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Show I ; fflNAB'S WOMEN 1 :? COUNCIL A SUCCESS aVL jj- aVE f ' Nominated and Elected as Joke, B ', f Prove Themselves Equal to K 'Vf. the Occasion mk I Last Monday at noon the five Wk , women who have constituted the H J municipal authority in Kanab B for the past two years, gave B lover to their male successors the B frecords and keys of the city. B ;,Thus closed an administration B -that from standpoints of integ- B . rity, ability, and enforcement B ' , itpi ordinances has never been B equaled in Kanab before. B V ' . Starting out two years ago B ' " with an election which was in- B , " tended as a joke, their term of B . 'office has been characterized by B i Vsuch serioua and sane enact- B tments that their many Bunport- V s ers urged for their re-election X ut tn0 ladies graciously de-B de-B ,' iclined with the excuse that they B Hwere not "selfish." 1 B After taking the prescribed B "oath" their first official act B a' was to increase the license of 'B t 'peddlers and traveling merchants B $ second, they passed and enforced m -an ordinance prohibiting cattle K . .and other such animals from M .running at large in the streets; -,i tthird, the building of corrals, ! rV'', Stables, etc.. within 50 feet-, of I ? -v anv sidewalk was prohibited; I fourth, a tax was placed upon . 1 dogs, and all killed which were v not registered ; fifth the use of llljlj. flippers and slings was prohib- nauT - 'te w'tnln tne town limits H& f especially to protect the birds; Bk i'l Biytth, the cemetery was sur- N f t veyed, platted, and deeds issued B to purchasers of lots; seventh, a jBtf , cleanup clay was appointed in BEf September, 1912, and prizes Hftfj offered for the best kept street jRcr1 and.sidewalk; eighth, the board B tendered to Governor Spry and Bl party a reception, September 15, (Kp '' " 1913? ninth, a "Greater Utah" IBr meeting was held under the tfy! auspices of the board, May 15, W 19131 tenth, September 10 1913, B t- jl fruit festival was tendered in "S--" BBBBD honor of the Utah Automobile J IB n wn'cn was making the 1 BBl pioneer trip to the Grand Can- p-- -X Besides, the Board wrote to I v I the Post Office Department ask- - ing that intoxicating liquors be not allowed transportation on the mail carriage. The letter 7 1 - received prompt and favorable reply and an oider was at once j jm iiit ' issued to the carriers on the ri ' 'X Kanab Marysvale route f or- $ft -Av bidding said transportation. t" r p Bridges have been built over -:' all street crossings, and the ' likk, lilr "?any Places have been capped. 1 ! '$& -The streets in the cemetery have lyfl t been graded, the fences re- 'Ts'' t - paired and new gates put up. m" w- ) " Two Indian camps have been m , removed from the city for fsan- B'f j '" . itary reasons. And the Indian '. agent has been asked to use hiB H,, ? influence to stop the sale of B liquor at Fredonia. B - The board stood half the ex- B Senses of building a $100 flood B way to protect the town from B '' floodB. B - There are many other items B which go to the credit of these B . ''mpthers" who in the face of B sgme very bitter ridicu'e worked Bf; - yniedly and unselfishly for civic B righteousness in the community, B but enouh is here enumerated B to show the caliber of their Br $1 j character, , u All of them are indeed Wt "mothers," with from two t5 Br aevon children in each home. B "" , They are plain intelligent women B who tend to their own household B duties without neglect. They B' are in no mean sense of the term W: "suffragettes,." They are - , citizens of quality and equality M-. with the best men of the com- m"'. munity. ,, . ... L. Mr Kanab is distinguished as the Bl only place in America to have m, an all women town board. Al- B ready influential social leaders t over the nation are asking .for B the story of this most remark- Hr able achievement of woman B suffrago; Kane Couny New. w |