Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1904-06-01
BY IDA CROUCH-HAZLETT

first-class partnership.
Miss Thomas is the State Secre-
tary of Wisconsin. She has devot-
ed practically the whole of her life
time to work for the betterment of
mankind She was we'll known as
writer of stories and verses, was
connected with the woman suffrage
movement in New York, and came
to Chicago and became associated
with Jane Adams at Hull House.
When she identified herself with the
Socialist movement she went to
Haverhill where she worked with the
Massachusetts comrades, afterwards
twas with the New York and Chicago
movements and finally went to work
in Wisconsin as possessing in her
opinion, the best developed and
sanest movement in the United
States.
Mrs. Kraybill of Kansas is the
State Organizer of that State. She
is student of the Mill's school, has
been associated with the woman
suffrage movement and has had CON
siderable experience in public work.
Mrs. Cogswell is also a Mills
school graduate. She is a woman
of means and is able to give her
time to Socialism wherever she
likes.
The editor has asked me to give
some history of myself in connec-
ton with public movements, and |
comply with his request at the risk
of being thought perhaps a little
egotistical | was educated as a
teacher in Illinois and spent the
early years of my life in that work.
came out TO Cheyenne as one of
the High School teachers and from
there went down to Denver to take
place on a newspaper. / married
in the west and several years after
ward became one of the national
organizers of the Woman Suffrage
association, and in this capacity was
in all the state amendment cam
paigns since Colorado in 1903. /
began to work for Socialism by or
gani2ing in the state of Utah and
was sent from there to ST. Louis as
national committeeman two wears
ago. That fall ! headed the state
ticket of Colorado as the Socialist
candidate for congressman at large,
a fact of which am very proud, as
| believe | am the only woman in
the world who ever occupied such a
position. Was afterwards made
state organizer of Colorado, and at
present am doing agitation work in
Wisconsin.
Mrs. Winonah Stevens Abbott was
a prominent figure at the conven-
ton. She was the organizer of,
and is the president of the Womans'
Socialist Union, an organization
to prepare women for Joining the
Socialist movement. She is an ex-
ceedingly pretty woman with a pen
chant for pretty reform dresses and
on unconventional lines, and is wrap
ped up in the work she has under
taken. Her seven weeks baby had
his first outing at the Socialist CON
vention.
Miss Josephine Conger is known
to most Socialists as the editor of the
woman's department in the Appeal to
Reason, and had charge Of this part
of the work during the convention
Miss Conger is young and hand
some woman full of enthusiasm for
the good cause.
Mrs. May Wood Simons elected
much admiration and interest
during the Chicago gathering.
Her remarkable intellectual gifts
and fine educational training and
the able way in which she seconds
her distinguished husbands schol-
arly efforts have made her an object
of curiosity to the comradeship out
side of Chicago. But instead of be
holding in her the plain, severe and