The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-01-10

maries, and the school ticket is print
ed on a separate ballot, the names of
all candidates appearing without par
therefore nil, at least so far as wom-
an candidate is concerned.
Mrs. Sarah L. Hyre. who has served
five years on the Board of Education
in Cleveland, begins another term of
four years this month. Mrs. Hyre has
always managed her own campaigns.
Last fall she let her record speak for
itself. and made no public addresses.
She led the school ticket at the pri-
maries by 1900 majority. and the cleo
ton of 11,62S plurality.
Mrs. Hyre has developed the So
cial center work among the schools.
and today every school house in Cleve-
land is social center for its own
neighborhood. The mothers and the
teachers have been brought together
in the most democratic manner, and
the schools have benefited in conse-
quence
The first woman elected to the
Board of Education was Mrs. Elroy NJ.
Avery, wife of the Senator who intro
duced the school suffrage bill into his
branch OF the Legislature. She was
succeeded by Mrs. Whitaker. and Mrs.
Whitaker by Mrs. Hyre. SO Cleveland
has had a woman on her Board OF Ed
ucation ever since women have been
eligible.
In Toledo. Mrs. Pauline Strinem
has ust completed a five years terra.
remarkable for its achievements. Va
cation schools, manual training. h n
dergartens. and manual training high
schools are among the reforms which
Toledo owes to this capable and eff
cient woman. Mrs. Steinem was =
personal friend of Toledo's Golden
Rule Mayor, Sam Jones. and it was he
who first suggested her as a candi-
date. She refused to run again last
fall in order to devote more time to
her duties as President of the Ohio
Woman Suffrage Association. j
Mrs. Ella o. Shoemaker has served
longer than any other Ohio woman,
however. since she has been a NOM
Der of the Massillon Board of Educ3-
ton continuously since her first cleo
ton in 1895. During her service sac
has been President of the Board part
OF the time. and has always been the
chairman of some of the most import
ant committees. Mrs. Shoemaker was
defeated in November because of the
large number of candidates in the
field
In Warren. Mrs. Harriet Taylor Up
ton and Mrs. Carrie p Harrington are
serving their fifth consecutive term.
Roth were reelected last fall and be.
gin their new term this month. In
the beginning they were nominated
and elected by the Republican party
aided by the votes of hundreds OF
women. Later they have been nonii.
mated by petition. Both have made
an excellent record as progressive
public-spirited officials.
Mrs. Esta Coover Harvey is serv-
ing four years term as President OF
the London Board OF Education OF
which she was President one year
She is very popular with teachers and
pupils.
Mrs. Lucy Beach has been a mem.
Der OF the Board OF Education OF Deer
Creek township for nine years and
was reelected last fall
Columbus. the State Capital, elected
a woman for the first time in Novem
Der in the person of charming little
woman lawyer, Mrs Dora Sandoe
Bachman. Mrs. Bachman is her hus
bands law partner and exceiiently
qualified for her official duties. which
she assumer January !. Her election
was as great a surprise to her as to