New Britain herald., 1920-12-27
OKLAHOMA REALIZES W0MAN'S QUALITIES
Leads Country With Number of
 Fair Sex in State Offices

gress, Kansas and Texas with women as state superintendents of public in- struction, Missouri with nine county. treasurers out of thirteen women elected to county offices and Michigan possessing two women sheriffs, take the leading places of distinction on the suffrage question in the central west as the result of the recent na- tion-wide election.
 Women have entered nearly every field of public service. from juror and school trustee to member of the ma tional house of representatives and following last months election, Miss Alice Robertson of Muskogee. Okla, past sixty" a successful restaurant proprietor, and, incidentally. an op- ponent of woman suffrage, will take her seat as the second woman ever sent to the national congress.
 Missouri showed the greatest liking for women offioG-holders although they are not eligible for state offices. Nine counties elected women treas urers. three selected women as public administrators and one a recorder of deeds.
 Ten women were elected to office in Michigan, including one state senator, but perhaps the most unique selections were those of Mrs. Estella K. Gates and Mrs. Jane Johnson, both of whom succeed their husbands as sheriffs. Mrs. Gates takes an active part in church and club work of Honor. county seat of Benzie county. and has three children and six grandchildren. Mrs. Johnson. who is 65 years old. says she is confident she can arrest at1l -l,r fn1n tnc 110 1n M in Roscommon county. She will ap- point her husband a deputy and aside from caring for the prisoners of the county jail, will also look after her three children.
 Miss Alice Sampson. for ten years clerk in the county drain commission er's office at Hillsdale. Mich, barely defeated her employer for the position at tho November election.
 Mrs. Eva M. Hamilton, the first woman to sit in the Michigan state senate, is 40 years old and a former school teacher. She is from Grand Rapids. who're she is known as The Mother of City Markets" having con- ccived and persuaded the city council to adopt a plan by which farmers sell their produce direct to consumers.
 Three county treasurers, two regis ters of deeds and ono county clerk elected in Michigan in November are also women.
 Oklahoma gave three women dis tinctly prominent positions while she was about it. Aside from sending Miss Robertson to congress, a state senator. Mrs. Lamar .Looney, and a state representative, Mrs. Jessie s. Me Colgin, were selected by the Oklahoma NHrr rxrfIA nd mother of five children, held the county clerkship of Greer county for four years, and in addition managed a I60 acre farm. educated her chill dren and succeeded in defeating her male opponent in the senatorial race by moro than two to one ma ajority. Greer county also decided to have women as county clerk. county assessor court clerk and county treasurer.
 Mrs McColgin, who comes from Roger Mills county, has gained a repu- tation as a capable business woman as a result of association with her husband in telephone line operation.
 Miss Annie Webb Blanton, was re- elected state superintendent of public instruction in Texas.
 Kansas also reelected a woman as state superintendent of public inA struction. Miss Lorraine Elizabeth Wooster of Salina. She has several degrees and was admitted to the Kan sas bar Miss Wooster is the author of a number of text books and att tracted considerable attention by her anti-tobacco campaign, in which she advocated dismissal of any men in structors who used tobacco in any form.
 Four women legislators, all elected to the lower house, will sit in tho Kansas legislature. Miss Minnie Grin stead of Seward county was re-elect- ed: the others are serving their first terms. They are:
 Miss Nellie Cline of Larned, elected from Pawnee county on the Democra- republican by over 1000 plurality. She is law partner of her father having been admitted to the bar in 1912.
 Miss Minnie Minnich of Yelling ton. wife of a locomotive engineer. says she got into politics to help de- feat proposed compulsory military training" She lost a brother in the World War.
 Mrs. Ida NJ. Walker of Norton. was formerly president of the Kansas Federation of Women's Clubs and has been a leader in state and local civic movements.
 Miss Florence F.. Allen, with nine men candidates opposing her, was elected common pleas judge of Guy hoga county, Ohio. She is 8 years old and has been a newspaper wom- an, law student and assistant county