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Woman's Christian Temperance Union minutes, Grinnell, Iowa, 1928-1976

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Miss Jennie Baily was chosen to make provision for the window to be used for the Market Day. Miss Harriett Buck announced a legacy that Mr. Robbins had given the Union. A sum amounting to $146. Meeting closed by the repealing of the [illegible] Mrs. Richard Sec. The March 1926 meeting met with Mrs. A.J. Brakely on the sixteenth. The president opened the meeting in the usual way by a song. The one selected was Work for Enforcement where You Are The president read the scriptures - [illegible] on Freedom. The only real freedom is obtained through the true and living God. After the devotionals we listened to a instrumental solo Jesus Lover of my Souls. which was appreciated and due credit was given to the [illegible] Mrs. R.T. Miles as it was well rendered. Following the music Dr. Bliss gave a talk on Medical Temperance Including All Habit Forming Drugs. The wonderful body that we live in has been given us as a temple in which we live The mind in normal condition, should rule the body but under drug abuse the body rules the mind Mrs. G.W. Richards, Sec. April 20, 1926 the W.C.T.U. met with Mrs. L.E. Dow. Two rooms were filled with those present. Mrs. Robert Lincoln the president presided. "All Round the World" was sung. Mrs. C.N. Smiley played a beautiful piano solo. Mrs. C.S. Woods read the first chapter of James. Rev. Edward F. Bosworth the new pastor of the congregational church lead in prayer and then made some interesting and instructive remark centering around the statement that he was

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Miss Jennie Baily was chosen to make provision for the window to be used for the Market Day. Miss Harriett Buck announced a legacy that Mr. Robbins had given the Union. A sum amounting to $146. Meeting closed by the repealing of the [illegible] Mrs. Richard Sec. The March 1926 meeting met with Mrs. A.J. Brakely on the sixteenth. The president opened the meeting in the usual way by a song. The one selected was Work for Enforcement where You Are The president read the scriptures - [illegible] on Freedom. The only real freedom is obtained through the true and living God. After the devotionals we listened to a instrumental solo Jesus Lover of my Souls. which was appreciated and due credit was given to the [illegible] Mrs. R.T. Miles as it was well rendered. Following the music Dr. Bliss gave a talk on Medical Temperance Including All Habit Forming Drugs. The wonderful body that we live in has been given us as a temple in which we live The mind in normal condition, should rule the body but under drug abuse the body rules the mind Mrs. G.W. Richards, Sec. April 20, 1926 the W.C.T.U. met with Mrs. L.E. Dow. Two rooms were filled with those present. Mrs. Robert Lincoln the president presided. "All Round the World" was sung. Mrs. C.N. Smiley played a beautiful piano solo. Mrs. C.S. Woods read the first chapter of James. Rev. Edward F. Bosworth the new pastor of the congregational church lead in prayer and then made some interesting and instructive remark centering around the statement that he was