The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-04-06
IT'S MRS. WILSON
MAYOR NOW
WOMEN OF HUNNEWELl, kAS.,
CELEBRATE AT OYSTER SUP
PER THEIR VICTORY.

Hunnewell, Kan, April 5.-Mrs
Ella Wilson is mayor of Hunnewell
London suffragette weeklies please
copy.
Today was election day and when
the ballots had been counted tonight
the vote for the office of mayor was
found to be a tie. Mrs. Wilson was
given twentyfour votes and o. NJ
Akers, former postmaster and an old
resident, the opposing candidate for
mayor, had the same number OF
votes.
1t was at first proposed to settle
the tie by the od-fashioned method
of drawing straws, at the next coun-
ell meeting Friday night. But no.
The men of Hunnewell are more gal
liant. Mrs. Wilson might have chos-
en- the long straw and the men of
Hunnewell are looking ahead a lit
tie. So after an hours argument
tonight the judges of the election
decided it was their duty to settle
the tie and declared Mrs. Wilson
mayor. So it's Mrs. Mayor Wilson
or Mayoress Wilson or Mrs. Wilson,
mayor, whichever you prefer
Hunnewell-all of Hunnewell-is
celebrating the victory tonight. The
women are leading in the jolifica-
tion. Mrs. Wilson gave an oyster
supper for her friends at Bractmyer
Hail and the other women candi-
dates who were on the ticket with
her and did not fare so well are
her guests.
Mrs. George Osborn was beaten
for police judge by Elmer Hilton,
the vote being 2S to "a. Just think
of it! Lacked only four votes of
winning. Wasn't that mean? the
women said. All the council are men.
Those elected were f. j. Lander, J.
o. Ellis, J. F. Richardson. Lee Lewis
and Bernard Keir. Their majorities
were large.
Mrs. Wilson declares there will
be many reforms during her admin
istration as mayor. The issues on
which she became a candidate were
bootlegging-the selling Of liquor un-
lawfully-and the permission given
young men and boys to hang around
the towns pool halls. Mrs. Wilson
is opposed to both. She says she
is going to make Hunnewel a pace
where good people will want to live.
Il was an exciting day and both
sides brought votes to the poles, get
ting out the largest vote ever re.
corded in this town. The men laugh
ed at the womens endeavors, but
before the day was far gone they
were made to realize that the women
meant business, especially as to may
orally. They also made a hard fight
for police judge. Mrs. Wilson says
that bootleggers will find it hard
plying their trade in Hunnewel
while she is in office, and pool halls
will refuse admittance to boys and
young men or be closed up for good
and with a significant and knowing
look she adds:
Yes, and there are some other
things that have been going on in
this town that will have to stop,
which is supposed to refer to GER
tain quiet card games, where it is
suspected that some money changes
hands.
The new mayor admitted that the
failure of her police Judge to be
elected ties her hands 20 some ex-
tent. but she believes that her right
to appoint a marshal will give her
all the leverage she needs to make
the town much cleaner that it Is.
The work was made harder by the
fact that the women candidates were
not on the ticket and names had
to be written on.
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rendering it more valuable rather
than devastating it.
5. The people settled on the land
are builders, and not spectators.
6. Extension would give complete
justice to the settlers without haz-
ard to the Indians.
Z. 1t would be heavy drain on
the new state to force this money
to be paid by the first of June, when
none of them have anything to sell
10 meet this payment.
A manufacturer who made his for
tune with his coat off," as he ex-
pressed il, was induced by his daugh-