The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-04-06

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distinguished writer's OF the middle
west. Mrs. Hattie Beall Grinnell, who
all her life has written for country
weeklies and various publications. She
has dropped most of her newspaper
correspondence, but still writes in
structive and wholesome articles for
The Meade County Messenger and
The Leitchfleld Gazette, her home pa
pers.
Mrs. Mamie Plummer Braughton. So
ciety editor OF The Franklin Favorite,
has won laurels in journalism by her
tact and winsome manner. She gath
ers her material by attending enter
tainments, receptions and club meet
ings, and she is extremely popular in
the club circles of Franklin. Mrs.
Braughton has learned that reporter
can not ge: much news matter by ask
ing persons the question, Have you
any news?" News is something ore
has to pick up quietly, so quietly that
one must tiptoe many times to get an
item.
What will be surprise to a number
of southern newspaper people is that
Miss Ora Leigh, former newspaper
woman of Paducah, has recently mar
ried After leaving Kentucky she was
city editor on a leading daily in Salt
Lake City, and little did one dream
that this gifted Journalist would take
time To entertain Cunfd
On Louisville Papers.
A most interesting woman connect
ed with the Kentucky dailies is Miss
Ada Cain, who is private secretary to
I Robert w. Brown, managing editor of
the Louisville Times. In speaking of
her work the other day Miss Cain
said, Really, the busiest of bees
could not equal me-" And she is as
lovely as she is busy.
Among the society reporters in Lou
isville are Miss Betty Taylor, of the
Courier-Journal; Miss Kathleen Jen-
nings, of the Louisville Times, and
Miss Elsie Womack, of the Louisville
Herald. Mrs. Eugenia Johnson Keel.
ment from the Kentucky newspaper
fraternity by her illustrated heads for
the society page of the Sunday Cour.
ier-JouTnal.
Mrs. Keller is a young newspaper
artist of Louisville
The Courier-Journals special CORE
spondent at Frankfort is Mrs. Ella
Hutchinson Ellwanger, who has not
only made a name for herself in Jour
nalism, but is now being recognized
as magazine writer of some note.
Nine years she has been connected
with the Kentucky State Journal, but
two months ago she severed her con-
nection' with that paper to devote all
her time to writing articles for New
York publications. 1t is said that Mrs.
Ellwanger is truly responsible for the
handsome Louisville and Nashville
depot at Frankfort, for through her
editorials in the Frankfort journal
she aroused a public sentiment ana
demand for this building. e. G. Wal
ton, who recently retired from the ed
itorial department of that paper, al
lowed Mrs. Ellwanger full scope in
writing up the mayor and the city
dads of Kentuckys capital, and by
this she did much for the civic better
ment of Frankfort. Once Mrs. Eli
wanger got drunk" That is, she be-
came intoxicated with success when
her first article of any length was pub
lished She said she was completely
overcome with JOY and surprise when
of the illustrated section of leading
newspaper. That was in 1901. About
that time she originated the first So
ciety page in Frankfort newspaper
dom. Mrs. Ellwanger has written |
three magazine stories for children |
and has had many skits in Lippin- |
colts. Her Sunday letter to the Cour- |
ier-Journal is one of the most enjoy |
able features of that paper, and 1t has |
been complimented by writer's all over |
the United States. This month she |
and w. Il. Bridwell, an ex-newspaper
man, published book-an edition
de luxe OF the General Assembly and |
the state capitol. Her admiring
readers will be glad to learn that in
May or June her article, Evolution
of Punishment as Applied to State
Prisons" will appear in Hampton's
magazine. Mrs. Ellwanger's success
is greatly due to persistence In exer-
cising the Golden Rule in her daily
social and business affairs.
Copies Of THE Lady of the Quill"
have just come from Louisville pub
fishing company and all southern and
eastern friends of Mrs. Jennie G. Nor
ton will welcome this little book of
sketches of her life. This biography
of Mrs. Morton is written in loving
and picturesque manner by Mrs. Ell
wanger, who is receiving many fiat
tering notices by the press and the
public on her life-story of this famous