Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-03-31
NyF COUNTY BRANCH OF NEVADA
EQUAL FRANCHISE SOCIETY WITH
DRAWS IN A BODY STATE ORDER
Names Are Struck From Membership
Roll and New Organization
Is Rapidly Perfected

ed by the convention, composed Of its
members.
Against the protest of the presi |
dent, resolution thanking the legis- !
lature for adopting the equal suf |
frage amendment was passed, but |
il expressly left it to the legislature !
to determine when the election should
be held, but without authority Of
the convention, the president and
committee changed the resolution to
recommend that the vote be had at
time chosen by the committee, but
not by the convention.
we do not favor such tactics and
prefer not to be connected with an
organization where such methods
seem to prevail.
Signed Mrs. p. E. Keller, Mrs
Glenn Adams, Mrs, VIM Grimes, Mrs
zeb Kendall, Mrs. j Grant Crumley,
Mrs. Irving Macdonald, Mrs. A. 7,
Brann, Mrs. II. H. Atkinson, Mrs. T.
Il. Landsborough, Mrs. ]. c. Robert
son, Johanna Kelly, Mrs Clay Tall
man, Mrs Elizabeth Knox, Mrs A.
NJ. Gillespie. Mrs. Frank Mannix,
Mrs. H.. c. Schmidt, Mrs. I. Il.
Lynch. Mrs. Fred Broadwell, Mrs. II,
l.. Sloane, Mrs Henry Kind, Mrs,
Odessa Davenport,
"The above communication was
founded on the report of Mrs Tall
man, concurred in by Mrs Kendall,
as delegates to the Reno convention.
"A motion, duly made and seconded,
was carried that the above communi-
cation be spread in the form of a
resolution on the minutes of the SO
ciety. the communication with the
original signatures to be forwarded
TO the state secretary at Reno.
The following call for new or.
t ganization was then read, with Mrs
/ Clay Tallman in the chair:
! 'Tonopah, Nevada, March ~, 1913
) we, the undersigned. believers in
the necessity of equal suffrage and
the benefits to be derived from or
I, ganized support of that principle II
/ the immediate future and being de
e sirous Of associating ourselves as {
4 branch of the Nevada Non-Militan
& Equal Suffrage society, hereby unitt
i In a cali for an organization meeting
# to be held at the offices of Mcln
tosh & Keller, rooms 20i.2 Sat,
/. bank building at eight o'clock p m
IS March 27, 1913.
n Signed Mrs. ]. e. Keeler, Mrs
Is A. NJ. Gillespie, Mrs Odessa Daver
.e port, Mrs. Clay Tallman, Mrs. Glen
n Adams, Mrs. w Grimes, Mrs.
q Kendall, Mrs. Grant Crumley Mri
Irving Macdonald, Mrs. A. T. Braun
n. Mrs. Elizabeth Knox, Mrs. Fran
il. Mannix, Mrs. II. G. Schmidt, Mrs.
ut II. Lynch, Mrs. Fred Broadwell, Mi
le II. L. Sloan, Mrs, II. II. Atkinson
to Mrs. r. 7. Landsborough, Mrs.
Robertson, Mrs. Henry Ktdd, Nj
on Johanna Kelly
he 'eThe new organization was call'
on TO order by Mrs. Tallman upon b
re ing elected permanent chairman
he the meeting, Mrs. Odessa Davenpo
be acting as permeneEt secretary II
fl the meeting. The following office
lit. was thereupon elected Presider
Mrs. p. Il, Keller first vice pre-
Ter dent, Mrs. A. NJ. Gillespie; secol
ro- vice president, Mrs. F. P, Manni
at, secretary, Mrs. odessa Davenpor
on, treasurer, Mrs. II. G. Schmidt.
lst "The signers to the call for t
by new organization ware enrolled
,ad members. Mrs, Hugh Brown W
aes rendered membership and the sa'
I'M. position Of press chairioan in the nj
ak organization as was held by her
ent the old society. She declined, stati
the that the position she has taken "
be regard to the Nevada Equal FIR
chise society was such that she COZ
tee not consistently accept, but express
ion, desire, If possible, to be present
,on meetings Of the new organizati
to Upon motion, duly made and seco
tee, ed, Mrs. Hugh Brown was thereul
.;n4 otoctad 40 an honornrv member