![]() and church activities at the Congregational Church.Įlizabeth Prentis Mack to Themian Club, Newton, 23 February 1930. Throughout her life Lizzie found ways to contribute to the community by involvement in club like the W.C.T.U. These women carried their civic spirit with them to adulthood and were involved in various groups including the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.) which was also involved in suffrage.Īt the 1915 meeting of the W.C.T.U. ![]() Perkins who, along with Cena Axtell, graduated from the College of Physicians & Surgeons in Kansas City in 1897. The class included another talented member, Anna A. In May, both Hattie Hildreth and Lizzie Prentis were two of ten students in the third class to graduate from Newton High School in 1888. “begged her hearers to remember that the first school superintendent in Harvey county was a woman that the first school bonds in Darlington township were voted by women, and women would carry the bonds to build new schools houses in Newton that more girls than boys had graduated in the Newton High school, and that the first baby toted through the streets of Newton by fond parents was a girl.” (Weekly Republican 3 February 1888) For Kansas Day in 1888 she played the organ while a “select choir” sang “ The Song of the Kansas Emigrant.” She later presented “ Kansas Men” and overview of Kansas statesmen, including Gov Charles Robinson, and “ literary lights” like Wilder.Īt the same Kansas Day, a classmate, Hattie Hildreth spoke of “ Kansas Women” during which she In 1887, the Prentis family moved to Newton, Kansas. Lizzie, as she was more often called, was born in Clark County Missouri on April 14, 1870. Prentis’ daughter, Elizabeth Prentis Mack.Įlizabeth inherited her parents passion for writing and reporting as the daughter of famed Kansas newspaper editor, Noble L. One of the women in the crowd that October evening was Mrs. Ray’s Tea Room was likely run by Hannah Ray as a store front with her husband’s grocery business in the rest of the building. Typically, the shops would be decorated for home-like comfort, and like for the Suffrage Movement, Tea Rooms were often the headquarters for various community projects. The Tea Room, often a store front operated by a woman, was one of the first acceptable places for women to eat in public alone. ( Evening Kansan Republican 14 October 1912) James Ray’s wife, Hannah, was active in the Ladies Reading Circle and several other women’s groups and no doubt influenced the decision to make the space available.ĭuring the early 1900s, tea rooms had become a popular way for women to gather in public. Ray had “ kindly offered a space” for suffrage headquarters at Ray’s Tea & Coffee House at 506 Main, Newton. A central meeting place was also need and it was reported that Mr. Ella Welsh presided over a meeting organizing volunteers to assist in polling different section of the city. Prentis concluded stating: “If the ballot is given to women, that will put an end to any attempt to resubmit that law to the voters of the state.”įollowing the speech, Mrs. ![]() She gave several examples of “ great moral questions” including “white slave traffic,” “ better wage earning laws,” and prohibition which had “thousands of dollars as a fund to back them up in the work to agitate the question of re-submission of the prohibitory law.” Not so much in questions of political matters, not for finance or tariff, but on the great moral questions of the day.” It is up to the women to arouse from an indifferent state and show that the ballot needs her. “the amendment will carry if the women want it. In October 1912, over 100 ladies from Harvey County gathered at the Methodist Church to hear Mrs. Several were also active in women’s suffrage. The ladies of the Reading Circle were involved in many community activities and causes. Ray’s Tea Room, Women’s Suffrage & the Ladies Reading Circle ![]() Smith (Edith).They were all members of the Ladies Reading Circle a women’s club that had started in 1880. Axtell (Lucena).įourth row, standing – Mrs.
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