The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26
DO|NGS IN SOCIETY
From Thursdays Daily.
Women On State Boards.
n. w. % Citizens a1s

Women On State Boards.
Women on all state boards. This
iG what clubwOmen in Minnesota are
working for more and more earnest
ly. AT the midwinter meeting of the
State Federation of WOmen's Clubs
Mrs. c. G.. Higbee introduced a
resolution favOring appointment oil
women and the federation endorsed
il. The woman's club at its last
meeting took similar action and ap-
pointed a committee to bring the
matter before Governor Eberhart.
Mrs. II. G. Harrison, Mrs. Russell
Bennett and Mrs. G. G.. BOvey will
serve on the committee.
1t is brought out by the women
interested that there are no women
who have any concern with state
institutions except one board of five
for Girls at Sank Center, this visit
ing board being merely advisory and
carrying no authority. Its members
are Mrs. G. w. Stewert of St Cloud,
Mrs. j. l.. Washburn of Duluth, Mrs.
j. l.. Starts of st. Peter, Mrs. G. G..
Highbee of st. Paul and Mrs. Il. F..
Kinney of Minneapolis. The club
women believe that women should be
represented on the state school board,
the normal school board, the board
of regents of the University of
Minnesota and on the board Of
control
In Wisconsin there are two women
on the board of regents and one on
the state board of control. The
law authorizing the governor to APP
latter board was passed when Sen
ator La Toilette was governor. The
women of the state had been en-
deaVOring for some time to
secure a representative on the board
and probably would not have sue
ceeded without the support of gov
ernor and Mrs La. Toilette. The
board of control in Wisconsin has
entire control, financial and other
wise, of state institutions and has SUI
pervisiOn of the county asylums,
tuberculosis sanatOria, poor houses
and jails.
The duties Of the woman member
Of the board are exactly the same
as those of the other members. She
naturally takes especial interest in
the women and children and in the
housekeeping department and in the
sanitary conditions of the institution,
but the membership of the board is
too small and the work too heavy to
admit of specializing on the part of
the woman member.
Women who have studied the
question in this state believe that a
woman's point of view is as much
needed in planning, building and
eauipping the institution as in its
management afterward, and so much
in the management of prisons and
iails as in that of other institutions.
Several efforts have been made In
Wisconsin TO eliminate the woman
members from the board OF control.
AT the last session of the legislature
an unsuccessful attempt was made
10 reduce the Wisconsin board to
three members at a salary of $4,000
each, which would have effectually
done away with the woman mem
Der. At the preceding biennial ses-
sion O. bill was introduced to rele-
gate the woman to the position
of an agent to do the arduous
work of inspecting with salary OF
$1,000 instead of $4,000. This at
tempt also failed.
J. A. Berquist made a business
trip to Fairmont today.
Mrs. 0. H. Brown Of Amboy is
the guest of Mankato relatives.
A. f. Wood of GAINESVILLE paid
Mankato business visit today.
Mrs. c.. B. Hanson of Waseca call
ed on friends in the city yesterday
A. NJ. Joslin of Owatonna was a
business visitor in MankatO today
Mrs. l.. e. Clark is spending a
few days with friends in Eagle Lake.
A. w. Petrich of Vernon Center
was a business visitor in Mankato
today.
Mrs. Nellie Roub of Winnebago
spent yesterday visiting friends in
Mankato. -.
F. M. Buckmeister of Sherburne
has moved to Mankato to make his
home here.
A.. E. Caldwell of LIE Sueur is
spending a few days in Mankato
on business.
Frank Grannis of Vernon Center
is the guest of his brother, S. II.
Grannis, today.
Mrs. Mary r. Olson and daughter
Clara of Spring Island were in town
today shopping.
Mrs. Nora Conklin and Mrs. Ho-
mer Bursell of Truman are visiting
in the city today.
c.. III. Jackson arrived in the city
last night from st. Peter and spent
the day here on business.
Frank Grannis and son Charles
of Vernon Center were business
visitors i'm the city today.
M. &C. Engesser, Fl. N. Benson and
+. A. Braley of st. Peter were IN
the city today on business.
r. A. Barnes and son Dean and
daughter Dorothy drove to Mankato