The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-20
osKALoosA IMPROVEMENT TICKET.
FOR MAYOR,
Mrs. NJ. d. Lowman.
FOR CITY COUNCIL,
Mrs. II. p Morse,
Mrs. Emma X. Hamilton,
Mrs. Carrie johnson,
Mrs. S. f. Balsley,
Mrs. Matte Golden.
FOR POLICE JUDGE,
w. A, Hamilton.

w. A. Hamilton.
This ticket of SIX women and one man
was opposed by one headed "Retrenchmeut
and Reform" a purely masculine affair.
The campaign was brlet ana strrlng.
Every woman was seen and brought out on
election day, and, with few exceptions, they
voted for their sisters The majority of toe
men who were not already supporters of the
ticket were Won over by the pleas of the
women and their own gallantry, and the
women were elected by majority greater
than the total vote of the opposition, and
that night the citizens accompanied by the
town band, called at the home of each sue
CO sful candidate, and rendered them a
serenade, speeches, and many rounds OF
cheers
Mrs. Mayor Lowman is 40 years old. For
years she was school teacher. For the
past five wears she has been assistant in the
Office of the Registrar of Deeds, and it is
said that without her the office will be with
out the real Registrar of DEEDS. She has
pie asant hazel eyes, and dark brown hair
slightly silvered and always in a French
twist. She is a native of Pennsylvania,
and has lived in Kansas twenty years, for
the past eighteen in Oskaloosa. She is the
mother of two children, a son and a daugh
ter, both grown. Her husband is promi-
nent merchant well to do and highly re-
spected. Their politics are Republican, and
in religion they are Presbyterian
Mrs Hannah p. Morse is of medium
height, plump and round in form, with very
dark brown hair and eyes. She wears her
hair in a coil at her neck, with cluster of
ringlets on each temple. She is 45 years old.
She was born in Eagland, but came to
Kansas and Oskaloosa twenty-five years
ago. She is one of those rare beings,
Democrat and q Methodist. She is the
mother of one child.
frIyV a{,z5nl n
Hoosier, is SO years old, and came to Oska-
loosa when she was "a years old. She was
educated in Oxford o., and received her
musical training at Findlay, of the same
State She is Republican, a Methodist,
and the mother of three children. She has
dark blue eyes and dark wavv hair.
Mrs Sadie Balsley was born in Ohio
thirty-slx years ago. She is also Democrat
and Methodist, and is the mother of one
little daughter. She is slightly above the
medium height, has dark Lair and eyes and
rosy cheeks She was cleaning house when
the correspondent met her, and If she
cleans the city departments as vigorously
they will not recognize themselves when she
is through with them.
Mrs. Matte Golden is the third Democratic
Methodist. She was born in Independence,
Mo-, a suburb of Kansas City, thirty-one
years ago. AS little girl and young woman
she lived in Topeka, but in 1880 she came to
Oskaloosa. She has a slender, girlish figure,
of medium height, with deep blue eyes and
light hair, which she wears coiled high on
the head. Two little daughters, miniatures
of their mother, grace her home.
The youngest member of the Council is
Mrs. Carrie johnson. She is % years old,
and was born and reared in Oskaloosa. She
is Democrat in politics and an Episcopalian
in religion. She is a bonde, with blue eyes
and fluffy golden hair.
Each woman is comedy, intelligent, and
evidently possessed of great common sense.
Each one is housekeeper and a successful
| one; a wife and loving one, and all but
one are mothers devoted to their children
| All are stanch Prohibitionists, and the
canned fruit" business, which has become
one of the largest industries of the place, is
| liable to receive a sudden and thorough
| check.
1--WE intend to enforce all the ordinances, ="
| said Mrs. Lowman, Except those that are
universally obnoxious or impracticable,
which the Council will repeal Before we
leave the halls of the city Government we
| intend to give the city new streets, new
| sidewalks, electric lights, water works, and
various other improvements, or at least set
| things in motion to obtain such improve
ments There is little money in the treasury,
| because the city assessment hasn't been
| over ID per cent. of the real value, and be-
cause the rate Of tax on that small assessment
has been hardly large enough to be called
nominal We intend to praise the assessment
and raise the rate of taxes, and spend the
money literally but judiciously. OF course,
managing city is new to us, but / guess it
| doesn't require many years of training or
experience to manage town of 1000"
Those who worked and voted to put the
women in Office say they will stand by them
| in all their attempts at reform. The womer
throughout Kansas and the Women Suf-
fragists elsewhere are jubilant, and tele-
! grams and letters of congratulation and
inquiry are pouring in by the bushel.
| Oskaloosa has swelled perceptibly since it
has unconsciausly won universal fame, and
| is very much inclined to make its Mayor and
Council dictators for life, with full power
of life and death over the citizens.