The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-05-22
YAMHILL COUNTY ". S. A.
FoURrEENrH REGULAR MEETISG.
1psr nAY-ArrEnNooN SESSION:

I FIRST DAY-AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Yamhill County Woman Suffrage
Association met at the academy
North Yamhill, Thursday, May l5th' at
the time appointed.
The President being absent, Mrs. NJ.
/ T. Stott took the chair as President pro
tenn.
Minutes Of the previous meeting read
and approved.
The members present had a general
talk on the Human Rights question
some feeling encouragement that the
good work was moving on.
On motion, Mrs. Emma Laughlin,
Mr.. Lee Laughliu and Mrs. Runneis
we're appointed Committee on Pro-
gramme.
No further business being before the
Association, it stood adjourned until
1880 o'clock p. NJ.
EVENING SESSION.
Meeting called to order by Mrs. II. a.
Loughary, acting President.
The Committee on Programme sub
mitted q order Of business which proved
quite interesting.
Music was furnished for the evening
by Miss Burlington, of North Yamhill,
which was highly appreciated.
Reading, "What Mariar Died or"
by Miss Halle Reid, produced consider
able merriment.
Mrs. Loughary then addressed the
audience on Individual WORTH" re-
marking that the bane of the Ameri-
can people is their striving to gain a
to fill the position; that true worth
should be priced wherever found,
whether clothed in rags or in fine linen" /"
aud asking, if women have worth, that
equal honors aud equal pay with men
for like labor be accorded them that, il
competent to fill positions Of honor and
trust, women should be allowed to do
so, judging them in all things by the
standard set up for honorable men. The
address was delivered with the peculiar
force Of the speaker, and no synopsis can
do it justice. At its conclusion, she re-
cited Barbara Fritchie' in a manner
that proved she could appreciate the
words of others, as we'll as render her
own appreciable.
Mrs. Ann NJ. Martin followed with
few remarks, showing the Inconsistency
Of making sex, instead of intelligence,
the standard of ministerial worth, and
cited the well-knOwn case Of Mrs. Van
Colt, who was refused ordination by a
bishop Of the great Methodist Episcopal
Church, a few years ago, because she
was a tCOmdR.
Mrs. COburn followed with the recita-
tion of a poem entitled Her Sphere"
which was apropos and we'll received.
Several persons responded to call for
impromptu remarks.
Invitation was given for opponents to
state objections to woman's enfrauchise-
ment, but no one responded.
! After a few concluding remarks by
the President pro tenn, the meeting ad-
journed, to meet for business purposes
at 10 o'clock on the day following at the
residence of Hon. Lee Laughlin.
SECOND DAY-SIORNING SESSION.
Meeting called to order by the Presi-
dent, Mrs. NJ. F. Cooke.
After the usual preliminaries, the
question of the place for the November
meeting was voted upon, resulting in
the choice of McMinnville.
Mrs. Loughary promised to work the
meeting up vigorously at the time and
place appointed, and urged the workers
to rally to her assistance in making it
grand, popular success.
On motion, the Treasurer OF the Asso-
citation was ordered to pay to Mrs. c. A.
Coburu the balance of the funds in her
hands, after hall rent was paid, TO de-
fray her expenses in coming to the as
sistance Of the work from Portland.
On motion, adjourned to meet at s
O'Clock p. NJ, in the Academy.
EVENING SESSION.
Called TO order by the President.
Excellent instrumental music was /
rendered on the organ and violin by 1
Miss Burlington aud Professor whose
name We failed to learn.
Mrs. c. \. Coburu, of Portland was
then introduced, aud addressed the audi
ence upon preparation for Life Work"
The address was a combination Of the
speakers observation and experience of
the difficulties that beset the path of
those who, without special business
preparation, are forced by circumstances
to labor for their own support, aud often
for the maintenance of others, and con-
eluded with an urgent appeal to girls to
see to it that they are prepared for life's
work, "before pain aud care had sapped
their energies, and while they had a
fathers table to sit at aud a fathers
roof to shelter them"
Excellent instrumental music fol.
lowed this address, after which the
meeting adjourned until the place and
date designated at the morning session
NJ. +. COOKE, President.
n. MARTIN, Secretary.
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