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League of Women Voters minutes, 1920-1925

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the best methods of putting those ideals into every day use. Mrs. Hammil read the report of the executive secretary prepared by Miss Finkbine before she left Des Moines with her mother and moved the adoption of the report. Seconded - carried. Mrs. Rutledge gave a short talk on conducting township schools. She described the methods of the women of Ft Dodge who conducted nine such citizenship schools in Webster County and gave due praise to Mrs. Max Mayer and Mrs. Tom Healy. The woman committee of the Farm Bureau was the local organization that helped arrange for these schools in county districts. The schools put on in the county were well attended by the appreciative people. Mrs [Jennie?] Loverin of Humboldt gave a talk on county organization and was followed by Mrs. Oscar Ruff of Sioux City. Miss Dunlap introduced Mrs. Fred Hunter who very ably presented the place to honor and to commemorate the corageous women who carried forward the ideals of progress and tossed the torch from hand to hand down the long road of the past guarding the sacred fire for [our?] times to kindle a great light. Mrs. Hunter ended her address by presenting this following resolution. Where as, the pioneer movement for equal suffrage in our country is at an end and an era of political responsibility for womankind in state and nation have begun and where as those of us who
 
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