amendment resolution, introduced by G. Ellis Gardner of Yancey
county, an anti-suffragist, was tabled, as desired.

FOOTNOTES:

[134] The History is indebted for this chapter to Miss Clara Booth
Byrd, a member of the faculty of the North Carolina College for Women.

[135] Those besides the presidents who held office during the
subsequent years were: Vice-presidents: Mrs. Lingle, Mrs. Jerman, Mrs.
Taylor, Mrs. Fairbrother, Mrs. C. A. Shore, Miss Weil, Miss Julia
Alexander; corresponding secretaries: Miss Susan Frances Hunter, Miss
Elizabeth Hedrick, Miss Eugenia Clark; recording secretaries: Mrs.
Lalyce D. Buford, Miss Margaret Berry, Miss Exum Clements; treasurers:
Miss Lida Rodman, Mrs. E. J. Parrish, Mrs. Julius W. Cone.

[136] In this college women are at the head of the departments of
mathematics, Latin, chemistry, political science and home economics.
The situation is similar in all colleges for women. The State
University and some others are co-educational.

CHAPTER XXXIII.

NORTH DAKOTA.[137]

The Equal Suffrage Association of North Dakota held its annual
convention at Devil's Lake July 17, 1901, where it was a prominent
feature of the Chautauqua Assembly. The auditorium was hung with huge
banners reading, "Equality at the Ballot Box," "Taxation Without
Representation is Tyranny," etc. Dr. Cora Smith Eaton addressed a
large audience on The Status of Woman Suffrage in our Country.
Officers elected were, Mrs. Flora B. Naylor, president; Mrs. Janette
Hill Knox, vice-president; Mrs. Mazie Stevens, treasurer; Mrs.
Katharine F. King, recording secretary.

From 1901 to 1912 there are no records of an active suffrage
organization but individuals and small groups of women in different
parts of the State kept alive the suffrage spirit. On Feb. 4, 1912,
twenty-four men and women were invited to meet Miss Sylvia Pankhurst
of England at the home of Mrs. Mary Darrow Weible in Fargo. After an
informal discussion the Votes for Women League of Fargo was organized
with Mrs. Clara L. Darrow president. A strong league was organized in
Grand Forks by Mrs. R. M. Pollock. On June 13, at the call of the
Fargo League, an earnest group of men and women from different parts
of the State met at the Public Library and formed a State Votes for
Women League. Officers: President, Mrs. Darrow; vice-president at
large, Mrs. M. L. Ayers, Dickinson; corresponding secretary, Mrs.
Alice Nelson Page, Grand Forks; recording secretar