Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1875 — Temperance Meetings. [ARTICLE]

Temperance Meetings.

The meeting at the Christian church on Monday evening was attended by fifty or sixty persons, among whom were several of the earnest and efficient workers in the cause of temperance of this town and vicinity. The exercises were, singing songs appropriate to the occasion, music, reading temperance passages from the bible, the perfection of an organization named the Jasper County Temperance Union by electing officers, and a discussion of the object and aims of the new-born association. The officers, who are elected for a term of three months, are, Dr. Ira C. Kelley, president; Mr. Harvey W. Wood, vice president; Miss Candace Boroughs, secretary; and Mrs. Rev. S. E, Rogers, treasurer. It was said that the general purpose of the society is to keep alive and promulgate a healthy temperance sentiment in community, aud its special object is to defeat, if possible, the efforts of persons to obtain license to retail spiritous liquors in the county. For the present, weekly meetings are to be held, at which new and attractive programmes of exercises will be presented each evening. Next Monday night the meeting will be held at the court house, when the order of exercises will be as follows: 1. Singing by the choir. 2. Reading a portion of the Scriptures. 3. Reading minutes of the last meeting. 4. Speeches. 5. Intermission of five minutes. 6. Singing by the choir. 7. Declamations. 8. Miscellaneous business. 9. Singing by the choir, and closing. Exercises will be commenced at Beven o’clock, and the committee earnestly solicit all to lend a helping hand for the gpod work.