e sent in. A lecture
bureau had been organized and eighteen men and women were speaking at
public meetings. On October 23 Mrs. Mary Hutchinson Page of Boston
addressed a meeting at the home of Agnes M. (Mrs. Barton P.) Jenks,
president of the Concord society. The State convention was held in
Portsmouth November 11, 12, where Dr. Shaw as usual made the principal
address and Miss Aina Johanssen, a visitor from Finland, gave an
interesting account of woman suffrage there.

By 1909 there was considerable advance in favorable sentiment and
people of influence were seeing the justice of the cause. Governor
Henry B. Quinby and his wife gave their support. The Rev. Henry G.
Ives (Unitarian) of Andover and his wife were strong advocates.
Intensive work had been done in the 275 Granges, their State lecturer
sending out instructions to discuss woman suffrage at April meetings.
Fifty-four Grange essays were submitted for the prizes by the State
association. Resolutions in favor of woman suffrage were passed by the
State Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Universalist State
Convention. The annual convention was held in Manchester November 11,
addressed by Mrs. Fernald and the Rev. Ida C. Hultin (Unitarian),
Sudbury, Mass.

In February, 1910, Miss Ethel M. Arnold of England lectured for the
Concord society in the Parish House (Episcopalian). The annual meeting
was held in the Free Baptist Church at Franklin November 15, 16. Among
the speakers was the Rev. Florence Kollock Crooker (Universalist) of
Roslindale, Mass. Miss Chase had given addresses in thirty-one towns
and cities and organized nine new committees.

In 1911 an attractive booth at the Rochester Agricultural fair, made
possible by Miss Martha S. Kimball of Portsmouth, drew crowds and
10,000 leaflets were distributed and hundreds of buttons and pennants
sold. The Free Baptist convention passed a resolution favoring
suffrage. Mrs. Jenks attended the congress of the International Woman
Suffrage Alliance at Stockholm, Sweden, as delegate. At a meeting of
the Concord society where the special guest was the Woman's Club,
addresses were made by Judge Charles R. Corning, Mrs. Winston
Churchill and Mrs. Jenks. The noted English suffragist, Miss Sylvia
Pankhurst, spoke there on March 30. In 1912 the convention was held in
Portsmouth December 4, 5 in the chapel of the old North Congregational
Church. The Rev. Lucius Thayer, pastor since 1890, and his wife were
strong suffr