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say uhat i , ' * re—
morning mLil. It may come this afternoon,
the prir ted con i tions of our :rize Essays
had two of the
in”o rmation for a S"ffrage
S {ed them if they thought a debatp

lie; for one of on? prizes.

.1& he done, and gave me

yOu pr
take g; the matter itself upon receipt

conditions.

fiOyjng you will soon be entirely recovered, I a

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 PRESIDENT. MRS. THOMAS J. SMITH, FRANKFORT
Fxnsr VICE PRESIDENT.
MRS. R. A. MCDOWELL. LOUISVILLE

MR5. DESHA BRECKINRIDGE. "‘" . a ' SECOND VICE PRESIDENT.
. MRS. JOE T. ALDERSON. MIDDLESBCRO

CHAIRMAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE.

726 MCCLELLAND BUILDING. THIRD VICE PRESIDENT

LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY un. ‘ I MRS. F. A. ROTHIER. COVINGTON
, CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.
VICE CHAIRMAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE. MISS ELIZABETH PEPPER. FRANKFORY
MRS. MURRAY HUBBARD. RECORDING SECRETARY. MRS. J. D. HAYS. OWENSEORO
TREASURER. MRS. J. B. JUDAH. LOUISVILLE
FT' THOMAS‘ KY' ‘913 AUDITOR. MRS. W F. LILLARD. LAWRENCEBURG
Alaska

STATE MEMBER EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
MISS LAURA CLAY. RICHMOND

WHITE STATES - FULL s FRAGE _ ‘ CHAIRMAN CONGR'ESSIONAL C9MMITTEE
SHADED ” - PARTIA 10191119} ‘1 , rll—Sfigsg ED-MQNP V' “'91st $A°l3§®lv7

DARK H » No

Judah .
’ Lexulgton, Ky. ,
2115 LMrrey nVe.,

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I have read your letter with considerable surprise.

I don't etsall agree with.yon “net my proposition is
unr:esonable. In fact i think it act only reasonable,
but the best way for re. 1.. ing. the moot 3?:fo for the :12.

That it was sovntning of a joke does, I believe,

heln neie tnnn hurt money raising qualities. But it

91 eye takes two to make a joke: and if you weren't feeling

in that mood toward it, natural y it didn'

t appeal to you.

I see no reason why you end irginia if you.desired
shouldn't have given your money on the same tenns. In feet,
1 tbink it would have been.good business. If, for ir—
etanoe, I had said that night at the Onera douse that one
person would give g5.00, if nine other persons did, arfl
had taken a little time over it, I am sure we would have
gotten the dther fives. I think that was the chief fault
of that night's effort that 1 did not try harder and
longer on the sums that more people in that large audience

1
I

would nave felt inclined to give.\ But the lateness of the

hour made me timid about delaying and the conditional plan

 

 Kentuckg (Equal Rights association

PRESIDENT, MRSI THOMAS J. SMII’H. FRANKFURT
_ FIRST VICE PRESIDENT.
CHA'RMAN CAMPA'GN COMMITTEE . '.V MRS. Re A. MCDOWELL. LOUISVILLE
MR5. DESHA BRECKINRIDGE ' , ' SECOND VICE'PRESIDENT. -
' . MR5. JOE T. ALDERSON. MIDDLESEORO

726 MCCLELLAND BUILDING. " ‘ THIRD VICE PRESIDENT.
LEXINGTON KENTUCKY MRS. F'. IL ROTHIER. COVINGTON

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.
MISS ELIZABETH PEPPER, FRANKFURT
RECORDING SECRETARY. MRS. J. D. HAYS, Ow ‘NSEORO
MR5. MURRAY HUBBARD. , F’

- TnEAsuREn. MRS. J. B. JUDAH. LOUISVILLE »
FT' THOMAS' ' 1913 AUDITOR. MRS. W F. LILLARD. LAWRENCEBURG

Alaska ' 1 “ STATE MEMBER EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
MISS LAURA CLAY. RICHMOND

CHAIRMAN CoNGRESSIONAL CoMMITTEE.
MRS. EDMUND M. POSTI PADUCAH

VICE CHAIRMAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE.

WHITE STATES - FULL SUFFRAGE

SHADED .. PARTIAL "
a

DARK

uhich.would have been an exofieaimflwnlfiiweour to me and wasn't
suggested. I would have been grateful tor the suggestion.

The Associated thorities has bccfl.rfiiuihg money m1t1m
lest wee: in Lexington.with several such oceditionel offers.
The President said he xould give 9100.00 if so many others
did. That proposition hoe been taken up. I have had a
standing offer for a number of years to be one of ten to give
g25 or 950. The WES has always been taken up, though I and
others “I P ” gork pretty hard sefletimes to get the other
nine. They tell me this year that they expect to take me up
on the ten fifties, as I hope they will. Otherwise fieshe and
I L111 each go in'wflth the 925 group, and he will also go
in with that one if I go in with the H.550 group. I adopted
that plan wuth the Associated Charities in order to help get
the money needed after finding for some years how little good
the go-it-elone plan did the society.

As you :now, when.i suggested this conditional plan in
the i. i. g. A., we were not getting large sums regularly
from anybody except Miss Laura. Mrs. bennett used to give
@100 to the National, but though I may be mistaken, l do not
think she was in the habit of giving as large e:mm as that to
the nentucky until after I became president, when we began

trying to get the fashion started.

 

 Kentucky Equal Rights association

PRESIDENT. MRS. THOMAS J. SMITH. FRANKFORT

CHAIRMAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE. ' ' _ Il' HRS. VIZERPSRERSIfNJLDongL LOUISVILLE

MRS. DESHA BRECKINRIDGE. ’3‘ , sscoun we: pnzsmzm,

MRS. JOE T. ALDERSON. MIDDLESBORO
726 MCCLELLAND BUILDING. 7mm: VICE PREEIDENT

LEXINGTON. KENTUCKY = "' ’ ' '- -‘ ' MRS. F. A. Ron-HER, covme‘ron

, CORRESPONDING SECRETARV.
VICE CHAIRMAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE. .. 7‘ MISS ELIZABETH PEPPER. FRANKFoRT

., ' ' RECORDING SECRETARY. RS. . D. HAYS.
MR3. MURRAY HUBBARD. , ., . M " °WENSB°R°
TREASURER, MR5. J. B. JUDAH. LOUISVILLE

FT. THOMAS. KY. AUDITOR. MDS, w F, LILLARD. LAWRENCEBURG

STATE MEMBER ExEcuTIvE COMMITTEE.
MISS LAURA CLAY. RICHMOND

WHITE STATES » FULL SUFFRAGE CHAIRMAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE.
SHADED .. - PARTIAL ” MRS. EDMUND M. POST. PADUCAH

DARK " — No

Lexington, Ky. ,
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You will remember that When I put in tho lOG Silently

toward miss Glenn's salary it didn't bring any others. I
haven't boon giving it conditionally to advertisesnyself, but
because I believe it's the way to got the other nine hundreds
urn that one hundred alOne does little good. As the interest
incroauos I think the conditions can profitably be stiffened.
If we go into oanpaign t:is year I think we Cln certainly get
ten hundred dollar donors in a’dition to the olay fonily end
to the contributions of file county leagues. ,

It wouldn't bother me at all to have the men, as you

A
suggest, make the some candition. I think each one of the

.1

ten.migot give on condition that the other nine gave: and I
believe we'd get it.

My belief that we can get a good finance committee this
year is based on the two new factors: that Mrs. South has more
connections, personal and golitical, over the State than I had,
ans that going into campaign will make it lots easier than it
ever has been to arouse interest.

I shall be glad to serve on the fineice committee and to

work hard as soon as the doctor turns me loose, if that is the

direction in.ohion the K. n. n. A. thinks I can serve best.

 

 Kentucky

CHAIRMAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE.

MRS. DESHA BRECKINRIDGE.
726 MCCLELLAND BUILDING.
LEXINGTON. KENTUCKY

VICE CHAIRMAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE.
MRS. MURRAY HUBBARD.
FT. THOMAS.

in the me entime

I

(Equal Rights association

Alaska

WHITE STATES FULL SUFFRAGE
SHADED .. - PARTIAL

DARK .. - No

PRESIDENT. MRS. THOMAS J. SMITH. FRANKFORT

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT.
MRS. R. A. MCDOWELL. LOUISVILLE

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT,
MRS. JOE T. ALDERSON. MIDDLEEBDRO

THIRD VICE PRESIDENT.
MRS. F. A. ROTHIER. CDVINGTON

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.
MISS ELIZABETH PEPPER. FRANKFORT

RECORDING SECRETARY. MRS. J. D. HAYS. OWENSBORO
TREASURER. MRS. J‘ B. JUDAH. LOUISVILLE
AUDITOR. MR5. W F. LILLARD, LAWRENCEBURG
STATE MEMBER EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

MISS LAURA CLAY. RICHMOND
CHAIRMAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE.

MRS. EDMUND M. POST. PADUCAH

Lexington, Ky. ,

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filfl.l be glad :0 do all 1 can, as a formal

member of the committee, as I have done until I was laid

‘off, tithout being a formal member.

The first year I fled the

luck to Tet the @1000 fPOL hrs. Bemmont and Mrs. dubbard.

I have gotten some hundreds from.people wko hadn't given

anything before and some smaller sums.

of calves the ”luck"

comes only after you have immolated yourself to do the asking -

and also very often after that it doesn't come! I drea'

Skim; people for mxley as much as anyone else can, and in

"s harder for me because I have to I‘Moeyg’i for so

many different things.

but, as I have said if the Board, or

whoever fozem the Finance Committee, wants me to go-éfl on

it, I- "Jill.

In moving the things fn>m the office to my fiereld office,

I found one or two sheets of ancient paper,— I am using them

for this letter, to remind you how we have improved ~ if

slowly. On that first Board, though at the request of the

former Board I had suggested several of the members myself,

I had preetleelly not one bit of Lelp except from Kiss Laura

and fire. oennett. The others, as e ruie, could not even attend

meetings.

The next

year Ire. Laury said she couldn't do

 

 Kentucky (Equal Rights association

PRESIDENT, MRS. THOMAS J. SMITH. FRANKFORT
FIRST VICE PRESIDENT.
MRS‘ R. A. MCDOWELL, LOUISVILLE

MRS. DESHA BRECKINRIDGE. “ a SECOND VICE PRESIDENT.
. MRS. JOE T. ALDERSCN, MIDDLESBDRO

CHAIRMAN CAMPAIGN COMMIYTEE.

726 MCCLELLAND BUILDING. THIRD VICE PRESIDENT.

LEXINGTON KENTUCKY m ‘“' .' > MRS. F, A. ROTHIER. COVINGTDN

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.

VICE CHAIRMAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE. “'55 EL'ZABET" PEPPER- FRANKFC’RT
RECORDING SECRETARY. MRS. J. D. HAVS. OWENSBORO

MRS. MURRAV HUBBARD.
TREASURER. MRS. J. B. JUDAH. LOUISVILLE
FT- THOMAS' - I913 AUDITOR. Mas, w F. LILLARD. LAWRENCEBURG
Alaska

STATE MEMBER EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
MISS LAURA CLAY. RICHMOND

WHITE STATES - FULL SUFFRAGE CHAIRMAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE.

SHADED -- _ PARTIAL MRS. EDMUND M. POSTv PADUCAH

DARK ” - NO

Lexington, Ky. ,
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anything anal got Jr“. Hutchinson. HOW you have a Board with
hardly a slaolmuu It m.kes me feel that though we have never
yet gotten a good "state~wide” finance committee, we may
still hope to do it.

Your letter cane as I was packing my trunk. I read itA
and put it in, and the trunk tent to the station uheee it
still is. I haven't yet gotten off due to the demoralized
running of the ‘ruins, gut expect to tonight.

I didn’t ttink it rude but for scmo reason it did strike
me as distinctly unfriendly. I had considered the we were
goofl friehds. I had oeitainly hadthat feeling toward you, and
it's apt to be a permanent status with me - with the added
bond of‘our intense interest in the Huffrég-

3:1 eve

myself into seeing that it is of course an_impersonal thing.
You are simply expressing your views of that is good for the

K. A. a. A., as I was expressing mine by my x‘oposition and an
again expressing and defending them.in this letter. If we go
into campaign the Board will certainly have to take up actively

the question of finances and of forming a finance committee.

I will be glad to make my proposition formally to the Board

 

 Kentucky (Equal Rigbig Cissocéation

PRESIDENT‘ MRSI THOMAS J. SMITH. FRANKFORT

, FIRST VICE FRESIDENY.
CHAIRMAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE. " " “ MR5. R. A. MCDOWELL. LOUISVILLE

MRS. DESHA BRECKINRIDGE. 1 SECOND we: mes-Dam.
" ‘ MR5. JOE T. ALDERSON. MIDDLESEORD

726 MCCLELLAND BUILDING. ' ' ' TH‘RD VICE FRESWENT‘
MRS. F. A. ROTHIER, COVINGTON

LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.
VICE CHAIRMAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE. - , , ""55 ELIZABETH PEPPER‘ FRAME“
MRS MURRAY HUBBARD ‘ - RECORDING SECRETARY, MRS. J. D. HAYS. OWENSBORO
‘ ‘ ' V . ' TREASURER, MRS. J. B. JUDAH. LOUISVILLE
FT- THOMAS- KV‘ ‘ . _ AUDITOR, MRS. w F', LILLARD. LAWRENCEBUHG

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AJaska . .- . . STATE MEMBER EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
MISS LAURA CLAY. RICHMOND

CHAIRMAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE,

WHITE STATES ~ FULL SUFFRAGE
" MRS. EDMUND M. POST. PADUCAH

SHADED " - FART|AL
DARK .. - No

Lexington, Ky. ,

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the .PZ‘I‘ISid-I'vnt. and let than TGjGC 1." it, if thew U71 9;,

llgn or uuxoaguuable. 1 movie of course use the 5100

pLOiltaDly in a goui many directions. But I prefer to uqe it

t3 nelp the suffrage cause in icntucky most.

I presume, as Sou d\ not mention them, that the othbr

estlons i made as to Iney raising did not appeal to you
5"”: .w" ‘ ‘1 ~ I ‘ ‘
ltflmr and i curtaialy snan't botaer you 11th any hereafter
when i have 'he fewling that they are not desired.

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President
MRS. JOHN GLOVE“ SOlTTil.
State Headquarters,
Frankfort
First Vice President
MRS. ROBINSON A. ENDOW'ELL.
Loilim‘il!v.
Second Vice President
MRS. JOSEPH ALDERSON
Mlddlesboro
Third Vice President
MRS. JAMES A. LEECII, Louisville

Corresponding Secretary
“RS. 1‘). L. HUTCIIINSON, Lexington

Recording Secretary
MRS. J. I). HAYS, Owensburo

Treasurer
MRS. J. B. .lUDAll, Louisville

Auditor
MRS. W. F. LILLARD. Lawrencehurg
Chairman of Campaign
MRS. HARRY R. \VHI’I‘ESII)E,
Loulsvillr
State Member National Executive Counril
MRS. EDLIUND M. POST, Putlucall

Chairman of Congressional Work
MRS. SANIUEL HENNING, Louisvillr

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L ~.ates are noe”cd, and events mill help us finish the 35m-
;zign succ,ssfully, :znu incidentmilg to get wonev for it.
'flen you fuel ve]J_ enough, iritc ma abou “hgso 2 inns.
111 g v 211 wsit W1.it'ov t imgatience until we see hoi our cuLzse
;oe1 ; '?- ”.w. enate; as 10 had alreudy decided not to 116? S tim
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out of t-e way. But I do think on should be laying fmlg no to -axo
the 3 ate ”Wondwcnt ready for ‘Aick station amen the m comes
when i are 1rco to act.
Yoging soon to hog *z‘ 3 1 are entirel1
Very cordia,7; ’

 

  

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Real Estate and Fire Insurance Broker
129 CHEAPSIDE

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Preside-n!
MRS. JOHN GLUVI‘IR SUIT“. ‘ ~ . .
State Headquarter“, mm @ a . . Ahlnfiurg filidlh
Frankfort »

First Vice President . . _ LAURA CLAY,
mm. uumxsux .\. MHHHVELL. , ' ' - " Lexington
Luuipniilr. . ' ‘
”mom! Vice President masiu nmcculxmnun.

MRS. JOSEPH ALDEKSDN 'j 7 .y _ ..
Milltiiesimru . . ' ‘. ' Lexington

Third Vice President \ x . ‘ ' . y. 7 7 ,« .. 7 - ,. .7
mm. JAMES A. Lumen. meviln- , 1' ‘ ~ ”IO-“Ab JM IIERst: Mlxlh
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Corresponding Secretary
HRH. iu. L. ”L'ILHINEUN, Lexington v. - . JAMES BENNETT,
Recording Sevretary \fmw-s 1m.” . Richmnnd
nus. J. n. HAYS. Owcnsburn 1...... 7"" W'
Treasurer JOHN IS. ('ASTLENIAN,
“"5- J‘ ”- JUDAH' l“"'l""i“" White Staten. Full Sun‘razc: shaded States. Partial “Wham“
Auditor Suirrage; Dotted State, Presidential, Hunk-[pal and
MRS. \v' F. LILLARD, Lawrenpehurz l’nrtiai County Suffrage: Dark States, Nu Suflrnke. MRS. S. .\l. lll'liliARD,
liirknmn

Chairman of Campaign
nus. HARRY u. \nn’rnsinn, m;
Louiswiliv »

Mute Member National Exu'uilve ('muwil
MKS. EDMUND M. POST, Pmlm-uh

Chairman of Congrauxionnl “’ork
Hiis. SAJIIVEL nlcNNlNu, Lnuimlm FFANKFORT‘ KY“
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 189 N.Hill “t., Lexington,
Jan,IBth, I918.

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my dear irs.South, ,
Your letter of tile I611 is at hand,

’I have succeeded in securing a committee representing the four
educaticnal instituicns of our city to heln to draw up the rules
for the Wrize “ssay Contests; rnd the Fayette ”,4.P. will try to
arrange one or more contests in fls'c so that we otn have prae
tical observation of tie rules, and "‘y amend them, if desirable,
before they are used largely throug' the state.

I am glad you have so valuable an o inion on the Vresidential suff
frage as that of Judge O'Rear‘s. It is admirable, and confirms all
I have ever read on the subject. I think you y@g{should have a
number of copies Prepared to uehfl to legislators who may desire to
read the argument. I think the bill may be drawn up by some legis
lator who is in favor of the bill, and who may be willing to intre
du ce it. I would advise, in order to help him, that you write at
once to National Headquarters, and ask for copies of ?residen—
tial bills passed in the several states which have granted that inn
form of suffrage the past year. I do not know of any lawyer in \
lexington to whom to agply to write the bill; and if you consider
it necessary to hvve one, I advise that you ask the Iouisville of-
ficers to secure one, as tth are urging that bill particularly.
I do not know why you should delay the introduction of that bill,aa
the Iational does not ongose it, and the Vy.Convention voted for
it. It might be made a means of finding out the views of legis~
latore on other suffrage bills, whilst you are lobbying for it,

If the U.¢.Senate passes the Federal fimendment in time for the
Yy.legislature to act upon it, and it is ratified in Yy., the impor
tance of a state referendum is of course affected. But if that is
not passed and submitted in a few weeks, I am clear in my own mind
that a state referendum is the best thing for us. I do not think
the National has any just right to interpose against he decision
of our convention. It is true, at ashington it was decided that
the policy should be against state referenda in general; but you
may remember that I got the decision from drs.Catt that the policy
of the Asso. could not contradict authoritatively the constitu—
tion, which clearly recognizes the right of states to work by
state legislation. I hold, therefore, that our right to proceed
is indisputable, However, I do not believe we could carry the stat
amendment with a divided association, though if we are in unison
I feel very confident of success. Therefore, I would be unwilling
to push our clear right to the point of disrupting our fisso.; and
the attitude of the Louisville women seems to threaten that unless
the National Board withdraws its opposition. I am in hopes it wil
do so, if we wait patiently for the vote in tze U.S.Senate. If it
is favorable, and Ky.®oes not have time to rttify, or refuses to
do so, it seems to me patent that even for the plans of the Nations
a referendum would be the best policy. Te have organization
enough and money enough in hand and in reliable pledges to make a
creditable campaign for ten or twelve months, that is, in the year
I9I8; then if the Federal Amendment is ratifigfiyby the 4I legislaa
tures which meet in the early months of I9I9Xxxfii£yx our state
camraign stops automatically. If they fail to ratify, then the as~
sistence of Ky. will be very nesessary; and we could and would
find money enough to finish the campaign in 19I9, with good hope
of victory at the November election of I919. Versonall, I am in
favor of a state referendum in any circumstances; but I am not wil~
ling to cause disruption to push that View. I hope before yOu de-

 

 cide upon any hill but that of presidential suffrage , or about
that shall be flone about other bills, that you will call a Board
meeting, and that you will cwll it to meet in Frankfort. The
trains admit of 8 longer time to be spent in Frenkfort and re~
turn home that meeting in'louisville; and if There is any time to
syere, it cannbe very pr fitehly used in seeing member s of the
legislature. Ks Fahr.lv$ is now close at hand, :nd the papers
stete that tie questi01 LS’likely to come up in the W.“. heflate Ben
febexisfix fore Febr.Is ;’I think you Could wait till that time, x
and choose a day as soon after as Lossible when the Board might
be able to see legisltaors. ll action is not taken in the ”.9 Gene
ate by that time, oroiery soon sfter,it seems to me me shoult have
the Board meeting, So as to he sure that we are not too late to
work Lor something in our legislature. But as you are in clo
contest with the legislature, you could decide hon much time

7.

should :lhow ourselves better then l can ‘0.

I hOje that you are not still suffering to; your “e m
illness. The teether has been so terrible the i% has inter~
rupted everything.3ut the disturbances of olu traditions by this
very weather she the political consequences of its effects upon inn

dustries may be very helpful to us in our fight for suffrage. I a
am very strongly of.that oaionion that the war, instead of stop—
ping our fight for sufffisg9¥l§¥93rds an opportunity for success
which it would be disastrous to neglect. Therefore, let us keep
an a stout heart, edn hoPe that the sifferences of opinion which
now seem to hemperaéfir Board and our work, may disappear in time
for us to do something very effective in this legislature.
Very cordially yours,

 

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MRS. ROBINSON .\, “UNOH'HLL,
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Second Vice President
MRS. JOSEPH ALDERSON
Middleshoro
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MRS. JAMES A. LEICCH, Louisville

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Ly Dear

Did it ee:_r to 5 ,», u» did
not have a quorum at 1e 188% Board meeting? 4 - Jhiteeide
arrived late, left 2~ 1 aid “nei~ncd as
Board. I consider me had no qu01um and
that noard meeting could stand. I have
matters with my husband and it is his opiu
my own that I would have no 1epal ric*r t L

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questions do be determined are so vital, I dee
to call another noard meeting ear y next week. -
in the meantime secure legal advice upon all of the queen
tions involvedso that ve may 3rrive at some delinite point
of action. It is my intention to call this floord meeting
at the earliest possible mommnt, possibly Monday or Tues-
day, I cannot set the positive date in this letter because
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Very eordiallyy ours,