Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-05

Activtties OF the Organised
Bodies Along the Lines OF IN
aertaking Of Concern 90 women
To the two women who have filed their
petitions for nomination as candidates for
the board Of education, Mrs. Ida Ginsberg
and Mrs. M. +. Morrow, the woman's suf-
frage has pledged it's support and promised,
also. to work to promote their candidacy.
This action was taken at the meeting Of
the club held Wednesday evening at the
home OF Mrs. Ginsberg. As yet definite
plans for the campaign have have not been
made, but the individual influence OF the
twenty members is pledged to their cause.
At the meeting Wednesday further prac-
teal politics was exhibited in the reports
given by Mrs. George Covell and Mrs. Alice
Miller of the Prohibitionsts and Socialists
state conventions.
The next meeting OF the club will be an
evening session to be held in the lecture
room of the library Tuesday. August g.
at o'clock and open to the public. Rev.
NJ. o. Mclaughlin will give a talk on the
commission government of cities.
Mrs Clara B. Mason. principal Of the
Train school, and Miss Isabelle Doyle, prln-
cipal OF the Clifton Hill school, who are
studying at Harvard university, Cambridge
Mass, this summer, are also varying their
studies by short trips to New England
points OF interest.
Miss Jessie Flynt a teacher in the Omaha
public schools, who is spending the summer
in Italy, writes OF interesting tramping
trips among the hills,
Because the members OF the Y. w. C. A.
camp, Gymwocl1a, had been invited to
share in the water carnival of the Y. M. G.
A. camp Thursday evening, the indian pro-
gram planned by the young women was
postponed until Thursday, August II.
In Oklahoma the Farmers union and the
| State Federation of Labor have written
candidates on both republican and demo-
cratic tickets, asking: do you favor the
| fun Acknowledgement Of women and DO
| you favor a ten-hour law for women and
| girls of lawful age2" The Oklahoman
says:
1t is contended by organized labor that
| officeseekers do not heed the demands OF
the working women as they do those Of
! the men workers, because the former have
no suffrage If the women could vote, II Is
declared, laws that would tend to make the
working life of women laborers more pleas
ant and profitable would be passed, The
question is not treated from the standpoint
of a 'card-playlng woman as said by a
local labor leader, but from the standpoint
of a woman who earns her living"
Miss Frances Wood, who has retired after
forty-two years as librarian at Vassar col
lege, is to have her services to the library
recognized by the Vassar alumnae The
nine classes which held reunions at the
commencement this spring pledged 81, 500
toward a fund to be known as the Frances
Wood fund, and used for library purposes.
Miss Amy l.. Reed ~, has been appointed
to succeed Miss Wood
Miss Martena Erickson, dean of women
at the Indiana Normal, has resigned to
become principal of the Monticello Semi
nary for Girls at Godfrey, Ill.
Mrs Margaret Selenka. widow of the
Dutch scholar, Dr. Emil Selenka, has been
chosen to lead a scientific expedition that
lis TO go to the island Of Java
The Diet of wurtemburg has granted
women the right to vote for members OF
the Chamber of Agriculture, and has also
made them eligible on the same terms as
men.
, Mrs. Marie w. Coronel de Dominguez OF
Oaxaca, the only woman railroad promoter
, In Mexico, is arranging to construct a rail
: road from Oaxaca to the port of Saline
Cruz on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, with
a branch line to either Puerto Angel oil
Puerto Escondido on the Pacific coast.