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53 YEARS AGO
June 22,1950
A photographer from Baltimore was in Washington Saturday afternoon and took a group picture of the newly-elected all women town council and mayor, standing in front of the courthouse. Individual pictures were also taken of each council member at her home. They are to appear on a television show either this week or next at 6:30 on a Baltimore channel. Mayor-elect Mrs. George H. Davis says she hopes that the town will cooperate to take advantage of all this publicity.
There's been much fanfare over the ladies of Washington, who are taking over the town's government, but for the past 14 years a lady of the town has filled a responsible job and no one thinks it unusual. Miss Margaret Compton is Justice of the Peace and Magistrate, and has held this place— as well as Registrar of Vital Statistics—since the death of her father in February 1936. Miss
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