Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1898 — THE WOMAN’S FEDERATION. [ARTICLE]

THE WOMAN’S FEDERATION.

Mrs. W. H. Lour, of Atlanta. Chosen President—A «« "opals of Home of the I qißlnllos* De ever. Col.. • ’ W- ~ % 1 * ; 'Vtu Fede stion of V ’• < 1 ■ i« »da> elect I Mrs. W . :w« v_: »sn presiusui. As chairman of the committee on resolutions, Mrs. Mary Mumford, of Philadelphia, read innumerable resolutions which will be sent out immediately in the name of the federation. One is to President McKinley expressing confidence in him, his advisers and his brave men ou land and sen. Another is n petition to congress asking it to establish a national health bureau for the dissemination of the laws of health. Other matters touched upon included most just legal rights from mother to child, the preservaflofi of forests, the need of effective work nlong educational lines and the advancement of whatever pertains to better industrial conditions for women and children. Through these various resolutions it is hoped to makf practical some of the line* of euden\oi presented throughout the convention.