Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-07-15
q DAKOTA CLUBS.

Club work In North Dakota mas
reached q stage OF inactivity which
probably will continue until Septem-
Der. July and August are the months
which drive the club women al wen
as Others TO the lakes and the wealth
er usually permits OF nothing
than thinking about the work to be
taken up next year, the state conNen-
ton in October or the actions taken
at the recent biennial gathering in
San Francisco, the proceedings OF
which were eagerly watched through
the press reports.
The Mandan Chautauqua will have
q large gathering Of club women next
Tuesday, July 16, when the club WON
Gu OF the Tenth district will meet
there for the annual convention. The
day has ben set aside al "Woman5s
Club Day" and all visiting club WON
EN- will be entertained as guests OF
the Commercial club. The program
arranged includes addresses on all the
] phases OF current club work, includ-
ing suffrage, and there are a number
Of splendid social features included.
The Chautauqua at Minot, Valley City
and Devils Lake, also in session next
week, will attract small gatherings
| Of club women who are interested IN
the educational work promoted at
these sessions ard many of them are
to take part in the various programs.
The oenefi ial work OF the pure food
| committee of the Women's Civic
league at Grand Forks again will be
| ~exemplified at the Grand Forks fair,
to be held yuiy 80 to August 2. The
women have arranged for a large
booth similar To that OF last year at
| the state fair except that 1t will be
much larger, and State Pure Food
| Commissioner f. F. Ladd will assist
In preparing the exhibit. The exhibit
will include nearly every article OF
food used in the household together
with an illustration OF its entire com
position, whether pure or adulterated
and pure food lectures will be given
all afternoon and evening every day.
Because some non-belieyers in the
granting of the full franchise to NO
men took the fact that there was a
light women's vote in the recent
school election in Valley City as a
blow against the suffrage movement
In this state Miss Candis Nelson OF
that city has taken up the defense OF
the suffragists through the press and
by public statement. Miss Nelson is
a member OF the state normal school
faculty at Valley City and was one
of the speakers at the convention re-
Gently held in Fargo, when the North
Dakota Votes for Women league was
organized.
Miss Nelson presents the tact hat
women only had a voice in school
elections and that here there was no
issue SO that the statement that q
lightness of the feminine vote was a
point against granting the full fran
chise to women has no significance
whatever. As these statements came
from men. Miss Nelson further stat
ed that under similar conditions the
male vote was also always very light
and that in presidential years the
vote was always much larger because
the national election is regarded OF
more interest than the state, and the
state election SO much more than
school elections that when the latter
are held separately very few men
take the trouble to go to the polls.
That full suffrage will largely in
nnc tho cizO nf Wnmon'S NntQ IN
school affairs by increasing their in
terest in all affairs OF state is Miss
Nelson's statement and as proof she
stated that since full suffrage was
granted in Wyoming 80 per cent OF the
women vote. In Colorado; where they
have had suffrage for nineteen years,
80 per cent of the women vote and
similar increases have been shown In
Utah, Idaho, Washington and Cali
tornia.
The Ladies Literary club at Flax
ton has decided to continue it's study
worA through the summer months
and the meeting last week was held
at the home of Mrs. A. Marion, Hoi-
land was the subject under discus
sion and roll call was responded to
with short talks on Holland social
customs. Country Life In Holland
was the subject OF a paper read ny
Mrs. II. Cad and Mrs. A. Willard read
another on "a Dutch Bulb Farm.
American and Dutch constitutions
were discussed by Mrs. George Glaze
and current events closed the pro-