Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-15

Mrs, Deborah Knox Livingston, the
noted worker for suffrage for women
in this State has been secured by
the Pennington Equal Suffrage
League to be there June 5, when
big public meeting will be held in
Music hall.
Mrs. Albert Mcmahon, who has had
wide experience In campaign work IN
the West, has arrived in Maine, COM
ing direct from Minnesota, and Will
assist in suffrage work in this State
until September. Mrs. McMahon has
already commenced activities. She
has visited Hampden and arranged
for public meeting May Is; has ad-
dressed the Relief Corps in Bangor;
has spoken at public meetings at Or
rington Corner and Old Town; and
spoke in the Methodist church at
Bucksport Sunday evening, May ID.
Among the most active suffrage
workers in Lewiston and Auburn is
Mrs. Virginia Provost. formerly OF
Providence, r. I. She is giving freely
of her time and money for the carry
ing forward of the cause in the IN
teerst of ballots for women. MRS.
Provost has generously offered to
furnish the headquarters. which VIII
soon be located on Lisbon street,
Lewiston. She is doing remarkably
successful work among the French
people of the community.
Mrs. Julia Chase Washburn of
North Livermore and Mrs. Fred
I.eavitt of Livermore Center are ar
ranging for suffrage meetings soon,
when Miss l.. Lola Walker represent
ing the National Suffrage Association,
will be the speaker.
Miss Laura Hughes, the talented
English girl, who is to be the guest of
Mrs. Robert Treat Whitehouse of
Portland, and for whom many social
events are being planned in the next
two weeks, is a figure of international
Importance She was the only dele
gate from Canada to the Women's In
ternational Congress at The Hague, in
1915. While there she spoke at a
large meeting in Amsterdam, and in
Christiania, Norway.
She is an ardent Suffragist. In fact
she has been campaigning through On
tario for the suffrage cause, and it was
largely through Eel tiiOl 10 Iiitth Di
tario gave suffrage to women. Miss
Hughes believes that the war mas done
more for women's advancement prac-
tically than 10 years OF agitation nave
done. It is a significant fact that
every province in Canada, except que
bee and the Northwest Territory, nave
given suffrage to women ana MISS
Hughes believes that it is only short
time before Quebec will come into line.
Miss Hughes is great social work
err being interested in all kinds OF
remedial legislation for women and
girls. She had many interesting eX-
periences while working in the fac
tories in Ontario, investigating condi-
tions. In one of the factories was
man whom she had known socially in
Toronto, for years, and it was a clever
game of hide and seek she played in
meeting him every day, and keeping
her incognito.
Miss Hughes is very proud OF her
utilization with the Greater Toronto
Labor Party, and well she may be, be-
cause she is vice president of the La
Dor Association, its only woman officer.
Miss Hughes is absolutely fearless,
is immensely clever, and has deep
and untiring genius for persistent
work Statements she makes are sub
stantiated by facts which are lncon-
trovertible. yet some of them are so
sensational that it is almost impossible
to believe that they are true.
Miss Hughes opinion is sought by
many OF the big men in Canada. upon
questions which have been considered
formerly mems sphere.
The clever way in which Miss
Hughes analyses situations, discovers
facts and proofs, when she wishes to
prove her point is bewildng to the
ordinary mind.
With all her cleverness and her grasp
upon political questions, Miss Hughes
is essentially a woman, feminine in
every sense of the word, attractive to
look upon, with lovely manners and
ingratiating personality. She has a
keen sense of humor, yet deep seri-
BUSINESS which makes an impression
upon the most Indifferent audience.