e of Mrs. Stanton and Miss Couzins are
specially mentioned.

The St. Johns society, formed in 1872 with six members,
reported sixty at the State annual meeting of 1874, and also
$171.71, raised by fees and sociables, mainly expended in
the circulation of tracts and documents throughout the
county.

From Manistee Mrs. Fannie Holden Fowler writes:

In the campaign of 1874 Hon. S. W. Fowler, one of the
committee for Northern Michigan appointed by the State
Society, canvassed Manistee county and advocated the cause
through his paper, the _Times and Standard_. The election
showed the good of educational work, as a large vote was
polled in the towns canvassed by Mr. Fowler, two of them
giving a majority for the amendment. In an editorial, after
the election, Mr. Fowler said: "The combined forces of
ignorance, vice and prejudice have blocked the wheels of
advancing civilization, and Michigan, once the proudest of
the sisterhood of States, has lost the opportunity of
inaugurating a reform; now let the women organize for a
final onset." However, no active suffrage work was done
until December 3, 1879, when Susan B. Anthony was induced to
stop over on her way from Frankfort to Ludington and give
her lecture, "Woman Wants Bread; Not the Ballot." She was
our guest, and urged the formation of a society, and through
her influence a "Woman's Department" was added to the _Times
and Standard_, which is still a feature of the paper. In the
following spring (April, 1880), Elizabeth Cady Stanton gave
her lecture, "Our Girls," with two "conversations," before
the temperance women and others, which revived the courage
of the few who had been considering the question of
organization. A call was issued, to which twenty-three
responded, and the society was formed June 8, 1880,[321]
adopting the constitution of the National and electing
delegates to attend a convention to be held under the
auspices of that association the following week at Grand
Rapids. The society at once made a thorough canvass of the
city, which resulted in the attendance of seventy tax-paying
women at t