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INDIANA 169 Logansport, welcomed by Mayor Guthrie. Among the speakers were Judge S. T. McConnell of Logansport and O. P. Smith, a State and national labor leader. Both had attended the meeting at Kokomo in 1906, since which time Judge McConnell had been a legal adviser of the association. Mr. Smith was a member of the legislative advisory committee. Miss Laura Clay of Ken- tucky, Dr. Frank Stockton of Bloomington and Miss Florence Wattles of Kokomo were the principal speakers. Miss Clay was made an honorary member. Mrs. Mary P. Flannegan, secretary- treasurer, was the only new officer; new committee chairmen, Mrs. McConnell, Mrs. L. E. Sellars, Mrs. E. B. De Vault, Miss Yattles. The secretary's report showed 28 affiliated societies. It was voted to cooperate with the Legislative Council of Women and work for Presidential suffrage. Mrs. Noland, as chairman of the committee, was in Indianapolis from the time the bill introduced until the Assembly adjourned. In February, 1915, Mrs. Noland went before the national con- vention of miners in Indianapolis and secured a unanimous resolu- tion favoring State and national woman suffrage from the 1,600 delegates. In the summer the State association sent Miss Wattles for two months' speaking in the New Jersey and Pennsylvania suffrage campaigns. In July the Municipal League held its annual meeting in Logansport and the association, again called upon for i Mrs. Noland, Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Sellars. The enthusiasm with which they were received and the discussion by the delegates which followed showed a marked change since the 11:4 -it Crawfordsville in 1911. At the State convention in inmittee was appointed for interviewing candidates pring primaries, especially those for Governor and the Legislature and Congress. Mrs. Ray, Mrs. h and Mrs. Xoland composed the committee. In the fall of 1916 the question of a new State constitution referred to the voters and the association placed women at all jx>llr in the cities and large towns. In the small - and country the voters received literature and letters asking t<> vote in favor. It was lost hut the work gave the women w /.eal and with the enlightenment of the voters the effort nore than worth while. At the State meeting in October