The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-04-06
N'CASkRIN ASKS FOR HIGHWAY INQUIRY
ELECT WOMEN
TO EVERY POST
IN KANSAS TOWN
Feminine Mayor, Po-
lice Judge and
Council.

Council.
Thayer, Kan. April 6.-Wnited
widowed grandmoth-
ers, three housewives and a tele-
phone operator will direct the des-
TIMES OF this village OF 400 souls
for the next year, An entire wOm-
ems ticket was swept into power
here in Mondays city election by
q majority Of four to one.
Elected without q platform other
than their reputation Of having the
interests of the town at heart the
women have not yet had time to
draft a program other than to de-
termine upon clean business ad-
ministration." Nominated without
their own knowledge by the busi-
ness men Of the town in protest
against an 'old mans ticket" the
women at first refused to believe
they had been named as candidates
and thought the whole thing a joke.
But the men who circulated their
nominating petitions insisted they
were in earnest and that the
women would be overwhelmingly
elected.
Members Of the new women's ad-
ministration are:
Mayor, Mrs. A. H. Forest, widow
ed clubwoman with three children
and eight grandchildren.
Police judge Mrs. Hattie Brew
ster, widowed clubwoman with four
children and four grandchildren.
Council women: Mrs. Ina Craig,
wife Of a grain dealer; Mrs. Eu-
nice Rash, clubwoman, wife of the
cashier of the First National bank,
with three young sons; Miss Allie
Lambertson, spinster telephone Op-
orator; Mrs. Iva Cross, wife of a
hardware dealer and mother OF five
chilGren, and Mrs. Daisy Savage,
farmers widow and mother of three
children.
All Church Members.
In addition every member of the
city administration is a church
member.
First question brought up to
Mrs. Forests attention was the
subject OF the price of ice for the
coming summer. Last year house
wives paid $1.50 per hundred fol
icaaand face the prospect this year
Of not being able to get it at any
price. One town meat dealer, who
has been bringing down q truck
load from Chanute daily, has
about decided it wasn't profitable
even at $1.50.
The lady mayor was surprised to
learn of this prospective domestic
calamity, as she has spent the last
two years in Maine and Florida
But with a homemaker's apprecia'
ton of what a summer without ice
means, she promised to look into
the matter.
Small boys are wondering jus'
what the administration of moth
ers" will do about the swimming
hole down at the Santa Fe lake
reservoir. )
There has always been complaint
that the youngsters didn't wait un'
til it was dark enough to take theil
plunge a la natural. The sam'
youngsters are worried for fear thu
women officials may force observ
ance Of the curfew law and by thu
two regulations force the terrible
alternative of wearing bathing
suits.
One Job Saved.
dad" Bogel, city marshal. hasn'
decided Just yet whether he will
take orders from the women or not
It was rumored that he might re
sign to give the mayoress a chanc'
to name a woman as keeper Of tn
peace. But this job may be save,
to the men. -..-.....
For one Of the marshaI's dute
is to meet the 3 a. m. Santa F
passenger train from Kansas Cit
nightly and take safely home an
woman or girl who returns alon
at that hour.
The new mayor, Mrs. Forest
came to Kansas from New Englan
many years ago and speaks with
distinct Bostonese accent
She is unusually we'll educated
and a capable business woman
having handled the affairs Of
large estate since the death of he
banker-husband about twenty year
ago. She educated her son an
daughters at Kansas State Agricul
tural college and Kansas universit!