Hettie Kate Aiken Running for Office in Cherokee, September 1920

Woman In Race for Office in Cherokee. . . Murphy, Sept. 18--Miss Hettie Kate Aiken, daughter of Bob Aiken, who was elected register of deeds in Cherokee county in 1880 and a granddaughter of Drury Weeks, who served the county for many years in the same office, has accepted the nomination tendered her at the Democratic convention held Monday, and will make the rafce against M.H. Palmer, republican nominee. Mrs. Aiken is the first woman to be nominated on the county ticket in Cherokee and it is reported that she will be supported by members of both political parties. (From the front page of the Hickory Daily Record, September 18, 1920.)