People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1896 — Women Make a Choice. [ARTICLE]

Women Make a Choice.

Springfield, 111., April 29.—Qut of 345 delegates who were eligible to sit in the first republican state convention pf women less than sixty appeared, but proxies and alternates made up the final number of eighty who voted on the choice of the cohventioii for a woman trustee of the University of Illinois. The convention lasted nearly all day, and Mrs. Mary Turner Carriel of Jacksonville was selected as the woman whom the mens convention will be asked to nominate as one of the trustees of the Illinois state university.