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Dwight & Florence Pierce
Dwight & Florence Pierce
Designating May 3 as a general clean-up day for the village, Florence asked for cooperation from the business community. "Let us set aside this 'I don't care' spirit that has always prevailed in Goodhue and work together," she wrote in the Enterprise.
Editor Dwight Pierce wrote of his wife's efforts on May 3 in these words: "Mrs. Pierce, newly-elected mayor, spent the day out and around town, offering suggestions here and there amid the clean-up committee." In September, Mrs. Pierce persuaded the council to provide funds for renting space at the hotel for a public rest room.
When the councilmen arrived for their November meeting in the cold, damp room back of the fire hall, Mrs. Pierce invited them to adjourn to their new meeting place in the hall of the pumping station, where the walls were freshly painted and the windows washed and adorned with curtains. Early in the year she invited the wives of council members to attend the meeting and provided refreshments for the social hour which followed the business session.
Mrs. Pierce's efforts to beautify and improve the village went unappreciated, and in the March 1922 election she was defeated by John Shelstad, 62 to 124.
(The above information was taken from GOODHUE: The STORY OF A RAILROAD TOWN by Margaret E. Hutcheson)
- Dwight C. Pierce became owner as well as editor of the Goodhue Enterprise in August, 1897 when he bought the paper from E.A. Mitchell of Zumbrota. The Goodhue Enterprise, previously printed in Zumbrota, was printed in Goodhue for the first time in April 1897.
- In 1921, Florence Pierce had the distinction of becoming the first women in Minnesota to be elected mayor of a municipality. She won the election by one vote, getting 80 votes against John Cavanaugh's 79. She immediately announced ambitious plans for the village, including stricter law enforcement and village beautification measures.
Designating May 3 as a general clean-up day for the village, Florence asked for cooperation from the business community. "Let us set aside this 'I don't care' spirit that has always prevailed in Goodhue and work together," she wrote in the Enterprise.
Editor Dwight Pierce wrote of his wife's efforts on May 3 in these words: "Mrs. Pierce, newly-elected mayor, spent the day out and around town, offering suggestions here and there amid the clean-up committee." In September, Mrs. Pierce persuaded the council to provide funds for renting space at the hotel for a public rest room.
When the councilmen arrived for their November meeting in the cold, damp room back of the fire hall, Mrs. Pierce invited them to adjourn to their new meeting place in the hall of the pumping station, where the walls were freshly painted and the windows washed and adorned with curtains. Early in the year she invited the wives of council members to attend the meeting and provided refreshments for the social hour which followed the business session.
Mrs. Pierce's efforts to beautify and improve the village went unappreciated, and in the March 1922 election she was defeated by John Shelstad, 62 to 124.
(The above information was taken from GOODHUE: The STORY OF A RAILROAD TOWN by Margaret E. Hutcheson)
