The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-06-07
Women Hold Mass Meeting
and Boom Candidacy of
Prominent Woman for a
School Board Member.
MAYOR IS PRAISED
FOR HIS ATTITUDE
Enthusiasm Shown When 1t
Was Stated Executive Fav-
ored Placing Woman on
School Board.

A successful and interesting meet
ing was held yesterday afternoon by
the women of the city in the lecture
room of the Morrisson-Reeves library
alton relative to the nomination of
Miss Sarah A. Hill for the school
ing of the city council held last Mon
day.
was present.
Not only club, but non-club women;
women from organizations not class
ed as "women's clubs" but large and
influential aggregations of feminine
citizenship; both Catholic and Protest
ant, and, indeed, almost every phase
of life of the town, were included.
The meeting was informal with a
chairman appointed for the afternoon,
the procedure being concerned entire
ly with short talks relative to the
expediency of impressing the council
with the widespread sentiment in
favor of the appointment of Miss Hill.
Explanations Given.
The personnel and complexion of
the city's administrative body were
explained and commented upon in
more or less detail for the benefit of
those uninformed as to the exact dut-
of <>f
the various wards set forth, the names
and addresses of councilmen given out,
the division between ward councilmen
and councilmen at large defined, and
every department of civic activity
which bore on the appointment by
council to membership on the school
board brought up.
Representatives from the various
wards of the town were in attendance
and showed considerable knowledge
of the situation relative to the stand
ing toward this question of the coun-
cilmen in their particular wards.
A committee was appointed from
each ward to look after the interests
of the election of Miss Hill, all these
j committees to report at a meeting to
be held in the same place on Saturday,
June 18th, at four o'clock in the after
noon.
The most enthusiastic point in the
proceedings was reached when it was
stated that it had been learned that
the attitude of DR.. Zimmerman to-
ward the appointment of woman on
the school board was favorable.
Greeted BY Applause.
Applause greeted this statement
and the mayors attitude toward a
number of measures in which women
were interested, notably the removal
of the tracks from Glen Miller, com
mended.
| The statement was made that all
the women school teachers in town
were for the election of Miss Hill, and
attention was called to the fact that
they are the ones who are more di.
rectly affected by the makeup of the
board than any other class in town.
! Both of the other nominees for elec.
! ton, namely Lee Nusbaum, whose
! term expires, and Mr.. Jordan, who is
a candidate for the position vacated
| by Mr.. Strattan and for which Miss
Hill was nominated, were referred to
/ in complimentary fashion and the
point made that the women of the
| city were not opposing their, or any
other mans candidacy
1t was emphasized, however, that
the women of the town were practi
cally unit for the appointment OF
Miss Hill, that all the school teachers
were for it, and that large proportion
of the men were also in it's favor
And that this was not surmise but
actual knowledge cleaned from a can
yassing of the situation.