Good Templars 1907

Waupaca Record

August 8, 1907

GOOD TEMPLARS CLOSE SESSION

The Most Interesting Program in the History of the Assembly

Assembly Hall Too Small

The Seventeenth Annual Session of the Wisconsin Good Templar Training school and the Ninth Annual Assembly, which was held at Camp Cleghorn during the past three weeks closed on Monday evening by a very enjoyable concert given under the direction of the choral leaders Prof. and Mrs. Goddard of Waukesha.

The entire program as announced at the opening of the session was carried out in every detail and never before have so many people of national reputation visited Waupaca in so short a time as appeared on the Camp Cleghorn program this year.

The attendance during the entire session was a little less than last year owing to the late season which kept the farmers at home to attend to their harvesting. On Sunday however the attendance exceeded that of any other day in the history of the assembly. It is estimated that more than 6,000 people visited the grounds on that day. The assembly hall was found last year inadequate for the accommodation of those attending the meetings and an auditorium with a seating capacity of 5,000 was planned but no steps have yet been taken for its erection.

The Good Templar work is gaining ground each year in our state and the management is deserving of great credit for the faithful and efficient work accomplished.

On Sunday Bishop Fallows of Chicago addressed the assembly at the morning session on the subject “All Things Are Yours”. There were hundreds of people about outside unable to hear. It was a masterly discourse broad and liberal enough to include all creeds and reflected the breadth of the mind of the man who gave it.

In the afternoon Capt. Jack Crawford, the poet scout, gave a characteristic speech which carried his large audience with him for two hours. His manner, style and language savor of the western plains and his earnestness in the cause of temperance also savors of the great earnestness of the people of the western plains in the early day.

Mrs. Florence D. Richards, who is a great favorite with the patrons of Camp Cleghorn gave the address in the evening and the session closed on Monday.