The herald., 1896-10-11

Of right and Justice. Their meetings
are largely attended and as their plan
of campaign is to reach all the people
they shift their meeting place to the
different localities every week, or as
the occasion may require. Friday
night their meeting was at the Signal
Hill school house, a large bus, which had
been engaged by the officers of the club
leaving the park opposite the Southern
Pacific depot at 1880 and taking those
who wished to go, nice party availing
themselves of the opportunity.
The president of the local suffrage
club, Mrs. C. w. Campbell, called the
meeting to order and the evenings ex-
ercises were opened by the audience
singing their campaign hymn, The New
America, leaflets containing their songs
having been distributed among the au-
dience previously. After the singing
Mrs. Alice Pyle Ludlam, county organ
izer of the Woman Suffrage association
having been introduced by the president
proceeded in an argument as eloquent
as 1t was able to present the justice Of
their claim to the ballot to her auditors
Mrs. Ludlam had her audience with her
from the start, she being frequently in
terrupted by applause. She made sn
exceedingly strong presentation of the
benefits to the state and communities
that would follow woman's enfranchise 8.
ment, from a moral point of view, the
statistics of the different states already
having equal suffrage amply sustain
Ing her presentment. The lady spoke
about thirty minutes, and after salts
factorily answering several questions,
propounded by gentlemen in the audi
ence, Dr. A. T. Covert and F. c. Foote
favored the audience with a guitar
and banjo duet. The president then an
nounced that the suffrage oratorical
contest, under the direction cf Miss
Nina c. Cuthbert would take place at
the tabernacle on the evening of the
18th (Friday) and that Mrs. Kate Tup-
per-Galpin and an opponent would de-
bate the suffrage question at the grand
rally to be held at the same place the
next evening, Saturday, the 18th. Speak
ers from local Bryan and Mckinley
clubs will make ten-minute addresses
on the financial issue of the presiden-
tial campaign at the latter meeting.
GENERAL NOTES
Hon. T. e. Gibbon of Los Angeles will
present the silver side of the financial
question in an address to the citizens
at mass meeting to be held at tha
tabernacle on the evening OF Monday,
the 18th, under the auspices of the Long
Beach Bryan Free Silver club. A good
program has been arranged and every
body is cordially invited to attend.
Mrs. Alice Pyle Ludlam of Monrovia
was the guest of DR.. Cuthbert and fam
lily on her trip down here to address the
woman suffrage meeting Friday night.
Some ten or twelve of our citizens
will leave for the lately discovered
mines at Randsburg and vicinity dur
ing the coming week.
The number of pupils listed at the
high school this year is one more than
double that it was last year. Then there
were thirtytwo and now there are sixty
five on the rolls.
Josephine Dillon, the eleven-year- old
daughter of Hon. H. G.. Dillon, while
playing in the family barn on their
place at Signal Hill on Monday last,
was seriously wounded by having the
point of a pitchfork which she was using
as a staff to aid her In jumping, enter
the lower part Of her body by her
stumbling and falling, when Jumping
from the manger to the floor of the
barn.
DR.. J. w. Wood, who was hastily sum-
moned, attended the injured child, and
she is now (Saturday) doing finely.
The pumping plant. which is to sup
ply the sea water for street sprinkling,
is now in place and If we get out of the
muddle caused by disincorporation in
time to re-incorporate before next
season, the streets will probably be
wet down with ocean water.
w. A. Smith, the proprietor of job
printing office away back in the old
Green Mountain state, was a visitor 1T
the beach Thursday. Mr.. Smith as