lause to handicap it. In February the club held a large
public meeting at the New Century Club with the Rev. Dr. George Edward
Reed, former president of Dickinson College, as the speaker. The club
organized a municipal section to study the work of the city boards and
to offer assistance in forwarding civic improvement, which was
addressed by the Mayor and heads of departments. The State association
was represented in the great suffrage parade in New York City on May 4
by Mrs. J. R. Milligan and Miss Tounsend.

At the State convention in Wilmington Nov. 6, 1913, fraternal
delegates were present from the W. C. T. U., Consumers' League and
Juvenile Court Association. Addresses were made by Irving Warner, Mrs.
Mary Ware Dennett, corresponding secretary of the National
Association, and Miss Mabel Vernon, of the Congressional Union. The
music was generously furnished as usual by the treasurer, Miss Lore.
There were now 174 dues-paying members and 560 registered
sympathizers; 12 executive sessions had been held and 35 meetings, 18
outdoors, and 10,000 fliers and leaflets distributed. On February
18-20, the association was sponsor for "General" Rosalie Jones and her
Pilgrim Band en route from New York to Washington, D. C. Mayor Howell
of Wilmington welcomed them in the City Hall and they were guests at
the Garrick Theater, where they spoke between acts to an overcrowded
house. The State association was well represented in the famous parade
in Washington, D. C., on March 3, and again on April 7 when 531 women
from various States marched to the Capitol bearing special messages to
members of Congress, urging their support of the Federal Amendment. A
tent was established at the State Fair in September, realizing a long
cherished desire of the president, with Miss Ella W. Johnson in
charge. The two organizations joined forces and opened headquarters in
Wilmington, from which petitions to Congress were circulated and much
literature sent out.

The annual convention was held Oct. 30, 1914, at Dover, the State
capital but with no suffrage club. Secretary of State James H. Hughes
welcomed the convention for vice-Mayor McGee, who refused to do so.
The speakers were Mrs. Helen Hoy Greeley of New York, Samuel H. Derby
of Kent county and Mrs. Florence Bayard Hilles, Delaware chairman of
the Congressional Union. In Wilmington a meeting was held February 15
in honor of Miss Anthony's birthday, with Miss Anna Maxwell Jones of
New York as the