The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-27
WOMEN ENGAGED IN
 UNUSUAL OCCUPATIONS

The town of Joplin. Mo. is famous place for women. Joplin has one bank conducted entirely by women. Hand
 some, lively and most capable in bus
 mess. they are too. The president and
 founder of the bank is a ren. T. w. Cunningham, but he has left the con-
 duct of the institution in the hands of his cashier. Mrs. V. Frank Church. and her feminine assistants. Mrs Church Ter, assistant cashier; Mrs. Blanche Jenkins. teller; Miss Henrietta Max we'll. beokkeeper; and Miss Ollie Me- Aboy, clerk.
 The Joplin bank pays out every Sat- urday afternoon $25,000 in miners waees. Mrs. Church was its delegate to the last meeting of the American Bankers association. When she read to the association her report showing that this woman managed bank has now a surplus amounting to many times its original capital. brave round of applause went up from the men bankers.
 Joplin has. too. a woman mine su- perintendent, Mrs. W. E. Morgan. Some time ago she organized the Togo mining eompany. bought an abandon ! cd shaft in which she had faith. or- dered machinery and pumped the wa- ter out, then put her men to work. She herself is at the mine every day, watching that the laborers do their work properly and that they waste neither time nor material Not long after Mrs. Morgan began to operate in the abandoned shaft fine vein of zinc somely. T attribute my success to close attention to business" says the woman mine superintendent. Miss Jimetta Kennedy of EmigsvilIe,
 Pa, is one of the few women that have. invaded the wagon painting txade,
 Miss Kennedy had to work for her iiv- ing. She began in a picture frame fac-
 tory where she learned to handle a
 brush skiilfuliy. also to mix colors.
 With womar's quick eye for color. she became expert in their blending. Then she perceived an opening for a d skilled painter in a wagon factory and immediately sought to fill 1t. She does so to the satisfaction of her employers and has progressed so we'll in the trade that she soon had charge of a gang of boy painters, eleven in all. She has no trouble in mafaging them. She is a strong healthy, happy young woman and sees rapid advancement with in- creased pay ahead of her in her trade. of which she is very fond. She paints spring wagons mostly.
 Mrs. c. R. Shfeppy of Wichita, Kan, has gone step further than Miss Ken nedy in the industrial painting trade and is an artificer of ornamental signs. In this case 1t was a husband who in- itiated a wife into his own trade. Mir. Shleppy is sign painter. Mrs. Shlep- py was of that active temperament which would not permit her to live in idleness. st the same time she disIiked housework exceedingly. It did not come easy to her.
 She was fond of art and had some training in drawing and painting So she learned to paint signs She earns from s4 to s10 a day at her trade which she thoroughly enjoys, and hires a girl tp do the housework, which she hates. So all hands are happy.
 There. too, is the firm of Aver & Ayer-Mr. and Mrs. Oliver P.-stair builders. The professional reputation of Mrs. Aver is that of one of the best stair builders in Philadelphia, where the pair live. They work together and average nearly a flight of stairs a day. They have no children, and while watch ing her husband at work Mrs. Aver be- gan to handle hammer and saw and to