The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-22
that Mrs. Miller went - Rock Island
to attend a Royal Neigh0or convention.

that Mrs. Miller wen - Rock Island
to attend a Royal NeighJor convention.
The Woman's club of Moorhead held
their annual meeting yesterday after
noon at the home of the president, Mrs.
w. D. Titus. Reports OF the commit
ed, after which the election of officers
for the new year took place. Mrs. IL
tus was Reelected president, Mrs. S. q.
Comstock, vice president; Mrs. e. j.
Lowe, recording secretary; Mrs. H. j.
Harris, corresponding secretary; Mrs.
f. A. Weld, Mrs. d. c. OAR
row became an associate member of the
club yesterday; Miss Chase of the nor
NAL school, an active member and Mrs.
]. w. Faulders an honorary member. All
the club members will be guests at a
luncheon Monday afternoon at which
Mrs. S. G. Comstock will be hostess.
North Dakota has recently received
more publicity through the city food
Inspector, Mrs. r. A. Sprague of Grand
Forks. A recent article published in
a Brooklyn, N. Y. paper says: The radi-
cal development of the food crusade has
been the creation of a new municipal
office. What they have seen on the
tours of inspection Of their cities has
caused the federated clubs to demand
that there shall be a woman all the
while seeing about the food we eat.
They have placed the woman food in
spector regularly on the payroll of a
number of western municipalities. She
makes daily routes of bakeries, mar
kets, stores and eating places empow-
cred to enforce city ordinances that say
pure food and clean food only may be
sold. No crooked politician, no ward
heeler gets the appointment to this job.
Mrs. Sarah A. Evans, food inspector OF
the city of Portland, Ore, is the presi-
dent of the State Federation of Wo-
mems clubs. Mrs. Belle NJ. Fowler, food
inspector for Spokane, is a member of
the Washington State Federation de-
partment Of food sanitation. Mrs. Olive
NJ Kurtz, food inspector for North
Yakima, Wash, lisa member Of the
leading women's club of the town. Mrs.
P. N. Cook, food inspector for Salt Lake
City, was at the time. Of her appoint
ment state chairman of civics for the
Utah federation. Mrs. r. A. Sprague,
food inspector for Grand Forks, N. D.,
is chairman of the health department
of the North Dakota federation. These
are city officials, whom, to quote the
words of a Portland grocer who knows,
you can't make things look right to
them with a cigar and a drink. No,
nor even with a box of candy" There
are those among. these latter gentle
men, who have objected to the woman
food inspector. Her methods they say
are sensational and she "gossips." I
know of two grounds for the bitterness
of the gentleman's charges. One of the
women inspectors-the practice has be-
| como so general that 1t is difficult to
| say which woman is to be given credit
Tor doing 1t hrst-ln gong through a
market, found some oysters that were
spoiled and ordered the proprietor to
destroy them. The next time she came
there were more and she gave a similar
order. The "a laughed: I'VE sold
those last ones all right and the GUS
toner never knew the difference" "You
did," the city official exclaimed. You'll
never do that again" And reaching
for his kerosene oil lamp she turned
the contents over the oysters. The wo-
man inspector certainly does gossip"
If her critics like that word. She talks