People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — The Temperance Conventions. [ARTICLE]

The Temperance Conventions.

The World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance union and the National Woman’s Christian Temperance union of the United States will hold their conventions on successive days beginning October 16, 1893, in the city of Chicago, in the Memorial Art Institute building, in which are held all the great congresses of the Columbian exposition year. This will be the twentieth convention of ths White Ribboners of the United States and the second biennial convention of the World’s W. C. T. U. The convention of the World’s W. C. T. U. will be composed of its general officers and executive committee, the secretaries and treasurers of auxiliary national societies, the world’s superintendents of departments, the editors and publishers of the official organ and one additional delegate for every one tkousand members of auxiliary national societies. Fobty-fivk engines are in the power plant, not including motors scattered all through the White City. There is one engine twice as large as the great Corliss over which the world wondered at the centennial.