when the day of election came, although
it was cold and stormy, over 200 voted, and elected the entire
ticket of women for trustees, Mrs. Hasbrook herself being chosen as
one.

There were many places, however, where no women voted, for the
reform had all the antagonisms and prejudices of custom to
overcome. Many obstacles were thrown in the way to prevent them
from exercising this right. The men of their families objecting,
and misconstruing the law, kept them in doubt both as to their
rights and duties. The clergy from their pulpits warned the women
of their congregations not to vote, fathers forbade their
daughters, husbands their wives. The wonder is that against such a
pressure so many women did vote after all.

October 12, 1880, the elections took place in a large proportion of
the eleven thousand school districts of the State, and the daily
journals were full of items as to the result. We copy a few of
these:

LOWVILLE, Lewis County, Oct. 16, 1880.--The business meeting was
held on the evening of the 12th, and was attended by twenty
ladies. On the following day at 1 P.M., the election was held.
The ladies had an independent ticket opposing the incumbent clerk
and trustee. Seven voted. Four were challenged. They swore their
votes in. Boys just turned twenty-one years of age voted
unchallenged. The clerk, who is a young sprig of a lawyer, made
himself conspicuous by challenging our votes. He first read the
opinion of the State superintendent of public instruction, and
said that the penalty for illegal voting was not less than six
months' imprisonment. My vote was challenged, and although my
husband is an owner of much real estate and cannot sell one foot
of it without my consent, I could not vote.

From Penn Yan a woman writes:--About seventy ladies voted here,
but none who did not either own or lease real estate. The
argument so often used against woman suffrage--viz: that the
first to avail themselves of the privilege would be those least
qualified to do so, is directly refuted, in this town at least,
since the ladies who voted are without doubt those who by natural
ability and by culture are abundantly competent to vote
intelligently as well as conscientiously.

A woman in Nunda writes:--Only six women attended the school
meeting in the first district on the 12th, but over forty went to