In 1915, Dumm was hired by the short-lived Republican newspaper, the Columbus "Monitor", to be a full-time cartoonist. Her first cartoon was published on August 7, 1915, in the debut issue of the paper. During her years at the "Monitor" she provided a variety of features including a comic strip called "The Meanderings of Minnie" about a young tomboy girl and her dog, Lillie Jane, and a full-page editorial cartoon feature, "Spot-Light Sketches""." She drew editorial cartoons for the "Monitor" from its first edition (August 7, 1915) until the paper folded (July 1917). In the "Monitor", her "Spot-Light Sketches" was a full-page feature of editorial cartoons, and some of these promoted women's issues. Elisabeth Israels Perry, in the introduction to Alice Sheppard's "Cartooning for Suffrage" (1994), wrote that artists such as Blanche Ames Ames, Lou Rogers and Edwina Dumm produced: