Casey County News, July 25, 1907 This information was compiled by Jackie Couture libcoutu@acs.eku.edu At the store of Smith Bros. V. G. Rexroat has been a salesman for seven years. He is a baster, weighing 202 lbs, and is the father of twins, boy and girl, Elvin and Edsil?. He married Miss Polly Wilson and their other three children are Lola, Tom and Teddy. An old soldier, Mr. G. A. Kimble, now a merchant at Russell Springs, is very interesting in conversations and relates some awful war experiences. He enlisted at Lebanon in Co. H 2nd battalion, 1st Cavalry, under Capt. Marion Northrip. Miss Ruth Tilford, one of the handsome daughters of Judge J. M. Tilford, is shown in the engraving, but it does not do her justice, by any means. Miss Ruth will go to Denver, Colorado, where she will be principal of the Shorthand and Typewriting Department of the Parks Business College in that city, Sept. 1st. At and near Russell Springs there are five persons whose combined ages run away up to 494. Mr. Moses Foley is 100, Mrs. Nancy Smith 99, Mr. Fleming Carter 98, Mrs. Green Acree 99 and Dr. William Voyles 98. The latter practiced medicine for 65 years. The picture of Mrs. Robert P. Smith is shown herewith. She was Miss Iona Cravens. Personally she is so captivating that the camera could not be equal to the emergency and adequately represent her. She has to be seen to be appreciated, and I had nerve enough to tell her so when her husband was present. She is an accomplished musician, vocal and instrumental. Mr. John R. Whipp's handsome turnout is a great source of pleasure to his friends, because he takes us all out driving, early and often. He and his brother Pat are two of the most polite and affable young men that Casey has ever produced. Orrick, Mo., July 1. We are having quite an abundance of rain...The Missouri River is overflowing...Mrs. Addie Turner and daughters; Misses Mary and Ruth, of Clinton, Okla. are visiting Mrs. T.'s mother, Mrs. T. P. Butler, and other relatives in and near Orrick. A. L. Browning made a business trip to Boseworth last week in the interest of his firm's sale of Texas and Panhandle lands. It is my sad duty to chronicle the death of George W. Rubarts. He was drowned in Rollins creek, July 12. Uncle George had been a sufferer of a partial stroke of paralysis for nearly two years...He came to Missouri in 1853 and has lived here ever since. He was married four times. Uncle George was one of our most highly respected citizens, good neighbor, kind husband and a Christian gentleman. His brother, Mack Rubarts, and sister Mrs. Bettie Bailey, of Orrick, Mo., and Thomas J. Rubarts, of Dunnville, Ky., are his only surviving sister and brothers. J. H. Browning Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock the residence of Mr. C. R. Carson, near Yosemite, was struck by lightning. The family was greatly frightened, but besides some displaced weatherboarding, no damage was done. I am always pleased to receive the Casey County News as it keeps me posted on what is transpiring in my native county...I have been away from there for 27 years...I have been back to Kentucky only nine times since I first left and am always anxious to get back to the old Kentucky Home...Adios Fred R. Cravens, Pisgar, Ill. In a recent issue our types had a mistake regarding Mr. G. A. Cundiff's son-in-laws. They are as follows: Miss Mattie married L. M. Combest. Miss Ida married J. R. Carson. Miss Loner married G. W. Rubarts. Miss Ada married C. C. Combest. Miss Maud married R. B. Rich. Miss Ann married Ranza Russell. Two large rattle-snakes were killed Sunday afternoon by Miss Nannie Maud Matherly, daughter of I. S. Matherly...The young lady says she isn't afraid of the reptiles if she can see them. Her father tells us that she has killed lots of them. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Jason Coffey died Thursday evening after a brief illness and was buried Friday at Middleburg Cemetery. The heart broken parents have the sympathy of their many friends in the loss of their only child. Toin Foster, of Ed, spent Sunday with his brother, Wm Foster. Miss Mary Hiltenbrandt, of Cincinnati, is with her father for a while. Several from this place attended the funeral of Mrs. Lucy Witt, at Boyle Sunday. Gladstone and Howard, sons of Elbert Wesley, of Somerset, are roaming the blackberry fields this week. The Death Angel visited our town twice last week and claimed for its victim Mrs. Marion Wells and the infant son of Jason and Deva Coffey. Mrs. Wells had a stroke of paralysis two weeks ago and laid in a helpless condition till on the 16th instant she silently passed away. Mrs. Wells was 74 years old, had been a devoted member of the Baptist Church for 40 years. She left a large family and many friends to mourn her loss. Little James McClure Coffey was only two months old...He was taken sick Monday with convulsions and on Thursday eve at 7:30 God relieved him of his suffering. The funeral services held at Middleburg Cemetery Friday afternoon. Floyd Evans, who has been with his sick sister, at Boyle, returned to Jacksonville, Ill. Tuesday. Mrs. E. E. Strange presented her husband with a pretty baby girl on the night of the 18th. Mrs. Naves, of Danville, is visiting her mother, Mrs. D. M. ?Dipps. Mrs. and Mrs. Allen Burris and little son, of Denver, Colo., are visiting Mrs. Burris' mother Mrs. Jennie Carpenter. Mrs. Mary McAfee, of Baltimore, has arrived to spend the summer with her mother, Mrs. Alice Lusk on Baughman heights. Ed Hopper of San Francisco, Cal., is home for the summer. Robert King, one of our most respected citizens, living at Ellisburg, died very suddenly Monday evening of what was supposed to be heart failure. He was about 75 years of age; served in the civil war and merited the respect of all who knew him. At the time of his death he was making his home with his daughter, Mrs. Collie Snow. 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