400-Plus Women Registered to Vote in Buncombe County, October 1920

It is estimated that over 400 women registered in Buncombe county the first day of the new registration for women. The reports, coming from all sections of the county, lshow that the women are eager to get their names on the election books and the registration was not confined to any particular section of the city. The registrars were instructed to see that the voting places were kept clean and neat, that comfortable seats be provided and order be maintained there at all times. (From the front page of The Daily Record, Hickory, N.C., October 2, 1920)