Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-07-22
ACTIVITIES OF women

Harriet Judd Sartain Is the pioneer
woman physician Of America.
The Moscow hospital. the largest 1 q
Europe. employs over 900 nurses.
Two women are running o. the
democratic state ticket in Kansas
Mrs. Martha Anderson has been re-
elected treasurer of Pacific Grove, Cal.
Germany now has so towns where
OF the total population OF 2.537.167
in New Jersey, 1880, 704 are women.
London has a detective agency man
aged by a woman with IL sleuths under
her.
Mrs. Mortimer Singer, of London. re-
Gently made a balloon flight Of 200
miles.
Miss Jane Delano is at the e OF
the 1000 American Red Cross nurses.
The majority of women workers IN
week.
Queen Mary is conceded to be tho
best dancer among the British royalty.
Women school teachers in Topeka:
kan., receive an average salary OF
$76.75 per month.
The best constructive work done on
the Trans Siberian railway was in
Charge of a woman.
Mrs. j. H. Reed. of Pottsville. Pa.
was the first woman notary public in
Paris has an English woman who Is
making a comfortable living acting as a
guide to visitors.
Miss Margaret Mcmahon has been
employed in the Bethlehem. Pa. post
office for 25 years.
The cigaret habit is growing to an
alarming extent among the women OF
the better class of Ottawa. Canada
Gaby Deslys, the French dancer. has
sailed for home with nearly 5000, 900
earned on the stage in his country.
Nine. Lillian Nordica, the opera star.
who died recently at Batavia, Java.
left jewels worth $1.000.o00.
There are 34,417 women studying the
profession Of nurse training in the
schools throughout the United States.
I'm the past two years the subject Of
woman suffrage has been before every
parliament in every nation except
| Turkey.
Mile. Marie Galtier, the French bar
| rister and professor OF law, says that
being a lawyer is very firing for a
| woman.
While the women nave the right to
vote and do take an active part in the
elections in New Zealand they do not
care for office holding.
The London Telephone Service en-
ploys a woman superintendent at a
salary of $1,000 a yea n nine as
sistants at 5000 a year.
Miss Sarah Thompson. of Oakfyn, N.
j.. has been teaching school for AZ
years. having begun her career when
she was II years of age.
Queen Elena, Of Italy. spends about
$4,000 a year for dresses. while the
| German empress spends about 5000
for the same purpose.
Mrs. Almeda Reeves. of Brooklyn. has
danced over %. 900 miles, according to
the register of the tangometer which
| she wears.
DIR. Mary j. Hogue. who makes a
speciality of the study of marine animal
life. has been appointed a professor OF
biology at Wellesley college.
Nine. Caillaux. who killed Editor
Calmetto. Of the Paris Figaro. is to be
tried On the charge OF homicide with
premediation."
After six years. Of service as deputy
prosecuting attorney in Seattle. Wash.
Miss Reah M. Whitehead has resigned
to enter the race for a judgship.
Miss Ethel Hays, the daughter of
a Billings. Mont, banker. is the most
perfect woman in America, according
to Hamilton Wolf. a New York artist.
Miss Clarie S~cheehan. Of Atlanta, Ga.
will journey 10000 miles to Cape Town.
Judge Richard Wilmot, of that place.
Miss Ellen Wrightman. a school
teacher of Dobb Ferry, N. Y, recent
ly won a wager of 500 by flying for
Is minutes in an aeroplane at a height
Of 5000 feet.
So powerful are the Mormons that it
is estimated that their missionaries in
Europe, exclusive Of England, send
across the Atlantic to Utah between 800
and 900 girls annually.
|, rel 300 women and girls are carry
ing on a novel recruiting campaign in
London, where they are distributing
circulars telling women of the delights
of army life.
An international association of
Jewesses has been formed in Italy, the
object of which is to keep Jewesses in
touch with big current events and to
protect Jewish girl immigrants.
Mrs. Rachel F. Avery and her daugh-
ter. Julia. both students at the uni
versity Of Wisconsin. will at the end
of the term tour Of Europe on a motor
cycle which mas a chair attachment.
Believing it her duty to remain at her
school in Mexico City. Miss Laura
Temple has refused to leave the Mexi-
can city, where riot and resolution is
likely to occur at any minute.
Miss M. Wood has been forewoman
for 30 years at the Brooklyn navy
yard. where all the United States flags
Tor government use are made. This
is done entirely by women, and one wo-
man is kept busy all the time cutting
out stars.
Cleveland school teachers have voted
to affiliase with the American Fedora
fight for better wages Over 1900 Of
the 1000 teachers have already signi-
fled their intention of becoming mem.
bers Of the union.
Since Miss Katherine b. Davis, COM
missioner OF correction In New York
food into the Tombs jail she has re-
ceived several threatening letters and
she is now guarded by detectives from
the time h leaves home until she re-
turns at night.
Mrs. John N. Glenn. OF New York.
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