The Holbrook news., 1916-09-01
Woman's Party Conducting Siren
 ous Campaign in Arizona
Contributed

a brisk campaign of precinct or ganization that is taking in th'
 smallest villages and trading
 posts in this state is now going
 forward, with Miss Iris Calder
 head of Kansas and Miss Viviar
 Pierce of Cali fornia working witt
 Mrs. Thompson. The outsider
 has but to look at the map o1
 Arizona to realize the enormous
 difficulties of this work. The
 distances covered are tremend-
 ous, the settlements in northern
 Arizona covered being far apart
 and covering country of wonder full wildness and beauty.
 Skirting the painted desert and stopping at Indian trading posts and scattered ranch houses these organizers have found college women, wives of cattlemen. in remote hamlets who have Ibsen and Strindberg on their book shelves but who have not seen 6 daily paper for weeks. In this democratic state dozens of these women are turning from their party to vote for the women of the. east, putting suffrage first, and helping, and helping them selves in the campaign by under taking to reach neighboring hamlets and remoter ranches by machine or horseback. There could be nothing more democratic than the campaign of the woman's party in Arizona under these unusual circumstances.
 Thefollowing additional women are now undertaking the precinct organization of Winslow under the town chairmanship of Mrs. James CIaffey: Precinct No. l. Mrs. O. W. SchIueter and Mrs. Beatrice By; Precinct No. 2, Mrs. Olena TrimbIe and Miss Josephine Romero; Precinct No. 8. Mrs. Edwin Matthews and Mrs. R. L. Walcott; Mrs. J. H. Chapman and Mrs. Nellie Samp- son were elected chairmen of and hospitality at a membership meeting. At final Winslow mass meeting at the Electric theater 300 men and women filled the moving picture house. Fully one third of the audience were men. The meet ing was a dramatic event in the big city of Navajo county. The speakers were Mrs. St. Clair Thompson. Miss Iris Calderhead. Mrs. James Claffey and Mrs. Anne GilIard. Six young society girls acted as ushers including Miss Louise Dady. who has just been visiting in Holbrook. Mrs. J. H. Keys and Mrs. w. A. Parr have joined the local committee. More than fifty women joined the Woman's Party at this meet ting.
 Miss Iris Calderhead spoke this week at the court house in Hol- brook and conferences and meet ings were held in the following towns, with a permanent organi- zation effected: Taylor, with Mrs. Wreathie Wakefield, precinct chairman: Shumway, with Mrs. Ida Rhoton, town chairman; Snowflake, mass meeting, with Mrs. J. w. Clayton, presiding; Showlow, with Mrs. Mary Lee Beck, chairman. The following women are active chairmen in remote northern Arizona towns: Mrs. Louise Sponseller. White River Indian Agency; Mrs. J. w. Clayton, Pinedale and Pinetop; Mrs. Jno. Peters, Cibecue; Mrs. M. P. Morgan, Lakeside; Mrs. Ada Frost, Linden.
 In northern Apache county the scattered towns were all reached this week by organizers, and every man and woman in these spots sounded or pledged for the Woman's Party. Miss Pierce covered Adamana on the edge of the desert. the most picturesque of northern Arizona settlements. and interested the wives of cat tlemen who had already heard of the present political fight for suffrage. for women of the east. Miss Calderhead visited Navajo, an Indian trading post and dis covered two college women who 4br;llod fo fbo DooccaCn from the