The sun., 1915-05-30

A the recent congress Of the In. |
II ternational Dry Farming Asso-
cation held at Tulsa, OKLA, |
Mrs. Charles w. Kelley was electe |
vice-president. Mrs. Kelley owns and
runs a two thousand acre farm in
North Dakota, said to be the most
beautiful country place in that State !
as we'll as one Of the best conducted !
dry farms In the world For the past
twelve years everything on II has
either been done by Mrs Kelley OF
under her personal direction.
when we moved 10 Beech Place
something more than twelve years
ago" said Mrs, Kelley, there were
only two trees on 1.-TWO cottonwoods.
That year I planted between two anu
three thousand trees. These did -
well that the following year ! planted
n greater number, and the next year
still more. / kept II mp until now
Beech Place looks like great park
I have more than for;y-hve thousand
large handsome trees.
Last year | raised good crops ot
alfalfa, corn. wheat, barley, oats and
buckwheat All ~ my huckwheat was
very promptly sold for seed. with my
wheat took second prize AZ the pure
food show at Fargo, first prize at the
fair at Grand Forks, and another hrst
prize at the show at DeVhs LAKE
II was pronounced to be the best grade
milling wheat by the head or the
Fargo Agricultural College, and all "f
It sold for seed. Next year l shall
increase my grain crops and keep on
planting trees
The first woman Mayor In the State
Of Illinois took her oath Of orice May
I. Mrs. 4. Il. Garfield became the
Mayor ot Warren. Il town OF about
. 500 population. Mrs. Garfield IL ~
wears old, has lived in Warren thir-
ty-four years, and for the past TWEEN
ty-four has owned and conducted It's
most fiouriShing millinery store. Her
salary as Mayor is only Sl2 a year,
so even her opposing candidate dd
not contend that she was in the race
for the money nor for political pull.
She Is said 70 he a lineal descendant
Of John Quincy ADAMS and to possess
] many Of the traits NJ character Of
Nine. Abigail Adams who. writing 10
/ her husband about the proposed Con-
st!tution for the then new country,
urged him mot 70 forget the ladies"
Mrs. airline Iolcomh ot Rowling
! Green, Mo- Is said To- be the only
woman road oller IN this country per
| haps in the world. Some four years
ago. when Mrs HolComh inherited
I n livery stable and transfer business
( from her husband, her trends urgs d
, her to sell out. Instead she began
/ by personally supervising her stable
men and keeping the books Having
mastered these details she set out to
! enlarge her business. Her first step
was Ivy bidding for and getting the
! contract for carrying the United
, States mail in bowling Green. Then
she hid for and obtained a contract
with the cypress companies To carry
for them.
Though tho roads Of Pike county
were famous throughout the state
she thought they might he made bet
ter. She put forward plans with such
energy that the road commission
agreed to give her trial on certain
much travelled thorouGhfares. She
oiled these roads so heneficially that
! cIduudIIS ''i'l lphuS WI" 'ui l'''
over TO her. Now, besides all the
public roads in her own county sh"
has the roads or other count eS under
contract with her as oil"r. Mrs h"l-
comb not only manages her stables
and her various lines OF express, hut
Is often seen on the roads superin-
tending and inspecting her oilers. She
Is said to he one of the handsomest
women in her state.
Mrs. William X. FreudenherCcr OF
Carson City. New, has Just been ap-
pointed by Gov. Boyle a member oi
the Nevada Commission for the Pro-
motion of Uniform Legislation in the
United States. She is the first woman
to he appointed TO public Office sncC
Neyad, went for suffrage and the
frs, woman to he named as a member
Of the association.
Mrs Frrudcnherger is described n,