Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1914-11-25
SATURDAY MORNING.

our State.
SATURDAY MORNING.
This time was given to the mag
nifcent reports of the general Off.
GERS, showing the most splendid
forward movement along every line.
The largest gain in membership of
any previous year was announced,
this being printed also on the
badges of every one of the seven
hundred and five delegates. The
gain was 30.s7s. The treasurer,
Mrs. Hutchinson, made a magni6-
cent report from the treasury, and
the Union Signal report was also
very encouraging, having surplus
in the treasury of nearly $4,000.
over all expenses.
A very spirited debate took place.
when the proposed amendment to
the constitution was read by Mrs.
Hutchinson in regard To- the change
of time for the national convention.
The proposition was to hold the
convention hereafter in June, but
the amendment was lost, Mrs. Hut
Crimson who offered it very gra-
ciously yielding, but saying that she
would propose the amendment
again next year. She gave good.
reasons for the change, the chief
ones being that the expense would.
be greatly reduced, and that the
women of the suffrage states were
obliged to leave their duties in that
respect If they attended the conven.#
tions.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
The prayer fer this occasion was
made by Mrs. Amy G. Weech of
Virginia. whom we were specially
Interested in on account of the fact
that she will spend a month in our
state in February. Mrs. Weech is
another of the sweet sixteen COM
rades with gray hair. From the ap-
pearance of these dear comrades, it:
is really impossible to know wheth-l
er the work which they go siren.
uously perform is making young
women gray or whether it is keep:
ing the gray haired Young. 1t is a
fact that in no case does their face
and hair seem congenial the one to
the other, and yet they are beau:i..
full.
All during the convention at all
usual or unexpected times, some one
would be rising and making con:
tribution 10 the national or worlds
w. C. T. u. as the spirit of gem.
erosity moved them. Most ofthese
gifts were made as memorials or
life memberships. There is white
ribbon comrade in Philadelphia
Mrs. Mcdowell, who contributes a
dollar for every dollar given the
worlds w. g. T. u. She was pres
ent at tho convention and heard
many opportunities of doubling
gifts.
SATURDAY NIGHT.
Among the most impressive feat
ares of the convention was the won
derful and striking demonstrations.
On this evening selections were
given from "Columbia's congress-"
by Mrs. Suessa b. Blaine of Wash
ington, D. c., national organizer
and lecturer. None of these things
can he justly described. These Iiv
ing pictures can only be appreciat-
ed through the eye and the ear. The
first was children's exercise, the
Status of States," presented by
fifty. young women and song and
chorus Prohibition Wave" Follow
Ing this was a campaign celebration
by all those states which had suffrage
and prohibition campaigns. Suffrage
campaigns were conducted in Ohio,
President, Mrs. Florence D. Rich
ard; Missouri, president, Mrs. Bur-
ger; Nebra ska, president, Mrs. NJ.
NJ. Clahin; North Dakota, South
Dakota, president, Mrs. Anna Sim
mons; Montana, Miss Mary L. Al
derson; Nevada, Mira. Nora E.
LinvilIe. In the last two the cam
paigns resulted in victory for wo-
mans suffrage.
Prohibition campaigns were con-
Quoted in Virginia, president, Mrs.
Sarah H. Hoge; Colorado, president,
Mrs. Adrianna Hungerford; Arizo-
ma. president, Mrs. Imogene F. IL.
LaChance; Ohio, president, Mrs.
Florence Richard; California,
(nortb) Mrs. Sarah j. Dorr; Cali
fornia (South) Mrs. Lucy S.
Blanchard; Oregon, president, Mrs:
Jennie Nj. Kemp; Washington.