Mrs.
Pauline Clark; recording secretary, Dr. Randall; treasurer, Mrs. Sarah
Summers Wilkinson. Superintendents were appointed for Press,
Legislative, Enrollment, Industrial, Educational and Bible Study
departments.

In the spring of 1909, the convention was held in the ladies' parlor
of the Capitol at Jackson. It lasted two days, a public evening
session being held in the Senate Chamber, at which Miss Kate Gordon,
corresponding secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage
Association, told of the work of the Era Club of New Orleans; Miss
Jean Gordon, factory inspector for that city, spoke in behalf of child
labor regulations and Mrs. Thompson gave a report of the press work,
which had grown to such proportions that it was considered very
significant of advance in suffrage sentiment throughout the State.
The Rev. George Whitfield, a venerable Baptist minister, came from the
neighboring town of Clinton and conducted devotional exercises and
gave a talk on woman's position from a Biblical standpoint. R. K.
Jayne of Jackson, an early suffragist, also spoke. At this time
dues-paying members were reported from seventeen towns. Mrs.
Somerville was re-elected president.

The annual convention was held in Greenville in 1910. Dr. Shaw and
Miss Ray Costello of England made addresses; Judge E. N. Thomas of
Greenville presided at one of the evening meetings; John L. Hebron, a
Delta planter and afterwards State Senator, made an earnest speech of
endorsement. It was reported that hundreds of letters were written and
the association had gained a hold in fifty places, ranging from rural
neighborhoods and plantation settlements to the largest towns.
Frederick Sullens, editor of the Jackson _Daily News_, had given space
for a weekly suffrage column edited by Mrs. Thompson. Mrs. J. C.
Greenley edited a similar column in the Greenville _Democrat_. Mrs.
Madge Quin Fugler supplied five papers and Mrs. Montgomery two. Miss
Ida Ward of Greenville wrote articles for the papers of that town and
Mrs. Mohlenhoff edited a column in the Cleveland _Enterprise_. Among
other papers publishing suffrage material were the McComb City
_Journal_ and the _Enterprise_ and the Magnolia _Gazette_. From the
press superintendent there had gone out 1,700 articles, ranging in
length from a paragraph to a half page, many of them written by her,
and they were given prominence in special editions. Ten copies of the
_Woman's Journal_ which came from the nationa