Newspapers, Adair County KY: The Adair County News 22-Dec-1897 Submitted By: Laura Frost Wright Submission Date: 28-Jun-2000 11-Dec-1897. Mr. Editor: This evening finds me in Edmonton, the county seat of Metcalf County, where I have been for the last three weeks attending upon my son who has been very low with what seems to be a combination typhoid and bilious fevers, and I am sorry to say that after four weeks of severe illness, there are little if any indications for the better. Edmonton has a population of about 250. It has 3 dry goods stores, 3 drug stores, 2 blacksmith shops, 2 hotels, 3 doctors, 5 lawyers, 1 church, and a banking house two stories high and 66 feet wide, now about completed, and I am told that the bank will be in operation about the first of January, 1898. It also has a steam saw mill and a respectable court house and jail, and some as kind of people as can be found anywhere. I learn that a free-for-all fight occurred last evening at Lafayette, this county, in which Sam WELLS was stabbed fatally by Ed HAYS. HAYS was brought here and put in jail about 5 o'clock this morning and his brother Henry is under guard awaiting trial, which will come off some time this week. Further paticulars not known at this writing. I am not acquainted with both the hotel keepers at this place, neither do I wish to write an advertisement for either, but permit me to say that Mr. W.T. ENGLAND, the proprietor of the hotel where I am stopping, is an Adair County man, and his wife is one of Adair's best women, and that the people of Adair County can do no better than to patronize the England Hotel when stopping at this place. If this finds not its way to the waste basket, I may write again. M.T. *********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. Commercial entities must ask for and receive permission from submittor before downloading. ***********************************************************************