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WHITESTOWN CHAPTER NO. 248, ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR, WHITESTOWN, INDIANA.
Charter dated, April 26, 1900.
Past Worthy Matrons-Mrs. Jennie Little, 1900; Pearl Linville, 1901, 1902; Dora Groover, 1903; Mrs. Ada Bruce, 1904; Mrs. Pearl Goodwin, 1905, 1908, 1909, 1912; Mrs. Maggie Barns, 1906; Mrs. Laura Scott, 1907; Mrs. Mary Marshal, 1910; Mrs. Effie Livengood, 191I.
Past Worthy Patrons-William A. Livengood, 1901, 1905; William Threewits, 1902, 1903; John Bruce, 1904; Walter Schooler, 1906, 1907, 1909, 1910 and 1912; Harley Goodwin, 1908, 191I.
Officers 1912-Mrs. Pearl Goodwin, worthy matron; Walter Schooler, worthy patron; Julia Dulin, assistant matron; Mrs. Effie Livengood, secre- tary; Mrs. Maggie Huckleberry, treasurer; Ina Morris, conductress; Mattie Schooler, assistant conductress; Mrs. Mary Marshall, chaplain; Emma Turner, marshal; Mrs. Eva Dulin Ottinger, Adah; Vina Dulin, Ruth; Bonnie McKinsey, Esther; Oma Dulin, Martha ; Savanah Bryce, Electa; Ida Liven- good, warden; Butler Huckelberry, sentinel; Cora Mckinney, organist. Regular meetings, after the full moon of each month.
BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS.
Lebanon Lodge No. 635, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, was instituted on July 25, 1901, with thirty-four charter members, as follows:
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J. W. Shumate, Elbert Perkins, Charles E. Norwood, O. Rush Daily, Mor- ton Eichman, James N. Ritchie, Martin Mayer, O. E. Wilcox, Ellis G. Dar- nall, Samuel H. McDaniel, Alonzo Varutz, Philip Adler, Frank Daily, Ar- thur R. Brown, Charles J. Stewart, E. T. Collings, Charles D. King, Walter G. Brown, Oliver P. Perkins, John B. Shelby, Carl M .. Bounell, Max Eich- man, Frank E. Parr, Isaac P. Hooton, Isadore Eichman, C. D. Daily, J. E. Riley, P. C. Shoemaker, R. C. Peters, A. J. Shelby, W. E. Price, Charles Legan, George M. Comley, John H. Hoy.
Lebanon Lodge has one hundred and seventy-two active members De- cember 1, 1914, and the officers are as follows: Exalted ruler, Walter H. Hodge; esteemed leading knight, Omer A. Burgin; esteemed loyal knight, William J. Wood; esteemed lecturing knight, Noble P. Shelby ; secretary, J. Richard Beck; treasurer, Len Titus; tyler, Norval H. Neas; esquire, Floyd N. Worrell; inner guard, John Huber; chaplain, Asher C. Jacobs; trustees, J. Ed. Riley, Earl M. Adney, Frank O. Meyers.
MODERN WOODMEN.
This order has several flourishing camps located in the county, but we have not been able to obtain a full report of each that we desired for this work. There is a camp at Thorntown, Number 5069, Dr. J. S. Shields, clerk. There are two camps at Lebanon. Ora Nelson is clerk of the old camp. There is also a camp located at Zionsville, with Doctor Brendel as clerk, one at Elizaville, with Ed. Silver as clerk. There are also camps at Whitestown, Max and at Jamestown.
Modern Woodmen, Lebanon .- Lodge No. 3286 of this order holds its meetings regularly on each Tuesday evening at Woodmen Hall.
Cedar Camp No. 1019, Royal Neighbors of America, is the ladies aux- iliary of the Modern Woodmen and meets on the first and third Wednesday of each month. It was organized May 15, 1897.
IMPROVED ORDER OF RED MEN.
Winnebago Tribe No. 36 Improved Order of Red Men was organized May 15, 1873, at Lebanon, Indiana, by the Court Chiefs of Indiana and
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members of Red Cloud Tribe No. 78, of Indianapolis, Indiana. The chiefs elected were: Prophet, L. V. B. Taylor; Sachem, John M. Scott; Senior Sagamore, Dr. W. P. Parr; Junior Sagamore, William O. Berryhill; Chief of Records, Robert W. Matthews; K. of W., Samuel S. Daily.
Other charter members were Charles S. Riley, William A. Kenworthy, , Ben. A. Smith, Charles W. Scott and William O. Darnell.
The Great Council of Indiana held its session in the Wigwam of Win- nebago Tribe in Lebanon, Indiana, on the third Tuesday of October, 1879.
Members of Winnebago Tribe organized the tribes at Frankfort, Clin- ton county ; Zionsville, Thorntown, Jamestown, Advance, Whitestown, Fay- ette, Elizaville, Mechanicsburg and Rosston, Boone county. They also have been factors in the organization of several tribes in adjoining counties.
Tribes now in Boone county are as follows: Winnebago No. 36, Leb- anon, 508 members, Chief of Records, W. D. Martin; Nipmuck No. 141, Advance, 216 members, Chief of Records, Charles E. McClain, box 135; Calumet No. 166, Jamestown, 70 members, Chief of Records, C. H. Goudy ; Oniska No. 225, Reese's Mill, 114 members, Chief of Records, John S. More, R. R. 9, Lebanon ; Metoska, No. 273, Rosston, 146 members, Chief of Records, Perry T. Hancock; Ouequa No. 386, Elizaville, 115 members, Chief of Records, John F. Mckinley, R. R. 6; Merrimac No. 404, Whites- town, 92 members, Chief of Records, L. E. Smith; Tonapah No. 429, Fay- ette, 88 members, Chief of Records, Ronald Everett, R. R. I, Brownsburg; Zecana No. 504, Zionsville, 121 members, Chief of Records, Andrew Sheets.
All of the tribes pay a sick benefit and care for the sick when necessary by nurses.
All pay a death benefit on death of the wife of a member, also a funeral benefit on death of a member, the majority of the tribes pay $1.00 for each member in good standing to the family on the decease of a member.
The order also has a fund for the relief of orphans, who are cared for in private families, when there are no relatives to care for them.
There is also the degree of Pocahontas which is under the control of the Great Council of the United States Improved Order of Red Men; this branch of the order is prospering and doing a good work. While this de- gree is controlled and directed in this state by the women, who are the chiefs and officials, any Red Man in good standing in his tribe can become a mem- ber of this degree and have a voice in the proceedings of councils.
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GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC.
The second Grand Army of the Republic organized in the state of Indi- ana was the McPherson Post No. 2, at Lebanon, was in 1866. It continued for several years, but finally surrendered its charter. Among its original members were Capt. Felix Shumate, Capt. J. O. Pedigo, J. M. Martin, H. Olive, Capt. T. H. Martin and others.
Rich Mountain Post No. 42, Lebanon, was organized January 19, 1882, with the following post officers: Jesse Neff, post commander; W. H. Schultz, senior vice-commander; Jacob S. Cobb, junior commander; Felix Shumate, officer of the day; W. H. Jacks, officer of the guard; Charles W. Scott, quartermaster ; J. O. Pedigo, adjutant and D. M. Burns, chaplain. The post was organized by Gen. James R. Carnahan, who was Department Commander at that time.
In the new court house is provided commodious apartments for the Grand Army of the Republic on the first floor, well fitted and arranged for their accommodation and comfort. The long lapse of time since the Civil war has thinned the ranks of the veterans, so that the post at Thorntown and many other posts in the county, have been discontinued and the few re- maining have changed their membership to the post at Lebanon. A few more years at best, and all the braves of the war of 1861-65 will be at rest in the realm of triumph where they war no more. The honored band be- comes history complete and their names will be retained in the memory of a grateful people as the years roll by. The country with its preserved institu- tions of liberty and equal rights will remain as the lasting monument of their bravery and sacrifice. The baptism of that struggle established the per- manency of our institutions and the stability of our union. Wars may cease, and the Grand Army of the Republic, as an institution may pass away in the progress of civilization, but the principles and the sacrifices of men to maintain them, will stand as the rocks and be a lasting monument to the memory of those that stood in battle for their maintenance.
WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS.
The local organization of the Woman's Relief Corps was instituted June 21, 1889, by Mrs. Melissa Caylor, of Indianapolis, who was then department president. She was assisted by the Westfield corps. There
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were forty-two charter members, as follows: Annie Anderson, Lizzie Anderson, Addie Artman, Laura Abbott, Mary Bennett, Julia E. Bower, Maggie Bragg, Rebecca Breedlove, Sarah J. Browne, Malinda Camp- bell, Mary Conyers, Sophia Cook, Mary Davidson, Mattie Dicks, Mol- lie E. Felton, Julia Hardy, Celia Hardy, Lizzie Harrison, Ann Jacks, Mary E. Kersey, Susan E. Kise, Alice Lanpher, Martha Ludlow, Carrie Olive, Mary E. Pedigo, Ann Perkins, Mary Perkins, Sallie Powell, Lizzie Scott, Hester Shore, Rebecca Small, Mattie Smith, Lizzie Thompson, Mary Walker, Sarah Watts, Nancy Whitt, Addie Williams, Ella Wills, Nora Woods, Isabelle Woods, Amy Wright. Ten of these ladies still retain membership in the corps-Alice Lanpher, Malinda Campbell, Lizzie Anderson, Anne Anderson, Mary Davidson, Mattie Dicks, Hester Shore, Nancy Whitt, Martha Ludlow, Sophia Cook. The deceased charter members are, Mary Perkins, Martha Kersey, Mattie Smith, Mary E. Ker- sey, Amy Wright, Sallie Perrill, Mary Bennett, Mary Conyers. The other charter members have withdrawn from the corps.
The local Woman's Relief Corps now has 112 members, and the organi- zation is doing much good in looking after the widows and orphans of deceased soldiers. The present officers of the Woman's Relief Corps are: President, Isabelle Bennett; senior vice, Lizzie Roberts; junior vice, Eliza Powell; secretary, Alice Lanpher; treasurer, Sarah Watts; guard, Emma Hamilton; assistant, Nannie Trees; conductress, Dorothy Kincaid; assistant, Pet Cobb; chaplain, Sadie Saunders ; press correspondent, Sarah Osborne; patriotic instructor, Anna Frank; first color bearer, Alice Stephenson; second color bearer, Nora Chambers; third color bearer, Mattie Abernathy; fourth color bearer, Nora Chambers; pianist, Martha Wheeler.
The following are the names of Lebanon clubs, giving the names of the president and secretary of each: Magazine, federated, Mrs. Ethel Coombs, president; Mrs. Winafred Fish, secretary; Research Club, feder- ated; Mrs. Belle Hutchings, president; Mrs. Ella Lane, secretary ; Tourist Club, federated; Mrs. Cora Williams, president ; Mrs. Clara Bush, secretary ; Bay View Club, federated; Mrs. Ella Shumate, president; Mrs. Della Jones, secretary ; Florentine Club, not federated; Mrs. Mary Hadley, president ; Miss Helen Caldwell, secretary; Travel Club, not federated; Mrs. Carrie Ed- wards, president; Miss Katherine Wilson, secretary ; Domestic Science Club, not federated; Mrs. Jessie Coons, president ; Mrs. Adah Richey, secretary ;
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Cooking Club, not federated; Mrs. Elizabeth Hill, president; Mrs Ruth Mc- Intire, secretary.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
Lebanon Lodge No. 45, Knights of Pythias, instituted April 16, 1874, with fourteen charter members. Present membership, 328.
Lodge is now located on third floor of Castle Hall building.
It owns 114 of the 250 shares in the Castle Hall Building Association. Par value of the lodge's stock, $11,400.00.
EDMUND CONNOR, K. of R. & S.
The lodge also owns a house and lot in which the family of Joseph Beard, deceased, are living, rent free.
Thorntown Lodge No. 124, present officers, July 1, 1914: Chancellor commander, Albert Cassady ; vice-chancellor, Fred Campbell; prelate, John Hewett ; master of exchequer, Arthur C. Taylor; master of finance, Joe C. Jaques ; keeper of records and seal, W. W. Smiley; master of arms, Bert Miller ; inner guard, J. Denney ; outer guard, Sherman Gregory ; trustees, S. V. Titus, H. W. Huber, Al Griffin.
Thorntown Lodge No. 124, Knights of Pythias was organized April 27, 1885: Chancellor commander, Milroy L. Witt; vice-chancellor, J. W. Witt; prelate, S. L. Potter ; master of Arms, Foster Vestel; master of exchequer, Everett E. Moffitt ; master of finance, Charles M. Thompson; keeper of rec- ords and seal, Carrol E. Young: inner guard, J. D. C. Hammond; outer guard, F. E. Clark ; trustees, R. S. Stall, James P. Staley, T. E. Bradshaw.
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS.
Lodge number, location, noble grand, financial secretary and meeting follow :
Osceola 173, Thorntown, Ernest McKern, W. W. Morris, Thursday. Luther 227, Jamestown, J. F. Proctor, K. F. McCormick, Tuesday. Zionsville 285, Zionsville, Frank Petry, John E. Beelar, Wednesday. Whitestown 355, Whitestown, Ora Caldwell, S. R. Neese, Saturday. Hart 413, Reese's Mills, O. T. George, J. S. Moore, Saturday. Ben Adhem 472, Lebanon, John Budd, C. F. Langjahr, Monday. Max 759, Max, William DeBard, William L. Bennington, Tuesday. Pride of Boone 782, Terhune, J. D. French, L. O. Wallace, Friday.
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Advance 806, Advance, Emery Proffitt, F. M. Craver, Wednesday. Fayette 839, Fayette, Fred C. Thorp, C. B. Phillips, Thursday.
CHAPTER A, P. E. O. SISTERHOOD.
Organized Thorntown, Indiana, March 26th, 1886.
Charter members, Mrs. Laura (Craven) Rice, Miss Lottie (Crouch) Osborne, Miss Luella Masters, Mrs. Emma (Campbell) LaFollette, Mrs. Clara (LaFollette) Nash, Miss Olive Welch and Miss Anna Welch.
Number of active members in 1914, fifty-two; non-resident members, twenty ; total, seventy-two.
A chapter was organized at Lebanon in August, 1888. Charter mem- bers, Mrs. Kate Kelsey, Mrs. May Wilson, Mrs. Josie Saltzgaber, Mrs. Mol- lie Lane, Mrs. Maggie Davis, Mrs. Della Vantruys, Mrs. Neva Busby. Was disbanded later.
Two other chapters were organized in the state, one at Knightstown in 1888; was but a few years old when it disbanded.
The one at Knox, organized in 1898, is a flourishing chapter.
Thorntown P. E. O. Chapter has lived to be near twenty-nine years old and is a loyal P. E. O. chapter. All the members are busy women, with the various duties that come their way as housewives, teachers and various oc- cupations-but by adhering to the principles of this sisterhood, the P. E. O. star brightens the path and distributes pleasure in the lives of those with whom it comes in contact.
"In Life-not death
Hearts need fond words to help them on their way, Need tender thoughts, and gentle sympathy
Caresses, pleasant looks to cheer each passing day Then hoard them not, until they useless be In Life-not death Speak kindly, living hearts need sympathy."
FACTS ABOUT P. E. O.
Organized by seven girls at Wesleyan University, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, in January, 1869, composed of local chapters, state grand chapters and supreme chapter.
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Largest exclusive woman's organization in the world.
Object and aim is general improvement. Influence is educational.
Direct work is along literary, social, charitable and philanthropic lines.
Official magazine is P. E. O. Record, published monthly and furnished each member.
Points of the P. E. O. star worn by members represent Faith, Love, Purity, Justice and Truth.
Colors are yellow and white. Flower is the Marguerite.
P. E. O. may have been established half in jest, half in earnest but the permanence and rapid growth of the order appears phenomenal.
MORE THAN A CENTURY OF TEMPERANCE.
From the time of Noah there has been drunkenness in the land. The first temperance association on record, since the days of the Rechabites-the first society organized-was at Moreau in Saratoga county, New York, in the year 1808 and was called the Moreau and Northumberland Temperance Society. Forty-seven citizens signed the articles of association and began operations. They sent our circulars to different parts of Europe giving the rise and purpose of their organization.
The constitution of the society provided that no member should drink rum, gin, whiskey, wine, or any distilled spirits, under a penalty of "twenty- five cents." It was deemed prudent to make an exception in favor of wine at public dinners.
In 1809 at New York "The Greenfield and Milton Temperance Society" was organized, on a similar basis except the wine clause was rejected. In June, 1812, a temperance society was organized at Bath, Maine, and a great bloodless revolution was begun by the General Assembly of Connecticut, rec- ommending all the ministers to preach on the evils of intemperance as it then existed. A careful estimate gave 40,000 distilleries throwing out thirty mil- lion gallons of intoxicants among nine million people. In 1813 the Massachu- setts society was organized at Boston and exerted a wide-spread influence.
In 1825 the Virginia State Society was formed. All the states of the north had been previously organized.
The years of 1826 and 1827 brought a new phase to the temperance movement. Total abstinence from wine and malt liquors indicated a second
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epoch at hand. It was during these years that Dr. Lyman Beecher pub- lished his series of sermons, which produced a great excitement wherever read.
In February, 1826, "The American Temperance Society" was organized in Boston and grew rapidly into favor and influence.
In 1828 there were over two hundred societies in the United States; in 1829 their number had increased to one thousand; and in 1832, ten thousand societies were reported by the American Temperance Society, embracing a membership of five hundred thousand.
In 1833 the American Temperance Union organized on the 24th day of May in Philadelphia, two hundred and forty delegates present declared the "traffic in ardent spirits is morally wrong." A number of societies were or- ganized on this broad platform, and in May over eight thousand members of the New York State Societies had signed the cold-water pledge, which num- ber in two years grew to eighteen thousand members. Sweden, Denmark, Prussia and Russia had also become interested in the temperance doctrine wafted to their shores by American philanthropy.
In 1840 Washingtonianism arose. In less than two years some hundreds of thousands signed the pledge of total abstinence, among whom were rep- uted to be fifty thousand drunkards.
In September, 1842, in Teetotaler's Hall, 71 Division street, New York, "The Order of Sons of Temperance" was formed, which in time arose to a national division, which became the guiding intellect of the movement, while the grand and subordinate divisions are its actual existence, as the repre- sentative of temperance.
In 1845, December 5th, the Good Templars were organized in New York, the first temple being in that city. No one was eligible as a member except a member of the Sons of Temperance. There arose a controversy between Templars and the Sons of Temperance, which was never har- monized and the Good Templars declared themselves free at Cincinnati in the year 1849.
In 1846 the liquor traffic was suppressed in Maine. In 1851 the Neal Dow Prohibition Maine law was passed, with a penalty of confiscating the liquors. This led to the organization of the National Liquor Dealers' Asso- ciation in New York the same year, 1851. This association passed a resolu- tion and stuck to it to this day: "That no candidate of any political party or
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faction will be supported by us who has not given his declaration in writing, that in case of election, he will act and vote against the Maine liquor law, or a law similar to it."
The early agitation of the slavery question was contemporaneous with the agitation of the liquor question. Each had been fomenting from the be- ginning of the century. It waxed hotter and hotter. The great senator of Massachusetts was caned in the senate because of his speech against slavery. The primary battle was fought in Kansas, where blood ran hot and fierce radicals were bred on either sides. John Brown carried the war into the Old Dominion and drew sword for the freedom of the slave. The powers of Virginia were too much for him, and Governor Wise had him swung be- tween heaven and earth. The real fight was now on. Blood ran hot. The temperance question was overshadowed. Thorntown, Boone county, was in the forefront of the double battle against slavery and the liquor vending. Kansas won for freedom. Lincoln was elected, and the real fight was on in earnest. The sword was drawn across the continent and blood flowed freely. The Rumites were vigilant for their own interests and the government was so eager in the fray against the slave power that was threatening the life of the government, that it lost sight of this subtle enemy, and actually took him into partnership, to raise money to prosecute the war for the salvation of the nation. During the smoke and din of the fearful battle, the red-dragon was hid from sight. All eyes and all forces were turned against the armies for slavery. As soon as the battle was over, and the smoke cleared away his heinous form arose to view; and men began to organize for a continuance of the battle, until men are free indeed and the last despot in the nation is subdued. In 1869 the Prohibitionists organized for political action; the fierce Crusade of the Women came upon the stage in 1873 and 1874 which sowed the seed for the W. C. T. U. that stands as an invincible army to this day. The sly "Raster Resolution" was passed that pledged the second great politi- cal organization to the liquor interest. Thus early in the 70's the great battle for moral principles is lined up for action. For more than a century the war has progressed and it is still raging. When and where the end will be, God alone can tell. We rest in the assurance that as sure as there is a living God in the heavens the right must triumph. The flood of rum became so over- whelming that the blue and red-ribbon movements were organized to save the victims that were swept down by the Phlegethon of rum.
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In 1884, July 24th, the men and women of Indiana met in convention to organize for political action against the rum power. This division of the army is still in the field with its armor on to do battle at the polls. We are living in an age when the church, all benevolent orders, commercial interests, our institutions of learning and public sentiment are lined up against the ad- vocates of the liquor traffic.
In 1854 Indiana voted for prohibition and the following legislature en- acted a law to that effect. It stood for about six months and was knocked out by the Supreme Court of the state.
THE LOCAL FIGHT.
Soon after the court's decision, localities over the state took up the fight. The citizens of Thorntown were in the midst of this fray, with the women in the foreground. The keepers of the doggeries were asked to desist their business of making drunkards. They were at that time not dignified as saloons and cafes with a license on the wall from the state to do the deadly work. The men did not close their doggeries and the women armed them- selves with axes and clubs, marched in a body to the dens and demolished them and poured the vile stuff into the gutters. The bravest of the heroines knocking in the heads of the barrels with an ax. This action ended the trat- fic in Thorntown and the moral standing of the community kept it out for seventeen years.
After the organization of the national prohibition party in 1869 and the · adoption of the Raster resolution by the Republicans in national convention of 1872 came another woman's crusade, with songs and prayers, this time instead of clubs and axes. The movement was simply marvelous, since it was God's work. The women actually prayed the saloons out of business. This tide arose in New York and Ohio and swept over the land. The women of Boone county were in the midst of the moral fight. As soon as the wave passed, the saloon men, backed by the strong arm of the license law, resumed business. The crusade and its prayers were overwhelmed by the statute of the state that supported the iniquity. Then came the organization of the W. C. T. U. that stands to this day in the fight. We would like to mention the noble women in Boone county that led out in this work and call the roll of honor that hold up the banner.
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The liquor traffic, backed by the law of the state, prevailed and set up business in Lebanon, Thorntown and all other towns in Boone county. The local fight and throughout the state continued. The state prohibition party was organized at Indianapolis July 23-24, 1884, to oppose the law that legal- izes the saloon. The first Prohibition convention held in Boone county was at Zionsville September, 1884. The first prohibition address in the county was at the Baptist church in Thorntown, October, 1884, by Col. Eli F. Ritter, of Indianapolis. During this long fight it was found out that prayers, and moral sentiment would not keep out the saloon as long as it was set up by the votes of men. From this knowledge came local and county option and by votes the saloon was shut out of Thorntown and Lebanon and the entire county. We trust under this system they are out to stay, although in some localities they are reinstated and retained by the votes of the people. When- ever civic ethics attain to the point that there are things that majorities have no right to enforce over minorities, then the liquor curse is doomed in all civilized lands. Class drunkard making as a crime, which it is, of deepest dye-and its legalization, will end as others have ended. The majority has no right in civics, or under the law of God to take property or life or char- acter of the souls of men. Slowly and surely the people of Boone are grow- ing toward this acme of civilization. It is a fight typical of the conflict in the state and the nation, aye, is world wide. Wherever there is a human being this principle of humanity must content. The church must lead if it follows the Master and all other forces must join hand and heart against the com- mon enemy. The most effective implements of warfare must be used. We are glad to live in a county where no one has legal authority to make another · drunk, to take his life, character or soul. This standard means lots in prog- ress. Thanks to the men and women who helped lift up the standard. We trust that it will never be lowered, but spread until it involves the state and all mankind in its righteous folds.
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