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Show PREDICTS SPREAD OF PROHIBITION MOVEMENT DENVER, Colo.. Oct. 21. Milwaukee Milwau-kee representatives began work today among Ihc arriving delegates to the I thirty-fifth annual convention of the Womeu's Christian Temperance union to have that city chosen as convention citrnext. year. Omaha also will extend an invitation. Moro than 200 delegates dele-gates and several hundred other members mem-bers of the organization have already arrived to attend tho sessions of the convention, which will begin next Friday Fri-day morning. A session of the. official board was hold today and tho ImAi'imss f I gating the work of the superintendents taken up. A meeting of slate superintendent1; was also held and plans developed for a demonstration, which is to be held in the Auditorium Tuesday night, in which all the state superintendents will participate. Mrs. Frances W. Loiter Jhe chairman of tho national superintendents super-intendents of departments, will havo charge of tho demonstration. "T predict, thnt in ton vears tho prohibition movement will covr tho ontire nation." said Mrs. Lillian M N. Stevens of Portland. Mo., president 1 of tho Woman's Christian Temperance ' union, today. j 'It is not a spasmodic effort, but a substantial and hcalthv gain which cannot bo checked bv any amount of opposition. We now have nine states Alabama. Arkansas. Georgia. Kansas Maine. Mississippi North Carolina; Isorth Dakota and Oklahoma which have gone for prohibition, and thero aro others on the road, especially West. Virginia. We are also looking for good news irom Tennessee, and wp hope' before be-fore long to sec Colorado in tho column." |