The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-28
ALAbAMA'S WOMEN REGISTER ID VOTE FOR FIRST TIME IN
 HISTORY OF SOUTH
67 Sign Yesterday-TOday They Hold Business Ses- sion to Plan Great
 Demonstration
By ETHEL GILLEN

There was no sounding of trumpets nor of the funeral march, although the old pre- cedent of allowing only males to vote in Alabama had passed into history. |
 BELLS TO RING
 The glad tidings proclaimed to the women of Birmingham that they have been enfranchised will ring forth to- day at noon, when all whistles ana bells of industries and railroads oells of various churches and schools Will make this announcement at l2 cioch' | Stxty-seven women registered on the first day the books were open. Mrs. H. F. Penrce, the first woman to pny poll tax in the county, was the first to register Miss Exa l.. Aldridge came sec ond, Mrs. Marielou A. Cory. third' Mrs. Virginia Mayfield. fourthi Mrs. Bella Hale Wiltshire, ftfthi Mrs. Margaret A. Dillon. sixth; Mir. Pattie Ruffncr Jacobs, sev- entb. and Mrs. Floribel B. Ohme, eighth. News that the women were regis tering spread rapidly and all during the afternoon hours the office of Com missioner Morris was crowded With women ready and anxious to auality to east the ballot MT. Morris stated that Mrs Jacobs was the first woman to apply for registration. PLACE TO REGISTER l Only two women from Bessemer registered yesterday. As the elecuon | commissioner is not allowed to sit ,rt until after the special session of the legis- 1ature. all women of the county who wish to register before September I must do so at the court house. MT l Morris states that following the ses- l sion of the legislature he will be Tn l every precinct In the county to regls- | ter the women qualified as voters. One point MT. Morris wishes to .trc.s Is the fact that there Is no charge to registering. He has been 1 beseiged with telephone calls ask | ing if there wns my charge 10 rcgistering. he stated. In his opin- 1 lon, the women. are in the same status ms boys becoming twenty one years of nge before November l 2. They are allowed to register | now, but will not pay poll tax l uptil October 1, when 1t Is due and delinquent on February '' l s,''" i 1921. Registration books were opened b, l M E. Morris, election commissioner | to the women of Jefferson county Ioi lowing a consultation with Judge HOT | ace c. Wilkinson and Judge C' | smith of the circuit court, who state' that in their opinion he had authorit' 1 to do so in advance of the special reg | is,ation to be enacted at the specia | r1 fttr September IA by Governor Thomas h KiIhv. MT. Morris sought the opinion | of these Judges after he had failed t' | cat In touch with officials in Mont gomery
 THOSE REGISTERED
 The women registering yesterda' are as follows:
 Mrs. Marie Pearce.
 Miss Exa l.. AIdridge.
 Mrs. MnrieIou A. Cory.
 Mrs. Bella Hale Wiltshire.
 Mrs. Virginia Henry Mayfield.
 Mrs. Margaret A. Dillon.
 Mrs. Pattie Ruffner Jacobs.
 Mrs. FIoribeI B. Ohme.
 Miss Harriett NJ. Core.
 Dr. Annie NJ. Robinson.
 Miss Jennie M. Rosser.
 Miss Mollie Dowd. 1 Miss Alma Rittenberry.
 Miss Ethel GilIen. | Mrs. Maud Sloss.
 Mrs. Birdie T. smith. l Dr. Lola Taylor.
 Miss Margaret O'Neiil.
 Mrs. Elizabeth E. satterfieid. 1 Mrs. Martha C. Gardner.
 Miss Ella ConIey.
 Mrs. Turner H. Blake.
 Mrs. AdelI l.. Tnrrant.
 Miss Mildred Tnrrant.
 Mrs. Lena Myer.
 Mrs. Maud Avis.
 Miss Lucy Stark Williams.
 Miss Jessica Ingram.
 Mrs. Lillian M. Johnston.
 Mrs. Christine Austin Starnes.
 Mrs. Evans w. Cunningham.
 Mrs. Bessie Melee.
 Mrs. Isabelle ArgeI1 smith,
 Miss Sadie J. Rogers.
 Miss Agnes Dewitt.
 Miss Willie l.. Byrd.
 Mrs. Willie Cork.
 Miss Edna A. Jasperson. Mrs. Doaia Farmer Pickenss
 Miss Lillian Crews. :
 Miss Elizabeth V. Dickinson.
 Mrs. veIma McQuaid.
 Miss Iva M. VeItman.
 Miss Annie l.. Hale.
 Miss Ruie Keener. Mrs. Rosa McComb.
 Mrs. Anne Bush Nesbitt.
 Mrs. Adele Goodwin MeNeeI.
 Mrs. CIiffie ID. Ray. Miss Frankie Freeman. Mrs. Pearl s. Hardie.
 Mrs. Louise l.. Hall. Mrs. Mnry Gflien. Mrs. Dian II. Steiner. Miss Laura n. Eberhardt.
 Mrs. Sallie Seatcn.
 Mrs. Pearl H. Croy.
 Mrs. Edna F. Nennble. ) Mrs. Minnie $. sakr. Miss Dorothy F. saks.
 Mrs, Stella F. Snks. Mrs. Amelia WorthinEton Fisk. Mrs. Lillian Roden Bowron. Mrs. Mary McMiIltan Tarrant. , Mrs. William N. Wood. Miss Ines Powell.
 Miss Mae HfIiinrd.
 Dr. Leonors Bond. I, LEADERS II Women who have taken a leadin part for suffrage in Alabama and th ! offices of the movement they hay filled is as follows: : Mrs Marie Pearce-President Bil : lmingham and Jefferson County Eau; : Suffrage Association, state presider 2 Federation of Business and Professions s Woman's Club. proprietor of Offit y lToweil Supply Company. postmistrei | of Boyles postoffice, first woman r pay poll tax. first woman to registe
 Mrs. Floribel B. Ohme-Chairms Ninth Congressional District League e Women Voters. vice president of ooal l fs~