the State, but active support from the _State
Journal_, owned and edited by George Darius Kilborn, formerly of New
York, who was always in favor of woman suffrage. The _Western Nevada
Miner_, owned and edited by J. Holman Buck, gave much assistance in
that part of the State.

In canvassing and speaking tours over the State Miss Martin travelled
over 3,000 miles and talked personally to nearly every one of the
20,000 voters. There are 240 election precincts and over 180 were
organized with a woman leader. On Nov. 3, 1914, every county was
carried for the amendment but four, each of these a county with one of
the largest and oldest towns in the State. The vote in Washoe county
was 1,449 for, 2,047 against; in Reno, the county seat, 938 for, 1,587
against. Ormsby county with Carson City gave an adverse majority of
only 141; Storey county with Virginia City of only 31. The total vote
was 10,936 ayes, 7,257 noes--the amendment carried by 3,679. The cost
of the whole three years' campaign was only a little more than $7,000.

At the annual meeting of the Washoe county Equal Franchise Society
after the election it was evident that, having won suffrage, women
recognized their new and enlarged responsibilities and were anxious to
do something for the public welfare and their own development. A mass
meeting was held in the Y. W. C. A. building and the Woman Citizens'
Club was organized with a charter membership of 80. Mrs. Hurst was
elected president. Other officers were: Vice-presidents, Mrs. Belford,
Mrs. C. H. Burke, Mrs. Hood; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Mack;
recording secretary, Mrs. Bessie Mouffe; financial secretary, Mrs.
Harold Duncan; treasurer, Mrs. Eichelberger; auditor, Mrs. Katherine
Flett; librarian, Mrs. F. C. MacDiarmid. This club succeeded in
getting a year as a required residence for those from other States
seeking divorce and later another Legislature proposed to repeal it
and restore the six months. Mrs. George F. Nixon, wife of the former
U. S. Senator, was made legislative chairman and headed the women of
Reno who went almost _en masse_ to Carson City to protest but the
pressure on the other side was too strong and the old law was
restored.

In August, 1918, The Woman Citizens' Club endorsed Mrs. Sadie D. Hurst
of Reno for the Assembly, in recognition of what she had done for
suffrage and for the club. She won at the primaries and also at the
polls in November and was the first woman member. The submiss