Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-07-11
CONCERNING WOMEN.

Mrs. Sarah Burger Stearns, CT Mime
sofa, member of the Duluth school
board, has invented simple but excel
lent ventilating apparatus for the school
room.
Mrs. j. r. Hoag reports that nearly |
all the American women in the southern
part of Gage county Neb., where she
circulated petition for woman suffrage,
signed it.
Mrs. S. ]. Baxter and Mrs. Helen
Scott, of Plymouth, Ind, are successful
business women, each carrying on large
millinery and notion stores.
Miss Sarah +. Whitney will be or
dained at Algona, Iowa, on the Sd INST,
at the fifth annual meeting of the Iowa
Association of Unitarians.
The twenty-second annual convention
of the Indiana Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton met in the Court House at Colum-
bus, Bartholomew County, Wednesday,
June 81.
Miss Leila Strout, Of Argos, Ind, is
acting as night operator for the Peru "
Chicago Railroad at that point, until she
obtains her majority, at which time she
is prepared to be admitted to the bar as
attorney at-law.
The Rutland Vt. Herald gives nearly
two columns of square dissent from the
action of the Massachusetts, Medical AS
ISOLATION, by which regularly educated
women physicians were refused member
ship in that body.
A constitutional amendment has been
adopted in Iowa by more than 10000
majority, prohibiting the manufacture and
sale of intoxicating liquors. This Is
largely due to the efforts of the Woman
Christian Temperance Union OF that
state.
The Des Moines Register, in speaking
Of the courage shown by the women dur
ing the recent storm at Grinnell, says ;
at is notable that the women were more
composed than the rnen. They endured
the storm better, and can tell more OF 1t,
and talk more collectedly about it now.
Maria Mitchell, professor Of astrono-
my in Vassar Coll eye, has just received
the degree Of Ill. ID. from Hanover
College, at Madison, Ind. This is, we
believe, the first instance in which the
degree of LII. ID. has been conferred upon
a woman, and Hanover College has the
credit Of it.
The secretary the Har ward annex
has il is said, received intiiuat'ons tha
at least two persons now preparing 'hei
wills, hav. included in them generous
requests to help the cause of the educa'
ton Of women at Cambridge, and tina
offers of money for immediate use hav
also been made.
Miss Forney, daughter of the late Col
fonel Forney, of Philadelphia, Is one o
the editors Of Progress, bequeathed &c
her and her brother by its founder
These children, who seem to have inner
tied their fathers talents as well as hi
newspaper, are faithfully trying to carr.
out his ideas.
The Boston Globe, in an excelien
leading editorial, commends and uphold
the appointment of women on schoo
boards. The opinion expressed IS oase'
on the evident good results, during tn
eight years since the passage OF the LAY
to enable women to hold this position.
A mass meeting Of woman sutirag's'
of Ohio will be held in the Murphy Tab
ernacle, IN Third street, Columbus, u
on Wed, lesday. August 2, for the pur
pose of recognizing the Woman Suffrag
Associa .tion of Ohio, which is auvlliar
to the American.
The, first college in Canada to gral
the degree Of b. A. to a woman WI
that of Mt. Allison, in New Brunswick
at its recent convocation. Miss Harrie
Starr Stewart was the fortunate. youn
lady. she wore the usual college ca
and gown as she came in with her tello'
graduates, and her we'll prepared oratlo
was recei, red with applause.
The V 7omen's Protective League O
California which proposes to substitu'
white for Chinese labor, and establish
Women's home, has organized with II
following. Officers: president, Mrs. N
Blades; see,r tary, Mrs. NJ. ]. Stephens
financial secre tary. Mrs. A. Cognlsse
executive. comm ittee, Mrs. H. Davidson