The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-01-11
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lie office. There are 159 women hold
ing public offices in the state. Over
half the counties have elected women
superintendent of public instruction
there are twenty-one clerks in the
district courts that are women, thirty
three registers of deeds, nineteen jus.
tees of the peace, four county clerks
four probate judges, eleven county
treasurers. The four probate judges
are Anna s. Garten of Gray county
Mary II. Cooper of Mitchell county,
Maggie Gilmore of Wichita county, and
Mary Hale of Ford county.
Topeka, Kas.-Mrs. Mary Chaplin oil
Topeka, is the first woman in Kansas
to perform a wedding ceremony. She
has improved, or at least changed, the
old formula, and instead of pledging
the bride to love, honor, cherish and
obey" she makes it love, honor, cher
ish and protect" As clerk of the Pro-
bate Court she has officiated at a num-
Der of weddings. Mrs. Chaplin also has
the distinction of being the first wo-
man in Kansas to serve as Probate
Judge. Occasionally, when Judge Nc
Farland is out of the city and there
are probate matters needing attention,
she presides. Friends are urging her
to become candidate for clerk of the
District Court
New York.-Preparation are well
under way for the biennial of the
General Federation of Women's Clubs,
to be held here from May "a to June
10. Mrs. John Hays Hammond is
chairman of the committee of arrange
ments. and serving with her are repre-
sentatives of the Daughters of the
American Revolution and other So
cieties, as well as Mrs. Charles s.
Whitman, wife of the Governor, Mrs
John Purroy Mitchell, wife of the
mayor, and Mrs. William Prendergast,
wife of the city comptroller. Fully
10000 prominent women from all
sections of the country are certain
to attend The convention hall will
be in the Seventh Regiment Armonry,
which will seat ten thousand guests.
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New York-Prof. Laura Comstock,
who teaches home economies at the
Massachusetts Agricultural College,
has furnished some new schedules of
how the family money should be spent
in an article in the Housewives Mag
azine DR.. Comstock makes the follow
ing division for incomes of from $500
to $1,000 year: Food, 80 per cent;
rent, 20 per cent; operating expenses,
10 per cent; clothes Is per cent, and
higher life," such as books, charity,
savings, insurance and travel, 25 per
cent. For incomes from $1,000 to $4,-
900, DR.. COmstock adds to the clothing
percentage and deducts per cent
from the higher. life" In the case
of incomes below $500 a year, she al
lows As per cent for food and cuts
clothes and operating expenses down
to 10 per cent
Denver, Col.-The most independent
woman in Colorado is Esther Dono-
van, a wood chopper. She was for.
merly school teacher, and she mar
ried James Donovan, also a school
teacher. When he developed tubercu-
losis, she brought him from Boston to
Anaconda, Col, with their three chill
dren. They settled in a mountain ca
bin, and Mrs. Donovan kept the wolf
from the door by hiring out as a wood
chopper. She hewed the forest with
her AK valiantly. and is still swinging
her ak with the strongest lumbermen
And she says she is going to stick to
1t until her children are educated. So
cieties, clubs and individuals have Of
fered to aid her. but she is happy in
her independence and loves her work.
She accepts no gifts or bonuses and
refuses to work at any wages higher
than other woodmen secure.
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Los Angeles.-Mrs. Katherine Ting
ley, head of the Theosophy settlement
at Point Iona. is expected to be the
central figure in the attempt of the
sons Of the late Albert c. spaulding,
the sporting goods manufactures, to
break the will of their father. Accord
ing 10 the will of Mr.. SpauldIng,
which was filed at San Diego, the
$500, 900 estate is divided between the
sons and the widow. the latter receiv-
ing the bulk OF the fortune. The sons
make as the basis OF their suit the
claim that the greater part OF the
property win go TO the Theosophist
colony at Point Iona, OF which Mrs.
Tingley. known as the Purple Moth
err" is the head. The sons claim that
Mrs. Tingley and Mrs. spauldlng ex-
erted undue influence over the late
Mr.. spaulding. However, Il is known
that Mrs. Tingley and her cult we're
always admired by the sporting goods
maker and she was defended by him
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