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Show A Smoke Inspector. The president of a woman suffrage organization Is a mighty person. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw spoke In the assembly as-sembly hall of the Claypool hotel on the opening evening of the annual convention con-vention of the Woman's Franchise League of Indiana. The room was built to hold 500 persons comfortably ; but about 800 were there that evening. Mrs. Rtchnrds Edwards of Peru, president presi-dent of the franchise league, thought she detected an odor of smoke, rroin her position on the stage she sent n message to Miss Adah Bush, of Kent-land, Kent-land, to Investigate the cource. Miss Bush left the room for a few minutes. When she returned she sent up to Mrs. Edwards the message : "I have seen about the smoke. I have had It stopped." Indianapolis News. |