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Our local paper, the Douglas County Republican, has been published continuously for over 100 years; this past year, they began a feature entitled 'Glancing Back', where they publish snippets of articles, editorials, advertisements, etc., from the paper 100, 50 and 25 years ago.
Today's 100 years-ago snippet seems particularly appropriate, since this is Women's History Month:
Saturday's school board elections resulted in not one, but two historic firsts for our fair community. Mrs. Lillian Eldridge, wife of the Rev. Dr. William Eldridge, pastor of the Methodist Church, and Mrs. Frances Spencer, wife of James Spencer, Esq., were both elected to the school board. Both ladies waged spirited campaigns and overcame the sentiment among many voters that women should not hold elective office by emphasizing their own roles as former educators and as mothers of children enrolled in our schools.
We are pleasantly surprised at this development, and believe that both ladies will add a fresh perspective to a governing board that has grown stale of late, and hope that the other members of the board will put aside their personal feelings on the appropriateness of these gentlewomen holding office, and focus instead upon the clear will of the voters in this regard.
We wish them well in this new endeavor.
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