Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1881 — PROGRAMME OF TEMPERANCE MEETING. [ARTICLE]

PROGRAMME OF TEMPERANCE MEETING.

The regular meeting of the Rensselaer Blue Ribbon Temperance Union will be held at the Court House, Saturday evening, December 17, 1881.— The following is the programme of exercises: 1. Song by choir. 2. Prayer by Rev. Geo. Havens. 3. Reading minutes of previous meeting by Secretary. 4. Song by choir. 5. Reading Scriptures by the Vice President, Miss Amanda Osborn. 6 Song by choir. 7. Opening Remarks by Alfred Thompson. 8. Song by choir. 9. Remarks by Rev. £hilip McDade. 10. Song by choir. 11. Essay by Ollie Daugherty. 12. Song by choir. 13. Remarks by Chas. W. Coen. 14. Song by choir. 15. Remarks by Prof. W. DeM. Hooper. 16. Sorig by choir. 17. Remarks by Dr. Sam’l Ritchey. 18. Song by choir. 19 Miscellaneous remarks 20. Song by choir. 21. Closing remarks by Ex-Vice President Sampson Erwin. 22. Song by choir. 23. Benedi;tion by Rev. J. W. Loder. WM. RECK, Pres’t. Noble J. York, Sec’y, We are in receipt of the Song Fbiend for December. It is a valuable number, containing several interesting and instructive editorials; a beautiful Christmas poem by Miss Maria Straub; the musical news of Chicago, Boston, New York and the country generally; besides a fine lot of selected miscellany. It also contains one of Lange’s most desirable piano pieces, “Pure as Snow;” a beautiful new Song and Chorus, “lola of the Dell,” by the popular composer, Mr. T. M. Towne; and a Christmas Anthem, “Hark! What Mean those Holy Voices ?” by S. W. Straub. This anthem, we predict, will b 6 sung by many choirs throughout the country Christmas morning, as it is very beautiful. The Song Friend has been eniarg" ed, but the price remains the same’ SI,OO per year. A very low pi ice for so > aluable a journal- It is published by S. W. Straub. 69 Dearborn street; Chicago.

Mrs. Helen Donnelly and*llttle girl of Minneola, Texas, is visiting her father, Mr. Ellis Walton,and relatives and friends in this place and vicinity. Fine lot of Silver Ware, at Hamah’s.