Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-11-17
WOMEN HELP GOVERNMENT
pP0DIICE OH.

Today the government is cTylnS ~
more oil and still more oil for wa
| use by our country and our allies
and women are foremost among those
who are answering the call.
Though war times have brougn
womankind to the front lin all angles
of business, the financial world ha;
been surprised to find how success
fully women have entered and de
veloped big business. Large old-es
tablished corporations that have had
very little competition before now
find themselves confronted by women
rivals that are making themselves
prominent.
Among these interesting women
companies, the foremost is, perhaps,
the Woman's Federal Oil Co. OF
America This unique oil corporation
was originated and is being success.
fully managed exclusively by women
1t has now grown so important that
financiers are aeknoWledg its sue
cess and are watching it with keen
interest.
The history of this Woman's oil cor
poration forms an intensely interest
ing story of the rare mplishment
of women, absolutely qnaided by man.
On November %, 1915, corpora
tion was approved by the president
Of the United States, under the Fed
eral Laws of the District of Column
bia. This was the Woman's Federal
Oil Company of America Such So
cially noted women as Mrs. H. III.
Honore, Jr., of Chicago, who is the
president; Mrs Elizabeth. Doyle of
Shreveport, La, first vice president;
Mrs. Henrietta Cosgrove of Joplin,
Mo-, originator of Mothers Pension
bill, is chairman of the advisory coun-
ell; and some fifteen other equally
well-known women, as executives and
directors, began the tremendous task
of establishing a diyidend-paying oil
Industry.
With capital of $750,o00 and their
stock fully paid and worcestershire,
these ourageous women began their
york
They proved the shrewdness and in.
uition of womankind in securing
eases on over 350,000 acres of rich
I'll land in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas
md Louisiana. They lost no time in
acquiring a complete equipment OF
irilling machines, pipe lines, power
liant and tankage.
The Woman's Federal Oil Company
Of America had been in existence less
than year when it began paying
dividends to its stockholders.
Wise oil men who heralded the adj
vent of a woman's oil corporation with
laughter, were amazed at the growth
of this organization, which now en-
joys the profound respect and COOP
Grafton of these same men and the
entire financial world. In their Cherry
vale, Kansas, section alone, fifteen
producing oil wells have been drilled.
The extent to which this company
will produce oil and make fortunes
when their rich oil lands in Oklahoma,
Texas and Louisiana are drilled, is
beyond calculation At this time, with
only fifteen wells in operation, they
are paying IL per cent dividends to
stockholders. ?: 40
Their newest we'll was brought in
as late as October l. 1t was the
largest well of the entire Cherryvale,
Montgom ~ cnuJty field.
It is no wonder thai the entire
financial world is dofiing its hat to
the Woman's Federal Oil Company |
of America, and to the able women |
who manage it. This woman's en-
terprise has made good.
Womankind is making herself felt /
in big business today. As the war
endures, it is safe to predict that
of America will record many
1ew achievements that heretofore
have been attributed to man alone.
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MISS RUTH ANDERSON'S STEAM
Err LETTER SHOWER
Miss Pauline Schaefer, who has !.
,een feted very much in the past
weeks, was the matif for one last par
y before her departure when Miss B
Ruth Anderson entertained in her
lonor on MondaT afternoon. The affair
vas steamer letter shower" and Fl
when Miss Anderson presented the Z
,ride-elect with lovely shower bou-
luet, out Of its wrappings letters !,
unIb1ed and Miss Schaefer will have &
he pleasure of keeping in close touch /,
With her friends by their missives {
cad aboard ship. II
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