MISSOURI 345 of schools in St. Louis and later U. S. Commissioner of Educa- tion, with his strong testimony in favor of woman suffrage. Mrs. Atkinson was permitted to make an address on suffrage before the State Federation of Women's Clubs at Sedalia but no action was taken. She also addressed a large audience at the dedication of the Woman's Building which had been erected by the Legislature on the State Fair grounds near that city and Mrs. Walter McNab Miller of Columbia also made an address. The board paid a lawyer to compile the State laws for women under the direction of E. M. Grossman. Mrs. Atkinson, Mrs. 1 and Mrs. John L. Lowes of St. Louis and Mrs. Virginia Hedges of Warrensburg went as delegates to the convention of the National Association in 1911 at Louisville, where much satisfaction was expressed that Missouri had at last come into the fold. The Kansas City League was organized this year with Mrs. Henry N. Ess, president; Miss Helen Osborn, secre- tary; and Mrs. Helena Cramer Leavens, treasurer. The women of Warrensburg, under the leadership of Miss Laura Runyon, organized a club of fifty members. There was the State Normal School, to whose faculty Miss Runyon belonged, and through her the support of the students was obtained and suffrage propa- ganda extended gradually to every section of the State. Mrs.
- er, president of the St. Louis Women's Trades Union,
nized a league among its members, which, under the leader- ship of Mrs. Sarah Spraggon and Miss Sallie Quick, did excellent vi.rk in the campaigns that followed. In 1912 a Business Woman's Suffrage League was formed in St. Louis under the leadership of Miss Mary McGuire, a graduate of the St. Louis Tniversity Law School, and Miss Jessie Lansing Mollcr, which starting with 50 members, eventually numbered The same year the Junior I'ranch of the St. Louis League anized, which included many of the younger society girls and matrons. Miss Ann Drew (later Mrs. James Platt) was l(i it In Kansas City in the autumn the Southside Equal Suffrage League was formed with Mrs. Cora Kramer Leavens,
- dent, and Miss Cora Best Jewell, secretary. A Men's K<|ual
I 'ague was also organized with D. II. Holt president ; I. li in, vice-president; David Proctor, secretary, which YOU VI
