Mamie Shields Pyle correspondence, 1918-01

Will use the plate if there is not too much of it. J.L. Hammond

WOMAN'S COMMITTEE COUNCILS of NATIONAL DEFENSE SOUTH DAKOTA DIVISION MRS. K. ZETLITZ, Director of Registration

STATE OFFICERS: DR. HELEN S. PEABODY, Chairman, Sioux Falls MRS. JOHN L. PYLE, Vice-Chairman Huron MRS. J. A. WILLIAMS, Treasurer Watertown MRS S. A. CHRISTENSON, Secretary Sioux Falls

STATE ORGANIZER MRS. GINA SMITH-CAMPBELL, Dell Rapids FINANCE COMMITTEE MRS. GINA SMITH-CAMPBELL, Chairman MRS. GEORGE T. BLACKMAN, Sioux Falls

SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Jan. 30th, 1918.

Mrs, John L. Pyle, Vice Chairman. Huron, S.D.

My dear Mrs. Pyle.

Thanking you very much for the clippings that I received yesterday. So nice of you to think of sending them, and they will be of great help to us.

The letters we get from the different County Chairmen are all very engouraging, and I think they will cover their territory thoroughly.

Registration here in Sioux Falls is coming fine. We have from three to four women registrars at the headquarters every day and they are quite busy.

I hope we will see you soon again.

Sincerely, Mrs. K. Zetlitz Director of registration

Brooking S.D. Jan 31-1918

My Dear Mrs Pyle

Have delayed answering your letters untill I could have something defunct to tell you.

Every one is so busy with red cross work that it seems hard to find time for other work.

We have not kept up our League meetings this winter, but I called a meeting for last Monday and eight members were present.

We shall be pleased to have Miss Pidgon come and will entertain her while here, Please let me know just when she will arrive and we will try and arrange a meeting although I am fearful that it will be a very small one, as so few of our women seem interested in suffrage just a this time,

Very sincerely yours Mrs. M.E. Bacon

Hot and Cold Running Water in Every Room

Telephone in Every Room Rooms with Private Bath American Plan

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HOTEL ST. HUBERT GEO. C. BURKE, Prop.

Milbank, So. Dak., 1-31-1918

My dear Mrs. Pyle:- Altho I am trying to do the work as quickly as possible in these towns, I am finding the trip much more expensive than I expected, owing to the fact that the hotels are all American plan and more expensive per day than I had counted on, even the poor ones.

In no town have I been entertained during my stay, except twice to a meal each. Even in the ones where they met me at the station they took me to the hotel, and had no intention of entertaining. In three towns the leader had moved away, and in one (Webster) I had not the name of any other suffragist to start on. I found a Chairman, tho.

In every town they could use