Two Decades

is a fountain of li

e Woman's Christian Temperance Union, with memorial, petition, and protest, marched over the roads leading to the legisl

for congress and the state legislature, from the last of which a single article is quoted, viz.: "That no license to sell intoxicating drinks in any place be issued except when a majority of women residents, as well as men, above the age of twenty-one years, d

. E.M.J. Decker. The petition contained 10,431 names. Mrs Burt, in reporting the work at the next convention, said "A page carried the bulky docu

Public meetings were held and petitions circulated in its behalf. These petitions recorded 57,419 names. February 5, 1884, the bill passed the senate, twenty-two voting for and two against it; March 3 it passed t

udy of Physiology and Hyg

in all schools supported by public money, or under state control, in physiology and hygiene, with s

first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, who has not passed a satisfactory examination in physiology an

e and assembly. It was defeated in the house by a vote of forty-two to fifty-four, and in the sen

Roscoe Edgett, of Fairport, the superintendent of the department, was indefatigable in her efforts to secure th

or horticultural fair is being held, any strong or spirituous liquors, wine, ale, beer, or fermented cider; and it shall not be lawful for any person to sell or give away strong or spirituous liquors, wines, ales, beer, or fermente

to her own ruin, and the despoiler of her virtue go unpunished. In April of that yea

e purpose of prostitution, ... is guilty of abduction, punishable by imprisonm

ating of separate houses of detention for female delinquents. In securing this law the Woman's Christian Temperance Union co-operated with other societies. In 1891 an amendment to this law was

York and Brooklyn, and in the cities of New York and Brooklyn the boards of commissioners of police of said cities respectively, shall, within three months after the

L. Bullock, of Elmira, the followi

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e, relating to Children; became a law, with

York, represented in Senate and

e Penal Code is hereby amend

or tobacco in any of its forms to any child, actually or appare

t shall take ef

attaching a penalty for

enal Code, relating to Children; app

l Code is hereby amended by adding

r tobacco in any form whatsoever, in any public street, place, or resort. A violation of this subdivision shall be a

ect on the first day of Septemb

s no sooner became known to the members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union than an effort was made to

ding the hiri

York, represented in Senate and

to compound or dispense intoxicating beverages in a

aid, or to compound or dispense intoxicating beverages in any place w

t shall take ef

nt prevented the introduction into this state of

ork State exhibit at the Columbian Exhibition was passed, thus placi

t of the State of New York at th

to the public on Sunday, and the general managers herein provided for shal

the legislature, receiving such conside

CTMENT OF A LAW

Assembly of the

he State of New York will be introduced in the legislature, and that one of the provisions of the bill is the compulsory medical

emium on the

branch of municipal government

ulsory medical examination upon wom

and means the practical slavery

eel its introduction in the legislature to

d appeal to you to use your influence and, if necessa

LL OF THE STATE LIQUO

tain saloons in certain localities in cities; for the sale of wine and beer after one o'clock in the morning at public balls and entertainments given by any incorporated association; abolishes the requirement of rea

is bill means for the state more drunkenness, more crimes and outrages of every sort, more poverty, more suffering, more darkened lives and ruined homes, we, the unders

stitutional amendment, the vote to be taken in April, 1892. In anticipation of this event, petitions were circulated throughout the state in behalf at this cause, the grand to

omen. Through winter's cold and summer's heat this work went bravely on, and 37,624 names were secured to the prohibition petition, and 36,086 to the one asking for woman's enfranchisement. These petitions were pasted on cloth, in a double row of names, and measured, when done, 475 yards. Mrs. Graham, who had them in charge, after pasting, arranged them in four large rolls and tied each with a white satin ribbon. June 28, 1894, th

s the expenditure of time and strength devoted to this work. Truly it may be said of the w

geanna M.

GEANNA M.

ING SEC

s, and was elected for the thirteenth time at Jamestown in October, 1894. She has rare qualif

a state convention, faithfully recording motions, amendments, amendments to the amendment, substitutes, and the thousand-and-one things that make up the business of one of the great meetings of the Empire State, and then com

les the state reports, which are models of exc

Remington. At the age of sixteen she professed Christ and joined the First Baptist Church of Oswego, of which she is still a member. She began at once to teac

iational director of the women's Baptist home mission work for the co

g filled that important and influential role for many years. During all these years her pupils have been largely boys and young men, over whom

n was organized she became a member of the local union of her city, and has since that time been prominently connected with the temperance work of the city and county. She assisted in organizing the county Woma

nted with a beautiful gold watch and chain as a slig

h the utmost good will, awards extreme delight to her hearers. Her addresses are marked by forcible and orig

the first illustrated lesson in the state upon the nature and effects of alcohol upon the human system, and has sin

he is deeply interested in the humane

time during the past few months has been devoted to searching the records and statistics of the past tw

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