WOODLAND H. AND T. CLUB.
By John G. Overshiner
The Woodland Health and Temperance Club held its regular monthly meeting at the Adventist church on Saturday evening, Feb. 12. The programme was varied and interesting. An essay by Mrs. J. W. Peek, select reading by Mrs. Gould, recitations by Misses Florence Grayson and Daisy Douglass were interesting features of the entertainment, while the choir enlivened the exercises with solos, quartettes, and anthems. The lecturer of the evening, Judge Jas. Johnson of this place, delivered a short and instructive discourse. Among other things, he tried to impress upon the minds of all present the importance of union among the advocates of temperance. He said he did not wish to decry any of the various temperance organizations, but would rather encourage and assist them to advance in their noble work. He thought, however, that more good could be accomplished by united efforts than by working separately through different organizations. At the conclusion of his remarks, the leader, Mr. Wm. Saunders, stated that he concurred with the remarks which had been made, and that one of the objects of the Health and Temperance Association was to give an opportunity to all interested in the temperance cause to work together harmoniously through the free public meetings of the Association. The solicitors obtained three signers to the Teetotal Pledge, one to the Anti-Rum and Tobacco, and four to the Anti-Whisky Pledge, and distributed four hundred and eighty-one pages of temperance tracts. Total membership of the club, 130. The opening prayer and the benediction was offered by Rev. E. M. Stuart. The exercises of the evening passed off pleasantly, and the members of the club feel encouraged with the progress it is making, and will endeavor to make it the banner club of the State. JOHN G. OVERSHINER, Sec'y.