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. His remains were buried
 at Poplar Grove Tuesday afternoon, where a large concourse
 of relatives and friends gathered to pay their last
 respects.

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