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Show Cadmus Club Holds Meeting At Bellistons The November meeting for Cadmus Club was held at the home of Faye Belliston where Cadmus members mem-bers had an enjoyable evening as they continued con-tinued their study of the lives of some of our great pioneer women. President Beatrice Hayes welcomed the members and introduce the program for the evening. Carol Allen a club member gave a very interesting in-teresting account of the life of Emmeline B. Wells. She used as her text "Sister Saints", along with other interesting in-teresting information of the great women of Utah. Emmeline B. Wells was born in 1828 in Mass. She was one of the women who took an active part in the organization of the Relief Soc. in Nauvoo. Later in Utah she was President of the Re. Soc. from 1910 to 1921. Emmeline came to Utah in 1848 where she became an outstanding citizen and Church member. She was one of the leading women in gaining the right for women to vote. She took an active part in Womans Sufferage both in Utah and on the National level. She went to Washington D.C. to help on the National Sufferage Committee. She was a Poet, teacher, and the editor of a news paper called the womans Exponent Ex-ponent which was later replaced by the Relief Soc. Magazine. Hostess Faye Belliston and her Co Hostesses Avera William and Effie Adams served delicious refreshments to the 23 club members present. |