Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1888 — CONCERNING WOMEN. [ARTICLE]

CONCERNING WOMEN.

Eighty thousand copies of Anna Gor. don’s “Marching Songs” have been sold. Miss Agnes Felix has been appointed successor to her father, who died lately, as city weighmaster in Harrisburg, Pa. It is computed that there are nearly a thousand women in lowa who own larms and give them their personal attention. Only eighteen of these tarins are mortgaged. The Rev. Annie H. Shaw recently dedicated the Protestant Methodist Ohurch of Canton, Kansas. This is believed to be the first orthodox church ever dedicated by a woman. Rev. Louise 8. Baker, pastor of the Congregational Church in Nantucket, Mass., is makings thorough success of her ministry, and has rallied around her the young peopleln a flourishing Society of Christian Endeavor, of which the four officers are in the proportion of two young women to two young men. The Canton, 0., W. C. T. U. has recently dedicated a building of its own which cost over J 6 000. The building contains a beautiful hall, a library containing 1,000 volumes and a readingroom for women and girls, a museum of collections of minerals and curiosities, and an industrial-hall. Two roomy store-rooms on the first floor bring in a revenue horn rent. Mrs. Livermore said in a recent lecture, that she was a woman reporter—a rare thing, at that time —and the only woman present at the convention which nominated Lincoln for President. In the midst of the enthusiasm attended on ths nomination the other reporters urged her to stand upon a chair and join the cheers. Bhe replied that she was not good at cheering, but she could wave her handkerchief. They begged her not to do 'bis, as the chairman would discover her to be a woman and order her from the hall. The prophecy was fulfilled, but the gallant reporters tallied to her aid and raid “hands off.”