The Temperance Union’s Grand Flower Festival

The regular weekly meeting of the W.C.T.U. was held Friday afternoon in the headquarters of the union. Five new members united with the association. Two of them were Mrs. W. M. Miller of Denver, Col., and Mrs. A. J. Blake of Oakland, Cal., well known W.C.T.U. workers. The union decided to engage Mrs. Baker, of Iowa, to lecture here late in April. It was decided to invite the Vashon union to meet with the union next Friday. The last order of business was the naming and election of the officers and chairmen of the various committees on the flower festival. The result was as follows: President, Mrs. H. E. Parkhurst; secretary, Mrs. A. J. Blake; treasurer, Miss J. Hough; general manager, Mrs. M. B. Handsaker; committee on entertainment, Mrs. M. B. Handsaker, chairman; culinary, Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Kate Bryant; lemonade, Mrs. Geo. B. Adair and Mrs. Angus Mackintosh; rose booth, Mrs. J. Blake; fern booth, Mrs. A. B. Stewart; mikado, Mrs. Elliot W. Brown; orange booth, Miss J. Hough; pansy and violet, Mrs. J. T. Ronald; cut flowers, Mrs. Whitaker; Washington Territory booth, Mrs. Maddox; Washington state booth, Mrs. Gov. E. C. Squire; committee to secure floral exhibits, Mrs. Jaycox; committee on school flower displays, City Superintendent Kennedy; church exhibits, Mrs. Whitaker; union exhibits, Mrs. Lee; foreign church exhibits, Mrs. Hierkiley; Good Templar exhibits, Mrs. L. Crockett.