The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1913-12-25
A LITTLE LADY.
Salt Lake Paper Speaks In
Praise of Gov. Vests
Assistant.
Assistant.

VIII IL paving Smash. her name ]
Miss Fern Hobbs, She began as
stenoRranher and law student; sh
graduated rs stenogpher and ais
was admitted to the bar, aer tuto
was asked one dav what lie knew
about that little girl of light BROW
hair in his law class. He replied
he one with glasses 2" eyes.
He continued, 81 don't recall hel
name, but she is one of the brightest
students in the class. She knows
/ more law now than half the lawyers
in Portland !"
When Oswald West was elected
governor and shortly before the time
for him to take Office he asked judge
Pipes. the law tutor, where he could
get private stenorgapher. The
answer was, 81 know a girl who
would fill the bill in every particular /"
He Bent for Miss Hobbs and intro
duoed her to the Governor. and the
day he took the oath of office, in
January, 1911, she became his score
tary. Soon after she was admitted
to the bar and ever since has been
mole than half governor. When any
thing was too much for the governor
to handle he left town and left it to
Miss Hobbs.
He sent her tc Washing ton as a
missionary to convert Congress to the
notion that it ought to ADJUST a num-
ber of tangles between the states and
the national government in connection
with the title to public lands. No
woman was ever cent on mission
like that before, 1t generally falls
upon a hlR priced attorney. When
she reached Washington she at once
conferred with Senators Cham berlain
and Lane of her own stats and arranged
for conferences with Secretary of the
Interior Lane and the congress ional
comm, ttee, with which she would
have to deal.
OF her the st. Louis Post Dispatch
says: Miss Hobbs salary as the
Governor private secretary is three
Thousand dollars a year. She was
appointed to that place last June,
having previously been the Governor 9
stenograher In addition to being
one of the higest salaried women in
the public service, Miss Hobbs can
lay claim to another distinction for
one of her position-youth No other
woman and probably but few men
has attained such an important posi-
tion in the course of twenty seven
years. which is her age. She is de-
cidedly a self made woman, having
fought her way up the ladder of sue
cess carrying burdens at times that
would have discouraged less deter
mined person. A few days after she
took her new position as private sec
retary to Governor West, she was ad-
mitted to the practice of law, after
having first graduated from the law
department of Willamette University.
She is young, girlish and jolly COM
panion. There is nothing long-faced |
or old maidish about her. She is
pretty and is popular at the Oregon
,anital. She is one of the "boys"
and by her close friends is called
Hobbs without any prefix "
Now comes the part which is of
interest here. She was
porn in Nebraska and at the age of
iiy her parents moved to Salt Lake
Jity. where she lived for twelve years
ind finished her course at school.
The girl lived here twelve years,
which possibly accounts for her ex-
sectional brightness. and it is only
air to say for the benefit of the out
ide public that Salt Lake is filled
With just such girls as that They
re not quite all just like her in one
espect, because as she said one day
Some of my girl friends asked me
Vhat am | going to do with all my
alary. ain not going to spend it
n clothes and good time 1t is
ding to paw the Mortgage. When
hat is out of the way then l will be
rec to do hs please. I"
From the little we have obsered we
mink some of our Salt Lake girls
ould buy the clothes first and see to
le mortgage later, because mortgages
re lasting things, while clothes for
young lady are like ship. which Z
le sailors say, is always in need of
ore or less repairs. But we are
'nvinced that almost any of our
light Salt Lake girls would be called
wonder if they moved to Oregon,
,cause those web-footers, while
rong and straight, are a little bit
ude. We are glad that a Salt Lake
RI that was is up there giving them
inters. We think Oregon apples
I'VE a little better flavor than Utah
piles, but there is not half the flavor
an Oregon girl that there Is in
nuine Salt Lake gIrl. and hence
len the Oregon governor decided to
ke "Hobbs' choice' he HhuiIdad