Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1918 — MEMORIAL TO CARRIE NATION [ARTICLE]

MEMORIAL TO CARRIE NATION

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Will Erect Drinking Fountain at Wichita. Wichita, Kan. —The Kansas Woman’s Christian Temperance union will erect a drinking fountain here near the Union station as a memorial to the late Carrie .Nation. The State association has Voted SI,OOO to be devoted to that purpose. The city commissioners have agreed to accept the fountain in the name of the city, and to maintain the water supply. It was in this city that Mrs. Nation began her nation-wide campaign of saloon smashing, many years ago.