Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-11-11
DEPARTMENT
MABEL H poMEpoY, EDITOR.
Some Notes of 1907.

Miss Ada Lee an attorney at Port
Huron, Michigan, has held the Office
Of circuit court commissioner for
three years.
Mrs Golf Of Pleasant Valley, Wis
consin, who was elected town treas.
urer, has just secured her Office in
spite of vigorous opposition on the
part OF the male Office holders OF the
town.
Mrs. Helen M. Avery, a $1,000
clerk in the Interior Department, is
regarded as the finest penman in
Washington. She writes rapidly and
with great uniformity and clearness.
Buffalo has a woman contractor,
her name is Mrs A M Holloway and
she has just secured the contract for
cleaning the streets of that city for
five years by bid of $4470
Mrs Aad M. BittenbeDder was
nominated by the Nebraska prohibl-
ton convention as their candidate for
district judge. Mrs. Bittehdender is
a member OF the Lincoln bar and
much esteemed.
Mrs Phoebe Couzins, just appoint
cd marshal OF the United States court
in st Louis is the first woman who
ever held such a place. She is sp
pointed by Justice Miller to succeed
her father, and It is thought that the
president will make her tenure per.
manent.
Mrs Case, real estate agent OF
Chicago makes specially Of renting
furnished houses, and succeeds sd-
mirably because she knows the needs
OF q furnished house.
NOTES OF WOMEN
Mrs Sarah j Hale was the first
woman to support herself by journal
istlc work. She published Godey's
magazine fer twenty five years.
Miss Minnie e FOLSOM a near reIa-
tive of Mrs Grover Cleveland was
preceptress Of the Brooklings Agri-
cultural college in Dakota.
Mrs M N VsnCott, or Mother Van
Colt the evangelist as she is mostly
known by, is at present engaged in
founding an institution in Catskill,
N. Y. to shelter the class Of unfortu-
nate women. Mother VanOott has
been a friend and protector to unfor.
tunate women all her life, and has
spent much woney 10 this work.
Miss Rebecca Wiswell, the Oldest
living army nurse Of the civil war has
just celebrated her DIST birthday at
her home in Plymouth, Mass. She
was born in Provincetown and Is the
last living member Of ten children.
Mrs Emily Crawford, the we'll
known Paris correspondent of the
London Daily News, says there is no
opening at all for women Journalistic
In PARIS. "The manners Of the coun
try" she says are entirely against 1t,
the French press is at present in the
hands Of rough, pushing, scramble
ing set of men, who guard their own
rights most iealously against any in.
trusion Of women. If a girl tried to
force her way into Paris newspaper
Office she would receive scant cour-
tesy and be looked upon as an inter-
loper who deserved no mercy.
According TO The English Women's
Review, there are over one hundred
women serving on school boards in
England and Wales. Four county
districts have women clerks, there
are also women ovsrseers, assistant
overseers and overseers on highways.
Miss Fisher of Boston was recently
chosen as an expert in settling differ
ences between the Spaulding Goods
Company aud its employers.
Mrs William Lee Of Boston is q
candidate for the position Of presld-
ing officer Of the daughters of the
Revolution.
The state of Lady Henry Somer-
sets health continues to cause great
anxiety to her friends. She resides
at Esstnor Castle near Malvern, and
feels intensely her enforced abstin-
snce from active work.