en
usual for three or four years, a company of our friends and
neighbors met at our house to celebrate my eighty-fourth
birthday. We had a pleasant time. Some pieces, composed for the
occasion, were read, and a clergyman made some appropriate
remarks. I improved the opportunity to obtain the names of the
ladies present, and succeeded with all, old and young, except one
who was afraid it would get her into a trap; but with _the rest
it needed but little electioneering beside reading your
advertisement to secure their names_. We, as a neighborhood, are
ignorant on the subject. I solicited assistance pecuniarily, and
send you what I can, with a word of encouragement still to work
and wait, and my earnest prayer for your final success.

ELSIE STEWART."

The other signatures were: Henrietta L. Miller, Mrs. Julia A.
Ingraham, Mrs. Hollet, Mrs. Lottie Griffin, Selinda Miller, Celina
Lake, Mollie Yeates, Betsey J. Corse, Mary G. Hapeman, Mrs. Maggie
Clark, Miss Elsie Miller, Louie Ingraham, Malura Hickox, C. A.
Eddy, Anna Lowe, Charlotte H. Butler.

[476] _President_, Mrs. Mary Maberly; _Secretary_, Miss Lillie M.
Hull; _Treasurer_, Mrs. Emma H. Johns; and an able executive
committee, of which Mrs. E. M. Alden, Mrs. Emma Faris, Mrs. Mattie
McDowell and Bertha H. Ellsworth, who was then teaching there, were
members.

[477] Arkansas City Suffrage Club, with Mrs. M. B. Houghton,
_President_; Mrs. E. T. Ayers, _Vice-President_; Miss Gertrude
Fowler, _Secretary_, and Mrs. F. Daniels, _Treasurer_; also one at
Winfield, county-seat of Cowley county, with Mrs. J. Cairns,
_President_; Mrs. M. R. Hall, _Secretary_, and Mrs. E. D. Garlick,
_Treasurer_; and vice-presidents from each of the churches, as
follows: Mesdames P. P. Powell, G. Miller, M. Burkey and J. C.
Fuller.

[478] _President_, Mrs. Hetta P. Mansfield, Winfield;
_Vice-President-at-Large_, Mrs. Anna C. Wait, Lincoln;
_Corresponding Secretary_, Mrs. Bertha H. Ellsworth, Lincoln;
_Recording Secretary_, Miss Georgiana Daniels, Eureka; _Treasurer_,
Mrs. D. A. Millington, Winfield; _Chaplain_, Rev. S. S. Cairns,
Winfield; _Vice-Presidents_ and _Executive Committee_, Mrs. Judge
Griswold, Leavenworth; Miss Sarah Hurtsel, Columbus; Mrs. Anna
Taylor, Wichita; Miss Myra Willets, Independence; Mrs. W. P.
Roland, Cherryvale; Judge Lorenzo Westover, Clyde; Mr. V. P.
Wilson, Abi