KY-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest 31 May 2000 Volume 00 : Issue 202 ______________________________X-Message: #1 Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 00:15:50 EDT From: IrishHughes@aol.com Subject: MISC: Owen & Jefferson County Documents Part 1 I recently obtained documents from Owen & Jefferson Counties from our Webb family in those areas. Reprinted exactly as they appear. * indicates illegible letter. No. 569 Louisville,Ky. May 13 1881 Page 168 Book N.D. Received of William Webb Two-------------------10 Dollars in full of STATE AND COUNTY TAX for the year 1880. S. S. Hamilton, Sheriff Jefferson Co. $2.10 by L. B. Waters (actual signature) _______________________________ No. 441 Louisville,Ky. May 13th 1882 Page 81 Book N.D. Received of William Webb Two---------------------10 Dollars in full of STATE AND COUNTY TAX for the year 1881 S. S., Hamilton, Sheriff Jefferson Co. $2.10 by L. B. Waters D.S. (actual signature) ____________________________________________ $2.80 Louisville, Ky. March 19, 1883 Received of Wm Webb the sum of Two-------------------------------80 Dollars being in full of tax interest (interest marked through) and cost on lot. One lot Middletown Which has been returned delinquent in * District, and sold by the sheriff, for the years 1877 & 88 Attest M. S. Barker (actual signature) Auditor's Agent Jefferson Co. per helm ___________________________________________ No. 422 N.D. Louisville, Ky. May 2 1884 Page 64 Book_____ Received of Robt. E. Webb One--------------------------20 Dollars in full of STATE AND COUNTY TAX for the years 1883 J. D. Barbour, Sheriff Jefferson County $1.20 by H. A. Bell D.S. (actual signature) _________________________________________ Received this 22 day of Jan, 1885, from R. E. Webb Two----------------------Dollars, 95 cents in full for his Revenue Tax and County Levy on following list for the year 1884 Land, town lots, Dogs, Horses Mares Mules and Jennies, sheep, hogs, cattle, stores,equalization,pleasure carriages, watches pianos gold and silver plate,poll, total amount, total tax (each of these was a column running horizontally across the receipt & each column divided by a comma here) R. C*sneen (actual signature) Sheriff of Owen County _________________________________________ $725 Poplar Grove, Ky. Aug 6th 1883 Eight months from date, I promise to pay to the order of R. F. SLAUGHTER The sum of seven---------------------25/100 DOLLARS Negotiable and payable at FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF OWENTON, value received, with interest at the rate of 8 per centum per annum, from date, till paid R. E. Webb (actual signature) ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 07:37:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Jan Gillespie Subject: NEWS: About - Tolesboro, Ky 1907 (from Vanceburg Sun), Lewis Co The Vanceburg Sun, Vanceburg, KY., Thursday, July 18, 1907 Tolesboro Wm. Gray and wife, of Portsmouth, are guests of his parents here. Mrs. Robert Showen is ill with malarial fever. Born, the the wife of George Tolle, a fine son. Rev. L. R. Godby, wife and son Eimon, have returned from a three week's visit to Mrs. Godby's parents in Clark County. Mrs. Mary Rummans, widow of the late Wm. Rummans, died at the home of her son, Clarence, in Lexington, and was brought here for burial on July 7th. A friend of mine informed me that in traveling over the eastern part of Lewis County he met quite a number of people who had never heard of Tolesboro. We are surprised and do not feel like remaining so entirely unknown and therefore prepare to give a birds-eye view of our village. To begin with Tolesboro is situated on the Maysville and Vanceburg turnpike, thirteen miles from Maysville and seventeen from Vanceburg. It happens to consist of an even 100 dwelling houses together with the following appendages, five churches, two schools, one white and one colored, five general stores, two blacksmith shops, one saddle shop, one ice cream saloon, tow barber shops, one drug store, two marble shops, two undertaking establishments, two millinery stores, three dressmaking establishments, three hotels, two shoe repairing shops, three physicians, four secret orders, one Ladies Aid Society, one broom factory equipped with modern machinery and employing about 20 hands capable of making 100 dozen brooms a day. And it is with pleasure that I add that a more generous set of people, I have never seen, ready to respond to every appeal of those in trouble, full of enthusiasm and good will. We defy any town of our size to produce as many pretty girls as ours. ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 08:02:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Jan Gillespie Subject: NEWS: Kentucky Anti Saloon League 1907, Lewis Co Typed as published: The Vanceburg Sun, July 25, 1907 The President of the Kentucky Anti Saloon League reports that at the present time ninety-one out of 119 counties in the State are "dry" thirty-two of them having voted since the adoption of the county Unit Local Option Law, and closed 230 saloons. Of the remaining 29 counties only four are largely saloon territory, and there are now only 50 towns and cities in the State in which the state which the sale of liquor is legal. The announced policy of the League is to have every county in Kentucky dry by Christmas, 1908, except possible a half dozen. 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