Subject: KFY: Mt Vernon Signal Newspapers, 1907 - Rockcastle Co 

FROM LONG AGO 
Submitted By: Ray E_v_a_n_s 
ray.evans@worldnet.att.net 

Mount Vernon Signal
March 1, 1907

(Note: This information has been re-typed from the microfilm.  The re-typed 
material has been subjected to a computerized spelling check.  However, an 
effort has been made to preserve the English usage and spelling of that period.)

PERSONAL NEWS
	W. A. Cox has a very sick child. -- Mrs. Jim Taylor is visiting relatives 
in Pulaski. -- Mrs. G. T. Johnson has been very sick this week. -- Will Smith 
will give up telegraphing and go to braking. -- S. E. Pennoington was in London 
Tuesday on business. -- P. E. Shivel of near Brodhead is reported seriously ill. 
-- Mrs. W. T. Davis has been very sick with the grip for several days. -- J. T. 
Chewning, the Livingston lumber man, was here Wednesday. -- Victor C. Tate was 
at home first of the week from Jacksboro, Tenn. -- James Chaney of Bloss 
attended Masonic lodge here Monday night. -- Tack Langford and his ebtire family 
have been down with the grip. -- C. E. Settle, the spoke and timber man, is 
doing a good business. -- John Pearl and Ruth Landrum have about recovered from 
their ilness. -- Tip Langford's son, Eddie, is recovering from his recent 
illness. -- Mr. W. A. B. Davis and little daughter, Joe, are very sick at this 
writing. -- E. Owens, of the Hiatt section, will move to Garrard county about 
the middle of next month. -- Mrs. E. B. Brown and little son, Jack, were very 
sick first of the week with grip, but are better. -- J. J. McCall was here 
Wednesday looking somewhat cut dowen as the result of a severe attach of the 
grip. -- Geortge Mullins, the young man who makes his home withg Tack Langford, 
is very low with pneumonia. -- Mrs. Nannie Albright and Mrs. Sue Butner and 
daughters attended the burial of Mr. A Butner at Brodhead Wednesday. -- Willie 
Martin, after a stay of several weeks with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. 
Martin, has returned to Lynchburg, Va. -- Mrs. J. W. Hutcheson was the guest of 
<rs. S. B. Salin.  Mr. Hutchesom came up Wednesdaty and stayed over till 
Thursday. -- John Williams, a recent newcomer to our town, is rapidly recovering 
from an attack of pneumonia.  His father Issac Williams of Laurel county is at 
his bedside. -- Autoneer, H. C. Jones, was here Monday and told us that A. C. 
Hiatt, the Hiatt merchant and one of the county's best and most progressive 
citizens, was a very sick man. -- George Reams was in from Orlando Tuesday and 
told us that there is more sickness in his section than ever known before.  In 
almost every household, there is some member of it sick. -- John H. Parsons, of 
Texas, arrived here Monday to see his mpyher, Mts. Jane Parsons, of near 
Langford who is very low and not expected to live.  Mr. Parson has been in Texas 
about twelve years. -- Drs. A. G. Lovell, E. J. Brown and W. D. Laswell 
perfoprmed an operation on Mr. Craig Bryant, removing about three pints of water 
that had gathered around the left lung.  The patient is doing nicely. -- County 
Clerk, M. C. Miller, continues very feeble.  On account of the disagreeable 
weather, has been out very little for several weeks.  The opening of the spring 
serason will, we trust, find him at his office, from which he has been absent 
but very little during the many years he has held the office.

LOCAL NEWS
	Mrs. Jasper Owens, of Orlando, died yesterday morning. -- William Bullock 
has been appointed postmaster at Hansford. -- R. B. Mullins has bought the store 
room and stock of goods from Marshall Smith on West Main. -- The Brown Memorial 
school will open next Monday, after an extended adjournment of two weeks on 
account of sickness. – 

GRIFFINS MILL NEWS
	Bot much news in these diggins. -- Our old friend and neighbor J. M. 
Hurst, who has been confined to his room all fall and winter think he will be 
able to stir around as soon as the weather moderates. -- The last report say 
that Marion Pittman and family , who have been confined for some time with 
typhoid fever, are slowly improving. -- Dee Ramsey and family of Maretburg, were 
visiting at Gains Cummins Sarurday and Sunday. -- Mrs. J. B. Cummins and her two 
little one, Mabelle and Roy, were visiting relatives in Pulaski county last 
week. -- Grip has attacked almost every family in this vicinity. -- Craig Elder, 
of near Stanford, visited relatives here and in Bee Lick during the past week. -
- Charley Latham and Rpson Broyles passed through Saturday enrourte to Stanford 
with a bunch of cattle and hogs .  Thats right, boys, come on and buy our farm 
products, and we will try to raise more and we'll all have more money. -- J. L. 
Hasty, who has been suffering from heart trouble, we are glad to say is 
improving. -- B. G. Mullins, of Pine Hill, was here last Friday attending to 
important business matters. -- The old blue back speller says that Friday is 
just as lucky a day as any other.  It further says that those who would thrive 
in the world should rise early in the morning.  I have been trying to adopt this 
rule.  I try to rise by six and not later than seven by the farthest.  Well, 
sir, me and Gains Cummins grubbed and cut briars nine days in succession last 
week, and you know it snowed Wednesday night or we wouild have worked the other 
three days.  Whos keeping count of the snows?  I've counted two since my last 
report.  Twenty more yet to fall.  Look out for March and April, and if like 10 
or 11 years ago, I might say May too. -- The cackle of the old hens kept Cinda 
and the children busy running to the hen house.  (Cinda is the old woman you 
know) -- How many started in the 1st of January to keep account of the products 
sold, and the amount of dry goods, grocies, etc. Bought.  Try this plan and at 
the end of the year you will be surprised. -- Some of our farmers say to cut 
down sycamores while they are frozen and they won't sprout anymore.  Suppose we 
try it, it will only cost a little labor on a cold day. -- I will now give the 
names of some of the old men that lived in this vicinity when I was quite a 
small boy:  Uncle Simeon Denny, who lived to be 102 years of age, J. M. 
Thompson, Henry Todd, Hiram Sowder, W. H. Debord, John McLemore, Wilson Denny, 
Baily Hicks, Larkin Pumphrey, Robert Taylor, Thos. Lawrence, Joseph Craig, 
Joseph Cummins,lecy


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