The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-29

last evening was we'll attended by
members and friends. and a very pleas
n evening was enjoyed.
The open air suffrage meeting to
have been held on the r. NJ. Pollock
lawn Thursday evening, and which
Mrs. F. H. Wilder was to have address,
ed, has been indefinitely postponed,
Mrs. Pollock having been Unexpectedly
called to Madison, Wis, this morning.
It is probable that the meeting will be
held Thursday evening of next week.
Mrs. A. l. Evans arrived in the city
Tuesday from Whiterock, S. D.. for IL
few days visit with her husband. who
recently accepted the position of court
reporter on the Forum. Mrs. Evans
and children have been visiting with
the formers parents, at Whiterock, to
which place she will return until they
secure a suitable location in this city.
Their former home until recently was
In st. Paul..
The ice cream social given Tuesday
evening by the young ladies Of the
Philathea class of the Methodist Sum-
day school. on the parsonage porch.
was a great success. being largely pa
tronized, and a neat sum was realized
for the class treasury. The porch was
lighted with Japanese lanterns, and the
tables were prettily decorated with
flowers. Victrola music was enjoyed
during the hours Of serving.
MISS hatherlne Jensen, Formerly OF
the A. e. faculty, who has been visit
ing in New York state and Maryland,
passed through Fargo last evening on
her way to her home In Buffalo. where
Jensen has accepted a position in the
agricultural college at Bozeman, Mont,
as domestic science teacher, and will
assume her new duties in September,
with the opening of the school there.
Among the social affairs enjoyed at
the Town and Country club Tuesday
evening, were dinner parties given by
Mr.. and Mrs. Aubrey Lawrence, and by
DR.. j. e. Cavanaugh, at ZACH of which
covers were laid for eight. The latter
sister, Mrs. O'Brien. Of Duluth, and
other guests present from out-of-town
were the three Misses Hammerfeldt. of
Minneapolis. The dancing was enjoyed
following the nner
Mrs. E. M. barrow, accompanied by
her son, Dan, and daughter, Mrs. Wei
BILE, left in the Darrow car this after
noon for Grand Forks, on a suffrage
campaign trip. When they reach Grand
Forks they will be joined by Paul
except Mrs. Weible, who will return
home, will go on into Pembina and
Cavalier counties, speaking and organ-
izing.
Miss Beulah Amidon is now at Bot
tineau, where a large rest tent and dis
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feature of the fair. She was scheduled
to speak both today and tomorrow, and
at the close of the fair there goes with
Miss Burr for a day or two of field
work along the Bottineau branch. She
will return to Fargo the last of the
week, and will then be at home until
fall, when she will resume her stud
ent duties at Barnard college, New
York city.
In honor of Miss Dorothy Kennedy's
[ birthday annivnrnarv hor siSfnr Miss
Ruth Kennedy entertained a company
of twenty young ladies Tuesday even
ing at the Kennedy fiat, sos IL Front
street. The guests had been requested
to go dressed as children. and much
merriment resulted. the a~musements
during the evening, also being in &C
cordance with that idea. A nice lunch
was served. one feature of which was
a birthday cake containing the usual
articles supposed to be prophetic of the
finders future. Pictures were also
taken of the crowd.
Miss J. Roen, as a farewell to the
young ladies comprising her former
clerking force in the store which rec
emily changed hands, entertained them
very delightfully."- Tuesday evening at
her boarding place, the Flamer home,
was much enjoyed by all, being spent
socially and with music, both instru-
mental and vocal, by different ones of
the guests, as a diversion. Late in the
evening d udluLy luIlCl was 5SLNGu.
Sixteen Of the clerks were present, and
Miss Hilda Gynild, of Wilmar, MIMI,
formerly of Fargo, was also a guest.
Miss Fern Crothers left this morning
for Minneapolis. where she will visit
various friends before going on to
guest of Mrs. G. E. Bishop. Miss Croth-
ers Will be gone about three weeks,
and will visit st. Paul friends on her
way home. She was accompanied as
/ for 90 thA niEinH hxy hn~ nnJ1Cin GtI ~
Crothers. who is employed in a bank at
Bagley, S. D., and who has been a guest
at the Crothers home for the past two
weeks. having come to act as best man
at the Crothers-Hawk wedding. Mr.,
Crothers goes to Kilbourn, Wis, to
visit his parents, n from there will
t go on east, as far as Chicago, expecting
l to return to Bagley in three weeks.
AS indicative of the progress of the
suffrage movement elsewhere the fol-
/ lowing excerpt from a recent issue OF
the Marshalltown Times-Republtcan
will be of interest to workers here:
Women of Marshalltown had an oppor-
tunity Tuesday afternoon of having
political equality presented to them at
a joint meeting of the various WON
EMS clubs of the city, held at the Con-
gregational church. h meeting was
a great success and the large church
, was we'll filled with an interested aud
fence. AS a result Of the meeting pre-
liminary steps were taken to organize
a local political equality league. Mem
bers and officers of the Iowa Equal
Suffrage association, who were in at
tendance at the meeting and gave short
addresses on the subject, included Miss
Flora Dunlap, president of the assocta-
} ton; Miss Mabel Lodge, state organic
3 or; Mrs. George Cosson and Mrs. P. j.
: Mills. all of Des Moines. Miss Dunlap,
who is not only president of the asso-
citation, but Is the first and only woman
member of the Des Moines school
l board, and head resident of the Road
side settlement, presided at the meet
ing and gave he opening talk, bring
ing out in a most concise n forceful
, political equality. Miss Dunlap
= went on to say that the Iowa avs were
so fair to women that they do not
have the emotional appeal as the wom-
en- of the factory and big industry
states, such as the cotton states of the
south, and the far western states where
there are few women to many men, but
the cause remains just the same. y . "
To tai charge of the work of organ
izing locally Miss Dunlap named ~ com
mittee of eight PINE -" Preceding
the addresses of the afternoon a re-
ception was held in order that the
women of the city might meet the WISH
tors. The hostesses at the reception
were those who issued the invitations
for the suffrage meeting. "** Attor-
support to the movement locally by
consenting to address an open-air
meeting that evening, in the courthouse
park. Mr.. Cosson was greeted by a
large audience. Attorney General Cos
son spoke briefly and rapidly saysing 1t
question as to whether women had a
right to vote. Cosson Endorsed
what Miss Dunlap had said that women
needed the ballot now in defense OF