Western Woman's Journal, extract from page 280, October 1882.

MRS. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, of Indianapolis, has recently spoken for the amendment at Falls City, Salem, Peru, Brownville, Ashland and Plattsmouth.

 

THE Rose Creek Suffrage Club, was organized at Rose Creek City, Sept. 2d by A. T. Hobbs. It has seventy members, thirty-five voters and thirty-five married women.



S.R. MINER, of Joliet, Ill., has arrived in Nebraska to speak in behalf of the pending suffrage amendment. We gladly welcome workers like Mr. Miner.

A LADY of Crete, in six hours of canvassing in that city, reports the following results: number of women seen, 154; in favor of voting, 103; opposed, 20; neutral, 31. And yet, "women don’t want to vote."

A SUCCESSFUL meeting was recently held at Norfolk. In an audience of more than a hundred ladies and gentlemen, almost all voted in favor and only one against woman suffrage. Thirteen men signed an agreement to work for the amendment.

MISS HINDMAN organized a county suffrage association at David City, on the 22nd inst., of 93 members, 40 women and 33 men. The Campaign Committee are as follows:
President, A. F. Coon; Finance Committee: J. F. Myers, Rev. E. Hopgood, Horace Garfield, J. W. McLord, E. R. Dean, A. J. White, John Harper, Thos. Jensen, Adam Hall, C. H. Walker.
Officers of the Association: President, A. F. Coon; Vice President, A. Hull; Sec’y., J. W. McLord; Treasurer, Mrs. N. Jones.

MISS J. N. MARTIN, of Tecumseh, wisely writes: "I wish to ask through the JOURNAL, if there are not a few ladies in every county, having a team at their command, who would canvass among the country population for signers to the petitions? Not so much to get names, as to make an opportunity to talk equal rights, and to distribute suffrage literature. I do not suggest more than I intend to do myself. I propose to give October in this way. Being a bee-keeper, I cannot do it sooner."

MISS RACHEL FOSTER writes to Mrs. Colby, that in addition to the speakers already mentioned, Mrs. Sewall of Indiana, will be in Nebraska from September 18th to 29th; Mrs. Saxon, of New Orleans, from September 29th to November 2nd; Mrs. Harbert, of Illinois, from September 25th to November 8th; and she herself, will speak beginning September 18th at Sidney, and working until the close of the campaign. These ladies are all of national reputation, fine speakers and cultivated, scholarly women.

MISS HINDMAN writes that she organizes wherever she goes, and says she has none but the most encouraging reports to give for all points visited; that meetings are largely attended when properly advertised, and the best of feeling manifested. "When can we have another meeting?" "Cannot you hold a series of meetings here?" "Will other speakers be sent here, and how soon?" are questions asked at the close of nearly every meeting. She reports the schoolhouse attendance as good, even during the busy harvest season, and that the farmers are largely in favor of the amendment. At one of her meetings she obtained the name of every person over twenty-one years of age as a member of the township organization; at another, the names of all the women except one, and all the men but three.

IN the latter part of August and the first part of September, Mrs. Colby visited, organized and spoke at Culbertson, Blair City, Indianola, Cambridge, McCook, Plattsmouth and in three precincts in Cass county. She reports the following associations: At Beaver City, the South Furnas, 45 members; Red Willow county, 32 members; at Cambridge, the North Furnas, 16 members; at McCook, 60 members for the Red Willow association; Culbertson, (number not reported); Cass county, 61 members; and three precinct associations in Cass county, with a membership of 81, viz: Eight Mile Grove, Liberty and Union. Hon. Robert Daily is chairman of the Red willow co-operative committee. Col. Marshall, P. M., is chairman, and Mr. Bushnell, editor of the Plattsmouth Herald, is secretary of the Cass County association.