Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-10-22

to the National Suffrage Association The
! principal roles are taken by Miss Olive
| Wyndham, Miss Katherine Kaelred, lead
sydney s Booth, Of "The Yellow Ticket
I DR.. Anna Howard Shaw.
Nashville is said to be so enthusiastic
over entertaining the convention that il
will grudge the time necessarily devoted
to business sessions. Nashville women
are arranging parade, also an old fash,
home, 1.-The Hermitage" called the Noun,
Vernon of the South. There will, Of
course, be many informal dinners and
luncheons during the convention, and an
country clubs. On one evening the suf-
fragists in charge of the press work
throughout the country will dine and dis
cuss plans, for the coming year. Another Et
evening the professional women at the
convention will meet at dinner. The pro-
fessional woman's dinner arranged by DR..
Eliza Taylor Ransom, of Boston, during
last years Washington convention, was a
great success, the guests including many
of the best known ministers, doctors and
lawyers in the United States.
But 1t Is not so much the special events
which make convention interesting as
il is the general comradeship and inter-
change of ideas among women from all
parts of the country engaged in all kinds
of work The women of the north and
west are especially interested in the many
brilliant Southern women who are giving
their time and energies so fully to wom-
an suffrage. Among these women are:
Virginia--Mrs. Lila Mead valentine, Rich,
mond, President of the Virginia Equal
Suffrage Association; Miss Ellen Glas-
gov, Richmond; Miss Mary Johnston,
Warm Springs, Virginia; Mrs. Kate Wal
caroiinaoMrs: 4: Henderson. Chapel Hill,
President of the Equal Franchise League;
Miss Anna Forbes Liddell, Charlotte; Miss
Susanna Bynum, Charlotte. South Caro-
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President of the Equal Suffrage League;
Mrs. Henry Martin Columbia; Miss Su-
san Frost, Charleston. Georgia-Mrs,
Mary McLendon, Atlanta, President Of
Mrs Emily McDougald, Atlanta, Presi-
dent Equal Suffrage Party; Mrs. Frances
S. Whiteside,. Atlanta. Florida-Mrs;
Roselle c. Cooley, Jacksonville, President
of Equal Franchise Association; Rev.
Mary Stafford Orlando, President Florida
Woman Suffrage Association; Miss Fran
ces Anderson, Jacksonville. Alabama.
Mrs Pattie Jacobs, Birmingham, Presi-
dent of Equal Suffrage Association; Mrs.
oscar Hundey, Birmingham Mrs. S. b.
Stern, Montgomery Nississippii-Mrs;
Woman Suffrage Association; Mrs Nellie
Nugent Somerville, Greenvile; Miss Pau
line Orr, Jacksonville Tennessee-Miss
Maria Thompson Daviess, Nashville; Miss
Crozier French, Knoxville Kentucky
Mrs. Desha Breckenridge, Lexington
President of the Kentucky Equal Rights
Association; Miss Laura Clay, Richmond
Mrs James Leech, Louisville. Louisiana
Miss Kate Gordon, New Orleans. Presi-
dent of the Southern States Woman Suf-
frage Conference; Miss Jean Gordon, New
Orleans, President of the Louisiana Wom
an Suffrage Association; Mrs. Edgar NJ
Calm, New Orleans. Miss Annette Fin
negan, Houston, President of Texas Wom-
an Suffrage Association; Miss Eleanor w.
Breckenridge, San Antonio: Mrs Hor-
tense Ward, Dallas; Mrs Guilford Dud-
ley, Nashville.
The rapid growth of the Southern or
ganizations both in members and enthu-
siasm is alone sufficient to contradict the
prediction, which used to be frequently
made, that the South would never en-
dorse votes for women. In fact, ii was
generally said at Washington last year
that the presence of so many charming,
alert Southern women was the most in
spiring thing about the Convention.
Nashville itself as well as the organized
suffragists of Tennessee. is prepared to
give O. warm welcome to the women who
arc leaving their homes and their impor
tant work in order to take counsel to-
gether for the coming year. The city Of
ficers, the Chamber of Commerce, the
Business Mems Association, and the
newspapers are all cooperating to fur
The program for the Convention is in
charge of the following Committee: DR..
Anna Howard Shaw Moylan, Pa, chair
man; Mrs. Mary Ware bennett, sos Fifth
ley Mccormick, Boston: Mrs. Ida Clyde
Clarke. Nashville; Miss Jean Gordon, New
Orleans; Miss Elinor Byrns. New York
Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton, of Con-
necticut, is the National chairman OF To-
cal arrangements, and Mrs. John N. Ken
ny, of Nashville, is Tennessees chairman
Of local arrangements. Convention head
quarters will be at the Hermitage Hotel