Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1912 — Noted Temperance Lecturer Coming [ARTICLE]

Noted Temperance Lecturer Coming

The state president of the W. C. T. U. society, Mrs. Culla J. Vayhinger of Upland, has engaged the noted temperance lecturer and evangelist, Mrs. S., B. Shaw of Grand Rapids, Mich., for a two months’ campaign. She will visit the leading towns in northwestern Indiana and hold in all of the leading \Mrs. Shaw is creating much interesNand—is—organizing new unions in many places. SLhe is highly indorsed by many of the state presidents and by many of the local unions of the W. G. T. U. She is an authority on the White Slave Traffic, a forceful and convincing speaker on the liquor problem. Mrs. Shaw is the state evangelist for the Michigan W. C. T. U. and has been prominent in evangelistic and temperance work for more than a quarter of a century. Her husband, Rev. S. B. Shaw, is the author % of, a number of religious books that have had a sale of over a million copies. She also has three sons who are lecturing against the saloon. Her third son, Elton R. Shaw is candidate for congress on the Prohibition ticket and is author of the weil known temperance book, “The Curse of brink, or Stories of Hell’s Commerce”. 1 Mrs. Shaw will speak in Rensselaer, Tuesday and Wednesday, the 27th and 28th of August. 1