The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-04
jtssss of lnterssf to AleatyoSs&y
 and tofJls State

=. - lI IIIl - - = castsn, Miss Charlotte Van Ausdai of Ohio VIII return home this afternoon.
 Mics Van AusdAi has enjoyed great populAYisy during her visit and her departure fs deeply regretted by the lasae circle of friends she has msde here, [. "WEDNESDAY MORNING
 The "Wednesday Morning Music Club had its weekly praotice-concert yester- day. On Sunday afternoon. March iA' this oreanisstion will give the ofato- rio "The Daughter of Jairus. the F1rst Presbyterian Church. This cred musical will he In lieu or the eS Luiars monthly recital. and as usuai' '"o public h cordially invited.
 CHAPTER. The Chiffon College Chapter of the AlunnAe Association will meet th's a ternoon (Thursdayl with M.s - ea 1 Well, 4oe South Lawrence S''e0"
 '''' Mrs' Albert wilson. President.
 WHAT WOMEN AXE DOING. | nh" nnnv,ar branch of the Legisia- tora of the State of Washington mas tust voted TO to IS in favor or an
 mendent to the Constitution giVr"s full suffrage to women
 ,f,.. Alma sturtevant was recently n snnointed clerk of the county court III | Roujder. Col She is a native or Maine l and moved to Boulder County iron' | that State three years ago.
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 Mrs. Mary Mccoy. who was said .o he the oldest postmaster In the coun | try. has just sent in her resisha.ion II after having been in once Hiore os = forty years at Sheakleyville. Pa- Sne was appointed by Andrew Johnson as his term was drawing to a close ana for the first few years of her service brought the mail from Meadviiie m so- | dition to performing the other dutieh l of the off1ce, Mrs. Mccoy has Just passed her eighty-tixth birtnday' l Miss Esteiie Finch is the hrst woman to be naturalized by the zap apa" rS home department. She was porn anu brought up in America, but for ions | time has been connected with the | Seamans Mission at Yokosuka. | +
 The debate between Mrs. Humphry Ward and Mrs. Mildred Garrett faw cett on woman suffrage. which took place recently in London. is said to have brought in quite q snug amount l of money even though nobQdy seems to think that it added anything new to either side of the question. Tne | proceed, went to the outpatient oc- partment of a London hospitai.
 Mrs. Catherine B. Bell. editor of the tCannou of Cannon City. Col, besides at, tending to her household and editorial duties finds time to serve as prooauomn m off1cer in her home county to do tne work reauired of the president or the board of county visitors to act as spe' cial agent to the county commissioners in cases of Restitution and to De the humane offcer aud. secretary or the local humane society. She Is widow ana the mother of three children whom she supports and cares for as well as though she did; nothing but keep house She is a New Yorker by birth and hal lived in Colorado less than eight years
 Mrs Gaylord Wiltshire Is the presi. dent of the Woman's National Progress sive League. which among other things declares its intention of creating new literature for children with view tt fostering in children the. spirit of hu' man solidarity: The first book Is tt be written by John Spargo, The worl
 will- ne irtbrnntfonal and Socialist. lit erature. spitei. to children will b' titransiated from,1 ansdo fat GWaridas Ian
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 Miss Alice NJ. Robertson. of Musko
 gee, Okla, is the only woman in th' country at the head of a aspostoffice o
 the nrst class. The place is wortf
 many politicians think that 1t Is tot
 profitable to be wasted on a woman
 These politicians are said to have ex
 erted their influence to have her dis
 placed, but the rule to retain all post
 masters with good records prevented
 them from accomplishing their object
 she has just been reappointed for na
 other four years.
 Mrs Jeannette M. Bradley has beer l put in charge of the new legis1ativ
 headquarters which the suffragist 1 opened In Washington a few week ago. There are rooms for suffreg,
 meetings and receptions. besides ofhce
 which at present are used in carryinl
 on the work on the national petition
 The house Is being furnished by wolun the country have declared their inten
 tion to celebrate Miss Anthony's mex
 birthday by sending some article 0 furniture to Mrs. Bradley to be place in the new headquarters.
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 The woman's Municipal League said to be the very last club formed i
 Boston. It held It's first meeting tn
 other day in the ball room of Miss Fan , nie P. Mason's home on Common weait
 Avenue. The membership fee is jus 2s cents a year and all classes of wo i men are Invited to join. While no def
 mite plans have been mapped out , seems generally understood that tn
 milk supply of the city will be the frs
 object of investigation and that late a system of industrial training will b
 established in the school houses of tn North End.
 MrA George F. Lowell, of Newton. l
 being congratulated for having prove
 that the mothers of Boston are tn e parents of their own children. Tn I other day a meeting of the parents O [ children attending the Rindge TechnI 7 cat School in Cambridge was called fo |. the purpose Of organizing Q parents
 association. Two thirds of the at : tendance was made up of mothers. Tn r principal of the school appointed E nominating committee to draw up list of officeys. All the members of tn ] committee were men and they nomi mated A board of fifteen men.
 : After their report had been read on
 of the men in the audience asked ! mothers were not parents and suggest cd that if they were at least Ave O . the board should be mothers. Tn
 principal very politely replied that tn
 mothers always got whatever the