Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-03-10

( NEWSY BRIEFS ABOUT
< WOMhN'S ACTIVITIES.

London now has an official policewoM-
an.
Three women were iynched during the
pas. year.
Cleveland has four successful women
dentists.
over 100000 members.
Illinois pays out $1I2,1 100 a year in moth
| eys' pensions.
There are over LOCO women on the Brit
fish medical register.
New York city is &c have a house OF de-
tention for women.
Oregon has three women lumber DEAL
ers and two female carpenters.
Philadelphia has over 1900 females en-
ployed in clerical positions.
Women are being employed 20 take NOV
ing pictures OF war scenes IN France
In Louisiana a woman's property be
comes community property upon mar
riage.
Six girls are taking the full farm course
at the Albert Lea, Mimi, college.
Two more women internes have been
added to the staff OF the Bellevue hospital
IN New York.
over 5000 Of New York's 1900 working
women received less than $3.50 a week last
year.
Marriages IL Philadelphia during 1914
showed Il decrease of 23o as compared with
the previous year.
Thirty-sevcn cities In the United States
do not employ married women as school
teachers.
Mrs. J.. Il. Brown, OF Bluff Springs, Mo.
~altcrnates with her husband in the pulpit
of his church.
Mrs. Georgia r. Bullock recently tried
eight cases and imposed sentence In five in
the Los Angeles police court.
Mrs. Mary Auspacller is the first woman
III Cincinnati 10 apply for a license 10 run
q moving picture machine.
Miss Heien Harrison is manager OF the
extensive dairy farm owned by James J.
Hill, the millionaire railroad magnate
Miss I.onorc Cawker, Milwaukee's rich
dog catcher, will be paid 500 a year by the
city for work that costs her 81. 900 "a year.
Flfty-tilree per cent of the women ems
ployed in the department stores of New
York city receive less than So per week.
The Countess Lonyay. a daughter OF
Leopold, vt Belgium. and once a future
empress of Austria, is now a Red Cross
nurse.
Mrs. Roberts Rinehart. the story writer.
has gone to Europe, where she will act
as a nurse in the American ambulance
service.
Nine. Bakiaemcteff. wife of the Russian
ambassador to the United States. has one
OF the finest collections of jewels in the
world.
Miss Mabel McClymont has invented 5
AZ" lOt liist OI
ing architects on the construction and out
fitting of hospitals.
Miss Aileen Fell. niece of Chief Justice
Fell. of Pennsylvania. Who is only ~ years
of age. has made quite a success IN rails
ing turkeys.
Scores OF distinguished women attended
the recent sessions of the American Assoc
citation for the Advancement of Science
held in Philadelphia.
DR.. Mary Crawford. who has been as
signed to the operating room in the Ameri-
car hospital in Paris, is the only woma,
physician in the hospital.
Out of 600 California girls, Miss Clarict
Ure. aged IS. of San Francisco. was con-
sidered the prettiest and received q prize
of a nodded golden apple.
Lizzie Kinds, of Pinch Run, Ohio. is talk
ing care of 80 small children of the strik.
ing miners, who have been out of en-
ploylnent for nine months.
Miss Wilma x. Russey is the first Ii.
censed woman taxicab chauffeur to drive
a car from a public stand in New York
city. Miss Russey refuses to accept any
tips.
Miss Catherine Clark, of Glendale, Ore.
base been appointed Il state senator by
Governor West and will be the first WON.
an to serve in the upper branch of the
legislature.
Fire Commissioner Adarnson, of New
York. has appointed Mrs. Olive F. Shep.
herd as a fire inspector In the bureau O!
fire prevention at a salary of 81, 200 a year
Miss Alice Lund of Ephriam, Utah.. is
probably the most successful insurance
agent in the United States. having done
over 2OO 1000 worth OF business last year.
The Milwaukee, Los Angeles and Gin.
cinnati boards OF education grant teach.
ers a leave of absence for child brit,
while in Chicago a teacher Ia dropped
from the rolls for that cause.
Mrs. Susan Buckles. who died recently
near Edinburgh. Ill.,, at the age Of 90, ha(
never attended q motion picture show. 4
circus or q theater and never had ridder
on a train or street car.
Miss Kathryn DAILY. who has just beer
appointed stenographer in the New Yori
criminal courts is the first woman stem.
ographer to be successful in obtaining
such a position there.
T~wenty-four per cent Of nearly 6.0O
women and children employed in stores
iaundries, factories and telephone OK.
changes in New Orleans receive an aver.
age wage Of less than 81 per week.
Mrs. Lorrillard Spencer and Miss Kath.
crime Buf1n, of New York. who recent,
returned from the Philippines. are the frs,
white women who ever penetrated the
mountain Businesses in which the savage
Moros make their homes. Both womer
spent a whole year among the tribes an
anne back unframed.
Can You Beat This7
From the National MONTHLY