The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-12

woman in America. She draws sal
airy of $4,000 a year.
The Austrian Archduchess Alice, it
is reported will marry the crown
prince of Bulgaria.
Female paper box makers in Eng
land receive minimum pay of &c
an hour.
New York is to have a dental
training school for women, the first
of the kind.
Miss Litta b. Hibben has been ap-
pointed assistant district attorney of
Los Angeles.
Mrs. Russell Sage has given
$25,000 to the metropolitan Museum
of Art in New York City.
Women in England are now en-
ployed in the shipyards, municipal
gas work and flour mills.
Mrs. Lydia Shrake. aged 1O5, of
Prairie du Chen, Wis, is the head
of six living generations.
Women students from the colleges in
England are spending their vacation
by working on the farms.
Mrs. Grace j. Plumb and Miss Ag-
nes NJ. Jordan are the only women
food inspectors in New York City.
Kate Casey has retired on pension,
after thirty-seven years as matron of
the Union Station at Columbus, Ohio.
La Cygne is the only Kansas town
that has a cemetery owned and man
aged by a women's club.
Mrs. Rose c. Kelhoffer has the hon
or of being the first woman to be chief
of the mother" police in New York
City.
Women single-taXers in New Provi-
dence, n. j., have been asked to wear
skirts instead of trousers which they
now go about in.
Females in the employ of the Ger
man government Offices greatly out
number the men, and now form So per
cent of all the employees.
Three girl graduates of Radcliffe
Sollege have sailed for France, where
they will act as chauffeurs for the
Aemrican French Wounded Relief
Corps.
Two thousand Mexican women have
offered their services to the governor
of Sonora and have been accepted.
They are all expert shots with a rifle.
In a contest in which nearly $500
persons took part, Miss Lillian G. Stat
ford was awarded the first prize in
contest for the best slogan for the
city of Brooklyn.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, wife of
Lieutenant Colonel Vanderbilt of the
New York National Guard, has donat-
ed $25, 1000 to the militia for the pur-
chase of hospital equipment.
The William Penn High School in
Philadelphia grants diplomas in sales
manship to girls. The recent class
graduated was the first oft ne kind
ever turned out in the United States.
The latest masculine occupation in
vaded by women in Germany is that
of forester, a young woman having
taken the place on the estate of a count
in Silesia She fulfills all the duties of
a forester, and is also overseeing the
planting on the estate.
Five hundred more women have
been accepted by the British war office
as army cooks and will be sent to the
front to join 1900 others who have
been doing the cooking for the English
"Tommies." They wear khaki, live in
camps and barracks, mess, draw ra-
tions and are the nearest APPROACH the
army has yet seen to Thomasina At
kins.
Miss Nettie Rogers, aged IS, grad
uate from an agricultural school has
filed a homestead claim on 100 acres
of land on Flint Ridge, Ark. She will
engage in fruit raising and truck
farming. Miss Rogers is the youngest
homesteader in that section and one Of
the very few women to have manifest
ed the grit to attempt to cultivate the
roung mountain land in that vicinity.