The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-17
OF Interest to Women.

Of Interest to Women.
Miss Minnie Keseberg. is the new
lefty treasurer of Ludington Mich.
Women homeopathic physicians of
Michigan have organized a State asso-
citation.
An average of $50 patients year
are granted to women inventors in
Great Britain.
An English newspaper has discov
cred milkmaid who wears monocle
while at work.
The women of Beunos Aires have the
reputation OF being among the best
dressed women in the world.
Women are in sole charge of a doz,
len or more of The most prosperous
weekly newspapers in Louisiana.
When Queen Elizabeth of England
died her wardrobe was found to con.
tain upwards of three thousand gowns.
Less than fifty years ago women
prisoners in Tennessee were employ
ed in breaking rock for street pave.
ment.
Bradford Mass Academy, founded
in 1903, claims to be the oldest insti-
tuition in New England for the higher
education of women
The third annual convention OF the
Michigan Womens Association OF
Commerce will be entertained in
Grand Rapids during the first week in
June.
Madame Sarojui Maudu, a leading
suffragist OF India will be one of the
speakers at the coming meeting OF
The international Woman Suffrage
Alliance at Geneva.
Dr. Kate j. Horner, of Sioux City,
Probably the only woman in Ameri-
coroner in the United States In 1894
she was elected to the office in Thurs.
ton County, Neb.
Probably the only woma min Ameri-
ca engaged in the manufacture OF
niroglycerine is Mrs. Claire W.Stokes
OF Petrolia, Ont, whose factory turns
out large quantities OF the material
used principally in torpedoing oil.
wells.
Miss Isabella Cummings. for twelve
years in the civil service and now sec.
rotary OF the department of agriculture
i OF Saskatchewan, is the first woman in
! Canada to hold office as executive
| head OF Provincial government de-
pertinent.
! Stenographers, clerks, cashiers, and
other women employees Of one Of the
/ big packing companies in st. Louis
/ have organized a sewing club in an eff
/ fort to combat he high cost OF cloth
ing by making their own summer and
vacation outfits.
The women of Pitcairn Island, des
cended from English sailors and Ota-
/ heitan mothers, are described as being
unusually graceful as we'll as vigorous.
II Is a common sight to see the young
women Of the island go up and down
the steep rocky shores, carrying bar
rels of water or other heavy burdens
on their shoulders apparently with as
much ease as the young men do
ain the Days News"
Rt. Rev. Boyd Vincent, who cele-
lbrates his 75sh birthday today is bishop
of the Southern Ohio diocese and one
OF the most widely known prelates of
the Protestant Episcopal church of
America He was born at Erie, Pa,
and was educated at Yale, receiving
his A. b. degree from the New Haven
institution in 1867. He then took up
the study of theology and in 1871 was
ordained deacon of the Episcopal
church. His first duties were as assist
ant rector of st. Paul's church, in his
native city. In 1872, having been or
ldained q priest he was made rector OF
the Cross and Crown church, also in
Erie. After two years in this position
The was called to Pittsburgh to become
rector of Calvary church in that city
Here he remainde for fifteen, years
gaining wide reputation for his elo'
lquence as preacher and his untiring
ac.ivity and enthusiasm in the work
o fthe church. In 1889 he left Pitts
Iburgh OF become bishop co-adjutor OF
Southern Ohio and five years later he
succeeded to the bishopric.