ited to send
a speaker to the Chautauqua Assembly at Colfax and the Rev. C. C.
Harrah was secured. A plan of work prepared by Mrs. Chapman Catt
was issued as a supplement to the _Woman's Standard_, and sent to
every county president and local club. Mrs. Callanan published at
the same time the Iowa Collection of Readings and Recitations for
suffrage societies. The study topics arranged for clubs two years
ago had been in such demand that a new supply was necessary. We
also have had printed 6,000 copies of a tract, A Woman Suffrage
Catechism, by Mrs. C. Holt Flint. The State Agricultural Society
by request set apart one day of the fair as Woman's Day, and five
women's organizations took part in the exercises. At the hour
devoted especially to suffrage Mrs. DeVoe made the address, Mrs.
Coggeshall presiding. It was hard to tell where this hour began
and ended, for to the listener all seemed suffrage hours.

This report told also of a series of questions sent out which
ascertained that, in the territory covered by twenty-eight clubs,
seventy-eight ministers were in favor of suffrage and eighteen
opposed; and in the same territory forty editors were in favor and
nineteen opposed. There were at that time fifty-seven clubs in the
State.

The year 1893 marked a period of unusual activity. The executive
committee held monthly meetings. Four organizers were kept in the
field. A large amount of money was raised and $100 donated to the
campaign in Colorado. A request was sent to the clubs that each
contribute to the campaign in Kansas, which in many instances was
done. The annual meeting took place in Webster City, November 9, 10.

The convention of 1894 was held in Marshalltown, November 8, 9. That
of 1895 met in Des Moines, October 18, 19. Mrs. Laura M. Johns of
Kansas was secured for a month of organization work and the suffrage
enrollment ordered to be continued.

In 1896 Mrs. Adelaide Ballard was elected State organizer. At the
State Fair Mrs. Pauline Swalm delivered an address on The Woman
Citizen. The suffrage cottage was kept open and a long list of names
was placed upon the enrollment books. The annual meeting convened in
Independence, November 17-19. Mrs. Ballard reported thirty-seven new
clubs organized. Mrs. Anna H. Satterly announced that forty-two
newspapers were publishing articles furnished by the National
Association, which also sent Mrs. DeV