W. C. T. U. For God, And Home And Native Land

Edlterl Ijy Mrs. A. E. Van Valkenburg. Press Superintendent. One week from today the W. C. T. L'. meet in the Young Woman 's Chr latían A-BSOciation rooms over the post office. fAir notes. Two hundred "Fair Numbere" of the CJnion Si;nal tied with white ribbons and having suitable scripture motto carde attached were distributed on the fair trround, during the fair, by Mrs. Charles Worden, Supt. of Temperance Literature of the local W. C. T. l". The uiembers of the W. C. ï. U. wish to extend their thanks to Corner Ball for the donation of his tent for their use during the fair and for the moving and setting up of the same, also to othor parties who rendered kindly assistance. The high board fence around the place where intoxicants were sold on t'.ie fair ground was doubtless intended tj hide from view whatever was not clean and attractive at the fair. No fence has ever' yet been built around our homes and our dear ones, high enough to shut out the wily serpent of intemperance, and it is equally true, that none will ever be built around the saloon high enough to shut La its shame and degradation and sin. The word "boycott1' is not in the curriculum ot the W. C. T. U. Our complete national motto is "We wage our peaceful war, for God, and home and native land." In God's time and u-uy, we know tlie rightwill surely prevalí. COXVENTION NOTES. ín defference to a time-honored oustom the general offlcers of the national W. C. T. U. announce the. f act airead y so will known, that the twenty-seeond u iniuil convention of the organi.ation vill be held in .Musió Hall Baltimore, .cl.. Oct. L8 to 23. 1 895, and issue their cali to the clans already gathering to come up in forcé to this Mocea of a year's hopes and harves t home of a year'.s toil. Miss Willard will pi-eside. A National Purity Congress, under the auspiees of the American Purity Alliance, will be held in the city of Baltimore. on Monday, Tueseay and Wednesday, Oct. 14, 15 and 10, 1895. Dr. Mary Word Allen, natioual superintendent of purity of the W. C. T. U., who resides in Ann Arbor, will he in at tendance and 'deliver one of her iinest Ieoture8. Mrs. Katherine Leute Stevenson, national corresponding secretary, will preach the Annuai Sermón, on Sunday afternoon of the convention. Miss Helen Potter, the renoivned e'oeutionist, who idelighted the London conventions with her wonderful impersonations. will take part in the program. Madam Autoinette Sterling', the celebrated English singer, is expected to sing. By vote of the last national convention there will be no meeting of the convention on Saturday afternoon, that time being left open for conferenee of superintendente of the forty different departmsnts of the work Kach national superintendent has issued a cali or a meeting of all delegates specially interested in her particular department, at uhich new and improved methodsof work will be recommended for the coming year.