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WOMEN ACTIVEFOR EXTENSIONFRANCHISEBridgeport to Be Well Represented at Hearing Before Double Committeeof Assembly, April 5Open Meeting in StratfieldWill Be Addressed byMrs. Hepburn and MissPierson — Mass MeetingApril 11.lt;ieastward the star of woman suffrage takes its way. Hopeful are the suffragists of Connecticut that thisState will be the first in the East to grant full electoral powers to women. Every effort Ls being made to have an imposing representation before the | s committee^ on constitutional amend- \ ments and woman suffrage, at Hart- • s ford, April 6. j cIn every city in the State Interest j 5 is being stimulated by State Organizer Emily Pierson and other ladies devoted to the movement. The activity' i-in Bridgeport is not small, although a the circle of active adherents is not c large. An open meeting of those who r are interested in votes for women will, 0 be held at the Stratfield tomorrow af- ( t ternoon, 3:30 o’clock. A mass meet- * a ing will be held in Warner hall, April | g 11.b! Much is hoped for the movement! h from the fact that Senator Archibald piI McNeil, Jr., is chairman of the com- j v ! mittee on constitutional amendments,| and is an open adherent to the movement for full suffrage for women.The open meeting at the Stratfield will be addressed by Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn of Hartford, president of the Connecticut association who will speak on “Woman Suffrage in its Relation to the Home.”Mrs. Hepburn is wife of the well known physician of that name. Sheis the mother of two beautiful children and believes that women should have the ballot in order to assist in making the environment under which children■must be reared. Bryn Mawr college j has given Mrs. Hepburn an A. M. She j studied art for two years in Italy, fol-i lowing her college course and she studied i social conditions in Germany, especialy the condition of women there. She is well known among the workers for woman suffrage in the United States and has lectured upon this subject in j many ci! great cities, includingNew York and Baltimore, i Miss Emily Pierson, State organizer,; will speak on “Educated Women and ! The Suffrage,” in which the w’hole de-! velopment of the education of women, will be discussed from the period when girls were admitted to the public schools up to the present day, when they are -admitted to institutions of higher learning on an equality with men.This is likely to be an especially in-i teresting talk because of the large part that college women are taking in the movement and because of the large: £ number of collegiate suffrage leagues j ^ that have been formed, j ' Steps will be taken to have Bridge-| port largely represented at the hear-' ing on the constitutional amendment granting suffrage to women and also upon the bill granting municipal suffrage to women, which is to be held*n\cavbbevvat Hartford, April 5, before the com- ! »jesmittee on constitutional amendments and the woman suffrage committee which will sit together.The mass meeting to pro-mote the, ncause in Warner hall, April 11, at 8 j s, o’clock will be addressed by Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, president of the National Association and Miss Inez Mill-CTholland, a Vassar graduate. j -yAmong the other women to be present are Mrs. Edward Parker of Greenwich. press chairman for Connecticut;Miss Caroline Ruutz-Rees, chairman ofFairfield County; Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn, president of the Connecticut League; Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton, vice-president of the State association; Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett, chairman of Hartford county and Missiivec«stlt;rlt;PtlEmily Pierson, State organizer. Great | ^interest is shown by a small circle of Bridgeport ladies, who are most influential and through whose efforts the movement here is expected to attain large proportions.dtlIV
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Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Bridgeport, Connecticut, US
Wed, Mar 22, 1911
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