448	HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY

	As there was no money in the treasury, Cooprider received nothing
for his official services for this year. At the March term, 1848, he again
submitted his annual report, showing $39.24 on hand. For this year his
salary as allowed by the board was $5. For the same year’s service as
township clerk, William Brothers’ salary was $2.50.
Revocation of Teacher’s License.
	In the winter of 1862-63, County School Examiner Samuel Loveless
revoked the license held by George W. Payne, who lived, and was then
teaching, in Jackson township, on the ground of incompetency in the
conduct and instruction of the school. The specific charge, as alleged
against the teacher, was that he had permitted two of his pupils to trade
jack-knives while on the floor reciting a lesson.
	In the winter of 1866-67, School Examiner William Travis revoked
the license on which Newton Liddell was teaching in Van Buren town-
ship, for the reason, as was charged and shown by the evidence of both
patrons and pupils, the he indulged in kissing the big girls during the
noon hour and at other intervals.
Shot and Killed While Talking Over the Telephone.
	Henry Walter Grafe, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Grafe, aged four-
teen years, was drowned in Worley’s pond, two miles northeast of Clay
City, Sunday, August 12, 1906. On Thursday, August 30, while stand-
ing at the telephone at her home talking to a neighbor Mrs. Grafe was
shot in the back of the head and killed instantly. The fatal shot was sup-
posed to have been discharged by an eight-year-old son from one of the
guns kept about the house, which the boy was handling. Whether the
discharge was accidental or intentional is not known, as there were no
others in the house at the time, and no definite and satisfactory informa-
tion could be drawn from the boy. It was thought by some of the neigh-
bors that Mrs. Grafe had committed suicide, others maintaining that she
could not have shot herself in the back of the head.
	In the month of February, 1907, Grafe married Mrs. Emma Ever-
sole, previously Mrs. Emma Harris, of Clay City, who, after assuming
charge of the family home, induced her husband to take down and move
an outhouse on the premises. While engaged in doing this the workmen
found concealed about the building $120 in hard money—six $20 gold
pieces—of which he (Grafe) could give no account, which the former
wife had saved from her earnings and sales and had chosen this way of
taking care of it.
Church Rejoicing Over Release from Indebtedness.
	An event of unusual occurrence and interest in the local religious
world transpired at Clay City on the night of March 18, 1906, when the
Methodist Episcopal church people of that place celebrated with rejoic-
ing and thanksgiving their release from the burden of indebtedness in-
curred by the building and furnishing of their modern house of worship.
Aside from the original fund subscribed and the $3,636 pledged at the
time of dedication, October 31, 1897, there was still a balance of $4,200 to
be provided for. To meet these obligations, the main source of reliance
was the Ladies’ Aid Society. For the protracted period of practically
nine years the women of the church zealously devoted their energies to
the task, which they accomplished by means of repeated musical and liter-
ary entertainments, bazaars, rummage sales, etc., as sources of revenue,
which was applied from time to time as credits on the outstanding obli