Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1914 — Woman Leader of “Drys” Is Dead. [ARTICLE]

Woman Leader of “Drys” Is Dead.

Whittier, Cal., Feb. 27. —Miss Amanda M. May, eighty-six years old, collaborator with Neal Dow in the temperance campaign that made Maine ‘ dry,” is dead at her home here. After leaving Maine she participated in the successful Kansas “dry" fight and in temperance campaigns in other states. With Colonel Sobieski she organized the first Good Templars in California. She was a minister in the Friends church.