Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-02-10
Victory Convention in Chicago
Feb. 18th to 18th

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Many Wisconsin women are plann-
ing to attend the victory convention
of the National American Woman
Suffrage association, and the First
National Congress of the League OF
Women Voters, at the Congress Hotel,
Chicago, February 1918.
The convention will include great
variety Of features:-O Demonstra-
ton of Rejoicing; (2) Ratification
Banquet, presenting a Living Ratifi-
cation Valentine; 90 Pioneer Suf-
frage Luncheon; (4) Memorial to DR..
Anna Howard Shaw; 90 Presentation
Of Certificate to Suffrage Honor Roll;
CD Susan B. Anthony Centenary; CD
A Procession of Suffrage Victories
(S) Then and Now Told in Pictures.
Six conference dinners will be held
Thursday evening, February II, de-
voted to these general topics: %
American Citizenship, Mrs. Frederick
P. Bagley, Chairman; (2J Protection
of Women in Industry, Mrs. Raymond
Robins, Chairman; 90 Child Welfare,
Mrs. Percy V. Ponnybackers, Chair
man; "a Civil Status of Women, Mrs
Catherine Waugh McCulloch, Chair
man; (5) Social Hygiene, DR.. Valera
H. Parker, Chairman; (6) Food Sup
ply and Demand, Mrs. Edward P
Costigan, Chairman.
Other social features will include
the Ratification Banquet, Friday eve
ming, February IA, and the Pioneer
Suffrage Luncheon, February 16.
Many Wisconsin pioneers, who have
worked for suffrage twenty-five years
or more, will be guests of honor at
the Pioneer Suffrage Luncheon. Wis
consin suffra gists who have signified
their acceptance of the appointment
as delegates and alternates of the
Wisconsin Woman's Suffrage Asso-
citation, are Mrs Henry M. YOU
mans, Mrs. Ben Hooper, Mrs. Harvey
j. Frame, Mrs. Isaac P. Witter, Miss
Harriet f. Balm, Mrs. E. R. Bowler,
Mrs. ]. e. Birkhaeuser, Mrs. C. NJ.
Barr, Mrs. Mary d. Bradford, Mrs. W.
H. Kestin, Mrs. Charles B. Quarles,
Mrs. Mary Scott Johnson, Mrs. W. r.
Collette. Mrs. John S. Walbridge, Miss
E. E. Robinson, Miss Myrtle D. Baer,
Miss Lenor Lindblom, Mrs. Louis
Rohr Miss Elsie Wagner, DR.. Ida L.
Schen, Mrs. VIM. T. Bell, and Mrs. c.
p Crosby.
TIE Wisconsin Woman's Suffrage
association will go out of existence
to be superseded by the Wisconsin
League of Women Voters, at mass
meeting to be held in Milwaukee, Feb
90. Action providing for dissolution
was taken at the convention held in
Milwaukee in November The Wis
consin Woman's Suffrage association
was organized in 1881 and has been
active ever since. 1t secured the pas
sage of law giving women the right
to vote ON school matters in 1885, con-
Quoted a lively though unsuccessful
campaign at the election in 1912, has
made constant appeal to members of
congress and the state legislature,
has never ceased from its campaign of
education and had the satisfaction OF
seeing its measures passed by large
majorities in both houses at the last
session of the Wisconsin Legisl" lure.
The League of Women Voters is a
non-partisan organization whose OBJ
ject is to educate women in the use of
the ballot and to stand for a program
of progressive legislation in which
women of all parties are interested
Members of representative women's
organizations throughout the state
will be invited to attend the confer
ence and take part in the program
The league will at this meeting elect
its officers. adopt such measures as il
pleases concerning constitution, anC
plan for program of work, in, which
it is expected to interest all public
spirited women, suffragists and non.
suffragists