Newspapers, Adair County KY:  The Adair County News   08-Dec-1897

Submitted By: Laura Frost Wright <lsllwright@fuse.net>
Submission Date: 03-May-2000

Owensboro wants brick streets.
Glasgow's new electric powerhouse is being rebuilt.
A Paris hunter has sold 4,400 rabbits since the first of October.
A big row in the Republican ranks at Frankfort over the post office.
A number of the young ladies of Elizabeth town will winter in the South.
Schools all over the State are adopting one session idea for winter terms.
Nip CALHOUN, 97 years old, died at his home (in) Park KY last week.
Farmers are busily engaged turning corn and oats ground for next year.
Diphtheria has again broken out (in) Hart County (and) several children have
      died recently.
Progressive euchere is the favorite amusement game with the society people
      of Owensboro.
Kentucky distillers met in Louisville last week to discuss the best plan to
      limit the production.
The new Legislators are being flooded with petitions asking them to vote for
      this or that measure.
The $ 5,000 slander suit of John B. DEPP against James P. DEPP of Glasgow
      resulted in a hung jury.
Circuit Court is now in session in Liberty. It is the last court in
      Judge W.W. JONES circuit for this year.
The Page Hotel (in) Tompkinsville is to be the largest building in the city.
      The foundation has been completed.
A report comes from Trigg County that hogs in that section are dying in
      large numbers from a peculiar disease.
Corn is much better all over the State than was first expected. It is
      selling at $1.65 per barrel in Adair County.
Dora BAKER of Newport has put the tongues to wagging by falling in love with
      her step-father.
More opossums have been killed in the mountain counties than ever before in
      the same length of time.
Mack JAGGERS, son of Hardy JAGGERS, was fatally injured in a runaway
      accident near Friendship Church (in) Hart County.
Fred JOHNSON and Miss Maggie LAWSON were married at Owenton last week.
      He had been ten days divorced from a former wife.
Ermine STEVENS, a fifteen year old boy of Hay's Station, was fatally
      wounded by the accidental discharge of a gun while hunting.
Elder R.M. CAMPBELL, for the past year pastor of the first Presbyterian
      church (in) Glasgow delivered his farewell sermon last week.
Dr. J.A. DIXON of Burksville is mentioned as a probable candidate for the
      Democratic nomination for Congress for the third District.
Revival services in the Baptist church of Glasgow continue with unabating
      interest. There have been many conversions and fifteen or twenty
      additions to the church.
The working of locking and daming Cumberland River inaugurated by the
      United States government is now in progress. The government has
      about 500 men at work.
The badly disabled condition of the Centre College football team compelled
      Manager ACHESON to declare off the game with the University of Virginia
      to have been played at Louisville last Saturday.
Policy shops are still in full operation in Louisville. It is said it will be
      at least three months before the mandate arrives, meanwhile the lottery
      will continue. After that the company may play another card.
Miss Mary BORDERS of Simpson County was stung by a honey bee last summer.
      Gangreen set up from the sting and her foot became putrid flesh.
      The doctors decided to amputate her leg just below the knee.

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