The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-17
AS BREAD WINNERS

ed and the same old sign hangs over their shop.
 Misses Marie and Katie Medlin, aged | IT and 15, respectively, are members of this unique firm, and also are experts in their lines. Miss Marie Medlin makes a speciality of stripping and dec- orating vehicles. and when this little
 artiste has put the finishing touches on a repaired carriage of any kind 1t re- from a ne wone.
 The Medlins came of a good family
 and are highly respected by all who know them. The parents of these girls are both living and moderately well to do. The girls are in nowise
 compelled to work at this trade, but have simply taken 1t up of their own taccord While the Misses Medlin have no fear for a broncho or a 2-year-old
 mule, they nevertheless possess the
 usual amount of feminine timidity and are just as afraid of a mouse as any other girl.
 When asked for her reasons for | taking up this peculiar line of work | the senior member said:
 Since man has gone to cooking and ldressmaking think that a woman has a perfect right to be a blacksmith If she wants ito. had rather do amy
 kind of honest work than to be idle."- There are, perhaps, few women in New England who could have risen to
 the occasion as did Mrs. Etta G. Ira | cey, the wife of Rev. O. H. Tracey of the Pittsfield, Me, Free Baptist church. When it became evident that MT. Ira cey's health demanded a rest and a change of air the question arose as to the supply of his pulpit while he should | be absent. Tn fact, this was such a
 serious question that it practically stood in the way of the pastors much desired vacation.
 But Mrs. Tracey solved the problem by being consecrated to the ministry and licensed to preach, taking the pull pit herself. Being a woman endowed with marked talent, profound student of theology and familiar with all the details of the parish work, she has
 made a most acceptable substitute. She is a graceful and earnest speak l CT. keeping up the interest in all lines of church work while her husband IS regaining hi shealth in Colorado. Mrs. Tracey Is undecided as to whether she shall keep up the work after his return, but in any event Pitts field will be fortunate in having two preachers, and excellent ones. in one church.
 Miss Jean Voorhees,, a graduate of Vassar in the class of 1904, and a young woman popular in college and
 town society, is acting as horticulturist of the New Jersey state agricultural experiment station. Although she has not received the official appointment and is, in fact, only filling the posi- ton temporarily. she is doing excellent
 work, and Is performing all the various
 duties of the position to the complete satisfaction of the trustees of the in | stitution.
 Miss Voorhees, Is the daughter of director of the experiment station and
 superintendent of the college farm. His residence is at the college farm and Miss Voorhees, has grown up
 among the greenhouses, orchards and fields where much of the experimental
 and practical work of the station Is performed. She has been familiar with
 the various phases of the work and has
 assisted in much of 1t. Her knowledge
 of horticulture is of the practical kind. acquired by direct participation in ex- perimental and practical work. She had no intention of qualifying for a position in the field of horticul- ture, but when, in August last, Pro-
 lessor Alvah T. Jordan, who held the