Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1919 — Wyoming Led All States. [ARTICLE]

Wyoming Led All States.

Women acted as jurors In America almost half a century ago. The first grand jury which Included members of the “weaker” sex was impaneled at Laramie, Wyo., 48 years ago. The territory of Wyoming was organized tn 1868 out of part of Dakota, Utah, and Idaho, and one of the first official acts of the new territorial government was to grant women the rlghtlo vote and hold office. <