The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-08-01
WOMAN SUFFRAGE NOTES.

Harrisburg, July 30.-People who
have watched the work of those ac-
lively interested in the woman suf-
frage movement perhaps wouldn't
suspect that any of the officials ever
take vacation-but they do. A
number of the most prominent men,
bers of the Pennsylvania Woman
Suffrage Association are now enjoy
ing vacations after their arduous
labors in behalf of the Rockwell res
olution last winter and spring Miss
Ida Stokes Adams, of Philadelphia,
eastern vice-president of the associa-
ton, is summering in New Hamp-
shire. The western vice-president,
Miss Mary Bakewell, of Sewickley, is
in Nantucket. Mrs. John o. Miller,
of Pittsburgh, corresponding secre-
tary, is at Beaumaris, Canada.
Miss Louise Hall, of Harrisburg, the
executive secretary of the associa-
ton, is spending a month in New
England.
The ultra-progressive west has
again come to the front with FIRST
woman" official, though not in pub
lie office. She is Mrs. Meta j.
Erickson, just elected president of
the Amador Central Railroad Com
pany, in California. She is said to
be the first and only woman elected
to such place in this country.
Pennsylvania will be we'll repre-
sented at the big votes for women
demonstration in Washington, d. c.,
July 81. The demonstration has
been organized to impress upon
Congress the demand of the public
for the adoption of the pending equal
suffrage amendment to the federal
constitution. The participants will
assemble at Hyattsville, Md, and go
to Washington by automobile, run
ming through Pennsylvania avenue
to the Capitol. In the Pennsylvania
delegation will be Mrs. Mary McDow-
ell and Miss Kate Sweeney, of Pitts
burgh; Mrs. Kate Van Pelt, of New
Hope; Mrs. Mabel Cronise Jones,
Mrs. A. c. Stamm, Mrs. Harry B.
Montgomery, Mrs. Clarence B. Mil
Ter, Mrs. Charles Francis Etter, Mts.
Meier G. Hilport and Miss Helen
Montgomery of Harrisburg.
Statistics of the United States
Bureau of Education show that four
States have women at the head of
their state school department. These
four are Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming
and Washington, in all of which
have the right to vote. Indiana has
woman as assistant state superin-
tendent. In Montana twenty-nine CT
the thirty county superintendents are
women, and there are 495 women
county superintendents in the entire
United States.
NebraSkans who believe in equal
suffrage started on July 16 to circu-
late blank petitions all over the
state for the submission next year of
a proposed constitutional amend
ment. The names of $4,000 voters
must be attached to the petition.
Pennsylvania has never been back
ward in employing women in public
places, although few have ever been
appointed to place much above the
rank of a clerk. N. B. Critchfield
secretary of agriculture, recognized
the value of a woman in public en-
ployment last week, however, when
he appointed Mrs. Jean Kane Foulke,
of Chester county, as an agricultural
expert on domestic economy and
islature authorized the appointment
OF ten experts at ,oUU per year
each to assist farmers in getting the
best results.
To the already large list of i'm
portant newspapers which feature
woman suffrage news because it is
demanded by readers is added the
Boston Journal. Many big dailies
have long been featuring a page of
suffrage news each week. The Bos-
ton journal announces that it is go
ing to do this twice week.