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Yankton, Oct. 7th, 1918.

Dear Mrs. McMahon:

Your letter of the third reached me Saturday night.
I was so nervous about doing nothing just a month before
election, that after doing all I possibly could around
here, I went up to Ethan to help Miss Watkins with a
meeting, Saturday.

As I have just written Mrs. Pyle, we are to have
Mrs. Catt here on the 14th and in Vermillon the 15th
after all. Mrs. Gunderson and I have both meetings
arranged for now.

Though I have read your letter over many times, I
an not quite clear as to what I am to do with the petitions.
When I had nothing else to do, I worked on them
in Clay and Yankton counties, last week, and get about
two hundred more I have been calling the scattered
ones in, but do you mean that where they are with a
county chairman, like Mrs. Clifford or Gunderson, that
I am to get those too—have the whole lot in my hands?

This is my estimate of the number in in the
district. Where they are with the county chairman I
have put a question mark, as I don't know the exact
number -- they may have got mroe since I left.

Bonhomme 645, Chas. Mix, 284, Clay 550 (?O. Douglas
163, Gregory 265, Lincoln 600, (?) Tripp 200 (?) Turner
584, Union 600 (?) Yankton 703, total 4604 (?)

We rented the Opera House here for $40.00 and Mrs.
Crisp seems nervous about the money --- says some of that
collected here was to come back to the local treasury.
I said I didn't know but would ask you.

The prospects look good for the meeting so far, if
there is not too much influenza to keep people away.

Had the good luck to run into a meeting of the
Governor's last week—a political meeting of voters at
Gayville, at which I spoke. Also spoke at a meeting at
Waconda, where we got many signatures.

Wish you would write me again, as to just what I
am to do with the petitions. I wish we could collect
them all and send them into Hegts, with as much money
as possible for printing, as I very much fear to trust
them to co. women. I fear when too late, we would find
them not printed. I could try to get as much money as
possible for them, and let it go at that.

Very truly yours,
STELLA CROSSLEY