The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-09-22

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Miss Ethel Grosscup of Wenonah,
n. j., sailed for Madrid, where she
will occupy the chair of English at
the International Institute for Girls in
Spain.
Miss Ormiston, daughter of an Eng.
lish colonel, and Mrs. Durant, wife
OF a captain are tramway conductors
at Portsmouth. They give their wage
to charity
Mile. Jeanne Provost, he famous
French actress, has been given the
rank OF corporal in the French army
in recognition of what she has done
to amuse the wounded soldiers.
Mrs. Lillian Stuart of ST. Louis is
working to interest business men in
a plan for a trunk highway from
Detroit to New Orleans, which would
furnish the unemployed Sitn work.
Dr. Ruth Tunncliff, a skilled bacter-
iologist, claims that the real cause
of colds is a germ which IS obliged
to live in atmosphere and tissues
where there is no oxygen.
Mrs. Mary Sage, 107 years Odd, OF
Darrowsville, N. Y, has signed the
yellow slip endorsing womac suf-
frage Mrs. Sage is the Oldest woman
in northern New York AMI ons Of tho
oldest in the state.
Pierre, S. d., now boasts a woman
policeman in the person of Mrs. Rutn
Nipple who will make it her special
duty to look after the cleanliness as
well as the safety of the city streets.
Miss Margaret Kerfoot chef of the
division which fills and ships orders
to the $4,000 postoffices throughout
the country has been workins n the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing for
the last thirty-two years.
Mrs. L. NJ. Featherston Of Chicago,
captain of a five-woman team which
claims the womans trap shooting
championship of the world, has is
sued def to any female team n the
country for a series of matches
Because she was defeated for pes
ident of the National Educationa, As
sociatiOn, Miss Grace C. S:rachan OF
Brooklyn resigned from the associa-
ton, claiming that her defeat was
brought about by unfair means and
factional disloyalty.
Believing that this country is in
need of woman's influence in govern
ment, Mrs. Kathryn Rutherford. a
trained nurse of Chicago, has an
nounced that she will be candidate
for the office of vice-president OF the
United States.
Over 1900 aged women and men,
former public school teachers, wa1
are dependent upon the telchers' re.
tirement fund in New York City, will
receive only about half of their an
nuities for the present, owlns to the
fact that the fund is bankrupt.
The wives of several hundred Ger
man commercial travellers, who are
now at the front, have taken p the
work of their absent husbands. Al
most all of these female "drn miners"
are successful and will be employed
after the war if they so desire.
The most respectable profession of
the young women in the Argentina IS
school teaching, and there are at the
present time in the republic no less
than seventeen normal schools toy
women alone. There is also a proi4s
sional school for women, where gilis
are taught glove-making, embroidery.
needlework and artistic decoration.
Misses Elsie Newman, Grace Clarke
and Margaret Eier recently took the
civil service examination for the ap.
pointment as mail carriers at Geneva,
Ill. Neither of them had TO seek the
appointment as means of liveli.
hood, for all are of well-to-do fam.
lies.
Probably the most successful! wolC.
an real estate operator in this country
is Miss Lena Ross of Elm.ra, n. Y,
who since 1910 has sold over a mill
ion dollars worth of really. She is
the first and only woman member Of
the National Association Of Realty
Brokers.
Marie Holman, who has been at
the western front as a nuI1e s:nce
the beginning of the war, has been
decorated with the Iron Cross and
the Bavarian military cross. In one
of the battles near st. MiA"l she car
ried several wounded soldiers from
the firing line.
Ever since the Du,ch army was mo.
h.lized Queen Wilhelni1a mas kept
untiring watch over me efficiency AMI
comfort of the mobIlisel men, anu
has frequent conferences with the
war minister, the chic IF ne general
staff and, above all, Aith General
Snyders, known as the Dutch Him