Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-03-11

: NEWSY BRIEFS ABOUT
: WOMEN'S ACTIVITIES.

: WOMEN'S Az
London now has an official policeworn-
an.
Three women were lynched during the
past year.
Cleveland has four successful women
dentists.
The National Housewives Leagues has
over 10000 members.
Illinois pays out $4,000 a year in moth
ers' pensions.
There are over 1000 women on the Brit
Ssh medical register.
New York city is to have a house of de-
tention for women.
Oregon has three women lumber deal
ars and two female carpenters.
Philadelphia has over 10000 females EN-
ployed in clerical positions.
Women are being employed to take NOV
ing pictures of war scenes in France.
In Louisiana a wonlan'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 interncs have been
added to the staff of the Bellevue hospital
in New York.
over 5000 of New York's 5000 working
| women received less than $50 a week last
year.
Marriages in Philadelphia during 1914
showed a decrease of 30 as compared with
the previous year.
Thirty-seven cities in the United States
do not employ married women as school
teachers.
Mrs. j. r. Brown. of Bluff Springs, Mo.
a%lternates with her husband In the pulpit
of his church.
Mrs. Georgia P. Bullock recently tried
] pirb r 90 "a onI ip,poSal captepre in fvp in
the Los Angeles police court.
Mrs. Mary Auspacher is the first woman
In Cincinnati to apply for Il license to run
a moving picture machine.
Miss Helen Harrison is manager of the
extensive dairy farm owned by James j.
Hill, the millionaire railroad magnate.
Miss Lenorc Cawker, M~ilwaukee's rich
dog catcher, will be paid $500 a year by the
city for work that costs her $500 a year,
Flfty-three per cen of the women en-
ployed in the department stores of New
York city receive less than IS per week.
The Countess Lonyay, a daughter Of
Leopold, of 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. Bakhemeteff. wife of the Russian
ambassador to the United States, has one
of the finest collections of jewels in the
world.
Miss Mabel McCly1nont has invented a
new profession for ~women-that of advis-
Ing architects on the construction and out
fitting of hospitals.
Miss Aileen Fell, niece of Chief Justice
Fell, of Pennsylvania, who is only L. years
Of age, has made quite a success, in rails
ing turkeys.
SnnraG nf fiStinc 1lfchoJ ~. 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-
can hospital in Paris, is the only woman
physician in the hospital.
Out of GOO California girls, Miss Clarice
! ure, aged Is, of San Francisco. was con
sidered the prettiest and received a prize
of a nodded golden apple.
Lizzie Kinds, of Pinch Run, Ohio. is tax
ing care of SO small children of the strik-
Ing miners, who have been out of en-
ploynent for nine months.
Miss Wilma K. Russey is the first H.
! 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 a state senator by
Governor West and will be the first wom-
an to serve in the upper branch of the
legislature.
Fire COMMISSIONS Adamson, of New
York. has appointed Mrs. Olive Il. Shep-
herd as a fire inspector in the bureau OF
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 100000 worth of business last year.
The Milwaukee, Los Angeles and Gin
cinnati boards OF education grant teach
srs a leave Of absence for child birth.
while in Chicago q teacher Is dropped
from the rolls for that cause.
Mrs. Susan Buckles, who died recently
near Edinburgh. ILL.,, at the age OF 80, had
never attended a motion picture show, a
circus or a theater and never had ridden
on a train or street car.
Miss Kathryn DAY.. who has just been
appointed stenographer In the New York
criminal courts, is the first woman stem
ographer to be successful in obtaining
such a position there.
Twenty-four per cent of nearly s.OOv
women and children employed In stores.
laundries. factories and telephone ex-
changes IN New Orleans receive an aver
age wage of less than a per week.
Mrs. Lorrillard Spencer and Miss Kath-
crime Buff1n, OF New York, who recently
returned from the Philippines, are the first
white women who ever penetrated the
mountain Businesses In which the savage
Moros make their homes. Both women
spent a whole year among the tribes and
came back unframed.
Can You Beat This?