ANNOUNCEMENTS: Excerpts from THE ALBANY BANNER 1892 *********************************************************************** Taken from January 7, 1892 edition of THE ALBANY BANNER from Clinton County, KY. Typed as published and submitted by Laura Frost Wright on 29 July 2000. *********************************************************************** COUNTY DIRECTORY County Judge- P.H. HOPKINS County Attorney-J.H. PARRIGAN County Clerk- C.B. PARRIGAN Sheriff- W.C. CARR Jailer- J.M. LOOPER School Commissioner-G. W. BOOHER County Surveyor-MOSES TUGGLE Assessor- J.W.WRIGHT Coroner- G.W. WRIGHT ALBANY The town of Albany, the county seat of Clinton County, is favorably situated upon an elevation, about fifteen miles south of the Cumberland river and forty miles from Burnside, the nearest railroad station. There are two boldsprings near the town, one on the west and the other on the South. CHURCHES There are three Churches, Baptist, Methodist, and Christian. SCHOOLS The Albany High School is an incorporated institution of learning and own a large comminodious building on the west side of town. Prof. A.L. RHOTON is principal and during the next session will be assisted by Prof. R.A. LOLLAR and other competant teachers. This institution is doing good work and has increased the interest in the case of education in this section. MERCHANTS There are five general stores in town. W.F. HARRISON is the oldest merchant, having commenced business in the year 1845. He is a man of great energy and industry. His nephew, JAMES HARRISON, a bright young man is his assistant. T.V. STEPHENSON did a large and successful business at Cumberland City for many years and in 1884 located and moved his business to Albany. He is assisted by WM. LENARD, who is new at the business, but is attentive and prompt. J.L. WYNN came to Albany sixteen years ago, as a clerk for Yates & Hancock, some years after he conducted a store for himself and T.V. STEPHENSON, and in the year 1884, he commenced and has since engaged in business alone. RANSOM LENARD, a man of exemptlary habits, assists him. W.L. McDONALD in connection with W.T. DICKEN commenced business in the year 1888. Afterwards DICKEN sold his interest to McDONALD, who has and is doing a very large business. He is always at his post, and is assisted by DANIEL DABNEY, a young man who knows and attends to his business. W.T. DICKEN sometime after he sold to McDONALD commenced business alone. He is attentive to business and is a man of excellant judgement. WM. ARMSTRONG, his son-in-law assists him. Mr. ARMSTRONG when a boy was a successful trader and has fine business qualities. F.M. BALLENGER and J.W. CATTRON commenced business last year, and are always prompt, plesant, and agreeable. Mr. BALLENGER is postmaster at Albany. Dr. ELZA BECKETT, the oldest physician in the county, has a drugstore, and while he does not work for custom, is ready to attend any call on him. W.L. STORY has a well equipped drugstore and has done a large business for many years. Dr. STORY is a man of steady habits, and is pleasant and agreeable with his customers. R.L. HIGGINBOTTOM comes up smiling, and says he intends to have a part of the business in supplying drugs, medicines, etc. Mr. HIGGINBOTTOM is a clever gentleman and is doing a good business. LAWYERS We intended to say something about the lawyers and doctors but have not much space to say much. SAIN C. HARDIN is the oldest Attorney, except the writer, and is a very prompt annd business man. J.H. PARRIGAN is county Attorney and prosecutes with vigor and a will. M.L. JARVIS, a young attorney is a good student and first rate habits. These are qualities that will insure success. CLAUDE CARR, a very bright young man, has been teaching school and is not practicing law at this time. J.A. TOMPKINS resides in the Illwill precinct. He has a quick and active mind, and success awaits him if he will make the proper effort. PENSION ATTORNEYS HARDIN and YATES or I.A. STORY will attend promptly to any business entrusted to them in the pension or claim business. PHYCICIANS Dr. W.F. CARTWRIGHT located at Albany in the year 1881. Since which time he has had a very extensive practice. Dr. W.C. KEEN located at Albany in the year 1881 and his practive has been very large. Dr. J.A. SLOAN is a young man, who has a bright future before him. SADDLERY There is only one saddlery and shoe shop in town owned by J.M. PITTMAN, an active enterprising man, who keeps everything in motion where he goes. BLACKSMITHS CROSS & MARCUM do a large business and satisfy their customers. DANIEL BROS. have recently located to Albany and are doing a good business. CARPENTER SHOP There is but one shop in town owned by ELLISON LESLIE. There are several good carpenters in the county who are always ready for a job. BRICKLAYER J.K. CASTILO who has much experience, has located in Albany and has made the brick and recently built a neat brick cottage for W.L. McDONALD. HANCOCK and HARRISON have new machinery and are engaged in boring wells for water. HOTELS E.L. ARMSTRONG has been proprietor of the Albany Hotel, but has retired from the buisness, and A. G. LONG who purchased the property has taken charge of the Hotel. Mr. LONG makes a good landlord, and Mrs. LONG who is a very pleasant lady will make a good hostess. MILLS A.G. LONG owns a water grist mill south of town. JERRY GWINN miller. J.A. VINCENT owns a water grist mill west of Albany. JAMES GWINN miller. There is a steam saw, grist, and carding mill on the west side of Albany under the management of DAVID ORTON, owned by D.G. ORTON & Co. There may be some other business's overlooked. If so we will make mention, if our attention is called to it. Albany is a pleasant town to live in. The merchants and business men are prompt and reliable, and we hope they will all conclude, as some have, that it is to their interest to invite the patronage of the people through the columns of the Banner. PERSONALS J.P. LAWRENCE has returned from the West. Mr. A.M. VAUGHAN was in town on Monday. J.B. LENARD of Seventy-Six is here waiting on his brother. TOM A. HEN, who recently moved to Monticello, called and subscribed to the Banner. NATHAN SMITH of Illwill has sufficiently recovered from his recent sickness to be in Albany last Monday. Mr. T.M. LITTRELL, of Savage was in town Monday, and called and renewed his subscription for one year. T.R. MORRISON, of Horse Shoe Bottom was in town Tuesday working in the business of the L&N railroad. C.D. DALTON has just returned from the South, where he has been with some mules. He reports the market low. J.P. GAMBLIN, of Cartwright, S.R. LITTRELL of Savage and Charlie Campbell of Creelsboro were in town last Tuesday. Dr. T. L. GAMBLIN of Alpha is now located at Albany. The doctor is a young man of good morals and we wish him the best of business. B.J. RENEAN of Pickett County Tenn. was in town Monday. There are but few men who take a greater interest in public affairs and he takes the papers and keeps posted. Mr. A.H. BAUGH and wife of Rowena are here and will assist Prof. RHOTON in the school at this place. Mr. BAUGH will teach a class in music in connection with the school. Rev. ALVIN BERTRAM was in the Banner office last Monday and gave in the names of several persons to whom we could send sample copies of the paper. We would like others to do likewise. J.M. HURT of Cincinnati, who is visiting his father and relatives in this county called at the Banner office last Friday. Mr. HURT has a host of friends in this county. Mr. HADEN SUMMERS of Montana in the company with JOHN GRIDER, TOM GUTHRIE of Cumberland City, DOCK PERKINS, and WM. SUNIMERS gave us a call Monday and subscribed for the Banner to be sent to his brother in Montana. J.M. KERNS of Monticello, gave us a call last friday. JOB was a citizen of this county many years and was one of the most successful farmers in the county. He depended mainly upon industry and grass, and if more of our farmers would sow grass seed and have meadows they would succeed better. GRANDVILLE G.WOODSON, Principal of the Amarilla High school at Amarillo, Texas gave us a call Saturday. He came to the county to see his mother, who resides at Cartwright. Mr. WOODSON was reared in this county and had established himself as a thoughtful man and a good teacher before he left the county. We wish him great success. LOCALS NANCY CARTER widow of JOSHUA CARTER died at her residence in Clinton County on the 1st inst. BENJAMIN CUMMINGS of this county and Miss PARSONS, of Pickett County Tenn were married the 1st inst. MARRIED--Mr. W. W. HOPKINS and Miss SARAH LEE, of this county were married at the residence of J.J. STATON'S on the 5th inst. MARRIAGE LICENSES were issued Monday to the following persons. HIRAM MARCUM to POLLY BERTRAM JOHN PIERCE to Miss NANCY C. GIBSON O.P. PERKINS showed us some Crow Indian Beads sent by L.S. PERKINS, Stillwater, Montana, by HAYDEN SUMMERS which is in the county on a visit to relatives. The beads are quite a curiosity. WM. SMITH of Illwill precinct set a steel trap for foxes and the trap disappeared and in about two weeks afterwards, Mr. MELTON caught a red fox with a steel trap fastened to its leg. The fox measured 6 ft 6 inches from nose to the end of its tail and was 2 ft high. The Sick: W.A. MOLES who has been continued with pneumona, (spelled exact) is improving. Mrs. A. MARCUM is still in critacal condition. WILLIE LENARD has a severe case of pneumona fever. We hope he will be able to resume his position shortly. W. F. HARRISON has bought from H.R. RYAN his residence and property in Albany, and gives in exchange a house and lot in the Northwest part of town, lately occupied by WM. NOLAND, and pay the balance in cash. We are not informed as to what Mr. HARRISON will do with his house and farm west of town, nor whether Mr. RYAN will leave the county or not. We hope he will remain for he is a good citizen and useful man. MAILS We want better mail facilities in order to get the Banner to the people. There ought to be a post office at Rev. JOHN KEENS and the route from Burkesville to Green Grove extended to Browns X Roads. The route from Albany to Ariadne should be extended to Creelsboro. There should be a new office established at DAVID SHIPPEY'S. We hope the people will co-operate and petition for these changes. SEVENTY-SIX As there has been nothing from this place in the Banner for some time, I thought some items would not be out of place. Health of this community is not good, Miss PILYMEY HUNTER has been very low with brain fever, but is some better. Whooping cough is raging among the children. Christmas passed off nice, not much drinking. That is right boys, don't get drunk. J.C. ANDREW & CO. are putting up a saw mill at this place. Look out girls, JOHN MOLES says he is going to advertise for a wife. J.M. DICKERSON has moved and J. H. HAMON has moved to where DICKERSON left. TALLEY TEXAS We are trying to enjoy Christmas the best we can and have but little news that will interest your readers at this time. The people here are having lagrippe and a great many deaths from the same disease, yet the people are still marrying, and are given in marriage. S.B. TALBOT and Miss LOU WATTS were united in the Holy bonds of matrimoney the 20 inst. The former is a son of Ye Knight of the pen, and the latter a native Texan. Their courtship is quite novel from the beginning to the end, having commenced it in their childhood days, when we lived in Texas the first time, and the match was made and sealed by faithful promises to each other, while over 1,000 miles apart. Of course we hope them smooth sailing on the matrimonial tide. When we get moved I will try to see if I can extend your circulation, and also give you some news that will interest your readers, so they may all expect to hear from me often in the future. JOHN G. TALBOT GARDEN CITY KANSAS Your paper is a very welcome visitor to our home each week. The Clinton folks in this neighborhood are all well and well satisfied, there is no more healthful or plesant climate than this, as for my family I have not paid five dollars for doctor bills in 3 1/2 years (only had two visits by doctors) and this is general with almost every family. We have a nice city and a very large trade, the trade of our merchants extend 100 miles and in some instances more. We have a fine flouring mill of 150 barrels a day capacity, which brings grains more than 100 miles in wagons and while they are here, they buy other goods and the trade of the city is immense. We had a big wheat crop this year, and there is a prospect of a much greater crop next year, we have had a very favorable fall and there is a greatly increased acreage sown, we had a poor crop of alfalfa seed this year, but we will have enough to bring a large amout of money, as the price is good. We are raising an immense number of cattle, horses and sheep, all of which do very well here, needing but little feed through the winter where range is plentiful, though I am too near town to get the full benefit of the range, although it is considerable help even here. I have a number of cattle in my herd now fat enough for beef now. There is no doubt but we have a good fruit country as any place, there are yet but few orchards bearing but this is all that could be desired, apples in paticular are extra fine, plums are excellent, also all kinds of small fruit. I am particularly pleased with your correspondent's letters, they give items which draw ones mind back to year's gone by with pleasant reflections, though I would like them better if all gave their real names. Wishing the Banner and its Editor (my old partner) the greatest of success and a happy new year. I am truly yours, J.I. ZIMMERMAN OLD BETHEL As the Banner is a weekly visitor to our home, I thought I would write a few lines for it as I have never wrote any for it before. Health is good in this vicinity, except colds and a few cases of whooping cough. Mr. A. BECK commenced a subscription school at gap creek the fourth of this month. Mr. BECK is an excellent instructor. According to rumor, they had a funny time at Gaunt creek Christmas, especially at Mr. M.B. KENNEDY'S a MOREHEAD JONES and THOMAS CROSS got into a difficulty there and had a hand to hand fight. They were under the influence of liquor at the time. Knives were used and blood flowed freely for a while. They were cut and mangled considerably and have scars that will last them a lifetime. Mr. K may expect such fun as that occasionally as he is stilling at present. The oil company on Otter Creek is on a boom. Rev. THOMAS HEAD from the west is visiting relatives in Wayne, he expects to begin a meeting at Burk -missing- on the night of the 9th, call and hear him. Mrs. FANNIE BROWN of Wayne is visiting her old home at Alpha. C.A. PERDUE is having an addition put to his storeroom, C. E. W. DAVIS is doing the job for him, and he aims to have an addition put to his dwelling soon. Well as this is my first letter I will close for fear the editor will frown and send it to the waste basket. With much love for the Banner and its many readers I remain. ORTEGA LICK CREEK JAMES MCFARLAND has returned to Clinton and purchased the JOHN RENEAN property. The young folks at Chanute and vicinity gathered at Mr. MOSE HURT'S last Saturday night and spent several plesant hours in social conversation. Our thanks are extended to Mr. HURT and family for their generous hospitality. The Christmas tree at Beech Bottom together with the closing exercises at Mrs. JACKSON'S school was a grand success. MACK LITTRELL says that Pickett County, Tenn is the garden spot of the world and Chanute the heart thereof, and I judging from his frequent visits there we may believe he is in earnest. To the tune of "gander's retreat from the hog pen" MACK now sings "How long Oh Lord How Long." Be patient MACK and remember that every cloud has a silver lining and to men that can circumnavigate the globe in one day nothing is impossible. TOM LOOPER is recovering from his injuries. Uncle MILES BEATY is very low and no hopes for his recovery. Uncle PLEAS BEATY is better. Many people from this vicinity are suffering from "grippe" >From appearences the monster seems to be stouter than a year ago, at least he has a better "grip" Plus Ultra The following are those who have subscribed and renewed their subscriptions since our last issue. T.V. STEPHENSON Albany, Ky W.C. KEEN "" W.L. STORY J.L. WYAN E.L. ARMSTRONG J.W. CATTRON G.W. BURCHETT J.R. STINSON S.G. SMITH F.M. BALLENGER H.L. HIGGINOTHAM Mrs. A. SPROUL J.F. STOCKTON W.T. DICKEN BUD CROSS J.A. PERKINS J.M. PITTMON T.M. LITTRELL Savage S.R. LITTRELL """ A.B. FROGGE SAM ALLEN Alpha JOHN LEVERIDGE JOSHUA WRIGHT MORGAN SPECK Illwill Miss OTTIE BALLENGER Cartwright Ky Mrs. R.R. WOODSON """"" Mrs. R. BALDOCK Arladne ky THOMAS ALLEN Monticello, Ky J.F. BRENTS Ida Mrs. NANCH SHEPARD """ J.W. OWENS Curtis, Texas J.P. SUMMERS Oka, Mont. P.J. BRENTS Scotland, Mo. J.M. HURT Cincinnati, Ohio Mrs. SALLIE WRIGHT Okalahoma City, Okalahoma CHEROKEE DOINGS Tahlequah, I T Jan 2--The Cherokee senate has elected T.M. BUFFINGTON and E.G. BOUDINET to represent the Cherokees before the United States congress during the present session. Baptist Church-Services every third saturday and Sunday morning and night, conducted by R.SMITH GRIDER M.E. Church South--Services the second Sunday in each month at 3 P.M. conducted by Rev. T.G. HARRINGTON Union Sunday School every Sunday at 9 A.M. R.A. LOLFAR, superintendent Albany Lodge No. 206 F.& A. M. Regular meeting the first Monday night in each month W.L. McDONALD W.M. F.M. BALLENGER, Sec ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MALLS Monticello Daily (except Sunday) 8 A.M. arrive at 3:10 P.M. Livingston daily except Sunday leaves at 6 A.M. arrives at 5 P.M. Burksville leaves Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 8 A.M. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 4 P.M. Seventy-Six arrives at 3 P.M. on Tuesdy, Thursday, and Saturdays. Jamestown Tenn. arrives same days as the Seventy Six at 11:30 A.M. and leaves at 12 P.M. F.M. BALLENGER BIGAMY AND DEATH OF HILTON PARSON, EX SHERIFF OF PICKETT COUNTY TENN. MILTON PARSON married a daughter of JOSEPH PHELPS on Obey river, Pickett County, Tenn, about 18 years ago, and lived with his wife until the spring of 1891, when he left his wife and children and went to Texas, where he went by the name of J.M. PARSON. About the first of December he married a Miss HUNTER, daughter of Dr. G.W. HUNTER, of Moody, Texas and while on his bridal tour he was taken suddenly sick on the 10th at Waco, Texas, and died the next morning of congestion as pronounced by Drs CURTIS and BROWN, but other phycicians say it was poison. Mr. PHELPS was at one time a citizen of Albany, and Mr. PARSON was a few years ago deputy sheriff of Pickett county, and had a good standing there. 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