Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 1 · column 6 of 6 · from the scan, no model involved
Votes received by the councilladies were: • .Mrs Achsah Dudley Miller_70 Mrs. Louise Miller Price .—67 Mrs. Robbie Critser_65 Miss Ruby Jenkins_54 Miss Elizabet' Racer_51 Mrs. Dorothy Hawkins_48
Defeated councilmen were: U. G. Weakley.47 D. C. Updike_41 H. T. Updike_..35 L. J. Turner_32 C. E. Giles_30 J. M. Johnston _26
Mayor W. F. Moffett, Jr., had announced last week that he was not a candidate for re-election. - Upton G. Weakley, with tae^wp vote on the mens slats, ran only one vote short of the petticoat brigade.
There have been threats to impose an amusement tar on’ Trial Justice B. M. Miller, the ladies' campaign manager, for the air he has breathed for the past ten days. The Judge has had much help from both ladies and gentlemen in the campaign which swept the; women into every town office, but he couldn’t call it work. He enjoyed every minute of it.
C. Oden had announced publicly that he was “100 per cent for the ladies.” Luther Jenkins is quoted with the reply: “I like the ladies as well as any man does, but I’m not voting for ’em”—a statement causing no worry when it was discovered Mr. Jenkins did not vote in Washington.
Jack Miller (he’s the man Mrs. Miller allows to wash dishes at her home) made this bitter statement Wednesday: “I’ve been trying for 25 years to get her to let me run for town couhcil. Now, here she gets herself elected without even asking me.”
A telephone call Tuesday night, shortly after the results iwere announced, found George Davis washing dishes. It is reported that other ladies soon caught on and, with interpretation of the election results as an emancipation proclamation, the Commonwealtn Attorney iwap located at home, baby-sitting.
An answer to “Why the change? Why the decision toward an allwoman government?* brings varied replies, none definite. Dr. Snead’s story in reply is typical: “Snippy Miller sat on the benches in front of the Courthouse so much that he collected a splinter. As the splinter festered, so festered the idea of a woman mayor and council.” Snippy affirms the
(See ELECTION, page 3.)
63.3%