Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-06-17
ACTIVITIES OF women

Byrn Mawr college will graduate 80
girls this month.
Both Montana and Idaho have nine
hour day for working women.
The principal occupation for women
in Alaska is canning salmon.
1t is predicted that women will con-
troll the fall election in Arizona.
Widows Of teachers received $4,000
last year from the Carnegie fund.
In Hungary certain sorts of mill
tary service is compulsory for women
The department of health in New
tries in the number of members of the
International Council of Women.
Eighty seven women act as teachers
in the schools operated by the Nor
mon church in the United States.
Fashionable women in London have
adapted h fad of having their bed
rooms in black. eve to the sheets.
Although she is past 60 years Of age,
Mrs. Fanny b. Workman is still an
indefatigahle mountain climber.
The new board of managers of the
State Home for Girls in New Jersey
now consists of three women and two
men.
Miss Elizabeth Bradley has the hon.
or of receiving automobile license tag
No. 1907 900 in Pennsylvania.
Miss Sophia Mathis heads a base
ball team at Galesburg, ILL.,, and di-
reefs h plays from the players
bench.
Miss Fannie c. Clement is super
intendept Of the health teaching de-
partment of the American Red Cross
society.
One-third of the graduates from
Wellesley college will wed upon the
completion Of their term this month.
Salem. Mass, has its first woman
cop" Miss Ethel B. Osborne. having
just been appointed by the mayor.
EYftv.6vA women contributed tn the
exhibition Of original sculpture by
American women On view in New York
city.
Women teachers in the elementary
and secondary schools of the United
States average $45S.51 a year in salary.
MED by the general conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church of the
south.
sixteen-year-old Edith Jackson, of
Vancouver. E. G., succeeded in
Miss Mary 2. Lackey has just retired
after SO years continuous service as a
school teacher in the St. Louis public
schools.
Miss Elizabeth Woods, an American
girl. has gone to Mexico City. where
she will marry Gen. Jiminez Castro. of
Huerta's army.
In a test vote conducted by a Paris
newspaper. sos, 972 women declared they
wished to vote and ia declared they
did not.
Mrs. Jane D. Rippin has been ap-
pointed special agent for the domestic
relations branch Of the Philadelphia
municipal court.
Miss Cleta NJ. Smith Of st. Louis
Mo-. a entered the law office of he1
father. she having been graduated
from the Benton College of Law.
Nine-tenths Of the delegates to the
recent republican state convention In
Oklahoma signed the initiative petit
tions for woman suffrage.
Miss Franziska Boas, a young Ger.
man girl. is teaching New York women
how to overcome the effects of the ne.
elect of voice hygiene.
Nearly $1,000 women immigrated
from Ireland during the past year. and
since 1891 there have been over 1000, OOt
who have left the Emerald Isle FOL
other places.
For the first time in the history Of
the Paris Sorbonne, a woman. Mile
Leontine Zanta. daughter of an Alsa.
tian professor. has gained the title Of
doctor of philosophy.
The Retail Merchants. association o
Washinxten. D. c.. nov has a woman'i