Suffrage Day was observed in this city when about 50 men and women interested in suffrage assembled in the council chambers in the City Hall Saturday afternoon from 5 till 6 o’clock p.m. It was not a regular mass meeting and no notices had been sent out because the committee realized that it would be difficult to hold another large gathering so soon. The wish was merely to observe which from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast was celebrated at Suffrage Day and millions of women echoed and re-echoed the sentiments expressed Saturday afternoon in the city by the 50 or more persons who gathered together, either by large parades or by some other demonstration.

The program was opened by the singing of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” followed by a brief talk by Mrs. Robert Fleming Allen. Miss Emily Ebling gave a short address and Mrs. Newton Chatham, the county chairman, read a letter from the state association naming Williamsport as a possible place for the state convention in November

The resolutions, one to pass the state legislature, and one to pass Congress, were read and adopted.

The officers for the county suffrage party are: Mrs. Newton Chatham, chairman, Mrs. Robert Fleming Allen, county vice chairman, secretary, Miss Anna Gilmore, city chairman, Miss Emily Ebling, leader for South Williamsport borough, Mrs. Robert Fleming Allen, leader for Muncy borough, Miss Anna Gibson, leader for Muncy Township, Miss Elizabeth Warner, leader for Loyalsock, Dr. Castlebury.

Resolutions were adopted declaring suffrage for women a national as well as a local issue and urging the senators and representatives in Congress to enact federal legislation, which will ensure women equal rights with men.

Other resolutions endorsing women’s suffrage and calling upon every candidate for the legislature to pledge himself, if elected, to vote for submission of constitutional amendment enfranchising the women of Pennsylvania.

The meeting closed with the singing of the “Suffrage Song,” written to the tune of “America.”

Compiled by Lou Hunsinger Jr.