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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 115, 14 March 1885, Page 3

TWENTYTWO MAYORS ON TOTAL ABSTINENCE. (advertisement. ) ■ ■ ' ' (Continued). The Mayor of Scarborough (Thomas Whitiaker, Esq.) had shut his mouth to the drink forty-six years ago. and it was nearly forty-four years since he delirered bis first speech in Exeter Hall. He fought more elections than any man im Scarborough, but they had not cost more thaa £10 a head. When elected to the mayorality, he gare " a banquet, and put out the wine and took the women a vast improvement on the old guzzle ; and wheayouth and beauty, peace and plenty, joy and harmony, mirth and no sorrow, purity in deed and in truth, and the enjsyment of the evening did bear the reflection of the morrew.** The Mayor of Poole (George Curtis, Esq.). raid: " It is forty .four years since I signed the pledge.* I signed it as a youth-; »»d altiioukh I have been a housekeeper nearly forty years, not a drop of intoxicating liquor has ever cresset my lips or the threshold of my house* lean truly say that teetotalism is good for youth, for middle age, and for .old age. Twice it has pleased my feilowtowasmentoj>Uce me in.the chief position. |ty testimony goes with my compeers in this j^^,.aJßd it is to the e&Vot that, Vat '9* tB * o * r - >d , °? itroag drink, we : >liioulilMkTev#ry little to do upon the V«lie]^ ie^na* at least nine-tenths of the ' «Sm4S^io.thit.': ■. V . : " ' ' ■ ' ThVljafetfof Owertry (TUomai Minana|l^*fisf .): wmt in bis sereaty.seoond fem£bU---b*m % teetouler more than , thiftj^eftr* a«d had bees, itwiee elected taih*«||ee of ifayorV The first time WMi)»r^y_y ears ago, whejj. he. stipulated (fl t he woahi not gire an official dinner ; sad lt||ef tbirtj years be was elected « stnonjf.tSpJ>,i* November last. When tfceir nwtetflmildiiags wie»re=elttended' be