Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-11
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Endorsed Suffrage.

| held in the state, endorsed WOmanS
suffrage by a unanimous vote. In the
great parade Of the convention, a
unique feature was the marching Of
the large organized adult women's
class of the jamestown Methodist
Sunday school, carrying suffrage co.,
ors and Votes for Women pennants.
Mrs. Clarence Newly is president of
the class, and Mrs. E. P. Anderson,
the teacher.
Mrs. l.. l. Shepard in State.
Mrs. Lulu l.. Shepard, president OF
the Utah w. c. T. u, and a brilliant
orator, will speak on suffrage this
week at beach, Dickinson, Bismarck
and Valley City. She will be in the
state a month, speaking at all the
larger towns and at the Valley City,
Devils Lake and Mouse River Loup
chautauqua assemblies.
Use Pictures in Work.
Mrs. Edna F. Salmons of Cando,
superintendent of the franchise de-
partment of the state W.. G. Il. u,
will give stereopticon lectures on suf-
frage during the month of June, in
the First w. C. T.. U. district, ON
prising the counties of Ramsey, Town
er and Rolette.
On Lecture Tour.
Mrs. Kate Wilder of Fargo, presi-
dent of the Fifteenth VIC II. u
district, gave suffrage addresses in
Valley City, Kensal, Wimbledon, Eek
elson and Spiritwood, during the last
of May and the first week of June,
and is now speaking in Ransom
county. 81
Good Addresses.
At the Fourth district convention,
at Minot, Mrs. Elizabeth Preston An
derson gave an address IN suffrage.
Addresses were also given by Hon.
r. A. Nestos, C. A. Johnson and Dorr
Carroll.
Reeder Essay Contest.
The w. C. T. U. of Reeder has just
closed a very successful prize essay
contest on woman's suffrage. The
contestants were the pupils of the
Reeder High school, whose essays
were all unusually we'll written. The
judges awarded the prize to Miss Es-
Their Simonson for the best paper.
Out For Congress.
Mrs. Sena Hartzell Wallace, can
didate for congress in Kansas, has
been speaking in Adams and Bowman
counties. At Buffalo Springs she
spoke in a pool roo and nearly ev-
cry man and woman in the audience
put On the suffrage colors.
Opposed TO Women Voting.
) The ballot for North Dakota wom-
en- is actively opposed by the newly
organized Anti-Suffrage association,
Of which Mrs. N. C. Young of Fargo
is president, and also by the Personal
Liberty League Of the German7Ameri.
can Alliance, which has, a candidate
for governor, with two planks in his
platform, one for resubmisslon of the
prohibition question and the other
against woman's suffrage. Resubmis-
sion and a%nti.suffrage are political
Siamese twins.
Protect Hoes-NegIect Children.
The Indiana legislature recently
passed a $1,000 appropriation for the
better cal of hogs, and defeated an
appropriation of $4,000 for the better
care of children. The revenue pro-
ducing hog should be protected, but
is the n~on-revenue producing child OF
less value to the state? IL I'll :
WONDERFUL SPIDERS. WEBS.
The roads of Paraguay are, about
five yards wide throughout, and the
trees meet overhead at a height OF
some eighteen feet, thus forming. a
tunnel of very uniform dimensions.
in the clear parts. Of this tunnel-that
is, where it is not choked up with the
giant nettle-it is full, from roof to
ground, Of enormous spiders webs
stretching clear across the road, the
big trees usually being chosen, as an
'chorages and the total clear b a be.
ing thus more like eight yards than
five.
Six or More Strands.
The main cables or framework of
the nets are composed of five or six
strands of thick yellow web, and are
almost as strong as cotton thread,
The rest of the net is made up of
single and double strands of the sams
stout material, which is as sticky as
it is strong. Every yard or so one of
these nets extends across ones path.
making it necessary to hold a cutlass
or a fairly stout stick at arms length
in front as one walks.
The makers of these troublesome