Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1912 — Women and Municipal Affairs. [ARTICLE]

Women and Municipal Affairs.

Frol say, a small town halfway between Paris and Amiens in France, to said to be the only civilised community in which the municipal affairs are entirely In the hands of women. The mayor is a woman, and so to the superintendent of the railway station, the switchman, the mail carrier and the town barber. Mme. Leseboro to the telegraph messenger and Mme. Drnhon-Marchardin to the drummer whose duty It to to announce each proclamation of the mayor. Mme. Dru-hou-Marcbardin Is described as an octogenarian who has held her post through wind and rain for upwards of 20 years. The letter carrier, Mme. Doubour, has held her office for more th«n ten years and goes about with her letters regardless of the weather.