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Show DEATH TAKES : GIFTED WOffil Mrs. Kate Hi) hard Known for Social Betterment Work in Utah Telegrams wore rei ivrrl Saturday ! nnnounclnn the death ol Mrs. Kate . StubUs Milliard in Newark. N. J.. ; Which occurred Tuesday evening. July Prominent women of the cormnunlty who had labored with Mrs. Milliard In uplift work recalled hor many W 1 Hies in Ogden and - vp I ! ;( regret re-gret over the news 01 hor &uddon death. Mrs. Milliard's early life was spent In Wvomlnp. where she married Reuben Reu-ben t. Milliard. L'nton Pacific conductor conduct-or who retired from railroad duly April 1. 1316. .UTI E IN ( T i n WORK As a young bride, Mrs. Milliard came to Ogden and immediately In - am- Identified with educational work and civic problems. She was active in the Child Culture club, and helped lo establish the first kindergarten i )assv She was one of a proup to Investigate In-vestigate Industrial School conditions and force reforms in the management Mrs. Milliard was keenly Interested in politics, being identified with the Socialist and Labor party. For a number num-ber of years she contributed to the Standard once a week a column on la-bord la-bord and socialism. During the fight for suffrage in Utah she was a foremost exponent of J the rights of women and later, when 'he family moved to New Jersey. Mrs Milliard made the same fight over again for belated woman suffrage In the east. llMLVT r ST1D1.M Mrs Milliard was one of the best read women In I'tah and one ol th most profound students of economics she wns Intensely Interested in i irery-thlnp irery-thlnp relating to the welfare of children chil-dren and was the prime mover In much of Utah's legislation on child labor la-bor and femal employment. Her friendships were steadfast und mduring and she Is remembered as a woman, cultured, wholl unselfish and Je I ply sympathetic. She leaves a husband and a daugh- ter, ,Dr. Kuth Millfar.l |