The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-03-22
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Mrs. Albert ScLeidcrhaucr arrived
Thursday evening from st. Paul to
visit With her daughter and son-in-
law. Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Androsko.
" their home mn North Fourth street.
Mrs. S~cheiderhau er cam to meet her
new granddaughter who arrived but
II few DAYS ago.
Mrs. Bucks Daughter Ill.
Mrs. %:eria Buck OF StarkHeather.
acting president Of the North Dakota
W. &. 7. L.. passed through the city
while o homo from jamestown
where she was called on account of
the illness Of her daughter. Anna.
She had planned to bring her daugl1-
ter home with her but decided it was
best % to move her.
Surprised Mrs. Schneider.
Mrs. Minnie Schneider was given A
peasant surprise in honor of her
birthday anniversary when a com.
pany of ladies took possession Of her
home and presented her with a hand
come coffee percolator and china tea
set. There were twenty-four guests
in the company and they brought
with them pink tulips ia adorn the
rooms and supplies for a delicious re-
freshment service. Tho guests were
"':"u"i'leS T'ah'sS MorS5U. v. he'll
Erickson. George Jauss. Thomas Ea-
rig. George kocnig. John Ryan. Cas-.
scr Hart. Al Glockner. Frank Gehrke
a. T. Sp'enson. a. Kaufman. c. r.
Carl. =. Wcrstlein. II. ". Lemm, G.
Clark. Peterson, Margaret Froats. Ar,
Cooper. L. S. Carrie. a. Hunstiger, w
II. Schuyler and Henry Johnson ano
Misses Alice Risberg and Irene
Gehrke.
d. Mock Political Convention.
The most exciting event at the Uni.
Eersity Of Minnesota in some years wa.
the mock political convention held
Wednesday evening and at which the
co-eds In favor Of suffrage became
very prominent and created consider.
able OF the stir. The affair was plan.
ned by the Students Good Govern
ment club and the peerless leader
William Jennings Bryan. was nomin
ated: OF the part that the girls tool
In the convention the Minneapoli,
The first great surprise came v.her
Miss Tillit Will. suffragette leader
arose to second the nomination of Ii
Toilette. Miss Will and her cohort.
had been confidently counted upon b,
the Bryan men to vote solidly for tn,
Nebraskan. The cheers that. cam,
from the suffragette delegates whe,
the name OF the Wisconsin senator
va mentioned gave the Bryanite,
their first intimation that the younl
women did not intend to. keep thei
END OF the preconvention Bryan SUI
fraEe agreement.
"Appare ntly II va true. The GIRL
already had received their spoils from
the combinations work. These spoil
included their admission to the con
vention as delegates and the incor
poratton OF a wornan's suffrage planl
In the platform already adopted
When tho time had como. to pay 70
these concessions they were default
ing. ,:tt ~. :
This became apparent. on the frs
ballot. when only about half a dosel
girls voted for Bryan. A dozen vote
for LaFoliette and almost az man,
stood for Woodrow Wilson,"
Some Of the interesting features o
the wild affair follow:
Carefully planned opposition 4
the seating Of .thirty.two girl dele
gates was dropped because no mai
delegate had the nerve to face tn
sunraKette co-eds.
MANY Of the co-eds who were ex
pected to support Bryan unanimousl
In return for. the Bryan mems, sue
cess in seating girl delegates support
ed Wilson and LlFollette.
Delegates from North; Dakota
which state had gone for LAFollett
in the presidential primary the d.
before. voted, solidly, for Roosevelt.
Taft forces. dkgrunteied at de
the last minute and forced q prohibi
ton plank through the convention. =
-Four girl delegates from Utal
who claimed to be ardent tsmperanc
workers in private. life, voted aGainl
prohibition TOR political reasopA."