Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-04-17


Legislature to grant the voters the
privilege of passing on an equal suf-
| fraSe amendment to the constitution
next September has come great
awakening into new activity of the
womanhood of the Pine Tree State
| Organizations directly or indirectly in
terested in this cause are bestirring
themselves for the coming sharp cam
paign due to be waged this summer.
Women are lining up for active work
not all of them for suffrage, of
course, for Maine possesses some
ants. But they are all putting them
selves into working trim.
AS part of this activity comes Miss
Florence l.. Nye, one of the States
most energetic and efficient newspaper
women, who left the field to which she
had lent her best endeavor for nearly
two-score of years to become eXecu-
tive secretary for the Maine campaign
suffrage committee chairman, Mrs.
Deborah Knox Livingston, with head
quarters in Bangor.
Miss Nye had been connected with
the editorial staff of the Lewiston
Journal for II years. Beginning her
local reporting at the time when the
telephone was just coming into gen
cral use in private homes. when social
affairs were comparatively few to what
Lewiston and Auburn now enjoy,
when clubwork was beginning to be
better organized. she has identified
herself actively with the womcn's in
terests in particular and has become a
vital factor in general welfare. cdu
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work. Moreover. as time went on, her
interests and activities were enlarged
through intimate connection, officially
and otherwise, with State organiza-
lions like tho Maine Federation of
Women's Clubs, the Maine Women
Christian Temperance Union and the
Maine Sunshine Society. as we'll as in
other ways. until her acquaintance is
now Statewide.
Miss Nyc's connection with Maine
clubdom covers hcr whole ncwspa per
experience. She has been a member
of the Literary Union Of Androscoggin
county over since its organization and
is an honorary member of the Twin
City Parliamentary Club. Twice she
served efficiently as secretary for the
Literary Union. besides acting on
time to time. being now chairman of
the educational committee.
; In the Maine Federation Of Women's
Clubs Miss Nyes executive ability was
recognized and made useful through
her position as chairman of the press
committc and also as chairman of the
book committee which put out the first
club-book ever issued by such an or
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Maine in History and Romance is
used in 1915.
1t will he gratifying to her club
friends that Miss Nye has decided not
to sever her connection with the
Maine Federation. as She intends from
her Bangor headquarters to continue
her duties as chairman of the press
committee.
Hardly less intimate has been this
young womans connection with the
Maine W. G. r. L. as a State body, for
it has been her privilege to cover"
the conventions for some dozen years
or more until she gained a close &C
quaintancc. with the leaders in this
movementy In this organization, too
she was honored with the office of
chairman of the press committee: and
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such duties as may be required of her
Still another State organization for
which she has accomplished much
good is the Maine Division Of the In
ternational Sunshine Society, for
which she acted as secretary for
number of years, as well as editor of
the Sunshine Column, the official or
gan" of that body, which appeared in
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In many ways Miss Nye will be
missed locally. She has kept in close
touch not only with clubwork and so
ciety affairs, but with the church in
terests, educational matters including
schoolboard activities. and especially
with various philanthropic activities in
which she has taken the deepest inter-
est and to which she has given the
best of which she is capable One
might speak of the Social Settlement
work which flourished so successfully
in Lewiston for a number of years. To
this she gave literally of her time and
thought. serving on the board of direc-
tors and willingly putting her shoulder
to the wheel at all times. Many
problems came up which she helped to
solve to the satisfaction and benefit of
the community and those who were
most intimately connected with that
period of Settlement work pay her
honest tribute for faithful work and
successful results.
Nor is Miss Nye's effort for the an
nual Journal Santa Claus forgotten.
for this work, which became a COM
munity affair in which hundreds of
people took part and hundreds of peo-
pie were helped and made happy
through the holidays, was carried on
for five seasons until it became too
unwieldy. Her organization of this
work was there and added another
proof of her administrative ability.
Again. as an outground of her in
terest in the Social Settlement, Miss
Nye took a leading part in agitating
| the public playground idea for Lewis
ton and Auburn. Long before the
ciubwomen through the Literary I'm
! ion brought this dream into reality in
these cities Miss Nvp had ctarfoJ bor