Subject: KFY: Mt Vernon Signal Newspapers, 1908 - Rockcastle Co FROM LONG AGO Submitted By: Ray E_v_a_n_s ray.evans@worldnet.att.net Mount Vernon Signal May 1, 1908 (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.) LIVINGSTON NEWS The following gentlemen are spending the week up the river fishing: J. P. E. Drummond, J. E. Woodall, Bert Whitehead, Charles Rice, Jr., W. B. Rice, C. E. Rice, Walter Rice and R. G. Hampton, of Lebanon Junction. While attending church Monday evening, Mrs. J. H. Browning was taken with a very severe neuralgia pain near the heart. It was thought for sometime that she could not survive the attack, but she is much better at present. - Mrs. E. L. Cockrell is improving very slowly. She has been in a very critical condition for some time. - Mrs. Susie Mullins informs us that her mother, Mrs. Mahala Carson is very low at the home of her son, Steve Carson where she is visiting in Jellico. - Conn Brown, of Mt Vernon is telegraphing at Sinks for a week in Mr. Bower' s place while that gentleman and his family are visiting in Parksville. We are sure that all who know Mr. Bowers will miss him from his post of duty. - Tint Lear, the hustling grocery drummer, was here again this week. We are convinced that there are greater attractions here for Tint than that of selling groceries. - J. W. Baker will go to Louisville Friday to lay in a new supply of merchandise. - W. O. Dilly, Train Master on the Louisville Division of the L & N, was here on business Wednesday. - H. R. Wade, Dispatcher, was in Lexington a few days the latter part of the week. - Mr. and Mrs. Jewis are visiting in Richmond this week. - Mrs. Katie Magee, of Crab Orchard, is with her daughter, Mrs. Browning who is very sick. - Bro. Pike preached at the Baptist Church Saturday evening and twice on Sunday. - There will be services at the Christian Church Saturday evening and Sunday morning and evening conducted by Bro. Campbell. Come out and hear him. - Mrs. Ed Quinn and children are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hayes. - Mrs. Nora Jenkins and little son are visiting relatives and friends in Louisville and Graffensburg, Ky. - Mrs. W. W. Wright is in Stanford shopping. - Messrs L. H. Davis and J. H. Dickerson are spending a week on the banks of the Rockcastle river fishing. - Thos Burton, who for has for some months past has been in bad health has taken his bed and is very sick. - A, Pennington, Jr. has been sick for several days but is able to resume his duties as operator again. - Messrs Frank Jones, of Berea, and J. M. Row, of Knoxville, Tenn., were in town Tuesday and Wednesday. - Joseph Mink, L&N brakeman, from Paris, stopped over in town Wednesday on his way to Pineville where he has been visiting his parents. - Miss Cora Wright left Monday for Parksville where she will enter a private school. - Maurice Brown, agent at East Bernstadt, was down Saturday evening shaking hands with his many friends. - Our boys are beginning to talk baseball, and we can't see why they don't put their talk to execution and organize. We have excellent material this season and all that is needed is hard practice and confidence to make perfect. So boys let's get together and organize and give our town the honor of having a winning season. There is nothing more enjoyable than a nice game of ball. - I presume the editor is either satisfied with the new Livingston correspondent or is very sympathic one, as he has not consigned any of the past letters to the wastebasket, which fact the correspondent is pleased to note. WILDIE NEWS The farmers in this section are busy planting corn. - Sabbath school was organized Sunday at this place with Mr. Marion Chasteen as Superintendent. - Mr. Henry Branaman had a swarm of bees Sunday, but they took flight and left. (Mr. Branaman 1840-1912 is the deceased great grandfather of my wife, Norma Crawford Evans.) - Several from this section were in Mt Vernon Saturday to attend the Convention. - Jesse Dalton has typhoid fever. - Mrs. Bettie Wood visited her daughter, Mrs. James Brooks, at Johnetta, Tuesday. - Dr. Willie Jones was home from Louisville for a few days visiting his parents. - Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Williams, of Orlando, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Chasteen Saturday and Sunday. - "Uncle" Harrison Branaman and wife visited the family of Mr. Henry Branaman Sunday. - There will be services at the Christian church here Sunday conducted by Rev. Winkle of Berea. - Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Mason were called to Dudley Tuesday to attend the bedside of their sister, Mrs. Sarah Mason, who is reported in a very serious condition. - Dr. W. D. Laswell was called to Berea to assist Drs. Conley and Davis in performing an operation on Tom Barnett for abcess of the lung. - Jack Laswell was at Wildie Saturday. - Mrs. Mary Chasteen and little daughter, Ruth, visited relatives at Berea Sunday. - Judge Culver, the dry goo's (orginal spelling) man, was in our town Tuesday. - Dr. Laswell reports his mother as being quite sick. - Mr. Jack Anington is numbered with the sick at this time. QUAIL NEWS In loving remembrance of Rev. Martin Owens who departed this life on April 27th at 1 P.M. He had been in a serious condition for sometime with a complication of diseases. All that physicians, friends and children could do for him was of no avail. He was 85 years old. He was in good health until last December when he suffered a sudden stroke of paralysis and became almost speechless. He had been a minister of the gospel for 58 years and was a member of the Church of Christ. He had baptised 2000 people and had married 415 couples during his ministry. PERSONAL NEWS James Proctor is reported better this week. - Dr. and Mrs. M. L. Myers are expected to return to Mt Vernon next week. - W. A. Carson and Clay Gentry are at Livingston Painting and paper hanging for Dr. Childress. - George Walsh Baker is proving himself a splendid salesman and is selling clothing in endless quantities. - Dr. J. F. Baugh, A. B. Furnish and James Maret went to Lebanon yesterday to take the Knights Templar degree. - Miss Clara Kennedy, of Oklahoma, will arrive soon to visit her sister, Mrs. C. C. Williams. - Dr. W. A. Jones spent yesterday here as the guest of his cousin W. H. Fish. Dr. Jones will get his "sheep's skin" in June. - Mrs. W. S. Poynter returned Wednesday from a several days visit to her daughter, Mrs. Thompson, near Crab Orchard/ -- Mrs. Carmical and daughter Mrs. Nannie Harp, have returned from several days visit to her daughter, Mrs. Soward at Barbourville. - Mr. Joshua Boreing was up from Livingston and reported a case of small pox in the town. Bud Anderson was the victim. - Mrs. Ina Miller has been suffering from a severe cold for several days, being so severe that she has been unable to speak above a whisper. - Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Collier are stopping at the Miller house this week. Mr. Collier has reached a distance beyond Mt Vernon distributing poles for the new telephone line. - S. T. Proctor and Earnie Herrin have just completed two cottages for R. B. Mullins on Adams Street. They will be back in two or three weeks to commence another building for Mr. Mullins on Main Street. LOCAL NEWS SHOOTING AFFRAY On last Saturday ex-deputy sheriff D. G. Clark and Elza Langford met in the law office of Judge L. W. Bethurum and resumed hostilities which have existed between them for several month. As to how the trouble started we shall not attempt to detail, except that several months ago they had a slight difference at a church near Orlando, later they met at Orlando and each emptied his pistol at each other, Langford receiving a slight wound in the arm. Friends interceded and both parties agreed to let the past be the past and stop all hostilities, which it was hoped by everyone would be carried out, as both men are not afraid, and each has a strong following. But unfortunately, they met and but little provocation being necessary the trouble was renewed. Langford falling seriously wounded, one shot taking effect in the head, another in the shoulder and another in the arm, however, the one in the head is the only one of any consequence. Langford, who was thought to be mortally wounded was as soon as possible brought to the jail residence, no one believing that he would live but only a few hours, being unconscious and from the range of the bullet it was known that the same had entered the brain or a part of it, as the bullet had split and one half had come out only a short distance from where it entered. Dr. H. V. Pennington, head of the Pennington Infirmary at London rode into town just a few minutes after the trouble occurred. Knowing his reputation as a surgeon, Dock Langford, a brother of the wounded man, at once called him to see his brother. A consultation was held with the local physicians and it was decided that without an operation death was sure, with it there was only one chance out of many against him for recovery. At 8 o'clock, the operation was begun and before 12 o'clock, the patient was thoroughly at himself, resting fairly well and the physicians felt sure of his recovery, not withstanding the fact that he had lost more than 2 ounces of his brain, that one half of a bullet from a 38 Cal. S &W revolver had gone two inches into his brain and had been taken out and that a dozen or more fragments of bone had been removed from his brain. Whole he suffers intensely with his head most of the time and is very restless at times, yet each day he shows a slight improvement and the physicians believe that he will be able to pull through, although there are many chances against him. Should Langford recover, it will certainly make Dr. Pennington, who has always made surgery a speciality, an enviable reputation in this county. Clark at once surrendered and was under guard until Monday when he was released on $2000 bond. His examining trial is set for tomorrow a week. BOONE NEWS Mrs. Mattie Coyle bought a cow from J. W. Todd last week for $30. - Mrs. Daisy Lambert has a nice line of millinery. - The Sunday school at Fair View is continuing just the same. - Mr. Harve Dugger of near Rockford called on one of our belles last Sunday. Harve is a nice looking boy and a fine fellow. - Mrs. N. M. Sims is some better. - Mrs. A. D. Knuckles is still very low. ******************************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. 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