Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-08-04
Ballots for Both
in the
Pine Tree State
Club Women for Suffrage

are not only interested but they are &C.
lively taking part in the campaign to Sc
cure the ballot for the women Of this
! State.
! To 60 away back to the beginning of
the Maine Federation. Mrs. George c.
| Frye of Portland. mother of the Fed
Grafton and always one Of its staunchest
supporters, is In favor of suffrage. Mrs.
Eta Haley Osgood, formerly of Port
/ land and now of Philadelphia, who was
the first president OF the Federation was
the organizer Of the Old Orchard Suffrage
Club and took active part in sufrag
work In the State 20 or more years ago.
! The late Mrs. Anna Sargent Hunt Of
Augusta and Auburn, a former president
| Of the Federation, was an advocate OF
woman suffrage. Mrs. Charles F. Flagg
Of Portland a former president, is active
" at work in the campaign, as is Mrs.
Stanley Plummer of Dexter, who Is a
member Of the State campaign committee
and is president of the Dexter Suffrage
| League. Mrs. F. P. Abbott OF Saco and
Mrs. Grace A. Wing of Auburn, past
presidents and Miss Fanny E. Lord of
put their stamp of approval on suffrage.
/ Mrs. Myrtle L. T. White of Pressure
! Isle, recording secretary OF the Fedora
ton, is chairman of the suffrage cam
paign committee in her town and is CIV
Ing much time to the work. Mrs. J. Lau-
rem Clark Of Bangor, cores ponding sec
rotary Of the Federation. is also an en-
! thustastic suffragist
Mrs. Merton W. Bessey Of Waterville
and Miss Harriet z. Holmes of Eastport,
members of the department of arts and
crafts. are both active in suffrage work
and the latter is chairman of the cam
paign committee in her town. Mrs A. A.
Garcelon Of Auburn. chairman of the de-
partnent OF civics. is suffragist. Miss
Florence Hale Of Augusta, chairman of
I the department Of education, and Mrs
Rufus Horton Jones Of Portland. mem
Der OF this department, are also In favor
Of votes for women.
Mrs. George F. French Of Portland, a
| former treasurer of the Federation and
also chairman Of the department of legis-
lation, has for years been one of the mos,
earnest suffrage workers in the State and
is member of the State campaign com
mittee. Mrs. Frank D. Tubbs of Lewis
ton, chairman of the department OF
home economies, is vice-president Of the
Lewiston and Auburn Suffrage League
| Mrs. Katherine c. Morrill, Of Augusta
! chairman of the department of art and
literature, and Miss Angie Starbir1 OF
Lewiston. chairman of the department o!
music, and Mrs. W. II. Newell Of Lewis.
ton chairman Of the General Federation
Endowment Fund, are all sutfragists and
Miss Florence L. Nye. chairman Of the
publicity department, is executive secre.
tary to Mrs. Deborah Knox Livingston OF
Bangor, chairman of the State suffrage
campaign committee.
Mrs. G. L, Peaslee of Auburn, a forrne,
president of the Woman's Literary Jnior
OF Androscoggin county, and one Of the
pioneer club women in the State, is ar
ardent suffragist and several times ha.
addressed the Legislature in behalf OF
votes for women. Mrs. F. A. Jones OF
Lewiston, last years president and Mrs
A. E. Chittenden Of Auburn. this years
president Of the Literary Union, are suf-
fragsts.
AVA O. ann iIitktN, WHO mas heeT
officially connected with the Bangor Fed.
Grafton Of Women's Clubs, is a suffra gist
also Miss Mary A. Chalmers, who has
been secretary Of the 18th Century Club
Miss Margaret Walsh librarian Of the
Schumann Club; and Miss Nellie F.
Brown. who has been prominently iden.
tified with the Teachers Club and is one
OF the leading kindergartners in the State
Mrs. Jennie McAndrews, who has been
president OF the ST.. Croix Valley Club
and Mrs. W. A. Murchie, .who has been
president of the Shakespeare Club of Ca
lais. are both actively interested in the
State campaign for suffrage. Mrs. Ida
B. Whitman Of Clinton. former president
of the Pine Cone Club, is helping in the
suffrage work in that town.
Miss Lucy Kilby, who has been cor
responding secretary of the Woman S
Club OF Eastport, is member of the
campaign committee in that town. Mrs
E. w. Marble. who has been president OF
the West Pennington Literary Club, is
an active suffragist. Mrs. Henry L.
Hunton Of Oakland. a former president OF
the Kennebec Federation of Women s
Clubs, is helpful in the campaign. Mrs.
John G. Coburn Of Lewiston, president OF
the Murray Club, is taking an active part
in the work. Mrs. Celia Valentine Berry,
former president of the New Gloucester
! Womans Club. ais a suffragist Mrs A.
( W. Butler Of Mechanic Falls who Is iden
titled with the Study Club of that town
and has been corresponding secretary Of
the Fedora ton. Is chairman Of the Me-
chanic Falls campaign committee.
Miss Susan G. Pratt, eacher of draw
i ing In the public schools Of Old Town and
former president Of the Neeburban
Club. is one Of the most ardent suffrage
workers in Penobscot county. Mrs John
H. Huddliston, who has been president Of
the Orono Womans Club, is chairman Of
! the campaign committee in that place.
Mrs. Adelaide Lambert who has served
as president of the Progressive Literary
! Club in Rockland. IL chairman Of the
campaign committee there
Mrs. Lyman H. Nelson and Miss Ella
/ o. Woodman, former president and treas
urer Of the Portland Literary Union. are
strongly in favor Of suffrage and the lat
| ter has been treasurer Of the Maine Sur-
! frage Association.
! Mrs. Boyd Bartlett Of Castine, a mem
Der OF the Maine Writer'S Research Club