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Clark County was formed from Bourbon and Fayette in 1792. The county seat is the city of Winchester.
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School Suffrage for Women is Advocated Joint Committees of Seven Organizations Arrange a Mass Meeting Date is Jan. 9 Curry Hall of the Y.M.C.A. is Agreed Upon as the Place Courtesy of Linda Denton Arrangements were made yesterday by joint committees of seven local women’s organizations for a mass meeting devoted to school suffrage for women. Thursday, Jan. 9, was set for the meeting; 3 o’clock is the time. And Curry Hall of the Y.M.C.A. is the place. The local organizations represented yesterday were the Woman’s Club, the Chautaugua Circle, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the W.C.T.U., and the Lexington and the Bryan Station Chapters of the DA.R. In addition, the State D.A.R. was represented and the Education and Legislative Committees of the Kentucky Federation of Women’s Clubs Called by Mrs. Kinkead The meting was called by Mrs. W.S. Kinkead, the chairman of the Social Science Department of the Woman’s Club. The club in calling this meeting, is acting in unison with the other women’s clubs over the state, the chief legislative work of the year, as agreed upon at the annual federation meeting in June, being to secure school suffrage with an educational qualification for Kentucky women. The Woman’s Club offered the use of its rooms for the mass meeting. The offer was declined, as it was decided that the club rooms would not be large enough and Curry Hall was decided upon instead. Mrs. Harrison Presides Mrs. A.M. Harrison was chosen to preside over the mass meeting. Dean Myers was appointed chairman of a committee to arrange the program. Mrs. Wickliffe Preston, president of the Woman’s Club, was made chairman of the Committee on Arrangements, the other members being Mrs. Taylor, representative of the W.C.T.U.; Mrs. Adair, of the Chautaugua Circle; Miss Lizzie Lyle, of the Lexington Chapter D.A.R.; Mrs. Chenault, of the Daughters of the Confederacy; Miss Laura Clay, of the Equal Rights Association, and Mrs. Shelby Harbison, of the Bryan Station Chapter D.A.R. It was decided after some debate that the public, both men and women, should be invited to the meeting, and it is probable that both men and women will be among the speakers. |
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