Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-08-29
CONCERNING WOMEN.

Miss Hope Glenn, an Iowa girl, is the
contralto who is to accompany Nilsson
on her Anne rican tour.
The Republican State Conventions Of
Kansas and Indiana have adopted reso-
lutions in favor of woman suffrage.
The antelope edited at Denver, COL,
by Mrs. c. NJ. Churchill, has been
changed to the Queen Bee.
There will be suffrage camp meet
ing at Vienna Park, Scott County, Ind,
September IL, closing the 18th. Emil
nent speakers will be present.
Mrs. Lovejoy, of Portland, Oregon,
owns and conducts the only fruit, veget-
able, salmon and meat cannery in that
place.
Miss Frances Power Cobbc has pre-
scented all the mathematical books used by
Mary Somerville to Girton College, the
leading institution for women in England
Mrs. Garfield has been appointed one
of the trustees of Hiram College in Ohio
the institution where her husband was
student and president; and in which he
has always manifested great interest.
Mrs. Helen NJ. Cougar will spend
September in Nebraska, working Tor the
suffrage amendment in that state. Du-
ring her absence, OR Herald will be
in the editorial charge of Miss Edna C..
Jackson.
The Indiana State So ffrage Society
has appointed as delegates to the annual
meeting Of the American Woman SUI
frage Association, Dr.. +. Thomas, Mrs.
Mary +. Haggart, VIM. Dudley toulke
and Mrs. Florence NJ. Atkinson.
President Eliot of Harvard is a pro-
nouneed supporter of the medical educa-
ton Of woman, and Huxley in England
firmly endorses woman suffrage, in the
modified form in WI ch it prevails there.
The convention of the lntern''i1-aI
Topog,aphers' Asst ciaiion. held at St.
Louis, June 4, pass d a resolution de-
nouncing the employ men. Of female la
Dor, and declaring that any union man
so employing female labor shall be guilty
OF misdemeanor.
Mrs. Alice S. Buchanan, Of New Bed.
ford, left by her will the sum Of $4,000
for the Union for Good Works, anc
$4,000, the in,eres. of which is to b
used for the support Of the professors II
the Hampton Normal and Agriculture
Institute, at Hampton, Va
The women teachers in the publi
schools of Rochester, \. Y, have aske'
for an increase of their salaries. The,
are now receiving sums Ia nging frun
$3.50 to $3.50, only those who hay
taught for several years &, ting tn
larger sum. Day laborers get bette
pay than this. II is an e,;tr. ordinar'
result Of republican institutions tina
civic retrenchment should always begiI
with cutting down the the salaries Q
women teachers.
Mrs. Ada NJ. Bi,tenbender, presiden
OF the Nabraska Woman Sutfr age asso
citation, has sent enquiries to all the edi
tors in that State, 10 ascertain then
opinions of the suffrage question. Sht
also issues every week column of suf
frage items and sends, them to the othe
papers in the State fer them TO publish
and pushes the work at every point.
The Seattle Wash. IT, Post-lntcHl
gencer of recent date contained tht
information that the First Baptist Church
in council assembled, had by unanimous
vote requested the ordination Of Mrs
May c. Jones as mini ster Of the gospel
A number Of the minis tiers association
were requested to join in her examlna
ton, which proved entirely satisfactory
and on the following Sunday evening
she was regularly ord aimed, to &C
either as pastor of a church or as a
evan gelist.
The Sunday Sentinel OF Indianapoli
with a circulation Of Is, 600, gives
column to the use of the Indianapoli
Woman Suffrage Associate n. fror
that, column is furnished to thirty-hv
different papers in the State e, cry week
This branch of the work has been yer
successfully managed by the Coz respond
ing secretary, Mrs. Florence NJ. Adkin
son, who has bestowed an araount OF Ia
Dor in that direction, which can only b