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Show I K. -i - i i ii i i i - - I ft ILLINOIS' FIRST WOMAN MAYOR 5 r 1 .pros ft At rflkM V '- x'j:v:-:-:--p'-':- Sfcfc. '::.::":-:.; Mrs. Angela Rose Canfield of Warren, first woman mayor in Illinois, Illi-nois, who was elected over two other candidates by a plurality of four votes, has ideals for her little city. I . Warren, situated within half a mile of the Wisconsin state line in Jo Daviess county, is not a bad place at all, she says. She will try to make the city even more attractive than it is during the two years she will oversee over-see its municipal affairs. I The first woman mayor in Illinois, and, incidentally, the second in the United States, is seventy-four years young. I ' "Young as I certainly am," she said, "I am confident that I have reached years of discretion. I know I can run Warren's affairs better than they have been in the past. "There are things in the city of Warren that need to be remedied. I have not lived here for 35 years without with-out knowing all about them. First v and foremost among them is graft. Graft has got to go from this town." j Mrs. Canfield was born in New York state. During the Civil war days, j when she was Mrs. O. J. Hildreth she has been twice married she was a superintendent of the Nashville messhouse of the United States army. |