ly cheered along the way.

In the spring of 1915 the State convention was held in Greenville. Dr.
Shaw was a guest, stopping on her way to Jackson, where under the
auspices of the Equity League she spoke in the House of
Representatives to a large audience, many standing throughout her
address, which made a profound impression. The convention was well
attended. Some of the interesting features were "an hour for men"
presided over by Congressman B. G. Humphries, with excellent speeches;
a five o'clock tea, given by the Belvidere Chapter of the Daughters of
the American Revolution, and the presentation of the motion picture
play, Your Girl and Mine. Miss Pauline V. Orr was elected president.
Miss Orr served as president for two years, widely extending the
influence of the association through the hundreds of young women who
came under her instruction at the Industrial Institute and College,
where for many years she held the chair of English.

The annual convention was held in 1916 in the city hall in Meridian,
where nineteen years before the State Woman Suffrage Association was
organized, and Mrs. Pattie Ruffner Jacobs of Alabama, auditor of the
National Association, made an address on the opening evening. During
the following year eight new leagues were formed. The convention met
in Starkville in April, 1917, and addresses were made by Dr. Shaw,
Miss Margaret Hamilton Erwin, president of the Tennessee Equal
Suffrage Association; Mrs. Walter McNab Miller, first vice-president
of the National Association; Mrs. W. H. Price, president of the
Mississippi Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and
Mrs. Edward F. McGehee, president of the State Federation of Women's
Clubs. Miss Orr, the president, declining re-election was succeeded by
Mrs. McGehee. The United States had now entered the war and the
suffragists began to concentrate on war work. As chairman of the
Woman's Committee, Mississippi Division of the National Council of
Defense, she was able to help popularize woman suffrage.[101]

In April, 1918, a one-day conference was held in the Capitol at
Jackson, when Mrs. Marion B. Trotter of Winona was elected president
and brought a great deal of energy and enthusiasm into her office. No
convention was held in 1919 but at the close of the meeting of the
State Federation of Women's Clubs in Clarksdale in November a
conference of the suffragists present was called. It was there decided
to organize to support the r