The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-04-06
Kentucky Women
Succeeding in
Newspaper Work
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By A. Louise Babbage

4cluD IN tnat city recently, SAID journal
ism is "the greatest thing in the
world" Not even love did he hold as
Jan exception. Simply because journal
fsm itself is just big bundle of love,
iand all that is not love in this mag
Unanimous profession is pitched into
the waste basket. This has proven
true in the careers of Kentucky wom-
en- who are succeeding in newspaper
work to-day.
| Especially in the experiences OF
Mrs. Daisy Fitzhugh Ayers, Ken
| tuckian, now engaged In newspaper
work at the national capital She
fuses more love than words as a CORE
spondent for the seven largest papers
in seven other states besides Ken
lucky. Mrs. Ayers has been on the
stan of the Courier-Journal bureau in
Washington nine years and is connect.
ed with several New York publica-
tons. She is the author of 1.-The Con-
quest" a novel of Washington life.
Mrs. Ayers was reared in the newspa-
per home of Lexington and she has
been writing ever since she was a
school girl. She is the widow of a
Yale honor man. Her parents are Capt.
and Mrs. r. H. Fitzhugh, who came to
the Blue Grass capital from Virginia.
Girls of the "Pennyrile."
In Breckenridge county Miss Eva
Midlothian and Miss Mayme DeHaven
are bright young women who are max
ing more than pin money by CORE
= spending for The Breckenridge News
and The Fourth District Leader Miss
Midlothian is correspondent for the
News from Irvington and Miss Della
ven is representative for The Leader
at Cloverport. They are paid we'll for
their correspondence Miss McGloth-
Ian had never written for newspaper
before she took up the work for The
News and the way she learned to
write items may be helpful to the girl
who wants to learn reporting She
clipped reports about fires, deaths and
daily occurrences from different pa
pers and by these she learned to write
the news happenings of Irvington.
Connected with The News is a most
remarkable young girl, Miss Esther
Jackson, who has been in Mr.. Bah
bage's Office nearly six years and she
began work when she was fifteen
! years of age. When the local editor
is off duty, she can write the news
matter with perfect ease, although her
regular duties are confined to the
printing department.
Writers of Central Kentucky.
At Lexington are five young women
who have attained journalistic accom-
plishments and whose efforts have
been remunerative. They are: Miss
Mary B. Bryan, Miss Katherine Hull
Billingsley. Mrs. Mary Bradley Railey,
Mrs. Desha Breckenridge and Miss
Alice Lloyd.
Miss Bryan is society editor for The
Lexington Leader. She has been with
that paper thirteen years and has new
or missed but two months from the Of
fee in that time. Miss Bryan is an
enthusiastic club woman of Kentucky,
belonging to the Lexington Chapter of
the d. A. r., the Woman's Club of
Central Kentucky and the Ellison Club
3of Louisville.
Miss Billmgsley is society editor of
the Lexington Herald. She is the
daughter of the well-known lawyer,
George E. Billingsley,i who married
Miss Mamie Davidson, daughter of
one of the most successful bankers in
the South
Mrs. Railey has been with Mrs. ].
Tan4y Hughes in magazine agency
and writes syndicated articles. She
has written many charming articles
and her travels abroad have added a
particular interest to her writings.
Mrs. Desha Breckenridge. whose
husband is editor of The Lexington
|Herald. is a most diligent newspaper
woman, although in the last year she
bias devoted most of her time to feder-
ation work of forming school improve
ment leagues. She is chairman of the
Legislative Conmittee of Kentucky
Women's Clubs and has done some
Valuable work with The HeraId's
printers ink. Mrs. Breckenridge is a
granddaughter of Henry Clay and in
herits his oratoTical powers Before
her marriage she was Miss Madeline
Mcdowell.
Have Newspaper Relations.
Miss Katherine Euphalia Murrell is
d talented young woman and repre-
bents The Louisville Times at Column
-bia. Miss Murrell is the niece of J.
%. Murrell, who is in partnership with
q. S. Harris In publishing and editing
fhe Adair County News. Her father,
the late G. H. MurreH. was travelling
representative for that paper ten
Years.
Ambitious young newspaper girls In
New Haven are Miss Camilla Rappier
Rnd Miss Felicia Hagan, correspond
ents foGsihe Louisville dailies. Miss
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