Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-01-28 | Page 7 | Prohibitionists Hold Meetings

PROHIBITIONISTS MOLD MEETINGS Salt Lake, Jan. 28. Briefly reviewing re-viewing the temperance work of the ,past and making n strong appeal for state and national prohibition, Mrs. Lulu Loveland Shepard, president of the Utah branch of the W. C. T. U., closed the all-day prayer service of the local organization In the First Methodist church last night. The subject of Mrs. Shepard's address was, "A Saloonless Nation in 1920, and Why." The meeting, which was presided over by Mrs. Shepard, began at 10 o'clock yestcrdaV morning and consisted con-sisted of morning, afternoon and evening sessions. The morning session ses-sion waB largely devoted to prayer, and prayers were offered by the Rev. D. E. Carter, B. F. Bronson, Mrs. H. W. Pratt, Mrs Shepard and others, for those called to lead the W. C. T. U. in nation, state and local unions; for the president of the United States; for governors of the states; for congressmen and for tho voters of the country. A special prayer was offered by Miss Harriet Laney, deaconess of the First Methodist church, for Congressman Richmond Pearson Hobson of Alabama, who Is regarded by the W. C. T. U. as the strongest exponent of the day for national prohibition.