A TEMPERANCE REVIVAL.
Enthusiastic Meeting Sunday Evening—Every Place where Liquor is Sold
in Fredonia Visited by a Band of One Hundred Women on Monday—They
Appeal to the Proprietors to Stop the Traffic—A Season of Prayer and
Hymns in Rum Shops.
On Monday afternoon, December 21, the women met to perfect a permanent organization, which they did by adopting the following pledge and name:
PLEDGE.
We, the undersigned women of Fredonia, feeling that God has laid upon us a work to do for temperance, do hereby pledge ourselves to united and continuous effort to suppress the traffic in intoxicating liquors in our village until this work be accomplished; and that we will stand ready for united effort upon any renewal of the traffic. We will also do what we can to alleviate the woes of drunkards' families, and to rescue from drunkenness those who are pursuing its ways.
NAME.
This society shall be known as The Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Fredonia.
Two hundred and eight members were enrolled, sixty-four of whom were young women. The first officers were: Mrs. George Barker, President; Mrs. D. R. Barker, Vice-President; Mrs. L. A. Barmore, Secretary; Mrs. L. L. Riggs, Treasurer.
Thus was the wonderful movement called "The Crusade" begun, and the first local Woman's Christian Temperance Union organized.