sidewalks was most respectful and when Dr. Shaw and
the English visitors spoke from an automobile there was enthusiastic
response.

In 1909 at the State convention held in Des Moines Mrs. Hallam was
made president. In 1910, at the convention in Corydon, Mrs. Harriet B.
Evans was elected to this position. The report of the corresponding
secretary, Mrs. Lona I. Robinson, was similar to those that had been
made in many preceding years and that continued to be made for several
following years. It showed that hundreds of letters were sent to the
officers of local clubs, asking them to interview the candidates for
the Legislature on their attitude towards woman suffrage; to sign the
petitions to Congress for a Federal Amendment, which were sent to
them; to strengthen their organization; to increase their propaganda
work, for which quantities of literature were furnished. The report
showed the activities of the State officers, meetings arranged,
addresses made and legislative work done.

At the annual meeting in October, 1911, at Perry, the Rev. Mary A.
Safford became president. This year the _Woman's Standard_, a monthly
newspaper published since 1886 by the association, was discontinued,
as there was an ever-increasing opportunity for suffrage news and
arguments in the newspapers of the State. On Dec. 22, 1911, Mrs.
Coggeshall, who had been the inspiration and leader of the State
suffrage work since its beginning and part of the time an officer of
the National Suffrage Association, passed away. She was the link
between those who began the movement and those who finished it.
Whatever the later workers in Iowa had done had been as a candle flame
lighted from the torch of her faith and devotion. She was a friend of
Susan B. Anthony, of Lucy Stone and of many of the other veterans. Her
delightful home was open to every suffragist of high or low
degree--there were no degrees to her if a woman was a suffragist. She
showed her faith in the cause not only by her gifts, her hospitality
and her unceasing activity during her life but also by bequests of
$5,000 to the State association and $10,000 to the National
Association. The former was used, as she would have wished it to be,
in the amendment campaign of 1916 and the National Association
returned a large part of its bequest for use at this time.

In October, 1912, the convention was held in Des Moines and the Rev.
Miss Safford was re-elected president. By this time new methods