[2] Kemp was editor and publisher of Our Messenger, 1889–1903; circulation manager of The Union Signal, and The Young Crusader, 1903–12; and National WCTU press superintendent since 1912.

Her membership in the WCTU dated back to her college days, when she served as secretary of the first local organization formed in her home town.

In 1903, she became circulation manager of The Union Signal and the Young Crusader, official papers of the National WCTU published at Evanston, Illinois.

In the same year, she was elected president of the Oregon WCTU, and retained that position until called by the Food Administration, in October 1917, to become a lecturer in its interest.

[1] At the close of the campaign, Kemp was called to the headquarters of the National WCTU at Evanston, as director of field services.

[6] In 1924, after 50 years of active WCTU work, Kemp returned to San Francisco for rest,[1] and lived with a son.