More than 300 –people were present at the Community House last evening with a splendid program of addresses and music, celebrating the ratification of the suffrage amendment was celebrated.

Mayor Archibald Hoagland presided and following a community “sing” led by Miss Ruth Wendle, he introduced one of the chief speakers of the evening, Judge Harvey W. Whitehead, who gave a brief talk full of timely suggestions for the newly enfranchised women citizens.

“I am sorry to say that many men do not value their franchise,” Judge Whitehead said. “and I want to impress upon your responsibility and duty to go to the polls and vote on the important questions that affect you and yours directly and indirectly. Make up your own minds, however on the issues of the day and vote according to your own convictions and not according to the men of your households.”

Miss Frances Jenkins of the University of Cincinnati, who was in Tennessee at the time of the ratification, gave a graphic account of the fight in that state’s senate.

Miss Henrietta Lyon gave an effective talk in which she spoke of long struggle, and the important part played by the women of Pennsylvania and Lycoming County and in conclusion Mrs. Newton Chatham expressed the heartfelt joy of those who worked long and hard for the desired end—that women might assume an equal place in the affairs of the nation with the men.