DRINK SECCOMBE'S PURE ALE AND STOUT.
but found instead that it was an appeal to join the Blue Eibbon army. Then there was a good cup of coffee handed round, whh cake and fruit, after which Mr George Aldridge gave a short speech, and in ' Army ' style finished up by singing a hymn, accompanying himßelf on the concertina. The resemblance to the • Army ' was kept, up by the sending round of ' canaries ' to cadge donations. Ladies eang and played Bweetly, short addresses were given, and a young man gave an excellent recitation showing how a congregation chose their parson for his physical courage (not a very Scriptural method, I fancy.) I went home, however, with enlarged ideas of the Gospel Temperance Mission. If to listen to ' Jolly Dogs, 1 and to gaze at artistic advertisements of prize beer are included in the objects of the Blue Ribbon Army, aDd if all its members are jolly dogs of the stamp that filled the Foresters' Hall last Tuesday night, it ought to b 8 encouraged.
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Observer, Volume XI, Issue 648, 30 May 1891, Page 1
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173DRINK SECCOMBE'S PURE ALE AND STOUT. Observer, Volume XI, Issue 648, 30 May 1891, Page 1
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