The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1910-04-06
RICHMOND MADISON COUNTY. KENTUCKY WEDNESDAY APRIL g. 1910
Kentucky Women
Succeeding in
Newspaper Work
By A. Louise Babbage
ID W ~ ~ ~ ID ~

Arthur Brisbane, the highest sal.
aried newspaper man in America, who
spoke before the Chicago's Woman's
club in that city recently, said journal
ism is "the greatest thing in the
world" Not even love did he hold as
an exception. Simply because Journal
ism itself is Just big bundle of love.
and 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. a Ken
tuckian, now engaged in newspaper
work at the national capital. She
uses mere 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
staff of the Courier-JOurnal bureau in
Washington nineyear 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. II. Fitzhugh, who came to
/, the Blue Grass capital from Virginia.
Girls of the "PennyrlIe."
In breckenridge county Miss Eva
McGlothlan 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 well for
their correspondence. Miss McGloth-
Ian had never written for a 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 of 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
BiflingSley, Mrs Mary Bradley RaiIey,
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
er missed but two months from the Of |
flee 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 Filson Club |
of Louisville.
Miss Billingsley is society editor Of /
the Lexington Herald. She is the
daughter of the well-known lawyer,
George E. BiIlingsley, who married
Miss Mamie Davidson, daughter of
one of the most successful bankers in
the South.
Mrs. Railey has been with Mrs. J.
Tandy Hughes in a 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 most diligent newspaper
woman. although in the last year she
has devoted most of her time to feder-
alton work of forming school improve
ment leagues. She is chairman of the
Legislative Committee of Kentucky
Women's Clubs and has done some
valuable work with The Herald'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 Murren is
a talented young woman and repre-
sents The Louisville Times at Column
bia. Miss Murrell is the niece of !.
E. Mdrrell, who is in partnership with
c. S. Harris in publishing and editing
the Adair County News. Her father.
the late c. H. MurreH, was travelling
for. that paper ten
years.
Ambitious young newspaper girls in
New Haven are Miss Camilla Rappier
and Miss Felicia Hagan, correspond
ents for the Louisville dailies. Miss
Hagan is the nience of John A. Barry,
editor of The New Haven Echo.
Miss Stella Moore. of Darlington.
writes for The Earling Bee, a splendid
paper published by her brother, Paul
Moore, one of the best known mem
bere Of the Kentucky Press Assoeia d..
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