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 WEST VIRGINIA 689 Equal Suffrage Association, spent a week in the State speaking and Miss Craft, who kept her promise to return in May, organ- ized many new suffrage groups, as did Mrs. Wesley Martin Stoner of Washington, who campaigned principally in the mining towns. In the summer a Men's Advisory Committee with Judge J. C. McWhorter as chairman was appointed by the State board ; the State Educational Association in convention endorsed woman suffrage; and after an address by Mrs. Deborah Knox Livingston of Maine, who was on a tour of the State, the Methodist Epis- copal Conference passed a favorable resolution. Later on Governor's Day at Middlebourne with thousands of people pres- ent Mrs. Ebert spoke with Governor Hatfield, both making ap- peals for votes for women. At the annual Fall Festival at Huntington a suffrage float designed by Mrs. E. C. Venable was in the parade. At Parkersburg suffragists addressed an im- mense crowd at Barnum and Bailey's circus. In October the number of small subscribers was increased by "dollar day," when many persons sacrificed or earned a dollar and gave it to the association. Window displays were arranged in many cities with especially elaborate ones in Wheeling, Park- ersburg and Huntington. At the State convention held in Hunt- ington Nov. 16, 1915, a "budget" of $25,000 was authorized, $5,000 of which was quickly subscribed by the delegates, Dr. Irene Bullard of Charleston and Mrs. Helen Brandeburg of Huntington pledging $1,000 each for their branches. Mrs. Frank Roessing of Pittsburgh, national first vice-president, who was one of the speakers, j^edged $400 for the Pennsylvania asso- ciation. For the first time there was an automobile parade. In January, 1916, Mrs. Ebert resigned and Mrs. Yost, first vice-president, succeeded her, soon afterwards opening head- quarters in her own home in Morgantown. These demanded practically every hour of her time from 6 in the morning until i i at night throughout the ten months' campaign. Because of the illness of Dr. Bullard, chairman of literature, that department was moved to Morgantown and placed in charge of Mrs. P. C. McBee, with Lillie Hai- :>ting. About $2,000 were in- vested in literature. Over 200,000 congressional speeches were sent to the voters. In the last days of the campaign personal