El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-28
Women's Organizations.

! Mrs. julius Krakauer was the host
/ ess at the birthday table of the Young
| Women's Christian association Thurs
! day noon, in the cafeteria of the as
] scciation The table was for the mem
( bers having birthday anniversaries
! during the month Of April 1t was dec
/ GRATED with yellow japanese Iris i'm
/ crystal ana yellow candles and the
! birthday cake was frosted in yellow
The Women's Aid society of the Eirst
! Congregational church met Thursday
/ afternoon at the home of Mrs win K
( Franklin, 1888 san Jose street. Com
! mittees were formed and final ar
engagements were made for the bazaar
/ to be held at the residence of Mrs.
| Charles b. stevens, 215 w. Boulevard
on Saturday afternoon, May g. Re
freshments We're served by the hostess
The following were present: Mesdames
Miles Hanson, @. r. Hawks o. w Kerr
Charles B. Stevens. NJ. S. Russell. James
Dunlap, Paul McCOmbs r. S Conant.
George +. Cairns and Lee Burdick
The Highland Park missionary So
ciety of the Westminster Presbyterian
! church met Thursday afternoon at the
home Of Mrs. j. G. Lowman. $3.50
Lebanon street The meeting opened
with hymn. Mrs s. NJ. James led the
prayer. Following the business meet
ing. a class Of girls from the Sunday
school, under the direction of Mrs.
e. T. Fenneu, gave missionary pro-
gram on Africa in honor OF their former
school teacher Miss z. Taylor, who is
now Mrs c. T. Wharton, a missionary
in Africa number OF interesting
letters from Mrs. Wharton were read
bv her sister. Mrs. Fred c. Emery. The
class sang missionary hymns and each
read a short article on African mis-
sion work After the closing PRAYER,
the guests were served with cake and
punch in the dining room. In the CEN
ter OF the cake was a scripture verse
and this was cut by Martha LOwman.
There were present at the meeting
Mesdames c. w. Peale, J. z. Bischoff,
T. II. Logan. z. T Fennell. z. B. Elfers,
J. c. Lowman. r. l. Robinson s VI.
James, J. II. Hamilton, Z. a. J. Seldom,
!. II. Newton, JAY Smith, Fred g.
Emery. L. Mobley Bradford Hardie TT.
NJ Hazard. Misses Martha LOwman.
Virginia Fletcher. Mary Hardie. Mabel
Newton. Louise Kerr and Josephine
March
The Ell Paso Equal Franchise league
met Thursday afternoon at the Cham
Der Of Commerce In the business
meeting a number OF important mat
tiers were brought up for action. One |
of these is the expected visit to FL
PasO the alter part of MAY OF Mrs 1
Alice Snitjer Burke and Miss Nell !
Richardson, who are touring the !
country from New York to California /
and back, in the interest OF the Ma !
tional American Suffrage association. I
Mrs Burke is an Illinois woman and /
Miss Richardson is a Virginia girl =
Their car is painted I'm yellow. the /
suffrage color and is ornamented with /
suffrage banners and pennants. Plans
for the proper entertainment OF these /
women were begun at this meeting.
After the business. which occupied !
considerable time, the program Of the
day followed. Mrs. o. A. Crichett was
the chairman of the program She
read extracts from the Congressional
Record regarding the adrdess i'm favor
Of the national constitutional amend
ment for woman's suffrage given by a !
committee of California women before
a congressional committee The ex-
tracts showed the success OF woman's
suffrage in California. and favor il
had gained there and the improve
ment in conditions that had been made
through wOman's suffrage Mrs |
George W. O'Rear gave a reading. (
sally Anne's Experience" Mrs
Georgia Ferguson, of Washington. D. /
C., spoke for a few moments on the :
brOadened horizon for Women's work /
Mrs. a. Thomas. OF Alamogordo. who
has recently moved there from Red |
oak, Iowa, told Of the campaign for
equal suffrage that was being fought
in Iowa.