Hopedale Suffrage Club Is Formed and Plans Busy Season
Hopedale, Nov. 16-The newly formed Hopedale Suffrage Club met Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Herbert Shattuck and plans for the winter work were discussed and much interest manifested at the session. Mrs. Mary Moore, a retired teacher from the Framingham Normal School, is president of the club, and Mrs. J.N. Nutter is secretary and treasurer. Mrs. Cranston S. Thayer and Mrs. Proctor constitute a membership committee.
The club is to study citizenship and community interest, and work for the Red Cross. Membership is not limited to suffragists, and anyone interested in the proposed line of study on the Red Cross is eligible, and may make application to the membership committee.
The club proposes to hold a pre-Thanksgiving food sale in the store of H.L. Patrick. Milford Daily News, November 16, 1916
Hopedale women were far more militant in the days of the Hopedale Community than they seem to have been in 1916. To read what Abby Hills Price had to say sixty-six years earlier at the Worcester Women’s Rights Convention in 1850, click here.
Woman suffrage picket protests criminal arrests of militant protestors from the National Woman’s Party
Lucy Burns, arrested picketing June 1917, sentenced to 3 days; arrested Sept. 1917, sentenced to 60 days; arrested Nov. 10, 1917, sentenced to 6 months; in Jan. 1919 arrested at watchfire demonstrations, for which she served one 3 day and two 5 day sentences. She also served 4 prison terms in England. Burns was one of the speakers on the “Prison Special” tour of Feb-Mar 1919. Library of Congress
Here’s Fanny’s name on the national plaque. I haven’t found a picture of the entire plaque.