Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-11-30
KANSAS WOMEN.

The State Equal Suffrage meeeting-A
Kansas Council OF Women
EAIPORIA, KAN, November 1.-THE equal
suffrage meeting at EmpOria closed last
Friday, after an earnest session.
The following ladies were in attendance
as delegates to the convention.
First Standardization county, Mrs. Ruth
Durgan, Mrs. Augusta Knower, Mrs. Anna
B. Fisher, Mrs. @. A. S. Davis; Jefferson
county, Mrs. Anna B. HiIe, Mrs. NJ. Rob
inson; Leavenworth county, Mrs. Hunting
Mrs. Cushing.
Second yandotte county. Mrs.
+. H Rastall; Linn county, Mrs. L. Y. Wat
kins; Bourbon county, DR.. S. O. Hall, Mrs.
ID. II. HendrlcXsOn, Mrs. Sarah Is. Halt:
Johnson county, Mrs. J. p. st John;
Douglass county, Miss Sarah A. Brown,
Mrs. Anna A, Diggs.
Third district-CrawfOrd county. Mrs
Carrie 5. Smith; Montgomery county, DR..
Ii. ). Tenny; Morris county, Mrs. Stivers.
Fourth dlstrict-LyOn county, Mrs. DR..
Frances Jackson, Mrs. j. ii. SlOcum, Mrs.
Hattie Graves, Mrs. Annie q. Scott Mrs.
j. M. Kellogg, Mrs. Nellie O. Dunlap, Mrs.
Mary 1. Perley, Mrs. j. M. Buck, Mrs. Z.
j. Tyler, Mrs. DR.. Gardiner; Shawnee
county, Mrs. n. W. Lyon, Mrs, Lucia D.
Case, Mrs. ii. A. Birchmore; Chase county,
Mrs. M. q. Powell, Mrs. e. w. Pinckston,
Mrs. r. V. Shriver, Mrs. Minnie D. Nor
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Mrs. T.. Q. B. Evarts; Marion county, Mrs.
Nellie I. Buttertield.
Fifth distriCt-Saline county, Mrs. Lizzie
Hopkins, Mrs. Mary 3. Brown. Mrs. Laura
NJ. Jones, J. b. Jones; Dickinson county,
Mrs. Mecca Hoffman, Hon. Z. B. Hoff-
man; Washington county, Mrs. Eua Powell
Sixth dlstrict-LinCOln county, Mrs. ii.
A. Strickeye, Mrs. Anna @. Wait Mitchell
county, Mrs. Martha i. Barry.
Seventh district-Harvey county, Mrs.
Q. o. Prentis, Mrs. j. w. Edwards, Sedg-
wick county, Dr.. Mamie Stephens, Harper
county, Mrs. Caroline L. Denton.
/ Every district was represented and twenty
! two counties.
By previous appointment, a Kansas coun-
/ Gil of women was organized. The follow
ing officers were elected: President, Mrs.
| e. d. Cushing LeavenwOrth; Vice-presi-
| dent, Mrs. i. W. Hanna. EmpOria: auditor,
/ Mrs. J. L. Hunting, Leavenworth; treas
! urer, Mrs. Graves, EmpOriR; secretary, Miss
Mary Abarr, Topeka.
A constitution was adopted, of which the
following are Its preamble and articles one
/ and two;
Preamble-We, women of the state of
| Kansas, sincerely believing that the best
good of our homes and state viii be ad-
| Vanced by our greater unity Of thought
/ sympathy and purpose, and that an organ
/ lZed movement Of women viii best conserve
/ the highest good Of the family aud the state
\ 90 hereby band ourselves together in a cOu-
federation or workers committed to the
/ overthrow Of all forms Of ignorance and in
| Justice, and to the application of ths golden
I rule to society, custom and law.
That We may more successfully prosecute
! the work. we adopt the following:
Article 1.-(Name. This federation
/ shall be called the kansas Council of Wo-
men"
Article 2.-(GeneraI policy This conn
i ell IS organized IN the interest of no one
! propaganda, and has no power over its aux
/ llaries beyond that of suggestion and sym
I pathys therefore, no society voting to belong
] ..ez
/ liable to be interfsred with in respect to its
/ complete organic duty, Independence, or
/ methods Of work, or be committed to any
/ principles OF method Of any other society
/ or to any utterance or act of the council it
1 self beyond compliance with the terms of
/ this constitution.