The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-17
WOMEN

It is rather out of the ordinary for woman to make her living at the anvil md forge. A female blacksmith Is as rare as she is novel and, a search of Che entire world would probably show them. if at all, to be very few and far between.
 Indeed, it is a question if there is more than one place, at least in this country, where blacksmiths of the gentier sex are to be found. Pilot Oak, a little village in Kentucky. boasts not of one. but of three female blacksmiths, and all of them members of the same family.
 The person in the immediate neigh borhood of Pilot Oak who discovers that his horse has east a shoe that his buggy or wagon is in need of re- pair. will eventually find himself. with his steed or conveyance that needs s'doctoring" in front of modest lit- Gle establishment. over the door of which appears the sign, 'Medlin Sis fers, Blacksmiths" If he should have any misgivings as to the manner in which the work will be done for him he has only to question many who have been and are patrons of the Mediln Sisters forge. He will receive a ready assurance calculated to make him will ling to nitrust the shoeing of his horse or the mending of his broken rig" to them.
 The senior member of this very un- usual firm Is Mrs. Courtney Pincon. formerly Miss Clara Medlin. She has xhe distinction of being certainly the first woman in Kentucky to take up the profession of blacksmithing and probably the only one in the world. of course excepting her sisters.
 It is, Indeed, a novel and interesting wf~ to xxyff engaged at their work. which is al- ways done with neatness and dispatch. The profession is essentially one re- quiring skill, strength and certain amount of pluck. Practice may bring the skill, but it is not every woman who can acquire the strength and pluck to handle the heavy parts of vehicles or control the refractory horse. The success of the 'Medlin Sisters, Black smiths" is guarantee that they were endowed with these requisites. or have acquired them.
 Mrs. Pinson. the elder of the Medlin sisters and the senior member of the firm. Is just 19 years of age. She is handsome young woman with a wealth of dark hair and a pair of bright brown eyes. She can shoe a horse or weld tire just as rapidly as any smith in this section. and as for the neatness
 
 probably true that no other person en- gagged in that profession anywhere near here would care to enter into di- rect competition with her.
 Notwithstanding all of this. -Ars. Pinson has not allowed her education as a housekeeper to suffer or neglect ed her training in the culinary art. She is an adept at cooking and can go into the kitchen and in a short while prepare a meal calculated to tempt the palate of an epicure.
 she can not be excelled as an aIl- around, useful girl" those who know her are wont to say.
 Mrs Pinson is also an expert car riage painter. This work she really makes her speciality. During the last season she painted and trimmed more than 100 buggies and wagons Mrs Pinson is a tireless worker. As an evidence of this, 1t may be stated that one day recently she had just finished putting the first coat of paint on her fourth buggy that day Still she Naaimed, when questioned, that she was snot very tired" |.
 This unusually accomplished young woman only recently changed her name from Medlin to Pinson, when Courtney Pinson claimed her for his wife. But enc style of the firm remains unchang-