The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-02-19
SUMMARY GIVEN IN FULL
The Thirty-Ninth Annual Convention
Closes Its Labors Tonight-ken.
lucky Was First to Allow Lin.
tied Suffrage to Women.
Ardmoreite Special.

ninth annual convention of the Ma
tional American Woman Suffrage as
ISOLATION, which has been in session
here since last Thursday. closes to
night. At the final meeting addresses
will be made by Dorothy Dix of Lou
isiana on "Woman's Lack of Back
bone; Caroline Lexow of New York
Harriet Upton Taylor OF Warren. O.
and the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw OF
Swarthmore, Pa, president of the as.
sociation. Today's sessions were de.
voted to the consideration of reports
and conference on increase of mem.
bership. a summary of the progress
Iof the movement during the last sev.
enty years was presented II shows
that Kentucky was the first state to
allow limited suffrage to women.
Chronologically arranged, the summa.
ry is as follows:
1S3S-kentucky granted school suf.
frage to widows with children Of
school age.
lS5O-Ontario granted school suf-
frage to all women, both married and
single.
1S6l-Kafisas granted school suf.
frage to all women.
1S62-Sweden gave municipal suf.
frage to all women.
1S67-New South Wales granted
municipal suffrage to all women.
1S69-England granted municipal
suffrage to single women and widows.
and Wyoming gave full suffrage to all
women.
lS'l-West Australia gave munic.
ipal suffrage to all women.
1S75-Minnesota and Michigan
granted school suffrage to women.
1S76-Colorado gave school suffrage
to all women.
1S77-New Zealand granted school
suffrage to all women.
1S7S-Oregon ana New Hamnsbire
granted school suffrage to women.
1S19-Massachusetts granted school
suffrage to women.
1SSO-New York and Vermont
granted school suffrage to all women.
and South Australia gave municipal
suffrage to women.
1SS1-Scotland and Iceland granted
suffrage to single women
and widows.
1SS3-Nebraska gave school suf. |
frage to women.
1SS4-Ontario and Tasmania grant.
ed municipal suffrage to women.
1SS6-New Brunswick and New
Zealand granted municipal suffrage
20 women.
lSS7-Kansas, Manitoba and Nova
Scotia granted municipal suffrage to
women; Arizona, North Dakota, South
Dakota and New Jersey granted
school suffrage, and Montana gave
school suffrage to all women and
granted to all tax paying women the
light to vote on all questions sub
nitted to taxpayers.
lSSS-England granted country suf-
rage to women and British Colum-
'ia and the Northwest territory
'ranted municipal suffrage.
lSS9-Scotland gave country suf-
rage to women, and Quebec gave mu.
icipal suffrage to single women and
Widows.
ls9l-Illinois gave school suffrage
o all women.
1S93-Colorado and New Zealand
ave fun suffrage to women, and
gave school suffrage to 7
II women.
lS9i-lowa granted bond suffrage.
hio gave school suffrage. Denmark
ave church suffrage and England
ranted parish and district suffrage
all women, both married and sin. .
Ie. 5
lS95-South Australia granted full +
lffrage to all women, and Denmark N
ave women the right to vote for I
1S96-Utah and Idaho granted full u
iffrage to all women.
lS97-Norway gave church suffrage =,
women, under certain conditions. y,
1S9S-France gave women the right 70
vote for judges of the tribunal of
Ireland granted women
e right to vote for all Offices except ly
embers of parliament; Delaware III
anted school suffrage to tax.paying al