The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-05

cause Miss Emily Pierson is to be away for couple of months taking a we1l-earned and much needed vaca- ton. Miss Plumley Is president of the new Equal Franchise league of Stamford-a league which distinguish ed itself in the early weeks of its existence by the hearty. and efficient help 1t rendered to the canpaigners when they were in its vicinity.
 The Hartford Equal Franchise lea que which is one of the three strongest and most active leagues in the State, held it's annual meeting last week. The reports of the league work during the year 1911-12 were received with enthusiasm The income of the League was about &, POO of which about $1, 900 had gone into the State Treasury Miss Pterson made an address in which she sketched the whole of the nineteen weeks campaign from it's opening in WaIlingford in January to the trium- phant swind-up in Stamford at the mass meeting of May 18th. The whole cam paign- had cost about $7,O00 and Miss Pierson said that at the end she found herself facing a deficit of $161. As this represented expenditure which she had incurred on her own respons1- bility in excess of the amounts voted by the State association and contra- buted by various friends of the cause during the course of the campaign Miss Pderson made an appeal Tor as sistance in wiping 1t off. F1fty-seV- en dollars were at once pledged by individuals present at the meeting ana with the help of other leagues the whole deficit has now been wiped out.
 Another matter of State wide inter est that came up at the meeting of the Hartford Equal Franchise league was inc removal of the League and State headuuarters from their present loca- ton at 24 Ford street into the shop-
 5Y1- staIIation in much finer premises with a show window on the street. The nresent rooms were chosen with view to their convenience to the Cap ito1 and the railroad station they were engaged in May or Iast year when the suffragists were looKing TOT ward to the session of the Legislature and the need that would arise for the women from all over the State to go to the Capitol on the occasion Of near ings not only on the SunrAge conslltu- tionaI amendment but also on other
 measures in which women were Tn terested Next year there will be no session of the Legislature and there fore the reason that determined the League to select it's present location will no longer exist. The shopping district will offer much greater ad- vaItages in the matter of convenience and the possession of a show window will enable the League to make use of the exhibits which were so effective ttaroughout the long campaign. Ne gotiations are now on foot for prem ises in one other of two or three To- cations all in the shopping district an6 1t is expected that there will be an announcement of the place of the fu- ture home of the Hartford Equal Franchise League and of the State As sociation in the course of a few days.
 Many lawn or garden suffrage meetings are planned for the month of June. Whether the pace set at the beginning of the summer will be kept up throughout the summer months 1t is impossible to say, but from all parts of the State come an nouncements of meetings within the next two or three weeks. It is evil dent that all the talent in the State Association will be in demand as speakers at these outdoor meetings.