The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-12-27
MANY WOMEN ARE
ELECTED TO OFFICE
In Nearly Every Field of
Public Service In the
Middle West
IBy Associated Pressl


coupress Kansas and Tex. with wo'
men as state superintendents o.
uublic instruction, Missouri WIN
nine county treasures out OF IL
women elected to county Offices
and Michigan possessing two wo"
men sheriffs take the leading place
or dfstiurtton on the suffrage Ques'
tion in the central west as the re-
suIt of the recent nationwide cleo
ton.
erv field Of public service, from 1u-
ror and school trustee to member
of the national house OF -epresen-
tatives. and Following last month $
election, Miss Alice Robertson, OF
NIuskogee, Okla, past sixty, q
successful restaurant proprietor.
and Incidentally, an opponent OF
woman suffrage, will take her seat
as the second woman ever sent 10
the national congress.
Missouri showed the greatest liK-
ing for women oftice-holders al
though they are not eligible Tor
state offices. Nine counties elect
ed women treasurers, three select
cd women as pubic administrators
and one a recorder OF deeds.
Ten women were elected 10 o.
flee in Michigan including one
state senator, but perhaps tho most
unique selections were those OF Mrs
Estella x. Gates and Mrs. Jane
johnson, both OF whom succeeded
their husbands as sheriff. Mrs.
Gates cakes active part in church
and club work Of Honor, county
seat OF BenZie county, and has 8
children and six grandchildren.
Mrs. Johnson who Is 65 years ola
says she is confident she can ar
rest any bad man" who violates
the law In Roscommon county. She
will appoint her husband depu-
ty and aside from caring for the
prisoners of the county jail, will
also look after her three children.
Miss Alice Sampson for 10 years
clerk In the county drain commits
sioners office at Hillsdale, Mich'
barely defeated her employer for
the position at the November cleo
ton.
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, where she Is known as
THE Mother OF City Markets." hay
ing conceived and persuaded the
city council to adopt a plan by
which farmers sell their produce
direct 10 consumers.
Three county treasurers, two reg
listers Of deeds and one county
clerk elected in Michigan in No
vember are also women.
Oklahoma gave three women dis
tinctly prominent positions while
she was about it. Aside from send
ing Miss Robertson to congress. a
state senator, Mrs. Lorimer Looney
and a state representative, Mrs.
Bessie S. McColgin, we're selected
BY the Oklahoma voters. MIS-.
ILooney, widow and mother OF
five children, held the county clerk
ship Of Greer county for four years
and in addition managed a 16O-acre
farm, educated her children and
succeeded In defeating her male
opponent in tho senatorial race by
more than two to one majority,
Greer county also decided to have
women as county clery, county as
| SCISSOR court clerk and county treas
urer.
Mrs. McCoIgin, who comes from
Roger Mills county has gained a
reputation as a capable business
| ...-,.on ~ - ,S.oy,If ~ ouana{a tim
with .her husband in telephone line
operation.
Miss Annie Webb Blanton was re
elected state superintendent of
public education in Texas.
Kansas also reelected n woman
as state superintendent OF public
| instruction, Miss Lorraine Eliza
beth Wooster, of SaliRa, She has
! several degrees and was admitted
| TO the Kansas bar. Miss Wooster is
the author of a number OF text
taineer floor team, Immediately sat
tention by her auti-tObacco cam
paign in which she advocated dis
missal OF any men instructors who
used tobacco in any form.
Four women Legislators, all elect
! ed to the lower house will sit In
i the Kansas Legislature, Mrs. Min
ME Grinstead. of Seward county,
| was reelected; the others are
serving their first terms. They are
Miss Nellie Cline, OF Larned,
/ elected from Pawnee county on
the Democratic ticket although the
county went Republican by over
1000 plurality. She is a law part
ner of her father, having been ad-
united to the bar in 1912.
Mrs. Minnie Minnich, of yelling.
ton, wife of q locomotive engineer,
says she "got into politics to help
defeat proposed compulsory mill
tary training" She lost brother
in the world war.
Mrs. Ida NJ. Walker, OF Norton,
was formerly president OF the Kan
sas Federation of Women's Clubs
and has been leader In the state
and local civic movements.
Miss Florence L. Allen, with 9
men candidates opposing her. was
elected common pleas Judge OF
Cuyahoga county, Ohio, She is SO
years old and has been newspa-
per woman, law student and assist
ant county prosecutor since 1906.
Miss Allen was admitted to the
Ohio bar in 1914 and has practised
in Cleveland since then.
Mrs. A. N. Norton, IS, was elect
ed probate Judge Of Lake county,
Ohio, after serving as deputy clerk
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