Josephine Kenning was a woman of determination and prominence in Lumsden’s history.  As a woman on her own with two children, she took on the Royal Mail Hotel in 1899 when it was reported to be in “disgraceful condition” but within weeks of taking possession the whole character of the house changed under her eye.  So cunning was her business acumen, that she was courted to come across to manage the Elbow Hotel which once stood across the railway tracks from us.