Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1916 — W. C. T. U. CONVENTION OPENS [ARTICLE]

W. C. T. U. CONVENTION OPENS

“Dry” Leaders at Indianapolis Discuss Plans for Prohibition Amendment ■ in Constitution. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 17.—Results of the presidential election bearing on the possibility of a prohibition amendment in the federal constitution were discussed at the opening of the convention of the Women’s Christian Temperance union here today, following the address of the organization’s president, Miss Anna A. Gordon of Evanston,! 111. The convention will continue six days. A novel feature will be the “efficiency congress” to be held every morning for the purpose of training temperance workers. More than 40 specialists in the different departments of W. C. T. U. service will lecture at these meetings.