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Show UNDUE FtMALE SWAY. riia Y iung Molliera Who Now Hula la F.ilierlnn, Kan. Mrs. Maggie Kelly enjoys a novel dis-linction. dis-linction. She is a resident of Kdgerton, Kun., and within the limits of a work beciudi a mother and the mayor of the town. Her name led the woman's ticket, which was elected recently, and which did not liear the name of a single man or a married one, either, for that matter. Mm. Kelly is a pretty brunette, of medium me-dium height, and 1 not vet 30 years MliS. MAOOtK KF.I.I.Y. ( II(.r hus. band. W. 11. Kelly, is a miller. She is a uutive of Kansas and not at all ambitious. ambi-tious. "I think the men should run the city. I would rath'ir take o-ire of my baby," sho avmarked the other day. The jxilico judge, Mrs. Jnwiio Grner, s also a young mother, but her child is iH months old, and Mr. Greer luu by this timii liecome so experienced that there will be no danger in leaving him to attend to tho infant's wants while hit wife looks after the duties of her ofllce. The new magistrate has already outlined her policy. She will suppress the "hard cider joints" and close up the rnstaurante on Sunday. Mrs. Greer is 25 year old and was born in Ottumwa, la. Both tho mayor and police judge are Democrat. Demo-crat. In religion tho former is a Catholic Cath-olic and the latter a Protestant. All tho uiemliers of the council save one are Republicans and have young children. It is expected that tho first municipal expenditure of the now regime will be for an ante-room off the council chamber where bunks can tie fitted fit-ted np for the nso of tho babies. Tho triumph of the women is due to the fact that their male predecessors prede-cessors didn't attend at-tend to business and Hie town was "going to the dogs." A nan example ex-ample of the Ha? y men's negligence it is said that KM- iKm miVKn- . after the death of the city marshal some time ago, the then mayor could not get enough mnnrilmen together to confirm a successor, and consequently disorder and rioting went unchecked throughout the otherwise thriving little city. IVlgerton is the home of ex-Governor John P. St. John, the great apostle of temperance; reform, and has a population of about |