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Show Washington vVoman Seek Office. The first woman in the state of Washington to aspire to a state office, Mrs. Josephine Corless Preston of this city, a natjve of Minnesota, Is making mak-ing a Btrong campaign for the Republican Repub-lican nomination for superintendent of public instruction. Women have votod In Washlnston less than a year, but friends of Mrn. Preoton, believing she has the qualifications qualifica-tions of an excellent atato official, navo persuaded her to enter the race, and she has been causing the old lino noliticlane endless worry Mrs. Preston is not a suffragette. f)ho la quiet, unaoBumlux and capable. For four years she has been superintendent superin-tendent of tho schools of Walla Walla county and for two years before that vns asslatant in that ofllco. She has been a teacher in tho achoolfi hero for some yearo, an active worker in rducctional circles, and a recognized authority in tho work. Walla Walla Correspondence St. Paul Dispatch. |