Canadian Valley Record (Canton, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1920 Page: 3 of 8
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THE CANTON RECORD, CANTON, OKLAHOMA
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Srpt. «1-28. I'annee County Fair. Pawner.
K«*lit. 31-23, Woodward County Fair,
Woodward.
Srpl. 21-21, Rogers County Fair, ClnrP-
inorr.
Sept ',\VOrt. ?, OMnlinma Mat* Fair and
Kxpo<iltlon, Oklithomn City.
Oft. 4-9, O I. In ho ma Free State Fair. Mil#-
jfoker, Okln.
<>«-t. 20-80. Ciarn. ld County Fair, Enid.
"VOTES FOB WOMEN IN 1920" WINS IN NEW FASHIONS
GAY LITTLE HAT OF BANGKOK
COMINO EVENTS IN OKLAHOMA
Sept. 1-4, Jarkwon County Fair, A.til*.
Kept. 8-11, Iteekliaiu County l air, Elk
CMy.
Sept. 8-11, Tillman County Fair, Fredrirk.
Sept. 0-11, Johnston County Fair, Tisho-
mingo.
Sept. 0-11, AfarsliH.ll County Fair, Madill.
Kept. 8 II, McCurtain County Fair, Ida-
bel.
Sept. 13- in, Comanche County Fair, Law-
ton.
Sept. IR-18, Chortan County Fair, Ilueo.
Sept. 18-ld, 1'otta watoiuie County Fair,
Shawnee.
Sept. 11-10, Lincoln County Fair, Chand-
ler.
Sept. 11-17, Kiowa County Fair, Hobart.
Sept. 14-18, PlttHhurK County Fair, Mc-
Alester.
Sept. 15-17, okfuskee County Fair, Oke-
mah.
Sept. 18-18, Canadian County Fair, El
Keno.
Sept. 1.1-18, Carter County Fair, Ardmore.
Sept. 15-18, Coal County Fair, Coalgate.
Sept. 15-18, Creek County Fair, Sapulpa.
Sept. 15-18, Custer County Fair. Clinton.
Kept. 15-18, .lelterton County Fair Ryan.
Sept. 15-18, Okmuliree County Fair, Ok-
Kept. 15-18, Pontotoc County Fair, Ada.
inn Is ee.
Sept. 10-17, Nobel County Fair, Ferry.
Sept. 16-18. nialne Comity Fair. Watonga.
Sept. 10 18, Cleveland County Fair, Not-
Sept. Ifl.'l8, Greer County Fair, Mangum.
Sept. 10 18. Haskell County Fnir, Stigler.
Sept. 10 18. I.ellor- foil at y Fair, Poteau.
Sept. 10-18. Ohhkv County Fair, Faw-
hudka.
Sept. 10-18. Roger Mills County Fair,
Cheyenne.
Sept. 10-18, Stephen* County Fair, Dun-
Rept. 10-18, IVaaliitaw County Fair, Cor-
dell.
Sept. 17-18. McClain County Fair. Purcell.
Sept. 18-22, Hughes County Free Fair,
Holdenville.
Sept. SO-??. Pnyne County Fair, Still-
water.
Sept. 20-23. Logan County Fnlr. Guthrie
Sept. 21-23, Oklahoma County l air. Okla-
Washinglon and Tennessee Legislatures Ratify the Susan B. An-
thony Amendment, Thus Giving the Necessary Thirty-Six
States Out of Forty-Eight.
Victory Crowns Seventy Years of Persistent Struggle by Devoted Champions
Some Notable Features of the Long Fight for Equal Suffrage Through
Amendment of National and State Constitutions—Some
Names Made Immortal by the Contest
Wider Skirt Is Feature of Chi- 1
cago Style Review.
Construction of Cordell's first mod-
ern oil and wis filling station will be-
gin this week.
Pittsburg county Boy Scouts left for
their annual camp at Lake Austin,
Pittsburg, Friday morning.
J. C. Wilbur, special inspector for
the Indian service, located at Musko-
gee, has resigned to enter the prac-
tice of law in Sapulpa.
Cordell schools will open September
6 The teaching staff is complete and
the board of education expects a rec-
ord breaking attendance.
Judge J. W. Bird of Pond Creek has
announced that the annual term of
the Kay county district court will
convene September 7 with a large
docket and will continue at least a
month.
Motorcycle races will be a feature
of the opening day of the Okmulgee
county free fair, September 15. This
was decided upon at a meeting of the
Okmulgee Automobile Dealers Asso-
ciation.
Preparatory to sanitation of Holden-
ville city authorities recently have
added the third sewage district im-
provement. This practically com-
pletes the system which is to cost
$30,000
Tax rate for Miami this year will
be $1.85 on the $l 0 worth of prop-
erly, according to a decision of the
county excise board. For all taxes
Miami prlperty owners will pay about
$4.75 on the $100.
Alfalfa county's board of commis-
sioners have set the levy for various
townships and towns of the county.
The general county levy of six mills
was made, which includes eight-
tenths of a mill for the proposed court
house.
Curtis' cattle ranch of 1,120 acres,
of which 10 acres are in cultivation, is
to be leased immediately, according to
the Kaw Indian agency, at Kaw City.
The ranch Is six miles southwest of
Hardy and is one of the best known
solid Indian tract ranches left in Kay
county.
Public schools in Tishomingo will
open September 13, It has been an-
nounced. A larger and better course
of study has been arranged for by the
board of education and a new high
school building soon will be erected.
The faculty is headed by A. 13. Smith,
superintendent, and Miss Clara Belew,
principal.
Arrangements are being made at
Purcell for the county fair. Many
farmers have brought. In various ex-
hibits and it is said by the county
agent that all are enthusiastic over
the quality of the products. The fair
buil'ding will be ready in plenty of
time.
After having married three months
ago on the day that he was admitted
as an American citizen, Carl Stern,
oil broker at Tulsa, is taking his bride
en a visit to his former home in
Czecho-Slovakia. His wife refused to
marry him until he became a natur-
alized citizen, he said. He came from
piague seven years ago.
Washington.—-"Votes for women in
1920" wins. Washington and Tennes-
see have ratified the Susan B. An-
thony amendment. This gives the 30
necessary states.
March 22 the legislatures of the
states of Washington and Delaware
met in special session, having been
convened to pass upon the ratification
of the Susan B. Anthony amendment
to the Constitution—so called because
It is the same form in which she
drafted It In 1875, as follows:
"The right of citizens of the United
States to vote shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or by
any state on account of sex."
Woman suffragists expected prompt
ratification by Washington, and hoped
to win in Delaware after a fight.
When these two legislatures met the
facts of the ratification situation were
as follows:
Ratification necessary by the legisla-
tures of three-fourths of the 48 states
of the Union.
Amendment ratified by 34 states, be-
ginning with Wisconsin, June 10, 1019,
and ending with West Virginia, March
10, 1920. Ohio ratification before the
Supreme court.
Amendment defeated by six states
between September 2, 1919, and Feb-
ruary 17, 1920, as follows, In the order
named: Alabama, Georgia, Mississip-
pi, South Carolina, Virginia, Mary-
land.
Connecticut and Vermont have no
regular session until 1921. Govs. Mar-
cus 11. Holcornb of Connecticut and
Perclval W. Clement of Vermont had
refused to call special sessions.
Florida and Tennessee cannot vote
In 1920 because of constitutional pro-
vision requiring election to intervene
between submission of amendment and
action on IL
Louisiana legislature was to meet
in May; no hope of ratification.
North Carolina, scheduled to meet In
special session in July. Gov. Thomas
Susan B. Anthony.
W. Bickctt had declared his intention
of asking for ratification.
Washington ratified as expected.
Delaware and Louisiana voted "no."
Governors of Connecticut, Florida and
Vermont refused to call special ses-
sions. The Ohio ratification was up-
held by the United States Supreme
court. Under this decision Tennessee
called a special session.
It is 70 years-since the organized
movement for woman suffrage was be-
gun in the United States.-
In 1848 Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth
Cady Stanton called a woman suffrage
convention at Seneca Falls, N. Y.,
which launched a "Declaration of Sen-
timents" and passed a resolution de-
manding equal suffrage.
These are two immortal names in
American history. Lucretia Coffin
Mott (1793-1880) was born In Nan-
tucket, Mass., of Quaker parents. Aft-
er teaching, she became "an acknowl-
edged minister" of the Friends. She
married James Mott, who worked with
his wife against slavery.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
was born In Johnstown, N. Y. Her fa-
ther was a justice of the state supreme
court. She married in 1840 Henry B.
Stanton, a journalist and antlslavery
speaker.
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) joined
with Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth
Cady Stnnton In organizing the wom-
an suffrage movement. She became in
time the real leader of the movement:
certainly she was Its militant suffra-
gist. Born in Adams, Mass., she came
of Quaker stock and early devoted
herself to "temperance" (the prohibi-
tion of those days) and to the aboli-
tion of slavery.
When Miss Anthony began talking
in public of "woman's rights" she was
derided and hissed by the men In her
audiences as a "freak of nature." Un-
dismayed, she carried the campaign
to congress and to the states. During
the Civil war she demanded that wom-
en be given equal rights with the new-
ly enfranchised negroes. The answer
she got was: "This Is the negro's
hour." For several years after the
Civil war Miss Anthony endeavored to
secure an interpretation of the four-
teenth and fifteenth amendments
which would allow women to vote.
Finally, in 1872 at Rochester, N. Y.t
she tried to force an interpretation by
voting at the polls. She was arrested
and fined. She refused to pay the
fine, but was not sent to jail.
In 1875 Miss Anthony drafted the
amendment to the Constitution which
has now been ratified. In 1878 the
amendment was introduced In the sen-
ate by Senator Sargent of California.
It was defeated In 1887 and thereafter
was not even debated In congress un-
til 1914.
During the years the constitutional
amendment campaign was making no
progress the women won many vic-
tories in the states. They secured full
suffrage In Wyoming (1869), Colorado,
Utah and Idaho (1S94), Washington
(1910), California (1911), Kansas, Ari-
zona and Oregon (1912), Montana and
Nevada (1914), New York (1917), Ok-
lahoma, South Dakota and Michigan
(1918). They won presidential suf-
frage in Illinois (1913), Nebraska,
Rhode Island and North Dakota
(1917), Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana,
Maine, Minnesota, Missouri and Ten-
nessee (1919) and Kentucky (1920).
Partial suffrage prevails in many of
the states. In Illinois, for example,
women vote for candidates for all of-
fices not mentioned by the state con-
stitution.
The National American Woman
Suffrage association In 1912 opened
headquarters in Washington and be-
gan an active campaign for the
passage of the amendment. In 1916
It established branch headquarters
there which were devoted entirely to
the a'mendment campaign.
The National Woman's party, or-
ganized in 1910 by Alice Paul, estab-
lished Washington headquarters In
1913 and introduced the militant into
the campaign.
Alice Paul—the third Quakeress to
immortalize herself—is the spectacu-
lar figure of the struggle. She Is a
practical politician and developed the
deadliest card index on members of
congress that practical politics has
ever seen. Pretty soon she was serv-
ing notice through the White House
pickets that the president was the
"man higher up." The arrest of near-
ly 500 of these pickets and the Imposi-
tion of jail sentences had no effect.
Incidentally Miss Paul herself served
Coats to Be Short, Suits Have No
Pockets or Cuffs and Muffs
Are Barred.
According to the association nearly
everything In suits and coats and
dresses will be brown or moose, heavi-
ly embroidered and beaded. Gold and
silver thread embroideries especially
will be shown. Beads will be used on
everything excrpt the most strictly
tailored garments.
As for the suits, the coats will be
fairly short, and the skirts perfectly
plain. The Jackets will have big fur
collars and fur about the bottom of
beaver, seal, dark squirrel, or taupe
nutria.
Nothing will keep warm the hands of
the fashionably gowned. There are no
cuffs or pockets on the suit, and muffs
are quite out. The bodices of these
Jackets will be quite close fitting, as
milady has signified that she has had
enough of loosely fitting things, but
skirts will have a decided flare. Tas-
sels will be found every place a tassel
can be. Quantities of elaborate buttons
of rich shades will be used. Silk bo-
llvla, chiffon velvet, duvetyn, duvette,
and duvet de lalne are the materials
from which the winter suits will be
fashioned. —
Cloth coats will be forty-eight Inches
in length, embroidered In gold or sil-
ver thread, with huge capular collars
of fur and with fur cuffs and pockets.
Skirts shown in the recent style re-
view of the Chicago Manufacturers'
association are wider than have
been worn for some time. They were
not much shorter, however, twelve
Inches from the ground being de-
clared to be the correct length.
seven terms in Jail.
The^amendment was beaten three But the fur coats will be shorter. They
times In the senate and once In the will be thirty-six Inches and have
house before it was finally passed by
the Sixty-sixth congress June 4, 1919,
by the necessary two-thirds majority.
The resumption of woman suffrage
work after the Civil war was marked
by the organization in 1869 of two na-
tional organizations: National Wom-
an Suffrage association, with Mrs.
Stanton and Miss Anthony leaders and
headquarters in New York; American
Woman Suffrage association, with
Mary A. Llvermore, Julia Ward Howe
and Lucy Stone leaders and headquar-
ters in Boston. The line of division
was tills: The former wished to
concentrate on the passage of a con-
stitutional amendment; the latter
was in favor of obtaining the suf-
frage through amendments to state
constitutions. In 1890 the two organ-
izations were united under the name
of National American Woman Suf-
fage Association, and work was
pushed along both lines of endeavor.
Mrs. Stanton was president until
1892. Miss Anthony served until
1900, resigning at the age of eighty.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt was its
head, 1900-1904. Dr. Anna Howard
Shaw, recently deceased and possibly
best loved of all the leaders—a wom-
an of transcendent gifts and elo-
quence—was president until 1915.
Mrs. Catt was then again chosen.
Mrs. Frank Leslie left a large legacy
to Mrs. Catt to be used in the work.
The National association made ar-
rangement* at the St. Louis conven-
tion of 1919 to dissolve its organiza-
tion and become the League of Wom-
en Voters. These arrangements be-
came effective at the Chicago conven-
tion in February last.
large collars and cuffs, and fur but-
tons and belt. No fur combinations at
all will be used this season.
The evening wraps will be fairly
plain, with big fur collars, wide at the
bottom, and lapping over 20 Inches
where they fasten.
Shoestring belts and buckles of self
material, silver and gold embroidery,
and either high choker collars, or a
neck line cut only three Inches from
the base of the throat, one pocket next
to the seam, and tight ttree-quarter
<*im „ $$$&&*
This bewitching little hat of Bang-
kok is the very latest to captivate Par-
is. It is trimmed with a broad rose taf-
feta ribbon set off with large daisies.
sleeves, with white cuffs to the wrist
are the new features of the tallleur
and afternoon frocks. Many of them
will hnve deep hems, buttons all the
way down the back, and white lace
yokes. Duvetyn and velvet In moose
and brown, with an occasional Copen-
hagen blue will be the mnterlal most
in vogue.
For the fluffy young person, eve-
ning dresses of black lace over char-
meuse, with French flowers will be
shown, and for the woman given to se-
verer lines; gowns beaded from top to
bottom In all sorts of gorgeous colors.
Both straps will be used.
Gowns will be somewhat higher cut
this year, both In front and In back,
and some of them will even fcavs llttla
sleeves.
FABRICS FOR COOL CLOTHES
Handkerchief Linen One of Favorite
Summer Wear Materials—Organ-
dies and Swisses Delightful.
The question of material Is quite as
Important as that of color In an effort
to look refreshingly cool. Handker-
chief linen has been voted one of the
coolest fabrics and, of course, crisp
organdies and Swisses are delightfully
dainty. Voile and batiste are also fa-
vored in warm weather and net and
lace frocks are sheer as well as ex-
tremely modish this season. Heavy
linen, though a summer fabric, is oft-
en uncomfortably warm and makes
Its biggest successes at those fortu-
nate resorts where really hot weather
never penetrates.
Summer silks are usually warmer
than summer cottons, and the prob-
lem of the woman who spends her
summer In town is indeed a hard one.
Many conservative women do not ap-
prove of white or pastel shades In the
business or shopping sections of the
city. Sheer fabrics are not taboo, how-
ever, and organdies, voiles and Swiss-
es In subdued tones make frocks that
are cool both In appearance and In
reality. Of course, navy Is an old fa-
vorite In these materials and It Is oft-
en dotted with white In organdie and
Swiss. Other attractive colors, such
as Copenhagen blue, are similarly dot-
ted, and they are easier to get than
the navy and white combination, which
's so popular that It is very scarce in
the shops.
Cape for Children.
The cape as a summer wrap for
children is dtjcidedly popular.
GAY VARIETY OF SUNSHADES a trlmmlng- For 0Ke new example, the
1 cover is white silk overlaid with white
lace, and trimmed with black plaited
tulle.
English Paper Comments on Styles
Out Since the Days of the
World War.
Not even In the almost-forgotten
days before the war was there ever
such a variety of sunshades as this
season, says an English paper.
Shapes have altered somewhat, and
so have sizes. Sunshades of the
normal size are still to be bought, but
shapes are apparently reverting to the
days of the crinoline. The little pat-
tern with outstanding wires and sun-
shades of the small deep shape are
again seen this season.
The handles are long; some are
without ferrules, and are of -the club-
stlck pattern. The covers are bright,
especially in the self colors and
stripes. This season stripes run to
greater width than last, and the
checks, too, are large. Some styles
are done In silk of beautiful quality,
and some in printed shantung. The
latter come In exquisite subdued
■hades. Fringe Is used a good deal as
FASHIONS IN BRIEF
Ladder-stitching Is effective on
ivhlte lingerie blouses.
Huge flowers plastered flat aga'nst
the brims are much seen In hat mod-
els.
Mauve rose Is the leading color and
much buttercup yellow Is being used
for frocks.
Brilliant "scarlet wool coats hold
their own from season to season as
practical wraps.
Jade and blue, mikado red and
taupe, mahogany and bronze are fa-
vored color combinations.
Printed plaited chiffon blouses are
extremely good with plaited satin or
taffeta skirts, and the combinations of
colors are too numerous to mention.
Light colored dresses In silk crepe
or In organdie are shown with wide
sash of black taffeta ribbon bowed at
the side or the front.
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