speaker. In April on Arbor Day a "suffrage oak" was
planted, Mayor Howell presiding. In May a successful parade, the
first, was given in Wilmington with Mrs. Hilles in command. In
September both political State conventions were asked to endorse woman
suffrage but refused. Two rooms were furnished by and named in honor
of the State association, one at the Industrial School for Girls in
Claymont and one at the College for Women in Newark. It again had a
tent at the State Fair; prizes were given in the schools for the best
essays on woman suffrage; Lucy Stone's birthday was honored in August
13; members were enrolled by the hundreds and fifteen executive
meetings were held. The City Council's invitation was accepted to
march in the Old Home Week parade.

The convention for 1915 took place on November 11, in Wilmington, with
speakers, Dr. Shaw, Miss Worrell on Elizabeth Cady Stanton's 100th
Birthday; Miss Ethel Smith of Washington, D. C., on National Work.
Mrs. Cranston, "the Susan B. Anthony of Delaware," the association's
first and only president since January, 1896, retired and was made
honorary president. Mrs. Mary Clare Brassington was elected her
successor. This year connection was severed with the Congressional
Union, which unexpectedly announced its purpose of forming another
State society, while the old association continued its affiliation
with the National American. Three mass meetings were held with Miss
Janet Richards, Mrs. Beatrice Forbes Robertson Hale and Mrs. Bayard
Hilles the speakers. The association was represented in May in the
parade of the Woman Suffrage Party in Philadelphia, under the auspices
of the National Association.

The annual convention met Nov. 10, 1916, in Wilmington, with Chas. A.
Wagner, State Commissioner of Education; Chas. W. Bush and Dr. Shaw as
speakers. Mrs. Brassington had been appointed to take part in the
suffrage demonstrations at the Republican and Democratic national
conventions in Chicago and St. Louis. The State Central Committees
were again petitioned in vain for an endorsement of woman suffrage.

At the State convention held in Newport, Nov. 22, 1917, a $500 pledge
was made to the National Association. A telegram of congratulation had
been sent to Governor John G. Townsend, Jr., upon the declaration for
woman suffrage in his inaugural address. Miss Lola Trax, a national
organizer, was in the State five weeks, forming centers, and many
meetings were held. Federal Amend