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Women Attend Gradu ation While Men Attend Convention. Woman Mayor Still Has Hope By The Associated Press FRIENDLY, Ohio — The women folk of Friendly, who have held sway here for two years, felt a little animosity today toward their male rivals. Yet the gossip over the back fences of this little Ohio river town today was “wait until the final vote is counted.” Mayor Stella Eddy, who two years ago was sent into office along with a complete staff of women officials, told it this way: “We set the date of the nomin ating conventions months ago. Then our county schools had to close early because of finances and ‘someone’ arranged to have graduating night on the same date of the conventions. “Naturally all the mothers went to the school to see their children and the men took over the con ventions.” The result is that John Fisher will run on the Citizen’s ticket for Mayor on June 6. His Community party opponent will be John Haught. “You can't tell about elections,” cautioned the mayor, however. “You know names still can be written in.” Only Mrs. Elgie Rustemeyer, recorder-treasurer, and Mrs. Gladys Knowlton, a member of council, will be up for reelection on the printed ballots. “Maybe the men just don't want us,” said Mrs. Eddy, who previous ly has served as recorder and a council member. “But when they take over, they will find the city in the best shape ever. “We will leave a bank balance of about $200—and my land, just look what we have done. “There are 508 linear feet of concrete steps up the hill to Home City—if we could annex that sub urb the town would have about 480 people in it—and all but a few old ugly buildings in town have been torn down. The mayor and her officials also had the ravages of three floods to cope with when they took over. “The sewers, they are clean and we're not in debt because of it.” To Mrs. Eddy, this being mayor “has been a very fine experience.” “Everyone cooperated beauti fully—who said women can’t agree?” The only publicized tiff during the two years was when Mayor Eddy and Police Chief Josephine Cline differed about enforcement of sanitation laws—specificially a pig. The police chief's face was slapped, but everything ended when the two “made up.”
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Beckley Raleigh Register
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Wed, May 24, 1939
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