  given, 
Sabbath    laws  given  to  ministers  and  one  sermon  preached. 

Washington — Mrs.  O.  A.  Curtis,  Addison  Point,  Supt. :  The 
superintendent  of  this  county  has  not  been  heard  from  but  through 
the  kindness  of  Mrs.  Bernard  Rogers,  president,  we  have  been  able 
to  glean  the  following :  635  pages  of  literature  distributed  besides 
many  papers ;  two  public  meetings,  and  one  sermon ;  wall  pockets 
placed  in  stores  and  other  public  places  and  kept  well  filled.  Through 
the  efforts  of  one  Union  several  children  have  been  clothed  and 
brought  into  the  Sunday  School  and  are  working  to  bring  in  more. 

York  county  reports  no  superintendent  but  hopes  to  have  one 
soon.  One  Union  reports  4  sermons,  4  public  meetings',  60  signa- 
tures to  the  Sabbath  Pledge,  public  sentiment  improving  and  Sab- 
bath desecration  diminishing. 

Hancock,  Lincoln,  Oxford,  Penobscot  and  Waldo  counties  not 
heard  from. 

We  wish  to  thank  those  who  have  reported  so  promptly  and  who 
have  done  faithful  work.  Let  each  try  to  enthuse  her  local  superin- 
tendents to  greater  efforts  than  ever  before.  Let  us  all  do  something 
no  matter  how   small  it    seems,  remembering  that  God  giveth  the 

increase. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

(MRS.)  F.  A.  ROLLINS. 

State  Supt'  Dept.  Sabbath  Observance. 


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State  Missionary  Report. 


Madam  President  and  Sisters  of  the  Convention : 

My  firRt  annual  report  of  Missionary  Work  is  respectfully  sub- 
mitted : 

Hancock  county  was  the  first  visited.  Eight  meetings  were  held, 
thirteen  new  members  were  added  to  the  Unions.  Three  homes 
opened  for  homeless  children. 

Piscataquis  was  visited  next.  Eight  meetings  were  held,  full  of 
interest ;  the  work  in  this  county  is  growing.  Later  I  visited  the 
county  again  and  two  new  Unions  were  organized,  one  at  Sanger- 
ville  through  the  faithful  labors  of  the  county  president,  Mrs.  Frank 
Dorr,  president.  The  following  day  I  went  to  Sebec  and  organized 
a  Union  of  fourteen  members,  Mrs.  Morrill,  president.  One  pleas- 
ant feature  of  this  Union  was  that  of  the  young  ladies  coming  in 
with  their  mothers  and  taking  hold  so  earnestly.  Nine  new  mem- 
bers were  added  to  the  Milo  Union  when  the  county  convention  was 
held  there.     Later  on  the  work  was  taken  up  again. 

Penobscot  county :  Mrs  Annie  Viele  Curtis  planned  a  trip 
through  her  county  for  me  just  previous  to  their  county  convention. 
Eighteen  meetings  were  held  here,  new  members  were  added  to  the 
Unions.  The  trip  was  very  pleasant  and  profitable.  An  apple  blos- 
som tea  was  given  at  the  beautiful  home  of  Mrs.  Morrison  at  East 
Corinth,  a  most  social  and  pleasant  gathering.  I  wish  every  Union 
might  give  the  same  when  the  apple  blossoms  come  again.  At 
Hampden  Corner  another  tea  was  given  at  the  home  of  the  president. 
All  the  members  were  present. 

Washington  county  came  next  Here  as  in  other  places,  the 
county  president,  Mrs.  Bernard  Rogers,  had  prepared  a  trip  nearly 
through  her  county ;  fourteen  meetings   were  held,  one  new   Union 


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organized  at  Indian  River,  Mrs.  Salome  Emerson,  president.  New 
members  were  added  to  all  the  Unions  where  afternoon  meetings 
were  held. 

Oxford  county  :  through  the  efforts  of  Mr.  Carver  and  wife,  editor 
of  Rumford  Falls  Times^  I  was  able  to  organize  a  Union,  Mrs.  M. 
H.  Graffam,  president.  A  stage  ride  of  fifty-one  miles  in  this 
county  means  something.  I  arrived  at  Andover  where  Rev.  Mr. 
Norcross  and  wife  gave  me  a  warm  welcome.  He  told  me  he  had  been 
a  pastor  there  for  four  years  and  I  was  the  first  person  he  had  ever 
been  able  to  persuade  to  come  there ;  the  stage  ride  seemed  to 
frighten  them.  The  Lord  blessed  the  effort  made,  and  another  good 
Union  was  organized  with  nineteen  new  sisters.  Bethel  was  next 
visitbd  and  new  members  were  added  to  their  number. 

Again  returning  for  more  work  in  Piscataquis  county,  where 
Mrs.  Getchell  had  prepared  the  way  for  a  trip  through  her  county  to 
organize  new  Unions  and  strengthen  old  ones.  Greenville  first  to 
be  visited ;  new  members  were  added  there.  An  enthusiastic 
"Mother's  Meeting"  was  held  with  the  new  Sangerville  Union  and 
seven  new  members  added ;  one  pleasing  incident  connected  with  this 
meeting  was  a  mother  telling  us  wha't  happened  in  her  home  before 
coming  to  the  meeting.  Her  little  boy  asked  her  if  she  was  not  go- 
ing to  join  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  She  told  him  she  guessed  not,  she 
wanted  to  go  and  hear  Mrs.  Wright  for  she  was  an  old  friend  of 
hers  in  Caribou.  "I  would  if  I  were  you,  for  you  would  count  one 
more,  mamma."  It  is  needless  to  say  I  tied  the  white  ribbon  on  this 
mother  and  friend.  At  Atkinson  the  county  president  joined  me 
and  a  Union  of  thirteen  members  was  organized,  Mrs.  Jennie 
Liftord,  president.  The  pastors  rendered  much  valuable  'assistance 
and  were  in  hearty  sympathy  with  the  work. 

Sunday,  Sept.  23,  Mrs.  Annie  Viele  Curtis  prepared  the  way  for 
my  going  to  Stetson  where  in  the  afternoon  I  met  the  ladies  and  or- 
ganized a  Union,  Mrs.  John  Rogers,  president.  Lectured  to  a  full 
house  in  the  evening  and  received  a  warm  invitation  to  come  again. 

Since  last  Convention  your  State  Missionary  has  held  seventy-two 
meetings,  traveled   about   3,000  miles,   organized   seven  Unions.     I 


8o 

have  a  few  helpful  suggestions  to  offer  that  I  have  been  able  to  glean 
in  my  work.  I  pass  them  on  to  you  hoping  thereby  you  may  be 
helpful  to  others : 

1.  I  have  a  card  that  will  increase  membership  in  local  Unions: 
The  pledge  and  these  words  '*Will  you  not  help  in  this  ivork  by 
giving  your  name  and  membership  fee  even  if  you  cannot  be  an 
active  member?" 

2.  Hearing  the  high  tribute  paid  to  those  who  prepared  the  pro- 
gramme for  the  Star  and  the  great  help  they  have  been  to  our  Unions 
I  would  urge  they  be  continued  ever}'  month  as  a  means  to  keep  up 
the  interest  in  our  local  work. 

3.  I  wish  some  good  strong  Union  upon  hearing  of  a  nex*-  Union 
being  organized  would  at  once  adopt  it  as  their  child  and  send  them 
letters  of  encouragement,  some  Union  Signals  and  our  own  Star 
that  it  mxiy  shine  for  them,  bible  readings  that  you  have  used  and 
laid  by  and  a  few  samples  cf  literature ;  it  will  all  be  a  wonderful  help 
and  encouragement  to  them  just  starting  out,  when  they  feel  they 
know  so  little  of  the  work  you  older  ones  have  been  so  long 
engaged  in. 

4.  I  would  urge  also  that  at  each  annual  meeting  of  our  local 
Unions,  the  president  give  an  annual  address,  as  she  thus  takes  a 
retrospect  of  the  work  done  for  the  year  and  makes  new  suggestions 
for  the  year  to  come;  thus  the  sisters  will  realize  the  work  done  and 
the  possibility  of  doing  more  the  coming  year,  as  in  no  other  way. 

5.  I  would  suggest  Mothers*  Clubs  under  the  auspices  of  the 
W.  C.  T.  U.  conducted  on  the  plan  of  Dr.  Mary  Wood  Allen.  I 
am  sure  they  wouhl  be  very  popular  among  women  who  do  not  care 
to  unite  with  us  and  yet  can  be  helped  by  us. 

6.  I  wish  to  urge  that  each  Union  would  raise  some  money  for 
the  department  of  Securing  Homes  for  Homeless  Children.  This 
department  differs  from  all  others  in  that  it  must  be  fed  and  clothed 
until  such  time  as  a  good  home  can  be  secured  for  the  children.  Let 
us  all  give  something  to  help  on  this  great  work  of  our  state  superin- 
tendent which  has  been  so  manifestly  blessed  by  our  Heavenly  Father. 

In  closing  I  ask,  would  it  not  make  us  better  members,  more  ener- 
getic, more  eager  to  bring  others  to  share  the  pleasures  and  advant- 
ages that  we  feel,  day  by  day  are  leaving  their  marks  on  our  lives  as 


8i 

well  as  on  the  lives  of  others,  if  we  should  give  the  very  best  of 
our  service  to  Christ?  We  should  be  richer  ourselves  by  giving 
more  and  more  to  others,  as  the  months  go  by.  This  beloved 
sisters  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  is  living  and  those  who  miss  this,  miss 
the  secret  of  their  living.  So  many  persons  complain  that  their 
powers  are  so  small,  their  education  and  means  are  so  limited,  they 
cannot  hope  to  be  of  any  use  in  the  world.  Let  such  take  courage. 
No  one  is  so  powerless  that  she  cannot  in  some  way  strengthen  the 
hands  of  another ;  no  one  so  dull  that  she  cannot  help  another  to 
shine ;  no  one's  life  is  so  small  that  she  cannot  make  some  other  life 
greater.  And  in  those  other  lives  which  the  humble  and  earnest 
sister  has  aided  to  build  up  she  will  find  her  own  life  grow  richer 
and  fuller.  Everything  done  for  others,  with  the  desire  of  pleasing 
Christ,  and  helping  humanity,  will  re-act  upon  the  doer,  bringing  to 
her  its  own  satisfaction  and  reward. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

F.  A.  WRIGHT. 

Note. — The  cardd  to  increase  membership  above  referred  to  are  now  ready  and 
can  be  obtained  of  Miss  Alice  B.  Thomas,  Yarmouthville,  Maine,  for  eight  cents  per 
dozen,  post-paid. 


Social  Fhirity. 


Madam  President  and  Sisters  of  the  Convention : 

If  my  report  this  year  fails  to  be  as  good  as  it  should,  it  must  be 
attributed  to  the  extra  work  given  in  a  personal  way  through  the 
state.  I  felt  that  each  co-worker  was  competent  now  to  work  alone 
in  the  several  counties,  and  from  reports  received  I  am  assured  my 
confidence  was  well  grounded.  From  what  I  have  been  able  to  learn 
f  r.om  visiting  Unions  through  the  several  counties  they  are  all  coming 
to  feel  the  need  of  this  department  more  and  more,  and  to  realize 
the  command  of  Christ  "Love  one  another  as  I  have  loved  you"  is 
Christianity  applied.     Obeying  this  command  will  enable  us  all  to  do 


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this  grand  missionary  work,  and  to  inculcate  such  principles  by  faith- 
ful seed  sowing,  as  shall  tell  in  lives  of  those  whom  we  try  to  help. 
The  labor  of  love  in  which  the  sisters  of  this  department  are  en- 
gaged is  far  reaching,  only  Eternit}*  alone  will  reveal  all  the  good 
work  done.  When  we  realize  the  many  temptations  which  allure 
the  young  away  from  the  path  of  right,  we  want  to  reach  every 
mother  in  the  state  with  a  note  of  warning.  Could  mothers  and 
fathers  but  know  and  feel  the  perils  and  dangers  that  surround  their 
children  we  should  not  lack  for  public  sentiment  for  the  right  train- 
ing in  the  schools,  as  well  as  in  the  homes. 

Aroostook  county  has  done  good  work  through  their  missionary, 
Mrs.  Jennie  Seamans,  who  has  spoken  several  times  for  the  Purity 
department. 

Androscoggin  county,  through  their  police  matron  Mrs.  Swett 
of  Auburn  has  been  able  to  do  effective  work  such  as  calls,  distribu- 
tion of  clothing  and  finding  employment  for  women  and  girls. 

Cumberland  county,  through  lectures  and  the  police  matron  at 
Portland,  and  looking  after  the  schools,  has  been  able  to  do  effective 
work  for  the  cause  of  purity. 

Kennebec  county  has  done  its  best  work  through  distribution  of 
literature.  A  poem  by  Mrs.  Long  has  been  written  showing  what 
a  home  should  be,  pure,  and  sweet.  This  poem,  ''Songs  of  a  Home," 
should  be  read  by  all  our  white  ribbon  host. 

Knox  county  :  Reports  having  secured  separate  recesses  in  some 
places  and  the  closing  of  a  disreputable  house.  A  police  matron  has 
been  appointed  at  Rockland. 

Lincoln  county :  Mothers'  Meetings  and  the  distribution  of 
literature. 

Oxford  county :  Keep  helpful  books  in  circulation  and  hold 
Mothers'  Meetings  with  good  results.  The  law  regarding  impure 
books  has  been  enforced  in  the  schools. 

Piscataquis  county  has  done  a  work  that  is  far  reaching.  At  the 
Teachers*  Institute  three  hundred  leaflets  '^Safety  for  School  Chil- 
dren" were  distributed  and  an  exhaustive  purity  lecture  by  W.  W. 
Stetson  of  Auburn  was  given  on  "The  Teacher's  Moral  Responsi- 
bility." 


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Penobscot  county  did  their  most  effective  work  through  their  state 
superintendent  of  this  department  visiting  all  the  Unions,  holding 
Mothers'  Meetings,  and  giving  a  lecture  in  the  evening  for  the 
department. 

Sagadahoc  county  distributed  over  two  thousand  pages  of  literature 
in  towns  where  there  were  no  Unions. 

Washington  county  has  done  a  great  work  this  year  along  the  line 
of  rescuing  girls  from  impure  lives  and  placing  them  in  good  homes 
where  they  are  happy  and  doing  well. 

Waldo  county  superintendent  has  held  Mothers'  Meetings  in  differ- 
ent localities  thereby  reaching  many  mothers.  Let  others  follow  this 
plan. 

•  York  county :  This  county  has  done  most  excellent  work  in  sav- 
ing fallen  girls,  and  much  other  work  that  cannot  be  given  in  reports, 
but  in  the  book  of  retnembrance  a  record  is  kept  and  will  receive  its 
just  reward. 

Mothers'  Meetings  have  been  held  and  more  literature  distributed 
this  year  than  any  preceding  year. 

I  would  still  urge  all  Unions  to  hold  Mothers'  Meetings  as  it  is 
conceded  by  all  to  be  the  most  interesting  meeting.  Each  county 
superintendent  has  been  supplied  with  the  National  plan  of  work, 
also  a  personal  letter  written  to  each,  as  well  as  scores  to  local  sup- 
erintendents. 

There  are  several  books  that  I  trust  the  sisters  in  general  will  avail 
themselves  of;  some  of  them  have  been  reduced  in  price:  "Nine- 
teen Beautiful  Years,"  "Unanswered  Prayer,"  "Childhood,  Its  Care 
and  Culture,"  "Teaching  Truth,"  "Songs  of  a  Home,"  "The 
Great  Mother." 

In  closing  my  report  I  wish  to  say  to  my  co-workers,  go  on  as 
heretofore,  circulating  our  department  literature,  holding  Mothers' 
Meetings,  petition  for  separate  recesses,  and  do  the  best  we  can  every 
way  to  raise  the  standard  of  purity ;  I  would  urge  all  Unions  to 
appoint  superintendents  that  the  work  may  be  carried  on  more 
extensively. 

We  are  glad  to  see  the  faith  of  our  women  in  the  power  of  the 
Gospel  of  Christ  to  save  to  the  uttermost.  Nothing  seems  too  hard 
to  undertake  in  His  name,  none  seem  too  bad  to  be  redeemed  by 


Him.  DO  work  teems  small  or  onimportuil  if  diiecled  by  the  Holj 

Spirit.     Then   kt  ns  give  geoeronslr  of  our  tbougfat*  prayers,  and 

eflon  in  this  important  work  which  oor  Hearcnly  Father   has  been 

pleased  to  own  and  bless. 

*-Ab  am  of  aid  to  tke 
A  fricDdlT  fasBKl  ID  the 


so  flboft  to 
B«t  vkose  cdho  u 


Ther  MOf  be  antfaing,  bat  ther  one  alL* 

Respectfully  submitted, 

F.  A.  WRIGHT, 
Siaie  Supt.  Depi.  of  Purity, 


Scientific  Temperance  Instruction. 


In  bringing  this,  my  fifth  annual  report  to  you,  I  think  [  can 
safely  say  that  more  g^in  has  been  made  during  the  past  year  tlhin 
in  the  four  preceding  years.  Public  sentiment  is  now  quite  generally 
in  favor  of  this  movement  and,  although  we  have  not  reached  our 
ideal  yet,  temp>erance  instruction  is  given  in  nearly  all  the  schools  of 
the  state.  Indifference  and  opposition  have  passed  away.  School 
officers  are  supplying  the  schools  with  better  text  books,  charts,  and 
the  appliances  needed  in  this  branch  of  instruction.  Teachers  are 
seeking  new  and  better  methods ;  where  these  conditions  prevail 
every  child  is  interested  in  his  own  physical  well  being. 

The  children  are  being  taught  enough  anatomy  to  give  them  a 
good  idea  of  structure ;  enough  physiology  to  insure  a  clear  idea  of 
the  use  of  different  organs,  but  the  emphasis  is  placed  upon  the  laws 
of  health  and  morality.  They  are  taught  the  scientific  truth  in  re- 
gard to  the  nature  of  alcohol  and  tobacco ;  and  that  neither  have  any 
place  in  a  well  ordered  life. 

Since  health  is  the  greatest  of  earthly  blessings  both  in  itself  and 
as  a  necessary  means  for  the  discharge  of  the  duties  of  life,  and  this 


85 

same  blessing,  health,  is  largely  in  the  keeping  of  the  individual,  the 
public  school  education  should  include  a  knowledge  of  the  simple 
laws  of  hygiene.  One  natural  science — the  human  body — should 
be  taught  to  every  child  of  grammar  school  age  in  the  state.  This 
study  cannot  be  postponed  until  the  high  school  is  reached,  for  only 
five  per  cent,  of  the  public  school  children  ever  enter  the  high  school. 

The  study  of  temperance  physiology  has  been  made  prominent  in 
the  discussions  of  the  State  and  County  Teachers'  Associations. 

Many  local  Unions  have  sent  the  Temperance  Physiology 
yournaly  published  by  Mrs.  Mary  H.  Hunt,  to  the  teachers  in  their 
respective  towns.  They  have  also  supplied  the  teachers  with  some 
of  the  following  leaflets :  Safety  for  School  Children,  Scientific 
Temperance  Instruction  in  the  Public  Schools,  Teacher  Questioned, 
The  Teacher  Taught,  etc. 

Receptions  have  been  given  to  school  officers  and  teachers,  and 
during  the  evening  there  has  been  a  full  and  free  discussion  of  the 
best  methods  of  teaching  temperance   physiology. 

'  These  efforts  express  interest  in  the   teachers  and  their  work  and 
increase  the  efficiency  of  the  schools. 

If  any  teacher  lacks  a  suitable  text  book  and  will  write  to  Mrs. 
Mary  H.  Hunt,  23  Trull  St.,  Boston,  describing  her  school,  Mrs. 
Hunt  will  have  the  publisher  send  to  that  teacher  the  most  suitable 
book,  free  of  charge. 

Dear  women,  do  be  more  active  in  this  department.  The  work 
for  the  children  is,  without  any  question,  the  most  important,  and 
most  hopeful  branch  of  our  work.  Let  us  strive  to  double  the  effi- 
ciency of  this  department  in  the  coming  year. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

MRS.  G.  F.  FRENCH. 


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Temperance  Literature. 


Madam  President  and  Sisters  of  the  Convention  : 

It  is  with  interest  and  pleasure  we  hear  each  superintendent  say 
her  department  is  of  more  importance  than  that  of  others,  and  in 
listening  to  them  we  feel  as  we  hear  each,  surely  that  is  the  most  im- 
portant. How  our  hearts  are  stirred  when  we  hear  the  report  of  the 
superintendent  for  Securing  Homes  for  Homeless  Children,  and  how 
glad  we  are  that  we  have  such  a  department.  Then  when  we  hear 
of  the  terrible  evils  of  Narcotics  among  our  young  boys  and  girls  too, 
we  are  so  thankful  that  good  work  is  done  to  help  them  overcome 
the  terrible  appetite,  and  that  there  is  a  law  to  punish  offenders  who 
will  for  money  drag  these  young  souls  down  to  misery  and  death. 

We  might  go  on  through  all  the  list  of  departments  and  say  each 
was  of  so  much  importance  we  could  not  think  of  giving  it  up,  and 
yet,  my  sisters,  I  trust  I  may  not  be  considered  egotistic  when  I  say 
I  think  my  department  the  most  important  of  all. 

Is  not  knowledge  the  foundation  of  all  our  plans  of  work,  and 
how  can  we  work  if  we  are  not  informed,  and  how  can  we 
become  informed  if  we  do  not  read,  and  how  can  we  read 
if  we  do  not  provide  ourselves  with  the  books  and  literature 
which  are  published  for  just  this  purpose.?  What  is  the  Word  of 
God  to  those  who  have  no  interest  to  read  it?  How  can  they  obey 
its  divine  commands  if  they  know  them  not,  and  what  are  the 
promises  of  God  to  them  if  they  have  never  heard  them?  I  find 
such  exhortations  as  these  in  the  Book  of  Books — Paul  says  to 
Timothy,  *'  'Till  I  come  give  attendance  to  reading:**  Isaiah 
says,  "Seek  ye  out  of  the  book  of  the  Lord  and  read;**  and  in 
Revelations  we  have  these  words,  ''Blessed  is  he  that  readeth** 

So  it  seems  to  us,  if  all  these  various  departments  of  workers  had 
not  the  literature  they  need  to  assist  them  in  carrying  on  this  work, 
do  you  think  as  much  would  be  accomplished  by  them?  Who 
knows  the  power  of  one  little  leaflet  sent  out  in  a  letter  to  a  thinking 


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mind,  or  the  great  good  of  the  sending  into  darkened  homes  those 
books  and  papers  which  contain  the  bread  of  life  to  some  poor  one 
who  would  not  have  it  only  for  the  kindness  of  the  workers  of  our 
W.  C.  T.  U.  So  I  would  emphasize  what  has  already  been  said 
by  urging  each  and  every  superintendent,  whether  county  or  local, 
to  endeavor  to  do  more  in  the  coming  year  than  in  the  past,  so  that 
every  county  may  be  reported  when  we  gather  in  Convention  again. 

Androscoggin  county:  Livermore  Falls  reports  1051  pages  of 
literature  distributed,  have  a  box  at  railroad  station,  5  copies  of 
Union  Signal  taken  and  12  copies  of  Young  Crusader.  Have 
expended  quite  an  amount  for  literature.  Auburn  Union,  did  good 
work  at  State  Fair,  kept  wall  pockets  filled.  Lewiston,  Greene  and 
Turner  all  report  much  work  done  in  this  department,  but  fail  to 
give  the  amount. 

Aroostook  county :  The  superintendent  herself  distributed  4025 
pages  of  literature,  and  much  good  known  to  have  been  accomplished 
even  by  the  reading  of  one  leaflet.  Almost  every  Union  in  the  county 
has  done  some  work.  If  the  superintendents  would  only  keep  an 
accurate  account  of  work  done,  how  much  more  credit  would  the 
county  receive.  Dear  sisters,  be  faithful  in  the  little  things.  Houlton 
reports,  have  boxes  at  railroad  stations  and  grocery  stores,  distributed 
700  pages  of  literature  beside  many  copies  of  Union  Signal,  36 
copies  of  Star  in  the  East,  and  6  of  Y  Crusader.  Have  expended 
$13.00  for  literature  during  the  year. 

Cumberland  county  :  We  know  a  large  amount  of  literature  has 
been  used.  Portland  has  45  subscribers  to  Union  Signal  and  keeps 
a  box  filled  with  literature  at  railroad  station,  has  a  nucleus  for  a 
library  in  its  Union,  and  circulates  literature  at  public  meetings. 

Hancock  county :  Ellsworth  has  two  wall  pockets  which  they 
keep  filled  and  also  distributed  literature  at  the  County  Fair  and  jail. 
Brooklin  Union  has  five  pockets  which  are  kept  filled  with  temper- 
ance literature,  also  given  away  a  large  number  of  papers.  Tremont 
Union  keeps  three  pockets  filled  and  distributed  a  large  amount  of 
temperance  literature. 

Franklin  county  :  County  president  knew  a  large  amount  of  liter- 
ature had  been  distributed.  They  were  to  report  in  time  for  our 
State  Minutes  but  not  in  season  for  National — procrastination. 


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Kennebec  county :  County  president  feels  sure  that  thousands  of 
pages  of  literature  have  been  distributed.  They  have  published  a 
souvenir  the  past  year  containing  a  page  concerning  each  depart- 
ment, a  greeting  from  the  county  president,  and  of  this  souvenir 
looo  copies  have  been  distributed  through  the  county,  thus  acquaint- 
ing the  public  with  the  work. 

Knox  county :  Thomaston  and  Camden  have  done  some  work. 
Warren,  distributed  2,402  pages  of  literature.  Rockland,  distributed 
100  copies  of  the  Neal  Dow  Union  Signal,  have  sent  papers  to  jail 
and  Marine  Hospital,  18  copies  Union  Signal  taken.  Spruce  Head, 
keep  3  wall  pockets  filled,  circulated  much  literature,  4  copies  Sig- 
nal, 12  Star  in  the  East,  12  YCrusader,  10  Anti-Tobacco  Gem  taken. 
Rockport,  distributed  1,716  pages  on  board  of  vessels  leaving  that 
port,  3  copies  Union  Signal,  6  Star  in  the  East  taken. 

Penobscot,  Oxford,  and  Lincoln  counties,  no  report. 

Piscataquis  county  :  Literature  has  been  distributed  at  the  fairs 
and  many  leaflets  and  other  literature  pertaining  to  Scientific  Tem- 
perance Instruction  have  been  distributed  in  the  schools.  At  the 
Teachers'  Assembly  at  Foxcroft  300  leaflets  on  "Safety  for  School 
Children/'  200  of  the  "House  on  the  Sand,"  and  several  hundred  in 
difTerent  leaflets  on  the  "Evils  of  Nicotine  and  the  Cigarette  Law. 
Barrels  of  literature  have  been  sent  to  the  lumber  camps.  Shirley, 
reports,  keep  a  box  filled  with  temperance  literature  at  railroad  sta- 
tion, have  circulated  many  copies  of  papers ;  three  copies  of  Union 
Signal  taken. 

Sagadahoc  county  :  Bath  reports  2023  pages  of  literature  circu- 
lated through  the  railroad  station  boxes  and  700  pages  through  the 
church  the  evening  of  Gen.  Dow's  birthday. 

Somerset  county :  North  Anson  reports,  "more  literature  dis- 
tributed the  past  year  than  any  previous  year  since  we  organized," 
especially  in  the  departments  of  Narcotics  and  Purity,  supplied  one 
lumber  camp  during  the  winter,  also  furnished  teachers  with  Monthly 
Advices  and  Department  Leaflets.  North  New  Portland,  have  dis- 
tributed Timely  Talks  and  Leaflets  among  young  people.  Madison, 
keep  5  wall  pockets  filled  with  good  reading,  have  distributed  a  large 
amount  of  tracts  and  leaflets.  Ripley,  have  put  Monthly  Advices 
into  every  school  in  town,  subscribed  for  15  Y  Crusaders  and  sent 


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into  as  many  families;  have  distributed  leaflets  in  Sunday  schools 
and  churches.  Keep  three  wall  pockets  filled  with  literature.  East 
St.  Albans,  subscribed  for  9  copies  of  Y  Crusader  and  sent  into  fami- 
lies having  children,  also  12  copies  of  Monthly  Advices  for  our 
teachers.  Many  leaflets  distributed.  St.  Albans,  take  16  copies  of 
Temperance  Banner  for  poor  children,  also  Monthly  Advices  for 
teachers.  Shawmut,  have  subscribed  for  4  copies  of  Y  Crusader 
and  5  copies  of  Star  in  the  East  for  families  outside  the  Union.  Sent 
good  reading  to  4  camps  during  the  winter  and  keep  i  wall  pocket 
filled.  Distributed  a  great  amount  of  literature.  47  copies  of  Union 
Signal,  65  copies  of  Star  in  the  East,  54  copies  of  Young  Crusader, 
and  16  copies  of  Temperance  Banner  taken  in  the  county. 

Waldo  county;  Waldo  circulated  1000  pages  of  literature, 
expended  $6.60  for  same.  Swanville  distributed  225  pages,  Belfast 
600  pages,  Searsmont  500  pages,  beside  books,  magazines  and  papers 
loaned,  total  2,325  pages;  16  copies  of  Union  Signal  taken  in  the 
county.  The  reading  of  one  Signal  in  Searsmont  caused  one  man  to 
think  about  voting  for  prohibition.  The  Signal  is  read  every  week 
at  the  Grange  meeting,  and  a  minister  received  a  year's  subscription 
as  a  Christmas  gift. 

Washington  county  :  Calais  superintendent  reports :  Have  wall 
pockets  in  Columbia  saloon  and  barber  shop  which  are  kept  supplied 
with  temperance  papers  and  leaflets.  Have  used  250  Union  Signals, 
500  leaflets,  and  other  temperance  literature.  These  have  been 
placed  in  packages  for  sailors  and  used  in  the  jail.  Poor  families 
have  had  papers  given  them.  Millbridge,  literature  has  been  dis- 
tributed at  every  public  meeting,  (and  they  have  had  quite  a  number) 
also  sent  to  teachers  to  be  given  to  scholars.  A  large  amount  has 
been  lefl  in  barber  shops,  stores  and  lawyers'  offices,  leaflets  have 
been  placed  in  Sunday  school  books  and  in  letters  to  young  people, 
8  copies  of  Signal  taken. 

York  county:  A  large  amount  of  literature  circulated.  Grove- 
ville  141  pages,  Cornish  1000  beside  a  large  box,  Springvale  10,000 
pages ;  Kennebunk  has  sent  out  a  number  of  barrels,  South  Ber- 
wick, Sanford  and  West  Lebanon  a  large  amount. 

SUSAN  J.  FERNALD. 


Purity  in  Literature  and  Art« 


That  the  work  of  this  department  deserves  the  attention  and 
demands  the  co-operation  of  every  white  ribboner  ^^goes  without 
saying ;"  when  we  remember  that  22^00,000  youthful  souls  in  our 
institutions  of  learning  need  to  be  defended  from  the  moral  ^^pesti- 
lence that  walketh  in  darkness"  and  in  daylight,  to  contaminate,  de- 
grade and  destroy  them.  The  wonder  is  that  so  few  of  our  local 
Unions  are  ready  to  engage  in  this  work  when  it  is  needed  so  much, 
everywhere.  As  Anthony  Comstock  says  in  his  last  report :  ^^New 
devices  to  defraud  are  invented ;  new  schemes  to  disseminate  vilest 
things  for  gain  constantly  started ;  new  inventions  to  outwit  parent 
and  teacher  and  strike  a  fatal  stab  at  the  fountain  of  moral  purity  in 
the  youth  of  this  nation  continually  floats  to  the  surface,  and  unless 
the  Almighty  shall  send  deliverance,  will  inevitably  bring  this  nation 
down  into  the  dust." 

That  the  majority  of  people  are  deaf,  dumb  and  blind  to  many  of 
the  evils  that  are  in  the  world,  is  true ;  yet  slowly  but  surely  some 
are  having  "the  arrest  of  thought"  concerning  the  pestiferous  things 
we  seek  to  suppress.  A  correct  public  sentiment  regarding  the 
forms  of  vice  we  antagonize,  is  necessary  before  we  can  hope  to 
secure  the  extermination  of  these  evils. 

Only  a  few  of  the  county  superintendents  have  reported,  hence  it 
is  not  possible  to  give  an  accurate  account  of  the  work  done  the 
past  year ;  yet  I  believe,  in  a  quiet  way,  more  has  been  accom- 
plished than  in  any  year  since  this  department  came  into  being. 

Aroostook  county — Mrs.  Mary  E.  Bumpus,  Supt.,  reports  a 
thousand  pages  department  literature  distributed  since  she  was  ap- 
pointed, last  April,  and  repeated  efforts  to  get  each  local  Union  to 
take  up  this  work. 

Miss  Kate  W.  Spinney  of  Sagadahoc  county  reports  increased 
interest  and  good  work  done. 

Waldo  county  has  a  faithful,  earnest  co-worker  in  Mrs.  Sarah  W. 
Bicknell  of  Belfast.     "When  helpers  fail"  she  does  the  work  herself 


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and  reports  ^^1200  pages  literature  distributed,  sermons  by  the 
pastors,  etc.,  much  personal  work  done."  Her  report  is  a  model 
for  county  superintendents. 

Washington  county :  Mrs.  Geo.  H.  Cleaves  reports  increased  in- 
terest and  good  work  done.  In  several  cases  sickness  or  absence 
from  the  state  has  hindered  the  work.  Several  local  superintendents 
have  sent  reports  of  work  done  that  will  purify  and  bless  their 
respective  towns. 

To  close,  I  quote  from  Mrs.  Bicknell's  report:  "Your  superin- 
tendent has  come  to  the  conclusion  that  the  work  is  too  great  to  be 
done  by  the  few.  Parents  must  stand  guard  at  their  own  homes, 
lest  anything  that  defiles  enters  its  doors.  Never  has  such  literature 
been  so  widely  diffused  as  at  the  present  time.  The  boy  is  father  to 
the  man.  If  youth  becomes  contaminated  what  may  we  expect  but 
blighted  manhood  and  womanhood.  We  shield  our  children  from 
bad  company  ;  are  we  as  careful  to  keep  from  our  homes  all  that  is 
deleterious  in  the  way  of  literature,  pictures,  etc.  ?  What  the  eyes 
dwell  on  and  what  the  intellectual  faculties  absorb  in  the  home  has 
much  to  do  with  our  after  life." 

Respectfully  submitted, 

MRS.  AMELIA  L.  PAGE. 


Flower  Mission    Worlc. 


Madam  President  and  Members  of  the  Convention : 

This  year  thirteen  counties  have  reported  in  regard  to  Flower 
Mission  Work.  From  the  reports  it  has  been  found  that  over 
4,000  bouquets  have  been  distributed  and  that  to  nearly  all  of  these 
text  cards  have  been  attached  by  white  ribbon.  Through  these 
efforts  many  have  signed  the  pledge.  Following  is  the  summary 
of  the  work  done  as  far  as  reported : 

Androscoggin  county :  The  Auburn  Union  has  distributed  flowers 
to  the  sick,  the  county  jail,  and  Old  Ladies'  Home.      Chase's  Mills 


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Union  has  sent  flowers  to  the  almshouse,  sick  and  ^  ^shut-ins." 
At  Greene  flowers  were  furnished  for  Memorial  Day  and  the  church 
decorated  for  public  temperance  meetings.  The  committee  at 
Livermore  Falls  has  furnished  flowers  for  funerals.  The  superin- 
tendent at  Lewiston  has  distributed  about  200  bouquets  to  the  sick 
and  suffering.  On  the  8th  of  June  the  almshouse  was  visited  and 
fifty  bouquets  left.  At  Mechanic  Falls  they  have  carried  flowers 
and  fruit  to  the  sick  and  sewed  for  the  needy.  At  Sabattus  flowers 
have  been  sent  to  the  church  each  Sabbath,  to  the  sick,  and  the 
hospital  at  Lewiston. 

Aroostook  county  reports  450  bouquets  and  floral  offerings  dis- 
tributed. The  jails  and  almshouses  have  been  visited  and  many 
delicacies  have  been  carried  to  the  poor  and  sick. 

Cumberland  county :     Brunswick  observed  Flower  Mission  Day. 
They  have  carried   flowers   to   the    sick   and  furnished   them   for 
funerals,  also  distributed  a  number  of  tracts.     Cumberland  Mills, 
many  flowers  were  sent  in  the  name  of  the  Union.     Newhall  sent 
70  bouquets,  also   many  boxes  of  fruit  and  other  delicacies  to  the 
poor  and  sick.     Peaks  Island,  flowers  sent  to  the  hotel,  if  any  sick 
there,  churches  supplied  and  flowers  furnished  for  funerals.     White 
Rock   supplied   the   churches    and   sick   with   flowers.     Windham 
supplied  flowers  for  three  funerals,  sent  many  bouquets  to  the  sick 
on   Flower  Mission   Day.     Held   a   mass   meeting   in   memory  of 
Jennie  Casseday  and  a  public  lecture  in  the  evening.     Westbrook  Y's 
have  sent  50  bouquets,  supplied  flowers  for  three  funerals ;  also  sent 
fruit  and  other  delicacies  to  a  little  child.    Portland,  Flower  Mission 
Day  was  observed  by  visiting  the  jail  and  Reform  School.      The 
number  of    bouquets   distributed  reached    1,400.      This   does   not 
include  the  numbers  of  loose  flowers  which  have  been  given  out  as 
circumstances  would  permit.     Potted  plants  have  been  carried,  also 
over  900  papers  and  magazines;  200  packages  of  fruit  have  been 
sent  to  the  sick  and  poor. 

Franklin  county :  Farmington  Union  observed  Flower  Mission 
Day  by  sending  flowers  to  the  sick,  and  to  those  in  jail ;  a  service 
was  held  there  by  the  Union  and  the  music  was  furnished  by  the 
pupils  of  the  Normal  school.  North  Jay  observed  the  Casseday 
Memorial  Day. 


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Kennebec  county :  China  Union  reports  lOO  bouquets  with  text 
cards  attached  sent  to  the  sick  and  aged.  Flowers  furnished  at 
funerals  and  on  Memorial  Day.  An  invalid  Sabbath  school  teacher 
in  North  China  has  received  493  pages  of  literature,  also  100  scrip- 
ture text  cards.  Gardiner  reports  135  calls  on  the  sick  and 
*'shut-ins,"  32  bouquets  distributed,  with  a  few  text  cards  used. 
Fruit,  also  many  other  articles  were  carried  twelve  times.  Flower 
Mission  Day  observed  by  decorating  the  church  and  distributing 
flowers.  South  China  reports  about  30  bouquets  distributed  by  the 
superintendent  herself,  besides  what  others  have  done.  Many 
delicacies  have  been  sent  to  the  sick,  and  72  pages  of  literature 
distributed.  North  Vassalboro  Union  has  visited  many  sick. 
25  bouquets  with  scripture  text  cards  attached  have  been  distributed 
during  the  season.  The  number  of  bouquets  sent  by  the  Vassalboro 
Union  reached  forty. 

Nearly  all  the  Unions  of  Knox  county  united  in  making  bouquets 
for  the  prison  Flower  Mission  Day  which  occurred  in  June,  on 
which  occasion  the  prisoners  were  addressed  by  Mrs.  Helen  Bullock 
of  Elmira,  New  York.  Rockland  sent  many  bouquets  to  the  sick 
and  "shut-ins,"  also  the  jail  and  hospital.  Spruce  Head  Union  has 
furnished  1 16  bouquets  for  the  chapel,  sent  in  cream  and  cake  to  the 
sick,  and  on  Jennie  Casseday's  birthday  sent  flowers  with  white 
ribbon  and  text  cards  attached.  Thomaston,  one  or  more  members 
of  the  Union  visit  the  prison  every  Sabbath  and  carry  many  papers 
to  the  inmates. 

Lincoln  county :  Bremen  Union  reports  sick  visited  and  25  bou- 
quets distributed.  Damariscotta  has  done  some  work.  Waldoboro 
has  sent  30  bouquets  to  the  sick  and  aged ;  June  9th  they  sent  a  box 
of  flowers  to  Thomaston.  During  the  winter  16  poor  families  were 
visited  and  250  garments  distributed,  also  $5  spent  in  their  relief. 
Six  floral  pieces  have  been  furnished  at  funerals  and  the  church  has 
been  decorated. 

Oxford  county :  Oxford,  flowers  have  been  distributed  to  the 
sick,  aged,  and  to  funerals.  Norway,  since  the  county  convention 
in  May  flowers  have  been  sent  to  the  sick,  "shut-ins,"  flower  pieces 
have  been  furnished  for  funerals,  June  9th  memorial  pieces  were 
sent  to  the  churches,  and  flowers  to  all  sick ;  all  new-bom  babies 


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have  been  supplied  with  bouquets.  Brownfield,  flowers  have  been 
sent  to  the  sick,  bouquets  to  young  babies,  and  flowers  to  the  Maine 
General  Hospital  at  Portland  and  a  p^rt  of  the  time  flowers  have 
been  provided  for  the  church.  Bethel,  each  new-bom  babe  has 
received  a  bouquet,  flowers  have  been  carried  to  the  family  after 
death  of  friends,  flowers,  fruit,  confectionery  and  pai>ers  have 
been  sent  to  the  poor-farm,  and  bouquets  have  been  sent  to  many 
sick  ones.  The  church  was  decorated  at  the  prize  contest  of  the 
Loyal  Temi>erance  Legion. 

Penobscot  county :  Has  eight  Flower  Missions;  215  bouquets 
have  been  distributed ;  flowers  have  been  sent  for  funerals ;  much 
clothing  has  been  g^ven  out. 

Sagadahoc  count)' :  Bath  observed  Flower  Mission  Day  by 
visiting  the  almshouse  with  bouquets.  Much  has  been  done  for 
those  needing  company,  reading,  delicacies  and  flowers. 

Waldo  county :  Belfast  Union  June  9th  held  services  in  the  jail 
and  at  almshouse ;  bouquets  with  text  cards  attached  were  given  out. 
The  sick  and  aflflicted  were  also  visited  on  that  day ;  35  bouquets 
were  distributed  in  all.  Searsmont  reports  25  bouquets  given. 
Waldo,  70  bouquets  have  been  carried  to  the  sick  and  **shut-ins ;" 
flowers  have  been  furnished  for  funerals. 

Washington  county :  Cherryfield  Union  has  visited  the  sick, 
carried  fruit  and  other  delicacies.  June  9th  was  observed  by 
carrying  60  bouquets  to  the  almshouse  and  visiting  the  sick ; 
105  bouquets  with  text  cards  carried  during  the  year.  Jonesport 
observed  Flower  Mission  Day;  17  bouquets  were  distributed. 
Harrington  also  observed  June  9th  by  visiting  the  sick.  This  work 
has  been  carried  on  during  the  summer.  Machias  observed  Prison 
Day;  16  large  bouquets  with  text  cards  attached  were  carried  to 
the  jail. 

York  county  :  Cornish  furnished  flowers  for  sick  and  for  funerals, 
helped  decorate  soldiers*  graves  Memorial  Day,  also  furnished 
flowers  for  the  church.  Kennebunk  reports  flowers  given  to  the 
sick  and  **shut  ins."  Thirty  bouquets  at  least  given  away,  some 
furnished  for  funerals,  also  hall  decorated  for  Temperance  Lectures. 
Groveville  Y*s  obser\'ed  Flower  Mission  Day  by  visiting  the  Indus- 
trial Farm  in  Buxton.     Since  then  bouquets  and  food  have  been  car- 


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ried  to  the  sick.  The  churches  have  been  supplied  with  flowers. 
South  Berwick  Y's  have  distributed  175  bouquets,  plants  and  bulbs. 
They  had  entire  charge  of  decorating  soldiers'  graves  Memorial  Day 
besides  presenting  each  veteran  with  a  small  bouquet.  Also  had 
charge  of  decorating  churches  for  Temperance  Lectures.  Food 
has  been  furnished  to  the  sick. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

EDITH  E.  LIBBY. 


Temperance  Work  at  Fairs. 


Madam  President  and  Sisters  of  the  Convention : 

My  flrst  annual  report  which  I  herewith  submit  is  necessarily 
somewhat  incomplete  as  I  have  received  reports  from  only  ten 
counties. 

Nearly  all  send  favorable  reports  either  of  work  done  or  condi- 
tions which  seemed  to  make  work  unnecessary.  My  personal 
observation  has  shown  that  the  people  attending  Fairs  are  much  more 
orderly  than  in  former  years.  The  Fair  oflUcials  are  generally 
courteous  and  obliging  and  ready  to  assist  in  our  work. 

Androscoggin  county:  The  %Supt.  reports,  that  last  year  their 
county  did  grandly,  distributing  more  literature  at  fairs  than  any 
other  county  in  the  state.  Sabattus  furnished  2000  pages  of  Beer, 
Cider  and  Tobacco  leaflets.  Mechanic  Falls  gave  500  pages  and 
funds  for  purchasing  a  similar  amount  for  this  year's  distribution. 
Auburn  gave  500  pages  and  several  copies  of  the  Union  Signal. 

Much  encouragement  was  derived  from  personal  conversation  with 
ladies  concerning  our  W.  C.  T.  U.  department  work ;  they  mani- 
fested great  interest  and  some  promised,  and  have  since  become 
members  of   Unions  in   diflerent  localities.      The  Lewiston   and 


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Auburn  Unions  served  hot  meals  and  lunches  during  the  State 
Fair ;  Poland  Spring  water  was  free  to  all.  Other  Unions  in  the 
county  report  good  work  done   and  much  interest  manifested. 

From  Aroostook  county,  in  answer  to  our  request  for  a  report, 
came  the  sad  intelligence  of  the  death  of  our  superintendent  of  this 
department,  Mrs.  J.  C.  Smith. 

Cumberland  county  sends  a  most  encouraging  report :  Permis- 
sion being  granted  by  the  board  of  directors,  a  county  tent  was 
erected  on  the  Fair-grounds  at  Gorham,  which  was  tastily 
decorated  and  across  the  top  these  mottoes :  ''National  Prohibition" 
and  ''The  Saloon  Must  Go,"  under  that  the  letters  W.  C.  T.  U. 
There  were  distributed  2000  papers,  300  Beer,  Cider,  Tobacco  and 
Woman  Suffrage  leaflets.  Lunch  was  served  and  cold  water  free. 
Liberal  contributions  for  the  tent  were  received  from  many  Unions 
in  the  county  and  valuable  assistance  rendered  In  closing  the 
superintendent  says  :  "It  was  a  very  noticeable  fact  that  our  efforts 
were  appreciated  by  the  better  class  of  people  who  spoke  many 
words  of  encouragement." 

Franklin  county  :  At  their  county  Fair  the  trustees  gave  the  Union 
a  corner  of  the  hall  where  fancy  articles  were  exhibited,  which  they 
made  as  attractive  as  possible,  and  from  which  they  distributed 
temperance  literature,  including  the  Fair  number  of  the  Star,  As 
there  was  a  lack  of  water  on  the  Fair-grounds  last  year,  this  year 
they  procured  two  water  barrels  placing  them  at  points  most  fre- 
quented by  the  crowds  and  kept  them  filled  with  ice  water.  Also 
used  their  influence  in  preventing  the  sale  of  cider,  beer  and 
stronger  drinks. 

Knox  county :  We  were  sorry  to  learn  of  a  Union  failing  to 
obtain  a  place  on  any  of  our  Fair-grounds.  Our  superintendent 
writes  they  were  unable  to  do  so  at  the  North  Knox  County  Fair 
held  at  Union. 

Lincoln  county  :  The  superintendent  writes  that  their  Union  has 
not  taken  up  the  work  of  this  department.  One  Fair  in  the  county 
at  Damariscotta. 

Oxford  county  :  Mrs.  Holden,  Supt.,  reports  the  distribution  of 
nearly  4000  pages  of  temperance  literature  by  the  different  Unions, 
consisting  of  Timely  Talks,  Signal  Lights,  National  Leaflets  and 
the  Star. 


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Penobscot  county :  The  superintendent  reports  the  distribution  of 
literature  at  the  Eastern  Maine  Fair.  The  sale  of  intoxicants  is 
strictly  prohibited.  Mrs.  A.  V.  Curtis,  the  county  president, 
reported  personal  work  done  at  the  County  Fair  at  Exeter  which 
contains  so  many  helpful  suggestions  that  were  space  allowed  j 
would  present  it  entire,  but  can  only  include  a  few  extracts :  *'See- 
ing  how  few  stopped  to  examine  or  take  our  printed  matter  which 
was  tastily  arranged  on  a  table  inside  the  building,  we  took  a 
number  of  well  selected  leaflets  and  going  outside  distributed 
several  hundred  to  as  many  men  and  boys  who  scarcely  went  inside 
the  building  and  had  they  done  so  would  probably  not  have  taken 
our  literature,  but  meeting  them  on  the  ground  right  in  the  midst 
of  things  many  were  surprised  into  a  pleasant  bow  or  'thank  you.' " 
She  also  suggests  that  at  our  town  meetings  this  same  work  might 
be  effectually  done,  always  securing  beforehand  attractive  and 
instructive  reading  matter.  I  trust  these  suggestions  may  be 
helpful  to  Unions  in  our  rural  villages  where  our  workers  often  feel 
discouraged  because  there  is  so  little  they  can  do. 

Piscataquis  county,  as  in  former  years,  distributed  many  temper- 
ance leaflets,  lOO  copies  of  the  Star  and  several  copies  of  the 
Union  Signal,  The  temperance  sentiment  of  the  people  who 
attend  our  Fairs  is  better  shown  perhaps  by  the  following  item  from 
our  local  reporter :  '*The  Fair  of  the  Piscataquis  Central  Agricul- 
tural Society  was  one  of  the  quietest  and  most  orderly  I  have  ever 
witnessed  ;  there  was  absolutely  no  rowdy  element  present.  No 
gambling  games  were  carried  on,  and  no  evidence  whatever  of 
intoxicating  liquors  was  seen  by  the  writer.  Temperance  drinks 
were  on  sale.  Ice  water  was  on  the  grounds  to  be  had  by  all  who 
wished.  The  three  other  fairs  held  in  the  county  are  reported  to 
have  been  very  orderly." 

Sagadahoc  county :  Mrs.  Carey  of  Bath  writes  of  the  County 
Fair  at  Topsham.  She  enlisted  two  faithful  workers  and  nearly 
2000  pages  of  literature  were  distributed  comprising  those  on  beer, 
cider,  tobacco  and  social  purity,  also  loo  copies  of  the  Union 
Signal  2^^^  150  of  the  Toung  Crusader, 

Cherryfield  Union  (Washington  county)  reports  since  1890  they 
have  realized  $350  from  work  on  their  Fair-ground* 


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As  this  work  can  be  carried   on   with   little  expense   let   every 
Union  this  year  lend  a  helping  hand  in  Temperance  Work  at  Fairs. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

(MRS.)  EDITH  N.  OAKES, 

State  Supt,  Dept.  of  Temperance  Work  at  JFatrs. 


Legislation  and  Petition. 


Madam  President  and  Sisters: 

Another  year  has  gone  and  we  meet  again  in  convention,  to 
review  the  work  that  has  been  done.  One  bright  writer  has  said, 
''Things  got  along  very  well,  before  women  were  allowed  to  com- 
plain." Since  their  remonstrances  against  the  unequal  distribution 
of  the  good  things  of  life  have  been  heard,  very  great  evils  have  been 
brought  to  light,  many  of  them  have  been  remedied  and  the  outlook 
for  improvement  all  along  the  line  is  very  encouraging.  This  has 
been  the  ''off  year  ;'*  no  sessions  of  the  legislature  having  been  held 
there  has  not  been  so  much  work  done,  as  you  will  find  awaiting 
you  the  coming  }ear.  We  find  the  Unions  have  not  been  idle. 
Every  county  but  two  has  been  heard  from.  Twelve  counties  have 
superintendents  of  this  department,  others  promise  to  appoint  them. 

Androscoggin  county  has  a  superintendent,  and  most  of  the  local 
Unions  have  superintendents  classingFranchise  and  Petition  together 
with  Legislative  work.  In  Auburn  the  white  ribbon  sisters  circulated 
a  petition  askmg  that  a  police  matron  be  appointed  by  the  city, 
which  petition  was  granted. 

Aroostook  promises  to  have  a  superintendent  this  year.  They 
have  done  good  work. 

Cumberland,  Mrs.  S.  E.Grant,  superintendent,  writes:  "Three 
hundred  and  eight  more  names  added  to  the  World's  petition.  West- 
brook  circulated  a  petition  which  was  presented  to  the  mayor,  con- 
cerning local  temperance  matter,  which  received  330  signatures." 


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Franklin  is  still  looked  after  by  Mrs.  Beedy,  and  we  are  assured 
that  its  interests  will  not  suffer. 

Hancock  has  a  faithful  and  efficient  leader  in  Mrs.  A.  F.  Greely. 
She  says,  "I  was  in  it  before  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  saw  the  light  and  as 
long  as  I  live  shall  keep  at  it." 

Kennebec,  superintendent  Mrs.  H.  J.  Bailey,  reports  one  city 
Union  as  having  made  efforts  to  suppress  the  liquor  traffic,  but  the 
results  were  not  satisfactory.  Sabbath  Observance  laws  have  been 
enforced.  Have  tried  to  enforce  the  law  in  regard  to  selling  cigarettes 
to  minors.  The  W.  C.  T.  U.  caused  two  men  to  be  arrested  and 
brought  to  justice,  one  for  selling  cider,  one  for  driving  and  cruelly 
beating  his  horses  while  intoxicated. 

Knox,  Mrs.  A.  E.  Bradford,  superintendent,  reports  that  there 
has  been  much  effort  made  to  enforce  the  law  and  to  close  up  places 
where  liquor  was  sold. 

Penobscot,  superintendent  Mrs.  E.  R.  Horton,  reports  no  work 
done. 

Piscataquis  has  a  superintendent,  Mrs.  E.  D.  Straw,  but  sent  no 
report. 

Lincoln  has  no  superintendent,  but  some  work  has  been  done  in 
circulating  petitions. 

Oxford  was  not  heard  from. 

Somerset :  The  president  report^  that  the  Unions  have  been  at 
work.  Men  have  been  prosecuted  and  convicted  and  fined  for 
liquor  selling.  Arrests  have  been  made  for  search  and  seizures ; 
three  were  hotel  keepers  who  closed  their  doors  to  the  public.  The 
white  ribboners  opened  a  temperance  hotel  and  secured  pledges  from 
more  than  sixty  prominent  persons  who  signed  a  contract  to  support 
the  women  and  if  necessary  to  open  their  own  homes  for  the  accom- 
modation of  guests. 

Waldo  county.  Miss  Emily  F.  Miller,  superintendent,  writes : 
''Petition  for  municipal  suffrage  received  which  will  be  circulated 
this  fall.*' 

Washington,  Mrs.  Lottie  C.  Gary,  a  new  superintendent,  wrote  for 
Petition  and  Plan  of  the  Work  and  we  may  expect  to  hear  from  her 
another  year. 


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York  county  also  has  a  new  superintendent,  £.  J.  Crowell.  The 
Plan  of  Work  of  the  National  department  of  Legislation  and  Petition 
has  been  sent  to  every  su[>erintendent.  A  better  understanding  of 
the  aims  and  methods  of  this  department  would,  I  believe,  lead  to 
their  general  adoption  and  the  carrying  forward  of  this  part  of  our 
work  in  a  more  systematic  way,  thereby  achieving  far  greater  results. 
The  national  superintendent  does  not  advocate  the  bringing  of  suits 
by  our  Unions  against  violaters  of  temperance  laws  to  secure  enforce- 
ment, as  enforcement  is  the  duty  of  municipal  officers.  Instead  of 
our  bearing  the  expense  and  blunt  of  such  cases,  let  us  petition  for 
enforcement,  and  in  other  ways  create  public  sentiment  which  shall 
compel  the  proper  officers  to  do  their  duty  or  lead  to  the  election  of 
others  who  will.  We  should  aid  said  officers  to  bring  and  carry  on 
suits,  but  let  them  and  the  voters  be  responsible  for  the  results. 

The  World's  petitions  have  been  sent  to  all  of  the  colleges  and 
universities  in  Maine  this  year.  There  is  no  more  fertile  ground  for 
agitation  of  the  temperance  question  than  our  schools.  The  Suffrage 
petition  is  now  being  sent  to  every  town  in  the  state  and,  dear  sister 
of  the  convention,  after  the  earnest  and  eloquent  words  of  our 
county  presidents  Tuesday  evening  and  the  grand  address  of  Wed- 
nesday evening,  I  feel  that  you  need  no  words  of  mine  to  urge  you 
along  this  line  of  work.  Let  us  roll  up  a  good  big  petition  so  that 
when  we  meet  at  Augusta  this  winter  at  the  Conference  appointed, 
they  will  not  dare  to  deny  that  which  we  ask^-our  rights.  We  white 
ribboned  women  believe  that  we  shall  not  have  prohibition  until 
women  are  free.  As  never  before  we  must  work  for  our  freedom 
and  let  us  believe  that 

"Some  of  these  days  all  the  skies  will  be  brighter — 
Some  of  these  days  all  the  burdens  be  lighter, 
Hearts  will  be  happier — souls  will  be  whiter — 
Some  of  these  days  !  " 

L.  C.  LAMB, 
State  Suft,  Legislation  and  Petition. 


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Franchise. 


Madam  President  and  Members  of  the  Convention : 

The  cause  of  "  Equal  Rights  "  never  looked  brighter  than  at  this 
hour,  I  feel  justified  in  reporting.  There  have  been  larger  gains 
during  the  past  five  years  than  for  twenty  years  previous.  I  refer 
especially  to  the  cause  throughout  the  country — though  I  believe  our 
State  has  an  average  gain.  I  read  from  the  *' Woman's  Column" 
of  Aug.  26,  that,  The  petition  for  Woman  Suffrage  recently 
presented  to  the  New  York  Constitutional  Convention  had  six 
hundred  and  twenty- five  thousand  signatures — while  the  remon- 
strance had  but  fifteen  thousand.  Forty  in  favor  of  giving  women 
Municipal  Suffrage,  to  one  against  it,  and  yet  the  Convention 
decided  against  giving  women  the  ballot — and  we  are  told  that  we 
are  defeated.  But  are  we  defeated  ?  Compare  the  Suffrage  petition^ 
in  New  York  in  '93  with  the  petitions  in  '94  and  you  will  find  how 
much  has  been  gained ;  notwithstanding  such  papers  as  TAe  Out' 
look.  The  Worlds  The  Herald  and  Harper's  Weekly  have  used 
their  influence  against  us — during  four  evenings  the  Convention 
was  turned  into  a  Suffrage  meeting  and  the  subject  was  thoroughly 
discussed,  sixty  prominent  men  publicly  identified  themselves  with 
the  cause,  and  thousands  who  have  been  opposed  or  indifferent  to 
the  reform  have  become  converted  to  the  cause  of  Equal  Rights, 
and  in  nearly  every  county  new  political  Equality  CluV»s  have  been 
formed,  and  the  subject  has  been  so  well  agitated  that  it  will  never 
rest,  until  every  woman  is  the  political  peer  of  the  male  voters. 

What  has  been  accomplished  in  New  York  can  be  done  in  Maine, 
but  only  by  organized  effort.  We  have  over  one  hundred  Unions  in 
our  State,  and  not  one  quarter  of  them  have  a  Franchise  department. 
But  thirteen  Unions  have  sent  your  superintendent  the  name  of  the 
local  superintendent,  therefore  she  finds  it  impossible  to  do  the 
work  that  the  importance  of  the  cause  demands.     What  has  been 


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done,  is  in  the  distribution  of  suffrage  literature,  by  mail  and 
through  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  paper  racks,  in  the  depot,  which  have 
been  kept  well  supplied  with  franchise  and  temperance  literature, 
and  discussions  on  the  reform  at  every  weekly  temperance  meeting. 

But  one  Suffrage  lecture  has  been  reported  in  our  county  during 
the  past  year,  and  that  at  Bar  Harbor  where  the  reform  had  been  but 
little  discussed.  The  lecture  was  well  attended  and  created  a  good 
impression.  The  editors  of  both  our  local  papers  are  in  sympathy 
with  the  reform  and  manifest  their  interest  by  printing  articles 
favorable  to  the  cause  very  frequently. 

From  Waldo  county  Miss  Emily  F.  Miller  sends  encouraging 
words.  She  writes:  '*We  have  frequent  Franchise  items  printed 
weekly  in  the  half-column  of  the  press,  about  fifty  pages  of  literature 
have  been  given  away,  and  a  year's  subscription  to  the  Woman's 
Journal.  Belfast  and  Searsmont  Unions  are  practically  unanimous 
on  the  question." 

The  superintendent  of  Franklin  county,  Mrs.  Keyes,  reports : 
"There  was  no  department  of  Franchise  in  our  Union  until  last 
May,  therefore  I  can  report  but  little  work.  The  W.  C.  T.  U. 
column  of  our  county  has  always  advocated  Woman  Suffrage,  as 
earnestly  before  we  organized  as  since.  I  intend  soon  to  begin 
missionary  work  among  the  members  of  our  Legislature ;  several 
of  them  are  not  unfavorable  to  the  cause.  I  shall  also  circulate  the 
Petition." 

Mrs.  L.  C.  Lamb,  superintendent  for  Androscoggin  county  sends  a 
very  encouraging  report  and  quotes  from  a  lecture  delivered  by  a 
Kansas  senator  in  Lewiston  who  said,  ''Every  woman  should  be  a 
Politician."  She  also  writes,"the  interest  in  Equal  Rights  is  steadily 
on  the  increase  ;  our  members  read  more,  and  are  therefore  getting 
better  informed ;  the  only  hindrance  to  the  enfranchisement  of 
women,  is  their  unwillingness  to  accept  it.  A  petition  has  been 
circulated  asking  that  a  police  matron  be  appointed.  The  Lewiston 
Union  and  the  Union  at  Livermore  Falls  have  appointed  superin- 
tendents of  Franchise  who  are  fully  alive  to  the  importance  of  the 
work  ;  circulating  petitions  and  the  distribution  of  Suffrage  literature 
is  steadily  going  on  ;  at  the  last  county  convention  strong  Suffrage 
resolutions  were  unanimously  passed." 


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Mrs.  D.  Dewitt,  county  superintendent  of  Franchise  for  Aroos- 
took writes  very  encouragingly  of  the  work  in  Presque  Isle  and 
throughout  the  county.  Petitions  and  Suffrage  literature  have  been 
circulated  ;  an  excellent  paper  on  Franchise  was  given  at  the  county 
convention  and  well  received,  also  good  Suffrage  talk ;  the  Unions 
alive  on  the  subject. 

Miss  Louise  Titcomb  of  the  Stroudwater  Union  sends  a  good 
report  from  Cumberland  county. 

Mrs.  H.  B.  Jordan,  superintendent  of  Franchise  for  Sagadahoc 
county  reports,  little  has  been  done  for  the  cause  of  Equal  Rights  in 
Bath,  but  she  is  strong  in  the  faith  that  the  time  is  at  hand  when 
women  will  learn  more  in  regard  to  the  reform. 

Mrs.  Helen  M.  Daggett,  superintendent  Franchise  for  the 
Waldoboro  Union  writes,  when  at  home  she  circulates  petitions  and 
literature^  and  does  all  in  her  power  to  make  public  sentiment 
favorable  to  the  cause  of  Equal  Rights. 

Mrs.  S.  B.  Crocker,  superintendent  of  Franchise  for  Somerset 
county  writes,  that  every  Union  in  the  county  has  a  superintendent 
of  Franchise  and  she  seldom  hears  a  woman  say  she  does  not  want 
to  vote.  The  superintendents  are  glad  to  circulate  petitions  and 
literature  and  the  general  sentiment  of  the  county  is  strongly  in 
favor  of  the  ballot  for  women. 

Dear  sisters  of  the  White  Ribboned  army,  as  this  will  probably 
be  the  last  report  I  shall  send  you,  as  I  have  requested  my  successor 
to  be  appointed,  (because  I  cannot  give  the  attention  to  the  work 
that  its  importance  demands,)  I  wish  to  impress  upon  you  the 
necessity  of  more  thorough  organization.  Of  over  one  hundred 
Unions  in  our  State  but  seven  have  sent  reports.  This  is  not  as  it 
should  be ;  every  Union  should  have  a  department  and  a  superin- 
tendent. Let  me  exhort  you  to  be  more  in  earnest  in  the  cause 
of  Equal  Rights.  The  Franchise  department  is  the  right  arm  of  the 
W.  C.  T.  U.,  the  Ballot  is  the  only  weapon  that  can  be  used 
effectively  against  unjust  laws.  There  is  no  enemy  dreaded  so  much 
by  liquor  dealers  as  a  woman  with  a  ballot.  Prominent  politicians 
have  sent  this  message  to  members  of  the  legislature  in  several 
states :  '*Set  your  heel  upon  the  woman  suffrage  movement  every 
time.  The  success  of  that  movement  means  the  downfall  of  our 
trader 


Wherever  women  have  die  Ballot,  they  have  used  it  in  the  interest 
of  the  kome  against  the  saloons,  the  gambling  houses,  and  the  haunts 
of  infamy.  The  Ballot  makes  you  the  political  peer  of  any  citizen — 
without  it  you  are  the  political  inferior  of  ignorant  foreigners  and 
on  a  plane  with  paupers,  idiots  and  criminals.  Educate  the  people 
by  preaching  the  gospel  of  Equal  Rights,  and  circulating  Suffrage 
literature — let  the  white  and  yellow  ribbon  entwine,  and  then  shall 
we  see  the  dawning  of  a  better  day  when  our  country  will  recognize 
no  sex  in  citizenship. 

Yours  always  in  the  work  for  the  uplifting'  of  humanity, 

ANN  F.  GREELY. 


Peace  and  Arbitration. 


We  have  many  strong  peace  advocates  at  Popham  Beach,  or  at 
Fort  Popham  as  the  place  is  generally  called,  where  the  money 
placed  in  the  great  expensive  stone  fort  which  was  never  completed, 
and  doubtless,  never  will  be,  is  a  constant  reminder  of  the  impoi- 
tance  of  urging  our  government  to  place  more  of  its  funds  in  the 
erection  of  schools,  less  in  getting  ready  for  possible  wars.  Our 
peace  superintendent  in  this  place  reports  the  distribution  of  about 
one  thousand  pages  of  literature.  The  pastor  has  been  invited  to 
preach  a  peace  sermon.  One  copy  of  ''The  Acorn"  and  one  of 
**The  Pacific  Banner"  are  taken. 

At  Bath,  over  looo  pages  of  our  literature  have  been  given  out- 
Several  copies  of  our  department  papers  are  taken.  The  Peace 
Bible  Readings  have  been  used  in  one  of  our  Loyal  Temperance 
Legions.  Nearly  all  the  clergymen  of  the  city  have  been  called 
upon  and  invited  to  preach  upon  the  subject  and  all  have  expressed 
great  interest  in  the  cause. 

Rockland  has  during  the  year  appointed  a  new  superintendent, 
who  has  formed  a  "Peace  Band"  in  connection  with  a  mission  Sun- 
day school,  in  which  she  is  interested.  Nineteen  children  joined 
the  Band  at  its  first  meeting.  This  city  has  sent  us  several  sub- 
scriptions for  "The  Acorn." 


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Augusta  has  introduced  ''The  Acorn"  into  the  Sunday  schools. 
A  large  number  of  children  have  been  induced  to  sign  the  peace 
pledge.  The  pastors  have  been  invited  to  preach  on  peace.  Gen- 
eral Peace  Day  was  observed  in  one  church  and  in  the  Gospel  Tem- 
perance meeting,  and  Mrs.  Emily  Burgess  of  New  York  delivered 
a  lecture  last  spring ;  one  Sunday  school  used'  our  peace  lesson ; 
500  pages  of  literature  have  been  distributed. 

Winthrop  Union  reports  the  distribution  of  3,204  pages  of  peace 
literature.  There  are  39  subscribers  to  "The  Pacific  Banner"  and 
27  to  "The  Acorn."  The  children  are  taught  the  principles  of  peace 
and  arbitration  in  two  juvenile  bands.  The  subject  has  been  given  a 
prominent  place  in  sixteen  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  public  itieetings. 
Two  peace  sermons  have  been  preached  and  our  general  Peace  Day 
was  observed  by  appropriate  exercises  in  one  Sunday  school. 

South  China  reports  the  distribution  of  800  pages  of  literature. 
Five  copies  of  "The  Acorn"  are  taken.  Three  peace  lectures  have 
been  delivered.  A  Peace  Band  is  soon  to  be  organized.  The  sub- 
ject has  been  agitated  several  times  by  the  clergy  but  no  regular 
peace  sermon  has  been  preached.  Much  personal  work  has  been 
done. 

We  have  made  an  effort  during  the  year  to  obtain  many  new 
superintendents.  The  matter  has  been  brought  before  several  Unions. 
We  have  met  with  partial  success.  Richmond,  Greenville,  and 
Orono  have  given  us  the  names  of  ladies  who  will  fill  the  office. 

We  have  also  sent  sample  copies  of  our  official  periodicals  to  most 
of  the  Unions,  have  introduced  "The  Pacific  Banner"  into  two 
or  three  reading  rooms  of  ''Homes  for  Young  Ladies,"  and  "The 
Acorn"  into  that  of  the  Junior  Department  of  one  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
We  distributed  over  one  hundred  copies  of  "The  Acorn"  at  North- 
port  camp-ground,  and  have  sent  or  carried  scores  of  pages 
of  literature  to  other  assemblies. 

Other  work  has  been  attended  to  such  as  the  sending  of  original 
peace  contributions  to  the  press,  the  sending  of  a  protest  in  conjunc- 
tion with  onr  national  superintendent  to  the  only  "Boys'  Brigade" 

in  the  state. 

ALICE  MAY  DOUGLAS, 

State  Supt.  Peace  and  Arbitration, 


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CONSTITUTION 

OF 

Maine  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union. 


PREAMBLE. 
We,  Christian  women  of  this  State,  alarmed  at  the  danger  and 
tendencies  of  intemperance  and  kindred  evils,  believe  it  to  be  our 
duty,  under  the  providence  of  God,  to  unite  our  efforts  for  their  ex- 
tinction. That  we  may  the  more  successfully  prosecute  this  work, 
we  adopt  the  following  pledge  and  constitution  : 

PLEDGE. 
I  hereby   solemnly  promise,  God  helping  me,  to  abstain  from  all 
distilled,  fermented,  and  malt  liquors,  including  wine  and  cider,  and 
to  employ  all  proper  means  to  discourage  the  use   of  and  traffic  in 
the  same. 


CONSTITUTION. 


ARTICLE  I— Name. 
The  organization  shall  be  known  as  the  Maine  Woman's  Christian 
Temperance  Union,  auxiliary  to  the  National  Woman's  Christian 
Temperance  Union.  Its  object  shall  be  to  enlist  the  women  of  this 
State  in  the  promotion  of  the  cause  of  temperance,  and  of  the  vari- 
ous branches  of  work  recommended  by  the  National  Union  ;  to 
make  permanent  the  work  already  accomplished  and  to  secure  the 
organization  of  a  local  Union  in  every  place  in  the  State  where  it  is 

practicable. 

ARTICLE  II— Officers. 
The  officers  of  this  Union  shall  be  a  President,  one  Vice-President 

from  each  county  (the  President  of  each  being  ex-ojfficio  Vice-Presi- 
dent of  the  State  Union),  a  Corresponding  Secretary,  a  Recording 
Secretary,  an  Assistant  Recording  Secretary  and  a  Treasurer,  who 
together  shall  constitute  an  Executive  Committee,  of  whom  seven 
shall  be  a  quorum. 

ARTICLE  III—Membership. 
The  annual  meeting   shall  be  composed  of  the  Executive  Com- 


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mittee,  State  Superintendents  of  Departments,  State  Organizers, 
Secretaries  and  Treasurers  of  County  Unions,  the  President,  and 
one  delegate-at-large,  and  one  delegate  for  every  twenty-five  paying 
members  of  each  auxiliary  Union. 

ARTICLE  IV— Auxiliaries. 
Any  society  of  women,  regularly  organized  under  the  supervision 
or  approval  of  the  State  ofiUcers,  and  adopting  the  Constitution  of 
this  organization,  including  a  total  abstinence  pledge,  and  a  paying 
fee  of  thirty  cents  per  member  annually  to  State  Treasurer  (ten 
cents  of  which  shall  be  paid  by  her  to  the  National  Woman's 
Christian  Temperance  Union)  is  auxiliary  to  the  Maine  Woman's 
Christian  Temperance  Union. 

ARTICLE  V— Meetings. 
The  annual  meeting  shall  be  held  at  some  time  within  September 
or  October,  in  such  place  as  may  be  decided  by  a  vote  of  the  Execu- 
tive Committee. 

ARTICLE  VI— Amendments. 

The  Constitution  may  be  altered  or  amended  by  vote  of  two-thirds 
of  the  delegates  present  at  the  annual  meeting,  provided  notice  hat 
been  given  at  the  previous  annual  meeting. 


BY-LAWS. 


ARTICLE  I — Duties  of  Officers. 

Sec.  I.  President,  In  case  of  the  illness  or  death  of  the  Presi- 
dent, the  duties  of  her  office  shall  devolve  upon  the  General  Officers 
in  the  order  of  their  election. 

Sec.  2.  The  President  may,  through  the  Recording  Secretary, 
call  special  meetings  of  the  Executive  Committee,  when  she  may 
deem  it  necessary,  or  in  response  to  the  written  request  of  any  seven 
members  of  the  Executive  Committee,  in  which  case  the  topics  to 
be  considered  at  the  meeting  shall  be  started,  and  she  shall  perform 
all  other  duties  usual  to  such  office. 

Sec.  3.  Vice-President.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  each  Vice- 
President  to  aid  and  foster  the  work  of  the  Union  in  her  county, 
and  to  arrange  for  and  preside  at  conventions  in  her  county,  co-oper- 
ating with  the  General  Officers  of  the  state  in  carrying  out  their 


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plans  for  the  prosecution  of  the  work,  making  a  report  semi-annually 
to  the  Corresponding  Secretary  of  the  State  Union. 

Sec.  4.  Corresponding  Secretary,  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Corresponding  Secretary  to  conduct  the  correspondence  of  the 
organization  and  to  perform  all  duties  usual  to  such  office.  She  shall 
also  send  to  the  Secretary  of  each  local  Union  at  least  twice  a  year  a 
blank  similar  to  those  used  by  the  National  Woman's  Christian 
Temperance  Union  Corresponding  Secretary,  to  be  filled  as  a  semi- 
annual report.  From  these  reports  she  shall  collate  her  own  report 
for  the  annual  meeting. 

Sec.  5.     Recording  Secretary.     The  Recording  Secretary  shall 

attend  all  meetings  of  the  Union,  the  Executive  Committee  and  the 

General  Officers,  and  shall  keep  correct  record  of  their  proceedings. 

She  shall  send  to  each  member  of  the  Executive  Committee  a  notice 

of  such  meetings.     She  shall  appraise  members  of  committees   of 

their  appointment.     At  the  first  meeting  of  each  annual  session   she 

shall  read  in  their  order,  for  action  by  said  meeting,  the  minutes   of 

all  meetings,  and  shall  perform  all  other  duties  usually  pertaining  to 

such  office. 

Sec.  6.     Treasurer.     It    shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Treasurer  to 

keep  accurate  account  of  all  receipts  and  disbursements  of  money, 
and  to  present  a  detailed  report  thereof  at  each  annual  meeting  and 
perform  all  other  duties  usually  pertaining  to  such  office.  She 
shall  pay  no  bills  except  on  an  order  signed  by  the  President.  The 
fiscal  year  shall  terminate  one  week  previous  to  the  annual  meeting, 
and  the  books  shall  then  be  closed. 

Sec.  7.  Superintendents.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Superin- 
tendents to  originate,  to  advise,  and  to  direct  plans  of  work  relating 
to  their  several  departments ;  to  correspond  and  to  co-operate  with 
County  Superintendents,  and  to  report  to  the  annual  meeting  work 
proposed  and  work  accomplished.  They  shall  be  required  to  give 
an  itemized  account  of  their  receipts  and  expenditures  in  department 

work. 

ARTICLE   II— Election. 

Sec.  I .  The  officers,  with  the  exception  of  the  Vice-Presidents, 
and  Assistant  Recording  Secretary  (the  latter  shall  be  nominated  by 
the  Recording  Secretary  and  elected  by  acclamation,  unless  other- 
wise ordered)  shall  be  elected  by  ballot  on  the  morning  of  the  last 
day  of  the  annual  meeting. 


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Sec.  2.      Vacancies  in  Delectations,    Each  delegation  may   fill 
its  quota  by  visiting  members  from  its  own  auxiliary ;  if  any  Vice" 
.  President  is  absent,  said  county  maybe  represented  on  the  Executive 
Committee  by  a  member  of  its  delegation. 

Sec.  3.  Voting',  General  Officers,  Superintendents  of  Depart- 
ments, State  Organizers,  and  ex-officio  members  shall  vote  in  person. 

Sec.  4.  Tellers,  Tellers  having  been  appointed  by  the  meeting, 
an  informal  ballot  shall  be  cast  for  each  officer  separately,  and  the 
members  of  the  Convention  shall  then  proceed  to  vote  by  ballot  for 
the  person  thus  nominated. 

Sec.  5.  Superintendents,  Superintendents  shall  be  nominated 
bv  the  Executive  Committee  and  elected  by  the  annual  meeting. 
Their  election  shall  be  by  acclamation,  unless  otherwise  ordered. 

Sec.  6.  Vacancies,  The  Executive  Committee  may  fill  any 
vacancies  occurring  in  the  interim  of  annual  meetings. 

ARTICLE   III— Committees. 

Sec.  I.  The  following  committees  fsha  11  be  chosen  on  the  first 
day  of  the  annual  meeting :  On  Credentials,  On  Business.  On  Reso- 
lutions. The  last  shall  consist  of  one  delegate  from  each  county, 
chosen  by  the  delegation  of  her  county. 

Sec.  2.  An  Auditing  Committee  shall  be  appointed  by  the  Gen- 
eral Officers  in  the  interim  of  the  annual  meetings. 

ARTICLE  IV — Individual  Members. 

Sec.  I.     Any  pledged  woman  in  a  community  where  there  is  no 
•local  Union  may    become  a  member-at-large  of  the  Stale  Union    by 
the  payment  of  an  annual  fee  of  fifty  cents,  ten  cents  of  which  shall 
be  paid  to  the  National  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Uni.in. 

Sec.  2.     Any  woman  may  become  a  life  member  by   signing    the 

pledge,  and  paying  ten    dollars  at  one  time  to  the  State  Treasurer; 

and  any  man  may  become  an  honorary  member  by  signing  the  pledge 

and  by  the  payment  of  one  dollar  annually. 

ARTICLE  V — Department  of  Organization. 

The  Department  of  Organization  shall  be  in  charge  of  the  Gen- 
eral Officers,  and  organizers  appointed  by  them  shall  be  reported  to 
the  Convention  and  entitled  to  a  seat. 

ARTICLE   VI. 

These  By-laws  may  be  amended  by  a  two-thirds  vote  of  the 
members  present  at  any  annual  meeting. 


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LOCAL  CONSTITUTION. 


ARTICLE  I—Name. 

This  organization  shall  be  known  as  the Woman's  Christian 

Temperance  Union,  auxiliary   to  the    Maine    Woman's    Christian 
Temperance  Union. 

PLEDGE. 

I  hereby  solemnly  promise,  God  helping  me,  to  abstain  from  all 
distilled,  fermented  and  malt  liquors,  including  Wine,  Beer  and 
Cider,  and  to  employ  all  proper  means  to  discourage  the  use  of  and 
traffic  in  the  same. 

ARTICLE  II— Object. 

The  object  of  this  Union  shall  be  to  educate  public  sentiment  up 
to  the  standard  of  total  abstinence,  train  the  young,  save  the  inebri- 
ate, and  aim  to  secure  the  complete  banishment  of  the  liquor  traffic. 

ARTICLE   III— Membership. 

Any  woman  may  become  a  member  of  this  organization  by  sign- 
ing the  constitution  (including  the  pledge)  and  by    the  payment  of 

per  year  into  the  Treasury,  30  cents  of  which  shall  be  paid  the 

State  Union.     Ten  cents  of  that  amount  the    State  Treasurer  sends 
to  the  National  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union. 

Where  it  is  deemed  necessary  the  following  article  may  be  inserted  : 

Any  woman  may  become  a  member  of  this  organization  by  a  two 
thirds  vote  at  any  legal  meeting  and  by  signing  the  constitution  and 
pledge  and  paying  the  regular  dues  and  continuing  to  do  so  annually. 

Gentlemen  may  become  honorary  members  by  signing  the  pledge 
and  the  payment  of  one  dollar  a  year,  all  of  which  shall  be  retained 
for  home  work. 

ARTICLE  IV— Officers. 

The  officers  of  this  organization  shall  be  a  President,  Vice-Presi- 
dents, one  from  each  church  when  practicable,  a  Corresponding 
Secretary,  Recording  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  who  shall  constitute 
an  Executive  Committee. 


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ARTICLE  V— Duties  of  Officers. 

Sec.  I.     President  to  call  to  order  and  open  the  meeting^. 

To  announce  the  business  before  the  meeting  in  the  order  in  which 
it  is  to  be  acted  upon. 

To  put  to  vote  all  questions  which  have  been  regularly  moved  and 
seconded,  and  to  announce  the  result. 

To  preserve  order,  and  to  decide,  when  referred  to,  all  questions 
of  order  or  practice  which  may  arise. 

To  append  her  signature  when  necessary  to  all  orders  and  pro- 
ceedings of  the  Union. 

To  have  a  general  oversight  of  the  Union,  and  in  conjunction  with 
the  Executive  Committee,  to  plan  for  its  best  interests  and  the  good 
of  the  cause. 

To  call  special  meetings  when  deemed  advisable  by  herself  and 
any  three  members  of  the  Union,  due  notice  being  given  to  all  the 
members. 

Sec.  2.  Corresponding  Secretary  to  conduct  the  correspondence 
of  the  Union. 

To  report  to  the  Corresponding  Secretary  of  the  State  Union  as 
required  by  the  State  Constitution  (having  first  submitted  her  report 
to  the  Union)  giving  such  facts  and  items  of  general  interest  as  will 
enable  the  State  Secretary  to  judge  correctly  of  the  condition  of  the 
Union  and  the  progress  of  the  work. 

Sec.  3.  Recording  Secretary  to  keep  a  record  of  the  proceedings 
of  the  meetings  of  the  Union 

To  notify  the  public  of  its  meetings. 

To  read  all  papers,  etc.,  which  may  be  required. 

To  notify  Committees  of  their  appointments  and  of  business  re- 
ferred to  them. 

To  take  charge  of  all  papers  and  documents  of  the  Union. 

To  make  reports  at  each  meeting  of  the  preceding  meeting. 

Sec.  4.  Treasurer  to  collect  the  membership  dues,  and  to  devise 
ways  and  means  to  increase  the  funds  of  the  Union.  To  forward 
to  State  Treasurer  the  dues  for  each  member  as  required  by  the 
State  Constitution  (namely  30  cents  per  member)  two  weeks  previ- 
ous to  State  Convention.  Old  Unions  and  those  organized  early  in 
the  year  shall  make  part  payment  of  dues  previous  to  March   first, 


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the  remainder  two  weeks  before  State  Convention.  To  hold  all 
money  collected  for  the  use  of  the  Union,  paying  bills  on  order  of 
the  President  and  Secretary,  keeping  an  exact  book  account  and 
making  a  report  of  the  same  at  each  regular  business  meeting. 

Sec.  5.  Vice-Presidents  to  preside,  in  their  order,  at  meetings 
in  the  absence  of  the  President  and  to  perform  all  duties  of  the 
President  in  case  of  absence  on  any  account  from  her  office.  To 
interest  the  women  of  their  respective  churches  in  the  work  of  the 
Union  and  to  canvass  for  members.  To  assist  the  President  in 
arranging  and  carrj'ing  out  plans  for  the  benefit  of  the  Union.  To 
endeavor  to  secure  special  recognition  of  the  temperance  cause  in 
the  church  prayer-meeting  quarterly,  and  also  by  a  sermon  from 
the  pastor  at  least  once  a  year. 

ARTICLE   VI— Meetings. 

The   regular  meetings  of  the   Union   shall   be  held ,  at 

which  time  Superintendents  shall  report. 

Public  Prayer  and  Conference  meetings  shall  be  held  as  often  as 
the  interest  of  the  work  demands,  and  if  possible,  mass  meetings 
quarterly. 

The  Executive  and  other  Committees  shall  meet  as  often  as  may 
be  deemed  advisable. 

ARTICLE  VII— Annual  Meetings. 

The  annual  meeting  shall  be  held  on  the day  of month' 

at  which  time  the  officers  shall  be  elected  for  the  ensuing  year. 

ARTICLE   VIII— Amendments. 

This  Constitution  may  be  altered  or  amended  at  any  regular 
meeting  of  the  Union,  by  a  two-thirds  vote  of  the  members,  notice 
having  been  given  at  the  previous  meeting. 


BY-LAWS. 


Sec.  I.  Departments  oj  Work,  Superintendents  shall  be  appoint- 
ed for  such  of  the  following  departments,  as  local  needs  seem  to  call 
for :  Work  Among  Foreigners.  Young  Woman's  Work.  Juvenile 
Work.      Hygienic  Reform  and   Heredity.     Scientific  Temperance 


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Instruction.  Sunday 'School  Work.  Temperance  Literature. 
Influencing  the  Press.  Narcotics.  Evangelistic  Work.  Unfer- 
mented  Wine.  Systematic  Giving.  Prison,  Jail  and  Almshouse 
Work.  Reformatory  Prison  for  Women.  Securing  Homes  for 
Homeless  Children.  Railroad  Employes.  Soldiers  and  Sailors. 
Lumbermen.  Sabbath  Observance.  '  Purity.  Purity  in  Literature 
and  Art.  Mercy.  Flower  Mission.  State  and  County  Fairs. 
Legislation  and  Petition.     Franchise.     Peace  and  Arbitration. 

Sec.  2.     All  meetings  of  the  Union  shall  be  opened  by  reading  of 
Scripture  and  prayer. 

Sec.  3.  A  majority  of  the  Executive  Committee  shall  constitute 
a  quorum  at  any  regular  meeting,  and  the  same  rule  may  apply  to 
all  other  Committees. 

Sec.  4.     Officers  shall  remain  such  till  their  successors  are  elected. 

Sec.  5.     All  members  of  the  Union  shall  be  entitled  to  vote. 

Sec.  6.     Order  of  Butineas : — 

1.  Devotional  Exercises. 

2.  Report  of  Recording  Secretary. 

3.  Report  of  Corresponding  Secretary. 

4.  Report  of  Treasurer. 

5.  Report  of  Chairman  of  Executive  Committee. 

6.  Reports  of  Superintendents. 

7.  Reports  of  Special  Committees. 

8.  Unfinished  Business. 

9.  New  Business. 

10.  Course  of  Reading. 

1 1 .  Discussions. 

Sec.  7.  These  By-Laws  may  be  altered  or  amended  at  any  regu- 
lar meeting  of  the  Union,  by  a  vote  of  two-thirds  of  the  members  of 
the  Union. 


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Extracts  from  the  Public  Laws. 


TEMPERANCE  EDUCATION. 


CHAPTER    267  OF   THE  PUBLIC  LAWS  OF  THE  STATE   OF    MAINE. 

«      • 

An  Act  relating  to  Scientific  Temperance  Instruction  in  Public 
Schools.     Be  it  enacte/f^  etc,^  a$  follows: 

Sec.  I.  Provision  shall,  be  made  by  the  proper  local  school 
authorities  for  instructing  all.  pupils  in  all  schools  supported  by  pub- 
lic money,  or  under  State  control,  in  physiology  and  hygiene,  vrith 
special  reference  to  the  effects  of  alcoholic  drinks,  stimulants  and 
narcotics  upon  the  human  system. 

Sec.  2.  No  certificate  shall  be  granted  any  person  to  teach  in  the 
public  schools  in  this  State  after  the  fourth  day  of  July,  eighteen 
hundred  and  eighty-five,  who  has  not  passed  a  satisfactorj-  examina- 
tion in  physiology  and  hygiene,  with  special  reference  to  the  effects 
of  alcholic  drinks,  stimulants  and  narcotics  upon  the  human  system. 

[Approved  February  19,   1885.] 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  SABBATH  LAWS. 


Whoever,  on  the  Lord's  Day,  keeps  open  his  shop,  workhouse, 
warehouse,  or  place  of  business ;  travels,  or  does  any  work,  labor 
or  business  on  that  day,  except  works  of  necessity  or  charity ;  uses 
any  sport,  game  or  recreation ;  or  is  present  at  any  dancing,  public 
diversion,  show  or  entertainment,  encouraging  the  same,  shall  be 
punished  by   a  fine  not  exceeding  ten  dollars. — R.  S.,   Chap.  124, 

Sec.  20. 

If  any  innholder  or  victualler,  on  the  Lord's  Day,  suffers  any  per- 
sons except  travelers,  strangers  or  lodgers,  to  abide  in  his  house, 
yard  or  field,  drinking  or  spending  their  time  idly,  at  play  or  doing 
any  secular  business,  except  works  of  necessity  or  charity,  he  shall 
be  punished  by  fine  not  exceeding  four  dollars  for  each  person  thus 
suffered  to  abide ;  and  if  after  conviction  he  is  again  guilt}',  by  fine 
not  exceeding  ten  dollars  for  each  offence ;  and  upon  a  third  con- 
viction, he  shall  also  be  incapable  of  holding  any  license ;  and  every 
person  so  abiding  shall  be  fined  not  exceeding  four  dollars  for  each 
offence. — R.  S.,  Chap.  124,  Sec.  21. 


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Sunday  is  a  close  time,  on  which  it  is  not  lawful  to  hunt,  kill  or 
destroy  g^me  or  birds  of  any  kind,  under  the  penalties  imposed 
therefor  during  other  close  times ;  but  the  penalties  already  imposed 
for  violations  of  the  Sunday  laws  are  not  repealed  or  diminished. — 
R.  S.,  Chap.  30,  Sec.  27. 

The  jailer,  at  the  expense  of  the  county,  shall  furnish  to  each 
prisoner  who  is  able  to  read,  a  copy  of  the  Bible,  and  to  all  on  Sun- 
day, such  religious  instruction  as  he  may  be  able  to  obtain  without 
expense,  and  to  such  as  may  be  benefited  thereby,  instruction  in 
reading,  writing  and  arithmetic  one  hour  every  evening  except  Sun- 
day.— R.  S.,  Chap.  80,  Sec.  30. 

CIQARBTTE  LAW. 


Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  in  Legisia- 
ture  assembled : 

Sec.  I .     No  person   shall  sell  any  cigarette  to  any  person  under 

the  age  of  sixteen  years. 

Sec.  2.     No  person   other  than  the   minor's  parent  or  guardian, 

shall  give  to  any  person  under  the  age  of  sixteen  years  any  cigarette, 

for  such  minor's  personal  use. 

Sec.  3.     Any   person  violating  any  of  the  foregoing  provisions, 

shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars. 


IMPURE  LITERATURE  LAW. 


[_As  amended  in  1893.'] 
Sec.  13.  Whoever  imports,  prints,  publishes,  sells  or  distributes 
any  book,  pamphlet,  ballad,  printed  paper,  or  other  thing  containing 
obscene,  indecent,  or  impure  language,  or  manifestly  tending  to  the 
corruption  of  the  morals  of  youth,  or  an  obscene,  indecent,  or 
impure  print,  picture,  figure  or  deception,  manifestly  tending  to  the 
corruption  of  the  morals  of  youth,  or  introduces  into  a  family,  school, 
or  place  of  education,  or  buys,  procures,  receives,  or  has  in  his 
possession  any  such  book,  pamphlet,  ballad,  printed  paper  or  other 
thing,  either  for  the  purpose  of  sale,  exhibition,  loan  or  circulation, 
or  with  intent  to  introduce  the  same  into  a  family,  school  or  place  of 
education,  shall  be  punished  by  imprisonment  in  the  State  prison 
not  exceeding  five  years,  or  by  imprisonment  in  the  jail  not  exceed- 
ing two  years,  and  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  one  thousand  dollars  nor 
less  than  one  hundred  dollars. 


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