Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-03
NOTES OF THE SUFFRAGETTES

DIR. Mary d. Hussey is to have
sale Of plants and shrubs at her
home. 142 North Arlington avenue,
East Orange, for the benefit of the
Equal Suffrage Association.
The Woman's Political Union, of
Orange will hold its regular weekly
meeting next Monday night at head
quarters, 361 Main street, Orange.
Mrs. Edward Jaenecke will be the
chairman of the evening, and Mrs.
II. e. Read will give q talk on
suffrage.
Senator Moses E. Clapp, OF Mime
sofa, who lectured on suffrage this
week in South Orange and Iryington,
will address a mass meeting in the
parish house of st. Nicholas Church,
Paterson. next Thursday night. Mrs
J. B. Fitchett will be in charge. The
last of his series of suffrage speeches
will be given in the Roseville Meth
odlst Episcopal Church, Newark, on
Sunday evening, April IL.
Preparations are being mace in
Paterson by the suffragists to open q
lunch room next to Billy Sundays
tabernacle, with the object of reach
ing the voting public.
Woman suffrage leaders from sew
eral States in the East met in Troy
Wednesday to superintend the cast
ing of a women's liberty bell in a
local foundry. The bell is a gift to
the suffragists from Mrs. Charles W.
Ruschenberger, Of Stafford, Pa. When
completed the bell will be taken to
Phila delphia, where the women hope
TO ring it on the night of November
? next to celebrate suffrage victories
in New Jersey, New York, Pennsyl-
yania and Massachusetts.
The following officers were chosen
at a meeting of the Equal Suffrage
League of the Oranges, held this
week at the home of Mrs Florence
Hernandez, II High street, Orange:
President, Mrs. Gordon Grand; first
president, Mrs. John r. Scher-
merhorn; second vice. president, Mrs.
Frank H. Heaton; recording secre-
tary, Mrs. Fred II. Colvin; cor
responding secretary, Mrs. Frederic
Adams; treasurer, Mrs. William a.
Lord.
The suffrage garden idea is spread
ing rapidly Suffragists from all over
the country are sending to the head
quarters of the Pennsylvania Wom-
an Suffrage Association, at Harris
burg, for the six packets of seed
which will produce the yellow flowers
of varieties which will bloom from
May to November.
The Junior Newark Equal Suffrage
League is planning to have a series
OF social affairs during the spring.
The members win commence with a
whist party to be given on April II
at the home of Miss May Cullen, 262
North Fifth street. Miss Mary
Hellnan will be chairman of the
committee III charge of the affair.
Members of the Equal Suffrage
League Of Madison are preparing for
a campaign. The windows of many
of the stores have been used to dis
play the posters, the campaign litera-
ture, and dolls. which are arranged
10 show the suffrage situation in the
various states.
The Newark Conference of the
/ -heInOuiSI EIlSCOIJti 1uuICn pdSSSu "a
resolution at one OF its sessions in
dorsing woman suffrage in this state.
Rev. Charles ). Kemble, pastor Of
Trinity Church, Railway, introduced
the resolution.
Suf1ragists are elated over the sign
ing of Assemblyman Crosby's House
bill, No Al, by Governor Fielder, last
Tuesday The bill provides for the
presence of women watchers at the
polls during the balloting on the
woman suffrage constitutional amend
ment in September
The Woman's Political Union, of
South Orange, of which Mrs. Morris
b. Mead, is president, has sent out
through the mails to all the voters of
the village u part of the Congression-
al Record, containing extracts from
speeches on equal suffrage made in
the House of Representatives during
the present session of Congress. A
mems campaign league in connection
with the Woman's Political Union is
to be organized for the purpose of