The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-30
WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING.

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4 citation held at Tulsa OKLA,
Mrs. Charles W. Kelley was elected
vice president. Mrs Kelley owns and
runs a two thousand acre farm 10
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 1t has
either been done by Mrs. Kelley or
under her personal direction.
when we moved to Beech Place
something more than twelve years
ago" said Mrs. Kelley. there were
,r,ly two trees on 1.-TWO cottonwoods
THAT year planted between two and
.hree thousand trees. These did 50
well that the following year ! planted
n greater number and the next year
still more / kept it up until now
Beech Place looks like great park
Il have more than forty-fi thousanj
Large handsome trees.
Last year raised good crops oil
Slfaifa, corn, wheat, barley. oats ana
suekwheat. All of my buekwheat was
cry promptly sold for seed With my
wheat | took second prize at the pure
God show at Fargo. first prize az the
air at Grand Forks. and another frss
,rize at the show at Devils Lake.
I was pronounced to be the best grade
Milling wheat by the head OF the
Fargo Agricultural College, and all OK
L sold for seed. Next year shall
Increase my grain crops and keep on
planting trees"
The frst woman Mayer In the state
81 Illinois took her oath OF office May
l. Mrs. A. B. canfeid became the
Mayor of Warren. town Of about
$500 population. Mrs. CanAeid n -
years old. has lived In Warren thir.
ty-four years. and for the past TWEEN
ty-four has owned and conducted its
most fiourishing millinery store. Her
salary az Mayor is only $12 q year.
80 even her opposing candidate ia
not contend that she was In the race
for the money nor for political pull
She Is said TO be iineAi descendant
Of John Quincy Adams and to ponssss
many OF the traits Of character q
Nine. Abigail Adams. who. writing 70
her husband about the proposed Con.
st.tutton for the then new country,
urged him mot to forget the ladisA"
Green, Mo. Is said to be tbs only
woman road oiler IN this country. per.
haps in the world. Some four year1
ago. when Mrs Holcomb inherited
a livery stable and transfer business
from her husband. her friends urged
her to sell out. Instead she began
by personally supervising her stable
men and keeping the books. Having
mastered these details she get out 70
enlarge her business. Her. first step
was by bidding for and getting the
contract for carrying the United
States mall In Bowling Green. Then
she bid for and obtained q contract
with the express companies to carry
for them.
Though the roads Of Pike county
were famous throughout the STATE
she thought they might be made bet~
ter. She put forward plans with auch
energy that the road commissioA
agreed to give her a trial on certaiA
much travelled thoroughfares. She
oiled these roads so beneflcially that
gradually other roads warA turnA@
over to her. Now, besides al tn
public roads in her own county. shA
has the roads OF other ccuutses under
contract with her as oiler. Mrs Hoi-
comb not only manages her stablGs
and her various lines Of express, but
is often seen on, the ~reades eupefSn@ss
tending and inspecting her oilers. che
- said to- be one at tho hAndsomsss
women in her State.
Mrs. William X FrsudenbsrEsr e
Carson City, New, has just been ~
pointed by Gov. Boyle q member r.
the Nevada Commission for the Fro
motion Of Uniform Legislation IN tAe
United States. She IL tho frst won3an
to be appointed 10 public office eink6
Nevada went for suffrage and tn
first woman to By uamed ~ = nl@taA1F
Of the association.
Mrs Freudenbergef 4 dAscrfbeA -
neither beautiful nor y6anss bus
good speaker. inasmuch - she knqWp
what she wants. how 10 state II clearly
and, hsying dons that take hst 800 !.